• The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein has recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,' he said. (rferl.org)
  • He also said Bush's claim was based partly on intelligence of other Iraqi bids to buy uranium elsewhere in Africa, but that these details were not included in his January speech. (rferl.org)
  • The controversy over false claims made by President Bush early this year about Iraq's alleged efforts to acquire uranium in Africa has taken a new twist. (voanews.com)
  • Whatever news President Bush wanted to make on his visit to Africa was overshadowed by the ongoing controversy here in Washington about a statement he made in January, later found to be unsubstantiated, that Iraq had tried to acquire uranium in Niger. (voanews.com)
  • The President stood before Congress and pronounced those sixteen little words on his bum's rush to war with Iraq: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. (tomdispatch.com)
  • The exposure of lying in the State of the Union speech produced a wide public reaction, not because of the intrinsic significance of Bush's claim that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Africa, but because this statement was part of an enormous web of lies used by the administration to drag the American people into war. (wsws.org)
  • and Iraq's attempts to buy uranium in Africa. (wsws.org)
  • According to a May 6, 2003 New York Times report 'Missing In Action: Truth,' by Nicholas D. Kristof, 'more than a year ago, the Vice President's office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa was dispatched to Niger. (larouchepub.com)
  • On Sept. 24, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's 10 Downing Street office issued a 50-page public dossier, titled 'Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction The Assessment of the British Government,' which stated, in part, 'there is intelligence that Iraq has sought the supply of significant quantities of uranium from Africa. (larouchepub.com)
  • It was his 2003 opinion piece that refuted Bush's claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa. (truthdig.com)
  • According to the dossier, Iraq attempted to obtain uranium from Africa (a claim soon to be discredited and withdrawn by the US government). (aljazeera.com)
  • He leaned heavily on an allegation that Iraq "recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. (ijpr.org)
  • 34 Israel had small amounts of uranium from Negev phosphate mines and had bought some from Argentina and South Africa, but not in the large quantities supplied by the French. (rediscover911.com)
  • It seemed to implicate Saddam Hussein in an attempt to buy uranium from Africa. (thenation.com)
  • Thus in his 2003 State of the Union address, the President intoned that "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium in Africa. (thenation.com)
  • Legitimate questions have arisen about how remarks on alleged Iraqi attempts to obtain uranium in Africa made it into the president's State of the Union speech. (harvard.edu)
  • There was fragmentary intelligence gathered in late 2001 and early 2002 on the allegations of Saddam's efforts to obtain additional raw uranium from Africa, beyond the 550 metric tons already in Iraq. (harvard.edu)
  • Also in the fall of 2002, our British colleagues told us they were planning to publish an unclassified dossier that mentioned reports of Iraqi attempts to obtain uranium in Africa. (harvard.edu)
  • Much later in the NIE text, in presenting an alternate view on another matter, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research included a sentence that states: "Finally, the claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa are, in INR's assessment, highly dubious. (harvard.edu)
  • Burba felt uneasy because more than 3 months earlier, she had turned over to the US Embassy in Rome documents about an alleged uranium sale by the central African nation of Niger. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • But this week, the White House acknowledged for the first time that documents cited by U.S. President George W. Bush linking Iraq to a bid to buy uranium in Niger had been forged. (rferl.org)
  • Wilson told 'The New York Times' and the U.S. television network NBC that he had concluded in a report that it was very doubtful that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Niger. (rferl.org)
  • Moreover, Wilson says his report was sent to both Congress and the White House and that Vice President Dick Cheney's office even inquired about the Iraq-Niger link, a claim the White House denies. (rferl.org)
  • In it, the Vienna-based nuclear watchdog said that since December 2002, it had sought information from Washington to substantiate the Iraq-Niger link. (rferl.org)
  • Later, Wilson said, the CIA asked him to go to Niger to learn whether the report about African uranium was valid. (globalsecurity.org)
  • He said he took the assignment, requesting no fee for his work, and returned to report that he found no evidence of an Iraqi effort to buy uranium in Niger. (globalsecurity.org)
  • As for the uranium purchases, White House officials pointed to Niger, in the central Sahara, as the country where Iraqi agents had sought the materials. (wsws.org)
