White House

Executive Order:
Facilitating the Administration of Justice in the Federal Courts

GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 9, 2003.    » read more »

Executive Order
Establishing the Bob Hope American Patriot Award

GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 28, 2003.    » read more »

Executive Order:
Volunteers for Prosperity

GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 25, 2003.    » read more »

Executive Order:
Assignment of Functions Relating to Arrivals in and Departures from the United States

GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 30, 2003.    » read more »

Executive Order:
Federal Real Property Asset Management

GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,

February 4, 2004.    » read more »

Executive Order
Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

February 6, 2004    » read more »

05 February 2004

Bush Defends His Decision to Go to War with Iraq
Says world better off without Saddam Hussein regime

President Bush says his decision to go to war against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq was correct for the United States and for the world, even though stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction have not yet been found in Iraq.    » read more »

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 5, 2004

Press Gaggle with with Scott McClellan

Scott Mcclellan
Aboard Air Force One
En Route Charleston, South Carolina

President’s Schedule and Announcements / CIA Director Tenet’s remarks / President’s trip to SC    » read more »

23 January 2003

Why We Know Iraq Is Lying

By Condoleezza Rice

This byliner by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice first appeared in the New York Times January 23, 2003, and is in the public domain. No republication restrictions.

(Condoleezza Rice is the national security adviser.)

Washington — Eleven weeks after the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution demanding — yet again — that Iraq disclose and disarm all its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, it is appropriate to ask, "Has Saddam Hussein finally decided to voluntarily disarm?" Unfortunately, the answer is a clear and resounding no.    » read more »

6 February 2003

U.S. Lawmakers Call for Iraq's Immediate Compliance with U.N. Resolutions

Some urge second U.N. resolution setting deadline for use of force

By Anthony Kujawa
Washington File Staff Writer

Washington — U.S. lawmakers urged the United Nations Security Council to examine the evidence and to act after Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 5 presentation at the U.N. documented Iraq's links to terrorism and provided evidence of non-compliance with U.N. disarmament demands.    » read more »

6 February 2003

Bush Says U.S. Would Welcome New U.N. Iraq Resolution
But adds, "resolutions mean little without resolve"

President Bush said February 6 that the United States would "welcome and support" a new United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraqi disarmament, but he added that the resolution must be accompanied by resolve.    » read more »

6 February 2003

Bush, Powell Say U.N. Must Not Ignore Its Responsibility on Iraq
U.S. would "welcome" new U.N. resolution on Iraqi disarmament

By Wendy S. Ross and Alicia K. Langley
Washington File Staff Writers

Washington — Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction poses a threat to the world, and the United Nations Security Council "must not back down" when its demands for the regime to disarm are "being defied and mocked by a dictator," President Bush said February 6.    » read more »

8 February 2003

Bush Says Iraq Defying U.N. Calls to Declare Weapons, Disarm
Radio Address to the Nation February 8

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has continued to violate United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for a full declaration of his weapons programs and full cooperation in the disarmament of his regime, President Bush said in his radio address to the nation February 8.    » read more »

12 September 2002

A Decade of Deception and Defiance

White House background paper

On the same day President George W. Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly to make the case for action in Iraq, the White House released a background paper entitled "A Decade of Deception and Defiance: Saddam Hussein’s Defiance of the United Nations."    » read more »

04 February 2004

Bush Says U.S. Fostering Democracy in Greater Middle East
Compares fight against terror with challenges faced by Churchill

The United States seeks to foster the growth of democracy in the greater Middle East to remove conditions there that breed tyranny, despair and anger, President Bush said February 4 in a speech honoring former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.    » read more »