Early in the Administration long before 9/11 attack and war talk CIA Director George Tenet knew that Iraq was going to be a concern for Bush administration. Andy Card the president Chief of staff had a conversation with President Bush about the role of the president. He told the President you are the only one will be able to make the decision to send young men and women to war.
September 11 change President Bush thought process about all the responsibility of a president, September 11 made the security of America an unsafe place. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld presented the question the terrorist attacks present and opportunity to launch against Iraq. But none of the president advisers considered attacking Iraq a first choice on terrorism.
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Bush had great concerns about going to war. “He opened by saying the last thing he wanted was to put troops in harm’s way “Believe me, I don’t like hugging the widows.”pg188. The war discussion started March 19, 2003, telling the country claims that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and connections to al-Qaida terrorists.
President Bush made the decision to take action against Iraq, and gave instruction to prepare for war. However learning that the war plan has not change since 1991 he ask Rumsfeld’s team to work intensely to polish the plans. Bush wanted better military plans. Rumsfeld felt that they owe the country and the president current war plans. Rumsfeld meet with General Franks to review the existing Iraq war plan. They spent hours going through the plan. They decided to put together a team The planning is successfully kept secrets for months, Bush wanted everyone to keep quiet about the attack and when ask he stated that there are no plans of attacks However. If the information had leak out it would have been
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Bush wanted Saddam to be taken out. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, wanted war to be the last resort.
President Bush addresses the American people saying he wanted to eliminate threats posed by terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. While mentioning states North Korea, Iran and Iraq he felt that they would pose a great danger to the American people. And that they were “constitute an axis of evil”. The present wanted freedoms victory.
All three countries denied Bush statement as being false. Which made he upset set telling Rice go and reiterate we are not pulling back.
The Wild West was about to take place statement by Tim a forever navel seal he and several other CIA operative drove a 10 hour drive to Iraq. With limited international support from Britain, Australia, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, and - covertly, Saudi Arabia and massive opposition France, Germany, and Russia, Bush gives Saddam an ultimatum to leave Iraq or face
There are a bunch of conspiracies in this world and there's a few on the tragedy that happened on September 11, 2001. One of the theories is that inside traders knew about the attacks before they happened. As said in an article, “in the days before 9/11 there was a huge increase in the number of put options purchased on their airlines, compared to the normal average daily volume.”(Davis) Before I explain what that means the article also mentioned, “ this huge increase in the volume of put options suggests that the people buying these put options knew in advance that 9/11 was about to happen.” (Davis) What the quotes are saying, is that a few days before 9/11, out of nowhere, there was an huge increase in the airlines, that were hijacked, stock markets. The conspiracy theory is that the government was aware of the attacks the entire time but because they were making profit, this did nothing about it.
The war in Iraq was declared in March 2003 for many reasons. Some of the reasons are to free Iraq, the oil, and because Saddam Hussein did not allow weapons inspectors search for nuclear weapons. The US wanted to take over Iraq and free its people from the torture they had been enduring for so long. Saddam Hussein had developed weapons of mass destruction that posed a long-term threat to America. He denied weapons inspectors access to search for nuclear war weapons and this served as a threat to other countries. The aim had been the destruction of the Iraqi society enabling the US and Britain to gain control of Iraq's huge oil reserves.
It was always a balance between negotiations and hard power. Underneath Carter, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance believed that negotiations were going to be more beneficial while his National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, advocated for a more hawk-like strategy. In order to persuade the Iranians to release the hostages and to come up with a more diplomatic solution, the U.S. stopped buying oil from Iran and froze all Iranian assets. After that failed, Carter sought out Brzezinski for a military method, Operation Eagle Claw. Unfortunately, this mission was a catastrophe. The helicopters the rescuers used malfunctioned and eight Americans were killed in the process.
Bush had been eager to go to war with Iraq from the moment he stepped into office and the administration's focus was chiefly on Iraq even before the war in Afghanistan had begun. In Where Men Win Glory, the text reveals that “in November 2001, President Bush and Vice President Cheney had instructed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to secretly create a detailed plan for the invasion of Iraq” (Krakauer 192).
Before the events of 9/11 the US had been attacked before and we were aware of possible threats. However, these threats, specifically those of Al-Qaeda were not taken seriously by American foreign policy makers or regular Americans alike, so on September 11, 2001 Americans were truly shocked by the scale of devastation and loss of life that occurred. The effect these attacks had on America was incredible. In the years that followed Americans became fearful and discriminatory of religious groups; the government created the Department of Homeland Security and enacted stricter search and seizure laws, and America’s foreign policy became defined by unilateral decision making and preemptive war.
