Questions

Given the substantial amount of information in this database, you might consider the following questions as you go through the work:

  1. Did the outgoing Bill Clinton administration adequately try and inform the incoming George W. Bush administration about the terrorist threat to our country?
  2. Did the Bush administration take the threat of terrorism against the US seriously when it took power in January 2001?
  3. When did incoming President Bush first talk about taking out Saddam Hussein?
  4. When did incoming President Bush first talk about Iraqi oil?
  5. Did President Bush think Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11?
  6. Did President Bush think Saddam Hussein was involved with Al-Qaeda?
  7. Why did President Bush order the attack on Iraq in March 2003?
  8. Did President Bush say that Iraq was a serious or imminent threat to the US before we attacked Iraq on March 19, 2003?
  9. Were Bush and his administration honest on selling the reasons to attack Iraq?
  10. Did many Americans believe that Iraq was a serious or imminent threat to the US in 2003?
  11. Is waterboarding torture?
  12. Was torturing enemy combatants legal under US or International law?
  13. How much did the 2003 Iraq War cost America?
  14. How many people, Americans and others, died because of our attacking Iraq in 2003?
  15. Was our attacking Iraq in 2003 good for America?

Steven C. Markoff

Santa Monica, CA