posted on Jul, 17 2003 @ 09:41 AM
�I really do believe we will be greeted as liberators,� U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney declared on television just as U.S. troops were massing along
the border between Kuwait and Iraq on the eve of Washington's march to Baghdad.
�Wildly off the mark,� declared Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, when asked by senators just before the war whether he agreed with
then-Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's estimate that more than 200,000 troops would be needed as an occupation force after the war.
�I believe it is definitely more likely than not that some degree of common knowledge between (al Qaeda and Iraq) was involved� in the Sep. 11, 2001
attacks on New York and the Pentagon, former Central Intelligence Agency chief and Defense Policy Board member James Woolsey testified before a
federal court just before the war.
�We know where they are,� Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld assured television viewers about the location of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) at the end of March, two weeks into the war. �They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad, and east, west, south and north somewhat.�
�The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,� declared President George W.
Bush in his late-January State of the Union address.
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