  • Informed of Waxman's June 2 letter to the President, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche immediately seized on the significance of senior Administration officials having used a proven forged foreign government document, to win Congressional and public support for the Iraq War, based on the fabricated claim that Iraq was attempting to purchase large quantities of uranium precursor, 'yellow cake,' from the Niger government. (larouchepub.com)
  • On June 27, 2003, Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, became the first journalist to whom Libby leaked a portion of the classified National Intelligence Estimate that purportedly showed how Iraq tried to acquire yellowcake uranium from Niger. (freepress.org)
  • The leak of the NIE to Woodward was orchestrated by Cheney and Libby in mid-June 2003 in hopes that Woodward would write a story for the Washington Post that would contradict the assertions made by Wilson - that there was no truth to intelligence cited by the Bush administration on numerous occasions that Iraq tried to purchase 500 tons of uranium from Niger. (freepress.org)
  • Just two weeks earlier, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus wrote an article attacking the administration's use of the Niger uranium allegations in President Bush's January 28, 2003 State of the Union address. (freepress.org)
  • Pincus's article was based on an unnamed source - later learned to be Joseph Wilson - who called into question the veracity of the White House's use of the documents that supposedly proved Iraq sought uranium from Niger. (freepress.org)
  • There he told the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff that he had been the special envoy who traveled to Niger in February 2002 to check out allegations that Iraq tried to purchase uranium from the country. (freepress.org)
  • Then rumors started to swirl inside the Beltway in mid-June 2003 that Wilson would soon go public and reveal that he was tapped by the CIA to travel to Niger a year earlier to check out whether there was any truth to the intelligence that claimed Iraq tried to acquire uranium from the African country. (freepress.org)
  • He reported back to us that one of the former Nigerian officials he met stated that he was unaware of any contract being signed between Niger and rogue states for the sale of uranium during his tenure in office. (harvard.edu)
  • The same former official also said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him and insisted that the former official meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Iraq and Niger. (harvard.edu)
  • These paragraphs also cited reports that Iraq began "vigorously trying to procure" more uranium from Niger and two other African countries, which would shorten the time Baghdad needed to produce nuclear weapons. (harvard.edu)
  • The NIE states: "A foreign government service reported that as of early 2001, Niger planned to send several tons of pure `uranium' (probably yellowcake) to Iraq. (harvard.edu)
  • As of early 2001, Niger and Iraq reportedly were still working out the arrangements for this deal, which could be for up to 500 tons of yellowcake. (harvard.edu)
  • One of the issues the Committee is examining why the President asserted in his State of the Union address in 2003 that Iraq sought uranium from Niger [sic]. (davidswanson.org)
  • The yellowcake uranium supposedly bought by Saddam in Niger, the aluminum tubes supposedly used to process uranium into weapons-grade material, the supposed connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden-the documentary features intelligence analysts and experts who at the time were saying and warning that the intelligence on these topics was wrong or uncertain. (motherjones.com)
  • Subsequent analysis by UN and US military experts confirmed that the aluminum tubes were, as Iraq maintained, used as bazooka-type rocket launchers, which did not violate any UN restrictions on Iraq's military activities. (wsws.org)
  • In mid-June 2003, when former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's criticism against the White House's use of pre-war Iraq intelligence started to make national headlines, Vice President Dick Cheney told his former chief of staff and close confidant I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to leak classified intelligence data on Iraq's nuclear ambitions to a legendary Washington journalist in order to undercut the charges made against the Bush administration by the former ambassador. (freepress.org)
  • The Phase II report on Bush administration public statements, in conjunction with the SSCI's original July 2004 report on Iraq's alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction, indicates that political manipulation extended beyond the intelligence itself to affect investigation of the intelligence failures on Iraq as well as the Bush administration's use of that information. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • But in the interest of completeness, the report contained three paragraphs that discuss Iraq's significant 550-metric-ton uranium stockpile and how it could be diverted while under IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) safeguard. (harvard.edu)
