In a speech from the White House on January 11, 2007, after announcing a troop surge in Iraq, President Bush stated: ” ‘The year ahead [will be] bloody and violent.’ ” – Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble, Page 123 […]
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1/11/2007
Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte “contradicted the findings of his own intelligence agencies when he testified to Congress in January [11] 2007 that he was ‘not certain’ that the Iraq War had been a recruiting tool for al-Qaeda and stated, ‘I wouldn’t say there has been a widespread growth of Islamic extremism beyond Iraq. […]
1/11/2007
On January 11, 2007, the day after President Bush’s announcement of a troop surge in Iraq, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) “described the escalation as ‘the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 284 […]
1/11/2007
“…John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, gave a startling assessment in January [11] 2007 to the Senate, stating that al Qaeda ‘are cultivating stronger operational connections and relationships that radiate outward from their leaders’ secure hideout in Pakistan, to affiliates in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.’ Whereas previously U.S. intelligence officials spoke […]
1/10/2007
“In January [10, 2007] the president [Bush] announced a ‘surge’ in American troop strength aimed at tamping down the violence and giving the Iraqi government breathing space to reconcile.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 309 […]
1/10/2007
In a speech on January 10, 2007, President “Bush announced that he was sending Patriot missiles to the Middle East to defend U.S. allies–presumably from Iran. And he pointedly asserted that Iran was ‘providing material support for attacks on American troops,’ a charge that could easily evolve into a casus belli.” – Craig Unger, The […]
1/10/2007
“President Bush announced the new surge of twenty thousand soldiers in an especially wooden speech to the American public from the White House library on January 10, 2007. Almost four years after the invasion of Iraq and with some three thousand American soldiers now in their graves, he publicly acknowledged for the first time that […]
1/10/2007
Following President Bush’s January 10, 2007, announcement of a troop surge in Iraq, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) “went on MSNBC to say, ‘I am not persuaded that the 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, it will do the reverse. I think it takes the pressure off […]
1/10/2007
“A nine o’clock on the evening of January 10, 2007, I [then-President George W. Bush] stepped before the cameras in the White House Library. ‘The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people–and it is unacceptable to me,’ I said. ‘Our troops in Iraq have fought bravely. They have done everything we have asked […]
1/10/2007
“On January 10, 2007, the president [Bush] announced in a speech to the nation that he was committing twenty thousand additional troops–five brigades–to Iraq, and most of them would go to Baghdad. He was also increasing American forces in Anbar, the home base of al Qaeda in Iraq, by four thousand. The brigades would deploy […]