“Nearly 52 million Americans watched the prime-time speech [State of the Union address] on Tuesday, January 29 [2002]… [President Bush] devoted one sentence to North Korea, one to Iran, and five to Iraq. ‘States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil,’ Bush said, ‘arming to threaten the peace of the world. […]
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1/29/2002
“[I]n a further expansion of the ‘war on terrorism’ President Bush [in his January 29, 2002, State of the Union Address] identified an ‘axis of evil’ that includes Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. This is an odd formulation as these nations hardly constitute an axis. Indeed, Iraq and Iran are implacable enemies, having fought a […]
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 […]
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 […]
1/28/2002
“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 […]