“After the Supreme Court ruled that [Guantanamo detainee Yaser] Hamdi…was entitled to challenge his detention in…[a] U.S. court hearing, the Bush Administration instead quietly released him [on October 12, 2004]. …Critics suspected the Bush Administration knew that its case could never have survived the scrutiny of an open court.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, […]
10/10/2004
“In an [October 10, 2004] interview with New York Times reporter Matt Bai, [presidential candidate John] Kerry was asked when and how Americans would be able ‘to feel safe again.’ Kerry responded…’We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance. …As […]
10/9/2004
From an article about issues with travelers mistakenly added to the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA’s) No-Fly list: “More than 2,000 people have complained to the Transportation Security Administration. Airlines, at one point, were calling the agency at least 30 times a day to say that they had stopped a passenger whose name was similar to […]
10/9/2004
“The federal government’s ‘no-fly’ list had 16 names on it on Sept. 11, 2001. Today [October 9, 2004], it has more than 20,000. The list, which identifies suspected terrorists seeking to board commercial airplanes, expanded rapidly even though the government knew that travelers were being mistakenly flagged, according to federal records. The records detail how […]
10/9/2004
Afghanistan’s first free presidential election was held on October 9, 2004. “Across the country, turnout exceeded eight million, nearly 80 percent of the voting-age population. Every major ethnic and religious group participated, as did millions of women. The polls stayed open two extra hours to accommodate the huge crowds. …Hamid Karzai became the freely elected […]
10/9/2004
In the Afghan presidential election on October 9, 2004, Hamid “Karzai won 55 percent of the vote against more than a dozen other candidates in a reasonably fair election. Eight million Afghans voted, a more than 70 percent voter turnout, a rate not seen in any American presidential election since 1900.” – Peter Bergen, The […]
10/9/2004
“…the first-ever direct presidential election in the history of Afghanistan…took place on October 9, 2004. …more than 75 percent of the eligible voters of a country with a population of some 26 million went to the voting booths, and in doing so proved that they believe in democracy.” – Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American […]
10/9/2004
In Afghanistan, “The first election under the new constitution was held in October [9] 2004, and [Hamid] Karzai was elected to the post.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 45 […]
10/9/2004
On October 9, 2004, in a rebuttal statement concerning Iraq during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, President Bush said: “First of all, we didn’t find out he [Saddam] didn’t have weapons until we got there. And my opponent [John Kerry] thought he had weapons and told everybody he thought […]
10/9/2004
On October 9, 2004, during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, President Bush said: ” ‘I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. …And I saw a unique threat in Saddam Hussein, as did my opponent [John Kerry], because we thought […]