1917 1st Battle of Ramadi started Ottomans forced
British to retreat
1921 Iraq council of state
declared Faisal monarch of Iraq
1979 Pres Bakr resigned from the
Revolutionary Command Council citing health
Saddam
took over council
1991 Iran warned that Iraqi forces about to launch new military
operation into southern
marshes against
rebels and displaced
1991 UK intel report said Iraq tried 4 methods to enrich
uranium for its nuclear program
and might
have made enough for 1 bomb
1991 Pres Bush said that coup vs Saddam might be best way to
assure that Iraq didn’t
continue with
its nuclear weapons program
2003 Rice called CIA Dir Tenet telling him he was
responsible for Iraq-Africa uranium
story being
used in Bush’s State of the Union
2003 CIA Dir Tenet issued statement that he was responsible
for Iraq-Africa uranium deal
getting into Bush’s State of Union Said
CIA only had fragmentary intel on Iraq trying to buy uranium from Africa
2003 Dir Tenet also said that CIA had Iraq-Africa uranium
story stricken from previous
Bush
speeches
2003 CIA officials quoted in Wash Post that they tried to
dissuade British from using
Iraq-Africa
uranium story
2003 Bush Chief of Staff Rove told Cheney Chief of Staff
Libby he talked with
columnist Novak and he was going to
write fmr Amb Wilson’s wife sent him to Niger
2003 Bush Chief of Staff Rove told Time reporter Cooper fmr
Amb Wilson not sent
to Niger by
CIA Dir Tenet or Cheney but his wife who worked at CIA
2003 Columnist Rove called CIA to confirm that Valerie
Wilson sent her husband to
Niger CIA
tried to stop story and not mention her name
2003 White House spokesman Fleischer and Comm Dir Bartlett
told reporter Fmr
Amb Wilson
found little on his trip to Niger and wasn’t sent by Dir Tenet
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Rice told reporter Natl Intel Estimate said aluminum
tubes Iraq tried to buy were for
nuke program Blamed CIA Dir Tenet
for Bush’s State of the Union using fake Iraq-African uranium deal
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 After protests by Iraqi police US agreed to reduce its
forces at police stations in
Fallujah to
try to stop attacks on them
2006 Amb Khalizad said hadn’t seen security improvement from
Baghdad security plan
Op Together
Forward yet
2006 Brookings’ Pollack told House committee not enough US
and Iraqi forces to secure
Baghdad
during Op Together Forward
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
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