1918 British forces took Shirqat
from Ottomans
1918 Armistice of Mudros signed between British and Ottomans
6th Army
surrendered
to British Ended WWI in Mesopotamia
1918 British officials in Baghdad told London to create
central council of chiefs of
Southern
Kurdistan
1936 PM Yasin al-Hashimi became 1st Iraqi premier
overthrown in a coup King Ghazi
supported
his removal
1936 Hikmat Sulaiman became premier of Iraq leading to 1st
govt with pan-Arabists
out of
power
1936 Sulaiman govt banished former PM Hashimi, Rashid
al-Gaylani and Nuri al-Said
1980 Saddam predicted Iran-Iraq War would only last 6-12
months
1990 NatlSecAdv Scowcroft said US policy at fork in road
Could continue defense or
go on
offense against Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait
1990 Joint Chiefs head Gen Powell said Gen Schwarzkopf asked
for troops for
offensive
operations against Iraq in Kuwait
1990 Def Sec Cheney said offensive action against Iraq
should be on the table
1990 Bush decided to double number of US troops in Saudi
Arabia
1997 Tariq Aziz claimed surveillance planes used by inspectors
were working for US
intelligence
Threatened to shoot them down
2002 Cheney told head UN Inspector Blix that inspections
couldn't last forever and US
was ready
to discredit them anyway to disarm Iraq
2003 Cheney said Iraq had WMD
2003 Dep Sec of Def Wolfowitz said because US had missed so
much of Iraq’s WMD
program in
1991 it might have exaggerated them in 2003
2003 Report White House pushing Pentagon to speed up
training of Iraqi forces
2005 Spec Insp Gen for Iraq Recon report said US had no policy
for staffing
reconstruction
of Iraq
2005 Spec Insp Gen for Iraq Recon said lack of planning by
US plagued reconstruction
2005 Report Italian press believed SISMI intel agency forged
docs claiming Iraq-Niger
uranium
deal and shared them with US and UK
2005 Report PUK building dozens of houses in Kirkuk City and
moving Kurds in Said
to reverse
Saddam’s Arbization program
2006 Militias kill 17 Sunni police near British run training
center in Basra
2006 SecState Rice aide told her little chance for US
success in Iraq Another said
Iraq
heading towards genocidal violence
2006 SecState Rice talked about giving up reconciliation in
Iraq with aides and
just
worrying about stability
2015 PM Abadi went to Dawa meeting to answer critics of his
reforms
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