Musings On Iraq review The Assassins’ Gate, America In Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Bad Days In Basra, My Turbulent Time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Baghdad at Sunrise, A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq
Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Black Flags, The Rise Of ISIS
Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices of Iraqi Refugees
Musings On Iraq review Compulsion In Religion, Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies In Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening the American Strategy In Al Anbar
Musings On Iraq review Days Of Fire, Bush and Cheney in the White House
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 from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq
Musings On Iraq review The Future of Iraq, Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division?
Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience
Musings On Iraq review Imagining The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Imperial Life In The Emerald City, Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
Musings On Iraq review Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency In Iraq
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 in Fragments, The Occupation and Its Legacy
Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy
Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future: The aftermath of regime change
Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement
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 The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda
Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq
Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
Musings On Iraq review The Next Attack, The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right
Musings On Iraq review Nights in the Pink Motel, An American Strategist’s Pursuit of Peace in Iraq
Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace
Musings On Iraq review The Occupation, War And Resistance In Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Reconstructing Iraq’s Budgetary Institutions Coalition State Building after Saddam
Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary
Musings On Iraq review Revolt On The Tigris, The Al-Sadr Uprising And The Governing Of Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog
Musings On Iraq review Sectarianism In Iraq
Musings On Iraq review A Short History of Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Special Operations Forces in Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
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 The Struggle For Iraq, A View from the Ground Up
Musings On Iraq review The Struggle For Iraq’s Future, How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy
Musings On Iraq review Target Basra, The High Octane Story of the Royal Marine
Commandos In Iraq
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 Understanding Iraq, the Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation
Musings On Iraq review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq
Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009
Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq
Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008
Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception
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 Chapter 6 Charting A New Course
Musings On Iraq Interview with State Dept’s Mines on being CPA Governor of Anbar
Musings On Iraq interview with Fmr CPA advisor Horne
Musings On Iraq interview with Fmr CPA official Swanson
Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Savage on US reconstruction effort in Iraq
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 – Chapter 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003
Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 7 Muqawama Wa Intiqaam (Resistance And Reprisals), May-August 2003
Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 13 The Changing Of The Guard, Again Spring-Summer 2004
2003
Apr 21 Coalition Provisional Government created to take over running postwar Iraq replacing
Organization for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance
(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 review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review A Short History of Iraq)
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)
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
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
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 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 When The US Decided ON A Long Term Occupation Of 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)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
May 6 ORHA agreed to allow Baath members to return to government jobs and police
(Musings On Iraq The Baathist Purge In Post-Saddam Iraq, A Short History Of DeBaathification)
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 US military found trailers that could be mobile WMD labs Proved false
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 How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had 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)
(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
(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)
(Musings On Iraq When The US Decided ON A Long Term Occupation Of Iraq)
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 Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz in Vanity Fair Bush admin all agreed on WMD as way to
justify Iraq war
May 9 US announced it found mobile WMD labs Story proved false
(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 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
(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 10 Bremer sent draft of order disbanding Iraqi military to Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz Iraq cmdr Gen
Franks ORHA head Garner
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
May 11 UK envoy to Iraq said US had no leadership no strategy for rebuilding Iraq Said nothing could be
accomplished without security Crime widespread
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings On Iraq review Bad Days In Basra, My Turbulent Time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq)
May 11 Report US military team searching for Iraq’s WMD found nothing
May 11 UN report Iraq farming could collapse threatening widespread hunger
May 12 Paul Bremer arrived in Iraq to take over new CPA During meeting Bremer suggested shooting
looters US military said it would not shoot looters Remark leaked angering Iraqis
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
May 12 Only 4000 Iraqi police on duty in Baghdad to cover 7 mil inhabitants
(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)
May 12 UK Foreign Secretary Straw said that Coalition failed to restore order in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 12 Report on Iraqi ex-nuclear scientist Hamza Said 1998 tried to get book published with ex-UN
inspector Albright that said Iraq failed to build a bomb Not published 2000 got book Saddam’s Bombmaker published claiming Iraq was closer to building a nuclear bomb than anyone knew Hamza’s story promoted by INC
May 13 White House official said Iraq may not have had stocks of WMD but just capability to make
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)
May 13 Rumsfeld told Bremer he would be responsible for temporary governing of Iraq
May 13 Mass grave of 15,000 victims of 91 uprising found in Mahawil, Babil
May 13 Defense Min adviser Slocombe sent draft order to disband Iraqi military to UK officials Who
agreed to it
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
May 14 Sadrists marched in Baghdad calling for an Islamic government in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
May 14 US officials said probably wouldn’t find WMD in Iraq were now focusing on finding documents
about programs
(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)
May 14 UK Foreign Secretary Straw said finding WMD was not vital to justify war WMD #1 reason
Blair wanted Saddam removed
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 14 Human rights group complained US forces not protecting 3,000 body mass grave found in Babil
May 15 2 most senior Iraqi biological scientists denied Iraq was working on WMD before war
May 15 UK Foreign Secretary Straw hard evidence of Iraq WMD may never be found Not important Iraq
was in the wrong
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 15 Undersecretary of Defense Feith told Congress US found evidence of Iraq WMD and needed
Iraqis to step forward and tell them where it was Said US had commitment to stay and commitment to leave Iraq CPA would create interim Iraqi government
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(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)
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
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
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 security
forces Garner talked Bremer out of disbanding police and Interior Ministry CPA security adviser Slocomb told Garner Iraqi army had disbanded itself Colluded in Saddam’s crimes and needed to go
(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 15 Bremer and CPA advisers reviewed CPA Order 1 DeBaathification
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(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)
May 15 CPA appropriated $2 bil for rebuilding Iraqi security forces electricity oil
May 15 US forces launched Operation Planet X to arrest Baathists north of Tikrit
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
May 15 Sadr cleric gave sermon in Baghdad accusing US forces of being able to see through women’s
clothes and giving pornography to children
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
May 16 CPA Regulation 1 made it the occupying power in Iraq
May 16 CPA Order 1 disbanded Baath Party Came from Undersecretary of Feith He would
later deny responsibility
(Musings On Iraq New DeBaathification Law)
(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 Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
(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)
(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 The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Baghdad at Sunrise, A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq)
May 16 Opposition parties met Barzani said no one knew what US wanted Said no security and US
wouldn’t allow opposition to handle it Complained ex-Baathists returning to jobs Discussed deBaathification and who should be banned Barzani said Garner wanted an Iraqi govt quickly but now Bremer dropped idea
May 16 Bremer met with Iraqi Leadership Group exiles and Iraqi notables put together by Barzani and
Talabani Bremer told Leadership Group he was in charge not them Talked about deBaathification which Dawa’s Jaafari supported and INC’s Chalabi said should go deeper Bremer said CPA would take incremental steps which most Iraqis objected to demanding quick transfer of power Bremer thought Group not representative
(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 16 Bremer announced that interim Iraqi govt would not be formed and that CPA would govern Iraq
(Musings On Iraq When The US Decided ON A Long Term Occupation Of Iraq)
May 16 CPA picked Phillip Carroll to be top US adviser to Oil Ministry Said he was against privatizing
industry
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 13 Restarting Oil Production)
(Musings On Iraq Did The U.S. Plan On Privatizing Iraq’s Oil After The 2003 Invasion?)