  • The former head of the U.N. team investigating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, Richard Butler, reached this conclusion after years of experience: "The fundamental problem with Iraq remains the nature of the regime itself. (ucsb.edu)
  • Congress must make it unmistakably clear that when it comes to confronting the growing danger posed by Iraq's efforts to develop or acquire weapons of mass destruction, the status quo is totally unacceptable. (ucsb.edu)
  • In his State of the Union address in January, Bush said that, based on recent intelligence, Iraq was trying to acquire the materials to build a nuclear weapon. (rferl.org)
  • Today, Saddam Hussein has the scientists and infrastructure for a nuclear weapons program and has illicitly sought to purchase the equipment needed to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. (ucsb.edu)
  • Thanks to Pakistan, it could also enrich uranium, not specifically addressed in 1994). (thediplomat.com)
  • The deal, struck between Iran and six major world powers, the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia and China, is meant to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon by sharply limiting its ability to process uranium. (thefiscaltimes.com)
  • Iran has insisted on the peaceful nature of its nuclear program, and held three rounds of talks with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany over its uranium enrichment program since mid-April. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • How to launch wars of aggression against Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Korea when all were then certified by the IAEA to be in full compliance with their NPT-IAEA Safeguards Agreements? (antiwar.com)
  • Only four Januaries have passed since the President used a State of the Union Address to brand Iran, Iraq, and North Korea - the first two then bitter enemies, the third completely unrelated to either of them and on the other side of the planet - as a World-War-II-style "axis of evil. (tomdispatch.com)
  • As questions mount over President Donald Trump's tough talk on Iran, top national security officials are heading to Capitol Hill to brief Congress. (staradvertiser.com)
  • Over the past several weeks the U.S. has sent an aircraft carrier and other resources to the Persian Gulf region, and evacuated non-essential personnel from Iraq, amid unspecified threats the administration says are linked to Iran. (staradvertiser.com)
  • But House Democrats, deeply skeptical of the information from the Trump officials - and mindful of the drumbeat of claims during the run-up to the Iraq War - invited former CIA Director John Brennan and former State Department official Wendy Sherman, who negotiated the Iran nuclear deal. (staradvertiser.com)
  • Trump's allies in Congress, including GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, say the threats from Iran are real. (staradvertiser.com)
  • It is clear that over the last several weeks Iran has attacked pipelines and ships of other nations and created threat streams against American interests in Iraq," Graham tweeted. (staradvertiser.com)
  • Bush had also devoted his 2002 State of the Union largely to his "axis of evil" analysis, identifying Iran, North Korea and Iraq as "outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. (ijpr.org)
  • House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said the new sanctions, the toughest ever imposed on Iran, seek to "tighten the chokehold on the regime beyond anything that has been done before. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • In his latest efforts to rev up pressure on Iran, which the West suspects is seeking to build nuclear weapons under the cover of its nuclear program, Obama on Tuesday announced additional sanctions against the country's energy and petrochemical sectors. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Iran was previously enriching uranium up to 3.5 per cent, and only started enriching to 20 per cent in 2009. (lobelog.com)
  • They want Iran to stop enriching uranium to a concentration of 20 per cent. (lobelog.com)
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wants to test diplomacy first by broadening the US-Iran negotiations on stabilising Iraq that began in Baghdad in May. (mondediplo.com)
  • While officials would not discuss whether Iran is aiding Shia militias in Iraq and, if so, which ones, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Majlis (parliament) Foreign Affairs Committee, criticised US "coddling" of Baathist and Sunni elements and made it clear that Iran expects Shia domination as the prerequisite for stability in Baghdad and for US-Iranian cooperation there as part of an overall accommodation. (mondediplo.com)
  • The MEK supported Saddam Hussein in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and subsequently its 3,600 fighters, many of them women, stayed on in Iraq. (mondediplo.com)
  • The recent arrangement between Iran and the US that allowed Iran to receive outstanding debt payments from Iraq was a positive step for Iran while for the US it is merely a "reversal of the dangerous trend of not addressing Tehran's nuclear advances", Adebahr told Al Jazeera. (aljazeera.com)
