“President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday [August 30, 2005] with a fresh reason for U.S. troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country’s vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists.” – “Bush Gives New Reason for Iraq War,” Associated Press, Aug. 31, 2005 […]
8/28/2005
NBC’s Meet the Press held a panel discussion with retired generals on August 28, 2005. General Wayne Downing said: ” ‘We wasted the first twelve months in Iraq, because we didn’t plan for postwar hostilities.’ “ [Editor’s note: the author incorrectly identified the date of the Meet the Press appearance as April 28, 2005.] – […]
8/28/2005
NBC’s Meet the Press held a panel discussion on August 28, 2005. “Former GENs Wesley Clark, Barry McCaffrey, Montgomery Meigs, and Wayne Downing participated. When asked by moderator Tim Russert if it was a mistake going into Iraq, GEN Clark responded, ‘I think it was a strategic blunder. First, it wasn’t connected to the war […]
8/25/2005
During one of Senator Feingold’s listening sessions in Wisconsin, “One minister, however, summarized the growing mood in Wisconsin when he spoke at the Star Prairie Community Center on August 26, 2005, my first listening session after I proposed my one-year timetable bill. Reverend Andrew Tetzlaff confessed: ‘I have been angry sometimes, livid with anger, every […]
8/22/2005
President George W. Bush, during an event to honor Veterans of Foreign Wars: “Iraq is a central front in the war on terror. It is a vital part of our mission. Terrorists like bin Laden and his ally, Zarqawi, are trying to turn Iraq into what Afghanistan was under the Taliban, a place where women are […]
8/19/2005
On August 19, 2005, “Energy Intelligence Research reported that more than 50 percent of all Iraq’s oil exports went to the United States that month [August 2005].” – Antonia Juhasz, The Tyranny of Oil, Page 352 […]
8/12/2005
“On August 12, 2005, SIGINT [signals intelligence] intercepts led U.S. Army Special Forces to an al Qaeda in Iraq hideout outside Mosul. When the firefight was over, three senior al Qaeda in Iraq leaders were dead, including the commander of al Qaeda in Iraq forces in Mosul, Abu Zubayr (aka Mohammed Sultan Saleh), who was […]
8/9/2005
“The original al Qaeda always aspired to use technology in its war on the West. But bin Laden’s had been the moment of fax machines and satellite television. ‘[Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi is a new generation,’ said Evan F. Kohlmann, a consultant who closely monitors the [terrorist Web] sites. ‘The […]
8/8/2005
“A [August 8] 2005 Gallup poll revealed that ‘[m]ore than half [of Americans polled] are in favor of subjecting all Arabs, including Arab Americans, to special security checks at airports’ while only 48 percent favored requiring ‘Arabs’ to carry a special ID.” – Susan Herman, Taking Liberties, Page 197 […]
8/5/2005
In an interview on August 5, 2005, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski “stated that at her first meeting with Major General [Geoffrey] Miller: ‘he used the expression that he was going to *Gitmoize* the operation [at Abu Ghraib]. And military intelligence, they were all listening and pay[ing] attention and taking notes. …*It’s going to change…we’re going […]