“[I]n a major foreign policy speech at West Point in June [1, 2002], [President] Bush had forcefully made the case for taking preemptive action against dictatorships such as Iraq that harbored weapons of mass destruction. ‘Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly […]
6/1/2002
In his commencement address at West Point on June 1, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. …The only path to safety is action. And this nation will act.’ ” – Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty, Page […]
6/1/2002
“President Bush gave the commencement address at West Point on June 1 [2002]. In language that echoed his State of the Union message, he said that the United States could not tolerate growing threats. He explained that containment was not possible when ‘unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles […]
6/1/2002
“Calling al Qaeda ‘a new kind of enemy’ [at a speech at West Point on June 1, 2002], President Bush argued that, after 9/11, America could no longer wait for a foreign threat to fully reveal itself. Instead it would act preemptively to ‘confront the worst threats before they emerge.’ This new commitment was contradictory […]
6/1/2002
The Bush “administration also issued a document titled ‘The National Security Strategy of the United States of America’ that formalized the preemption doctrine outlined by the president at West Point in June [1, 2002]. ‘We cannot let our enemies strike first,’ it stated. ‘The overlap between states that sponsor terror and those that pursue WMD […]
6/1/2002
“On June 1, 2002, [President] Bush made a comprehensive effort to delineate a rationale for a war [against Iraq] to the graduating class at West Point. If an adversary provided weapons of mass destruction to a terrorist group, the U.S. might be attacked but might not ever know who sponsored the blow. Deterrence–essentially, the threat […]
6/1/2002
On or around June 1, 2002, “…FBI chief Bob Mueller had held a press conference officially announcing that KSM [Khalid Sheikh Muhammed] was the mastermind behind 9/11–the main disclosure from the [al Qaeda operations chief Abu] Zubaydah interrogation. Pictures and profiles of the terrorist had saturated the media, elevating KSM to the status of international […]
5/30/2002
“And over in Afghanistan, interim leader Hamid Karzai–a former consultant on Unocal’s payroll–decided on May 30, 2002, to revive the pipeline project with Pakistan and Turkmenistan, signing an agreement under which the three governments agree to implement a pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan through Afghanistan.” – Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, Forbidden Truth, Page 145 […]
5/29/2002
On May 29, 2002, FBI Director Robert “Mueller announced a restructuring of the FBI’s approach to fighting terrorism. He pledged to reassign 400 of the Bureau’s 11,500 field agents from narcotics investigations to counterterrorism. Mueller also promised that four hundred new analysts would be added at the Bureau’s fifty-six field offices and at headquarters, including […]
5/29/2002
“On May 29 [2002], the former secretary of state in the Reagan administration, George P. Shultz…gave a hard-line speech at the dedication ceremony of the National Foreign Affairs Training Center outside Washington that was named after him. Shultz praised recent remarks by [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld that the battle had to be taken to […]