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OCT 2002 – The CIA directly warned the White House that evidence of Iraq importing uranium from Niger was highly suspicious. Despite this, President Bush made the claim three months later in the State of the Union address.
OCT 2002 – The National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, which represents the consensus of the U.S. intelligence community, contained cautionary language about Iraq's connections with al Qaeda.
AUG 2006 - Bush's latest admission that Iraq had no WMD | |
| FEB 2001 – Colin Powell said Saddam "is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors."
JUL 2001 – Condi Rice said "We are able to keep arms from [Saddam.] His military forces have not been rebuilt"
*Watch video of Powell & Rice*
FEB 2002 – The CIA said Iraq had not provided WMD to terrorists.
SEP 2002 – The White House did not seek CIA approval before falsely saying Iraq could attack the U.S. within 45 minutes of an order being given.
SEP 2002 – Pentagon in 2002 Found 'No Reliable' Iraq Arms Data
If "bad intelligence" was behind the false WMD claims, then: * Why did former CIA director George Tenet recently receive the highest civilan honor, the "Medal of Freedom" from President Bush? (read) * Why were two analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq rewarded with job performance awards in each of the past three years? (read) |
"(Iraq) was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan...and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and Sudan." From four-star general Wesley Clark's 2003 book Winning Modern Wars (read)
| | FEB 2003 – Tony Blair's government admitted it plagiarized a student's thesis in building it's case for Iraq WMD.
FEB 2003 – U.N. weapons inspectors warned the White House that no Iraq WMD had been found and that more time was needed for inspections.
FEB 2003 – The CIA warned the White House that there was no direct evidence of Iraq WMD being reconstituted.
MAR 2003 – The IAEA reiterated to the White House that there was no evidence of Iraq nuclear weapons.
MARCH 20, 2003 – War officially begins under the premise that Iraq's WMD posed a grave and gathering danger to the United States and the rest of the world.
SEP 2003 – Vice President Cheney said there was never any evidence that Iraq had acquired a nuclear weapon.
DEC 2003 – The British government admitted that it organized a campaign to plant stories in the media about Iraq WMD.
JAN 2004 – Colin Powell said there's no proof that Iraq had any connections to al Qaeda.
FEB 2004 – Chief weapons inspector David Kay, who was appointed by President Bush, said that WMD in Iraq did not exist. The search could continue for 20 years without finding anything, he said.
FEB 2004 – Colin Powell said he doesn't know whether he would have recommended an invasion of Iraq if he knew there were no Iraq WMD.
MAR 2004 – U.N.: No Iraq WMD since 1994.
MAR 2004 – CIA Director Tenet disputes Cheney's assertions on Iraq.
APR 2004 – Colin Powell conceded evidence he presented to the UN regarding two 'mobile weapons labs' may have been wrong.
MAY 2004 – Colin Powell on 'mobile weapons labs' claims: "it turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and in some cases, deliberately misleading."
JUNE 2004 – 9/11 Commission sees no link between Iraq/Al-Qaeda.
JULY 2004 – The White House pressured the CIA on Iraq WMD, author says.
JULY 2004 – Former British Envoy to Iraq: WMD stockpiles were not there, but our 'intentions were correct.
JULY 2004 – Senator Durbin (D-IL): 'The White House Misused Intelligence.'
JULY 2004 – The Senate Intelligence Committee report, which otherwise harshly criticized the C.I.A. for overstating the threat posed by Iraq before last year's invasion, praised the way the C.I.A. analysts had studied - and largely discounted - theories about close working ties between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
JULY 2004 – David Kay said Bush and Blair should have realized pre-war truth on WMD.
AUG 2004 – Retiring GOP Congressman: Iraq war unjustified.
SEP 2004 – Iraq war "illegal" says U.N. Sect. General Kofi Annan.
SEP 2004 – Chief U.S. Weapons Inspector, who was appointed by Pres. Bush says: Iraq Had No WMD.
OCT 2004 – Bad intelligence? How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence.
JAN 2005 – Officials: Search is Over for Iraq WMD.
APR 2005 – 'Reports Undercut Iraq, al-Qaeda Link'. "These documents are additional compelling evidence that the intelligence community did not believe there was a cooperative relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda, despite public comments by the highest ranking officials in our government to the contrary," Senator Carl Levin said.
NOV 2005 – Prewar Report Doubted Iraq-Al Qaeda Tie
NOV 2005 – Italy: We Warned U.S. On WMD Docs
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For more on this, see "Iraq's weapons of mass destruction: What we now know" in the St Petersburg Times, Feb. 5, 2004. | |
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