According to the Huffington Post, on May 2, 2008, presidential hopeful John McCain commented on his earlier remarks from the day, regarding the war in Iraq and the involvement of oil: ” ‘No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for several reasons,’ McCain told reporters. One reason was Saddam […]
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4/26/2008
“Abdullah Salih al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti held in Guantanamo until November 2005, conducted a suicide attack in the Iraqi city of Mosul on April 26, 2008, killing thirteen Iraqi soldiers. …[His lawyer, Thomas] Wilner said that Ajmi became more radicalized while he was jailed: ‘Guantanamo took a kid–a kid who wasn’t all that bad–and it turned […]
4/17/2008
“An April [17] 2008 National Defense University study summarized the damage [caused by the war in Iraq]: ‘Globally, U.S. standing among friends and allies has fallen. Our status as a moral leader has been damaged by the war, the subsequent occupation of a Muslim nation, and various issues concerning the treatment of detainees. At the […]
4/17/2008
“The [April 17, 2008, National Defense University] study went on to conclude that despite the surge in U.S. forces in 2007, ‘the outcome of the war is still in doubt’ and that ‘[s]trong majorities of both Iraqis and Americans favor some sort of U.S. withdrawal,’ even though ‘the only thing worse than an Iraq with […]
4/15/2008
“…when the FBI director Robert Mueller was asked [in a Vanity Fair interview in April] 2008 if he was aware of any attacks on America that had been disrupted thanks to intelligence obtained through ‘enhanced techniques,’ Mueller replied: ‘I don’t believe that has been the case.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date […]
4/15/2008
“Between October 2007 and April 2008, one NSA [National Security Agency] SIGINT [signals intelligence] Terminal Guidance Unit was credited with generating intelligence that led to the capture or killing of 300 insurgents and a 25 percent drop in IED [improvised explosive device] attacks inside Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
4/10/2008
On April 10, 2008, President Bush said: ” ‘Iraq is the convergence point for two of the greatest threats to America in this new century–al Qaeda and Iran.’ ” – Antonia Juhasz, The Tyranny of Oil, Page 319 […]
4/10/2008
In his April 10, 2008, discussion on Iraq at Cross Hall, President Bush stated: “Iraq is the convergence point for two of the greatest threats to America in this new century — al Qaeda and Iran. If we fail there, al Qaeda would claim a propaganda victory of colossal proportions, and they could gain safe […]
4/9/2008
“…ABC revealed [on April 9, 2008] that among the select group of so-called principals from the [Bush] administration who participated in ‘high-level discussions about these ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ were Vice President [Dick] Cheney, Secretary of Defense [Donald] Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. ‘Highly placed sources,’ ABC reported, ‘said […]
4/9/2008
“In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News. The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of ‘combined’ interrogation […]