May 16 Sadrists attacked movie theater in Baghdad for showing indecent movies
May 16 Arabs claimed they were beaten by Kurds at a market and bridge in Kirkuk Started 3 days of
fighting in 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)
May 16 Combined Joint Task Force 7 US military command in charge of Iraq sent back to Iraq
May 17 Iraqi Leadership Group of exiles and Iraqis put together by Barzani and Talabani to advise
ORHA head Garner disbanded by Bremer
(Musings On Iraq When The US Decided ON A Long Term Occupation Of Iraq)
(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 17 ORHA head Garner told Bremer he was leaving Iraq Bremer talked Garner into staying for a bit
May 17 US-Kurdish agreement allowed 6,000 Peshmerga to be deployed in Diyala Kirkuk Ninewa
Salahaddin beyond Green Line
May 17 500 Arabs from Hawija attacked Kurds in Kirkuk City Lasted 36 hrs Were heard shouting
Saddam slogans Protesting Kurds moved into city after war
(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)
May 17 Baghdad Univ faculty held election for new leadership as part of democratization move pushed
by US
May 17 CIA interviewed head of Iraq’s centrifuge program Mahdi Obeidi who asked for asylum in US
May 18 Former NY City Police Commissioner Kerik sent to be Iraq’s Interior Minister under CPA Kerik
said he found no plan in place in Baghdad and Interior Ministry was staffed by 12 Americans plus him
(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 12 Reconstructing Iraqi Security Forces)
May 18 UK Foreign Office memo looting continued in Baghdad Interior and Information Ministries were
recently looted
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
May 18 Sheikh Naifus of Albu Alwan tribe in Babil who had been arrested for executions following 91
uprising released by US
May 18 Fighting continued in Kirkuk between Kurds and Arabs 5 killed 40 injured Armed Kurds from
Hawija arrived in city to join in
(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)
May 18 CPA set four pay grades for govt workers and increased pensions Meant to boost consumption
CPA couldn’t pay salaries at time
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)
May 19 10,000 Sadrists protested in Baghdad against US occupation
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
May 19 500 Iraqis protested outside Green Zone over pending disbandment of army
May 19 CPA head Bremer sent Sec Def Rumsfeld final draft of order to disband Iraqi military
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(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)
May 19 Def Sec Rumsfeld sent memo to Bremer about creating new Iraqi military Said would be 3
battalions of 800 troops under new Def Min Would take 6 months to create Would eventually grow to 3 divisions with 40,000 troops
May 19 US intel paper to White House said captured Iraq trailers were mobile WMD labs
(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 20 Bremer sent Bush letter saying that deBaathification wasn’t enough to end Baath rule in Iraq
Needed to disband military
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Days Of Fire, Bush and Cheney in the White House)
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(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)
May 20 Iraqis met with UK rep to Iraq and demanded an interim govt
May 20 US forces arrested Saddam’s Min of Industry Hwaish and VP Marouf
May 21 Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz ordered army to help CPA with staff and
contracting because CPA undermanned
May 21 Report CIA believed 3 trailers found in Iraq were mobile WMD labs Sec of
State Powell talked about in UN speech US showed picture of trailers to Iraqi in Germany known as CURVEBALL who confirmed they were WMD labs
(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 22 UN Resolution 1483 made US and England occupying powers of Iraq and ended
sanctions on Iraq Created Development Fund for Iraq to help pay for rebuilding
using oil revenue
May 22 Bremer told Bush Iraq needed new constitution then elections then sovereignty returned Also
proposed disbanding Iraqi military Bush approved Bremer also told NSC and no one objected Reversed Pentagon-ORHA plan to recall army for security and rebuilding
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
(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 Days Of Fire, Bush and Cheney in the White House)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
May 22 CPA and official from Sec Def Rumsfeld’s office drafted CPA Order 2 to
disband Iraq’s military Bremer told Bush CPA’s plan to disband Iraqi military
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
May 22 Story CIA started internal review of its pre-war Iraq intelligence
May 22 CPA security adviser Slocombe met with ORHA’s Col Torgler Said CPA was going to disband Iraqi
military Slocombe said the military was all Baathists Torgler said wasn’t true Slocombe asked why bring back military if it was defeated Torgler said Iraqis followed US calls not to fight during invasion
May 23 Bush said he supported Bremer’s political plan for Iraq
May 23 CPA Order 2 disbanded Iraqi military
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
(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 The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Baghdad at Sunrise, A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
May 23 CPA security adv Slocombe met with CENTCOM It went over plans to recall Iraqi military
Considered CPA 2 disbanding military a formality and plans could continue Slocombe told CENTCOM to continue with them
May 23 US ground forces cmdr Gen McKiernan said there was huge number of Iraqi soldiers out of a job
and no income Said was huge security and economic problem
May 23 US 1st Armored Div was talking with 600 senior Iraqi officers in Baghdad about bringing back their
units to help with rebuilding Then heard about CPA Order 2 disbanding military
May 23 Congress asked CIA to look into its pre-war intel on WMD after none found
May 24 1st time CPA paid Iraqi govt workers
May 24 Col Hughes received list of 137,000 Iraqi soldiers that wanted to return to duty from their officers
May 24 Opposition Leadership Council met to discuss UN Resolution 1483 that made US and UK
occupying powers in Iraq Leaders disappointed with occupation Chalabi said UN stripped opposition of any power to run Iraq Group decided to remain united and protest resolution
May 25 5,000 Iraqis protested outside Green Zone demanding a new govt, security,
salaries for soldiers
May 25 CPA order 5 created DeBaathification Committee
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
May 25 Inspection team examined 2 captured trailers Immediately found they were not
Iraq mobile WMD labs as originally thought
(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 25 Kirkuk council elected 6 members then arrested by US for alleged Baathist
ties
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
May 25 Suicide bomber hit Badr HQ in Baquba Was attempting to seize local officers Carrying out
assassination campaign against former regime members
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
May 26 Ex-Iraqi general addressed protesters outside Green Zone saying Iraqi govt needed to be formed
security established salaries paid to soldiers or would be resistance to US occupation
May 27 Rumsfeld said Iraq might have destroyed its WMD right before war but they
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)
May 27 Special DIA technical team made up of US-UK scientists report Said 2 trailers found were not
mobile WMD labs Report given to CIA
(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 27 Cleric at Fallujah mosque praised 1st serious attack on US troops 2 soldiers killed
9 injured at checkpoint
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
May 27 Outgoing ORHA head Garner told Bush and Rumsfeld Iraq making progress and
US would be out of country in weeks
May 27 New UN Rep to Iraq deMello said that the sooner Iraqis had power the better
May 27 UK Rep to Iraq Sawers reported that CPA needed to create an interim Iraqi administration as
soon as possible and work with UN on transferring power to Iraq Said Bremer opposed an Iraqi body drafting new constitution
