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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
4/13/2006
On April 13, 2006, retired Major General “Charles Swannack, who had led the 82nd Airborne when the division was occupying Fallujah and Camp Mercury [Iraq]…complained that [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld had ‘micromanaged the generals’ and also bore ‘culpability associated with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.’ ” – Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Page 215 […]
4/11/2006
On April 11, 2006, “In Madrid [Spain], the investigating magistrate Juan del Olmo issued indictments for twenty-nine individuals involved in the March [11] 2004 bombings, and in his nearly 1,500-page report, he discussed at length how the Madrid cell had been influenced by al Qaeda but not directed by it. ‘If it is true that […]
4/9/2006
In an article in Time magazine on April 9, 2006, “Marine Lieutenant General Gregory Newbold, the Pentagon’s top operations officer from 2000 to October 2002…revealed that he retired four months before the invasion [of Iraq] in part because the [Bush] administration had used ‘9/11’s tragedy to hijack our security’ and fight ‘an invented war’ instead of […]
3/31/2006
On March 31, 2006, “In response to a question at one point, [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice acknowledged that the Bush administration had made ‘tactical errors, a thousand of them, I am sure’ in Iraq and perhaps elsewhere. She was speaking figuratively, her spokesman said later. Ms. Rice asserted that whatever tactical failures there may […]
3/31/2006
In questioning at a lecture in the U.K. on March 31, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: “that she knew the Bush administration had made ‘tactical errors–thousands of them, I’m sure’ in Iraq. …the next day she tried to spin her way out. ‘I meant it figuratively, not literally, all right?’ she told reporters. […]
3/31/2006
“I know we’ve made tactical errors, thousands of them, I’m sure,’ she [Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice] said [regarding Iraq, on March 31, 2006]. ‘But when you look back in history, what will be judged is did you make the right strategic decisions.’ ” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 206 […]