From Knight-Ridder Newspapers on September 24, 2004: ” ‘Anyone who hates America has come here [Iraq] to fight: Saddam’s supporters, people who don’t have jobs, other Arab fighters,’ said Dr. Walid Hamed, an employee of the Ministry of Health… ‘All these people are on our streets. But everyone is afraid of the Americans, not the […]
9/20/2004
While at an event in New Hampshire, “Secondly, if we put an artificial timetable out there on withdrawal, all the enemies says is, we’ll wait them out. Our mission has got to be to help to train the Iraqis, get them on the path to stability and democracy as quickly as we can, and then […]
9/20/2004
In the British paper The Guardian on September 20, 2004, “The distinguished British defense correspondent and military historian Max Hastings described the Iraqi WMD intelligence fiasco as ‘the greatest failure of western intelligence in modern times.’ ” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 245 […]
9/16/2004
“The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter. He said the decision to take action in Iraq should have been made by the Security Council, not unilaterally. …He said he believed there should have been a second UN resolution […]
9/16/2004
“…United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a BBC World Service interview in September [16] 2004 that ‘the invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN Charter.’ ” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 64 […]
9/15/2004
On September 15, 2004, Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) said: ” ‘The president [Bush] has frequently described Iraq as, quote, *the central front of the war on terror…* Well by that definition, success in Iraq is a key standard by which to measure the war on terror. And by that measure, I think the war on […]
9/15/2004
“On September 15 [2004], U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan finally declared the Iraq War illegal. The conflict had taken on the character of a classical guerilla war. …the war was clearly out of America’s control.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 322 […]
9/15/2004
“Admiral [Albert] Church’s investigation [into detainee interrogation and incarceration in the war on terror] found (as of September 2004) 71 cases of detainee abuse and 6 deaths, with only 20 of those cases involving interrogation, and 130 cases still under investigation. This included cases not just at detention facilities, but those that occurred at the […]
9/15/2004
According to a study of Muslim attitudes toward the United States, released in September 2004 by a federal advisory committee called the Defense Science Board: ” ‘American direct intervention in the Muslim world has paradoxically elevated the stature of, and support for, radical Islamists, while diminishing support for the United States to single digits in […]
9/13/2004
At a Victory rally in Holland, Michigan the President had this to say, “Despite ongoing acts of violence, Iraq now has a strong Prime Minister, a national council, and national elections are scheduled in January. We’re standing with the people in those countries, because when America gives its word, America must keep its word. And […]