“In his State of the Union address [on January 20, 2004], the president [Bush] again downgrades his rhetoric on WMDs in the wake of [Iraq Survey Group leader] David Kay’s failure to find Saddam’s stockpiles: …’Had we failed to act, the dictator’s [Saddam’s] weapons of mass destruction programs would continue to this day. Had we […]
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1/19/2004
Vice President Dick “Cheney said he’s effective working behind the scenes and doesn’t believe voters will choose the next president based on running mates. ‘Am I the evil genius in the corner that nobody ever sees come out of his hole?’ he said. ‘It’s a nice way to operate, actually.’ ” – Judy Keen, “Cheney […]
1/19/2004
“Vice President [Dick] Cheney says he believes ‘the jury’s still out’ on whether Iraq had the chemical and biological weapons that were the Bush administration’s justification for war. ‘I am a long way at this stage from concluding that somehow there was some fundamental flaw in our intelligence,’ Cheney said in an interview with USA […]
1/16/2004
“In spring 2002, the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] demanded that it be given access to prisoners under rendition. Instead, CIA lawyers further twisted legal boundaries by establishing a new category of prisoner: Persons Under Control, or PUC. Anyone held as PUC was automatically denied access to the ICRC, and even his existence […]
1/15/2004
“In January 2004 American forces had captured an al Qaeda courier who was carrying a letter from [al Qaeda in Iraq leader] Abu Musab al Zarqawi to al Qaeda leaders. The letter detailed Zarqawi’s plan to foment sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni in Iraq by ‘targeting and striking [Shiite] religious, political, and military symbols’ […]
1/15/2004
In an article for the January/February 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Colin Powell “defended the Bush doctrine. ‘U.S. strategy is widely accused of being unilateralist by design,’ he wrote, ‘It isn’t. It is often accused of being imbalanced in favor of military methods. It isn’t.’ Arguing that Bush’s war on terrorism and […]
1/15/2004
“Ex-soldiers from the Iraqi army staged angry protests in Basra [Iraq] in January 2004. British troops moved in to control them.” [The 15th of the month for date sorting purpose only] – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 36 […]
1/15/2004
“A report published in January 2004 by the U.S. Army War College strongly criticized the Bush administration for its ‘war on terrorism’ as being ‘unfocused,’ pointing out that the war in Iraq was ‘unnecessary’ and a ‘detour’ that had diverted attention and resources away from the real threat posed by Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.” […]
1/15/2004
“In all, the nineteen hijackers entered the United States a total of thirty-three times, through more than ten different airports, without ever being stopped or detained. ‘The innovation Al Qaeda introduced is *clean operatives,* ‘ said Doris Meissner, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) commissioner up until 2000, ‘who can go through immigration controls undetected.’ That […]
1/15/2004
Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s ‘Letter to Bin Laden and Zawahiri’ was intercepted by Iraqi Kurds in January 2004. It said: “After study and reflection, we can classify our enemy into four groups: The Americans[:] As you know, they are the most cowardly of men. They are an easy prey. …We ask […]