In a speech he gave on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, President Bush said: ” ‘The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We have removed an ally of al-Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is […]
5/1/2003
“On May 1 [2003], the former Texas Air National Guard jet pilot [President Bush] donned a flight suit and landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln…In an address to the nation from the flight deck, he proclaimed, ‘Major combat operations in Iraq have ended…We have difficult work to do in Iraq.’…As Bush spoke a […]
5/1/2003
“On May 1 [2003], in a carefully choreographed event, the White House arranged for [President] Bush to land on a jet aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Speaking under a huge banner that declared ‘Mission Accomplished,’ Bush proclaimed that ‘major combat operations’ in Iraq were over and that the United States had ‘prevailed.’ He […]
4/30/2003
When asked why this Middle East peace initiative would be successful when all others had failed, President George W. Bush responded: “Well, just because history has proven to be unsuccessful doesn’t mean that we’re not going to try, for starters. I’m an optimist. I believe now that we have a interlocutor from the Palestinian Authority that has […]
4/30/2003
“On April 30, 2003, as the smoke of burning buildings clouded the sky above Baghdad, the secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld] told those Iraqis fortunate enough to have electricity to power their TVs: ‘Coalition forces are working in close partnership with Iraqi citizens to restore order and basic services. Each day that goes by, conditions […]
4/30/2003
Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld flew to Iraq on April 30 [2003]. …Rumsfeld videotaped an optimistic message to be broadcast to the Iraqis from the military’s Commando Solo psychological operations aircraft: ‘Let me be clear: Iraq belongs to you. We do not want to own or run it,’ Rumsfeld said. ‘…We will stay as long […]
4/29/2003
“Tawfig bin-Atash, a leader in the [USS] Cole bombing plot, was seized in April [29] 2003.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 436 […]
4/28/2003
“When Iraqi citizens staged another anti-American demonstration near Baghdad just ten days later [April 28, 2003], US troops opened fire on them and killed at least thirteen, wounding seventy-five.” – Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page 200 […]
4/28/2003
Journalist Abdel Bari Atwan wrote: “On 28 April 2003 my newspaper [Al-Quds al-Arabi] received a faxed letter from Saddam, then still in hiding, indicating that he knew the real war would be one of insurgency and would begin when the US believed the war was over. He urged the ordinary Iraqi people to rise up […]
4/28/2003
“An April 28 [2003] Newsweek cover story called ‘Saddam’s Secret Files’ revealed the contents of a small treasure trove of intelligence seized from the Iraqi Intelligence Service, but none of it contained any significant information about al Qaeda, or hidden locations of chemical or biological weapons.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 442 […]