President George W. Bush, when signing the wartime supplemental, HR 3289 – the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, said: “The strategy of America and our allies is equally clear. We are employing targeted and decisive force against the killers. We’re training and equipping Iraqis and Afghans to […]
11/6/2003
“President Bush appeared to embrace the vision of Iraq as a catalyst for wide-ranging, positive change in the [Middle East] region when he asserted in a November [6] 2003 speech that ‘Iraqi democracy will succeed–and that success will send forth the news, from Damascus [Syria] to Teheran [Iran]–that freedom can be the future of every […]
11/6/2003
On November 6, 2003, Director of the Coalition Provisional Authority L. Paul “Bremer shared his concerns [with Vice President Dick Cheney] about the deterioration of security [in Iraq]. ‘Mr. Vice President, in my view we do not have a military strategy for victory in Iraq,’ he said. ‘It seems to me that our policy is […]
11/5/2003
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, then-Commander of the ground forces in Iraq, wrote: “…by early November [2003] the CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] was placed under the authority of [National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice and the National Security Council [NSC]. I believe it was done, in part, because [CPA leader] Ambassador [L. Paul] Bremer didn’t like answering […]
11/4/2003
In Iraq, “on the night of November 4, 2003, a death occurred [to prisoner Manadel al-Jamadi] at Abu Ghraib–apparently caused by torture at the hands of a CIA interrogator.” – Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle, Page 277 […]
11/4/2003
“The last night in the life of Manadel al-Jamadi, whose iced corpse became one of the more harrowing images of the Abu Ghraib scandal, began at home. …It ended before dawn in a cell in Abu Ghraib, the notorious Iraqi prison in which Saddam Hussein had tortured his political enemies. …Jamadi entered the prison…on November […]
11/2/2003
On November 2, 2003, “a Chinook helicopter was shot down near Falluja, leading to the death of sixteen soldiers and the wounding of at least twenty, the single deadliest attack since Operation Iraqi Freedom began.” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 108 […]
11/1/2003
In Iraq, “On November 1 [2003], the last of the UN international staff pulled out of Baghdad; most of its members had been withdrawn earlier, following a massive truck-bomb attack on August 19 that killed 22 people and injured more than 150.” – Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory, Page 13 […]
11/1/2003
In his weekly radio address on November 1, 2003, President Bush said: ” ‘Some of the killers behind these attacks are loyalists of the Saddam regime who seek to regain power and who resent Iraq’s new freedoms. Others are foreigners who have traveled to Iraq to spread fear and chaos, and prevent the emergence of […]
11/1/2003
On November 1, 2003, “the U.S. commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, had tried to relieve anxiety on the home front by dismissing what seemed to be a growing insurgency as ‘strategically and operationally insignificant.’ ” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 108 […]