1924 UK High Comm for Iraq Dobbs
said King Faisal was a foreigner in Iraq Had
no
support
1997 UN Res 1143 extended Oil
for Food Program for 3rd time
2001 Gen Franks briefed Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman
Gen Meyers on
revised
Iraq invasion plan
2001 Franks revised 1990s Op Plan 1003 Cut troops from
500,000 to 400,000 to
be deployed
in 6 instead of 7 months
2001 Franks said couldn't’ scrap Op Plan 1003 because never
knew what it would
be needed
2001 Franks said would take a long time to revise Iraq war
plan
2001 Rumsfeld said Afghanistan showed US didn’t need such a
large and long
invasion
plan for Iraq
2001 Rumsfeld wanted a battle plan that could be executed in
a very short time
not months
2001 Franks agreed with Rumsfeld but said Op Plan 1003 only
thing they had
at moment
2001 Rumsfeld told Gen Franks goal of any military action
against Iraq would
be removing
Saddam
2001 Franks given one week to revise plan Angry that
Rumsfeld went from plan
not
important to it being urgent
2001 Blair told Bush Iraq was a threat because it had WMD
could export it and
violated UN
resolutions
2001 Blair paper to Bush said that they had to consider
regime change in Iraq
2002 UN Res 1447 extended Oil for Food program
2004 PM Allawi attacked while visiting Imam Ali shrine in
Najaf
2005 Report 1500 suspects arrested around Ramadi in last
five months all Iraqis not
foreigners
like White House claiming
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