On February 18, 2004, Newsweek journalists Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball “reported that, while researching his best-selling book Bush at War, Washington Post editor Bob Woodward had been given full access to many of the classified documents the White House was withholding from the 9/11 panel.” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 147 […]
Category: quotes
2/16/2004
Per The New Yorker, on February 16, 2004: “…there is now far more evidence than was available at the time of the invasion to suggest that Iraqi oil supplies may have played a much bigger role in the administration’s overall decision than anyone realised. …his [President Bush’s] National Security Council was ordered to meld its […]
2/16/2004
According to an article in the February 16, 2004, issue of The New Yorker: ” ‘People think [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s Energy Task Force has been secretive about domestic issues,’ said Mark Medish, senior director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration. ‘But if this little group […]
2/15/2004
“A [February 2004] report by the International Committee of the Red Cross, first disclosed by The Wall Street Journal, found that the [Iraqi prisoner] abuses were not confined to a handful of rogue guards at Abu Ghraib but appeared to be ‘part of the standard operating procedures by military intelligence personnel to obtain confessions and […]
2/15/2004
A secret military investigation of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq concluded in February 2004: “that U.S. military personnel had committed numerous acts of ‘sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuse’ at the prison during 2003.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of […]
2/15/2004
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “699. February 2004 was the worst month for Coalition casualties since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. More than 200 people, mainly Iraqi citizens, were killed in suicide attacks. Attacks on the Iraqi Security Forces were increasing and concerns about Islamic extremists operating in […]
2/15/2004
” ‘It is incomprehensible why this [Bush] administration has refused to aggressively pursue the leads that our [joint] inquiry [investigating the 9/11 attacks] developed,’ fumes Senator Bob Graham [D-FL], the former co-chairman of the inquiry, which ended in 2003. The Bush White House has ignored all but one or two of the joint inquiry’s 19 […]
2/15/2004
General Jay Garner, who was Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq, said in February 2004: ” ‘Look back on the Philippines around the turn of the 20th century: they were a coaling station for the navy, and that allowed us to keep a great presence in the Pacific. That’s what […]
2/15/2004
Coalition Provisional Authority leader Jerry “Bremer had folded on the issue of [hiring members of] Saddam’s old army by February 2004. He told a leading Iraqi, ‘The Coalition has no principled objection to former army personnel. About 80 percent of the New Iraqi Army and Civil Defense Corps are former soldiers. All officers and NCOs […]
2/15/2004
“…in February of 2004, the [9/11] commission said it actually could not complete its work by the May 27, 2004, deadline because it did not have access to many crucial documents the Bush administration was withholding, and requested more time to complete its task.” Eventually, a sixty-day extension was granted. [The 15th of the month […]