Saddam Hussein

Events (290)

• September 25, 2002: Bush Says Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein Are Indistinguishable 2002-09-25
• September 25, 2002: Study Suggests Privatization of Iraq Would Pay for Post-Saddam Reconstruction 2002-09-25
• September 26, 2002: Democrats, GOP Trade Charges over Politicization, Smears Surrounding Iraq War Debate 2002-09-26
• September 27, 2002: Kennedy Questions Administration Push for War; Media Ignores Speech 2002-09-27
• September 28, 2002: Bush Tells US Litany of Falsehoods about Iraq’s WMDs, Terror Ties 2002-09-28
• September 28, 2002: New York Times Says Rice Misrepresenting Daniel Webster in Justifying Iraq Invasion 2002-09-28
• October 3, 2002: Byrd Speaks Out Against Drive Towards War 2002-10-03
• October 7, 2002: Bush Uses Groundless Evidence to Tout Hussein as a Direct Threat to US 2002-10-07
• Afternoon October 7, 2002: Italian Journalist Agrees to Buy Iraq-Niger Uranium Documents if Corroborated 2002-10-07
• October 13, 2002: Wilson Recommends Aggressive Disarmament, Inspections for Iraq to Avoid War 2002-10-13
• October 17, 2002: Bush Administration Announces North Korea’s Nuclear Centrifuges; Waited for Iraq War Resolution to Pass 2002-10-17
• November 12, 2002: Iraqi Parliament Rejects UN Resolution 1441 2002-11-12
• November 13, 2002: Bush: UN Resolution Won’t Prevent US from Invading Iraq without UN Support 2002-11-13
• November 14, 2002: Rumsfeld: War with Iraq Will Be Short and Relatively Painless 2002-11-14
• November 20, 2002: Bush Warns that ‘Deception’ from Iraq ‘Will Not Be Tolerated’ 2002-11-20
• December 2, 2002: Cheney Calls Iraq Government an ‘Outlaw Regime,’ Says Iraq and Al-Qaeda Have Had ‘High-Level’ Contacts for Over Ten Years 2002-12-02
• December 5, 2002: Hussein Allows Unfettered Inspections 2002-12-05
• December 6, 2002-March 18, 2003: Pundit O’Reilly Flip-Flops on Question of Iraqi WMDs 2002-12-06
• January 15, 2003: US Has Gone Mad, Says Novelist 2003-01-15
• January 28, 2003: CIA Report Falsely Suggests Hussein Is Permitting Al-Qaeda to Operate in His Territory 2003-01-28
• January 28, 2003: Newspaper Contradicts Allegations of Iraq-Al-Qaeda Operational Links 2003-01-28
• 9:01 pm January 28, 2003: President Bush Gives His 2003 State of the Union Address 2003-01-28
• February 3, 2003: Britain Releases ‘Dodgy Dossier’ Plagiarized from Grad Student’s Magazine Article, Other Sources 2003-02-03
• February 3-4, 2003: US Intelligence Analysts Do Not Believe There Are Links Between Iraqi Government, Al-Zarqawi, and Ansar al-Islam 2003-02-03
• February 4, 2003: Hussein Denies Any Relationship to Al-Qaeda 2003-02-04
• February 5, 2003: Rice Says She Is Sure that Iraq Is Linked to Al-Qaeda 2003-02-05
• February 5, 2003: Powell Gives Fraudulent Presentation About Iraqi WMDs to UN 2003-02-05
• February 6, 2003: President Bush Summarizes Allegations against Iraq; Accuses Saddam Hussein of Making ‘Iraq into a Prison, a Poison Factory, and a Torture Chamber’ 2003-02-06
• February 7-13, 2003: Orange Alert Causes Duct Tape and Plastic Sheeting Buying Panic 2003-02-07
• February 9, 2003: Prisoner Interviews Debunk Allegations of Al-Qaeda-Iraqi Government Ties 2003-02-09
• February 13, 2003: Wilson: Imperial Vision of US Neoconservatives Driving War with Iraq 2003-02-13
• February 17, 2003: CIA Report Predicts More Than 90 Percent Chance Hussein and Terrorists Will Attack US with WMDs 2003-02-17
• February 23, 2003: Bush Tells Aznar US Will Invade Baghdad In March 2003-02-23
• February 26, 2003: Conservative Pundit Calls Antiwar Dissenters ‘Enemies of the State’ 2003-02-26
• February 28, 2003: Wilson Explains ‘Shock and Awe’ Strategy, Rationale for ‘Re-growing the Middle East’ 2003-02-28
• March 16, 2003: Vice President Cheney Says Iraq Has ‘Reconstituted Nuclear Weapons’ 2003-03-16
• March 17-18, 2003: FBI Alleges Al-Qaeda Likely to Attack to Help Saddam Hussein 2003-03-17
• July 2002-March 19, 2003: Intelligence Groups Refute Bush Claim of Iraqi Ties to al-Qaeda 2003-03-19
• March 20, 2003: US Forces Obliterate Dora Farms Compound, Miss Hussein 2003-03-20
• March 20, 2003: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Divulges Classified Info on Iraq Leadership Location 2003-03-20
• Before March 20, 2003: CIA Discusses Producing Fake Videos to Assist Iraq Invasion 2003-03-20
• March 23, 2003: Hussein Taunts US in Speech 2003-03-23
• April 6, 2003: Iraqi Training Camp Overrun by US Forces; Allegations Facility Was Used to Train Islamist Terrorists Is Found Baseless 2003-04-06
• April 7, 2003: Hussein Barely Eludes Capture by US Troops 2003-04-07
• April 8, 2003: MEK Characterization as US Supporter Disputed 2003-04-08
• April 9, 2003: Saddam Hussein’s Government Collapses; US Orchestrates Propaganda Stunt with Toppling Statue 2003-04-09
• April 10, 2003: White House: WMD Will Be Found Because ‘That Is What This War Is About’ 2003-04-10
• July 9, 2003: ’Jersey Girls’ Lambast Zelikow over Author’s Testimony Linking 9/11 to Iraqi Government 2003-07-09
• July 9, 2003: CIA Expert on Iraq Discredits Theory of Connection between Iraq and Al-Qaeda 2003-07-09
• July 9, 2003: Bush Justifies Iraq Occupation in Light of White House Admission of ‘Error’; Makes Subtle Rhetorical Shift 2003-07-09