In a September 14, 2003, appearance on Meet the Press, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘9/11 changed everything. It changed the way we think about threats to the United States. It changed about our recognition of our vulnerabilities. It changed in terms of the kind of national security strategy we need to pursue, in […]
9/14/2003
“In an appearance on Meet the Press on September 14, 2003…[Vice President Dick] Cheney said, ‘If we’re successful in Iraq, then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the…geographical base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.’ ” – Vincent […]
9/14/2003
“In September [14] 2003, President Bush approached Congress for $2.1 billion to safeguard and rehabilitate Iraq’s oil facilities. The resulting Task Force Shield project undertook to protect 340 key installations and 4,000 miles (6,400 km) of oil pipeline.” – Dilip Hiro, “How Bush’s Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry,” The Nation, Sep. 26, 2007 […]
9/14/2003
“By September 14 [2003], [Senior Commander of U.S. forces in Iraq Lieutenant General Ricardo] Sanchez had put in place a new policy, modeled on Guantanamo Bay, but modified, he said, for a theater of war where the Geneva Conventions applied [Iraq]. He approved the first instance of detainee isolation on September 15, and the first […]
9/14/2003
On September 14, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press hosted by Tim Russert. ” ‘One of the things to keep in mind,’ Cheney told Russert, ‘is that Halliburton is a unique kind of company. There are very few companies out there that have the combination of very large engineering construction […]
9/14/2003
“On September 14 [2003], he [Vice President Dick Cheney] appeared on Meet the Press and host Tim Russert grilled him on the [Bush] administration’s prewar arguments. Cheney once again talked about links between Saddam’s regime and bin Laden, claiming that Iraq’s support for al-Qaeda was ‘clearly official policy.’ He once more cited the Czech report […]
9/14/2003
In an interview by Tim Russert on Meet the Press on September 14, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW [biological weapons] […]
9/11/2003
“As tensions between Kabul [Afghanistan] and Islamabad [Pakistan] escalated, Al Jazeera released a videotape on the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks [September 11, 2003] showing bin Laden and [al Qaeda second-in-command] Ayman al-Zawahiri strolling in a landscape very similar to that of South Waziristan [Pakistan]. The image of the world’s most wanted men roaming […]
9/11/2003
“The [U.K.] Intelligence and Security Committee…revealed that the Joint Intelligence Committee had assessed [in a September 11, 2003, report] that the al-Qa’ida threat ‘would be heightened by military action against Iraq.’ ” – Robin Cook, The Point of Departure, Page 290 […]
9/10/2003
President George W. Bush, during a visit to Quantico: “These 24 months have been a time of progress against the enemy. Terrorists have lost their training camps in Afghanistan. They lost the protection of the Taliban. Al Qaeda has lost nearly two-thirds of its known leaders. They’ve either been captured, or they’ve been killed. Terror networks […]