"for Rumsfeld, Iraq. At one point, Morris asks Rumsfeld, ""Have you seen ""The Fog of War""? What do you think about that?"" to which Rumsfeld responds, ""I hate it. That man had nothing to apologize for."" Morris himself has been resistant to comparisons, stating ""You can’t call this ‘""The Fog of War 2"".’ I can’t imagine two individuals more unalike."" The Unknown Known The Unknown Known (also known as The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld) is a 2013 American documentary film about the political career of former U.S. Secretary of Defense and congressman Donald Rumsfeld, directed"
"biggest, most tragic US foreign policy debacle ever..., [Miller's] attempt to re-write history is both pathetic and self-serving."" ""The Guardian"" wrote that ""in arguing that Bush was a victim of faulty intelligence analysis, Miller ignores extensive reporting showing that the Bush administration was making plans for an Iraq invasion ""before"" the advent of intelligence used to justify it."" Others focused on what they termed as factual inaccuracies, such as Miller's claim that ""Hans Blix, the former chief of the international weapons inspectors, bears some responsibility [for the war]"" because he ""told the U.N. in January 2003 that despite America's ultimatum,"
"Lawrence Wilkerson Lawrence B. ""Larry"" Wilkerson (born June 15, 1945) is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Since the end of his military career, Wilkerson has publicly criticized many aspects of the Iraq War, including his own preparation of Powell's presentation to the UN, as well as other aspects of American policy in the Middle East. Wilkerson was born in Gaffney, South Carolina. After three years of studying philosophy and English literature at Bucknell University, Wilkerson dropped out in 1966 and volunteered to serve in the Vietnam"
"core differences"" between the positions of the neoconservatives and those of Colin Powell. In that piece, Kagan wrote, Clarence Lusane has described Kagan as blaming Powell ""for Saddam Hussein remaining in power"" in the ""Washington Post"" piece. In a subsequent opinion piece ""Spotlight on Colin Powell"" (""The Philadelphia Inquirer"", February 12, 2002) Kagan praised Powell for ""[a]rticulately defending the new Bush Doctrine"" and declaring ""his support for 'regime change' in Iraq"". In 2003, Kagan's book ""Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order"", published on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, created something of"
"and the Iraq War. He called for the resignations of Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director George Tenet, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen A. Cambone, for encouraging policies that led to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners and fanned hatred of Americans abroad. Gore also called the Bush administration's Iraq war plan ""incompetent"" and described Bush as the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon. Gore commented; ""In Iraq, what happened at that prison, it is now clear, is not the result"
"(Paul Krugman); and as betraying an ignorance of both Islam and Fascism (Angelo Codevilla). Tony Judt, in an analysis of liberal acquiescence in President George W. Bush's foreign policy initiatives, particularly the War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq, argued that this policy was premised on the notion there was such a thing as Islamofascism, a notion Judt considered catastrophic. In his diagnosis of this shift he detected a decline in the old liberal consensus of American politics, and what he called the ""deliquescence of the Democratic Party"". Many former left-liberal pundits, like Paul Berman and Peter Beinart having"
"the 2003 Iraq war by the Bush Administration as the impetus for subsequent chaos within the region. He notes the Iraq war was supported by a false premise, and asserts that subsequent chaos in the country was exacerbated by mismanagement from individuals including Paul Bremer, provisional leader of the country while the war was still ongoing. Nance asserts that the United States did not adequately learn from the past mistakes of the Vietnam War and the 1920 uprising by the people of Iraq against the United Kingdom forces. He notes these events could have imparted valuable pointers to the Bush"
"the decision to go to war. On June 16, 2004 twenty seven former senior U.S. diplomats and military commanders called Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change issued a statement against the war. The group included: Richard Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council for both the latter part of the Clinton Administration and early part of the George W. Bush Administration, criticized the Iraq War along similar lines in his 2004 book ""Against All Enemies"" and during his testimony before the 9/11 Commission. In addition to diverting funds from the fight against al-Qaeda, Clarke argued that the"
