Saddam Hussein
Events (290)
- April 2006: Media Only Grudgingly Admits Being Duped in 2001 Salman Pak Story
- January 2003: Bush Receives Intelligence Memo Saying Iraq ‘Unlikely’ to Attack US Unless Provoked
- August 1992: Defense Secretary Cheney Publicly Defends Decision Not to Overthrow Hussein, Privately Disagrees
- September 2002: CIA Unable to Find Evidence of Ties Between Iraq and Militant Islamists
- Mid-January 2003: British Intelligence: Iraq-Al-Qaeda Attempts to Collaborate ‘Foundered’ on Ideological Differences
- February 11 or 12, 2003: Powell Obtains Advance Copy of New Speech Allegedly by Bin Laden, Misrepresents Contents to Senate
- December 2001-Mid-2002: Al-Zarqawi Moves Operations to Northern Iraq but Has No Ties to Hussein’s Government
- Between February 2001 and February 2003: Oil Consultant Begins Interviewing For Successors to Hussein
- August 2002: Top Bush Officials Form Group to Sell Iraq War to Public, Congress, and Allies
- February 2002: DIA Suggests Prisoner Probably Lying about Al-Qaeda Ties to Iraq; but His Allegations Will Be Used in Bush Speech Later
- 1997-1998: Ahmed Chalabi Befriends Neoconservatives, Advocates Overthrow of Iraqi Government
- Late 1998: ’Downing Plan’ to Overthrow Hussein Government Rejected by General Zinni
- May 1991: President Bush Authorizes CIA to Create Conditions for Removal of Saddam Hussein; CIA Hires PR Firm
- March 1995: Chalabi Military Operation against Saddam Hussein Fails
- July 1998: Ahmed Chalabi Asks UN Weapons Inspector to Do Intelligence Work for INC; Reveals His Own Ambitions for Iraq
- June 2003-Late 2003: CIA, German Intelligence Learn the Truth of Curveball’s Background
- Late March 2002: Think Tank Expert: ‘Removing Saddam Will be Opening a Pandora’s Box’
- July 2001: Rice Says Iraq Not a Serious Military Threat
- Mid-September 2001: Neoconservatives Look to Tie Iraq to 1993 WTC Bombing, but Evidence Contradicts Their Theory
- Early August 2002: Bush and Blair Discuss Plans to Depose Hussein
- March 2007: Journalist Calls Neocon Policy Paper ‘A Playbook for US-Israel Foreign Policy During Bush-Cheney Era’
- Late August 1990: US Ambassador Says US Didn’t Expect Iraq to Take ‘All of Kuwait’
- May 1985: ’Fuller Memo’ Codifies US Policy Towards Arming Iran
- Late January 1989: President Bush Increases Aid to Iraq Despite Military Buildup and Human Rights Violations
- March 1989: State Department Warns of Iraqi Buildup of Chemical and Biological Weapons
- April 1990: Hussein Threatens to ‘Burn Half of Israel;’ Bush Continues to Allow Iraq to Develop WMDs
- May 1990: Bush Administration Still Sharing Intelligence with Iraq
- July 1990: Bush Opposes Sanctions on Iraq, Presses for More Loans
- October 1992: Bush Argues, In Spite of Evidence, that US Did Not Help Iraq Develop Nuclear Weapons
- September 1980: Iraq Invades Iran; Start of Iran-Iraq War
- Mid-August 1988: Iraq Refuses to Cooperate With UN Experts Over Chemical Weapons; US Defends Iraq
- October 1982: Iranians Attacked With Chemical Weapons
- 1981-1988: Reagan Administration Gives Covert Support to Iraq Against Iran
- 1986: NULL write over us-iraq 80s
- Late 1979: MEK Expelled from Iran
- December 2003: Iraq Orders MEK to Leave; Pentagon Opposes Requirement
- June 2007: US Air Force Plans for Massive Three-Day Air Strike Against Iran
- October 2006: MEK Providing Dubious Intelligence About Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities
- February 2007: Head of Centcom Fallon Opposes Naval Buildup and Military Strikes against Iran
- May 2005: Former MEK Members Say They Were Beaten, Confined for Criticizing Leadership