According to a UN report on April 8, 2008: “4.7 million Iraqis, around a sixth of the population, fled the conflict, about half to other countries and half displaced internally. This was the largest single movement of refugees in the history of the Middle East, and the majority were displaced after 2006, as the war […]
3/25/2008
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “Start of Prime Minister Maliki’s Charge of the Knights [2008 Operation to root out Shia’a militias in Basra].” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, March 25, 2008 […]
3/24/2008
“As the New Yorker said [on March 24, 2008], torture at Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] ‘was de facto United States policy,’ and ‘the authorization and decriminalization of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of captives in wartime have been among the defining legacies’ of the Bush administration.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in […]
3/15/2008
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “784. In March 2008, Prime Minister Maliki instigated the Charge of the Knights to tackle militia groups in Basra. That such an important operation came as a surprise was an indication of the distance between the UK and Iraqi Governments at this point. 785. When the […]
3/15/2008
“…Al Qaeda represents more of a security nuisance than a strategic threat to the U.S. national security base because it does not possess a broad base of supporters, nonconventional weapons, or armed divisions. A similar conclusion was reached in the UK’s new national security strategy published in March 2008: ‘While terrorism represents a threat to […]
3/15/2008
“In March 2008, the president [Bush] vetoed legislation that would have prohibited the CIA from using various types of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush, Page 36 […]
3/15/2008
“Eventually, in March 2008, Iraqi and U.S. forces, with British support, mounted the biggest and most successful security operation in Basra since 2003, which the Iraqis called Charge of the Knights, and effectively ousted the Iranian-backed and criminal militia from the city.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Tony […]
3/13/2008
According to a March 13, 2008, article in The Guardian: “The total cost of the Iraq War in its first five years was estimated to be $3 trillion to the United States and a similarly colossal amount to the rest of the world.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pages […]
3/8/2008
“Limiting the CIA’s interrogation methods to those in the Army Field Manual would be dangerous because the manual is publicly available and easily accessible on the Internet. Shortly after 9/11, we learned that key al Qaida operatives had been trained to resist the methods outlined in the manual. And this is why we created alternative […]
3/8/2008
On March 8, 2008, “President Bush vetoes the bill [introduced in the Senate on February 13, 2008, which limited the CIA’s interrogation techniques to those allowed in the Army Field Manual]… In discussing his veto, Bush said, ‘The best source of information about terrorist attacks is the terrorist[s] themselves. If we were to shut down […]