"the surrounding region. Prominent among such critics was Brent Scowcroft, who served as National Security Advisor to George H. W. Bush. In a 15 August 2002 ""Wall Street Journal"" editorial entitled ""Don't attack Saddam"", Scowcroft wrote that, ""Possibly the most dire consequences would be the effect in the region ... there would be an explosion of outrage against us ... the results could well destabilize Arab regimes"", and, ""could even swell the ranks of the terrorists."" In an October 2015 CNN interview with Fareed Zakaria, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for his 'mistakes' over Iraq War and admitted"
"Goss ordered an internal review of the CIA in order to determine why doubts about Curveball's reliability were not forwarded to policy makers. Former CIA Director George Tenet and his former deputy, John E. McLaughlin, announced that they were not aware of doubts about Curveball's veracity before the war. However, Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of the CIA's European division, told the ""Los Angeles Times"" that ""everyone in the chain of command knew exactly what was happening."" In February 2011, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi admitted for the first time that he lied about his story regarding Iraq's secret biological weapons"
"Romney mistakenly said that the Iraq war could have been avoided if Saddam Hussein had allowed IAEA inspectors into the country. CNN contributor Paul Begala criticized this remark and called it ""[a] huge mistake, a gaffe that -- that's, if this were a general election debate, would be a disqualifier,"" pointing out that inspectors had been allowed into Iraq. In October 2011, Romney criticized the Obama administration's announcement that all American combat troops had been withdrawn from Iraq calling the withdrawal either ""naked political calculation or simply sheer ineptitude."" In October 2011, during his 2012 presidential campaign, Romney said, ""I"
"September 2003, ""The Boston Globe"" reported that ""Vice President Dick Cheney, anxious to defend the White House foreign policy amid ongoing violence in Iraq, stunned intelligence analysts and even members of his own administration this week by failing to dismiss a widely discredited claim: that Saddam Hussein might have played a role in the 11 Sept. attacks."" A year later, presidential candidate John Kerry alleged that Cheney was continuing ""to intentionally mislead the American public by drawing a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 in an attempt to make the invasion of Iraq part of the global war on terror."""
"the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. Wilkerson heads the Colin Powell Leadership Club, a group of MacFarland middle school students in Washington, D.C. and serves on the advisory board of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Lawrence Wilkerson Lawrence B. ""Larry"" Wilkerson (born June 15, 1945) is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Since the end of his military career, Wilkerson has publicly criticized many aspects of the Iraq War, including his own preparation of Powell's presentation to the UN, as well as other aspects of"
"war in 2002, though he does assert the administration relied on an aggressive ""political propaganda campaign"" instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war. The book is also critical of the press corps for being too accepting of the administration's perspective on the Iraq War, and of Condoleezza Rice for being ""too accommodating"" and overly careful about protecting her own reputation. McClellan's transformation from White House Press Secretary to prominent critic was an unexpected shock to most political observers, and his public changeover ""startled Washington"". The Bush administration issued a statement about the book through McClellan's successor, Press Secretary"
"Gate"", in 2005, and a second, ""Breakpoint"", in 2007. Clarke wrote an op-ed for the ""Washington Post"" on May 31, 2009 harshly critical of other Bush administration officials, entitled ""The Trauma of 9/11 Is No Excuse"". Clarke wrote that he had little sympathy for his fellow officials who seemed to want to use the excuse of being traumatized, and caught unaware by Al-Qaeda's attacks on the USA, because their being caught unaware was due to their ignoring clear reports a major attack on U.S. soil was imminent. Clarke particularly singled out former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of"
"Uncovered: The War on Iraq Uncovered: The War on Iraq is a 2004 documentary film directed by Robert Greenwald that builds the case that the George W. Bush administration intentionally deceived the American people in order to justify going to war in Iraq in 2003. The film is divided into seven sections. ""Part 1: The Experts"" consists of more than two dozen experts establishing “impeccable” non-partisan credentials. These include former State Department, CIA, Pentagon and military officials; weapons inspectors and ambassadors; journalists and politicians. ""Part 2: Terrorism"" presents the thesis that the September 11, 2001 attacks provided a false pretext"
"Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld parallels were drawn between the problems faced by the coalition's occupation forces in Iraq to those encountered by occupation forces in post-World War II Germany, asserting that the Iraqi insurgency would ultimately prove to be as futile in realizing its objectives as had the Werwolfs. Former Clinton-era National Security Council staffer Daniel Benjamin published a riposte in ""Slate"" magazine on 29 August 2003, entitled ""Condi's Phony History: Sorry, Dr. Rice, postwar Germany was nothing like Iraq"" in which he took Rice and Rumsfeld to task for mentioning Werwolf, writing that the reality of"
"that today."" Bush blamed President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the rise of ISIS and other post-Iraq War turmoil, saying that this was caused by a ""premature"" withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011. This statement attracted criticism (from Army Chief of Staff Raymond Odierno and others) because the U.S. withdrawal in 2011 was negotiated in 2008 by the George W. Bush administration. Bush has called for increased military spending, expressing the belief that 2.5% of GDP is an insufficient amount. In an August 2015 speech, Bush asserted that ""we are in the seventh year"
"""Once the collapse begins, adversaries have a real opportunity to gain advantage. In terms of the Bush presidency, this many reversals this close to the end destroys credibility ... It appears there is no depth to which this administration will not sink in its last days."" Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly criticized Rice after their terms in office ended. In his book """", he portrayed her as a young, inexperienced academic who did not know her place. In 2011 she finally responded, saying that Rumsfeld ""doesn't know what he's talking about."" In his book ""In My Time"", Dick"
"Studies. Belafonte achieved widespread attention for his political views in 2002 when he began making a series of comments about President George W. Bush, his administration and the Iraq War. During an interview with Ted Leitner for San Diego's 760 KFMB, in October 2002, Belafonte referred to a quote made by Malcolm X. Belafonte said: Belafonte used the quote to characterize former United States Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, Powell and Rice both responded, with Powell calling the remarks ""unfortunate"" and Rice saying: ""I don't need Harry Belafonte to tell me what it means to be black."""
"John Brady Kiesling John Brady Kiesling is a former U.S. diplomat and the author of ""Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower"" (Potomac Books 2006). He was the first of three U.S. foreign service officers to resign, on February 25, 2003, to protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell was posted by ""The New York Times"" and circulated widely. An archaeologist/ancient historian by training, Kiesling entered the foreign service in 1983. He served in Israel, Morocco, Greece, Washington, and Armenia, returning to Athens as chief of the political section of"
"Karen Kwiatkowski Karen U. Kwiatkowski, née Unger, (born September 24, 1960) is an American activist and commentator. She is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is primarily known for her insider essays which denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In 2012, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatte, in the Republican primary"
"by both the Bush administration as well as the U.S. Army. Ricks then goes on to outline the infighting between the senior policy advisers such as Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld and the Army. Ricks includes quotes from former generals of the Iraq war, former Army generals, and several top level officials, both working for the Bush administration and Douglas Feith's planning contingent. Moving into the war, Ricks alleges various miscommunication and mismanagement of the Army's combat tactics as well as criticizing the overall strategy. Ricks also heavily criticizes the actions of L. Paul Bremer and explores his impact"
"such as internees ""wrongly imprisoned"" in Guantánamo. Webb concluded: ""The Economist"" referred to the memoir as ""a fascinating history"" and ""a good read"" as well as ""interesting and even enjoyable"". The news-magazine also stated that Rumsfeld, predictably, avoided self-criticism. ""The quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, it appears, were everyone's fault but his"", commented the review. In ""The Huffington Post"", journalist Marcus Baram stated that Rumsfeld blamed ""almost everyone else for mistakes that were made"" and ends in a ""self-satisfying"" way. He also wrote, ""Notably missing from the book is any mention of Pat Tillman, the football star turned soldier whose"
