Sorry. I’m behind schedule in posting these radio shows. I really need to do better.
Anyway, here is the January 21 episode of the Downsize DC Conference Call, sponsored by DownsizeDC.org, Gun Owners of America, and the Marijuana Policy Project.
My topics were announced here:
http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/2007/jan/21/weekend_at_bernies
This episode is attached, below, in mp3 format.
As you can tell from this link, this was supposed to be the “Weekend at Bernie’s” episode. But less than 10 seconds before my intro started to play, we had a power surge. The breaker at my radio desk clicked off. I jumped, ran down two flights of stairs, and punched the breaker. Then, I ran up two flights of steps, plugged my phone back in, called the network back in Minnesota, where my engineer/producer Jared had just figured out something was wrong. He had just begun playing Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.”
Jared reconnected me. Checked to see if I was there. And the show went on. I was breathless (and you can hear it) during the entire first segment of the show. Of course, that didn’t slow me down! But you can feel free to refer to this as “The Wall” episode.
During the program I promised to post the following information on the blog, so here it is…
(Get this Bernie!) Quotes that indicate the Administration wasn’t looking for WMD in Syria (…no convoy before the U.S. attack).
Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.
Ari Fleisher
Press Briefing
March 21, 2003
There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.
Gen. Tommy Franks
Press Conference
March 22, 2003
I have no doubt we’re going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.
Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman
Washington Post, p. A27
March 23, 2003
One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark
Press Briefing
March 22, 2003
We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
Donald Rumsfeld
ABC Interview
March 30, 2003
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find — and there will be plenty.
Neocon scholar Robert Kagan
Washington Post op-ed
April 9, 2003
But make no mistake — as I said earlier — we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found.
Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
April 10, 2003
We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.
George W. Bush
NBC Interview
April 24, 2003
There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld
Press Briefing
April 25, 2003
We’ll find them. It’ll be a matter of time to do so.
George W. Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 3, 2003
I’m absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We’re just getting it just now.
Colin Powell
Remarks to Reporters
May 4, 2003
We never believed that we’d just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld
Fox News Interview
May 4, 2003
I’m not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein — because he had a weapons program.
George W. Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 6, 2003
U.S. officials never expected that ‘we were going to open garages and find’ weapons of mass destruction.
Condoleeza Rice
Reuters Interview
May 12, 2003
I just don’t know whether it was all destroyed years ago — I mean, there’s no question that there were chemical weapons years ago — whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they’re still hidden.
Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne
Press Briefing
May 13, 2003
Before the war, there’s no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found.
Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps
Interview with Reporters
May 21, 2003
Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we’re interrogating, I’m confident that we’re going to find weapons of mass destruction.
Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
NBC Today Show interview
May 26, 2003
They may have had time to destroy them, and I don’t know the answer.
Donald Rumsfeld
Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2003
It was a surprise to me then — it remains a surprise to me now — that we have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it’s not for lack of trying. We’ve been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they’re simply not there.
Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
Press Interview
May 30, 2003
Do I think we’re going to find something? Yeah, I kind of do, because I think there’s a lot of information out there.
Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton, Defense Intelligence Agency
Press Conference
May 30, 2003