  • An interim arrangement would also not need US Congress approval, where many oppose giving Iran benefits due to its alleged military aid to Russia. (aljazeera.com)
  • The second such censure resolution last November prompted Iran to boost its uranium enrichment at a key nuclear plant. (aljazeera.com)
  • The year began with the U.S.-Iran confrontation entering a more dangerous phase after the U.S. strike that killed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq-an act that prompted an overt Iranian attack on U.S. troops and pushed both nations to the brink of war. (americanprogress.org)
  • The Obama administration continued its push to sell the Iran nuclear deal to the public and to a dubious United States Congress on Sunday, as two of the deal's lead negotiators, Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz hit all of the major Sunday morning talk shows. (thefiscaltimes.com)
  • The preamble of the agreement contains the explicit statement, "Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons. (thefiscaltimes.com)
  • Iran has 12,000 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, and that's enough, if they enriched it further for 10 to 12 bombs. (thefiscaltimes.com)
  • Succeeding Clinton as president in 2001, George W. Bush broke off these exchanges and, soon placed North Korea on an "axis of evil" along with Iraq and Iran. (thediplomat.com)
  • 2/05/03 Powell: â Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. (elitetrader.com)
  • Through a complicated undercover operation, the Israelis obtained uranium oxide, known asyellow cake, held in a stockpile in Antwerp. (rediscover911.com)
  • Its stockpile of nuclear fuel has increased, and the country now has enough enriched uranium to produce a single nuclear weapon-even though it will lack an operational warhead and ballistic missile delivery system for the foreseeable future. (americanprogress.org)
  • Despite the Bush administration's continuing belief that Iraq possessed banned weapons, critics are using the issue to charge the United States and Britain overstated the Iraqi threat. (voanews.com)
  • But when Wilson publicly debunked the George W. Bush administration's claim about African uranium, he was attacked, his wife was outed, her career ruined. (truthdig.com)
  • With no sign of weapons of mass destruction to be found in Iraq, news accounts started to call into question the credibility of the administration's pre-war intelligence. (freepress.org)
  • Through the months-long run-up to the invasion, Colin Powell, then the secretary of state, would become the administration's No. 1 pitchman for the war with a high-profile speech at the UN, which contained numerous false statements about Iraq and WMD. (motherjones.com)
  • CHAMPAIGN, Ill. â If it seems that there have been quite a few rationales for going to war in Iraq, thatâ s because there have been quite a few â 27, in fact, all floated between Sept. 12, 2001, and Oct. 11, 2002, according to a new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (elitetrader.com)
  • The study, â Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq: The Words of the Bush Administration, Congress and the Media from September 12, 2001, to October 11, 2002,â is the senior honors thesis of Devon Largio. (elitetrader.com)
  • and Sept. 12, 2002, to Oct. 11, 2002, the period from Bushâ s address to the United Nations to Congressâ s approval of the resolution to use force in Iraq. (elitetrader.com)
  • Congress had already bought into this analysis in the fall of 2002, approving an authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) against Iraq. (ijpr.org)
  • August 22, 2008 - Editor's Note: George Washington University's National Security Archive released a report Friday on prewar Iraq intelligence which found "the U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • For example, a July 2002 draft of the "White Paper" ultimately issued by the CIA in October 2002 actually pre-dated the National Intelligence Estimate that the paper purportedly summarized, but which Congress did not insist on until September 2002. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • In the fall of 2002, my deputy and I briefed hundreds of members of Congress on Iraq. (harvard.edu)
  • In September and October 2002 before Senate committees, senior intelligence officials in response to questions told members of Congress that we differed with the British dossier on the reliability of the uranium reporting. (harvard.edu)
  • In September 2002 they were publicly cited by the White House as evidence that Iraq was actively pursuing an atomic weapon. (6ixislands.com)
  • Speaking yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, Wilson noted that Powell did not include the reference to Hussein's interest in African uranium that Bush made. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The claim that Iraq possessed vast stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, the claim that Saddam Hussein's regime was a powerful military threat to his neighbors and even the United States, the claim that Iraq had close ties with Al Qaeda and would share weapons of mass destruction with the terrorists, all these are lies which have been exposed by the events of the war and its aftermath. (wsws.org)
