DISSEMBLERS ON IRAQ - TAKING NAMES & NUMBERS
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The Usual Suspects:
OJ BILLYBOY
02/17/98 "and they will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot allow that to happen. There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq. His regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region and the security of all the rest of us."
06?/xx/98 "Al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the government of Iraq."
07/22/03 "When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for"
11/xx/05 In Dubai, before an audience of Arab Students at the American University: "Saddam is gone. It's a good thing. But I don't agree with what was done. It was a big mistake (The American invasion of Iraq).
(Paraphrase) "It has a mistake for us to go into Iraq" (Further research required)
11/11/05 Stateside: "whether it was a mistake or not, we are where we are, and we ought to try to make this strategy succeed"
ALGORE
12/16/98 "If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons ..."
xx/xx/00 "In the interests of regional peace, and for the sake of human decency, [Saddam Hussein] must be removed from power. That is the policy of this [O J Billyboy's] administration. It is a policy I support. It is the policy I am personally committed to."
HILLARY RODHAM
01/22/03 "I voted for the Iraqi resolution. I consider the prospect of a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein who can threaten not only his neighbors, but the stability of the region and the world, a very serious threat to the United States."
JOHN KERRY
10/09/02 "According to the CIA's report, all U.S. intelligence experts agree that Iraq is seeking nuclear weapons. There is little question that Saddam Hussein wants to develop nuclear weapons."
HARRY REID
08/03/92 "The problem is not nuclear testing; It is nuclear weapons. ... The number of third world countries with nuclear capabilities seems to grow daily. Saddam Hussein's near success with developing a nuclear weapon should be an eye-opener for us all."
11/03/05 "[Americans] are interested in knowing how an Administration, led by the Vice President, can manipulate evidence to bring us into the intractable war we now have in Iraq."
11/08/05 "The manipulation of intelligence to sell a war in Iraq, Vice President Cheney's involved in that."
PATRICK LEAHY
01/30/03 "I have no doubt Saddam Hussein is lying. He has lied countless times before. He is likely hiding weapons, including chemical and biological weapons. The U.N. inspectors' report leaves little doubt of that."
01/30/03 "The Iraqis have not explained what happened to thousands of tons of chemical weapons material, and other biological munitions they had in their possession 5 years ago."
01/30/03 "There have been discoveries of empty chemical weapons shells and documents they had not disclosed. These are serious discrepancies by a regime that is among the world's most dangerous, deceptive, and brutal."
DICK DURBAN
09/30/99 "One of the most compelling threats we in this country face today is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Threat assessments regularly warn us of the possibility that North Korea, Iran, Iraq, or some other nation may acquire or develop nuclear weapons."
07/10/04 "Another form of pressure on the intelligence community during 2002 came from policy makers repetitively tasking analysts to review, reconsider, and revise their analytical judgments."
CHARLES SCHUMER
09/08/02 "If Iraq were to develop a nuclear weapon ... they certainly could give it to a suicide bomber, put it on a container that comes in a ship or a plane, or assembled in another country and comes across our border in Mexico or in Canada. And so that's a real danger, the combination."
11/01/05 "What happened with Scooter Libby is just a continuation of a long line of policy of don't have debate, don't hear other facts, try to manipulate the facts so it meets the argument you want."
11/01/05 "Jay Rockefeller has been trying for a year to get the Intelligence Committee to keep its promise and investigate the misuse of intelligence information."
MADELINE ALBRIGHT
02/18/98 "Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here, for the risk that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face, and it is a threat against which we must and will stand firm."
GENERAL WESLEY CLARK
DENNIS KUCINICH
MOSELEY BRAUN
AL SHARPTON
CINDY SHEEHAN "George W. Bush is the biggest terrorist in the world"
BARBARA BOXER
EDWARD KENNEDY "We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction" Sept. 27, 2002
"Saddam Hussein is a dangerous figure. He's got dangerous weapons" Oct. 6, 2002
HOWARD DEAN (Further research required)
NANCY PELOSI (Further research required)
JAY ROCKEFELLER "There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier."
CHALLENGING THE DISSEMBLERS:
01/28/04 Peter Feavor, OJ Billyboy Director For Defense Policy And Arms Control, "How could even the all-powerful neocons have manipulated the intelligence estimates of the Clinton Administration, French Intelligence, British Intelligence, German Intelligence and all the other 'co-conspirators' who concurred on the fundamentals of the Bush assessment?"
07/07/04 Bipartisan Senate Select Committee On Intelligence Report, Pg. 284-285: "The Committee found no evidence that the Vice President's visits to the Central Intelligence Agency were attempts to pressure analysts, were perceived as intended to pressure analysts by those who participated in the briefings on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, or did pressure analysts to change their assessments."
07/14/04 British Butler Report, pg 110: "In general, we found that the original intelligence material was correctly reported in [Joint Intelligence Committee] assessments. ... We should record in particular that we have found no evidence of deliberate distortion or of culpable negligence. ... We found no evidence of JIC assessments and the judgments inside them being pulled in any particular direction to meet the policy concerns of senior officials on the JIC."
09/30/04 Duelfer Report, pg 1: Saddam sought to "recreate Iraq's WMD capability" when sanctions were lifted and "aspired to develop a nuclear capability."
01/27/05 Colin Powell, "The best intelligence information available to the President and all of his advisors, available to the international community, available to the UN, available to the United Kingdom and France and Germany and all others, left no doubt in our mind that [Saddam] had stockpiles ..."
03/31/05 Robb-Silberman Commission: "The Commission found no evidence of political pressure to influence the intelligence community's pre-war assessments of Iraq's weapons programs."
The United Nations Resolutions:
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DISSEMBLERS ON IRAQ