In an interview with Charlie Gibson on December 1, 2008, when President Bush was asked if there still would have been a war in Iraq if the intelligence about WMD had been more accurate, Bush replied: “Yes, because Saddam Hussein was unwilling to let the inspectors go in to determine whether or not the U.N. […]
12/1/2008
In an interview with Charlie Gibson on December 1, 2008, when President Bush was asked if he could have one ‘do-over’ as President, he replied: “[T]he biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons […]
11/26/2008
"In July 2009 the lone survivor of the terrorist team [behind the November 26-29, 2008, attacks in Mumbai, India], Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, surprised prosecutors in his Mumbai trial by confessing in open court that he and his nine comrades had been recruited by LeT [Lashkar-e-Taiba]; had been trained at LeT camps in Pakistan on […]
11/26/2008
“The Pakistani group that carried out the [Mumbai] attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), had…been officially banned in January 2002, but that did not prevent it from organizing the sixty-hour attack [from November 26-29, 2008]… LeT dispatched ten militants armed with assault rifles and grenades from Karachi on a boat out to sea, where they hijacked an Indian […]
11/26/2008
On November 26, 2008, “10 gunmen were roaming the Indian city of Mumbai, effectively holding its 15 million people captive. The gunmen created a spectacle of chaos and violence on live television for about 60 hours. …When the gunfire ended, the body count totaled 175, including six American citizens. The siege had been organized by […]
11/26/2008
The National Security Council convened on November 26, 2008, to discuss a classified report on the war in Afghanistan. ” ‘We’re not losing, but we’re not winning, and that’s not good enough,’ was one of the opening lines of the review. The effort was barely enough to keep from losing, but that was all.” – […]
11/20/2008
Conclusion 13 of a Senate Armed Services Report on November 20, 2008, claimed: “[Then-] Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s authorization of aggressive interrogation techniques for use at Guantanamo Bay was a direct cause of detainee abuse there. Secretary Rumsfeld’s December 2, 2002 approval of [Department of Defense General Counsel] Mr. [William] Haynes’s recommendation that most […]
11/17/2008
On November 17, 2008, President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki “reached an agreement requiring American troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities by the end of June 2009 and to pull out of the country altogether by the end of 2011. The agreement was controversial inside an administration that had spent years resisting any […]
11/17/2008
“At present, under the terms of a status of forces agreement concluded with the Iraqi government on November 17, 2008, the United States is committed to withdraw all of its military forces from Iraq by December 31, 2011. President Barack Obama is also committed to removing all U.S. combat forces from Iraq by the late […]
11/15/2008
“As [President] George W. Bush prepared to leave the White House, he signed a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement in November 2008 that envisaged a complete American troop withdrawal by the end of 2011, citing improvements in the security situation.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush […]