“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 […]
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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 […]
9/20/2001
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 […]
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…” – […]