According to a New York Times article on September 14, 2006: “While Iraqis across the country were being killed at the rate of 100 per day, an average of half died in the capital [Baghdad], where the U.S. and coalition forces have the most troop strength.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 477 […]
9/11/2006
“Citing an August 2006 Marine intelligence report, an article in the Washington Post [on September 11, 2006] claimed that the Iraqi province of Anbar, a Sunni-majority area on Iraq’s western border, was ‘lost’ to the enemy. ‘[T]he prospects for securing that country’s western Anbar province are dim. …There is almost nothing the U.S. military can […]
9/11/2006
“Al Qaeda and bin Laden had even bigger plans for the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in 2006, again involving British Pakistani citizens. About twenty jihadis were to simultaneously blow up, over the North Atlantic, jumbo jets en route to airports in North America. Six of the terrorists had already recorded their martyrdom videos and had […]
9/11/2006
In an address to the nation on September 11, 2006, President Bush said: ” ‘Our nation is being tested in a way that we have not been since the start of the Cold War. We saw what a handful of our enemies can do with box cutters and plane tickets,’ Bush said. ‘Whatever mistakes have […]
9/11/2006
“In his prime time address on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 [September 11, 2006], President Bush asserted that the United States was ‘engaged in a struggle for civilization,’ and he tied the security of this nation directly to the war in Iraq. ‘The safety of America depends,’ he asserted, ‘on the outcome of the battle […]
9/11/2006
“In a series of speeches marking the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks [September 11, 2006], President George W. Bush repeatedly assured that the United States was more protected from the threat of Islamic terror than it had been on September 11, 2001. …’America is safer. We are safer because we’ve taken action to protect […]
9/11/2006
On September 11, 2006, President Bush said: ” ‘Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone. They will not leave us alone. They will follow us. The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in […]
9/10/2006
During a September 10, 2006, appearance on ‘Fox News Sunday,’ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had this to say in response to a question of whether she or President Bush ignored intelligence [about Iraq] that contradicted their case: “What the president and I and other administration officials relied on — and you simply rely on the […]
9/10/2006
In a September 10, 2006, appearance on Meet the Press, Vice President Dick Cheney said, regarding 9/11: ” ‘…we learned a lot from 9/11. We saw, in spite of the hundreds of billions of dollars we’d spent on national security in the years up to 9/11, on that morning, 19 men with box cutters and […]
9/9/2006
On September 9, 2006, “President Bush publicly acknowledges the existence of the U.S. ‘extraordinary rendition’ program.” – M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page xlvi […]