  • This report forms part of a second phase of the SSCI's investigation of Iraq intelligence issues, most especially Saddam Hussein's possible Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program, originally approved by the Intelligence Committee in February 2004 but stalled by its Republican majority for several years, until the majority changed with the current 110th Congress. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • Today I'm meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi about the growing danger posed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq and the unique opportunity the U.N. Security Council has to confront it. (ucsb.edu)
  • Wilson argues that the White House compromised national security to punish critics like himself who accused the Bush administration of using "false pretenses" to persuade Congress and Americans to support going to war. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Wilson said he had no quarrel with those who suspected Iraq had weapons of mass destruction -- weapons that have never been found. (globalsecurity.org)
  • President George H.W. Bush hailed Wilson as "a true American hero" for his role as acting U.S. ambassador to Iraq when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. (truthdig.com)
  • Although the officials said they helped prepare negative information on Wilson about his personal and professional life and had given it to Libby and Cheney, Wilson seemed to drop off the radar once the Iraq war started on March 19, 2003. (freepress.org)
  • Wilson said he believed the administration had ignored his report and had been dishonest with Congress and the American people. (freepress.org)
  • The neo-crazies (and human-rights activist fellow-travelers) opposed those negotiations from the git-go and they're still at, vowing to defeat the nomination of Christopher Hill - who was the principal Bush-Cheney-Rice negotiator at the Six-Party talks - to be Obama's Ambassador to Iraq. (antiwar.com)
  • Not only that, but all indications are that the lies about Iraq uranium purchases were inserted into the speech over the objections of the CIA, which had informed officials, up to and including Rice and Cheney, that the charge was dubious. (wsws.org)
  • Vice-President Richard Cheney and his allies in the Pentagon and Congress, prodded by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), not only want the US to bomb the Natanz uranium enrichment facility but are also calling for air strikes on Iranian military installations near the Iraq border. (mondediplo.com)
  • If Rice or Gonzales refuses to comply with the rule of law on the 16th, 17th, or 18th, or if Congress finally subpoenas Rove and Miers and they refuse to comply, the result should be an unstoppable public demand for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. (davidswanson.org)
  • According to Hersh, the highly-classified DPRK NIE 'made the case' that North Korea had violated - right under the noses of the IAEA inspectors - both the NPT and the Agreed Framework by secretly obtaining the means to produce weapons-grade uranium. (antiwar.com)
  • So, just before going to Congress with the Iraq NIE, seeking the authority to invade and occupy Iraq, Bush used the DPRK NIE to justify the unilateral abrogation of the Agreed Framework. (antiwar.com)
  • The DPRK has maintained a continuous position of dialogue and diplomacy with both Washington and Seoul, seeking to peacefully end the horrendous conflict that has divided the Korean people for over 70 years. (workers.org)
  • Progress was made again in 1994 with the signing of the "Agreed Framework" between the DPRK and the U.S., but the U.S. Congress failed to meet its end of the deal. (workers.org)
  • In exchange the DPRK would dismantle its uranium enrichment capability, which it began to do. (workers.org)
  • The DPRK warned it would resume uranium enrichment as a result. (workers.org)
  • Woolsey's firm lobbied for the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmed Chalabi's CIA-funded group that provided faulty intelligence in the lead-up to the war. (truthdig.com)
  • The contractor was associated with the Iraqi National Congress (INC), a group of Iraqi dissidents founded by Ahmed Chalabi which supplied much of the material reported in the press at this time. (aljazeera.com)
  • Aluminum tubes purchased by the nation of Iraq were intercepted in Jordan in 2001. (6ixislands.com)
  • lied to the Congress when he tried to claim that the yellow cake in question was delivered to Iraq. (rediscover911.com)
  • Because this report, in our view, did not resolve whether Iraq was or was not seeking uranium from abroad, it was given a normal and wide distribution, but we did not brief it to the president, vice president or other senior administration officials. (harvard.edu)
  • A decade ago, on March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq that would lead to a nine-year war resulting in 4,486 dead American troops, 32,226 service members wounded, and over 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians. (motherjones.com)