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquirty Section 9.2 23 May 2003 To June 2004)
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
May 28 Blair said he still believed Iraq had WMD
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 28 Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz said threat of Iraq came from its WMD and
links to terrorists Said no one expected finding Iraq’s WMD would be easy because so good at hiding 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)
May 28 CIA posted White Paper on its webpage saying they found mobile WMD labs Proved that Iraq was
hiding its WMD program Were no labs
May 28 CIA held conference call with reporters to brief them on WMD mobile labs
report
May 28 DIA inspection team in Iraq sent memo to Washington 2 trailers not mobile
WMD labs
(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 28 UN inspectors told oversight panel that 2 trailers found were not for WMD Said equipment was
wrong
May 29 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD labs were found
Inspection found were not labs
(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 29 Retired CIA and State Dept officials sent memo to Bush saying they questioned
intel cited by White House for Iraq war
May 29 BBC report Blair’s office had sexed up UK dossier on Iraq’s WMD
May 29 Elections led to Abdul Rahman Mustafa a Kurd being elected mayor of Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
May 29 White House spokesman Fleischer said everything administration said about Niger deal was
accurate
May 29 Cheney chief of staff Libby asked Undersecretary of State Grossman about a former ambassador
going to Niger mentioned in Wash Post column Grossman told him it was Joseph Wilson
(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 30 Gen Conway 1st Marine Expeditionary Force surprised hadn’t found any
Iraq WMD in searches Said intel about Iraq’s WMD was all wrong
May 30 Coalition forces looking for Iraq WMD increased to 1300 personnel
May 30 Rumsfeld announced new Iraq Survey Group would be formed to take over
search for 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)
May 30 Rumsfeld said war was not based upon lies because both US and England said
Iraq had WMD
May 30 Final report of UN inspectors found no evidence of WMD programs
May 30 UN inspectors said soil samples helped back Iraq story that they destroyed
anthrax
(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)
May 30 Blair said he was sure evidence of Iraq’s WMD would be found
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 30 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD labs were found
Inspection found not labs
(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 30 Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Cambone said only 70 of roughly
600 suspected WMD sites in Iraq had been inspected
May 30 CIA Dir Tenet said that its Iraq intelligence was not politicized by Bush admin
May 30 US report on Iraqi police Said they were corrupt and needed reform Called
for 6,000 advisers which US didn’t have
(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 8 – Muddling Through August-October 2003)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 12 Reconstructing Iraqi Security Forces)
May 31 Badr Brigade claimed it gave up its heavy weapons Wasn’t true
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 7 Muqawama Wa Intiqaam (Resistance And Reprisals), May-August 2003)
May 31 Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz said that US would 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)
May 31 CIA Dir Tenet said that CIA had not compromised its intelligence on Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein)
Jun 1 Sadrist march against UK occupation of Basra
Jun 1 Bremer met with Kurdish and exile leaders Said interim Iraqi authority would be created in 6 weeks
Jun 1 ORHA head Garner left Baghdad ending his short tenure in Iraq
Jun 1 Barzani and Talabani wrote letter to Bush objecting to sectarian quotas putting
Shiite as PM and Sunni as president
Jun 1 House Armed Services Comm said it would investigate US failure to find Iraq’s
WMD
Jun 1 UK Rep to Iraq Sawers reported that CPA would create an Iraqi Political Council to advise the
CPA a cabinet and a constitutional convention would be held
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquirty Section 9.2 23 May 2003 To June 2004)
Jun 2 Blair said Iraq’s WMD would be found
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jun 2 State Dept memo said too early to say captured trailers Iraq mobile WMD labs
(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)
Jun 2 Iraqi scientist dug up 200 blueprints for centrifuges for Iraq’s nuclear program and
gave them to US forces
Jun 2 Gen Franks told CPA’s Bremer disbanding Iraqi military was a mistake
Jun 2 1,000 ex-soldiers protested outside Green Zone over CPA disbanding Iraqi military
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
Jun 2 Bremer approved Justice Dept program to hire DynCorp to provide 6000 trainers
to rebuild Iraqi police
(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 12 Reconstructing Iraqi Security Forces)
Jun 3 Sadrist march in Baghdad against US occupation
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
Jun 3 Iraqi nuke scientist who day before turned over centrifuge plans to CIA arrested
by US Special Forces
Jun 3 After trip to Iraq Blair met with officials Said that CPA lacked organization UK should become
more involved in CPA Needed more British civilian officials in southern Iraq US and UK needed to speed up contracting process British companies should become involved in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 9.2 23 May 2003 To June 2004)
(Musings On Iraq review Bad Days In Basra, My Turbulent Time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq)
Jun 3 UK Under Sec Def Tebbit wrote to Def Min Hoon on his trip to Iraq Said no integrated plan for
rebuilding Iraq Didn’t know whether U.S. would give Bremer authority to manage task Said Bremer wanted UK help with police training
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jun 3 PM Blair’s secretary fore foreign affairs drew up list of suggestions for CPA Said security priority US
military had to get out into the streets 3000 intl police should be sent to train Iraqis ex-Iraqi soldiers should be hired as security guards CPA needed to be better organized Reconstruction projects sped up Normal life returned to Iraqis
Jun 3 Bremer created deBaathification process that included investigations DeBaathification Commission
would be created
(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)
Jun 4 Barzani went to Najaf and met Ayatollah Sistani and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim to talk
about post-war govt and constitution Sistani called for an Iraqi parliament to produce a new constitution in opposition to CPA plan
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
Jun 4 Blair said that he had no doubt that Iraq’s WMD would be found Rejected
independent inquiry into case for Iraq War
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jun 4 Cheney told Senators to stop asking for investigation into pre-war
intelligence on Iraq
Jun 4 Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Feith said US wasn’t only country that claimed
Iraq had WMD and so did Clinton admin Denied that Bush admin pressured intelligence agencies over Iraq
(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)
Jun 5 Report VP Cheney and chief of staff Libby made multiple trips to CIA to question analysts about
Iraq intelligence Some CIA analysts complained to press about VP Cheney’s questions Part of CIA-White House blame game for invasion
Jun 5 Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Feith denied that Iraq intel was politicized before invasion
Admitted creating special Pentagon intel unit Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group
Jun 5 Bush said no terrorist could get WMD from Iraq because Saddam had been
overthrown
Jun 5 Former UN inspector Kay told CIA Dir Tenet military not doing good job hunting
for Iraq’s WMD
Jun 5 UN Security Council asked US to allow its weapons inspectors back into Iraq
Jun 6 Ayatollah Hakim gave speech calling for elected govt that represented all of Iraq
Jun 6 Imam at Abu Hanifa Mosque in Adhmaiya Baghdad called for resistance to the
