According to a UN report on April 8, 2008: “4.7 million Iraqis, around a sixth of the population, fled the conflict, about half to other countries and half displaced internally. This was the largest single movement of refugees in the history of the Middle East, and the majority were displaced after 2006, as the war […]
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3/25/2008
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “Start of Prime Minister Maliki’s Charge of the Knights [2008 Operation to root out Shia’a militias in Basra].” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, March 25, 2008 […]
3/24/2008
“As the New Yorker said [on March 24, 2008], torture at Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] ‘was de facto United States policy,’ and ‘the authorization and decriminalization of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of captives in wartime have been among the defining legacies’ of the Bush administration.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in […]
3/15/2008
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “784. In March 2008, Prime Minister Maliki instigated the Charge of the Knights to tackle militia groups in Basra. That such an important operation came as a surprise was an indication of the distance between the UK and Iraqi Governments at this point. 785. When the […]
3/15/2008
“Eventually, in March 2008, Iraqi and U.S. forces, with British support, mounted the biggest and most successful security operation in Basra since 2003, which the Iraqis called Charge of the Knights, and effectively ousted the Iranian-backed and criminal militia from the city.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Tony […]
3/15/2008
“In March 2008, the president [Bush] vetoed legislation that would have prohibited the CIA from using various types of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush, Page 36 […]
3/15/2008
“…Al Qaeda represents more of a security nuisance than a strategic threat to the U.S. national security base because it does not possess a broad base of supporters, nonconventional weapons, or armed divisions. A similar conclusion was reached in the UK’s new national security strategy published in March 2008: ‘While terrorism represents a threat to […]
3/13/2008
According to a March 13, 2008, article in The Guardian: “The total cost of the Iraq War in its first five years was estimated to be $3 trillion to the United States and a similarly colossal amount to the rest of the world.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pages […]
3/8/2008
In March 8, 2008, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said: “the Bush Administration’s approach [to counterterrorism] was not only unnecessary, it was also undermining the security that it claimed to safeguard. ‘The CIA’s program damages our national security by weakening our legal and moral authority, and by providing al Qaeda and other terrorist groups a recruiting […]
3/8/2008
“In early [February 13] 2008, both houses on Congress passed a bill prohibiting the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, which is known to have been used against a number of U.S. prisoners. The bill was promptly vetoed [on March 8, 2008] by President Bush, however, who claimed the bill would have ‘taken […]