“Some senior [Bush] administration officials, led by Paul D. Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense, and I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, are pressing for the earliest and broadest military campaign against not only the Osama bin Laden network in Afghanistan, but also against other suspected terrorist bases in Iraq and […]
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9/20/2001
“Afghanistan’s senior Muslim clerics adjusted their course today [September 20, 2001], issuing an edict that said Osama bin Laden should be persuaded to leave the country.” – John F. Burns, “Afghans Coaxing bin Laden, But U.S. Rejects Clerics’ Bid,” The New York Times, Sep. 20, 2001 […]
9/20/2001
President Bush addressed the nation on September 20, 2001: ” ‘Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.’ At this point there was applause. ‘From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by […]
9/20/2001
In a speech to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them against one another, drive them from place to place until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. […]
9/20/2001
“On September 20 [2001], President Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the two leaders discussed the global conflict ahead. When Blair asked about Iraq, the President replied that Iraq was not the immediate problem. Some members of his administration, he commented, had expressed a different view, but he was the one responsible […]
9/20/2001
“In his address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, President Bush declared: ‘On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country.’ ” – John Yoo, War By Other Means, Page 11 […]
9/20/2001
On September 20, 2001, President Bush addressed the nation before a joint session of Congress. “The President blamed al Qaeda for 9/11 and the 1998 embassy bombings, and, for the first time, declared that al Qaeda was ‘responsible for bombing the USS Cole.’ He reiterated the ultimatum that has already been conveyed privately. ‘The Taliban […]
9/20/2001
On September 20, 2001, “more than three dozen leading neoconservatives and their like-minded political allies on Iraq published an open letter to President Bush that endorsed al Qaeda’s destruction and urged the president to target other hostile groups and states as well. The letter suggested that Iraq might have provided assistance to the 9/11 perpetrators […]
9/20/2001
On September 20, 2001, President Bush addressed the nation before a joint session of Congress. “President Bush argued that the new war went beyond Bin Ladin. ‘Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there,’ he said. ‘It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been […]
9/20/2001
On September 20, 2001, “a large group of neo-conservatives outside the government sent an open letter to the White House outlining how the war on terror should be conducted. In fact, it was more an ultimatum than a suggestion. They told [President] Bush that to retain the signers’ support, the United States had to pressure […]