Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices of Iraqi Refugees
Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama
Musings On Iraq review The Fall of Baghdad
Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience
Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace
Musings On Iraq review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective
Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy
Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change
Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy
Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco
Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Night Draws Near, Iraq’s People In The Shadow Of America’s War
Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Reconstructing Iraq’s Budgetary Institutions
Musings On Iraq review Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog
Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III
Musings On Iraq review State of War, The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
Musings On Iraq review Target Basra, The High Octane Story of the Royal Marine
Commandos In Iraq
Musings On Iraq review The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014
Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq
Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006
Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009
Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge
Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait
Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad
Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?
Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003
2003
Jan 9 Pentagon asked Jay Garner to head ORHA to run postwar Iraq 2 months before invasion He
initially said no
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review No End In Sight, Iraq’s Descent Into Chaos)
Jan 16 Future Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) head Garner met
with Rumsfeld and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Feith Rumsfeld said no coordination of postwar planning Told Garner he needed to consult with different agencies and coordinate postwar plans Garner said in WWII US spent years planning for postwar situation and he was only given a few weeks for Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq Only 3 of 13 Reconstruction Contracts Were Signed Before War)
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
Jan 20 Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) created to run post-war
Iraq 2 months before invasion
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq Only 3 of 13 Reconstruction Contracts Were Signed Before War)
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
Jan 27 ORHA began contracting for supplies and personnel 2 months before invasion
Jan 28 ORHA head Garner met with NSC’s Zalimay who said goal of postwar Iraq should be
getting Iraqis to govern as soon as possible
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
Feb 19 ORHA head Garner briefed Natl Sec Adv Rice to use Iraqi army and police to help
rebuilding Iraq after war
Feb 21 ORHA staff met in DC to have run through of their Iraq postwar plans
Feb 22 ORHA drill found US would not have enough troops for Iraq postwar security Was
worried not enough funding for postwar Iraq that could leave behind unstable country ORHA found US had no plans for what kind of govt they wanted in Iraq and how to achieve it ORHA Dep Head thought US had faulty assumptions overly optimistic lacked reality on what postwar Iraq would be like
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
Feb 22 After ORHA went through drill over its plans UK officials warned that the group was
inadequate for running postwar Iraq and a large coalition and the United Nations were needed
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 6.5 Planning And Preparation For A Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, January to March 2003)
Feb 27 ORHA head Garner learned he only had $27 mil to run postwar Iraq
Feb 28 ORHA head Garner made 1st brief of postwar Iraq plans to Bush 1 month before war
Mar 3 ORHA head Garner went to UN to try to get support for postwar Iraq UN said no Garner’s
move was against administration policy that opposed any role for UN in Iraq which was why it said no
Mar 5 ORHA head Garner got ok from Rice to use frozen Iraqi assets to pay for postwar Plans He
told Rice he didn’t think there would be enough troops to maintain security after invasion When asked if the White House had put together any plans for a post-Saddam govt he got no answer
Mar 10 ORHA head Garner briefed Bush on postwar Iraq plans including using army for
reconstruction and interim govt Bush approved plans
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review Days Of Fire, Bush and Cheney in the White House)
Mar 11 ORHA head Garner told press US would keep Iraqi army and would quickly turn over
control of country to Iraqis When asked Garner dismissed talk of US turning over power to Chalabi and INC
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Mar 11 After press conference Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz and Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy Feith chastised Garner for his comments about Chalabi
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)
(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)
Mar 11 Garner was later told by Pentagon he could no longer give press conferences
Mar 12 White House reviewed plan to ship $1.7 bil in frozen Iraqi assets in U.S. to Iraq to pay for
Iraqi public workers and pensions
Mar 14 Rumsfeld told ORHA head Garner he was going to pick all the advisers that were going to
run Iraqi ministries
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
Mar 15 ORHA head Garner told Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld plan was only to dismiss top two
officials from each Iraqi ministry and not carry out any deBaathification policy Rumsfeld okayed plan
Mar 15 Rumsfeld complained Garner picked non-Pentagon people to run some Iraqi ministries
Wanted them all from Defense
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
Mar 16 ORHA staff began leaving US for Kuwait Garner and his inner circle went into their hotel
rooms and weren’t seen for 2 days
