Coalition Provisional Authority leader “Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III arrived in Baghdad on May 12, 2003, with two draft edicts that he, as the president’s [Bush’s] designated envoy and with the president’s full authority, would issue within days of his arrival in Iraq. In magnitude, they were on par with the decision to base the […]
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5/12/2003
On May 12, 2003, “a powerful car bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia…killed thirty-four people, including eight Americans. [Bush] Administration officials charged that the al-Qaeda planners of the attack had operated out of Iran.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 471 […]
5/12/2003
President George W. Bush on our goals in the Middle East: “And part of the war on terror was dealing with the dictator in Iraq. Part of making this country more secure and the world more peaceful was going into Iraq and removing a dictator who had defied resolution after resolution after resolution from the international community; […]
5/11/2003
By May 11, 2003, “The 75th Exploitation Task Force, a group made up of scientists and Special Forces troops, had searched nineteen of twenty-one suspected [WMD] sites and found nothing. Another sixty-eight non-WMD sites were suspected of revealing clues to the more lethal weapons, but by late May forty-five of those surveyed had come up […]
5/11/2003
Retired Army General Jay Garner was the Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) from April-May 2003, before it was replaced by the Coalition Provisional Authority. “The Garner weeks were uniformly dismissed as disaster, and it was acknowledged by political commentators that Garner had been the wrong person for the job, driving […]
5/9/2003
“President Bush delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of the University of South Carolina on May 9, 2003. …Bush used the twenty-five minute address to make his case for expanded corporate globalization in the Middle East. Freedom, the president argued, would be advanced through a regionwide area in the Middle East that would […]
5/9/2003
“…on May 9, 2003, two Assistant U.S. Attorneys denied that any CIA interrogations [of detainees in the war on terror] were recorded when they were asked about it by District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema. CIA admissions prove that not only were the interrogations recorded, but that the tapes were not destroyed until 2005.” – M. […]
5/9/2003
President George W. Bush, when giving the commencement address at the University of South Carolina: “So today I want to discuss with you a great goal for this nation. We will use our influence and idealism to replace old hatreds with new hopes across the Middle East. (Applause.) A time of historic opportunity has arrived. A […]
5/8/2003
As reported by the Oil Daily on May 8, 2003, CEO of Halliburton Energy Group John Gibson said: ” ‘We hope Iraq will be the first domino and that Libya and Iran will follow. We don’t like being kept out of markets, because it gives our competitors an unfair advantage.’ ” – Antonia Juhasz, The […]
5/8/2003
John Gibson, Chief Executive of Halliburton Energy Service Group, said on May 8, 2003: ” ‘We hope Iraq will be the first domino and that Libya and Iran will follow. We don’t like being kept out of markets because it gives our competitors unfair advantage.’ ” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Page 147 […]