Epstein Secrets

billion reconstruction effort was largely a failure with most of that money spent on security or lost to waste and fraud, it said. Former President George W. Bush's administration cited its belief that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's government held weapons of mass destruction to justify the decision to go to wa

a dangerous dictator and his supposed stocks of weapons of mass destruction. It was also to create a functioning democracy and thereby inspire what Bush called a "global democracy revolution." The effort was supposed to be cheap -- to require few troops and even less time. Instead, it cost the Unite

ber 2003, Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan rec

T's REMEMBER: Ten years ago when President George W. Bush announced the invasion into Iraq in March 2

litant activities; others formed new organizational entities in place of the old ones, hoping to deter suspicion. Combined with the emergence of the Jihadi threat, this facilitated a prevailing sense that the far right was in decline. However, this apparent interlude is over. In the last few years, espe

e. However, as terrible as this is, we have a tendency in the West to think that the only dimension of threat we face comes from violence. While the Bush administration helped initiate this thinking, the Obama administration has actively abused it by limiting any discussion of the threat we face to al

nts of the Control Factor that could allow this man, a Soldier of Allah, to be positioned as he was. He was blatantly voicing his Islamist views and Jihadi intent including, even, an essay recommending the "painful liquidation" of non-Muslims. Yet, in the Army of all places, the Control Factor operated

. However, as terrible as this is, we have a tend=ncy in the West to think that the only dimension of threat we face comes f=om violence. While the Bush administration helped initiate this think=ng, the Obama administration has actively abused it by limiting any discus=ion of the threat we face to al

nts of the Control Factor that c=uld allow this man, a Soldier of Allah, to be positioned as he was. He was=blatantly voicing his Islamist views and Jihadi intent including, even, an=essay recommending the "painful liquidation" of non-Muslim=. Yet, in the Army of all places, the Control Factor operated

. However, as terrible as this is, we have a tend=ncy in the West to think that the only dimension of threat we face comes f=om violence. While the Bush administration helped initiate this think=ng, the Obama administration has actively abused it by limiting any discus=ion of the threat we face to al

nts of the Control Factor that c=uld allow this man, a Soldier of Allah, to be positioned as he was. He was=blatantly voicing his Islamist views and Jihadi intent including, even, an=essay recommending the "painful liquidation" of non-Muslim=. Yet, in the Army of all places, the Control Factor operated

e. However, as terrible as this is, we have a tendency in the West to think that the only dimension of threat we face comes from violence. While the Bush administration helped initiate this thinking, the Obama administration has actively abused it by limiting any discussion of the threat we face to a

ts of the Control Factor that could allow this man, a Soldier of Allah, to be positioned as he was. He was blatantly voicing his Islamist views and Jihadi intent including, even, an essay recommending the "painful liquidation" of non-Muslims. Yet, in the Army of all places, the Control Factor operated