President Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on September 20, 2001. ” ‘When Blair asked about Iraq,’ the 9/11 Commission reported, quoting from an NSC [National Security Council] summary of the two leaders’ conversation, ‘the president replied that Iraq was not the immediate problem. Some members of his administration, he commented, had expressed […]
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9/20/2001
“In his address to a joint session of Congress on September 20 [2001] he [President Bush] stated: ‘Americans are asking: How will we fight and win this war? …This war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion. It will not look […]
9/20/2001
“On September 20, 2001, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick announced that the Bush administration would be ‘countering terror with trade.’ In a Washington Post Op-Ed, Zoellick argued that ‘free trade’ and ‘freedom’ are inextricably linked and that trade ‘promotes the values at the heart of this protected struggle.’ In the name of fighting terror, he […]
9/20/2001
“On September 20 [2001], President Bush announced that Governor Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania would be the new director of the White House Office of Homeland Security–an office that grew out of the homeland security study [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s staff had been conducting since the spring. Its deputy director would be Admiral Steve Abbot…” – […]
9/20/2001
“In his address to a joint session of Congress and the American people delivered nine days after the 9/11 attacks [September 20, 2001], the president [Bush] remarked, ‘Americans are asking, why do they [perpetrators of 9/11] hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber–a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. […]
9/20/2001
According to an article in The Economist on September 22, 2001: ” ‘By the end of trading in New York on September 20th [2001], the Dow Jones Industrial Average had shed nearly 13% of its value since Wall Street reopened on September 17th.’ ” – Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 355 […]
9/20/2001
“It’s been similarly quiet the past 10 days at Jacksonville Municipal Airport [Illinois], where air traffic is entirely made up of private pilots and flight lessons. The ban on private planes was just lifted this week. ‘Nothing was going on at all until two days ago [September 20, 2001], when the private pilots were allowed […]
9/20/2001
While visiting New York on September 20, 2001, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: ” ‘I can only imagine what it must have been like for the people of New York for the past nine days. My father’s generation went through the Blitz. They know what it is like to suffer this deep tragedy and […]
9/20/2001
“President George Bush first asked [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner [on September 20, 2001] nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001. According to Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to Washington, who was at the dinner, […]
9/20/2001
On September 20, 2001, “a saber-rattling ‘open letter‘ signed by [conservatives] William Bennett, Richard Perle, Gary Bauer, and editors of The New Republic and The Weekly Standard threatened to brand the president [Bush] a wimp–guilty of ‘surrender in the war on international terrorism’–should he buck their demand to make ‘a determined effort’ to oust Saddam […]