“…a powerful bipartisan ten-member panel, the Iraq Study Group… had been created by Congress in March [2006] to assess the situation in Iraq and make recommendations for the future.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 302 […]
3/15/2006
“In March 2006, three years after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, the country’s petroleum exports were 30 percent to 40 percent below pre-invasion levels.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Dilip Hiro, “How Bush’s Iraqi Oil Grab Went Awry,” The Nation, Sep. 26, 2007 […]
3/15/2006
According to an audio statement released by al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri in March 2006: “The first front in the jihad struggle, he said, is to ‘inflict losses on the Crusader West’ through raids on Western cities, the ‘best examples’ being the strikes in New York, Washington, Madrid [Spain], and London [U.K.]. The second front […]
3/14/2006
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper “tried to reassure the public that Afghanistan could not become another Iraq, but he did not diminish the dangers of the mission: ‘Unless we control the security situation in countries like Afghanistan we will see our own security diminished,’ he said while visiting Canadian troops in Kandahar [on March 14, […]
3/13/2006
“Last Monday [March 13, 2006], just days after saying that pacification efforts with the Iraqis were going ‘very, very well,’ Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience that Iraq is ‘a place that is having some real difficulties right now’ and that ‘everything is in place if they want […]
3/12/2006
“In March [12] 2006, Senator Russell Feingold [D-WI]…introduced a motion in the Senate to censure President Bush for approving ‘an illegal program to spy on American citizens on American soil.’ Feingold called the NSA [National Security Agency] [warrantless eavesdropping] program ‘right in the strike zone in the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors,’ referring to […]
3/9/2006
Author David Cole wrote, in the New York Review of Books on March 9, 2006: ” ‘Of the 80,000 Arabs and Muslim foreign nationals who were required to register after September 11, the 8,000 called in for FBI interviews, and more than 5,000 locked up in preventive detention, not one stands convicted of a terrorist […]
3/9/2006
On March 9, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza “Rice, while not diminishing the importance of the level of violence in Iraq, said Iran might become an even bigger threat to national security. ‘We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran,’ she said, describing that country’s leadership as ‘the central banker […]
3/9/2006
“Despite passionate opposition and a Democratic filibuster in the Senate, the most controversial provisions of the Patriot Act were signed into law once again by President Bush on March 9, 2006.” – Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War, Pages 225-226 […]
3/1/2006
“In [March 1] 2006 the State Department belatedly conceded that ‘Afghanistan’s huge drug trade severely impacts efforts to rebuild the economy, develop a strong democratic government based on the rule of law, and threatens regional stability.’ ” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 330 […]