From President Bush’s October 6, 2005, speech about the war on terror at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C.: ” ‘The murderous ideology of the Islamic radicals is the great challenge of our new century. Yet, in many ways, this fight resembles the struggle against communism in the last century. Like the ideology […]
10/6/2005
President George Bush remarked at the National Endowment for Democracy on October 6, 2005, regarding terrorists and the fight against them: ” ‘No act of ours invited the rage of killers–and no concession, bribe, or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder. …We will never back down, never give in, and […]
10/5/2005
“[T]he McCain amendment [the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which placed restrictions on techniques that interrogators were allowed to use] passed the Senate on October 5, 2005, on a vote of 90 to 9.” – Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Pages 481-482 […]
10/5/2005
“On October 5, 2005, [President] Bush threatened to exercise his veto power–the first veto of his presidency–to kill the [Senator John] McCain [R-AZ] bill [regarding fair treatment of prisoners] if it passed.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 320 […]
10/3/2005
On October 3, 2005, Vice President Dick “Cheney claimed that ‘the terrorists came to believe that they could strike America without paying any price. And so they continued to wage those attacks, making the world less safe and eventually striking the United States on 9/11…time and time again the terrorists hit America and America did […]
9/29/2005
On September 29, 2005, Senator Carl Levin [D-MI], the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said the WMD “…inspection process [in Iraq] ‘was incomplete, not thorough. It could have delayed war, he believed, but not stopped it. He complained about ‘all of the shadings, exaggerations, and hype’ about WMD by [President] Bush and [Vice […]
9/20/2005
On September 20, 2005, “North Korea reneged on a part of the agreement [to end their nuclear weapons program in exchange for security guarantees and economic benefits] and said that it wouldn’t give up its nuclear weapons program until it got a civilian light-water nuclear reactor up front from the United States.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, […]
9/19/2005
On September 19, 2005, “the [Bush] administration announced that North Korea had agreed–in principle–to end its nuclear weapons program in exchange for security guarantees and economic benefits that would ensure its survival.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 268 […]
9/18/2005
In Afghanistan, “In September [18] 2005, the Afghan people went to the polls again, this time to choose a national legislature. More than 2,700 candidates put their names forward for 249 seats. Nearly 7 million voters turned out, despite Taliban threats and calls for a boycott. The new National Assembly included 68 women and representatives […]
9/18/2005
“…from 22 December 2001 when the interim [Afghan] government was installed, through to the [October 9] 2004 presidential elections when turnout was 70 per cent and large numbers of women voted, through even to the provincial elections in the autumn of [September 18] 2005, Afghanistan seemed to be basically on the path to being a […]