INDEX of UNEDITED SOURCE TRANSCRIPTS FOR THE FILM
Over sixty news media clips were edited for use in the film LEADING TO WAR. Below are links to the full transcript of each media clip in its original, unedited form – the sections used in the film are highlighted in red.
Included in the transcripts are (in order of appearance) President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Vice President Dick Cheney, General Richard Myers, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Attorney General John Ashcroft, and CIA Director George Tenet, speaking in public appearances and reacting to questions from press and members of Congress.
January 29, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH –State of the Union Address
January 30, 2002 - DONALD RUMSFELD – Pentagon Press Room
February 4, 2002 - DONALD RUMSFELD – The NewsHour
March 21, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH & DICK CHENEY – White House Oval Office
March 21, 2002 - PAUL WOLFOWITZ – The NewsHour
March 24, 2002 - DICK CHENEY – Meet The Press / Face The Nation / CNN Late Edition
April 6, 2002 - RICHARD MYERS – Novak, Hunt & Shields
May 9, 2002 - PAUL WOLFOWITZ – Ashleigh Banfield: On Location
May 23, 2002 - DONALD RUMSFELD – Wolf Blitzer Reports
June 1, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – US Military Academy Graduation, West Point, NY
June 10, 2002 - DONALD RUMSFELD – Kuwait
July 8, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – White House Press Room
August 1, 2002 - ARI FLEISCHER – White House Press Room
August 20, 2002 - DONALD RUMSFELD – Pentagon Press Room
August 21, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH & DONALD RUMSFELD – Bush Ranch, Crawford, TX
August 26, 2002 - DICK CHENEY – Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention, Nashville, TN
September 3, 2002 - ARI FLEISCHER / DONALD RUMSFELD – White House / Pentagon Press Room
September 7, 2002 - PRIME MINISTER BLAIR & PRESIDENT BUSH – Camp David
September 8, 2002 - RICE, RUMSFELD, POWELL, CHENEY, MYERS – Sunday talkshows
September 11, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – 9/11 Commemoration, New York City
September 12, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – United Nations General Assembly
September 19, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – White House Oval Office
September 19, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – Homeland Security Building
September 25, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – White House Oval Office
September 25, 2002 - CONDOLEEZZA RICE – The NewsHour
September 26, 2002 - DONALD RUMSFELD – Pentagon Press Room
September 26, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – White House Rose Garden
September 30, 2002 - DONALD RUMSFELD – Pentagon Press Room
October 7, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – Cincinnati, OH October 9, 2002 - COLIN POWELL – Larry King Live
October 16, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – White House East Room
October 20, 2002 - COLIN POWELL – This Week
October 24 - November 4, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – Congressional Campaign Rallies
November 7, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – Eisenhower Executive Office Building
December 2, 2002 - DICK CHENEY – Air National Guard Leadership Conference, Denver, CO
December 3, 2002 - DONALD RUMSFELD – Pentagon Press Room
December 31, 2002 - PRESIDENT BUSH – Crawford, TX
January 3, 2003 - PRESIDENT BUSH – Fort Hood, TX
January 7, 2003 - RICHARD MYERS – Pentagon Press Room
January 19, 2003 - COLIN POWELL / DONALD RUMSFELD – Face The Nation / This Week
January 28, 2003 - PRESIDENT BUSH – State of the Union Address
February 5, 2003 - COLIN POWELL – United Nations Security Council
February 6, 2003 - PRESIDENT BUSH – The White House
February 7, 2003 - JOHN ASHCROFT – Department of Justice Press Room
February 9, 2003 - COLIN POWELL – Meet The Press
February 11, 2003 - JOHN WARNER & GEORGE TENET – Senate Select Committee
February 20, 2003 - DONALD RUMSFELD – The NewsHour
February 26, 2003 - PRESIDENT BUSH – American Enterprise Institute Annual Dinner
February 27, 2003 - PAUL WOLFOWITZ – Congressional Hearing: House Budget Committee
March 5, 2003 - COLIN POWELL – Center for Strategic and International Studies
March 6, 2003 - PRESIDENT BUSH – White House East Room Press Conference
March 16, 2003 - DICK CHENEY / COLIN POWELL – Meet The Press / CNN Late Edition
March 16, 2003 - PRESIDENT BUSH & PRIME MINISTER BLAIR – The Azores, Portugal
March 17, 2003 - PRESIDENT BUSH – The White House
March 19, 2003 - PRESIDENT BUSH – White House Oval Office
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