Theresa May (1956) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Conservative Party conference http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/oct/07/conservatives2002.conservatives1 (07 October 2002)
2002 U.S. Senate Debate, October 2002 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Liwa3iliE
Theresa May (1956) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Conservative Party conference http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/oct/07/conservatives2002.conservatives1 (07 October 2002)
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2003, Weekly radio address (March 2003)
“The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.”
Carl Levin (1934) American politician
In an appearance on CNN (December 16, 2001)
Joseph C. Wilson (1949–2019) American ambassador
What I Didn't Find in Africa (2003)
Context: I was convinced before the war that the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein required a vigorous and sustained international response to disarm him. Iraq possessed and had used chemical weapons; it had an active biological weapons program and quite possibly a nuclear research program — all of which were in violation of United Nations resolutions. Having encountered Mr. Hussein and his thugs in the run-up to the Persian Gulf war of 1991, I was only too aware of the dangers he posed.
But were these dangers the same ones the administration told us about? We have to find out. America's foreign policy depends on the sanctity of its information. For this reason, questioning the selective use of intelligence to justify the war in Iraq is neither idle sniping nor "revisionist history," as Mr. Bush has suggested. The act of war is the last option of a democracy, taken when there is a grave threat to our national security. More than 200 American soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq already. We have a duty to ensure that their sacrifice came for the right reasons.
Carl Romanelli (1959) American artist
on U.S. Senate hearings into President Bush's planned invasion of Iraq
[August 7, 2002, http://www.gp.org/press/pr_08_07_02.html, Press release: "Green Party Calls Senate Hearings on Iraq a 'Sham'", U.S Green Party, 2006-08-17]
Bill O'Reilly (1949) American political commentator, television host and writer
2003-03-18
Good Morning America
ABC
Television
[2004-02-25, Peter, Hart, Bill O'Reilly's "Apology": Still Spinning in the 'No Spin Zone', Common Dreams, http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-10.htm]
on finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
John F. Kerry (1943) politician from the United States
Democratic Presidential Debate May 13, 2003 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A16686-2003May5&notFound=true
Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) Iraqi politician and President
Jimmy Carter (10 September 2007), interview with Democracy Now!, http://www.cartercenter.org/peace/human_rights/defenders/news/democ_now0910.html.
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Town Hall speech http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/counterprogramming-clinton-in-new-hampshire/, Berlin, NH, as reported in The New York Times (10 February 2007) <br class="br">Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)