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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

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  1. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: Rice Says She Is Sure that Iraq Is Linked to Al-Qaeda
  2. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: Australian Senate Passes Vote of No Confidence in Prime Minister over Iraq Deployment
  3. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: Defense Department Document Indicates Poor Planning for Post-War Iraq
  4. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: Powell Gives Fraudulent Presentation About Iraqi WMDs to UN
  5. 2003-02-05 2:30 a.m. February 5, 2003: Tenet Calls Powell’s Hotel Room with Concerns that Too Much Has Been Cut from Speech
  6. 2003-02-05 (2:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) February 5, 2003: Scooter Libby Pushes for Inclusion of Claim about Prague Connection into Powell’s UN Speech
  7. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: CIA Official Tells Former Colleague Allegations in Powell’s Speech Are Not Backed by Evidence
  8. 2003-02-05 Before February 5, 2003: Powell Tells Biden: ‘Someday I’ll Tell You Why’
  9. 2003-02-06 February 6, 2003: Media Exposes Plagiarized ‘Dodgy Dossier,’ Notes Information Is 12 Years Old
  10. 2003-02-06 February 6, 2003: US Politicians Question Why Bush Administration Highlights Training Camp as Justifying War Against Iraq without Actually Attacking the Camp
  11. 2003-02-06 February 6, 2003: UN Inspectors Find Evidence Disproving Curveball’s Allegations of Mobile Bioweapons Labs
  12. 2003-02-06 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’
  13. 2003-02-07 February 7, 2003: Antiwar Group Identifies 1999 Book as Another ‘Dodgy Dossier’ Source
  14. 2003-02-07 February 7, 2003: Iraqi Officials Demonstrate Sites Cited by Powell Are Monitored
  15. 2003-02-07 February 7, 2003: Powell’s Use of Plagiarized Dossier Criticized by Jane’s Editor
  16. 2003-02-07 February 7, 2003: Bush Says It’s Up To Saddam Hussein Whether There Is War or Peace
  17. 2003-02-07 February 7, 2003: ’Dodgy Dossier’ a ‘Cut-and-Paste Job’ By Downing Street, Coalition Information Center; Authors Instructed to Focus on Obstruction
  18. 2003-02-08 February 8, 2003: Bush Assures US that WMD and Al-Qaeda Training Camps Exist in Iraq
  19. 2003-02-08 February 8, 2003: Jane’s Says 1997, 2002 Articles Used for ‘Dodgy Dossier’
  20. 2003-02-08 February 8, 2003: British Press Blasts ‘Dodgy Dossier’
  21. 2003-02-08 February 8, 2003: Weapons Experts Visit Alleged Biological Weapons Site Described by Curveball; Evidence Contradicts Curveball’s Story
  22. 2003-02-09 February 9, 2003: Powell Derides UN Inspectors, Troops in Iraq
  23. 2003-02-09 February 9, 2003: Prisoner Interviews Debunk Allegations of Al-Qaeda-Iraqi Government Ties
  24. 2003-02-10 February 10-13, 2003: 100,000 US Troops, 39,000 Reservists, Multiple Aircraft Carrier Groups Deploy to Gulf
  25. 2003-02-10 February 10, 2003: Labour Party Lawmaker Calls for Emergency Debate on Plagiarized Dossier
  26. 2003-02-12 February 12, 2003: New Alleged Bin Laden Speech Is Aired Discussing Iraq, Speaker Says Saddam Is Finished
  27. 2003-02-12 February 12, 2003: Poll Finds 90 Percent in Britain Oppose War in Iraq without UN Resolution
  28. 2003-02-12 February 12, 2003: Democratic Senators Accuse Tenet of Sabotaging Weapons Inspections
  29. 2003-02-12 February 12, 2003: Panel Finds Iraqi Missiles Are Violation of UN Resolution
  30. 2003-02-13 February 13, 2003: Neoconservative Ledeen Says Iraq Invasion Could Be ‘War to Remake the World’
  31. 2003-02-13 February 13, 2003: Wilson: Imperial Vision of US Neoconservatives Driving War with Iraq
  32. 2003-02-14 February 14, 2003: UN Gives Update on Progress of Weapons Inspections
  33. 2003-02-16 February 16, 2003: Condoleezza Rice Alleges Iraqi Government Is Allowing Al-Qaeda to Operate in Iraq
  34. 2003-02-16 February 16, 2003: Experts Estimate Cost of Iraq War at up to $682 Billion
  35. 2003-02-17 February 17, 2003: CIA Report Predicts More Than 90 Percent Chance Hussein and Terrorists Will Attack US with WMDs
  36. 2003-02-17 February 17, 2003: International Atomic Energy Agency Scientist Concludes Niger Documents Are Fraudulent
  37. 2003-02-18 February 18, 2003: White House Spokesman Says Iraq Can Significantly Contribute to Own Reconstruction
  38. 2003-02-19 February 19, 2003: Expert with Access to Classified Evidence Claims There Is No Al-Qaeda-Iraqi Government Link
  39. 2003-02-20 February 20, 2003: Most in US Think Weapons Inspectors Have Found Proof Iraq Is Trying to Hide WMDs
  40. 2003-02-20 February 20, 2003: British Intelligence Briefing Indicates Saddam Probably Does Not Have WMDs
  41. 2003-02-20 February 20, 2003: Russian Foreign Minister Says US and Britain Pressuring Weapons Inspectors to Discontinue Operations
  42. 2003-02-21 February 21, 2003: UN Weapons Inspector Tells Iraq It Must Begin Destroying Missiles
  43. 2003-02-22 February 22, 2003: IAEA Says Iraq Has ‘Cooperated Increasingly Well’ with Inspectors
  44. 2003-02-23 February 23, 2003: Bush Tells Aznar US Will Invade Baghdad In March
  45. 2003-02-23 February 23, 2003: Wolfowitz Says US Wants to Liberate Iraq, Not Occupy It
  46. 2003-02-24 February 24, 2003: US Officials Reportedly Tell UN Diplomat Iraq War Decision Has Not Been Made
  47. 2003-02-24 February 24, 2003: US, Allies Push for Second UN Resolution Against Iraq; Other Countries Submit Alternative
  48. 2003-02-25 February 25, 2003: ’Donahue’ Cancelled by MSNBC, Replaced by Clutch of Right-Wing Commentators and Hosts
  49. 2003-02-25 February 25, 2003: Neoconservative Foreign Policy Adviser Says UN Weapons Inspectors Being ‘Seriously Deceived’ by Iraqis
  50. 2003-02-25 February 25, 2003: ConocoPhillips CEO ‘Covet[s] the Opportunity to Get’ Iraq Oil