“The Spanish contingent sent to Iraq after the 2003 invasion [in April 2003] was around thirteen hundred troops–only about 1 percent of the entire occupation force but the largest contingent from Western Europe after Britain and Italy.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy […]
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4/15/2003
In Iraq, on April 15, 2003, “the American authorities had helped organize a conference of more than seventy Iraqi notables–exile leaders, tribal sheiks, Kurds and Shiite clerics–in a tent at Tallil Air Base, near Nasiriya, to begin the process of creating a new Iraqi government. …After a daylong session, the group issued a statement outlining […]
4/15/2003
“The economic cost of the looting [in Iraq, following the overthrow of Saddam in April 2003] was estimated at $12 billion, not including the future costs in delayed reconstruction, and the political price of having Iraqis equate freedom with disorder and violence.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Larry […]
4/14/2003
“In Washington that Monday [April 14, 2003]–twenty-six days after the war [in Iraq] began, the Pentagon declared that major combat operations were over. ‘The major Iraqi units on the ground cease to show coherence,’ said Major General Stanley McChrystal, vice director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ‘There will be a requirement for […]
4/13/2003
” ‘You know, it’s amazing, he [President Bush] said [on April 13, 2003], ‘the statue [of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq] comes down on Wednesday [April 9, 2003] and the headlines start to read: ‘Oh, there’s disorder. Well, no kidding. It is a situation that is chaotic because Saddam Hussein created conditions for chaos.’ ” […]
4/13/2003
In April 2003, the Defense Department’s working group “issued a report approving interrogation methods for use at Guantanamo Bay. The group recommended twenty-six techniques for general use…of which twenty-two were strategies for purely verbal questioning…” On April 13, 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld specifically refused to authorize these exceptional interrogation methods for Guantanamo Bay, […]
4/13/2003
During a dinner with Vice President Cheney on April 13, 2003, former Donald Rumsfeld Aide Ken Adelman said: ” ‘I was just stunned that we have not found weapons of mass destruction.’ There were several hundred thousand troops and others combing the country. ‘We’ll find them,’ [Defense Deputy Paul] Wolfowitz said. ‘It’s only been four […]
4/13/2003
“On April 13 [2003], [Vice President Dick] Cheney hosted a small dinner to celebrate the fall of Hussein. The few invited included [vice presidential Chief of Staff] Scooter Libby, [Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz, and [former Donald Rumsfeld Aide] Ken Adelman… Over dinner, the group toasted [President] Bush and victory in Iraq. Cheney was […]
4/11/2003
In Iraq, “when looting first broke out on April 9 [2003], there were indeed tanks stationed on the bridges over the river Tigris, which divides east and west Baghdad. As a result, potential looters were confined to the eastern side for that day, and the next. West Baghdad remained relatively peaceful and secure. On April […]
4/11/2003
In response to the rampant looting taking place in Baghdad, Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, on April 11, 2003: ” ‘You cannot do everything instantaneously… It’s untidy. And freedom’s untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They’re also free to live their lives and […]