“There was no doubt that the Taliban’s major offensive in the summer of 2006 was largely due to the enormous income it now accrued from opium. ‘We are seeing a very strong connection between the increase in the insurgency on the one hand and the increase in cultivation on the other hand,’ warned [UNODC (United […]
9/2/2006
“In his weekly radio address to the nation [on September 2, 2006], [President] Bush lashed out at critics of the war and portrayed the conflict in Iraq as an integral part of the war on terror. He said the country was not sliding into civil war. ‘Our commanders and diplomats on the ground believe that […]
8/29/2006
“On August 29, 2006, the mysterious leaker [of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s name to columnist Robert Novak] was revealed to the world: it was Richard L. Armitage, Colin Powell’s deputy at State and a consummate Washington insider.” – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Pages 440-441 […]
8/23/2006
“In August [23] 2006, Peter Hoekstra [R-MI] released a House intelligence committee report titled ‘Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States.’ Written by Frederick Fleitz, former special assistant to [Undersecretary of State] John Bolton, the report asserted that the CIA lacked ‘the ability to acquire essential information necessary to […]
8/22/2006
In an interview with author Stephen Hayes on August 22, 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney said, regarding regime change in the Middle East: ” ‘Certainly up through my time as secretary of defense, I would not have been as staunch an advocate as I am now of the importance of the reform process in that […]
8/22/2006
After Operation Desert Storm, then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney was in favor of leaving Saddam Hussein in power, as it wasn’t worth the risk to remove him. In an interview with author Stephen Hayes on August 22, 2006, Cheney, serving as Vice President, explained why Saddam was now worth removing: ” ‘I think that after […]
8/22/2006
In an interview with author Stephen Hayes on August 22, 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘I am a big democracy advocate. And I say that for a couple of reasons. Because on the one hand I think we have an obligation, we Americans, if we go in and take down a government to […]
8/21/2006
When questioned by a member of the press about the connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, President Bush replied: “Nothing, except for it’s part of — and nobody has ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack. Iraq was a — the lesson of September the 11th is, take threats before they […]
8/21/2006
In a news conference on August 21, 2006, President Bush said that “Hussein had ‘nothing’ to do with 9/11…” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 138 […]
8/21/2006
“As recently as August 21, 2006, [President] Mr. Bush said that Saddam Hussein ‘had relations with [Abu Musab al-] Zarkawi,’ the late leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, killed on June 7 [2006]. But a CIA report completed in October 2005, and released by the Senate Intelligence Committee September 8 [2005], concluded that Hussein’s government […]