“The United States remained complacent about the Taliban as long as Pakistan continued to appear to chase al Qaeda. ‘The Taliban were always considered a lower priority by the United States,’ said a senior CIA official [former Acting Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin, on November 19, 2005]. ‘They had been defeated and only needed […]
11/19/2005
On November 19, 2005, “marines based in Haditha, Iraq, had responded to an IED attack by entering nearby houses and killing twenty-four men, women, and children, a massacre that was then covered up by their superior officers.” – Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Page 214 […]
11/18/2005
“Representative John Murtha [D-PA], a defense hawk, declared in [a Washington Post article on] November [18] 2005 that the American military had done its job [in Iraq] and should come home within six months.” – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 475 […]
11/17/2005
Representative Jack “Murtha [D-PA] had supported the Iraq War, but on November 17 [2005] he declared the war ‘a flawed policy wrapped in illusion’ and called for the ‘immediate redeployment of U.S. troops consistent with the safety of U.S. forces,’ which he predicted could take six months.” – Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 430 […]
11/17/2005
“The next day [November 17, 2005], Congressman Jack Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat introduced a resolution in Congress calling for American troops in Iraq to be ‘redeployed’–the military term for returning troops overseas to their home bases–at the earliest practicable date.’ …’The war in Iraq is not going as advertised,’ Murtha said. ‘It is a flawed […]
11/16/2005
Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at a gala honoring Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C., on November 16, 2005. ” ‘The suggestion that’s been made by some U.S. senators that the president of the United States [Bush] or any member of this administration purposely misled the American people on pre-war intelligence is one of the most […]
11/15/2005
“…an analysis done for the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, its internal think tank, concluded [in a November 2005 report] that the war [in Iraq] was going badly and, in fact, was in far more dire a state than the Bush administration understood. ‘The costs of failure are likely to be high,’ it somberly warned, […]
11/15/2005
An editorial in The Opinion Pages of The New York Times on November 15, 2005, titled “Decoding Mr. Bush’s Denials,” read in part : “The president and his top advisers may very well have sincerely believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But they did not allow the American people, or even Congress, to have […]
11/15/2005
“From the start of [Al Qaeda logistics chief Abu] Zubayda’s capture, the CIA videotaped hundreds of hours of his interrogation, including his waterboarding. …Although the Agency insisted that the Program was legally and politically defensible, it withheld these tapes from both the 9/11 Commission and a federal court judge in the [potential terrorist Zacarias] Moussaoui […]
11/14/2005
Speaking about the misleading statements that led to war in Iraq, President Bush said, on November 14, 2005, that “everyone had the same intelligence he had–[former President] Mr. [Bill] Clinton and his advisers, foreign governments, and members of Congress–and that all of them reached the same conclusions. The only part that is true is that […]