1920 War Min Churchill wrote PM George that he thought
reinforcemetns would
lead to
victory in 1920 Revolt
(Musings
On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of
the Modern State)
1922 King Faisal apologized to British Iraq High
Commissioner Cox for Anti-British
remark made
at a party
1968 Mullah Barzani had his two ministers resign from Bakr
govt because Baath was
backing Jalal
Talabani
1980 After Saddam visited Khanaqin Diyala Iraqi army started
shelling Iranian border
Was looking
for excuse to justify invasion
1981 85 POWs exchanged between Iraq and Iran in Cyprus 2nd
prisoner exchange of Iran-
Iraq War
1987 Iraq demanded UN arms embargo on Iran for not accepting
ceasefire deal and
threatened
new air strikes
1987 U.S. signed 5 year trade agreement with Iraq mostly for
farm products One of
main forms
of support US provided Iraq during Iran-Iraq War
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1988 End of 5th Anfal campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1992 US, UK, France started Operation Southern Watch
creating southern no fly zone over
Iraq
1994 Iraqi Vanguard for National Salvation took
responsibility for car bomb in Baghdad
1998 UN inspector Ritter quit after his anti-concealment
unit was disbanded at request of
Clinton admin Ritter claimed from
Nov 97-August 98 Clinton admin had tried to block inspectors work 7 times and
came from top of White House staff Ritter’s claims about Clinton convinced many
on UN Security Council US manipulating inspectors for its own aims
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2002 Cheney speech at Veterans of Foreign War Called Iraq a mortal
threat to US Said no
doubt Iraq had WMD and that it was
good at deceiving weapons inspectors Said Iraqi defectors like Hussein Kamal
proved Iraq had renewed its nuke program Hussein Kamal defected in 1995 Said
Iraq ended nuke program and killed 1996 so couldn’t know what Iraq doing in
2001 Argued UN inspectors would fail in Iraq Cheney gave speech because felt
losing argument within administration over Iraq war
2002 Powell argued that US had to go through UN to deal with
Iraq at National Security
Council
2003 Report US left thousands of munitions dumps all over
Iraq which were looted by
insurgents
and militias
2003 Bremer said Iraq could not pay for its own
reconstruction and U.S. would have to put
up several billion dollars to do it
CPA could not meet Iraq’s electricity needs until summer of 2004
2003 US launched Op Ivy Needle to hunt down criminals and
Baathists in Salahaddin
2003 DepSecState Armitage said US might consider a
multinational force under UN to
help with
security after rejecting UN role
2003 Humanitarian aid groups announced pulling out workers
from Iraq after terrorist
attacks
2004 US halted military operations in 2nd Battle
of Najaf to allow negotiations to end
fighting
2004 Mahdi Army attacked Sistani supporters in Kufa killing
20
2006 National conference of Sunni sheikhs backed Maliki govt
condemned violence
called for
people to participate in politics
2008 Kurds in Kahanqin Diyala protested arrival of Iraqi
forces leading them to
withdraw
(Musings
On Iraq article on PM Maliki dispute with Kurds over Khanaqin)
2015 Pres Masum implied that some of Abadi’s reforms were
unconstitutional
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