Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer defended an ad campaign aimed at convincing Congress to support President Bush’s strategy for Iraq. ” ‘Nine-one-one absolutely is a bona fide, legitimate reason to remind people what’s at stake,’ he said. ‘The point is not that Iraq was responsible for 9/11. They’re not. But 9/11 should be […]
9/11/2007
In a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at the White House on September 11, 2007, President “Bush seemed triumphal. ‘Of course, al-Qaeda needs new recruits,’ he said, ‘because we’re killin’ ’em.’ He smiled. ‘We’re killin’ ’em all!’ Reid was appalled; Bush, he thought, viewed the war […]
9/11/2007
At the September 11, 2007, testimony of Commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker at the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) said: ” ‘We should stop the surge and start bringing our troops home. We should end a political strategy in Iraq that […]
9/11/2007
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) spoke at the Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing with Commanding General of the Multi-National Force in Iraq General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on September 11, 2007. ” ‘The American people are saddened, frustrated, and angry over our past failures in Iraq,’ he said. ‘I, too, have been made sick […]
9/11/2007
In an article published on September 11, 2007, titled 'Are We Safer Today?,' 9/11 Commission leaders Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton wrote: "Beyond all our problems in the Muslim world, we must not neglect the most dangerous threat of all. The 9/11 Commission urged a 'maximum effort' to prevent the nightmare scenario: a nuclear weapon […]
9/10/2007
On September 10, 2007, left-wing advocacy group MoveOn.org ran a full-page ad in The New York Times attacking commanding general of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, David Petraeus. “Under a banner headline GENERAL PETRAEUS OR GENERAL BETRAY US? the general was accused of ‘Cooking the Books for the White House.’ The ad copy went on […]
9/7/2007
“…in a September [7] 2007 video message, bin Laden claimed that ‘thinkers who study events and happenings’ were now predicting the American empire’s collapse. Comparing President Bush to [former Soviet leader Leonid] Brezhnev, the architect of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, bin Laden said, ‘The mistakes of Brezhnev are being repeated by Bush.’ ” – […]
9/7/2007
In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations on September 7, 2007, CIA Director Michael Hayden discussed the Agency’s rendition and enhanced interrogation programs: ” ‘Fewer than 100 people had been detained at CIA’s facilities. And I mentioned renditions, the number of renditions…apart from that 100 that we’ve detained, the number of renditions is […]
9/6/2007
“Under cover of darkness on September 6, 2007, Israeli F-15s crossed into Syrian airspace and within minutes were over the target [a secret nuclear reactor] at al-Kibar. Satellite photos afterward showed that the Israeli pilots hit their target perfectly. There was not a single crater except where the nuclear reactor once stood.” – Dick Cheney, […]
9/6/2007
“On September 23, 2007, the Sunday Times of London reported that Israel had secretly bombed a Syrian military installation on September 6 [2007], after seizing North Korean nuclear material from the base. The article said that President Bush approved the attack ‘after Washington was shown evidence the material was nuclear related.’ ” – Craig Unger, […]