From information in General Richard Myers’ testimony to the House Armed Services Committee on September 18, 2002: “Iraq was the only nation in the world that was attacking the U.S. military on a daily basis–in fact, more than two thousand times from January 2000 to September 2002.” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 418 […]
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9/17/2002
On September 17, 2002, “the Bush administration released a new ‘National Security Strategy,’ which called for preemptive action against hostile countries and terrorist groups. ‘[The United States] will not hesitate to act alone, if necessary, to exercise our right of self-defense by acting preemptively,’ the document stated.” – Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, […]
9/17/2002
“The locus classicus of the Bush administration’s beliefs about the War on Terror is the ‘National Security Strategy of the United States,’ a thirty-five page white paper issued by the White House in September [17] 2002. In florid rhetoric it depicts the United States as having entered a new era of epochal conflict, challenged again […]
9/17/2002
In an interview on Meet the Press on September 17, 2002, when asked if the war in Iraq was based on oil, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said it was. “I base that on the fact that there is $5 trillion worth of oil above and in the ground in Iraq, that individuals involved in the […]
9/17/2002
From the National Security Strategy of September 17, 2002: “America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones. We are menaced less by fleets and armies than by catastrophic technologies in the hands of the embittered few. We must defeat these threats to our Nation, allies, and friends.” – The National […]
9/17/2002
In a secret hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 17, 2002, CIA director George Tenet stated: ” ‘Iraq provided al Qaeda with various kinds of training–combat, bombmaking, and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear.’ He based that statement on the confessions of a single source–Ibn al-Shakh al-Libi, a fringe player who had been beaten, […]
9/17/2002
According to The National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 17, 2002: ” ‘Given the goals of rogue states and terrorists, the United States can no longer rely on a reactive posture as we have in the past.’ Instead, America must identify and destroy the threat posed by those who would do […]
9/17/2002
The National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 17, 2002, “commits the United States to ‘champion the cause of human dignity and oppose those who resist it’ by creating ‘a balance of power that favors human freedom: conditions in which all nations and all societies can choose for themselves the rewards and […]
9/17/2002
The National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 17, 2002, states: “that we must ‘dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States.’ At the same time, it defends American primacy on moral grounds: ‘In keeping with our heritage and principles, […]
9/17/2002
“[T]he [Bush] administration’s provocative September [17] 2002 The National Security Strategy of the United States of America…embraced regime change in rogue states, aggressively promoted democracy, viewed American military supremacy as a given, and, in a stunning departure from traditional U.S. foreign policy norms, asserted the right to launch preemptive wars to protect national interests.” – […]