“President Bush announced the new surge of twenty thousand soldiers in an especially wooden speech to the American public from the White House library on January 10, 2007. Almost four years after the invasion of Iraq and with some three thousand American soldiers now in their graves, he publicly acknowledged for the first time that […]
1/10/2007
In a speech on January 10, 2007, President “Bush announced that he was sending Patriot missiles to the Middle East to defend U.S. allies–presumably from Iran. And he pointedly asserted that Iran was ‘providing material support for attacks on American troops,’ a charge that could easily evolve into a casus belli.” – Craig Unger, The […]
1/10/2007
“In January [10, 2007] the president [Bush] announced a ‘surge’ in American troop strength aimed at tamping down the violence and giving the Iraqi government breathing space to reconcile.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 309 […]
1/10/2007
Following President Bush’s January 10, 2007, announcement of a troop surge in Iraq, “Then-senator Barack Obama [D-IL] declared he was ‘not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence. …I think it will do the reverse.’ ” – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 480 […]
1/10/2007
“On the evening of January 10, 2007, George W. Bush stood in the White House library to deliver one of the most important speeches of his presidency. …Bush had come to the presidential library to resell the war–and to announce an escalation. …’The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people,’ he said, ‘and […]
1/7/2007
According to The Independent, on January 7, 2007: “…in early 2007, the government that the United States helped to establish in Baghdad enacted legislation that was written in Washington to give U.S. and British oil companies the dominant role in exploiting the massive oil reserves of Iraq.” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 119 […]
1/5/2007
“On January 5 [2007], the White House announced that [General David] Petraeus would take command in Iraq.” He succeeded General George Casey. – Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble, Page 128 […]
1/4/2007
President George W. Bush’s statement on Saddam Hussein’s execution: “I talked to Prime Minister Maliki about the videotape that was released during the execution of Saddam Hussein. He said he’s going to fully investigate what happened. I appreciate that very much. One thing is for certain: A horrific chapter in Iraqi history has been closed, […]
1/4/2007
In a collaborative article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal on January 4, 2007, former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, along with former Defense Secretary William Perry and former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn (D) wrote: ” ‘Nuclear weapons…were essential to maintaining international security during the Cold War because they were a […]
12/31/2006
“[I]t was systematic sectarian cleansing that drove the killing to its most frenzied point, making December 2006 the worst month of the war [in Iraq], according to the reports, with about 3,800 civilians killed, roughly equal to the past seven years of murders in New York City. A total of about 1,300 police officers, insurgents […]