1940 Foreign Minister Said wrote
memo to PM Gaylani and Regent that Iraq had to
back
England and US during WW2
1957 Abdul-Wahab Mirjan became
premier of Iraq
1981 Iraq said it was ready to end war if Iran recognized
borders Iran rejected offer
1990 Saddam told officials that US started war against Iraq
in 1986 when it sold
weapons to
Iran in Iran-Contra Affair
1998 UN weapons inspector chief Butler said Iraq had not
lived up to promise of
cooperating
2003 Report Al Qaeda was going to divert fighters and funds
from Afghanistan to Iraq
2005 Iraq held elections for a permanent parliament Some
insurgent groups provided
security to
make sure Sunnis could vote
2005 Secular candidate in Basra said afraid Shiite religious
parties would use their
militias
and police to carry out fraud during election
2005 Police in Najaf drove through city calling on people to
vote for the United Iraqi
Alliance
2006 Bush told Maliki to accept Surge as way to bring down
violence Maliki said
he would
announce it next day Didn't
2006 US intel said Maliki against Surge Said he didn't like
US forces and didn’t
want more
of them in Iraq
2011 U.S. announced withdrawal of its forces from Iraq
2011 ISF deployed outside homes of VP Hashemi, Rafi Issawi
and Salah al-Mutlaq
in Green
Zone on orders of PM Maliki
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