US occupation
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
Jun 6 UN head inspector Blix said just because there were questions about Iraq’s WMD
didn’t mean it had them Said US and UK never provided quality intel on Iraq’s 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)
Jun 6 Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Feith said intel on Iraq didn’t change from Clinton
to Bush
Jun 6 White House spokesman intelligence showed no doubt that Iraq had 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)
Jun 6 US intel thought they were close to finding Iraq’s WMD because more Iraqis
coming forward and giving info
Jun 6 Report Bush admin dropped uncertainties about WMD intel and made them
certainties that Iraq had them
Jun 6 US rejected having UN weapons inspectors back in Iraq to look for WMD
Jun 6 Sep 02 DIA report leaked to press DIA thought Iraq had WMD but couldn’t find
specific facilities making them
Jun 6 CIA WMD office wrote assessment for Natl Sec Adv Rice Said 2 trailers found were mobile
WMD labs
(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)
Jun 6 Bremer met with opposition leaders Talked about forming what would become Iraqi Governing
Council Bremer said there would be a constitutional convention and then elections for Iraqi govt SCIRI official told Bremer that Ayatollah Sistani demanded that constitutional committee be elected
Jun 7 Bremer met with exile leaders and told them they didn’t represent Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
Jun 7 Sadrist march in Basra against British occupation
Jun 7 Sadr traveled to Iran to talk with Iranian officials and met Ayatollah Haeri
(Musings On Iraq Analysis Of Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq Interview With RAND’s Alireza Nader)
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
Jun 7 ISCI threatened to boycott CPA’s Iraqi Governing Council
Jun 7 CPA Order 12 ended all of Iraq’s tariffs leading country to be flooded with cheap
imports closing down many Iraqi businesses
Jun 7 Report 2002 DIA report said no reliable intel that Iraq was producing or had
stocks of WMD
Jun 7 DIA chief Admiral Jacoby said couldn’t find specific WMD sites in Iraq in 2002
but didn’t mean Iraq didn’t have WMD program
(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)
Jun 7 Iraq Survey Group took over US search for WMD
Jun 7 Report US and British analysts said captured Iraq trailers were not WMD mobile
labs as suspected
(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)
Jun 7 White House spokesman said WMD would be found
Jun 8 National Security Advisor Rice told Meet The Press US had looked at intel since
1991 to prove Iraq had WMD All agreed Iraq had weapons Said no one ever claimed they knew exactly where Iraq’s WMD were stored Def Sec Rumsfeld said US knew exactly where WMD were during invasion Admitted that Bush used false claim of Iraq-African uranium deal in his 03 State of Union but was quoting a British report and didn’t know about problems Rice got Oct 02 CIA memo to remove Niger story from Bush speech because single sourced
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 8 Secretary of State Powell said all the intel on Iraq’s WMD was approved by CIA
Jun 8 UK Home Secretary Blunkett said Blair govt should not have released its Iraq WMD dossier
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jun 8 Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told NY Times reporter Judith Miller that secret National
Intelligence Estimate had stronger evidence of Iraq’s WMD then White House made public Was leak to support invasion
Jun 8 US military report said Baathist led insurgency biggest threat Insurgency growing due to CPA’s
deBaathification and disbanding Iraqi military Sunnis believed they were being shut out of new Iraq
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 7 Muqawama Wa Intiqaam (Resistance And Reprisals), May-August 2003)
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
Jun 9 Bush said history would show that US made right decision to invade Iraq Said
sure Iraq had WMD and it 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)
Jun 9 Rumsfeld told Senate US didn’t have new intelligence on Iraq’s WMD it just
saw it differently after 9/11
Jun 9 National Security Adviser Rice denied charges US exaggerated WMD case against
Iraq Admitted that false Iraq-Africa uranium story included in Bush’s State of
Union but okayed at time
Jun 9 CIA sent documents to Cheney’s office on former Ambassador Wilson’s trip to
Niger to investigate story Iraq tried to buy uranium but didn’t mention Wilson by name
(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)
Jun 9 Powell said that trailers found were Iraqi WMD mobile labs based upon
eyewitness evidence Inspections said no
(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)
Jun 9 More than 70 MPs in British parliament called for investigation into whether Blair misled country
on Iraq WMD
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jun 9 Report none of the suspected WMD sites bombed during invasion turned out to
have WMD
Jun 9 Report that CIA Dir Tenet pushed story that Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes
for centrifuges for nuke program US intel agencies doubted Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for nuke program early on
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Jun 9 US military officer said that Bush White House tended to see all info about
Iraq negatively to build case for war
Jun 9 Report 2 captured high ranking Al Qaeda members held by US said Iraq never
worked with group
Jun 9 US forces started Op Peninsula Strike in Dhuliya and Balad Salahaddin aimed at
hunting down Baath members and insurgents
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
Jun 9 UK Defense Min’s Strategic Planning Group submitted paper to Chiefs of Staff Said law and order
needed to be established in Iraq Baghdad key to success and cause of most problems
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 9.2 23 May 2003 To June 2004)
Jun 10 Bush told cabinet he was convinced Iraq had WMD Said invading Iraq was right
decision because of its WMD programs
(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)
Jun 10 Rumsfeld said he was confident Iraq’s WMD would be found
Jun 10 State Dept memo said Italian docs claiming Iraq-Niger uranium deal were fakes
(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 review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 10 CIA hired former UN inspector David Kay to take over new Iraq Survey Group to
hunt for Iraq’s WMD
Jun 10 Head UN inspector Blix accused Pentagon of trying to undermine him during
inspections
(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)
Jun 10 Report Al Qaeda’s Khalid Sheikh Mohammed captured by US said that Al Qaeda
did not work with Iraq
Jun 10 Report South Oil Company Rumaila and Zubayr oil fields in Basra looted Interim Oil Min
Ghabban was trying to remove Baathists from Oil Min Wanted to maintain state run system Ghabban and US said oil production would reach 3 mil/bar/day by end of 2003 Didn’t happen Most production supposed to come from Rumaila which was stripped of equipment
Jun 11 Undersecretary of state told Cheney chief of staff Libby that Fmr Amb Wilson’s
wife worked for CIA Libby later leak her identity to press in retaliation for Wilson refuting Iraq-Niger deal promoted by White House
(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)
Jun 11 Cheney chief of staff Libby also talked with a CIA official who also confirmed
Fmr Amb Wilson’s wife worked at CIA
Jun 11 UK intel report on Iran’s Iraq policy Said Iran wanted a stable Iraq that was not a threat, wanted
influence in Baghdad, wanted a unified state, opposed U.S. presence but didn’t want chaos
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Analysis Of Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq Interview With RAND’s Alireza Nader)
Jun 12 1st bombing of an Iraqi oil pipeline near Kirkuk after invasion
Jun 12 White House said were some fake documents about Iraq-Niger uranium deal but
much more evidence to support story
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 12 DIA memo to Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz said that docs on Iraq-Niger
