
Entry 018Aug 26, 2002
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”18
18Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States, Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, Nashville, Tennessee, August 26, 2002. Source
Why it’s on the record. The Iraq Survey Group's final (Duelfer) report, released September 30, 2004, found that Iraq had destroyed its illicit weapons stockpiles in 1991 and had no active WMD programs at the time of the invasion.
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Where this comes from
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- TranscriptRead it on georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov
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On the record
This speech opened the administration's public case for war with Iraq, months before the CIA's National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq was written.
- Said by
- Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States
- Where
- Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, Nashville, Tennessee
- When
- Aug 26, 2002
- Source
- Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, Nashville, Tennessee, August 26, 2002