1917 British defeated Ottoman
forces at Dahra Bend
1979 Saddam said unifying Iraq and Syria was part of the
Arab revolution
1979 Saddam said Iraq would respect choice of the Iranian
people with their revolution
1984 Iran cut Basra-Baghdad highway between Maysan and Wasit
1989 Iraq formed Arab Cooperation Council with Egypt Jordan
Yemen to counter
Gulf
Cooperation Council
1991 US troops destroyed Iraqi radar facility while Apache
helicopters conducted raid
in depth
behind Iraqi lines in Iraq
1992 Defense Secretary Cheney said that if U.S. had
overthrown Saddam would have to
decide what kind of govt to
establish Would have been hard to capture Saddam
1992 Def Sec Cheney said if US had overthrown Saddam would
have to decide how many
casualties willing to take How many
troops would have to stay in Iraq to keep govt going
2001 Bush told speechwriter David Frum that he was going to
get rid of Saddam
2001 UK Attorney Gen Lord Williams approved air attacks out
of no fly zones
in Iraq for
self defense
2001 US and UK planes bombed 20 radar and command and
control centers in Iraq
2002 Bush signed secret NSC directive calling for covert
action against Iraq by CIA
Had budget
of $189 mil for 2 years
2002 CIA plan included supporting Iraqi opposition Sabotage
missions inside Iraq
Working
with other countries Information campaign vs Iraq
2002 CIA plan included attacking Iraqi revenue sources and
disrupting its smuggling
operations
2003 Rice claimed Iraq was deceiving UN weapons inspectors
2004 Report Iraqi and US sources said Iraqi forces would not
be able to provide
security
after sovereignty transferred to Iraq
2004 CIA said it still believed Iraqi defector CURVEBALL was
credible source for
intel that
Iraq had mobile WMD labs Turned out to be false source
2006 Sec State Rice told Senate oil production and
electricity below postwar levels in
Iraq
2006 Sec State Rice told Senate initial problems with
rebuilding Iraqi security forces
fixed and
as Iraqi forces stood up US forces would do less
2006 Sec Def Rumsfeld told House US was not in Iraq to do
nation building that was up
to Iraqis
to do that
2010 ISI set off 4 suicide car bombs targeting hotels in
Baghdad where foreign press
stayed
2011 Maliki visited Kuwait after Kuwait premier visited Iraq
in 1st high level meet
between 2
countries since 1990
2016 Allawi said no reason to remove cabinet until Abadi
presented a strategic plan
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