uranium deal were fakes but were unconfirmed reports that supported deal such as report that uranium was in warehouse in Benin
Jun 12 Former Ambassador Wilson gave background info to Washington Post article
claiming CIA didn’t tell Bush doubts about Iraq-Niger uranium deal Wilson claimed he saw fake Iraq-Niger documents when he didn’t Wilson believed his trip to Niger discredited uranium deal story within CIA but didn’t Wilson was inflating his role and thought his trip was more important than it was to CIA
Jun 12 VP Cheney told his chief of staff Libby Wilson’s wife’s name and said she worked
for CIA
Jun 12 Cheney and Libby were worried about press reports they felt were trying to blame
VP and Bush for false reports on Iraq’s WMD
(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)
Jun 13 US ground forces commander Gen McKirenan moved HQ from Iraq to Florida
Denied US forces US forces remaining in Iraq
Jun 13 Gen Eaton arrived in Baghdad to head US training program for new Iraqi army Found Bremer
didn’t believe US military should be in charge of effort Weren’t enough trainers or contractors to do job
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
Jun 14 Gen Sanchez became commander of Coalition forces in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 13 The Changing Of The Guard, Again Spring-Summer 2004)
Jun 14 Gen Petraeus flew to Baghdad telling CPA disbanding Iraq military threatened
US troops
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
Jun 14 1300 US troops conducted major search and raids in Fallujah
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
Jun 15 Sadrist march in Basra against British occupation
Jun 15 US scheduled elections for Najaf cancelled because worried Sadrists might
win
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
Jun 15 Report British looked at captured Iraq trailers and found not mobile WMD labs
(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)
Jun 15 Sr British official said that the CPA was chaotic
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings On Iraq review Bad Days In Basra, My Turbulent Time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq)
Jun 15 US started Op Desert Scorpion to hunt down insurgents from Baghdad to Kirkuk
Jun 15 CPA began spending Iraqi money placed in Development Fund for Iraq Didn’t have same
regulations as U.S. funds so easier to spend Much of it wasted as a result
Jun 16 Bush said critics were trying to rewrite history on Iraq threat in response to criticism of pre-war
intel on Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Jun 16 Gen Abizaid CENTCOM commander said that US was facing classic insurgency in Iraq
White House had been denying that
(Musings On Iraq How The U.S. Failed To Recognize The Insurgency In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
Jun 16 Bremer said Development Fund for Iraq money could be used by military for local
reconstruction projects Said failure to capture Saddam was helping resistance and making Iraqis scared to help Coalition
Jun 16 Head UN Inspector Blix said empty 122mm WMD artillery shells were from 1980s
after US said they could be part of stocks
(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)
Jun 16 Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance 1st US administration for Iraq
officially closed
Jun 17 CIA report to Dir Tenet said that Niger-Iraq uranium story was dropped because
based upon fake docs
(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 review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 17 CIA report that it found docs at Iraqi scientist’s home that proved Saddam
had nuke program Proved false
Jun 17 Report UK official in CPA said Iraq reconstruction in chaos because no strategy Said CPA was most
chaotic organization he’d ever worked for Couldn’t deal with needs and lacked resources to make change in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Bad Days In Basra, My Turbulent Time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq)
Jun 18 Gen Odierno 4th Inf Div commander said US wasn’t facing an insurgency
in Iraq because wasn’t organized opposition Said there were attack on US troops but were insignificant overall
Jun 18 Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz told Congress US facing an insurgency
in Iraq but U.S. could beat it
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
Jun 18 Bremer talked with Bush about troop levels in Iraq Bremer didn’t object to drawdown plan but said
they shouldn’t go too low Bush said plan was to rotate troops into Iraq not to withdraw them and agreed that troop levels had to be maintained
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
Jun 18 2,000 fired Iraqi soldiers protested outside of Green Zone demanding pensions
1 speaker said they would attack US forces for humiliating them Threw rocks US soldiers shot and killed 2
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
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
Jun 18 David Kay new head of Iraq Survey Group looking for Iraq WMD left for Qatar
to run search Kay switched Group from running search teams at suspected WMD sites to intelligence operation going through Iraqi documents to find evidence of weapons programs
Jun 18 CIA informed House and Senate Intel committees that it no longer believed Iraq-
Niger uranium story
(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 review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 19 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said that US only fighting small groups of dead
enders in Iraq Tried to compare insurgency in Baghdad to murder rate in Wash DC to say it wasn’t bad
(Musings On Iraq How The U.S. Failed To Recognize The Insurgency In Iraq)
Jun 19 Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz told Congress violence in Iraq was “last remains of a
dying cause” and not an insurgency
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
Jun 19 US forces found an old buried centrifuge Claimed proof that Iraq had a nuclear
weapons program
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
Jun 19 US denied that captured Iraqi trailers were anything but mobile weapons labs
Inspections showed they weren’t White House acknowledged that State Dep intel questioned whether captured trailers were WMD labs
(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)
Jun 19 New Republic article on Iraq-Niger uranium deal Said Cheney got docs on deal from UK Asked
for more info leading to trip to Niger Docs did not come from British Used former Ambassador Wilson as unnamed source who said White House knew Niger story was a lie
(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)
Jun 20 Kay head of Iraq Survey Group meant to find Iraq’s WMD arrived in Baghdad Found out that 75th
Expeditionary Force which had looked for WMD after invasion had been sent back to US Not turned over any of their findings
Jun 21 Sadrist march in Baghdad against US occupation
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
Jun 22 Bush blamed former regime elements for attacks in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
Jun 22 Bush claimed other intel services said Iraq had WMD and Iraq never proved
it destroyed its WMD arsenal
(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)
Jun 22 Head weapons inspector Blix thought Iraq only had “debris” of WMD program
since none found since invasion
Jun 22 Blix said pre-war reports by Iraqis that WMD were destroyed might prove true
Cited Hussein Kamal in 94 who said no WMD left
(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)
Jun 22 Report 2002 National Intelligence Estimate questioned Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
Jun 22 2000 Sistani supporters protested outside Green Zone demanding elections and
new Iraqi govt
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
Jun 22 British searches in Maja al-Kabir, Maysan led to shooting with locals 8 wounded
Jun 23 Ayatollah Sistani issued fatwa saying Iraqis should elect council to draft new
constitution vs CPA plan
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
Jun 23 Oil Ministry made first foreign oil sale to Turkish company since invasion
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
Jun 23 Bush at NSC meeting asked why US wasn’t pushing elections in Iraq and maybe
they should come before writing constitution
Jun 23 American official Said US found more evidence since Iraq invasion to prove Iraq-
Al Qaeda ties
Jun 23 US defense official complained to press Iraq-Al Qaeda ties claims were based on politics
before war not based on intelligence
Jun 23 Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told NY Times reporter Judith Miller fmr Amb
Wilson’s wife worked at CIA Claimed she set up his trip to Niger Was first of series of leaks to press to expose Wilson’s wife in retaliation for him opposing Iraq-Niger uranium story promoted by White House Libby also complained that CIA was selectively leaking information to press to lesson its role in claims about Iraq’s WMD
(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)
Jun 23 Sadr returned from Iran where he met Ayatollah Haeri and commemorated death of Ayatollah
Khomeini Sadr went to Baghdad for 1st time since his father’s death Met by 1000s of followers
(Musings On Iraq Analysis Of Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq Interview With RAND’s Alireza Nader)
Jun 24 Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said Iraq had chemical weapons but not nuclear
weapons
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
Jun 24 UN head inspector Blix said inspectors were not impressed with Powell’s Feb 03
speech to UN on Iraq’s 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)
Jun 24 Weapons search in Maysan’s Majar al-Kabir led to shootout and death of 6 British soldiers UK
intel report believed Iran backed Mujahedeen for Islamic Revolution in Iraq responsible for deaths of soldiers
Jun 24 Fallujah’s mayor’s office hit by RPG for working with US
Jun 25 Report Captured Zarqawi operative in Germany said Zarqawi independent
terrorist not part of Al Qaeda
(Musings On Iraq The Rise And Rebirth Of The Islamic State Interview With Author Michael Weiss)
(Musings On Iraq review Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation)
Jun 25 Report State Dept WMD analyst told Congressional hearing he felt pressured to
tailor intel to fit Bush admin agenda on Iraq
Jun 25 UN Sec Gen Annan met with PM Blair Annan said that UN was pushing Bremer to transition to
Iraqi control as quickly as possible Said Bremer good at making fast decisions but that meant he didn’t talk to others Complained deBaathification had gone too far
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
Jun 26 UN terrorism committee draft report found no Iraq-Al Qaeda links
Jun 26 Report quoted State Dept memo that too early to tell whether captured Iraqi
trailers were mobile WMD labs
Jun 27 Cheney Chief of Staff Libby told Bob Woodward 2002 Natl Intel Estimate on Iraq included Iraq
trying to buy uranium from Africa Part of plan to counter fmr Amb Wilson who said Iraq-Niger deal didn’t happen
(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)
Jun 29 Report Secretary of State Powell misrepresented recording of Republican Guard
in Feb 03 UN speech to make it seem like they were trying to hide WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)
Jun 29 Former Amb Wilson claimed it unlikely British intel didn’t receive CIA reporting that Iraq-Niger
uranium papers were fake Wilson claimed he saw fake Iraq-Niger docs He didn’t Also had no knowledge of CIA-British intel sharing
(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)
Jun 29 1st UN inspector chief Ekeus OpEd said Iraq’s strategic rationale for WMD was
Iran not the US or west Iraq learned from Iran-Iraq War its chemical weapons quickly deteriorated Meant Iraq changed its WMD policy after Gulf War to stop producing and focus upon design and engineering Iraq started just in time WMD program to work on infrastructure and then produce chemical weapons right before war Said Iraq’s WMD threat was in its research know how and production facilities Letting Saddam stay in power with WMD know how was a threat Iraq ended its programs in 90s
Jun 30 Rumsfeld said no guerrilla war or organized resistance in Iraq
Jun 30 New Republic article quoted intel officials that Bush admin exaggerated Iraq
aluminum tubes story IAEA had US British German exports look at aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy All said they were for rockets not centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Jun 30 CPA dismissed Najaf mayor and police chief Abdul Munim Abud and 62 of his followers for
corruption and violence
Jun 30 UK Under Sec Def Tebbit wrote to Def Min Hoon on his trip to Iraq Said no integrated plan for
rebuilding Iraq Didn’t know whether US would give Bremer authority to manage task Said Bremer wanted UK help with police training
Jul 1 Mosque in Fallujah bombed killing 5 wounding 4
Jul 2 Bush said “Bring em on” when talking about insurgency in Iraq
Jul 2 UK Foreign Secretary Straw said political and security situation in Iraq was improving
Jul 2 Baroness Amos wrote report on her Jun 03 trip to Iraq said Baghdad on edge Daily attacks on US
Things getting worse UN was going to cut 1/3 of its staff over lack of security CPA didn’t have staff experienced in nation building in post-conflict societies Said Iraqis needed to be convinced that sovereignty would be returned soon Bremer said he had no set timetable for his political plan
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
Jul 2 UK Joint Intelligence Committee report on Iraq Various groups competing for power Some
using violence Security and living conditions top priorities for Iraqis Differences could escalate
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 9.2 23 May 2003 To June 2004)
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jul 3 38,000 police came back to duty after Bremer threatened to fire them for not working after invasion
(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 12 Reconstructing Iraqi Security Forces)
Jul 3 Ex CIA official said White House pushed hard on CIA to find Iraq-Al Qaeda
connections but didn't find any
Jul 4 Marines in control of Najaf set provincial elections for this date but were
cancelled by CPA
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
Jul 4 US arrested 32 Turkish special forces in Sulaymaniya Accused them of plotting
to assassinate Kurdish officials Arrests led to protests in Turkey and bombing of US
consulate in Istanbul
(Musings On Iraq interview with Kevin Petit of the 173rd Airborne Bgd On Kirkuk In The Aftermath Of The 2003 Invasion)
Jul 4 Saddam tape aired on Al Jazeera Blamed US and UK for destroying Iraq looking
for WMD that didn’t exist Said he would lead resistance to occupation of Iraq
Jul 4 Bremer sent CPA political plan Vision to Empower Iraqis to Def Sec Rumsfeld Called for democracy
Rebuilding Stability
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Jul 6 US said it would release Turkish Special Forces it arrested in Sulaymaniya
Jul 6 Fmr Amb Wilson NY Times OpEd said Bush exaggerated about Iraq-Niger
uranium story in State of Union Said CIA sent him to Niger to investigate and found no evidence of uranium deal Said he never saw fake docs Said Cheney should’ve gotten report on his trip Wilson over estimated the impact of his visit CIA actually had more questions about uranium deal after his trip
Jul 6 VP Cheney questioned Wilson’s OpEd and asked why he was sent to Niger
Jul 6 Former Ambassador Wilson on Meet The Press said Cheney should’ve gotten a
report on his trip to Niger
(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)
Jul 7 CPA suspended Iraq’s old banking laws as part of reform program Signed order to exchange old
dinars for new ones to stabilize currency
Jul 7 Rumsfeld told Senate US didn't go to war with Iraq because it had dramatic new
evidence of its WMD programs
Jul 7 White House admitted Bush’s State of Union claim Iraq tried to buy uranium
from Africa shouldn't have been used
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 7 Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told White House spokesman Fleischer former Ambassador
Wilson’s wife sent him to Niger to investigate Iraq-Niger uranium deal
Jul 7 ISCI dropped objection to joining Iraqi Governing Council after lobbying by UN
Jul 7 UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee report on UK dossier said was not sexed up by Blair
