1917 British forces started
march on Baghdad from Kut
1981 Iraq offered peace deal to
Iran including withdrawal Khomeini said no seeing
offer
as weakness by Saddam
1981 Khomeini’s rejection of
Iraq’s peace offer led Saddam to push ahead with
new
attacks in Iran
1981 Report that Iraq wanted to buy military equipment from
US but turned down
1983 Soviet For Min Gromyko met with Iraqi and Iranian
delegations to try to
mediate end
to Iran-Iraq War
1984 US condemned Iraq’s use of WMD for 1st time
in Iran-Iraq War
1985 Iraq bombed Ahvaz in Khuzistan province Started new war
of cities that lasted
until June
1985
1988 Iran told UN that it was ready to accept ceasefire
1991 Police tried to arrest army deserters in Rania but
Kurdish rebels seized city
1991 Karbala joined Shiite revolt
1991 Ayatollah Khoei issued fatwa for people in Najaf to follow
Islamic Law Protect
property
during uprising
1991 Sec of Def Cheney said US would not be able to hold
coalition together if it
moved on
Saddam
1991 US Gen Brandtner said US would not let weapons go to
Shiite rebels in southern
Iraq
1991 Iraq officially renounced annexation of Kuwait agreed
to pay reparations and
return
stolen property to Kuwait
1995 INC claimed fighting between opposition and Iraqi
forces in Qurna as part of
its
uprising
1998 UN weapons inspectors returned to Iraq and carried out
successful searches
1998 Report Al Qaeda operative arrived in Baghdad for talks
False story
2002 CIA debriefed Fmr Amb Wilson on his trip to Niger to
investigate Iraq buying
uranium
2002 Wilson said he found no proof of Iraq-Niger uranium
deal but in 1999 Iraq asked
Niger about
better trade
2002 CIA believed 1999 overture about better Iraq-Niger
trade might have been
supporting
proof of uranium deal
2002 Fmr Amb Wilson left CIA debriefing believing he
disproved Iraq-Niger uranium
deal CIA
felt they might have proof it happened
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2002 Joint Intel Comm head Scarlett briefed Blair on Iraq’s
WMD Afterward Blair
thought
Iraq only had battlefield WMD capability
2002 UK Home Secretary Blunkett at cabinet meeting asked
whether legal basis for
action vs
Iraq
2002 UK For Sec Straw wrote article saying if Saddam refused
weapons inspectors
there would
be consequences
2002 UK intel report predicted successor to Saddam would be
a Sunni military man
2003 UK Embassy in Washington said Bush admin set on war
with Iraq
2003 France Russia Germany said they would not vote for a UN
resolution authorizing
force
against Iraq
2003 Blair told Bush if they got 9 votes on Sec Council for
2nd resolution and it was
vetoed they
would still have legal authority for action
2003 UK Attny Gen told Blair if 2nd resolution
vetoed in UN would be no legal
basis for
Iraq war
2003 Powell told Congress 2nd UN resolution
against Iraq would pass while his staff
told him
wasn’t likely
2003 Powell said that Iraq weapons declaration to UN farce
because it said it had no
WMD and
claimed it was hiding them from inspectors
2003 National Intelligence Committee memo said that docs on
Iraq-Niger uranium
deal were
forgeries
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Sir Tebbet Sec of UK Def Min asked cabinet for legal
authorization for war with
Iraq
2003 Russian Amb provided Iraq with numbers of US troops,
equipment and their
locations to Iraq before invasion
2003 ORHA head Garner got ok from Rice to use frozen Iraqi
assets to pay for postwar
plans
2003 ORHA head Garner told Rice he didn’t think there would
be enough US troops in
Iraq to
maintain security after invasion
2003 ORHA head Garner asked Rice what were plans to put
together post-Saddam
Iraqi govt
Got no answer
2003 Gen Franks briefed Bush on war preparations Were
208,000 forces in Middle East
with 50,000
more arriving in 2 weeks
2003 Bush met Vatican envoy who argued against war because
of casualties and gulf
between
Christians and Muslims
2004 Gen Abizaid said ISF put together too quickly and
lacked training equipment
command and
control
2004 Fmr head weapons inspector Blix said Iraq war was not
authorized by existing
UN
resolutions
2004 Shiite members of Iraqi Governing Council refused to
sign Transitional
Administrative
Law due to Sistani objections
2006 Gen Pace Joint Chiefs head said Iraq was not heading
towards civil war
2006 After head of Nuaim tribe and sheikh from Jabour tribe
killed Hawija sheikhs
decided to
fight Al Qaeda in Iraq
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