1920 US Consul in Baghdad said England hadn’t taken any
serious steps to create an
independent Iraqi govt
1928 UK High Comm for Iraq Dobbs wrote conscription in Iraq
would cause revolt Was already
problem in Basra Said authority of
Iraqi govt depended upon British backing and military might
1932 King Faisal speech praised his rule in Syria Said if he
was still king there Syria would be
independent like Iraq
1948 Baghdad told oil companies they should not employ Jews
after creation of Israel
1980 Saddam accused US of helping Iran during Iran-Iraq war
1981 Iranian Op Tariq al-Quds Revolutionary Guard began 1st
human wave attacks in war in Bostan
Suffered heavy losses
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The
Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq
War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The
Iran-Iraq War)
2001 Powell said no reason to believe Iraq didn’t have WMD
2001 USA Today article said Iraq supported bin Laden when he
was in Sudan in 1990s
2001 Ex-CIA Dir Woolsey said he believed Iraq involved in
9/11
2002 Bush Cheney DepSecDef Wolfowtiz gave speeches across US
saying that Iraq would not
cooperate with weapons inspectors
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2002 White House spokesman said if Saddam said he had no WMD
proved he was lying if he said he
had WMD he violated UN resolutions
2002 White House spokesman said Iraq bought aluminum tubes
for its nuke program
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2002 White House officials told US News & World Report
they were making extensive plans for
postwar Iraq
2002 UK issued dossier on human rights abuses in Iraq
Amnesty Intl attacked report as
opportunistic and selective
2003 Dep Sec State Armitage said US should not oppose Ayatollah
Sistani who was pushing for
elections for new Iraq parliament
2005 Def Sec Rumsfeld told CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Abizaid and US
Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey CIA
found insurgents infiltrating Iraqi
army in Anbar
2005 Gen Dempsey in charge of US training mission for ISF
said 100 Iraqi army battalions 33
operating on own 40 in the lead Said
27 Federal Police battalions on duty Said major problem was police were
recruited locally and many were from militias
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2008 US and Iraqi officials met about Sahwa Maliki said he
agreed with Americans organizing Sunni
tribes but southern Iraq was off
limits Said southern tribes could threaten Shiite parties Came after US Marines
were organizing Sahwa in Qadisiyah to counter militias
(Musings
On Iraq article on Maliki govt cancelling US forming Sahwa in
southern Iraq)
2008 Oil Min Shahristani demanded KRG void its oil contracts
in return for deal to allow it to export
oil
(Musings
On Iraq article on Baghdad-KRG oil talks)
2011 Mobs attacked Christian and Yazidi businesses in
several towns in Dohuk province
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