  • Powell walked into my office and without so much as a fare-thee-well, he walked over to the window and he said, "I wonder what'll happen when we put 500,000 troops into Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and find nothing? (motherjones.com)
  • An American military spokesman said the United States was reviewing an informal request from the Iranian government for an envoy to visit five Iranians imprisoned following an American raid [on their consul] in northern Iraq in January. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • Meanwhile, the Iranians went into the negotiations seeking an easing of crippling economic sanctions that have primarily targetted its oil exports. (lobelog.com)
  • LaRouche's own track record of challenging the wall of disinformation thrown up by the Straussian neo-conservative network inside the Bush Administration, to launch the Iraq War, puts him in a unique position to hold the other Democratic Presidential candidates as well as Bush Administration top officials accountable for their repeated failure, up until now, to challenge the avalanche of disinformation and 'spun' intelligence products. (larouchepub.com)
  • Senior officials in the foreign ministry, the National Security Council, the office of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and pro-government think tanks all said that stability in Iraq and Afghanistan is in Iran's interest. (mondediplo.com)
  • The best way for the US to start rolling back its regime change policy, both editors and several officials said, would be to dismantle a US-backed militia of Iranian exiles based in Iraq, known as the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK). (mondediplo.com)
  • The former officials also offered details regarding Niger's processes for monitoring and transporting uranium that suggested it would be very unlikely that material could be illicitly diverted. (harvard.edu)
  • In 2000, Iraq ordered, via a company in Jordan, 60,000 high-strength aluminum tubes manufactured from 7075-T6 aluminum with an outer diameter of 81 mm, and an inner diameter of 74.4 mm, a wall thickness of 3.3 mm and a length of 900 mm, to be manufactured in China. (6ixislands.com)
  • She also charted the appearance of critical keywords such as Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Iraq to trace the administrationâ s shift in interest from the al Qaeda leader to the Iraqi despot, and the news mediaâ s response to that shift. (elitetrader.com)
  • It is now clear that Iraq was not an immediate threat to the United States that the Bush administration portrayed,' said Daryl Kimball, who heads the nonpartisan Arms Control Association. (voanews.com)
  • The entire Bush administration case for war with Iraq was based on serial falsifications of the most grotesque and flagrant character. (wsws.org)
  • For her analysis of all available public statements the Bush administration and selected members of Congress made pertaining to war with Iraq, Largio not only identified the rationales offered for going to war, but also established when they emerged and who promoted them. (elitetrader.com)
  • Despite the disaster of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush administration wants not just to deter Iran's nuclear ambitions but maybe even to overthrow the Islamic Republic. (mondediplo.com)
  • Consider, however, just one of the recent revelations about how Iraq weapons intelligence was handled by the Bush Administration and you'll start to see a disturbing pattern of cynical mendacity. (thenation.com)
  • The timing of the CIA's draft white paper coincides with a previously available draft of the British Government's white paper on Iraqi WMD, demonstrating that the Bush administration and the Tony Blair government began acting in concert to build support for an invasion of Iraq two to three months earlier than previously understood. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • WASHINGTON - The US Congress on Wednesday passed additional sanctions seeking to further stifle Iran's oil exports, just one day after President Barack Obama announced new measures to pressure the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear program. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • He also said sanctions were imposed on Bank of Kunlun in China and Elaf Islamic Bank in Iraq, alleging that they "have facilitated transactions worth millions of dollars on behalf of Iranian banks that are subject to sanctions for their links to Iran's illicit proliferation activities. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • A potential agreement could prevent tensions around the nuclear deal in the near future from boiling over, and deter Western parties from seeking to activate the "snapback" mechanism of the accord that is designed to reinstate UN sanctions on Tehran in case it violates the deal. (aljazeera.com)
  • But by 1999, with funding for the Agreed Framework tied up in a Congress hostile to the whole policy, the U.S. has still not lifted sanctions, normalized relations or provided a civilian nuclear power reactor. (workers.org)
