This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 14

1927 Agreement made over new Anglo-Iraq Treaty Wasn’t signed due to

            Iraqi complaints

1983 State Dept memo said that major setback for Iraq would be strategic

            defeat for West

2002 Iraqi opposition meeting in London Came up with 65 member committee but

            marked by general disunity

2002 Pentagon report on postwar Iraq warned that US could win the war and

            lose the peace

2002 Pentagon report warned there would be no Iraqi govt after invasion so there would be chaos in

            country

2002 Pentagon report warned that U.S. was only planning for war and not postwar Iraq

2002 Pentagon report said Iraq’s economy was a wreck, and that U.S. should not dismiss military

            or carry out extensive deBaathification because could fracture Iraq

2003 Bremer announced US had captured Saddam

2005 Bush admitted that U.S. used faulty intelligence on Iraq but said war still justified

            to remove Saddam

2005 Kurdistan Islamic Union candidate said KDP was attacking party for

            withdrawing from Kurdish list

2008 During signing ceremony for SOFA in Baghdad reporter threw his shoes at

            Bush and Maliki

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