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A History Of Lies: WMD,
Who Said What and When
Intelligence leaves no
doubt that Iraq continues to possess and conceal lethal
weapons
George
Bush, US
President 18 March, 2003
Saddam's removal is
necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass
destruction
Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary 2 April,
2003
Before people crow
about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest
they wait a bit
Tony Blair 28 April, 2003
We are asked to accept
Saddam decided to destroy those weapons. I say that such a
claim is palpably absurd
Tony Blair, Prime
Minister 18 March, 2003
It is possible Iraqi
leaders decided they would destroy them prior to the conflict
Donald Rumsfeld, US
Defense Secretary 28 May, 2003
Simply stated, there
is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass
destruction.
Dick Cheney
Speech
to VFW National Convention
August 26, 2002
Right now, Iraq is expanding and
improving facilities that were used for the production of
biological weapons.
George "aWol"
Bush
Speech
to UN General Assembly
September 12, 2002
If he declares he has
none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again
misleading the world.
Ari Fleischer
Press
Briefing
December 2, 2002
We know for a fact that there are
weapons there.
Ari Fleischer
Press
Briefing
January 9, 2003
"25,000 liters of anthrax
... 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin ... materials to produce
as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent ...
upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical
agents ... several mobile biological weapons labs ...
thousands of Iraqi security personnel ... at work hiding
documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors."
George "aWol"
Bush
State
of the Union Address
January 28, 2003
We know that Saddam
Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction,
is determined to make more.
Colin Powell
Remarks
to UN Security Council
February 5, 2003
We have sources that
tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field
commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the
dictator tells us he does not have.
George "aWol"
Bush
Radio
Address
February 8, 2003
So has the strategic decision
been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by
the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our judgment has to
be clearly not.
Colin Powell
Remarks
to UN Security Council
March 7, 2003
Intelligence gathered
by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq
regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most
lethal weapons ever devised.
George "aWol"
Bush
Address
to the Nation
March 17, 2003
Well, there is no question that
we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass
destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all
this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for
whatever duration it takes.
Ari Fleisher
Press
Briefing
March 21, 2003
There is no doubt that the regime
of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And .
. . as this operation continues, those weapons will be
identified, found, along with the people who have produced
them and who guard them.
Gen. Tommy Franks
Press
Conference
March 22, 2003
I have no doubt we're going to
find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.
Defense Policy Board member Kenneth
Adelman
Washington
Post, p. A27
March 23, 2003
One of our top objectives is to
find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark
Press
Briefing
March 22, 2003
We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit
and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
Donald Rumsfeld
ABC
Interview
March 30, 2003
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the
weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will
be plenty.
Neocon scholar Robert Kagan
Washington
Post op-ed
April 9, 2003
I think you have always heard,
and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high
confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will
be found.
Ari Fleischer
Press
Briefing
April 10, 2003
We are learning more as we
interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and
people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed
some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.
George "aWol"
Bush
NBC
Interview
April 24, 2003
There are people who in large measure have information
that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of
mass destruction in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld
Press
Briefing
April 25, 2003
We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.
George "aWol"
Bush
Remarks
to Reporters
May 3, 2003
I'm absolutely sure that there
are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be
forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.
Colin Powell
Remarks
to Reporters
May 4, 2003
We never believed that we'd just
tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld
Fox
News Interview
May 4, 2003
I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons
program of Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program.
George "aWol"
Bush
Remarks
to Reporters
May 6, 2003
U.S. officials never expected
that "we were going to open garages and find"
weapons of mass destruction.
Condoleeza Rice
Reuters
Interview
May 12, 2003
I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago
-- I mean, there's no question that there were chemical
weapons years ago -- whether they were destroyed right before
the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.
Maj. Gen. David Petraeus,
Commander 101st Airborne
Press
Briefing
May 13, 2003
Before the war, there's no doubt
in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be
found. I still expect them to be found.
Gen. Michael Hagee,
Commandant of the Marine Corps
Interview
with Reporters
May 21, 2003
Given time, given the
number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm
confident that we're going to find weapons of mass
destruction.
Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
NBC
Today Show interview
May 26, 2003
They may have had
time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
Donald Rumsfeld
Remarks
to Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2003
For bureaucratic reasons, we
settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as
justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason
everyone could agree on.
Paul Wolfowitz
Vanity
Fair interview
May 28, 2003
It was a surprise to me
then Eit remains a surprise to me now Ethat we have not
uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward
dispersal sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of trying.
We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between
the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there.
Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st
Marine Expeditionary Force
Press
Interview
But for those who
say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or
banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them.
--George W. Bush
Interview with TVP Poland
5/30/2003
You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood
up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got
laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons
...They're illegal. They're against the United Nations
resolutions, and we've so far discovered two...And we'll find
more weapons as time goes on And we'll find more weapons as
time goes on
--George W. Bush
Press Briefing
5/30/2003
But for those who
say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or
banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them.
--George W. Bush
Interview with TVP Poland
5/30/2003
You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up
in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories,
mobile labs to build biological weapons ...They're illegal.
They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so
far discovered two...And we'll find more weapons as time goes
on And we'll find more weapons as time goes on
--George W. Bush
Press Briefing
5/30/2003
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