"It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of " and the allegations " by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble " that means not tell the truth."
- George W. Bush
Quote:How did the U.S. government lead its people to war?
Bush Administration Claims vs. The Facts
No weapons of mass destruction of any kind were found in Iraq
January 29, 2002
President George W. Bush delivers his State of the Union address [link to source]
“Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. … By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.
“We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.”
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September 7, 2002
President George W. Bush addresses the press with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David
“I would remind you that when the inspectors … went into Iraq … a report came out of the Atomic" the IAEA" that they were six months away from developing a weapon. I don’t know what more evidence we need."
In reference to this claim by President Bush, Joseph Curl reported three weeks later in the Washington Times (on September 27, 2002)
“The International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report cited by President Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was "six months away" from developing a nuclear weapon does not exist.
"There's never been a report like that issued from this agency," Mark Gwozdecky, the IAEA's chief spokesman, said yesterday in a telephone interview from the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
“In October 1998, just before Saddam kicked U.N. weapons inspectors out of Iraq, the IAEA laid out a case opposite of Mr. Bush's Sept. 7 declaration.
“‘There are no indications that there remains in Iraq any physical capability for the production of weapon-usable nuclear material of any practical significance,’ IAEA Director-General Mohammed Elbaradei wrote in a report to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
“Mr. Gwozdecky said… ‘I don't know where they have determined that Iraq has retained this much weaponization capability because when we left in December ‘98 we had concluded that we had neutralized their nuclear-weapons program. We had confiscated their fissile material. We had destroyed all their key buildings and equipment,’ he said.
“Mr. Gwozdecky said there is no evidence about Saddam's nuclear capability right now " either through his organization, other agencies or any government.”
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