“Congressional leaders have agreed to delay until next year any major investigation into the government’s failure to prevent the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, citing the need to give the [Bush] administration time to focus on the war in Afghanistan and the global effort to destroy the Qaeda terrorist network.” […]
11/21/2001
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “24. President Bush decided at the end of 2001 to pursue a policy of regime change in Iraq.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Nov. 21, 2001, Dated by […]
11/21/2001
On November 21, 2001, President “Bush asked [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld to draw up new plans for attacking Iraq. ‘What kind of a war plan do you have for Iraq?’ Bush asked him. Rumsfeld then ordered an incredulous [Central Command leader General Tommy] Franks to draw up the plans. ‘Son of a bitch,’ Franks […]
11/21/2001
On November 21, 2001, “the New York Times had asserted, ‘With the defeat of the Taliban perhaps only days away and the hunt for Osama bin Laden intensifying, the force of the American destruction of Afghan targets has sent an unambiguous warning far beyond the war theater to a number of nations that continue to […]
11/21/2001
President “Bush had secretly authorized [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld on November 21 [2001] to go ahead and begin planning for an attack on Iraq, stressing that he should not tell anyone else, such as the head of the CIA [George Tenet].” – Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Page 151 […]
11/21/2001
On November 21, 2001, President “Bush told [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice that he had asked [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld to do more serious planning on Iraq. Although the United States was still making progress in Afghanistan, the war would not be over until the following month, when Kandahar finally fell.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, […]
11/21/2001
” ‘Afghanistan is just the beginning on the war against terror,’ the president [Bush] said [on November 21, 2001] to thousands of members of the storied 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles, which already has troops deployed in Pakistan. ‘There are other terrorists who threaten America and our friends, and there are other nations willing […]
11/21/2001
“On November 21 [2001],–nine days after the fall of Kabul [Afghanistan] had sent thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters and supporters fleeing south–[President] Bush took aside [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, according to Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack, and asked him to draw up a fresh war plan for Iraq and to keep it a […]
11/21/2001
“On November 21 [2001], [Chief Operations Deputy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Greg] Newbold called Victor ‘Gene’ Renuart, an Air Force two-star general who served as [Central Command leader General Tommy] Franks’s chief operations officer, and gave him a quick heads-up: CENTCOM [Central Command] would receive an order to develop a new estimate […]
11/21/2001
On November 21, 2001, Air Force Major General Victor ‘Gene’ Renuart, Jr., director of operations for General Tommy Franks at Central Command, “Picked up a call on a secure line from the Pentagon coming in from his counterpart there, Marine Lieutenant General Gregory S. Newbold… ‘Hey,’ Newbold said… ‘The [Defense] secretary’s [Donald Rumsfeld’s] going to […]