4/23/2006

“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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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4/15/2006

In an article published by The New York Review of Books on August 14, 2008, author Jane Mayer said, by April 2006, “the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch estimated that more than 600 U.S. military and civilian personnel were involved in abusing more than 460 detainees. …If [President] Bush or [Vice President Dick] Cheney regretted […]

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4/15/2006

“In [April] 2006, the National Intelligence Estimate attributed a direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism in the Middle East and elsewhere. The report included input from sixteen intelligence agencies and concluded that the Iraq war made the overall terrorism problem worse. It pointed out that the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib […]

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4/15/2006

Though Guantanamo Bay first took in prisoners on January 11, 2002, “Their very presence at the facility was kept a secret for years because the military would not release the names of detainees until April 2006.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]  – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 108 […]

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4/15/2006

From the National Intelligence Estimate of April 2006: ” ‘The Iraq War has become the cause celebre for jihadists…and is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]  – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 166 […]

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