Condoleezza Rice in The War in Quotes, by G.B. Trudeau

On War & Peace: FactCheck: No, CIA knew Al Qaeda planned suicide air attack

"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with his explosives into the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, or the White House."--National Intelligence Council report, September 1999 "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center"-- Condoleezza Rice, May 17, 2002 Source: The War in Quotes, by G.B. Trudeau, p. 6-7 Oct 1, 2008

On War & Peace: We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud

"There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Husseion is gathering WMDs for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest."
--White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer, Sept. 6, 2002

"There's no deate in the world as to whether they have these weapons. We all know that. A trained ape knows that."
--Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 13, 2002

"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
--Condoleezza Rice, Sept. 8, 2002

"Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof--the smoking gun--that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
--George W. Bush, Oct. 7, 2002

"We know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
--Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003

"I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons."
--Donald Rumsfeld, May 14, 2003

Source: The War in Quotes, by G.B. Trudeau, p. 24-25 Oct 1, 2008

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