"collaboration between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. While Colin Powell's statement to the UN may have been accepted as proof by many in the US, this was not the case in Europe. Powell himself stated later: ""I, of course, regret the U.N. speech that I gave,"" he said, ""which became the prominent presentation of our case. But we thought it was correct at the time. The President thought it was correct. Congress thought it was correct."" In a February 2003 speech to the U.N. Security Council, Powell alleged that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction from inspectors and refusing to"
"that he stood by his vote. He also argued during the campaign that ""the way he (President Bush) went to war was a mistake."" In the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, candidates Representatives Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, then-Senator Barack Obama (futurely President of the United States), Senators Chris Dodd, Bernie Sanders and Mike Gravel were some of the most outspoken critics of the Iraq War. Ron Paul has said that ""The war in Iraq was sold to us with false information. The area is more dangerous now than when we entered it. We destroyed a regime hated by our direct"
"Rice became the first National Security Advisor to campaign for an incumbent president. She stated that while: ""Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the actual attacks on America, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a part of the Middle East that was festering and unstable, [and] was part of the circumstances that created the problem on September 11."" After the invasion, when it became clear that Iraq did not have nuclear WMD capability, critics called Rice's claims a ""hoax"", ""deception"" and ""demagogic scare tactic"". Dana Milbank and Mike Allen wrote in ""The Washington Post"": ""Either she missed or overlooked numerous warnings"
"he ""repeatedly associated the two in keynote addresses delivered since 11 September"", adding that ""Senior members of his administration have similarly conflated the two."" For instance, the BBC report quotes Colin Powell in February 2003, stating that ""We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September 11, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America."" The same BBC report also noted the results of a recent opinion poll, which suggested that ""70% of Americans believe the Iraqi leader was personally involved in the attacks."" Also in"
"open letter and referred to the planned attack on Iraq and the War on Terror. In the letter, Penn also criticized the Bush administration for its ""deconstruction of civil liberties"" and its ""simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil."" Penn visited Iraq briefly in December 2002. ""Sean is one of the few,"" remarked his ex-wife Madonna. ""Good for him. Most celebrities are keeping their heads down. Nobody wants to be unpopular. But then Americans, by and large, are pretty ignorant of what's going on in the world."" The ""Post"" advertisement was cited as a primary reason for the development"
"in Iraq"". According to Jeff Stein, writing in the ""Washington Post"", the author's real name was Anthony Camerino, a Major in the United States Air Force Reserve. Steven E. Levingston, also writing in the ""Washington Post"", asserted that the book describes how bad intelligence routinely lead to targeting the wrong individuals. Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al Qaeda Terrorist Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al Qaeda Terrorist is a book published by Macmillan Publishing in early 2011. The author, a former interrogator, criticizes the"
"fear to silence someone else's voice."" Peter van Buren Peter van Buren (born 1960) is a former United States Foreign Service employee, and the author of two novels and two non-fiction books about military affairs. Peter van Buren was born in New York City. Van Buren served in the U.S. Department of State for 24 years, including a year in Iraq as a team leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). After his book, ""We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People"", was published in 2012 Van Buren claims to"
"2008, Koa Books published ""Dissent: Voices of Conscience,"" co-authored by Ann Wright and Susan Dixon. Subtitled ""Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq"", the work includes a foreword by longtime anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the top-secret Pentagon Papers in 1971. Ann Wright Mary Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She is most"
"policies in the Middle East. Others named in the suit included Richard Helms, William E. Colby, Kermit Roosevelt, Sr., Archibald B. Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, Robert McFarlane, James J. Angleton and George P. Shultz. The suit was dismissed in April 1988. Wilbur Crane Eveland Wilbur Crane ""Bill"" Eveland III (July 1, 1918 – January 2, 1990) was a World War II veteran, a CIA station chief, and critic of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. His autobiographical book, ""Ropes of Sand"" (1980), details the many failures of the CIA vis-a-vis the Middle East during the Cold War. Wilbur Crane Eveland"