Vice President “Dick Cheney, speaking at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference in December [2] 2002, described the Afghanistan War as ‘America’s most dramatic victory in the war against terrorism’ and claimed that ‘the Taliban regime and the al Qaeda terrorists have met the fate that they chose for themselves.’ ” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, […]
Category: quotes
12/2/2002
President George W. Bush on the U.N.’s weapons inspection of Iraq: “As the U.N. weapons inspections process gets underway, we must remember that inspections will not — will only work — will only work if Iraq fully complies. You see, the inspectors are not in Iraq to play hide and seek with Mr. Saddam Hussein. Inspectors […]
12/2/2002
In an email dated Dec. 2, 2002, CITF [Criminal Investigation Task Force Participation] commander Col. Brittain P. Mallow wrote his policy for the subject “CITF Participation in discussions of interrogation strategies, techniques, etc” for “all others down in GTMO” that: “2) … At any point that we disagree with an approach … but that does […]
11/28/2002
“When it came out that [Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince] Bandar’s wife, Princess Haifa, had made charitable contributions that may have inadvertently helped two of the [9/11] hijackers get settled in San Diego, [Secretary of State Colin] Powell visited NPR’s Morning Edition on November 28, 2002, to defend the prince and princess, although with […]
11/28/2002
From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “November 28, 2002: Mombassa, Kenya: A car bomb crashes into the lobby of the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel and kills sixteen people.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin Laden, Page 320 […]
11/27/2002
“On November 27, 2002, thanks mostly to pressure on the White House from the 9/11 families and [Senator John] McCain [R-AZ], [President] Bush reluctantly signed the bill creating the 9/11 commission. The bill was not what [Senate Majority Leader Tom] Daschle [D-SD], McCain, and the families had wanted. It provided the commission with an insultingly […]
11/27/2002
Widows of 9/11 victims known as the ‘Jersey Girls’ pressured Washington for a new independent commission to investigate the events of 9/11. Their actions resulted in a bill known as “H.R. 4628, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003. That bill, signed reluctantly into law by President Bush on November 27, 2002, authorized what […]
11/27/2002
In Iraq, weapons “Inspections formally began on November 27 [2002]…” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 197 […]
11/27/2002
“On November 27, 2002, President Bush signed HR 4628, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003, which established the body formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [also known as the 9/11 Commission]. ‘The Commission will build upon the work of the congressional joint inquiries,’ said the president, […]
11/27/2002
In Iraq, “The first [weapons] inspection took place on November 27 [2002].” – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 95 […]