According to The New York Times on June 29, 2004: “William F. Buckley Jr., widely acknowledged as the founder of the modern conservative movement, wrote of the Iraq war, ‘If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war.’ ” – Al […]
6/29/2004
A June 29, 2004, editorial in The Los Angeles Times said, regarding the Supreme Court’s rulings the previous day in Rasul v. Bush and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld: ” ‘It’s hard to see what is left of American freedom if the government has the authority to make anyone on its soil–citizen or non-citizen–disappear and then rule […]
6/28/2004
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “End of Occupation: inauguration of Iraqi Interim Government (Prime Minister Allawi).” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, June 28, 2004 […]
6/28/2004
“Under enormous pressure, the U.S. Supreme Court finally reacted [in the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld], ruling on June 28, 2004, that fourteen Guantánamo detainees could file writs in U.S. courts and thereby challenge their indefinite detention. It was a landmark decision, although it had taken nearly two and a half years for the Court […]
6/28/2004
On June 28, 2004, FBI Agent George “Piro probed Saddam about his putative connections to al-Qaeda. The former Iraqi dictator dismissed the idea, explaining that bin Laden was a zealot with whom his regime did not cooperate.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 150 […]
6/28/2004
“By the time of the U.S. handover of sovereignty on June 28, 2004, the fighting in Iraq had taken the lives of more than 850 Americans–more than 630 of them lost to hostile fire–and more than 59 British troops, and the toll kept rising. Unknown thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians were killed. The effort […]
6/28/2004
After the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) transferred power to the Iraqi Interim Government on June 28, 2004, President Ghazi al-Yawar “called it ‘a historic, happy day, a day that all Iraqis have been looking forward to…a day we take our country back.’ There was no pomp or circumstance, no marching band or fireworks, no honor […]
6/28/2004
“Before [Director of the Coalition Provisional Authority L. Paul] Bremer left [Iraq, on June 28, 2004] he signed a hundred orders in all. Some were essential. Order 96 established rules for elections. Order 21 modified the penal code. Order 19 guaranteed freedom of assembly. But many others were aspirational or just plain unnecessary in a […]
6/28/2004
The United States ended its occupation of Iraq on June 28, 2004, when Coalition Provisional Authority Director L. Paul Bremer met with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, President Ghazi al-Yawar, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Chief Justice Mahdi Mahmoud. ” ‘The task of the Coalition Provisional Authority will end on the twenty-eighth of June, and […]
6/28/2004
By the time the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) transferred power to the Iraqi Interim Government on June 28, 2004, “Because of bureaucratic delays, only 2 percent of the $18.4 billion Supplemental had been spent. Nothing had been expended on construction, health care, sanitation, or the provision of clean water, and more money had been devoted […]