“On August 10, 2006, officers from Scotland Yard and MI5, Britain’s domestic security service, swept through the United Kingdom, raiding up to fifty locations from East London to Birmingham. Seizing more than 400 computers, 200 cell phones, and 8,000 other pieces of evidence from paper files to memory sticks, they uncovered what soon became known […]
8/9/2006
In an interview with author Stephen Hayes on August 9, 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney said, regarding Israel’s bombing of the Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad, Iraq, on June 8, 1981: ” ‘I can understand why they did it… They didn’t want any nuclear powers in their neighborhood.’ ” – Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page […]
8/7/2006
“American and Iraqi forces attempted to reestablish control of the capital [Baghdad] during the summer [of 2006] with ‘Operation Together Forward [launched on June 14, 2006].’ When it failed, ‘Operation Together Forward II’ was launched [on August 7, 2006]. Its results were also disheartening: violence in Baghdad had increased more than 40 percent by the […]
8/4/2006
” ‘It is now obvious that we are not midwifing democracy in Iraq,’ [New York Times‘ foreign affairs columnist Thomas] Friedman wrote on August 4, 2006. ‘We are babysitting a civil war.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Pages 340-341 […]
8/4/2006
The final draft of an investigation into the case for the Iraq invasion was led by Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and released on August 4, 2006. It stated: ” ‘In brief, we have found that there is substantial evidence the President [Bush], the Vice President [Dick Cheney] and other high ranking members of the […]
7/30/2006
“A dozen top congressional Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, sent a letter to the president [Bush] on July 30 [2006]. ‘Far from implementing a comprehensive *Strategy for Victory* as you promised months ago, your administration’s strategy appears to be one of trying to avoid defeat,’ it read. […]
7/27/2006
According to a poll in The New York Times on July 27, 2006: “By late July 2006, 62 percent of those polled in the United States said that they disapproved of the way the president [Bush] was handling the Iraqi situation.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 481 […]
7/20/2006
President Bush’s Iraq advisers Meghan O’Sullivan and Brett McGurk sent him their nightly report on July 20, 2006. ” ‘The deteriorating security situation is outpacing the Iraqi government’s ability to respond,’ Bush read. Turning over the country to Iraqi forces was unrealistic since they were actually part of the problem, engaging in sectarian attacks themselves. […]
7/20/2006
“On July 20 [2006], after denying there were any Taliban in Pakistan and accusing [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai of being controlled by India, [Pakistani President Purvez] Musharraf suddenly admitted in a TV speech that there were Taliban in Pakistan, although their center was in Afghanistan and not Pakistan.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page […]
7/20/2006
“Senator [Harry] Reid, a Democrat [NV], announced emphatically on 20 July, 2006, that ‘There is a civil war going on in Iraq.’ ” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 447 […]