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The phrase "axis of evil" was first used by U.S. President George W. Bush and originally referred to Iran, Ba'athist Iraq, and North Korea.It was used in Bush's State of the Union address on January 29, 2002, less than five months after the September 11 attacks and almost a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and often repeated throughout his presidency.
An "axis of evil" was a term first used by President Bush in this address. The so-called "axis of evil" was said to be made up of three countries: Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. These countries were cited as countries pursuing chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and having terrorist training camps.
Axis of Evil premiered on 20 September 2004 at the Athens Film Festival. [citation needed] It also screened at the 2004 Oberhausen Short Film Festival and was included in a DVD collection of films shown at the event later that same year. [3]
The “axis of evil” was a term initially coined by President George W. Bush during his 2002 State of the Union address. Then, Bush was speaking to a nation – and a world – looking for moral ...
In 2003, Frum authored the first book about Bush's presidency written by a former member of the administration. [4] He has taken credit for the famous phrase "axis of evil" in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, and he is considered a voice in the neoconservative movement. [5] [6]
January 29 – During the State of the Union Address, the president pointedly accuses three countries—Iran, Iraq, and North Korea—of sponsoring terrorism and attempting to amass weapons of mass destruction, activities that threaten the peace of the world, and declares that nations like these three constitute an axis of evil. [4] [5]
In 2002, Bush had laid out the "Axis of Evil", touching on Iran and North Korea before elaborating on Iraq. The 2003 speech would focus entirely on Iraq, in parallel with an ongoing campaign in the United Nations for support on an Iraq intervention.
On this day, June 29th, in 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney served as president for a total of two and a half hours, while President Bush underwent a routine colonoscopy at the Camp David ...