1945 Iraqi forces launched new assault upon Kurdish forces
in Barzan 1943
Barzani revolt
1980 Iran shelled Khanaqin and Mandali in Diyala and bombed
two other towns in
precursor
to Iran-Iraq War
1991 U.N. investigation of impact of sanctions on Iraq
suggested oil for food program
1994 Iraq accused Iran of arming Shiite opposition groups in
southern marshes
1996 US fired 17 more cruise missiles at Iraqi air defense
sites in response to Saddam’s
moves
against PUK
2002 At meeting on Al Qaeda Rumsfeld said Iraq more important
than Al Qaeda
2002 Bush sent letter to Speaker of House saying US had to
deal with disarming Iraq
2002 Rep Ike Skelton wrote letter to Pres Bush “To win
victory is easy, to preserve
its fruits,
difficult”
2002 UK Defense Ministry paper said that US had no clear
postwar strategy for Iraq
and that
meant no winning plan
2002 Iraq took Australian reporter to Al Qaim suspected
nuclear site US had talked
about Found
it abandoned
2002 Blair told ForSec Cook Iraq’s army depleted so he was
trying to get nuclear
weapons
2003 Fmr CENCTOM Cmdr Gen Zinni said US had no strategy in
Iraq and danger of
failing
2003 Rumsfeld said US speeding up creation of new Iraqi
security forces in face of
growing
attacks
2003 Rumsfeld talked with Iraq commanders about troop
withdrawal
2003 Pentagon plan was to have 25,000-30,000 troops in Iraq
by Sep 03 Instead
130,000 due
to violence
2015 Allawi condemned Abadi saying his reforms were
unconstitutional
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