“While President Bush touts the January 30, 2005, Iraqi election as a milestone for democracy in the Middle East, by all international election standards, the election was illegitimate. …The U.S.-based Carter Center, acknowledged as the world’s authoritative agency on election monitoring, stated the day before elections took place [January 29, 2005] that none of its […]
1/29/2005
“In his Saturday radio address the day before the Iraqi elections [January 29, 2005], the president [Bush] went further out on a limb, if that were possible. ‘Tomorrow the world will witness a turning point in the history of Iraq,’ he said.” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 382 […]
1/28/2005
“When John Ashcroft stepped down as attorney general on January 28, 2005, he said that an al-Qaeda nuclear terrorism attack on the United States was the ‘greatest danger’ facing the country and that ‘from time to time’ the government had uncovered evidence by terrorists to develop such a capacity.” – Ian S. Lustick, Trapped in […]
1/27/2005
“In a 40-minute conversation in the Oval Office with correspondents from The New York Times, Mr. Bush, seated in front of a crackling fire, ranged across a number of issues that he is expected to discuss in his State of the Union address next week. … On whether the administration had looser standards for interrogating […]
1/27/2005
“On January 27, 2005, President Bush, in an interview with the New York Times, assured the world that ‘torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture.’ ” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 108 […]
1/26/2005
“The Senate finally confirmed [Condoleezza] Rice [as Secretary of State] on January 26 [2005] by a vote of 85-13, which represented the highest number of votes against a secretary of state nominee since 1825…” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 253 […]
1/24/2005
In an interview with journalist John Lee Anderson, interim Prime Minister of Iraq Iyad “Allawi said that even before the war, when he had first learned that de-Baathification was being considered for Iraq, he had argued strongly against it. The program, he said, should have been called ‘de-Saddamization’–and limited to Saddam’s loyalists and cronies–because, in […]
1/20/2005
2nd Term -George W. Bush – Republican president inaugurated -Richard B. Cheney – Vice President – […]
1/20/2005
President Bush delivered the inaugural address for his second term on January 20, 2005. ” ‘We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and every nation–the moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right. America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome […]
1/20/2005
President Bush delivered the inaugural address for his second term on January 20, 2005. ” ‘We have seen our vulnerability and we have seen its deepest source… For as long as whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny–prone to ideologies that feed hatred and excuse murder–violence will gather and multiply in destructive […]