govt Found Blair govt didn’t mislead parliament but misstated some of the intel on Iraq’s WMD Said claim Iraq could use WMD in 45 min should not have been so prominent in dossier Said should’ve been more qualified on story Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 4.4 The Search For WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jul 7 State Dept intel agency sent memo to Deputy Secretary of State Armitage originally
from June that said Iraq-Niger docs were fakes
(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)
Jul 8 Blair told Parliament he believed intelligence that Iraq had WMD
Jul 8 Blair said evidence of Iraq-Niger uranium deal was not based upon fake documents
but separate intelligence Maintained story long after it was discredited
(Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jul 8 White House spokesman said intelligence on Iraq-Niger uranium deal turned
out to be inaccurate
(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 review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 8 NSC spokesman said fake Niger docs not only basis for Bush saying Iraq tried to buy uranium
from Africa used in State of the Union
Jul 8 Wash Post article quoted admin officials saying Iraq-Africa uranium claim shouldn’t
have been used in State of Union and story could be wrong
Jul 8 VP Cheney’s chief of staff Libby met NY Times’ Miller 2nd time Said former
Ambassdor Wilson’s NY Times OpEd part of CIA campaign to absolve itself of bad intel on Iraq Told Miller Wilson’s report on his trip to Niger never made it out of CIA and found evidence Iraq did try to buy uranium Said part of secret National Intelligence Estimated had stronger evidence that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa Told Miller that Wilson’s wife’s name was Valerie Plame and she worked at CIA Miller would later denied she got her name from Libby
Jul 8 Columnist Novak asked Deputy Secretary of State Armitage why former
Ambassador Wilson was sent to Niger to look into possible Iraq uranium deal Armitage said because his wife worked at CIA
Jul 8 Bush Chief of Staff Rove confirmed to Novak that former Ambassador Wilson’s
wife sent him to Niger to investigate possible Iraq uranium deal
Jul 9 CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Franks told Congress violence in Iraq meant no US troop
withdrawal anytime soon
Jul 9 Rumsfeld told Senate Iraq invasion showed overwhelming force with large ground forces no longer
necessary in war
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter The Invasion of Iraq)
Jul 9 Rumsfeld told Congress Iraq was costing US around $3.9 bil a month Said Iraq
war wasn't because new evidence about Iraq’s WMD but because saw Iraq differently after 9/11
Jul 9 Fmr State Dept Military Intel officer Thielman told Congress US govt
misrepresented intel about Iraq threat
Jul 10 Iraqi police demonstration in Baghdad saying US forces in city led to attacks upon police
Jul 10 Secretary of State Powell told ABC that captured trailers were Iraqi mobile WMD labs
(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)
Jul 11 New CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid halted troop withdrawals from Iraq ordered by Gen Franks
Jul 11 National Security Adviser Rice called CIA Director Tenet telling him he was
responsible for Iraq-Africa uranium story being used in Bush’s State of the Union
Jul 11 CIA Director Tenet issued statement that he was responsible for Iraq-Africa
Uranium deal getting into Bush’s State of Union speech Said CIA only had fragmentary intel on Iraq trying to buy uranium from Africa Also said that CIA had Iraq-Africa uranium story stricken from previous Bush speeches
Jul 11 CIA officials quoted in Washington Post that they tried to dissuade British from using Iraq-Africa
uranium story
Jul 11 White House spokesman Fleischer and Communication Director Bartlett told
reporter former Amb Wilson found little on his trip to Niger about possible Iraq uranium deal and wasn’t sent by CIA Director Tenet
Jul 11 Bush Chief of Staff Rove told Cheney Chief of Staff Libby he talked with
columnist Novak and he was going to write former Ambassador Wilson’s wife sent him to Niger
Jul 11 Bush Chief of Staff Rove told Time reporter Cooper former Ambassador Wilson
not sent to Niger by CIA Director Tenet or Cheney but his wife who worked at CIA
Jul 11 Columnist Rove called CIA to confirm that Valerie Wilson sent her husband to
Niger CIA tried to stop story and not mention her name
Jul 11 Rove Fleischer Bartlett Libby and Cheney all involved in plan to discredit former
Ambassador Wilson by saying he went to Niger because of his wife at the CIA They felt Wilson was making White House look bad over Iraq-Niger uranium deal
(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)
Jul 11 Rice told reporters National Intelligence Estimate said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for
nuke program She blamed CIA Director Tenet for Bush’s State of the Union using fake Iraq-African uranium deal Said at time of speech didn’t know about any problems with uranium story Rice received Oct 02 CIA memo not to use Niger story in a Bush speech because single sourced
(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)
Jul 11 After protests by Iraqi police US agreed to reduce its forces at police stations in
Fallujah to try to stop attacks on them
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
Jul 12 British officially took control of Basra Maysan Dhi Qar and Muthanna with no strategy on how to
run them
(Musings On Iraq review Bad Days In Basra, My Turbulent Time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq)
Jul 12 Cheney chief of staff Libby spoke 3rd time with NY Times reporter Miller telling
her fmr Amb Wilson’s wife worked for CIA
Jul 12 Cheney chief of staff Libby talked with Time reporter Cooper who said fmr Amb
Wilson’s wife might’ve sent him on Niger trip Libby said he heard same thing Was not true
(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)
Jul 13 Iraqi Governing Council announced its formation and held first session Mohammed al-Uloom
became premier Seats were divided up using ethnosectarian quotas
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
(Musings On Iraq Origins of Iraq’s Ethnosectarian Quota System)
(Musings On Iraq Ethnosectarian Politics In Iraq Its Future And Repercussions An Interview With Univ of Miami Prof Adeed Dawisha)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings On Iraq review Sectarianism In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Fragments, The Occupation and Its Legacy)
Jul 13 Natl Sec Adv Rice said that controversy over Iraq-Africa uranium story in Bush’s State of the
Union was overblown Def Sec Rumsfeld said intelligence was correct at time White House said no doubt Iraq wanted a nuclear weapon before the war
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jul 13 After White House blamed CIA for Bush using Iraq-Africa uranium story
CIA leaked it had blocked story from being used before
Jul 13 Blair said he still believed story Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa CIA
questioned its veracity
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jul 14 Article Iraqi scientists said bombings inspections sanctions unilateral
destruction ended Iraq’s WMD programs before invasion
Jul 14 Columnist Novak exposed Ex Amb Wilson’s wife as a CIA agent after he
criticized Bush admin over false Niger-Iraq uranium deal Cited 2 White House officials as sources Got information from Cheney’s chief of staff Libby who was trying to discredit Wilson
Jul 14 UK Foreign Secretary Straw said CIA believed UK intel on Iraq-Africa uranium
deal
(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)
Jul 14 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Sanchez memo said only 37% of his command was staffed
Jul 14 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid said when multi-national force arrived in southern Iraq would still
not be enough forces in Iraq to secure country
Jul 15 Gen Easton head of training new Iraqi army met with 1st recruits 75 ex-Lt Cols wanted their ranks
back Wanted more pay Said couldn’t work with CPA Eaton sent recruits home
Jul 16 Fadhila Party created in Basra as breakaway faction from Sadr movement Sheikh
Yacoubi claimed he was heir to Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr
(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present)
