Lori Grinker/Contact Press Images Camp X-Ray, where the first prisoners from the war in Afghanistan were held, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, March 2002 4. . At one point, Guantánamo held 780 prisoners, but the Bush administration eventually transferred more than five hundred to other..…
Bush Sr. devastated Iraq with the first Gulf War in 1991, but the U.S. stopped short of overthrowing Hussein out of fear of the chaotic consequences. . ..…
It came just a few hours after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the 'mother of all battles' he had promised during the gulf war was not over. . . . . . President Bush, voicing satisfaction that Iraq had 'caved in after a lot of bluster,' drove the point home by saying of Mr. ..…
Hussein, who has resisted or reneged on nearly every commitment he made in the cease-fire agreement that formally ended the Persian Gulf war last year. . ... Bush insisted that the specific timing of this confrontation, which administration officials said could come at any time,..…
But to the administration and supporters of President Bush, the diplomat is nuisance, man with ax to grind when he helped discredit key piece of evidence White House used to build case for the gulf war.. Wilson's disclosures have contributed to the embarrassment of Bush..…
In reality, Iraq had no WMDs, it was in a state of collapse in the aftermath of the first Gulf War and a decade of stringent sanctions, and it had no relationship with the terrorist network. . In fact, Bush's occupation brought al-Qaeda to Iraq. The Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,..…
Bush press Ari Fleischer, in one of Freudian slips of the administration, referred to Iraq War in press conference as Operation Iraqi Liberation .. But Bush realized Persian Gulf countries had neither the will nor the capacity to increase their output and protect its outward..…
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