Portal:Current events/2002 February 16
February 16, 2002 (Saturday)
- George W. Bush signs a secret national security council directive establishing the goals and objectives for going to war with Iraq, according to the book Rumsfeld's War by Rowan Scarborough.[1]
- 275 animal rights activists unite in front of the D.C. Neiman Marcus to demand that the company stop supporting the fur industry.[2]
- George W. Bush's weekly Presidential Radio Address, titled Asia Trip, discusses foreign relations.
- ^ Julian Borger. "Bush 'wanted war in 2002'". the Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ "Compassion Over Killing > Anti-Fur Protest at Neiman Marcus: February 16, 2002". Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2015.