 | William B. Quandt - 2005 - 558 pages
...who were convinced that it was a dangerous prospect, if not already a reality.21 As Rice later said, "The problem here is that there will always be some...But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."24 Since normal deterrence could not work against suicide bombers, the only feasible strategy... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations - 2002 - 212 pages
...And so I think President Bush's National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice put it best when she said there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly...but we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. I don't want the smoking gun to be some suitcase bomb, and after we have acted, let me say it... | |
 | Christopher Cerf - 2003 - 738 pages
...Deparunent and other government agencies. NINE THE COUNTRY DEBATES GOING TO WAR "The problem here is thai there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly...But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." —Condoleezza Rice, US. National Seenriry Adsisor, Sept. 8; 2002 "The way Mr. Bush and Mr.... | |
 | Joseph S. Nye, Eric Alterman - 1990 - 384 pages
...the tubes "are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs." She also added, "The problem here is that there will always be some...but we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." Dick Cheney did much the same thing on NBC's Meet the Press, telling Tim Russert, "We don't... | |
 | David Nett - 2005 - 202 pages
...mass death." But my favorite quote on this subject is this one, from our very own Condeleezza Rice: "The problem here is that there will always be some...But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." I'd say a nuclear bomb detonating inside the United States is a pretty goddamn immediate threat,... | |
 | Harvey Langholtz, Boris Kondoch, Alan Wells - 2005 - 411 pages
...Condoleezza Rice, expressing the view that Saddam "is actively pursuing a nuclear weapon" and observing that "there will always be some uncertainty about...But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."44 Adding to the nervousness, that same month witnessed the release by the British of the so-call... | |
 | David P. Lindorff, Barbara Olshansky - 2006 - 304 pages
...of its work was a statement by Rice made in an interview on CNN's Late Edition on September 8, 2002, that "there will always be some uncertainty about...but we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." To back up these unsupportable but frightening claims, the administration began citing "documents"... | |
 | Thomas E. Ricks - 2006 - 524 pages
...Tony Blair at his side, flatly asserted that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. "The problem here is that there will always be some...about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons," Condoleezza Rice said on CNN on September 8, echoing that morning's New York Times story. "But we don't... | |
 | Ron Suskind - 2006 - 404 pages
...they fought it out over the President's UN speech just days away, Rice went on CNN and improvised. "The problem here is that there will always be some...about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons," she said. "But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The statement sent off shock... | |
 | William Walton Keller, Gordon R. Mitchell - 2006 - 372 pages
...worldwide headlines when she uttered these words earlier in an interview with CNN on 8 September 2002: "The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he [Saddam Hussein] can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.'H... | |
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The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. 
