President Bush discusses the Iraq War supplemental and why America’s continued presence is important: “We know what could happen next. Just as al Qaeda used Afghanistan as a base to plan attacks of September the 11th, al Qaeda could make Iraq a base to plan even more deadly attacks. The lesson of 9/11 is that allowing […]
4/19/2007
In Iraq, “before the surge’s success was known, [on April 19, 2007] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [D-NV] declared it a failure, and noted, ‘[T]his war is lost.’ ” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 716 […]
4/19/2007
Regarding the recent troop surge in Iraq, “in April [19] 2007 Senator Harry Reid [D-NV] said, ‘This war is lost, and the surge is not accomplishing anything.’ ” – Dick Cheney, In My Time, Page 455 […]
4/19/2007
“After a day of heavy violence [in Iraq] in April [19, 2007], Senator Harry Reid [D] of Nevada declared, ‘This war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything.’ …He had written off the surge as a failure before all of the additional troops had even arrived.” – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Page 382 […]
4/16/2007
“The war of words between the US and Iran has spilled into Afghanistan after US allegations that Iran is secretly supporting the Taliban insurgency. …On Monday [April 16, 2007] General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said coalition forces in southern Kandahar province had confiscated a large shipment of Iranian-made mortars and […]
4/15/2007
“In his jail cell in Kabul, the Taliban spokesman Abdul Haq Hanif acknowledged the linkage between the Taliban and the drug trade, conceding what pretty much every Afghan and U.S. official in Afghanistan has been saying for years, that the Taliban was, in part, a drug cartel. Hanif explained [in an interview with journalist Peter […]
4/15/2007
“By 2007, [former NSA (National Security Agency) Director Michael] Hayden, now the director of the CIA… finally admitted that he, like the rest of the U.S. intelligence community, had been wrong about the nature and extent of Iraq’s WMD program, but with a new twist. Hayden told an interviewer from National Public Radio [on April […]
4/13/2007
After an increase in insurgent bombings in Iraq, on April 13, 2007, “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [D-NV] said, ‘I believe myself…that this war is lost. …The surge is not accomplishing anything.’ ” – Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble, Page 185 […]
4/12/2007
“In [April 12] 2007 testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, [CIA Director] General [Michael] Hayden explained why it would be so damaging to limit CIA interrogations to the methods in the Army Field Manual: ‘We have severely restricted our attempts to obtain timely information from HVDs [high-value detainees] who possess information that will […]
4/11/2007
From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “April 11, 2007: Algiers [Algeria]: Two bombs explode, one at a police station and the other at the office of the Algerian prime minister, killing thirty-three people.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin […]