1914 British troops entered
Basra after Ottomans abandoned city
1926 Jaffar al-Askari became PM of Iraq for 2nd
time
1927 King Faisal asked for full Iraqi independence and
ending roll of British High Commissioner in
negotiations over new Anglo-Iraq
Treaty
1946 PM Umari forced to resign in aftermath of Kirkuk
Massacre where oil strikers killed
1946 Nuri al-Said became premier 4th time
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Said with PM
Maliki)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of ‘Independent
Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958)
1983 Iran’s Op Wa al-Fajr 4 ended Took 180 sq mi of land in
Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan Iran lost
5000 dead 15,000 wounded Iraq lost
2800 dead
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper 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)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1997 UN weapons inspectors returned to Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD
and 2003 Invasion)
(Musings
On Iraq article Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N.
Inspections)
1998 Adviser to UN chief said could never 100% prove WMD
disarmament and at some
point
inspections became political and impossible to prove negative
2001 Bush told Natl Sec Adv Rice he wanted Def Sec Rumsfeld
to start planning for Iraq
2001 Bush told Def Sec Rumsfeld to update war plans for Iraq
Wanted it done secretly Was first
official step in Iraq invasion
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Shaping the
Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Wanting War: Why
the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein,
Deciding on Conflict)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The
Decision To
Invade Iraq)
2002 NATO summit Bush was talking about war with Iraq and
using new UN inspections as
catalyst for action
2003 UN turned over Oil for Food program to CPA
2003 UK intel report Badr Brigade maintained close ties to
Iran that armed and funded it
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran using Badr in post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2004 Iraq Election Commission announced vote for
transitional assembly to draft constitution would
happen 1/30/05 along with
provincial vote
2006 Iraq and Syria announced renewal of diplomatic
relations which were broken during Iran-Iraq War
2006 UN reported 3,709 civilians killed in Oct 06 was
highest since 2003 invasion
2006 Report US training mission for Iraqi forces full of
problems Officers leading teams poorly picked Many
hadn’t seen combat Didn’t
understand mission and weren’t prepared Didn’t have standardized guidelines for
mission Didn’t get support from US military Didn’t get supplies and enough
interpreters Didn’t get full teams
2007 Gen Petraeus said nuber of foreign fighters coming to
Iraq down by about 1/3 in part due to greater
interdiction by Syria
2009 Report on failed US funded reconstruction projects $270
mil water plant in Nasiriya only worked at
limited capacity because too
sophisticated for Iraqi workers $4 mil maternity hospital in Hilla doesn’t have
staff of enough supplies Iraqis never trained on equipment US installed $98 mil
wastewater treatment plan in Fallujah only reached 1/3 of homes because govt didn’t
deliver fuel $7.9 mil hospital in Baghdad didn’t have staff or supplies so it
was closed $165 mil Basra Children’s Hospital was $115 mil over budget
(Musings
On Iraq More On Wasted Reconstruction Projects In Iraq)
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