In Iraq, “The first mass grave [as a result of Ba’ath Party atrocities] was uncovered near the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, in early May 2003. By the standards of later mass graves, this one, in the village of Imam Bakr, was small, containing nearly fifty bodies. However, the US military, which controlled the […]
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5/5/2003
President George W. Bush on how long we can expect troop to be in Iraq: “Not all our troops are coming home immediately; we’ve got a job to do in Iraq. We’ve got to make sure the quality of life improves, and we’re working on that right now — the quality of life for all Iraqis. Got […]
5/3/2003
On May 3, 2003, President Bush said, regarding WMD: ” ‘We’ll find them. And it’s just going to be a matter of time.’ ” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 222 […]
5/3/2003
President George W. Bush in reply to a question on the possibility of not fading WMDs in Iraq: “Yes — the question is about weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The United States — United Nations Security Council voted 1441, which made the declaration it had weapons of mass destruction. It’s well-known […]
5/2/2003
A “comprehensive proposal, which diplomats referred to as ‘the grand bargain,’ was sent to Washington on May 2, 2003, just before a meeting in Geneva [Switzerland] between Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, and Zalmay Khalilzad, then a senior director at the National Security Council [NSC]. According to a report by Gareth Porter in the American […]
5/2/2003
“…the Iraq reporting cell within NSA’s [National Security Agency’s] National Security Operations Center (NSOC) was disbanded on May 2 [2003], the day after President Bush declared ‘Mission Accomplished’ on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. NSA’s SIGINT [signals intelligence] collection assets that had formerly been committed to Iraq were shifted to intercepting […]
5/2/2003
Following the March 19, 2003, invasion of Iraq, “The old [Ba’ath] regime began to fall, and by 2 May 2003, seventeen of its fifty-five ‘most wanted’ had been arrested. (These ‘most wanted’ were famously represented as a pack of playing cards by the US, which many Iraqis felt insultingly trivialized a war that had claimed […]
5/2/2003
On May 2, 2003, the day after President Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said: ” ‘[I]t would be a terrible mistake to think that Iraq is a fully secure, fully pacified environment. It is not. It is dangerous. There are people who are rolling hand […]
5/2/2003
President George W. Bush addressing the future of the War in Iraq: “As a result of the bravery and skill of our Armed Forces and coalition forces, the war on terror is much longer down the road because of what happened in Iraq. You see, the al Qaeda no longer have a ally in the regime in […]
5/1/2003
On May 1, 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld was in Kabul declaring victory in Afghanistan. ‘If one looks at Afghanistan and even Iraq today, it’s very clear that we are and have been in a stabilization operation mode for some time,’ said Rumsfeld. ‘We clearly have moved from major combat activity to a period […]