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How the United States should react if Iraq acquired WMD. "The first line
of defense...should be a clear and classical statement of deterrence-if
they do acquire WMD, their weapons will be unusable because any attempt to
use them will bring national obliteration."
Condoleeza Rice , US National Security Advisor
January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs
2/1/2000
We are greatly concerned about any possible linkup between terrorists and
regimes that have or seek weapons of mass destruction...In the case of
Saddam Hussein, we've got a dictator who is clearly pursuing and already
possesses some of these weapons.. A regime that hates America and
everything we stand for must never be permitted to threaten America with
weapons of mass destruction.
Dick Cheney, Vice President
Detroit, Fund-Raiser
6/20/2002
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of
mass destruction.
Dick Cheney, Vice President
Speech to VFW National Convention
8/26/2002
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering
weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information
is like adding a foot to Mount Everest .
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Response to Question From Press
9/6/2002
We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud
Condoleeza Rice , US National Security Advisor
CNN Late Edition
9/8/2002
Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for
the production of biological weapons.
George W. Bush, President
Speech to UN General Assembly
9/12/2002
Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the
facilities used to make more of those weapons. 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 W. Bush, President
Radio Address
10/5/2002
The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological
weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has
produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas,
sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.
George W. Bush, President
Cincinnati, Ohio Speech
10/7/2002
And surveillance photos reveal that the regime is rebuilding facilities
that it had used to produce chemical and biological weapons.
George W. Bush, President
Cincinnati, Ohio Speech
10/7/2002
After eleven years during which we have tried containment, sanctions,
inspections, even selected military action, the end result is that Saddam
Hussein still has chemical and biological weapons and is increasing his
capabilities to make more. And he is moving ever closer to developing a
nuclear weapon.
George W. Bush, President
> Cincinnati, Ohio Speech
10/7/2002
We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet
of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse
chemical or biological weapons across broad areas
George W. Bush, President
Cincinnati, Ohio Speech
10/7/2002
Iraq could decide on any given day to provide biological or chemical
weapons to a terrorist group or to individual terrorists,...The war on
terror will not be won until Iraq is completely and verifiably deprived of
weapons of mass destruction.
Dick Cheney, Vice President
Denver, Address To Air National Guard
12/1/2002
If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once
again misleading the world.
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
12/2/2002
The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not
assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass
destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for
saying it
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Response to Question From Press
12/4/2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
1/9/2003
I am absolutely convinced, based on the information that's been given to
me, that the weapon of mass destruction which can kill more people than an
atomic bomb -- that is, biological weapons -- is in the hands of the
leadership of Iraq .
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader
MSNBC Interview
1/10/2003
What is unique about Iraq compared to, I would argue, any other country in
the world, in this juncture, is the exhaustion of diplomacy thus far, and,
No. 2, this intersection of weapons of mass destruction.
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader
NewsHour Interview
1/22/2003
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought
significant quantities of uranium from Africa . Our intelligence sources
tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes
suitable for nuclear weapons production.
George W. Bush, President
State of the Union Address
1/28/2003
Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials
to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
George W. Bush, President
State of the Union Address
1/28/2003
We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass
destruction, is determined to make more.
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Remarks to UN Security Council
2/5/2003
There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the
capability to rapidly produce more, many more. And he has the ability to
dispense these lethal poisons and diseases in ways that can cause massive
death and destruction. If biological weapons seem too terrible to
contemplate, chemical weapons are equally chilling
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Addresses the U.N. Security Council
2/5/2003
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 W. Bush, President
Radio Address
2/8/2003
In Iraq , a dictator is building and hiding weapons that could enable him
to dominate the Middle East and intimidate the civilized world -- and we
will not allow it.
George W. Bush, President
Speech to the American Enterprise Institute
2/26/2003
If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction
over the past 12 years, or over the last several months since (UN
Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the crisis that we
now have before us . . . But the suggestion that we are doing this because
we want to go to every country in the Middle East and rearrange all of its
pieces is not correct.
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Interview with Radio France International
2/28/2003
I am not eager to send young Americans into harm's way in Iraq , or to see
innocent people killed or hurt in military operations. Given all of the
facts and circumstances known to us, however, I am convinced that if we
wait, a threat will continue to materialize in Iraq that could cause
incalculable damage to world peace in general, and to the United States in
particular.
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader
Letter to Future of Freedom Foundation
3/1/2003
Iraq is a grave threat to this nation. It desires to acquire and use
weapons of mass terror and is run by a despot with a proven record of
willingness to use them. Iraq has had 12 years to comply with UN
requirements for disarmament and has failed to do so. The president is
right to say it's time has run out.