In the Iraq War, the decision for the United States government to declare war was not what was the ideas of the founding fathers. Before the war even started, the President declared war himself, without the consent of Congress. An in the Constitution itself, it writes that Congress has the power, “to declare War,” (Art. I, sec. VIII). Then, as if to have a slap on the other side of the face, Congress, “refused to insist on enforcement of Article I, Section 8 of
Rhetorical analysis assignment: President’s Address to the Nation. Since the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration has been calling on all citizens and all nations to support his Middle East policy. Nonetheless, the U.S. has been involved in the Middle East struggle for more than half of the century, wars were waged and citizens were killed.
43rd President of the United States, George Bush, in his speech, “9/11 Address to the Nation” addresses the nation about the day of September 11, 2001. Bush’s purpose is to convey the events of September 11, 2001 and what was and will be done about them. He adopts a serious yet somber tone in order to appeal to the strong and emotional side of the public and to his listeners around the world.
On September 11, 2001 New York came upon a terrorist attack. The terrorist hijacked four airplanes the morning of the attack. The attack was part of the Al-Qaeda Islamist group, led by Osama Bin Laden. Two planes collided into the World Trade Center; one hit the Pentagon, and the other one crashed in Pennsylvania never reaching its destination. The cause of 9/11 is that Islam saw the United States as a heinous country with different and awful morals so they decided to attack. The consequences were the tensions between Americans and Muslims rose. Numerous hate crimes were committed and there was a massive economic downfall. We could have avoided this incident if the airport security would have been more strict, then the attack would have a less chance of happening (Bantista). “Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward. And freedom will be defended.” –President Bush directly after the 9/11 attacks (Tsimelkas). The government issued extreme changes in the military system and the surveillance ...
Stated by President Bush, “Americans should not expect one battle but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen.” Bush launched the War in Afghanistan to find and to bring to justice Osama bin Laden, head of the al-Qaeda organization that launched the 9/11 attack.
George W. Bush’s “9/11 Address to the Nation” is a speech in which he talks about the catastrophic event on September eleventh, 2001. Two airplanes crash into the Twin Towers in New York City on this day, shocking the entire world. He addresses this speech to the people of America on the night of the disastrous event, to let the people of the United States know what is going on. This speech explains how the United States is a strong country, the motives behind the event, as well as to bring the United States together and stronger.
Presidents and other people of high power have the ability to do many things that some may disagree with and walk away with very minimal consequences. In the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore, shows how George W. Bush manipulates his power to fool the American people and enter into an unnecessary war. “There are some who feel like that if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don 't understand what they are talking about if that 's the case... There are some who feel… that they can attack us there. My answer is bring 'em on.” Bush creates a sense of fear among the American people that the nation is under attack, but is very patriotic and confident to the point that Americans will trust him. Moore shows that the war is pointless and invading Iraq does not make sense. In the film, Moore goes around D.C. and asks senators and other officials of congress to sign their child up for the war and none of them signed the forms. That clearly shows that members of the government do not support and want their children in a
“By May of 2001, says Cofer Black, then chief of the CIA’s counterterrorism center, “it was very evident that we were going to be struck, we were gonna be struck hard and lots of Americans were going to die.” “There were real plots being manifested,” Cofer’s former boss, George Tenet, told me in his first interview in eight years. “The world felt like it was on the edge of eruption. In this time period of June and July, the threat continues to rise. Terrorists were disappearing [as if in hiding, in preparation for an attack]. Camps were closing. Threat reportings on the rise”(Craigie 1). This showing that the government had speculation of a tessist attack but didn't know where and when exactly. Not telling the public and raising panic throughout the country on a speculation. “Tenet vividly recalls the White House meeting with Rice and her team. (George W. Bush was on a trip to Boston.) “Rich [Blee] started by saying, ‘There will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular. They may be multiple. Al Qaeda’s intention is the destruction of the United States’”(Craigie 1). This showing that Bush was away on a trip and also they did not know when and where their world be attacks or if there would be any at all it was all hear say whether or not to reacted to it or see if we can find proof
...aling with. Terrorism is the war’s main cause and affects the soldiers the most. Since the war, Terrorist attacks have become one of American’s biggest fears. From having to worry about many different aspects of life to terrorism is a horrible way to live. President Bush made the decisions he did on facts and what he thought was best for the country. If the US never went to war with Iraq, what would the world be like now? Questions like these, still haunt us, and will never be answered. The war has impacted everyone’s lives in some shape or form. Without the war, no one knows what life would be like but we do know that because of war, the world will never be the same.
Once George H.W. Bush had set a deadline for military action against Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait, discussions about the potential conflict shifted from whether the U.