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Mar 17 On flight to Kuwait ORHA head Garner met with his oil team Garner said he was
concerned Rumsfeld picked ex-Shell CEO Philip Carroll to join group Said was bad image wise to have an ex-US oil executive involved Oil teams said if Iraq’s oil sector was destroyed by war would need someone with standing of Carroll to deal with it
Mar 20 ORHA staff went to CENTCOM in Qatar and found military had parallel post-war admin
set up isolated from ORHA
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
Mar 20 Bush signed executive order to free frozen Iraqi assets in U.S. to be shipped to Iraq to pay
pensions and salaries of Iraqi public workers
Mar 22 Rumsfeld demanded that all Americans to run Iraqi ministries be from Pentagon ORHA
head Garner said no time for replacements
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
Mar 26 ORHA sent list of 16 sites that needed to be protected in Baghdad to US military HQ in
Kuwait but was ignored
Mar 26 Rumsfeld told Garner he had some replacements for Americans going to run Iraq
ministries Wanted them all from Pentagon
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
Mar 27 ORHA had meeting of all 4 postwar groups to come up with unified plan for Iraq Didn’t
happen The 4 groups had all been created separately within Bush administration with no coordination between them
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
Mar 30 Pentagon memo on creating an Iraqi authority after war Said had to be friendly to
the US Had to end Sunni rule Wanted rule of law individual liberty representative govt private enterprise Didn’t say how that was to be achieved
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
Mar 31 Israeli Infrastructure Min Paritzky said he wanted to reopen Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline by end
of 03 Was based upon promises INC’s Chalabi made before war that he would get Iraq to export oil to Israel after Saddam
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
Mar 31 Def Sec Rumsfeld memo said important to create Iraqi interim authority as quickly as
possible so Iraqis were in power Had to pick pro-US Iraqis Said exiles could be core for new authority because they supported US goals in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Night Draws Near, Iraq’s People In The Shadow Of America’s War)
Mar 31 Sir David Manning told British would have huge shortage of troops for postwar operations
in Iraq
Mar 31 UK Foreign Office official wrote For Sec Straw saying Iraqis mistrusted US and US
occupation would be humiliation and untenable
Mar 31 Ansar al-Islam issued statement Said it regrouped in north and would carry out
suicide bombings against the Coalition occupation
Mar 31 1st car bomb in Iraq hit US checkpoint north of Najaf
Mar 31 Saddam didn’t give televised speech as expected Instead Information Minister
Sahaf did calling on Iraqis to carry out suicide missions against the invaders
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
Apr 1 ORHA head Garner made 1 day trip to Um Qasr port 1st time in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
Apr 1 Def Sec Rumsfeld wrote Bush VP Cheney and NSC Argued for interim Iraqi govt Said couldn’t have long debate within NSC about issue
Apr 2 Sec Def Rumsfeld sent memo to military to cooperate with ORHA because wasn’t helping it
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
Apr 5 DIA task force said Baathists made plans for an insurgency with help of jihadists
Would later prove false
(Musings On Iraq Did Saddam Plan The Insurgency In Iraq?)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
Apr 6 Pentagon told ORHA about replacements for its staff Asked when they would arrive Said
hadn’t informed some of them yet
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
Apr 8 Bush said UN would play crucial role in creating an interim Iraqi govt but UN had rejected
UN role
Apr 8 Rumsfeld had meeting to find replacement for ORHA head Garner for new presidential
envoy to Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
Apr 8 Ayatollah Haeri said Iraq’s Shiites needed to seize power now that Saddam overthrown and
oppose US plans
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq Early Report On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)
Apr 8 Site south of Baghdad searched for chemical weapons but nothing found
Apr 9 Sadrists held first Friday prayers reviving tradition of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
Apr 9 Chalabi on CNN criticized Garner for not hiring INC people and said ORHA had done
nothing for Iraqis
Apr 10 Sadr’s followers killed Sayid Abdul Majid al-Khoei in Najaf Surrounded Ayatollah
Sistani’s house but driven off by tribesmen
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
Apr 10 CENTCOM told Coalition ground forces to set up local govts in Iraq’s provinces
Apr 10 White House said it wanted to name some of ORHA staff after they’d already arrived in
Kuwait ready to go into Iraq
Apr 10 Iraq’s 5th Corps surrendered to US Special Forces as they entered Mosul Special Forces
then moved to block KDP from taking over city
Apr 10 After Kirkuk fell Kurds Arabs and Turkmen carried out attacks on each other for 2 days
40 killed Looting also started in city US 173 Airborne Bgd ordered to restore order in city
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
Apr 10 Talabani announced PUK setting up interim govt to run Kirkuk city
Apr 10 Bush administration told Turkey that US forces would take control of Kirkuk city
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
Apr 10 Sec State Powell told Turkey that US stood for territorial integrity of Iraq meaning
wouldn’t support Kurds separating
Apr 10 PUK told Turkey that it would withdraw its Peshmerga from Kirkuk city
Apr 10 US moved 2,000 Peshmerga backed by US Special Forces to Diyala’s Khanaqin to try to
block Badr Brigade moving in from Iran Badr wanted to threaten MEK camp in province and had hit lists of 1000s of opponents to assassinate in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Early Reports On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
Apr 10 Sec Def Rumsfeld said that it was important for US to find Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Apr 10 Sec State Powell said he was sure US would find Iraq’s WMD
Apr 10 Def Policy Board’s Adelman OpEd in Washington Post Reminded readers 14 months
before he said war would be a cakewalk
Apr 10 Def Policy Board’s Adelman said Iraqis would start coming forward telling US where
Iraq’s WMD were hidden
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Apr 10 Suicide bomber hit Marine checkpoint in Baghdad wounding 4
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
Apr 10 White House said it wanted to name some of ORHA staff after they’d already arrived in
Kuwait ready to go into Iraq
Apr 10 White House spokesman Fleischer said Iraq’s WMD would be found
Apr 10 2 Iranian Rev Guards intel reports said its agents and allies were in control of Kut Wasit
and Amarah Maysan
(Musings On Iraq Early Reports On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)
Apr 11 US ground forces Cmdr Gen McKiernan ordered increased patrols around important
buildings in Baghdad to try to reduce looting Same time US forces withdrew from bridges leading to looting to spread to west side of Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Apr 11 “Stuff happens” Rumsfeld said freedom was untidy in response to looting in Iraq
Criticized press for focusing on looting in Iraq and missing all the positive stories happening Said US would help Iraq rebuild but ultimately it would be up to Iraqis to run and rebuild their country
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Apr 11 Sadr gave his 1st Friday sermon in Kufa following US invasion Called for pilgrimage to
Karbala for Arbaeen Was banned under Saddam
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
Apr 11 US delivered $20 mil in cash to Iraq from frozen Iraqi assets to help pay for bills and
reconstruction
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Savage on US reconstruction effort in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Reconstructing Iraq’s Budgetary Institutions)
Apr 11 US military called on to repair power grid in Baghdad that went down on Apr 9 when city
fell
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter
14 Rebuilding the Electricity Sector)
Apr 11 Russia said it would forgive debts to Iraq worth $8-$12 bil
Apr 11 Suicide bomber attacked Marine checkpoint wounding 4 in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
Apr 11 2 US soldiers killed and several dozen wounded in firefights in different parts of Iraq
Apr 11 Armed men reported hunting down Baathists in Basra to kill them
Apr 11 US took over control of security in Kirkuk and Peshmerga began withdrawing Turkey sent
military observes to watch process
Apr 11 Looting reported in Kurdish sections of Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
Apr 11 Turkey’s Foreign Min Gul said situation in Kirkuk stable and Turkey wouldn’t intervene
Sent Special Forces to assassinate Kirkuk mayor
Apr 11 Talabani said Peshmerga would start withdrawing from Kirkuk because of Turkish complaints
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
Apr 11 Sadr gave his 1st Friday sermon in Kufa following US invasion Called for pilgrimage to
Karbala for Arbaeen Was banned under Saddam
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
Apr 11 Iraqi physicist Jaffar interviewed by CIA in UAE said Iraq had no WMD and no nuke
program
Apr 11 UK Defense Minister Hoon told parliament British troops would soon be able to withdraw from Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 9.1 March to 22 May 2003)
Apr 12 Report experts didn’t think Iraq’s oil would earn enough money to pay for country’s
reconstruction
Apr 12 Head of CENTCOM postwar planning Col Benson briefed Gen Webster Deputy
Commander US ground forces in Iraq on revised plans Said would be resistance by former regime elements after war sectarian violence revenge ethnic cleaning Warned foreign jihadists would start coming to Iraq Predicted US occupation would last 3-5 years
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014)
Apr 12 ORHA head Garner proposed series of meetings across Iraq to form basis of new Iraqi
govt
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
Apr 13 US Gen Hawkins flew into Baghdad to try to get power grid up and working again since it
went down when city taken by US
Apr 13 KDP ordered Turkmen Front out of their HQ in Kirkuk Said there would be trouble if they
didn’t leave
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
Apr 13 Turkmen accused Kurds of killing a child Crowd called for revenge and Turkish intervention
in Kirkuk Turkmen Front demanded that KDP leave its headquarters in Kirkuk giving it eviction notice
Apr 13 Kuwait’s Sheikh Sabah told US it had to provide security for Najaf shrine otherwise Iran
would and become the overseer of Iraq’s shrine cities
Apr 14 Pentagon said major fighting in Iraq was over Bush claimed there was some
evidence Saddam was dead
Apr 14 Local tribes in Najaf scattered Sadrists threatening to expel Ayatollahs Sistani, Hakim and
Fayadh from city
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
Apr 14 Association of Muslim Scholars founded by Harith Dhari Advocated for armed struggle vs
US occupation
(Musings On Iraq Spiritual Leader To Iraq’s Insurgency Harith Dhari Dies In Exile)
Apr 14 1st joint patrol in Baghdad between Iraqi police and U.S. forces
Apr 14 White House said Iraq had WMD that was what war was about and they would be
found
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Apr 14 Final IAEA report given to UN Found no active Iraq nuclear program Niger
docs were fakes aluminum tubes for rockets not centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
Apr 14 Report PUK was telling Arabs to leave villages around Kirkuk city 40 people killed in fighting between Kurds and Baathists in Kirkuk City
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
Apr 14 Report 40 people killed in fighting between Kurds and Baathists in Kirkuk City
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
Apr 14 US forces captured Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas Claimed proved Saddam backed
terrorism
Apr 14 Mishan Jabouri went to Mosul govt building Was mistrusted for ties to Saddam Many
thought he was going to declare himself Ninewa governor Gave speech which led to riot Marines shot at Returned fire and killed 7
Apr 15 CENTCOM commander Gen Franks told Iraq ground forces cmdr Gen McKiernan U.S.
not staying in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
Apr 15 Coalition ground forces issued instructions for postwar Iraq plans So late each division
interpreted instructions how they wanted US military not ready to integrate ORHA
Apr 15 ORHA head Garner met 100 Iraqi leaders in Nasiriya Called for democratic and federal
Iraq
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
Apr 15 Garner met with Chalabi after Nasiriya meeting Called him a thug afterward
Apr 15 20,000 protested in Nasiriya against US Was another protest against Chalabi and INC
Apr 15 Marines shot at 2nd day in Mosul Shooting so intense Marines withdrew from city to airport
Apr 15 Bush reviewed US withdrawal plan that had most troops out by Sep 03
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
Apr 15 Bush talked about foreign peacekeepers taking over for US troops in Iraq White House
thought countries would give up opposition to Iraq invasion and offer troops
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Apr 15 Walter Slocomb said no organized Iraqi army anymore Was in Washington DC Would use
argument to justify CPA disbanding Iraqi military when became military adv to Bremer
Apr 15 Joint Chiefs presented postwar plan Called for UK division Polish division Arab division
from Gulf to secure Iraq Would ask for foreign police to deploy to Iraq Wanted Italian Carabinieri to help Bush supported plan Wanted info campaign to publicize crimes of Saddam
Apr 16 Gen Franks issued declaration to Iraqi people saying US would only be there temporarily
Announced that Baath Party was no more in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq The Baathist Purge In Post-Saddam Iraq, A Short History Of DeBaathification)
Apr 16 Gen Franks issued withdrawal order for 60-120 days for US troops to drop from 175,000
to 30,000 by Aug 03 Told his staff that an interim Iraqi govt would be created in 30-60 days
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
Apr 16 Gen Franks called Bush President asked about intl stabilization force for Iraq Franks said
he Sec Def Powell Def Sec Rumsfeld would all talk to allies Said Arabs would provide forces for Iraq
Apr 16 Gen Franks later said his withdrawal plan was meant to show war over and get other
countries to send troops to Iraq
Apr 16 Ground forces cmdr Gen McKiernan’s chief of staff Gen Blackman suspicious of Gen
Frank’s withdrawal plan Were large parts of Iraq with no US presence McKiernan planned on running Iraq for up to 6 months not withdrawing
Apr 16 U.S. military got some Iraqi police to do joint patrols in Baghdad in attempt to end looting
Apr 16 Gen Franks sent memo to Def Sec Rumsfeld Said time to start Phase IV postwar ops Said
international forces and police would arrive to allow US to withdraw Didn’t say where foreign forces were coming from
Apr 16 US CENTCOM made official announcement that America was the authority in Iraq
Apr 16 Congress appropriated $2.475 bil for rebuilding Iraq as part of Iraq Relief and
Reconstruction Fund
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Savage on US reconstruction effort in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Reconstructing Iraq’s Budgetary Institutions)
Apr 16 Report Kurds were forcing Arabs out of Kirkuk city
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
Apr 16 INC’s Chalabi arrived in Baghdad and set up office in Hunting Club
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Apr 16 Dep head of ISCI Ayatollah Abdul Aziz al-Hakim returned to Iraq from Iran with 4,000-
5,000 Badr militiamen
(Musings On Iraq Early Reports On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
Apr 17 Chief UN inspector Blix cited Iraqi scientist who said Iraq had no WMD
(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)
Apr 17 CENTCOM head Gen Abizaid said no organized military left in Iraq Plan was for Iraqi
military to impose order after invasion
Apr 17 CENCTOM head Gen Abizaid suggested US create 3 divisions of interim Iraqi army from
soldiers and opposition groups
Apr 17 USAID signed $680 mil deal with Bechtel to repair Iraq’s electricity water sewage
education sectors
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter
14 Rebuilding the Electricity Sector)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
(Musings On Iraq Only 3 of 13 Reconstruction Contracts Were Signed Before War)
(Musings On Iraq Rebuilding Iraq’s Electrical Network In A Warzone 2003-2005)
Apr 17 ORHA head Garner got into argument with Gen Franks who didn’t want Garner going to
Baghdad Garner warned of vacuum in country
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
Apr 17 US forces called for people to return to work in Kirkuk City after days of unrest after
invasion
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
Apr 17 US forces captured Saddam’s half brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
Apr 17 Anti-US protest in Mosul Demonstrators began shooting at Marines Led to gun battle
Apr 17 Defense Min adv Slocombe claimed he had video conference with US military
commanders and told them Iraqi army disappeared and it was impractical calling it back
Apr 17 US 6th Fleet cmdr ordered end of Marine deployment to Iraq Meant Marine unit in Mosul
only got half its men deployed None of its heavy equipment
Apr 18 Arabs that were expelled from Daquq Kirkuk by Kurds tried to retake town but driven off
by Kurds
Apr 18 Sadrists held demonstration in Sadr City to condemn U.S. and western culture
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
Apr 18 INC head Chalabi said he expected an interim govt to be formed soon to run most duties
in Iraq
Apr 18 Rumsfeld said it would take time to find Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Apr 18 Some American officials worried that Iraq had sent its WMD to other countries That’s why
wasn’t found
Apr 18 Suicide bomber hit Marines in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
Apr 18 ORHA’s Col Hughes had 1st conversation with Defense Min adviser Slocombe about plans
to bring back Iraqi army
Apr 19 Protest in Baghdad’s Adhamiya against U.S. occupation
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
Apr 19 Gen Mattis said that U.S. didn’t have enough troops to secure Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
Apr 19 Turkey threatened to send troops if Kurds took over Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
Apr 19 US afraid Badr infiltrating into Diyala from Iran would start fighting MEK US threatened
to attack Badr if didn’t withdraw in 24 hrs Pulled back into Iran
(Musings On Iraq Early Reports On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
Apr 19 Peshmerga found a trailer near Irbil that was a suspected mobile WMD lab Wasn’t
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 19 US Special Forces made TV broadcast calling on fmr Iraqi soldiers to meet and discuss
rebuilding Mosul
Apr 20 1st Arbaeen pilgrimage conducted after Saddam
Apr 20 US forces arrested Sadrist cleric Fartusi leading to days of protests
Apr 20 Riot in Mosul against Mishan Jabouri declaring himself mayor Marines intervened Were
shot at Fired back killing 10-15 Iraqis
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)
Apr 20 ORHA head Garner held meeting Said top priority was getting to Baghdad and establishing
its presence Had to get Iraqi ministries up and running again
Apr 20 ORHA staff finally allowed to enter Iraq by US military
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad)
Apr 20 Report US wanted long term military relationship with Iraq and use of up to 4 bases
Apr 20 Report Kurds expelled 2000 Arabs from Daquq, Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
Apr 20 Apr 10-20 up to 40 people killed in Arab-Kurd violence in Kirkuk City
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
Apr 20 Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Feith cancelled State Dept plan to set up Kirkuk
committee to return displaced set up compensation etc
Apr 20 Ayatollah Haeri from Iran demanded that new Iraqi govt be consistent with Iraq’s religion
and morals
Apr 21 ORHA staff and head Garner entered Baghdad Gen Franks had kept them out He didn’t
want civilians to get in way of military
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad)
Apr 21 Rumsfeld took advice of Gen Franks and cancelled sending 50,000 additional troops to
Iraq from 1st Cavalry Div Franks said allies would soon send forces to take over Iraq and US had enough troops already
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad)
Apr 21 5,000 Sadrists protested arrest of its cleric Fartusi by US
Apr 21 Report US officials said US would be out of Iraq soon and that an Iraqi govt would be in
place in months
Apr 21 NY Times article claimed Iraq had destroyed WMD right before war and moved rest to
Syria Said Iraqi scientist provided by INC told Americans Iraq had been working on WMD for years Led soldiers to banned precursors Scientist hadn’t worked on WMD since 1989 and story false
Apr 21 UK Foreign Secretary Straw told Blair he was skeptical evidence of Iraq’s WMD
wound be found Thought it might be destroyed
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Apr 21 2 US congressmen went to Syria and got Assad’s promise not to harbor any
Baathists and expel those that tried to flee there
Apr 21 Marines left Tikrit Thought 4th Inf Div that was to take over city would undo progress it
made with Iraqis
Apr 22 ORHA head Garner went to KRG to talk with Barzani and Talabani about interim Iraqi
govt Barzani and Talabani suggested group of Iraqi advisers to help Garner rather than interim Iraqi govt
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
Apr 22 UnderSecDef Feith wrote that idea of creating a transitional Iraqi authority was not going
well
Apr 22 Sadrists held second day of protests after its cleric Fartusi was arrested by US
Apr 22 Only 10% of Baghdad’s electricity restored since city fell to US forces
Apr 22 US sent 1000 more experts to look for Iraq’s WMD
Apr 22 NY Times’ Miller told PBS NewsHour US found info on Iraq’s WMD Had destroyed stocks
right before invasion Fooled UN inspectors
Apr 22 Chief UN inspector Blix told BBC US tried to discredit inspections at the Security Council
(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)
Apr 22 UK general warned that British military not trained for postwar operations called for in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Apr 23 Iraq oil started flowing for first time since US invasion Iraq shut down oil flow day war
started Mar 20
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
Apr 23 USAID official told Nightline rebuilding Iraq could cost US $1.7 bil and Iraqi oil and donors
would pay for rest
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
Apr 23 ORHA head Garner came up with list of 9 objectives to accomplish for postwar Iraq
including pay salaries return police and ministries etc
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
Apr 23 White House said confident Iraq’s WMD would be found
Apr 23 NY Times article Iraqi scientists told US Iraq destroyed all its WMD equipment before
invasion US now looking for programs rather than WMD stocks Said US would be getting info on Iraq’s WMD from Chalabi and INC
Apr 23 Up to 3 mil participated in Arbaeen ceremony that had been banned under Saddam
Apr 23 Protest in Kut, Wasit blocked US convoy for 4 hours
(Musings On Iraq Early Report On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)
Apr 23 Report thousands of Arabs were being evicted from Kirkuk by Kurds and forming militias to
protect themselves
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
Apr 23 1st US troops arrived in Fallujah 2 weeks after end of invasion
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
Apr 23 US signed agreement with KDP and PUK in Irbil about how many Peshmerga were allowed
past Green Line into disputed territories
Apr 23 Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers sent guidance from Def Sec Rumsfeld to CENTCOM Said
Iraqis needed to be told Baathists would no longer oppress Iraq and Iraqis needed to establish law and order including using existing police
Apr 24 Bush said Iraq might have destroyed its WMD before invasion but US would find them
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Apr 24 NY Times article Iraqi scientists said Saddam expanded WMD programs and secret facilities
but destroyed stocks Wasn’t true
Apr 24 US seized warehouse in Baghdad thought to contain WMD agents Proved false
Apr 24 Trailer found near Mosul was suspected of being mobile WMD labs Turned out not to be
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 24 Dep PM Tariq Aziz surrendered to US Said Iraq had no WMD
Apr 24 INC’s Zubeidi declared himself mayor of Baghdad
Apr 24 ORHA head Garner met with 60 Iraqis in Kut to talk about security and how city should pick
city council
Apr 24 ORHA head Garner said INC’s Chalabi was not US’s choice to run Iraq and Iraqis could pick
their own leaders
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
Apr 24 Gen McKiernan ground commander in Iraq told ORHA’s Garner security #1 priority for
postwar Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
Apr 24 Rumsfeld called Powell to propose Paul Bremer as new presidential envoy to Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
Apr 24 Rumsfeld called Garner and told him he would be replaced by Bremer Garner said he would
quit Rumsfeld asked him to stay
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
Apr 24 Rumsfeld said that Iraqis could form any govt they wanted as long as it wasn’t a theocracy
like Iran’s
Apr 24 UN Res 1476 extended Oil For Food Program past US invasion
Apr 24 Was anti-American march and 2 drive by shootings on US base in Kut ORHA head Garner
blamed Iran for demonstration
(Musings On Iraq Early Report On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)
Apr 24 UK cabinet agreed to expand control from Basra and Maysan to Dhi Qar and Muthanna
despite warnings might not have capabilities to deal with them
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Apr 24 UN Secretary General Annan said US Coalition had to follow intl law as occupying power in
Iraq US rejected occupier title
Apr 25 CENTCOM issued new rules of engagement for US military in Iraq Allowed for curfews use
of force searches and arrests
Apr 25 US arrested ex-Iraq Amb to Tunisia Farouk Hijazi who reportedly met with Al Qaeda in 90s
and cited as proof of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
Apr 25 Bush said Iraq’s WMD were either hidden or were destroyed but US would find them
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Apr 25 White House official told NY Times Iraq may not have had WMD just agents to make
them
Apr 25 Only Iraqi policemen to help US in Fallujah executed outside his house
(Musings On Iraq review The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014)
Apr 25 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Franks said didn’t know how long it would take to rebuild and
stabilize Iraq
Apr 25 Iraqi opposition met in Madrid but failed to agree on an interim govt
Apr 25 Sadrist cleric in Baghdad said if he found any Iraqi women sleeping with American
soldiers he would denounce her tribe and call for her death
(Musings On Iraq Review What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq)
Apr 25 Al Qaeda declared jihad in Iraq
Apr 25 Kut mayor from ISCi agreed to leave city Then had followers attack US forces
Apr 26 ORHA held first meeting of the Iraqi Interim Authority made up of Iraqi exiles and
opposition figures
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
Apr 26 Report Bush invaded Iraq to try to transform Middle East by creating a democracy and
countering draw of terrorism
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Apr 26 White House said evidence Iraq might have destroyed its WMD right before war and that
proved war right
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Apr 26 Report no WMD found in sites Powell mentioned in his 03 UN speech
Apr 26 Ayatollah Haeri issued fatwa from Iran saying clerics needed to fill power vacuum left by US
invasion
(Musings On Iraq Early Reports On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)
Apr 26 Sheikh Naifus of Albu Alwan in Babil arrested for taking part in executions of rebels after 91
uprising
Apr 27 ORHA head Garner made first radio address to Iraqis calling for return to normalcy
Apr 27 Report evidence found linking Ansar al-Islam with Al Qaeda
Apr 27 Captured Mukhabarat documents showed it had meetings with Al Qaeda in 1990s
Apr 27 Grenade thrown at 82nd Airborne troops wounding 2 in Ramadi
(Musings On Iraq review The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014)
Apr 27 Baghdad conference opened to discuss forming an Iraqi provisional govt with 300 Iraqis
attending Endorsed by US
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
Apr 27 ORHA and Oil Ministry officials met and picked top positions in ministry
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 13 Restarting Oil Production)
(Musings On Iraq Rebuilding Iraq’s Oil Sector In A War Zone 2003-2005)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
Apr 27 US intercepted arms shipment sent by Turkey to Turkmen in Kirkuk
Apr 28 Protest in Fallujah led to shooting US troops killed 17 and wounded more than 70 Start of
insurgency in city
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
Apr 28 ORHA Garner met with 350 Iraqis in Baghdad and told them they were in charge of Iraq said
would be meeting to create interim govt in 4 weeks Garner then left and meeting broke down into arguments
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
Apr 28 Dep Sec of Def Wolfowtiz said US occupation of Iraq would not need as many troops as
invasion did
Apr 28 Pentagon paper said interim Iraqi govt had not been decided upon