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader
Senate Speech
3/7/2003
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, Secretary of State
Remarks to UN Security Council
3/7/2003
Getting rid of Saddam Hussein's regime is our best inoculation. Destroying
once and for all his weapons of disease and death is a vaccination for the
world.
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader
Washington Post op-ed
3/16/2003
Let's talk about the nuclear proposition for a minute. We know that based
on intelligence, that [Saddam] has been very, very good at hiding these
kinds of efforts. He's had years to get good at it and we know he has been
absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. And we believe he
has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.
Dick Cheney, Vice President
Meet The Press
3/16/2003
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 W. Bush, President
Address to the Nation
3/17/2003
The United States . . . is now at war "so we will not ever see" what
terrorists could do "if supplied with weapons of mass destruction by
Saddam Hussein."
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader
Senate Debate
3/20/2003
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 Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
3/21/2003
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.
General Tommy Franks, Commander in Chief Central Command
Press Conference
3/22/2003
One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a
number of sites.
Victoria Clark, Pentagon Spokeswoman
Press Briefing
3/22/2003
I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass
destruction.
Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board member
Washington Post, p. A27
3/23/2003
We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and
east, west, south and north somewhat.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
ABC Interview
3/30/2003
We simply cannot live in fear of a ruthless dictator, aggressor and
terrorist such as Saddam Hussein, who possesses the world's most deadly
weapons.
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader
Speech to American Israel Political Action Committee
3/31/2003
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass
destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty.
Robert Kagan, Neocon scholar
Washington Post op-ed
4/9/2003
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 Secretary
Press Briefing
4/10/2003
But make no mistake -- as I said earlier -- we have high confidence that
they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and
it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found.
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
4/10/2003
Were not going to find anything until we find people who tell us where the
things are. And we have that very high on our priority list, to find the
people who know. And when we do, then well learn precisely where things
were and what was done.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Meet the Press
4/13/2003
I have absolute confidence that there are weapons of mass destruction
inside this country. Whether we will turn out, at the end of the day, to
find them in one of the 2,000 or 3,000 sites we already know about or
whether contact with one of these officials who we may come in contact
with will tell us, ``Oh, well, there's actually another site,'' and we'll
find it there, I'm not sure.
General Tommy Franks, Commander in Chief Central Command
Fox New
4/13/2003
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 W. Bush, President
NBC Interview
4/24/2003
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, Secretary of Defense
Press Briefing
4/25/2003
We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.
George W. Bush, President
Remarks to Reporters
5/3/2003
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, Secretary of State
Remarks to Reporters
5/4/2003
We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction
in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Fox News Interview
5/4/2003
I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam
Hussein -- because he had a weapons program.
George W. Bush, President
Remarks to Reporters
5/6/2003
U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and
find" weapons of mass destruction.
Condoleeza Rice , US National Security Advisor
Reuters Interview
5/12/2003
I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean,
tere'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
5/13/2003
We said all along that we will never get to the bottom of the Iraqi WMD
program simply by going and searching specific sites, that you'd have to
be able to get people who know about the programs to talk to you.
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Interview with Australian Broadcasting
5/13/2003
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
5/21/2003
It's going to take time to find them, but we know he had them. And whether
he destroyed them, moved them or hid them, we're going to find out the
truth. One thing is for certain: Saddam Hussein no longer threatens
America with weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush, President
Speech at a weapons factory in Ohio
5/25/2003
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
5/26/2003
They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Remarks to Council on Foreign Relations
5/27/2003
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, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Vanity Fair interview
5/28/2003
The President is indeed satisfied with the intelligence that he received.
And I think that's borne out by the fact that, just as Secretary Powell
described at the United Nations, we have found the bio trucks that can be
used only for the purpose of producing biological weapons. That's
proof-perfect that the intelligence in that regard was right on target.
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
5/29/2003
We have teams of people that are out looking. They've investigated a
number of sites. And within the last week or two, they have in fact
captured and have in custody two of the mobile trailers that Secretary
Powell talked about at the United Nations as being biological weapons
laboratories.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Infinity Radio Interview
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, President
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.
George W. Bush, President
Press Briefing
5/30/2003
It was a surprise to me then - it remains a surprise to me now - that 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
5/30/2003
Do I think we're going to find something? Yeah, I kind of do, because I
think there's a lot of information out there.
Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton, Defense Intelligence Agency
Press Conference
5/30/2003
Q: The fact that there hasn't been substantial cache of weapons of mass
destruction -- is that an embarrassment? Wolfowitz: No. Is it an
embarrassment to people on the other side that we've discovered these
biological production vans, which the defector told us about?
