Former President George W. Bush recalled, in late January 2002, “terrorists in Pakistan abducted Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. They alleged he was a CIA spy and tried to blackmail the United States into bargaining for his release. America has a longstanding policy of not negotiating with terrorists, and I continued it. I knew […]
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1/31/2002
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spoke to a military audience at the National Defense University on January 31, 2002. ” ‘The notion that we could transform while cutting the defense budget over the past decade, Rumsfeld confessed, ‘was seductive but false.’…The events of 9/11 produced a level of fear and paranoia that made the canceling […]
1/31/2002
In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on January 31, 2002, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said: ” ‘We will pursue [al-Qaeda’s] members by every means at our disposal. We will disrupt its plans, destroy its bases, arrest its members, break up its cells and choke off its finances. And our enemy is […]
1/30/2002
“On January 30, 2002, the agency [CIA] issued an unclassified report to Congress containing the phrase ‘Baghdad may be attempting to acquire materials that could aid in reconstituting its nuclear-weapons program.’ Still, it was not highlighted and it was couched in very ambiguous-sounding language. Yet only a week or so later…as the item moved from […]
1/29/2002
In his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them. We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety.’ […]
1/29/2002
In his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas […]
1/29/2002
“The second objective outlined by [President] Bush [in his State of the Union address on January 29, 2002] broadened significantly the terms of reference of the ‘war on terror’ as they had been defined by his address to Congress on September 20 [2001]. From now on, Bush declared, U.S. policy would be dedicated to preventing […]
1/29/2002
“Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror,’ said [President] Mr. Bush [in his State of the Union address on January 29, 2002]. ‘The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas […]
1/29/2002
“On January 29, 2002, President Bush delivered his second State of the Union message. …The president called direct attention to Iraq: ‘Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi Regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime […]
1/29/2002
“On January 29 [2002], the president [Bush] brandished the phrase ‘axis of evil’ in the State of the Union address… North Korea was ‘arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction,’ Iran was ‘aggressively’ pursuing weapons of mass destruction, and Iraq had ‘plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a […]