“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 […]
Category: quotes
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 […]
1/29/2002
“President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle [D-SD] Tuesday [January 29, 2002] to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11, congressional and White House sources told CNN. The request was made at a private meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday morning. Sources said Bush initiated the conversation. He asked that only […]
1/29/2002
“One of the conspicuous facts about 9/11 was the ongoing White House obstruction to an objective investigation of what happened. Initially [as reported on CNN on January 29, 2002,] President Bush ‘asked that only the House and Senate intelligence committees look into the potential breakdowns among federal agencies that could have allowed the terrorist attack […]
1/29/2002
“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. […]
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.’ […]
1/28/2002
“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 […]