1917 British defeated Ottoman
forces at Dahra Bend
1922 Gertrude Bell complained to
her father that King Faisal had surrounded himself with nationalists that
demanded Iraq’s
complete independence from England
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell
And Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Gertrude Bell,
Explorer of the Middle East)
1944 Parliamentary Party formed
mostly of large land holding sheikhs Supported whatever govt Regent
backed
1979 Saddam said unifying Iraq and Syria was part of the
Arab revolution
1979 Saddam said Iraq would respect choice of the Iranian
people with their revolution
1984 Iran cut Basra-Baghdad highway between Maysan and Wasit
1986 Iraqi intelligence fell for Iranian deception and
claimed attack upon Fao in Basra not main Iranian
attack Meant Iraq didn’t send
reinforcements
1986 Iraq made another attempt to retake Fao Peninsula in
Basra Only advanced 2 km Iraqis lost 7,000
casualties and 1,500 prisoners
taken Iranians lost 8,000 casualties in Op Wa al-Fajr 8 that took Fao Peninsula
(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 of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1989 Iraq formed Arab Cooperation Council with Egypt Jordan
Yemen to counter Gulf Cooperation
Council
1991 US troops destroyed Iraqi radar facility while Apache
helicopters conducted raid in depth behind
Iraqi lines in Iraq
1992 Defense Secretary Cheney said that if US had overthrown
Saddam would have to decide what kind
of govt to establish Would have
been hard to capture Saddam Would have to decide how many casualties willing to
take How many troops would have to stay in Iraq to keep govt going
2001 Bush told speechwriter David Frum that he was going to
get rid of Saddam
2001 UK Attorney Gen Lord Williams approved air attacks out
of no fly zones in Iraq for self defense
2001 US and UK planes bombed 20 radar and command and
control centers in Iraq outside of No Fly Zone
Claimed Iraq had upgraded its air
defenses Then said bombed Iraq to stop it from upgrading its defenses
2002 Bush signed secret NSC directive calling for covert
action against Iraq by CIA Had budget of $189
mil for 2 years Plan included
supporting Iraqi opposition Sabotage missions inside Iraq Working with other
countries Information campaign vs Iraq attacking Iraqi revenue sources and
disrupting its smuggling operations
(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)
2003 Rice claimed Iraq was deceiving UN weapons inspectors
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2004 Report Iraqi and US sources said Iraqi forces would not
be able to provide security after sovereignty
transferred to Iraq
2004 CIA said it still believed Iraqi defector CURVEBALL was
credible source for intel that Iraq had
mobile WMD labs Turned out to be
false source
(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)
2006 Sec State Rice told Senate oil production and
electricity below postwar levels in Iraq Said initial
problems with rebuilding Iraqi
security forces fixed and as Iraqi forces stood up US forces would do less
2006 Sec Def Rumsfeld told House US was not in Iraq to do
nation building that was up to Iraqis to do
2008 PM Maliki said Al Qaeda in Iraq had mostly been driven
from Baghdad
2010 ISI set off 4 suicide car bombs targeting hotels in
Baghdad where foreign press stayed
2011 PM Maliki visited Kuwait after Kuwait premier visited
Iraq in 1st high level meet between 2 countries
since 1990
2016 Allawi said no reason to remove cabinet until Abadi
presented a strategic plan
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
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