Apr 28 Gen Franks asked UK to take control of 5 southern Iraqi provinces UK said could only
handle 4 Basra Maysan Dhi Qar Muthanna
Apr 28 UK report Iran sending in groups into southern Iraq to influence postwar situation
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)
Apr 28 Followers of cleric Yaqubi protested in Baghdad calling for freedom independence justice and
against US and Israel
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
Apr 29 2nd anti-American protests in Fallujah Threw rocks at US troops who fired into crowd killing
3 wounding 16
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
Apr 29 ORHA head Garner told White House flying frozen Iraqi assets to pay for salaries and
pensions helped stabilize Iraq
Apr 30 U.S. forces ran into protesters that led to shooting for 2nd time in 2 days in Fallujah 2 killed
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
Apr 30 Rumsfeld visited Iraq Realized rebuilding country would take years which was not his
plan
May 1 Pres Bush gave Mission Accomplished speech declaring victory against Iraq Bush linked
invasion of Iraq to 9/11 attacks Said war had eliminated ally of Al Qaeda and a funding source Now terrorists could not get WMD from Iraq
May 1 White House officials gave briefings that they thought Saddam had been killed during start
of invasion
May 1 UK memo said it supported ORHA but that organization was not delivering in Iraq and
lacked strategy
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 1 Grenades thrown into US base in Fallujah wounding 7 soldiers
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014)
May 1 US military created Combined Joint Task Force 7 to run Iraq Only lasted 15 days
May 1 Bremer started working at Pentagon before going to Iraq Defense Min adviser Slocombe
began lobbying him to disband military Defense Min Interior Min and police
May 1 Def Sec Rumsfeld wrote memo to Under Sec Def for Policy Feith that US needed to stop
Iran’s influence in Iraq
May 2 Oil Ministry re-opened after invasion Thamir Ghabban announced as new Oil Minister
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 13 Restarting Oil Production)
(Musings On Iraq Rebuilding Iraq’s Oil Sector In A War Zone 2003-2005)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
May 2 ORHA report many ministry buildings in Baghdad had been taken over by different groups
May 2 UK Defense Minister Hoon told Defense Secretary Rumsfeld ORHA had to deliver in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 2 1st report that Bush was considering appointing Bremer to take over in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
May 2 Sadr said Christians in Iraq had to follow Islamic Law not sell alcohol women had to be
covered
(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Review What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq)
May 2 Ayatollah Jannati Secretary General of Iran’s Council of Guardians called on Iraqis to
carry out martyrdom ops to drive US from Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
May 2 INC aide Brooke said Iraqi people might convince Chalabi to become country’s new
president
May 3 UK PM’s office said Iraq had WMD and they would be found
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 3 White House said it was sure Iraq’s WMD would be found
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
May 3 Bush said Iraq’s WMD programs would be found would just take time Was change from
previous claims that WMD stocks would be found
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
May 3 UK Defense Intelligence head said trailer found in Mosul could be mobile WMD lab
Wasn’t
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 4 Powell said sure US would find Iraq’s WMD Rumsfeld said US never claimed finding
WMD would be easy Powell denied stories that Iraq sent its WMD to Syria
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
May 4 US official said unlikely to find any large MWD or nuke stocks in Iraq Said sanctions had
led Iraq to get rid of most of its WMD
May 4 Iraqi scientists told US investigators Iraq had no WMD for years
May 4 ORHA memo said security was still top priority in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
May 5 US held provincial elections in Ninewa
May 5 ORHA announced 9 man leadership group that would put together an interim Iraqi govt
later in May
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
May 5 ORHA official met with ex-soldiers promising them one time $20 payment if came back to
work
May 5 US forces announced captured Huda Ammash “Mrs Anthrax” that worked on WMD
program
May 5 CIA did new test with aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy Found could not take speed of
centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 6 Bush speech said building democracy in Iraq would be like what US did in post WWII
Germany and Japan
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
May 6 Bush announced Paul Bremer as head of new Coalition Provisional Authority to run
postwar Iraq Told Bremer he had whatever time he needed to put Iraq back together
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
May 6 NY Times Kristof OpEd used Fmr Amb Wilson as unnamed source on Iraq-Niger uranium
deal Accused US intel of covering up differences over story Said US intel “deceived” world on Iraq-Niger Deal Said White House and State Dept kept using story despite denial Said that Fmr Amb Wilson knew that Iraq-Niger docs were fakes Wilson never saw docs and went to Niger 8 months before US got them
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
May 7 ORHA decided to allow Baath members to return to jobs in ministries Said only 55 most
wanted were banned
(Musings On Iraq The Baathist Purge In Post-Saddam Iraq, A Short History Of DeBaathification)
May 7 Undersecretary of Def Cambone said US would eventually find Iraq’s WMD and that
mobile
WMD labs had been found already
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
