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Iraq
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2003 Iraq War
- "US Admits Iraq-Africa Uranium Link Was 'Bogus'; White House Says Bush's Allegations in State
of the Union Address was Based on Wrong Information,"
FT7/8/03, p1. Responding to accusations, Press Sec. Ari Fleisher insisted 7/7 that Pres Bush did not know the reports were wrong when he made
the allegation.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030707-5.html
- "Bush Charge on Iraq Arms Had Doubters, House Told,"
NYT7/9/03, A10. State Dept. letter provided to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), ranking Democrat on the House
Committee on Government Reform, says that American diplomats warned the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) that the US could not confirm reports 7 days after Bush's State of the Union address.
letter to Pres. Bush [PDF]
State Department letter [PDF]
IAEA letter [PDF]
- "Top General 'Perplexed' By Intelligence On Iraq WMD,"
FT6/26/03, p2. Deputy CINC-CENT John Abizaid tells Senate Committee on Armed Services confirmation
hearing that intelligence about Iraq's WMD was "perplexingly incomplete." Gen. Abizaid said 6/25, "It is
perplexing to me that we have not found WMD, when evidence was so pervasive that it would exist."
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/text2003/0625rebuild.htm
- "Defense's Feith Denies Pentagon Manipulated Intelligence Reports,"
US State Dept, 6/4/03. Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, told journalists at
a special Pentagon briefing that news reports were inaccurate of a special group formed at the Pentagon
to manipulate intelligence reports about Iraq's links to international terrorist groups and its weapons
of mass destruction program in order to make a case for going to war.
http://lists.state.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-USIAINFO.EXE?A2=ind0306a&L=wf-easia&H=1&O=D&F=&S=&P=6975
- "The Road Ahead: Lessons in Nation Building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for Postwar Iraq,"
by Ray Salvatore Jennings (Senior Fellow, USIP), USIP Peaceworks No. 49, April 2003. "In Iraq, the
United States will be held to unfamiliar standards in difficult circumstances. Is the United States
ready? Postwar interventions in Germany, Japan, and Afghanistan offer examples of occupation
environments and the character of commitment that postconflict environments routinely require.
http://www.usip.org/pubs/peaceworks/pwks49.html/
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Iraq Reconstruction
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