From an article on former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s upcoming memoir, titled, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception: “[I]n a chapter titled ‘Selling the War,’ he alleges that the [Bush] administration repeatedly shaded the truth [in the case for war in Iraq] and that Bush ‘managed the crisis […]
5/28/2008
“Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir [What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception] that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated ‘political propaganda campaign’ led by President Bush and aimed at ‘manipulating sources of public opinion’ and ‘downplaying the […]
5/24/2008
On May 24, 2008, “The American ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, said, ‘You are not going to hear me say that al-Qaeda is defeated, but they’ve never been closer to defeat than they are now.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 295 […]
5/20/2008
On May 20, 2008, “The DOJ’s [Department of Justice’s] Office of the Inspector General issues its Review of the FBI’s Involvement in and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The report documents internal dissent and confusion among Bush Administration agencies and officials with regard to interrogation policies, drawing particular concern with […]
5/15/2008
“Last month [May 2008] geological surveys and seismic data compiled by several international oil companies exploring Iraqi oil reserves showed that Iraq has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, with as much as 350 billion barrels, significantly exceeding Saudi Arabia’s 264 billion barrels, according to a report in the London Times. Former Bush administration energy […]
5/15/2008
“In May 2008, the Pentagon announced that it was dismissing charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi suspected of having been the ’20th hijacker’ apparently because the inhumane treatment to which he had been subjected during his long interrogation in Guantanamo, all of which had been authorized by [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, had destroyed the […]
5/15/2008
“Bin Laden provided two revealing commentaries via al Qaeda’s propaganda machine on the sixtieth anniversary of Israel’s creation in May 2008. In one he said to Americans, ‘The main root of the conflict between our civilization and your civilization is the Palestine question. I stress that the Palestine question is my nation’s central issue. It […]
5/15/2008
” ‘There’s nothing that I’m prouder of than the liberation of Iraq,’ she [Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice] said without hesitation [during a State Department meeting in May 2008]. ‘Did we screw up parts of it? Sure. It was a big, historical episode, and a lot of it wasn’t handled very well. I’d be the […]
5/14/2008
“In a report filed by the Bush Administration [and made public on May 14, 2008] in accordance with its obligations under the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, the U.S. admitted to having detained 2,500 juveniles between 2002 and 2008 in its ‘war on terror.’ The vast majority of these detentions were […]
5/2/2008
According to the Huffington Post, on May 2, 2008, presidential hopeful John McCain commented on his earlier remarks from the day, regarding the war in Iraq and the involvement of oil: ” ‘No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for several reasons,’ McCain told reporters. One reason was Saddam […]