A New York Times article on October 12, 2001, quoted Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. “Since the 9/11 attacks, leading members of the Bush administration have spoken of the attacks as…(in Donald Rumsfeld’s words) ‘the kind of opportunities that World War II offered, to refashion the world.’ ” – Peter Dale Scott, The Road to […]
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10/12/2001
“A tight-knit group of Pentagon officials and defense experts outside government is working to mobilize support for a military operation to oust President Saddam Hussein of Iraq as the next phase of the war against terrorism, senior [Bush] administration officials and defense experts said. The group, which some in the State Department and on Capitol […]
10/12/2001
According to the plans to invade Iraq set forth by the ‘Wolfowitz cabal,’ “American troops would also seize the oil fields around Basra, in southeastern Iraq, and sell the oil to finance the Iraqi opposition in the south and the Kurds in the north, one senior [Bush Administration] official said. ‘The takeover would not be […]
10/12/2001
” ‘If we don’t use [the 9/11 attacks] as the moment to replace Saddam after we replace the Taliban, we are setting the stage for disaster,’ Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and a member of the group [Defense Policy Board], said in an interview.” – Elaine Sciolino and Patrick E. Tyler, “Some […]
10/11/2001
Regarding a possible connection between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks: ” ‘I wish we could find a connection, but we haven’t,’ said a senior official in Jordan, which, like Israel, considers Iraq a deadly threat to regional peace.” – Raymond Bonner, “Experts Doubt Iraq Had Role in Latest Terror Attacks,” The New York Times, Oct. […]
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On October 11, 2001, “four days after initiating bombing of al Qaeda facilities…President Bush again publicly appealed to the Taliban to cooperate and turn over bin Laden. When they did not, he later said the U.S. would get bin Laden ‘dead or alive.’ ” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Pages 274-275 […]
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As of October 11, 2001, “In the 30 days after 9/11, the U.S. consulate in Jeddah [Saudi Arabia] interviewed only 2 out of 104 [visa] applicants. No one was rejected.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 261 […]
10/11/2001
” ‘Our focus is on Afghanistan and the terrorist network hiding in Afghanistan right now,’ [President] Bush said tonight [October 11, 2001] at his news conference. But he called Hussein ‘an evil man.’ ‘After all, he gassed his own people,’ Mr. Bush added. ‘We know he’s been developing weapons of mass destruction.’ He said the […]
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On October 11, 2001, “Four days after the American campaign against the Taliban had begun…[Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas] Feith wrote his boss [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] that ‘nation building is not our key strategic goal.’ ” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 179 […]
10/11/2001
On October 11, 2001, President “Bush told the press that ‘it would be a useful function for the United Nations to take over the so-called ‘nation building’–I would call it the stabilization of a future government–after our military mission is complete [in Afghanistan].’ ” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 75 […]