1918 UK PM George asked Fr PM Clemenceau to renegotiate
Sykes-Picot
giving
Mosul to British
1918 England got France to agree to give it most of Mosul in
return France got stake in
Iraqi oil
and Syria
1971 Iraq broke relations with Iran and UK, expelled Iranian
nationals turned to
Soviet
Union for support
1971 Iraq arguing with Iran over Shatt al-Arab and Tehran
funding and arming Kurds
in alliance
with US and Israel
1987 Iran attacked Fakeh area north of Basra
1997 Weekly Standard special issue on removing Saddam
featuring neoconservative
writers
like Wolfowitz Khalilzad Kagan
2000 UK Intel report Iraq contained but if sanctions ended
Saddam would start
rebuilding
WMD programs
2001 Rumsfeld issued order to Joint Chiefs to begin revising
war planning for Iraq
2001 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Franks was only given 3 days to revise
Iraq war plan
and present
it to Rumsfeld
2001 NY Times article quoted DepSecState Armitage saying US
was going to force Iraq
to allow UN
inspectors to return
2001 NY Times article said White House looking into options
to support Iraqi
opposition groups
2003 Iraq physicist book claimed Iraq never rebuilt nuclear
program after 90s and US
exaggerated
threat
2003 Report Iraqi scientists said Saddam never close to
building a nuclear bomb
2004 KDP and PUK announced Kurdistan Coalition for Jan 2005
elections
2004 Report Army warned Dec 03 that military-CIA Task Force
121searching for
WMD abused
Iraq prisoners
2004 US announced it would increase troops from 138,000 to
150,000 for Jan 2005
elections
2005 Kurdistan Islamic Union sent letter to Dohuk govt
saying they wanted security for
planned KDP
demonstrations at their offices
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