Regarding the Bush Administration’s National Security Strategy, published on September 17, 2002: “To the strategies of containment and deterrence the administration added preemption. It announced: ‘Traditional concepts of deterrence will not work against a terrorist enemy whose avowed tactics are wanton destruction and the targeting of innocents; whose so-called soldiers seek martyrdom in death and […]
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9/17/2002
“Outlining the post-9/11 international situation, the [September 17] 2002 NSS [National Security Strategy] equated terrorists with tyrants as sources of danger. It argued that given these dangers, the Cold War strategies of containment and deterrence were obsolete, overtaken by events. The White House said, ‘Given the goals of rogue states and terrorists the United States […]
9/17/2002
“The [Bush] administration’s emerging policy of preemption achieved formal status when it was included in the National Security Strategy published on September 17, 2002. …Never before…had any president set out a formal national strategy doctrine that included preemption.” – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Pages 141-142 […]
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, […]
9/16/2002
On September 16, 2002, researchers from the ‘Iraqi intelligence cell’ that had been created by Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, said: “Saddam Hussein’s regime had a far more extensive relationship with Osama bin Ladan and al-Qaeda than the CIA acknowledged. …The Feith team reported that Saddam’s intelligence service had played a ‘facilitation’ role in the […]
9/16/2002
The conclusion of Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith’s ‘Iraqi intelligence cell’ during a September 16, 2002, briefing for vice presidential Chief of Staff Scooter Libby and Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley at the White House was presented in a slide show. “The Feith analysts were essentially claiming that because al-Qaeda and Iraq had joined […]