“The electoral law was embodied in another CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] order, Order 96, issued on 15 June, 2004. The key stipulation of the law was that Iraq would be treated as one electoral district rather than a series of constituencies or regionally based or provincially based electoral districts, to elect 275 members of a […]
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6/15/2004
In June 2004, “the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report that said the State Department lacked a full operational strategy for Afghanistan or ‘an annual consolidated budget’ that would show all U.S. assistance to the country. ‘Expenditure data was not available and consequently, it is difficult to determine the extent to which U.S. assistance […]
6/15/2004
“Drone strikes began [in Pakistan] in June 2004, and during the Bush administration (which ended in January 2009), a total of only forty-four were fired.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, Page 54 […]
6/15/2004
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “By 2004, IED attacks [in Iraq] had risen to nearly one hundred per week, becoming the most deadly weapon our troops faced. …[Central Command chief] General [John] Abizaid urged that we mount a Manhattan Project-style effort to find a solution to IEDs, and in June 2004 we created the […]
6/15/2004
“Saddam Hussein was handed over to the Iraqi authorities in June 2004.” [The 15th of the month for date sorting purpose only] – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 38 […]
6/14/2004
On June 14, 2004, Vice President Dick “Cheney said in a speech that Hussein ‘had long-established ties with al Qaeda.’ ” – Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, “Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed,” The Washington Post, June 17, 2004 […]
6/14/2004
“On June 14 [2004], [Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel, Jack] Goldsmith informed [Attorney General John] Ashcroft that he planned to withdraw the CIA legal memo [allowing torture]. On June 16, he offered Ashcroft his letter of resignation. ‘I had done the unthinkable,’ Goldsmith later wrote. He had withdrawn the ‘Golden Shield’ [that had […]
6/12/2004
According to a June 12, 2004 Washington Post article: “Documents obtained by the Washington Post and the American Civil Liberties Union showed that the senior military officer in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, authorized the use of military dogs, extreme temperatures, reverse sleep patterns, and sensory deprivation as interrogation techniques in Abu Ghraib.” – Deepak […]
6/11/2004
After his capture by U.S. forces, Saddam Hussein was interviewed by FBI Special Agent George Piro from February-June 2004. “Saddam told him he had ‘miscalculated’ Bush’s intentions and expected only a limited U.S. attack. ‘Hussein stated Iraq could have absorbed another U.S. strike, for he viewed this as less of a threat than exposing themselves […]
6/11/2004
In a casual conversation about WMD with FBI Special Agent George Piro on June 11, 2004, Saddam “Hussein stated that he was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussion of the United States for his refusal to allow UN inspectors back into Iraq. In his opinion, the UN inspectors would […]