“On April 23 [2006], he [President Bush] paid a courtesy call on Gerald Ford at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, and the ninety-two-year-old former president took the opportunity to lecture him about what was going wrong in Iraq. Ford said he had supported the invasion but felt Bush had done a poor job explaining […]
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4/20/2006
By April 2006, Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a conservative Shiite, “had failed to form a coalition government–he had no support among the Sunnis and Kurds–and had been unable to rein in the militias that had been fomenting violence across Iraq since the Samarra bombing two months earlier. …Jaafari finally bowed out on April 20 […]
4/19/2006
“Three years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, only one major U.S. building project in Iraq is on schedule and within budget: the massive new American embassy compound. The $592 million facility is being built inside the heavily fortified Green Zone by 900 non-Iraqi foreign workers who are housed nearby and under the supervision […]
4/18/2006
“President George Bush announced in April [18] 2006, ‘I’m the decider, and I decide what’s best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as secretary of defense.’ In November, following loss of control of both houses of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections, the president changed his mind, replaced Rumsfeld with Robert Gates, […]
4/18/2006
After a press conference on April 18, 2006, President Bush was questioned about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had recently received criticism from numerous generals. ” ‘I don’t appreciate the speculation about Don Rumsfeld,’ Bush said. ‘He’s doing a fine job.’ As for the generals, he said, ‘I listen to all voices, but mine’s […]
4/15/2006
“The [Bush] administration’s own National Intelligence Estimate on ‘Trends in Global Terrorism: implications for the United States,’ circulated within the government in April 2006 and partially declassified in October, states that ‘the Iraq War has become the *cause celebre* for jihadists…and is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives.’ “ [The 15th of […]
4/15/2006
“…the [April] 2006 National Intelligence Estimate…described the Iraq conflict as ‘the cause celebre for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadists.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bin Laden’s Legacy, Page 112 […]
4/15/2006
"Completed in April 2006, the NIE [National Intelligence Estimate], as it's known, is the first formal assessment of global terrorism since the start of the Iraq war. Rather than being in retreat, as the White House has asserted, the NIE concludes that Islamic radicalism has metastasized and spread worldwide." [The 15th of the month used […]
4/15/2006
"In April 2006, six retired generals publicly called for his [Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld's] resignation, citing missteps in Iraq, especially the failure to have enough troops." [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, 459 […]
4/15/2006
In an April 2006 speech to the Senate, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) stated that ” ‘the entrenched oil giants form an ultra-powerful lobby in Washington that is preventing the country from getting serious about developing alternative energy sources to relieve the United States’ over-dependence on Middle East oil.’ ” [The 15th of the month used […]