Iraq on the Record

Iraq on the Record is a searchable collection of 237 specific misleading statements made by Bush Administration officials about the threat posed by Iraq. It contains statements that were misleading based on what was known to the Administration at the time the statements were made. It does not include statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight. If a statement was an accurate reflection of U.S. intelligence at the time it was made, it was excluded even if it now appears erroneous.

Iraq on the Record is searchable by the the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq:

President George W. Bush
Vice President Dick Cheney
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell
Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice

It is also searchable by issue area:

Iraq's Nuclear Capabilities
Chemical and Biological Weapons
Iraq and Al-Qaeda
Iraq as an Urgent Threat

It is also searchable by keyword, such as "mushroom cloud", "uranium", or "bin Laden."

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If Iraq was invaded for legal UN reasons then Saddam should have been afforded Geneva Convention protections because a valid war requires valid Geneva Conventions status. As with the WMD's evidence US picked and chose which stati it chose to honor and which it didn't. Saddam wasn't a good head of state, but technically his public hanging accompanied by jeering was a violation of Geneva Conventions display of prisoners of war. Not to mention the circumstances that lead to his death were by means of a war crime committed by the US. So if you are going to piously quote UN rules please quote all of them - including the ones that apply to us.

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There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.
~Archibald MacLeish

Yes Cowardly, "As Prepared By Henry Waxman". Who is a complete and utter moron.

That's like jet trying to make the claim the because he believes every the NYT prints it's a "reliable" source.

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There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.
~Archibald MacLeish

Public Statement of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice:
"We do know that there have been shipments going . . . into Iraq . . . of aluminum tubes that really are only suited to -- high-quality aluminum tools [sic] that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs."
Source: Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, CNN (9/8/2002).


Why This Statement is Misleading:
This statement was false. The government’s most experienced technical experts at the U.S. Department of Energy concluded that the tubes were "poorly suited" for this purpose, and intelligence officials at the State Department concurred in this view.

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"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."

Which side will you be on?


OBAMA/PEROT

Do you have any concept of the political pressures operating on Musharraf? On one side, he had the moderates, who want to restore civilian government, and on the other he's got the hardline Islamists who want to make Pakistan into an Iranian-style theocracy, and on top of all of that, you've got varying traditional tribal loyalties. Oh, and don't forget that the entire country is on the brink of war with India over Kashmir. If you had gone into Pakistan, it would have been another Iraq... with nuclear weapons. And an intact defense infrastructure.

Oh yeah... and don't forget - Pakistan didn't have outstanding Chapter VII Security Council Resolutions hanging over it the same way that Iraq did.

What early "intel" was that? The info that led you to bomb that pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum?

What the hell did Hezbollah have to do with Bin Laden anyway? You do know that they're Shia, right?

Targeted assassination has a way of coming back to haunt you. It's not worth the price you end up paying.

I've got no problem with Kerry's service record - he did his time (admittedly, not as much as your father). He could have easily gotten out of serving at all. Even when he was in country, with his qualifications, he could easily became a desk jockey, but he asked for combat and served honorably. You've got to respect that.

Couldn't you give me a synopsis? I don't have the book. I'm just interested where the credible internal threat to Saddam was coming from within Iraq.

I understand Pakistan is a political nightmare in some ways...I figure Musharraf would ultimately side with us and he is the one in control of the nuke crap...at least was and probably still is at present...personally, having them is an "ally" hardly impresses me...for instance A. Q. Khan, what's up with that? Somehow I can better justify an "Iraq" when going after those that attacked us then the "Iraq" in Iraq.

No resolutions and no red tape either.

LOL...I'm talking about since 9/11.

It was Syrian related...you read about so many things...I went in search and haven't found exactly what I had read about, but I did find an interesting article that might help you with connecting some of the dots related to this...I'll dig around further when I get more time...I'm thinking it was related to some of the stuff Bob Baer talked about but it's not coming to me presently.

Israel: Syria Allowed Hundres al Qaeda To Settle In Lebanon

I'd be willing to bet there's been plenty of crap we've pulled that we somehow never got blamed for...

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"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."

Which side will you be on?


OBAMA/PEROT