On November 30, 2005, “the White House issued a white paper titled ‘National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.’ In discussing it, President Bush emphasized the transition to Iraqi forces. ‘As Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead in the fight against the terrorists, they’re also taking control of more and more Iraqi territory,’ he said in […]
11/29/2005
On November 29, 2005, “President Bush states: ‘The United States of America does not torture. And that’s important for the people around the world to understand.’ ” – M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page xlv […]
11/29/2005
“The Al Mahdi army [Shi’a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s paramilitary force] has a heavy presence in the regular police force, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said. One high-ranking U.S. military officer estimated that up to 90% of the 35,000 police officers working in northeast Baghdad were affiliated with Al Mahdi. The U.S. officer said that ‘half of […]
11/29/2005
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace was questioned at a Pentagon press briefing on November 29, 2005. “Asked about the recent discovery by American troops of torture victims in an Iraqi-run Baghdad jail, he said it was ‘absolutely the responsibility of every U.S. service member, if they see inhumane treatment being applied, to intervene […]
11/22/2005
“On November 22, 2005, a Miami grand jury indicted [terrorist cohort Jose] Padilla on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and to provide material support to al Qaeda as part of a North American terrorist cell already under prosecution.” – John Yoo, War By Other Means, Page 158 […]
11/21/2005
“The senator and later presidential candidate John McCain [R-AZ] gave a blunt warning to the American people on the implications of continuing to torture prisoners [in a Newsweek article on November 21, 2005]: ‘The abuse of prisoners harms, not helps our war effort. In my experience the abuse of prisoners often produces bad intelligence because […]
11/20/2005
President George W. Bush on why he is not going to withdraw troops from Iraq: “I don’t think the Vice President’s service is relevant in this debate. And I would hope all of us in this debate talk about the policy and have an honest, open debate about whether or not it makes sense to immediately withdraw […]
11/20/2005
“Hundreds of Iraqi refugees fled to Germany every month because of its generous benefits, and a handful of them tried to improve their conditions by offering exaggerated intelligence reports. ‘The Iraqis were adept at feeding us what we wanted to hear,’ said an official at the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) [in a Los Angeles […]
11/20/2005
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers Bob Drogin and John Goetz penned an article “How US Fell Under the Spell of ‘Curveball” which states in part: “The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his […]
11/19/2005
“President [Bush] says Democrats in Congress ‘had access to the same intelligence’ he did before the Iraq war, but some Democrats deny it. ‘That was not true,’ says Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. ‘He withheld some intelligence. …The intelligence was corrupted.’ Neither side is giving the whole story in this continuing dispute. The President’s […]