A June 29, 2004, editorial in The Los Angeles Times said, regarding the Supreme Court’s rulings the previous day in Rasul v. Bush and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld: ” ‘It’s hard to see what is left of American freedom if the government has the authority to make anyone on its soil–citizen or non-citizen–disappear and then rule […]
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6/29/2004
According to The New York Times on June 29, 2004: “William F. Buckley Jr., widely acknowledged as the founder of the modern conservative movement, wrote of the Iraq war, ‘If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war.’ ” – Al […]
6/28/2004
After the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) transferred power to the Iraqi Interim Government on June 28, 2004, President Ghazi al-Yawar “called it ‘a historic, happy day, a day that all Iraqis have been looking forward to…a day we take our country back.’ There was no pomp or circumstance, no marching band or fireworks, no honor […]
6/28/2004
“By the time of the U.S. handover of sovereignty on June 28, 2004, the fighting in Iraq had taken the lives of more than 850 Americans–more than 630 of them lost to hostile fire–and more than 59 British troops, and the toll kept rising. Unknown thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians were killed. The effort […]
6/28/2004
“On June 28, 2004, in a secret ceremony in Baghdad, the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States was officially brought to an end. Held two days ahead of schedule to confound insurgents who threatened attacks, the handover of authority from the Americans to the Iraqis took place without a hitch. …It was […]
6/28/2004
On June 28, 2004, FBI Agent George “Piro probed Saddam about his putative connections to al-Qaeda. The former Iraqi dictator dismissed the idea, explaining that bin Laden was a zealot with whom his regime did not cooperate.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 150 […]
6/28/2004
In an interview that ran in Time magazine on June 28, 2004, former President Bill Clinton said: ” ‘After 9/11, let’s be fair here, if you had been President, you’d think, Well, this fellow bin Laden just turned these three airplanes full of fuel into weapons of mass destruction, right?…Well, my first responsibility now is […]
6/28/2004
“Under enormous pressure, the U.S. Supreme Court finally reacted [in the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld], ruling on June 28, 2004, that fourteen Guantánamo detainees could file writs in U.S. courts and thereby challenge their indefinite detention. It was a landmark decision, although it had taken nearly two and a half years for the Court […]
6/28/2004
“In a stunning rebuke to [President] Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s grandiose position on executive power, on June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the lawyers for the Guantanamo detainees in two separate landmark cases. …Guantanamo Bay was not beyond the reach of U.S. law. …the executive branch could not hold […]
6/28/2004
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “End of Occupation: inauguration of Iraqi Interim Government (Prime Minister Allawi).” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, June 28, 2004 […]