Jul 16 Mayor of Haditha and his son assassinated by insurgents
(Musings On Iraq review The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014)
Jul 17 CENTCOM commander Gen Abizaid said US facing classic guerrilla war in Iraq
Jul 17 Saddam tape aired on Al Arabiya TV on anniversary of Baath coup Said Bush and
Blair lied to justify war Condemned Iraqi Governing Council
Jul 17 Report Pentagon set up its own intelligence office on Iraq before war
Jul 17 Time reporter officials told him fmr Amb Wilson’s wife was CIA official Talked with Cheney Chief
of Staff Libby about matter beforehand Libby was leaking information about Wilson’s wife in attempt to discredit him for opposing Iraq-Niger uranium story White House promoted
(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)
Jul 17 Gen Moseley told lessons learned panel that from 2002-03 US-UK aircraft conducted 21,736
sorties and dropped more than 600 bombs on 391 targets Were part of No Fly zones but were meant to weaken Iraqi defenses before 03 invasion
Jul 18 Bush said Iraq war due to US and UK intel that Iraq was a clear threat
Jul 18 Pentagon approved CPA’s Vision for Iraq to build a democratic country
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
Jul 18 Sadr attacked Iraqi Governing Council as unbelievers Announced that he was
creating Mahdi Army to fight US and British occupation
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
Jul 18 White House answered questions about making Iraq-Africa uranium claim that
CIA opposed White House tried to blame CIA for including Iraq-Africa uranium claim in Bush State of the Union
Jul 18 Sr White House official asked about problems with WMD claims in Bush State of
Union said President not a fact checker
Jul 18 Aid to Natl Sec Adv Rice blamed for pushing CIA to allow Iraq-Africa uranium
claim into Bush State of the Union
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jul 18 6 US soldiers in Fallujah that complained to news about extended tours discharged
by White House
Jul 18 Association of Muslim Scholars head Harith al-Dhari said Iraqi Governing Council had a Shiite
majority when Shiites were not the majority in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Spiritual Leader To Iraq’s Insurgency Harith Dhari Dies In Exile)
Jul 19 On defensive over not finding WMD White House released parts of 02 National
Intel Est that Iraq was rebuilding its WMD and nuke programs
Jul 19 US began asking UN for help in Iraq after it spurned its role immediately before
and after invasion
Jul 20 Sadrists protested in Najaf after Sadr claimed U.S. forces had surrounded his house and were going
to arrest him
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
Jul 20 Report US military teams searching for Iraq’s WMD frustrated by not finding
anything
Jul 20 Report Jun 02 US started campaign to use No Fly Zones to degrade Iraq’s air
defenses to prepare for invasion
Jul 20 Report US intel actually knew very little about Iraq’s WMD after UN inspectors
left in 90s
Jul 20 Turkey said US asked for its forces to be deployed to Iraq Bremer and Iraqi Governing Council
objected to idea
Jul 21 UN-IOM convoy fired upon by insurgents in Babil 1st attack on humanitarian
group in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014)
Jul 21 UN Sec Gen Annan approved Iraqi Governing Council
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
Jul 21 National Security Adviser Rice called MSBC’s Chris Matthews saying former
Ambassador Wilson’s story on Iraq-Niger deal was part of a political campaign against the White House and therefore his wife CIA operative Valerie Wilson was a legitimate target
(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)
Jul 21 US received intel that Uday and Qusay Hussein were in Mosul
(Musings On Iraq review Special Operations Forces in Iraq)
Jul 21 Report Iraq produced 1st new bath of oil since invasion Before sold oil stored in Turkey from before
war Pipelines were being attacked throughout Iraq Iraq imported gas from Kuwait Jordan Turkey others
Jul 22 Iraqi Governing Council took office
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11 Restoring
Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s Ethnosectarian Quota System)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings On Iraq review Sectarianism In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Fragments, The Occupation and Its Legacy)
Jul 22 CPA issued 57 page Strategic Plan and Vision for Iraq Was more of a list rather than actual strategy
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 8 – Muddling Through August-October 2003)
Jul 22 U.S. forces killed Saddam’s sons Uday and Qusay Hussein in raid in Mosul
(Musings On Iraq review Special Operations Forces in Iraq)
Jul 22 UN report said Iraqis becoming frustrated at US plans for returning sovereignty
because would take too long
Jul 22 Bush speechwriter Gerson found 2 CIA memos from Oct 02 on why Iraq-Niger
uranium story should not be used in Bush speech Came just after White House blamed CIA Director Tenet for why Niger story was used in Bush’s Jan 03 State of Union speech
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 23 Bush said deaths of Qusay and Uday Hussein showed that the old regime was gone
and would not return
Jul 23 Bremer said only matter of time before Saddam was captured
Jul 23 US released photos of Uday and Qusay to prove they were killed in face of Iraqi
rumors they were alive
Jul 24 Spain Foreign Min Palacio said no evidence Iraq had a nuclear bomb program
Jul 25 Sadr held rally in Najaf saying that he would form his own army to oppose
US occupation
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
Jul 25 Japan authorized largest deployment of troops since 1945 to be sent to Iraq
Jul 25 CENTCOM cmdr Abizaid memo to Rumsfeld Situation in Iraq met definition of insurgency US
shouldn’t be afraid to use term
Jul 27 Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz claimed that Iraq’s insurgency had no
support in Iraq or in region
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
Jul 27 Iraq Survey Group head Kay briefed Pres Bush Vice President Cheney Defense
Secretary Rumsfeld Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz CIA Director Tenet National Security Adviser Rice Chief of Staff Card on WMD hunt Kay said Iraq probably only had surge capacity to quickly restart WMD programs but no stockpiles Said trailers found were probably not mobile WMD labs Kay said Bush seemed unphased by fact that no WMD found
Jul 27 Kay separately briefed Cheney VP asked Kay to look into whether Iraq sent its
WMD to Syria or Bekka Valley Lebanon
Jul 28 Blair govt accused of crimes against humanity for Iraq war in Greek court
Jul 29 Saddam recording said his sons Uday and Qusay died as martyrs for Iraq and US
would be defeated
Jul 29 US intel report Hezbollah attempted to reach out to Sadr and his Mahdi Army
(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)
Jul 29 Report US held Iraqi detainees incommunicado and without access to lawyers
Jul 30 Bush admitted Iraq-Africa uranium story should not have been included in his
State of Union speech
(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 review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 30 Natl Sec Adv Rice said Saddam was a threat and he had WMD Said Iraq was buying all kinds of
equipment for centrifuges including aluminum tubes
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 31 Sadr announced 10,000 man Islamic army being formed in Najaf
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
Jul 31 Report several Iraqi scientists interviewed by US said Saddam had not restarted
its nuclear or WMD programs
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
Jul 31 National Sec Adv Rice said international intel agencies all agreed with US that Iraq
had WMD US would prove right that Saddam was threat to world
(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)
Jul 31 Iraq Survey Group head Kay testified to Senate
Jul 31 US forces found Iraqi jets buried at Taqadum airbase west of Baghdad Helped
explain why Iraqi air force didn't fight during invasion
(Musings On Iraq Why Didn’t The Iraqi Air Force Fight During The 2003 Invasion?)
Jul 31 Report White House official said wasn’t strong evidence that Iraq involved in 9/11
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