In a war cabinet meeting at Camp David on September 15, 2001, “When [Secretary of State Colin] Powell remarked that the international coalition that was quickly coming together against al-Qaeda would likely fall apart if the military targets went beyond Afghanistan, the president [Bush] shrugged and said he didn’t care if they had to go […]
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9/15/2001
During a meeting at Camp David on September 15, 2001, President Bush and his advisors, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz–all part of Bush Sr.’s Gulf War deliberations–discussed how to respond to the 9/11 attacks. Bush said: ” ‘one of the things I wasn’t going to […]
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” ‘Iraq isn’t going anywhere,’ he [Secretary of State Colin Powell] told an interviewer a week after September 11. ‘It’s in a fairly weakened state. It’s doing some things we don’t like. We’ll continue to contain it.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life […]
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“As reported by Jason Vest in the Village Voice (November 27, 2001): ‘According to intelligence and diplomatic sources, [Secretary of State Colin] Powell–as well as [Director of Central Intelligence] George Tenet–was infuriated by a private intelligence endeavor arranged by [Deputy Defense Secretary Paul] Wolfowitz in September [2001]. Apparently obsessed with proving a convoluted theory put […]
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In an interview with author Stephen Hayes on August 15, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recalled Vice President Dick Cheney's views for responding to 9/11 at the war council meeting on September 15, 2001. " 'He was very firm that we had something to get done, which was Afghanistan,' recalls Rice, 'and that any […]
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According to a March 21, 2004, interview on 60 Minutes, counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke said: “In the days after 9/11 [2001], [President Bush] pushed him to tie Iraq to the attacks: ‘The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door, and said, *I want you to find whether […]
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At a Cabinet meeting at Camp David on September 15, 2001, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz suggested toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime. Vice President Dick Cheney “was skeptical, saying that by going after Saddam ‘we lose our rightful place as good guy.’ ” – Todd S. Purdum and The New York Times Staff, A Time […]
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Regarding a meeting at Camp David on September 15, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘I sat down with my national security team to discuss the response [to the 9/11 attacks], and the subject of Iraq came up… And I said as plainly as I possibly could: *We’ll focus on Afghanistan. That’s where we’ll focus.* ‘ […]
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“Almost immediately after September 11, 2001…for the first time in its history, the United States sanctioned government officials to physically and psychologically torment U.S.-held captives, making torture the official law of the land in all but name.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Pages […]
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President Bush met with members of the national security team at Camp David on September 15, 2001, to discuss the nation’s response to the terrorist attacks. “Dealing with Iraq would show a major commitment to antiterrorism,’ [Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld said. [Secretary of State] Colin [Powell] cautioned against it. ‘Going after Iraq now would […]