“…President George W. Bush noted in July [21] 2005, shortly after suicide terrorists struck London’s mass transit system, that ‘we’re spending unprecedented resources to protect our nation.’ This unprecedented spending wasn’t portrayed as a cause for concern, nor was it a clarion call to increase the efficiency of our efforts. Rather, it was meant as […]
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7/19/2005
In an appearance on Frontline on July 19, 2005, “When asked why President Bush would prefer that Geneva law strictures not apply, John Yoo, who had been a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration and primary author of the infamous Yoo-Delahunty 2002 memo, responded: ‘Think about what you want to do when you […]
7/18/2005
“Perhaps the biggest and most serious aspect of the American failure in Iraq was highlighted in an 18 July 2005 paper published by Chatham House (formerly the Royal Institute of International Affairs). International security experts noted that the situation in Iraq had provided ‘a boost to the al Qaeda network’s propaganda, recruitment and fundraising, caused […]
7/18/2005
“In a July [18] 2005 report, the respected British Royal Institute of International Affairs concluded that backing the United States in the war in Iraq has put Britain more at risk from terror attacks. Although the British government understandably rejected the report’s conclusions, analysts argue that Britain has suffered by playing ‘pillion passenger’ to the […]
7/17/2005
“Formal charges against Saddam and a number of co-defendants, including his half-brother Barazan Ibrahim and Taha Yassin Ramadhan, were filed on 17 July [2005] by the Iraq Special Tribunal, in relation to the 1982 massacres in the town of Dujail.” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 432 […]
7/17/2005
“The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost taxpayers $314 billion, and the Congressional Budget Office projects additional expenses of perhaps $450 billion over the next 10 years. …’Osama (bin Laden) doesn’t have to win; he will just bleed us to death,’ said Michael Scheuer, a former counterterrorism official at the CIA who led […]
7/17/2005
From information in a Boston Globe article on July 17, 2005: “According to a study by the Israeli scholar Reuven Paz, who analyzed the biographies of 154 foreigners who died in Iraq, ‘The vast majority of [non-Iraqi] Arabs killed in Iraq have never taken part in any terrorist activity prior to their arrival in Iraq.’ […]
7/15/2005
“By this summer [2005], Internet trackers such as the SITE [Search for International Terrorist Entities] Institute have recorded an average of nine online statements from the Iraq branch of al Qaeda every day, 180 statements in the first three weeks of July [2005]. [Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi has gone ‘from […]
7/15/2005
“The Dossier of Civilian Casualties in Iraq, 2003-2005, published by Iraq Body Count in July 2005, shows 24,865 civilians killed, with women and children accounting for almost 20 per cent of civilian deaths. Thirty per cent of civilian deaths occurred in the invasion phase; post-invasion, the number of civilians killed was almost twice as high […]
7/15/2005
“When [Acting Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel Steven] Bradbury finished his opinion [on the legality of interrogation practices] in the late spring of 2005 [which was signed by President Bush in July 2005], it expanded the CIA’s legal latitude so that interrogators could use ten or fifteen different techniques at once, including waterboarding, […]