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
CNN Interview
5/31/2003
This wasn't material I was making up, it came from the intelligence
community
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Press Briefing
6/2/2003
We know that some of them, especially the biological weapons, were being
destroyed," Hastert said, adding that it would "take a little while to
find weapons of mass destruction... and we're going to continue to do it.
Dennis Hastert, House Speaker R-IL
Press Briefing
6/4/2003
We recently found two mobile biological weapons facilities which were
capable of producing biological agents. This is the man who spent decades
hiding tools of mass murder. He knew the inspectors were looking for them.
You know better than me he's got a big country in which to hide them.
We're on the look. We'll reveal the truth
George W. Bush, President
CAMP SAYLIYA, Qatar
6/5/2003
I would put before you Exhibit A, the mobile biological labs that we have
found. People are saying, "Well, are they truly mobile biological labs?"
Yes, they are. And the DCI, George Tenet, Director of Central
Intelligence, stands behind that assessment.
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Fox News Interview
6/8/2003
No one ever said that we knew precisely where all of these agents were,
where they were stored
Condoleeza Rice , US National Security Advisor
Meet the Press
6/8/2003
What the president has said is because it's been the long-standing view of
numerous people, not only in this country, not only in this
administration, but around the world, including at the United Nations, who
came to those conclusions...And the president is not going to engage in
the rewriting of history that others may be trying to engage in.
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Response to Question From Press
6/9/2003
Iraq had a weapons program...Intelligence throughout the decade showed
they had a weapons program. I am absolutely convinced with time we'll find
out they did have a weapons program.
George W. Bush, President
Comment to Reporters
6/9/2003
"It doesn't appear there are any more targets at this time," said Lt.
Keith Harrington whose team has been cut by more than 30 percent. "We're
hanging around with no missions in the foreseeable future."
Keith Harrington, Lt. Colonel
Iraq
6/9/2003
The biological weapons labs that we believe strongly are biological
weapons labs, we didn't find any biological weapons with those labs. But
should that give us any comfort? Not at all. Those were labs that could
produce biological weapons whenever Saddam Hussein might have wanted to
have a biological weapons inventory.
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Associated Press Interview
6/12/2003
Those documents were only one piece of evidence in a larger body of
evidence suggesting that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium from Africa
... The issue of Iraq 's pursuit of uranium in Africa is supported by
multiple sources of intelligence. The other sources of evidence did and do
support the president's statement.
Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesman
Statement to press
6/13/2003
A British scientist and biological weapons expert, who has examined the
trailers in Iraq , told The Observer last week: "They are not mobile germ
warfare laboratories. You could not use them for making biological
weapons. They do not even look like them. They are exactly what the Iraqis
said they were -- facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill
balloons."
Unnamed British Weapons Inspector
The Observer
6/15/2003
My personal view is that their intelligence has been, I'm sure, imperfect,
but good. In other words, I think the intelligence was correct in general,
and that you always will find out precisely what it was once you get on
the ground and have a chance to talk to people and explore it, and I think
that will happen.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Press Briefing
6/18/2003
You may be reading too much. I don't know anybody that I can think of who
has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
DoD News Briefing
6/24/2003
I have reason, every reason, to believe that the intelligence that we were
operating off was correct and that we will, in fact, find weapons or
evidence of weapons, programs, that are conclusive. But that's just a
matter of time...It's now less than eight weeks since the end of major
combat in Iraq and I believe that patience will prove to be a virtue
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Pentagon media briefing.
6/24/2003
I'm not sure that's the major reason we went to war
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told NBC, Today Show.
6/26/2003
MS. BLOCK: There were no toxins found in those trailers. SECRETARY POWELL:
Which could mean one of several things: one, they hadn't been used yet to
develop toxins; or, secondly, they had been sterilized so thoroughly that
there is no residual left. It may well be that they hadn't been used yet.
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
All Things Considered, Interview
6/27/2003
That was the concern we had with Saddam Hussein. Not only did he have
weapons -- and we'll uncover not only his weapons but all of his weapons
programs -- he never lost the intent to have these kinds of weapons.
Colin Powell, Secretary of State
All Things Considered, Interview
6/27/2003
Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to
the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the
intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to
exaggerate the Iraqi threat
Joseph C. Wilson IV, Ambassador
New York Times Editorial
7/6/2003
The Washington Post quoted an unidentifed senior administration official
as declaring that "knowing all that we know now, the reference to Iraq 's
attempt to acquire uranium from Africa should not have been included in
the State of the Union speech."
Unidentifed, Senior Administration Official
New York Times Article
7/8/2003
I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of
mass destruction to tell the world where they are.
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
7/9/2003
"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new
evidence of Iraq 's pursuit of weapons of mass murder. We acted because we
saw the existing evidence in a new light through the prism of our
experience on Sept. 11.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee
7/9/2003
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