  • Leighton agreed as part of the settlement to stop seeking contempt-of-court sanctions on former CIA Director George Tenet, former CIA officer Brown and four CIA attorneys. (afio.com)
  • If Congress were to kill this," Kerry warned on CNN, "then we have no inspections, no sanctions, no ability to negotiate - because I assure you, the Ayatollah? (thefiscaltimes.com)
  • In May 2004, the President signed E.O. 13338 implementing the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (SAA) which imposes a series of sanctions against Syria for its support for terrorism, involvement in Lebanon, weapons of mass destruction programs, and the destabilizing role it is playing in Iraq. (counterpunch.org)
  • But no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. (elitetrader.com)
  • 3/17/03 Bush: '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. (elitetrader.com)
  • Bush argued that the Iraqi regime had been seeking a nuclear weapon and had developed other "weapons of mass destruction. (ijpr.org)
  • In November, Congress amended a defense authorization bill to require the president to punish individuals, companies, or governments that violate the Missile Technology Control Regime. (wisconsinproject.org)
  • The White House has acknowledged for the first time that U.S. President George W. Bush used faulty intelligence reports to help justify the war against Iraq. (rferl.org)
  • Prague, 9 July 2003 (RFE/RL) -- With evidence of weapons of mass destruction yet to turn up in Iraq, the debate over whether the U.S. and British governments manipulated intelligence to justify their invasion has snowballed. (rferl.org)
  • The president now says remarks he used to help justify the war in Iraq were cleared by the CIA even though the White House now admits they were based on faulty intelligence. (voanews.com)
  • But Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, an Iraq War veteran, tweeted that after having received "the same" intelligence briefing, that was not his conclusion. (staradvertiser.com)
  • There is a lengthy section in which most agencies of the intelligence community judged that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. (harvard.edu)
  • But a little more than two weeks later, on July 19, the White House blocked a New Jersey company's proposed sale of a skull furnace to Iraq after US intelligence learned that Iraq planned to use the furnace for military purposes, not to make artificial limbs as the buyer claimed. (wisconsinproject.org)
  • 1. deliberately misled the nation and doctored intelligence, as described in the Downing Street minutes, http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memos.html about the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war of aggression and an occupation of Iraq, as further described in House resolution H.Res. (911truth.org)
  • Lawmakers are warning the Trump administration it cannot take the country into war without approval from Congress, and the back-to-back briefings show the wariness among Democrats, and some Republicans, over the White House's sudden policy shifts in the Middle East. (staradvertiser.com)
  • The new measures, among others, target any individual or entity that works with Iran's petroleum or natural gas sector, engages in mining of uranium with the country, sells oil tankers to Tehran, or provides insurance to the National Iranian Tanker Co. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • This means that a country like Iraq could now order them through Romanian brokers. (wisconsinproject.org)
  • 4. killed over 3700 American soldiers and severely wounded nearly 30,000 more in the pursuit of an illegal, immoral, and unjust occupation of Iraq. (911truth.org)
  • In a direct challenge to Congress and the way it does business, the White House on Wednesday unveiled on online list of all the pet spending projects lawmakers tucked in the federal budget for the 2004-05 fiscal year. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • The White House scrambled Sunday to move up Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' planned testimony to Congress about his involvement in firing eight federal prosecutors, only to get a cold shoulder from majority Democrats. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • To put it bluntly," former Nixon White House counsel John Dean wrote on the legal Web site FindLaw on June 6, "if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. (thenation.com)
  • Democrats frustrated by Bush's reaction to Iraq report - WASHINGTON - Top Democrats in Congress left a White House meeting with President Bush on Friday frustrated over what they perceived as his reluctance to embrace major recommendations from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group. (memeorandum.com)
  • In a wide-ranging interview here, Mr. Dowd called for a withdrawal from Iraq and expressed his disappointment in Mr. Bush's leadership. (freedomsphoenix.com)
  • This week, the United Nations formally closed down its weapons search program in Iraq, the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. (truthdig.com)
  • From 2000 to 2003, he led the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission that searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction. (msnbc.com)