May 7 Joint Task Force 20 said trailer found in Irbil couldn’t be used for anything else but
producing WMD
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 8 Secretary of State Powell said US and UK would go to UN to authorize occupation of Iraq
May 8 Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told staff rebuilding Iraq would not be fast or easy and
needed time
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
May 8 UK parliament announced review of pre-war intelligence on Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 8 ORHA met with ex-Iraqi army officers 2nd time Said they could bring back 137,000 soldiers
May 8 Defense Min memo called for Iraqi soldiers to return to duty and cooperate with
May 8 Sec Def Rumsfeld gave Bremer memo on DeBaathification
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
(Musings On Iraq The Baathist Purge In Post-Saddam Iraq, A Short History Of DeBaathification)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
May 9 US and England draft resolution to UN to make them occupying powers in Iraq
May 9 Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said US would keep as many troops as necessary in Iraq and
would take more than year to build Iraqi govt
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
May 9 1st joint US-Iraqi patrols started in Baghdad
May 9 UK Cmdr in Basra said 900 unarmed police reconstituted
May 9 Sadrist cleric called for revenge attacks upon Baathists
May 9 US ground forces commander Gen McKiernan met with Iraqi officers about getting Iraqi
soldiers back to their units and to stop looting and impose order Iraqi general talked about bringing back 3 divisions Securing cities Creating new Def Min
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad)
May 9 Bush signed memo officially making Bremer presidential envoy to Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
May 9 Bremer met Bush and mentioned RAND study that said US needed 500,000 troops to
occupy Iraq Bush asked Rumsfeld who said there were enough troops
May 9 Bremer cancelled Khalilzad Zalimay’s return trip to Iraq to work on an interim Iraqi authority
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
May 9 Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Feith gave Bremer draft of deBaathification and
disbanding Iraqi military orders Feith would later deny he drafted orders Feith said he was going to give order to Garner but Bremer wanted to issue it
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq The Baathist Purge In Post-Saddam Iraq, A Short History Of DeBaathification)
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
May 9 CPA sent draft order to disband Iraqi military and build a new one to Defense Secretary
Rumsfeld
May 9 Col Hughes talked with Defense Min adviser Slocombe about bringing Iraqi army back
Slocombe didn’t mention anything about disbanding military
May 9 Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz in Vanity Fair Bush admin all agreed on WMD as
way to justify Iraq war
May 9 US patrol found trailer in Mosul Claimed it was a mobile WMD lab
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 9 Gen Paul Eaton asked to head effort to train new Iraqi army
May 10 Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim head of ISCI returned to Iraq from Iran
May 10 Outgoing ORHA head Garner flew to Qatar to brief incoming CPA head Bremer on
situation in Iraq CENTCOM Dep chief of planning Col Agoglia briefed him on plan to bring back Iraqi army Bremer didn’t say he was going to disband army
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
May 10 US forces surrounded Iranian opposition group Mujahadeen e-Khalq camp and demanded
they disarm
May 15 CPA security adviser Slocombe arrived in Iraq Met with CENTCOM who planned on
bringing back Iraqi military Slocombe told it to continue with plan Said disbanding military was just a formality
May 15 CPA security adviser Slocombe talked with CENTCOM dep dir of planning Col Agoglia
Slocombe argued that US couldn’t recall Iraqi military because they were cowards who deserted Agoglia said they did what US asked them which was not fight during invasion Slocombe said military all Baathists Agoglia said wasn’t true
May 15 ORHA head Garner complained to Bremer about draft CPA Order 2 disbanding Iraqi
military Garner talked Bremer out of disbanding police and Interior Ministry CPA security adviser Slocolmbe told Garner Iraqi army had disbanded itself Colluded in Saddam’s crimes and needed to go Slocombe later denied this conversation happened and Garner supported disbanding military
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with CSU San Marco’s Prof Marashi Development And Setbacks Of The Current Iraqi Military)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
May 16 MI6 chief Sir Dearlove wrore that Iraqis were coming forward with info on Iraq’s WMD
programs
May 17 ORHA head Garner told Bremer he was leaving Iraq Bremer talked Garner into staying
for a bit
May 19 ORHA head Garner told Congress ORHA was ad hoc and didn't have enough time to plan
for postwar Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
Jun 1 ORHA head Garner left Baghdad ending his short tenure in Iraq
Jun 18 Ex-ORHA head Garner met Rumsfeld in Washington complained about CPA
policies Garner told Rumsfeld deBaathification disbanding military and Iraqi leadership group all wrong but could be fixed Rumsfeld told Garner the mistakes couldn’t be fixed and CPA could only move forward in Iraq
Jun 18 Rumsfeld held press conference for ex-ORHA head Garner who said everything
going well in Iraq Bremer doing good job
Jun 18 Ex-ORHA head Garner met with Bush said that Iraq going well and Bremer
doing good job
Aug 27 ORHA oil team met with 3 Oil Ministry director generals Said US not in Iraq to
take its oil Named most top ministry officials Agreed needed to up production and increase refined products
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
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