“…on April 16, 2003, Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld approved twenty-four interrogation tactics from among thirty-five recommended by the DOD [Department of Defense] Working Group for use on detainees at Guantanamo. Secretary Rumsfeld stated that if the U.S. Commander, [of] U.S. Southern Command required ‘additional interrogation techniques for a particular detainee,’ he should send a […]
Category: quotes
4/16/2003
While giving a speech on the progress on the war at the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Headquarters, President George W. Bush said: “In Afghanistan, we and our allies ended the rule of the Taliban and closed down camps where terrorists plotted and trained to attack us. In Iraq, our coalition has now removed an ally of terrorists […]
4/16/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “General Franks issues his ‘Freedom Message to the Iraqi People.’ “ – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, April 16, 2003 […]
4/15/2003
“As it happened, most of what the media had reported about the museum looting [after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003]…turned out to be false. …Though press reports commonly reported 170,000 items stolen, [Marine Colonel Matthew] Bogdanos discovered that only a tiny fraction of that was actually looted. Somewhere between 3,000 and 15,000 items […]
4/15/2003
President George W. Bush during a speaking event with small business owners in the Rose Garden: “This government is acting to protect the American people from the threats of a new era. In Iraq, the regime of Saddam Hussein is no more. (Applause.) A month ago — one month ago — that country was a prison […]
4/15/2003
“Larry Johnson, a registered Republican and former CIA official who voted for and contributed to Bush’s 2000 campaign for the presidency and thereafter became the deputy director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism, said that in ‘April of last year [2003], I was beginning to pick up grumblings from friends inside the intelligence […]
4/15/2003
Deputy Secretary of Defense “Paul Wolfowitz had initially suggested that much of the long-neglected repair and upgrading of Iraq’s infrastructure would be paid for by its oil proceeds; [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s Aide Lawrence] Di Rita stressed this with more passion [following his mid-April 2003 arrival in Kuwait to join Jay Garner’s Office for […]
4/15/2003
“Executives of ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP each took a turn guiding Iraq’s oil industry. Philip Carroll of Shell and Gary Vogler, a former ExxonMobil executive, were the first on the ground. They arrived in April 2003, just one month after the invasion. Officially, the two were the ranking U.S. advisers to the Iraqi […]
4/15/2003
“Only in the footnotes of the [9/11] commission’s final report was it made clear that [senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission Dietrich] Snell’s entire authority for moving the origin of the 9/11 plot two years forward was the word of [9/11 mastermind] Khalid Shaikh Mohammed [KSM] himself, who had been tortured after his capture on […]
4/15/2003
“Saddam even had a history of financing Islamist terrorists with links to bin Laden. Secret documents found among the debris of the Iraqi Intelligence Center in Baghdad in April 2003 prove that Baghdad funded the Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan terror group led by an Islamist cleric linked to bin Laden since the mid-1990s. The […]