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Chapter 26: War President


  • 1. Frank J. Murray, “Infamy; Hijacked Planes Destroy World Trade Center, Ram Pentagon,” Washington Times, September 12, 2001.

  • 2The North Atlantic Treaty, Article 5, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1949.

  • 3 Opinion, “The National Defense,” New York Times, September 12, 2001.

  • 4 Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40), 107th Cong., 1st sess., September 18, 2001, sec. 2(a).

  • 5 Rumsfeld, speech, “Cabinet Meeting Prayer on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance,” September 14, 2001.

  • 6 Rumsfeld, “Vocabulary,” September 23, 2001.

  • 7 Rumsfeld to Bush, “Global War on Terror,” June 18, 2004; Abizaid to Rumsfeld and Myers, “Response to 18 June Paper,” July 16, 2004; Rumsfeld to Steve Hadley, cc: Eric Edelman, “Nature of the Long Struggle,” August 4, 2006.

  • 8. Tom Regan, “The ‘Rebranding’ of the War on Terror,” Christian Science Monitor, July 28, 2005; Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, “U.S. Officials Retool Slogan for Terror War,” New York Times, July 26, 2005; Matthew Davis, “New Name for ‘War on Terror,’” BBC News, July 27, 2005.

  • 9. Rumsfeld to Bush, “Coalitions,” September 22, 2001.

  • 10 Rumsfeld to Bush et al., [No Subject], September 19, 2001.

  • 11 Department of State, Proliferation Security Initiative, launched May 31, 2003.

  • 12. Department of Defense, Campaign Against Terrorism: Strategic Guidance for the US Department of Defense, October 2, 2001.

  • 13. “Dark Winter—Bioterrorism Exercise,” developed and produced by Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense, Center for Strategic and International Studies, ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, and Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, conducted June 22–23, 2001, Andrews Air Force Base; Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Some Experts Say U.S. Is Vulnerable to a Germ Attack,” New York Times, September 30, 2001.

  • 14 Rumsfeld to Bush et al., [No Subject], September 19, 2001.

  • 15 Rumsfeld to Bush et al., [No Subject], September 19, 2001.

  • 16. American Consulate (Peshawar) to Warren Christopher, State Department cable, “Afghanistan: Taliban Agree to Visits of Militant Training Camps, Admit bin Laden Is Their Guest,” January 9, 1997.

  • 17 Barry Bearak, “Condemning Attacks, Taliban Says bin Laden Not Involved,” New York Times, September 12, 2001.

  • 18 Wolfowitz to Rumsfeld, “Using Special Forces on ‘Our Side’ of the Line,” September 23, 2001.

  • 19. George W. Bush, remarks to airline employees, Chicago, Illinois, September 27, 2001.

  • 20. Rumsfeld to Cheney et al., “Saudi Arabia,” December 6, 2001.

  • 21. Rumsfeld to Feith, “Saudi Arabia”, December 3, 2001.

  • 22 Barry Bearak, “Condemning Attacks, Taliban Says bin Laden Not Involved,” New York Times, September 12, 2001.

  • 23. Rumsfeld to Rice and Powell, “Khobar Towers and USS Cole,” February 5, 2001.

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