“In October 2006, the noted British medical journal Lancet…estimated that the total deaths in Iraq in the period between March 2003 and July 2006 may have exceeded 650,000 people. The figure was astounding, as it easily surpassed all the previously published figures of casualties, which ranged from 50,000 (from the unofficial Iraq Body Count) to […]
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10/15/2006
In October 2006, “four months after his [al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s] death AQI changed its name to the Islamic State of Iraq and appointed an Iraqi, Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, to be its nominal boss. But with the death of Zarqawi, AQI no longer had a charismatic leader.” [The 15th of the […]
10/12/2006
According to the “Findings” in The Lancet study “Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey” from Oct. 12, 2006: “…We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been 654[,]965 (392[,]979–942[,]636) excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the population in the study area. […]
10/9/2006
On October 9, 2006, “North Korea defied the world again by carrying out its first full-fledged nuclear test. [Chinese] President Hu [Jintao]‘s reaction was firmer this time. ‘The Chinese government strongly opposes this.’ he said. ‘We engaged in conversations to appeal to the North Koreans for restraint. However, our neighbor turned a deaf ear to […]
10/8/2006
On October 8, 2006, the day after detecting a nuclear explosion in North Korea, President Bush said: ” ‘The North Korean regime remains one of the world’s leading proliferators of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be […]
10/4/2006
At a Colorado republican party reception on October 4, 2006, President George W. Bush said, regarding the use of torture against terrorists: “I’m going to tell you point-blank, this program worked. …As a result of the information from the interrogations, the CIA helped break up–we helped break up a cell of Southeast Asian terrorist operatives […]
9/29/2006
“On September 29 [2006], the House [of Representatives] affirmed the Senate’s version of the Military Commissions Act, which nullified any potential habeas [corpus] rights of the Guantanamo detainees and reaffirmed the authority of the military tribunals to decide who was or was not an enemy combatant–a designation that couldn’t be appealed in court.” – Ron […]
9/29/2006
“In September [28-29] 2006, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, which shielded U.S. interrogators from potential prosecution for torture.” – Jacob Weisberg, “Our Tacit Approval of Torture,” Newsweek, April 30, 2009 […]
9/28/2006
“Just before Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [on September 22, 2006], Senator [John] McCain [R-AZ] was widely quoted when he stated [on September 21, 2006] that ‘[t]here’s no doubt that the integrity and letter and spirit of the Geneva Conventions have been preserved.’ On the Senate floor [on September 28, 2006], he […]
9/27/2006
A ‘council of colonels’ concluded, in a September 27, 2006, briefing titled, ‘Strategy for the Long War, 2006-2016: *Where we are going,* ‘ that “Iraq was indeed in a ‘low-grade’ civil war…and on the path to a bigger one. ‘We are losing because we are not winning and time is not on our side,’ they flatly […]