According to the Huffington Post, on May 2, 2008, in a town hall event in Colorado on that day, presidential hopeful “John McCain ‘decried the dangers of Americans [sic] reliance on foreign oil,’ but ‘also seemed to suggest that this reliance caused the current struggle in Iraq.’ Here’s what he said: ‘My friends, I will […]
4/26/2008
“Abdullah Salih al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti held in Guantanamo until November 2005, conducted a suicide attack in the Iraqi city of Mosul on April 26, 2008, killing thirteen Iraqi soldiers. …[His lawyer, Thomas] Wilner said that Ajmi became more radicalized while he was jailed: ‘Guantanamo took a kid–a kid who wasn’t all that bad–and it turned […]
4/17/2008
“The [April 17, 2008, National Defense University] study went on to conclude that despite the surge in U.S. forces in 2007, ‘the outcome of the war is still in doubt’ and that ‘[s]trong majorities of both Iraqis and Americans favor some sort of U.S. withdrawal,’ even though ‘the only thing worse than an Iraq with […]
4/17/2008
“An April [17] 2008 National Defense University study summarized the damage [caused by the war in Iraq]: ‘Globally, U.S. standing among friends and allies has fallen. Our status as a moral leader has been damaged by the war, the subsequent occupation of a Muslim nation, and various issues concerning the treatment of detainees. At the […]
4/15/2008
“Between October 2007 and April 2008, one NSA [National Security Agency] SIGINT [signals intelligence] Terminal Guidance Unit was credited with generating intelligence that led to the capture or killing of 300 insurgents and a 25 percent drop in IED [improvised explosive device] attacks inside Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
4/15/2008
“…when the FBI director Robert Mueller was asked [in a Vanity Fair interview in April] 2008 if he was aware of any attacks on America that had been disrupted thanks to intelligence obtained through ‘enhanced techniques,’ Mueller replied: ‘I don’t believe that has been the case.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date […]
4/10/2008
In his April 10, 2008, discussion on Iraq at Cross Hall, President Bush stated: “Iraq is the convergence point for two of the greatest threats to America in this new century — al Qaeda and Iran. If we fail there, al Qaeda would claim a propaganda victory of colossal proportions, and they could gain safe […]
4/10/2008
On April 10, 2008, President Bush said: ” ‘Iraq is the convergence point for two of the greatest threats to America in this new century–al Qaeda and Iran.’ ” – Antonia Juhasz, The Tyranny of Oil, Page 319 […]
4/9/2008
“In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News. The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of ‘combined’ interrogation […]
4/9/2008
“…ABC revealed [on April 9, 2008] that among the select group of so-called principals from the [Bush] administration who participated in ‘high-level discussions about these ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ were Vice President [Dick] Cheney, Secretary of Defense [Donald] Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. ‘Highly placed sources,’ ABC reported, ‘said […]