In Iraq, after the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) disbanded on June 28, 2004, “the IIG [Iraqi Interim Government] governed Iraq until elections were held on January 30, 2005; thereafter, the Iraqi Transitional Government assumed authority.” – U.S. Dept. of State web information, Profile: Republic of Iraq, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State, […]
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1/29/2005
“In his Saturday radio address the day before the Iraqi elections [January 29, 2005], the president [Bush] went further out on a limb, if that were possible. ‘Tomorrow the world will witness a turning point in the history of Iraq,’ he said.” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 382 […]
1/28/2005
“When John Ashcroft stepped down as attorney general on January 28, 2005, he said that an al-Qaeda nuclear terrorism attack on the United States was the ‘greatest danger’ facing the country and that ‘from time to time’ the government had uncovered evidence by terrorists to develop such a capacity.” – Ian S. Lustick, Trapped in […]
1/27/2005
“In a 40-minute conversation in the Oval Office with correspondents from The New York Times, Mr. Bush, seated in front of a crackling fire, ranged across a number of issues that he is expected to discuss in his State of the Union address next week. … On whether the administration had looser standards for interrogating […]
1/27/2005
“On January 27, 2005, President Bush, in an interview with the New York Times, assured the world that ‘torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture.’ ” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 108 […]
1/26/2005
“The Senate finally confirmed [Condoleezza] Rice [as Secretary of State] on January 26 [2005] by a vote of 85-13, which represented the highest number of votes against a secretary of state nominee since 1825…” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 253 […]
1/24/2005
In an interview with journalist John Lee Anderson, interim Prime Minister of Iraq Iyad “Allawi said that even before the war, when he had first learned that de-Baathification was being considered for Iraq, he had argued strongly against it. The program, he said, should have been called ‘de-Saddamization’–and limited to Saddam’s loyalists and cronies–because, in […]
1/20/2005
2nd Term -George W. Bush – Republican president inaugurated -Richard B. Cheney – Vice President – […]
1/20/2005
In the inaugural address for his second term, on January 20, 2005, President Bush said: ” ‘The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. So it is the policy […]
1/20/2005
In his inaugural speech at his reelection, on January 20, 2005, President Bush said: ” ‘We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of […]