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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. 2003-01-26 January 26, 2003: Andrew Card: ‘I Think the Iraqi People Would Welcome Freedom with Jubilation’
  2. 2003-01-26 January 26, 2003: Colin Powell Asserts Iraq Trying to Obtain Uranium and Equipment to Produce Nuclear Weapon
  3. 2003-01-27 January 27, 2003: CIA Director Apparently Fails to Vet State of Union Address, Allows Uranium Claim to Be Included
  4. 2003-01-27 January 27, 2003: Chief Weapons Inspectors Report on Progress of Inspections in Iraq
  5. 2003-01-27 January 27, 2003: Democrats Ask Bush to Allow Diplomacy, Inspections in Iraq to Continue
  6. 2003-01-27 January 27, 2003: CIA Headquarters Warned That Allegations Based on ‘Curveball’ Should Not Be Used in Bush’s Speech
  7. 2003-01-27 January 27, 2003: Uranium in Benin Warehouse Meant for France, not Iraq
  8. 2003-01-28 January 28, 2003: Retired General Schwarzkopf Warns of ‘Cockiness’ in Iraq War Planning
  9. 2003-01-28 January 28-29, 2003: CIA Official ‘Dumbfounded’ at Bush’s Claims
  10. 2003-01-28 January 28-29, 2003: CIA Analyst, Former Ambassador Bemused by President’s Claim of Iraq-Niger Uranium Deal
  11. 2003-01-28 January 28, 2003: CIA Report Falsely Suggests Hussein Is Permitting Al-Qaeda to Operate in His Territory
  12. 2003-01-28 January 28, 2003: Newspaper Contradicts Allegations of Iraq-Al-Qaeda Operational Links
  13. 2003-01-28 January 28, 2003: Powell Said to Misrepresent Report from Weapons Inspectors
  14. 2003-01-28 After (9:30 pm) January 28, 2003: French Shocked at Bush’s Claim that Iraq Sought Uranium from Africa; Launches Another Investigation Which Again Turns up Nothing
  15. 2003-01-28 January 28, 2003: White House Complains Iraq Did Not Report Effort to Acquire Uranium
  16. 2003-01-28 9:01 pm January 28, 2003: President Bush Gives His 2003 State of the Union Address
  17. 2003-01-29 January 29, 2003: Russian Foreign Minister Says His Country Has Found No Links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda
  18. 2003-01-29 January 29, 2003: John Negroponte Says Administration ‘Convinced’ that Aluminum Tubes Were Intended for Iraq’s Alleged Nuclear Program
  19. 2003-01-29 January 29, 2003: Powell Accepts Task of Making Administration’s Case for War; Finds White House Dossier Unreliable
  20. 2003-01-29 January 29, 2003: Rumsfeld Says Saddam Recently Sought Uranium in Africa
  21. 2003-01-29 January 29, 2003: Joseph Wilson Wants White House to Correct the Record with Regard to Uranium-from-Africa Allegation
  22. 2003-01-31 January 31, 2003: State Department’s Intelligence Bureau Flags 38 Claims in Powell’s UN Speech as ‘Weak,’ ‘Unsubstantiated’
  23. 2003-01-31 January 31, 2003: Bush and Blair Acknowledge No Direct Link Between Saddam and 9/11
  24. 2003-01-31 January 31, 2003: Bush Tells Blairs US Going to War Regardless of Inspection Results; US Considering Luring Saddam into Shooting at US Aircraft Painted in UN Colors
  25. 2003-01-31 January 31, 2003: US Conducts Covert Surveillance Against United Nations Delegates
  26. 2003-02-01 February 1, 2003-February 4, 2003: Powell Refuses to Include Certain Material in His Speech Linking Iraq to Islamic Militants
  27. 2003-02-02 February 2, 2003: State Department’s Intelligence Bureau Finds More ‘Unverifiable’ Items in Powell’s Speech
  28. 2003-02-03 February 3, 2003: Britain Releases ‘Dodgy Dossier’ Plagiarized from Grad Student’s Magazine Article, Other Sources
  29. 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
  30. 2003-02-03 February 3, 2003: Powell Says UN Presentation Will Not Include ‘Smoking Gun’
  31. 2003-02-03 February 3, 2003: Colin Powell Warned Not To Cite Aluminum Tubes as Evidence of Iraq Nuclear Weapons Program
  32. 2003-02-03 February 3, 2003: Top CIA Official Concerned that Curveball Might Pop Up Somewhere after Powell Speech and Undermine Case
  33. 2003-02-04 January 30-February 4, 2003: Powell’s Team Compiles Information for Upcoming Presentation on Its Own
  34. 2003-02-04 February 4, 2003: Powell’s Team Conducts Dress Rehearsal for Upcoming UN Presentation
  35. 2003-02-04 February 4, 2003: IAEA Receives Iraq-Niger Documents, Talking Points
  36. 2003-02-04 February 4, 2003: CIA Official: ‘This War’s Going to Happen Regardless of What Curveball Said or Didn’t Say’
  37. 2003-02-04 February 4, 2003: Hussein Denies Any Relationship to Al-Qaeda
  38. 2003-02-04 February 4, 2003: US Reportedly Thinks Action against Iraq Will Increase Chances of Terrorism by 75 Percent
  39. 2003-02-04 January 30-February 4, 2003: Powell’s Top Aide Refuses to Include Material From White House Reports in Powell’s Upcoming UN Speech
  40. 2003-02-04 (11:00 p.m.) February 4, 2003: CIA Officer Reviews Terrorism Section of Powell’s UN Speech
  41. 2003-02-04 February 4-5, 2003: CIA Officer Reminds Tenet that Source for Mobile Labs is Not Reliable
  42. 2003-02-04 February 4, 2003: Top CIA Officials Assure Powell and Top Aide that Evidence for Mobile Weapons Labs is Strong
  43. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: Author Learns of British Government Plagiarism of His Work for ‘Dodgy Dossier’
  44. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: German Intelligence Officer Shocked that Powell Used Curveball Info
  45. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003 and After: Media Reaction to Powell’s Speech Overwhelmingly Positive, Less So among Skeptical Nations
  46. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: Plame Wilson ‘Deeply Upset’ at Powell’s UN Presentation
  47. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: Powell Aide Nervous about ‘Ineffective’ UN Presentation
  48. 2003-02-05 After February 5, 2003: Powell’s Chief of Staff: UN Presentation a ‘Hoax on the American People, the International Community, and the UN Security Council’
  49. 2003-02-05 After February 5, 2003: Wilson: Powell’s UN Presentation Unconvincing, Final Proof of Complicity with Administration Neoconservatives
  50. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: US Provides IAEA with Copy of Niger Documents