“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 […]
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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 […]
1/29/2002
President “Bush publicly rattled his saber, using his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002, to warn of an ‘axis of evil’ made up of Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Each of the three, Bush said, was ‘arming to threaten the peace of our world’ with weapons of mass destruction and sponsorship of […]
1/29/2002
“By late January 2002, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) was co-sponsoring a bill to set up what eventually became the 9/11 Commission. But both President Bush and Vice President [Dick] Cheney personally lobbied Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle [D-SD] to back off. ‘The vice president expressed the concern that a review of what happened on September […]
1/29/2002
President George W. Bush, when discussing the prevention of terrorist regimes: “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 to murder thousands of its […]
1/29/2002
“I was disturbed by the “axis of evil” speech, but not because of the French didn’t like it… For both France and England, traditional relationships with various Middle Eastern countries and especially Iraq were extremely important and not lightly sacrificed to some half-baked Bush version of an American Manifest Destiny. I took seriously the international […]
1/29/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “President Bush makes his ‘axis of evil’ speech.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Jan. 29, 2002 […]
1/28/2002
“In a [January 28] 2002 interview, Clinton Justice Department official and future attorney general in the Obama administration Eric Holder said [regarding captured enemy combatants], ‘It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves…they are not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention [sic]. They are […]