  • With regard to reports that Iraq had sought uranium from two other countries, the Estimate says: "We cannot confirm whether Iraq succeeded in acquiring uranium ore and/or yellowcake from these sources. (harvard.edu)
  • Not long afterwards, Bush launched an invasion of Iraq. (ijpr.org)
  • John Chilcot's massive report on the calamitous invasion and occupation of Iraq is now out. (aljazeera.com)
  • A comparison of the CIA draft white paper with its publicly released edition shows that all the changes made were in the nature of strengthening its charges against Iraq by inserting additional alarming claims, in the manner of an advocacy, or public relations document. (veteransforcommonsense.org)
  • Sixteen times the United Nations Security Council has passed resolutions designed to ensure that Iraq does not pose a threat to international peace and security. (ucsb.edu)
  • Report on Iraq Exposes Divide Within G.O.P. - The release of the report by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group this week exposed deep fissures among Republicans over how to manage a war that many fear will haunt their party - and the nation - for years to come. (memeorandum.com)
  • That Iraq Report? (memeorandum.com)
  • no evidence was found of a program to design or develop an 81-mm aluminum rotor uranium centrifuge. (6ixislands.com)
  • In doing work with the CIA on Iraq WMD, through all the briefings I heard at Langley, I never saw one piece of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program. (motherjones.com)
  • By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. (antiwar.com)
  • According to Senator Sam Brownback , Hill's 'unfortunate legacy' with respect to the Six-Party talks includes 'broken commitments to Congress, free-lancing diplomacy, disregarding human rights, and giving up key leverage to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in exchange for insubstantial gestures. (antiwar.com)
  • Republicans in Congress, however, balked at paying for energy assistance to the North and U.S. oil deliveries often arrived late. (thediplomat.com)
  • Washington, 1 November 2005 (RFE/RL) -- It all began with 16 words uttered by President George W. Bush during his State of the Union address in January 2003 -- two months before the invasion of Iraq. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Two weeks later, the U.S. Congress voted to grant President Bush authority to go to war against Iraq. (larouchepub.com)
  • But in April 2021, he addressed a joint session of Congress, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Harris behind him on the dais. (ijpr.org)
  • No moment in America's yearly political calendar is so grand or so daunting as the State of the Union address, a speech the president usually delivers to a joint session of Congress early in the year. (ijpr.org)
  • It has been customary for more than a century for the president to do this with a live speech before a joint session of Congress. (ijpr.org)
  • The last time war clouds were this dark over a State of the Union speech was in January of 2003, when President George W. Bush used the occasion to make a case for invading Iraq. (ijpr.org)
  • The president sounded like a Jon Stewart imitation of himself when he assured reporters that Mr. Maliki had "a comprehensive plan" to pacify Iraq. (planetwaves.net)
  • The Case of the Phantom Uranium raises questions about the President that could lead to legitimate calls for impeachment. (thenation.com)
  • The vote Cardin was discussing is part of a process Congress and the president agreed on earlier this year, which gives lawmakers 60 days to assess the deal before voting to approve it or disapprove it. (thefiscaltimes.com)
  • Testimony by CFR fellows and experts before Congress. (cfr.org)
  • In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ray Takeyh argues that there is precedent for Congress turning down agreements until a better draft is negotiated as in the case of arms control deals between the United States and the Soviet Union. (cfr.org)
  • They say at that level it is easy to enrich the uranium further to develop weapons grade material. (lobelog.com)
  • â The rationales that were used to justify the war with Iraq have been a major issue in the news since last year, and Devonâ s study provides an especially thorough and wide-ranging analysis of it,â Althaus, a professor of political science, said. (elitetrader.com)
  • The controversy is leading to new fingerpointing within the administration as well as calls from members of Congress for whoever was responsible for the error to be fired. (voanews.com)
  • And he denied reports that the spy agency had advised against using it to bolster administration arguments that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. (voanews.com)
  • As the Gulf crisis deepened, both Congress and the administration responded to calls for increased US controls. (wisconsinproject.org)
  • Congress also changed the Export Administration Act to punish countries using chemical weapons or companies trading in poison gas technology. (wisconsinproject.org)
  • It's evidence that the administration was seeking a pretense for war. (motherjones.com)