In an article published by The New York Review of Books on August 14, 2008, author Jane Mayer said, by April 2006, “the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch estimated that more than 600 U.S. military and civilian personnel were involved in abusing more than 460 detainees. …If [President] Bush or [Vice President Dick] Cheney regretted […]
4/15/2006
In an April 2006 speech to the Senate, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) stated that ” ‘the entrenched oil giants form an ultra-powerful lobby in Washington that is preventing the country from getting serious about developing alternative energy sources to relieve the United States’ over-dependence on Middle East oil.’ ” [The 15th of the month used […]
4/15/2006
"In April 2006, six retired generals publicly called for his [Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld's] resignation, citing missteps in Iraq, especially the failure to have enough troops." [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, 459 […]
4/15/2006
"Completed in April 2006, the NIE [National Intelligence Estimate], as it's known, is the first formal assessment of global terrorism since the start of the Iraq war. Rather than being in retreat, as the White House has asserted, the NIE concludes that Islamic radicalism has metastasized and spread worldwide." [The 15th of the month used […]
4/13/2006
On April 13, 2006, retired Major General “Charles Swannack, who had led the 82nd Airborne when the division was occupying Fallujah and Camp Mercury [Iraq]…complained that [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld had ‘micromanaged the generals’ and also bore ‘culpability associated with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.’ ” – Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Page 215 […]
4/11/2006
On April 11, 2006, “In Madrid [Spain], the investigating magistrate Juan del Olmo issued indictments for twenty-nine individuals involved in the March [11] 2004 bombings, and in his nearly 1,500-page report, he discussed at length how the Madrid cell had been influenced by al Qaeda but not directed by it. ‘If it is true that […]
4/9/2006
In an article in Time magazine on April 9, 2006, “Marine Lieutenant General Gregory Newbold, the Pentagon’s top operations officer from 2000 to October 2002…revealed that he retired four months before the invasion [of Iraq] in part because the [Bush] administration had used ‘9/11’s tragedy to hijack our security’ and fight ‘an invented war’ instead of […]
3/31/2006
Regarding the war in Iraq, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrote: on March 31, 2006, “during a question and answer session after my remarks at the BBC-Chatham House Lectures in Blackburn [U.K.]… I was asked to give examples of lessons learned from some of the mistakes that had been made over the prior three years. […]
3/31/2006
“I know we’ve made tactical errors, thousands of them, I’m sure,’ she [Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice] said [regarding Iraq, on March 31, 2006]. ‘But when you look back in history, what will be judged is did you make the right strategic decisions.’ ” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 206 […]
3/31/2006
In questioning at a lecture in the U.K. on March 31, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: “that she knew the Bush administration had made ‘tactical errors–thousands of them, I’m sure’ in Iraq. …the next day she tried to spin her way out. ‘I meant it figuratively, not literally, all right?’ she told reporters. […]