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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. 2003-02-25 February 25, 2003: Top Army General Says ‘Several Hundred Thousand Soldiers’ Will Be Needed to Secure Iraq
  2. 2003-02-26 February 26, 2003: Bush: Overthrowing Hussein will Lead to Democratization of Iraq, Creation of Peaceful Palestinian State, and Validation of UN Authority
  3. 2003-02-26 February 26, 2003: Fox Pundit: Dissenters ‘Will be Spotlighted’
  4. 2003-02-26 February 26, 2003: Conservative Pundit Calls Antiwar Dissenters ‘Enemies of the State’
  5. 2003-02-26 February 26, 2003: Classified State Department Report Predicts Civil Unrest and Sectarian Violence in Post-Invasion Iraq
  6. 2003-02-27 February 27, 2003: Defense Department Refuses to Certify that Troops Have Adequate Protective Gear
  7. 2003-02-27 February 27, 2003: Iraq Destroys its Al Samoud Missiles; US Describes Iraq’s Actions as ‘Deception’
  8. 2003-02-27 February 27, 2003: Pentagon Chiefs Dispute Prediction that Several Hundred Thousand Soldiers Will Be Needed to Secure Iraq
  9. 2003-02-28 February 28, 2003: Wilson Explains ‘Shock and Awe’ Strategy, Rationale for ‘Re-growing the Middle East’
  10. 2003-02-28 February 28, 2003: Powell Suggests Invading Iraq Could Inadvertently Bring Peace and Stability to Middle East; Hints at International Support
  11. 2003-02-28 February 28, 2003: UN Report Says Weapons Inspectors Have Not Found Anything in Iraq Yet
  12. 2003-02-28 February 28, 2003: US Special Envoy Persuades President of Chile to Support Use of Force against Iraq
  13. 2003-03-01 March 1, 2003: Iraq Begins Destroying Equipment in Criticized Program
  14. 2003-03-02 March 2, 2003: British Newspaper Reveals US Has Been Spying on Diplomats at United Nations
  15. 2003-03-03 March 3, 2003: Joseph Wilson: US Intention in Middle East Is to Install ‘Vassal Regimes That Will Control Restive Populations’
  16. 2003-03-04 March 4, 2003: France Informs US that Previous French Assessment Regarding Africa-Uranium Allegation Was Based on Forged Documents
  17. 2003-03-04 March 4, 2003: Powell Says US Does Not Want War over Iraq
  18. 2003-03-05 March 5, 2003: ABC Panel Discussion on Iraq Marred by Accusations of Racism, ‘Appeasement’
  19. 2003-03-05 March 5, 2003: State Department Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq Updated
  20. 2003-03-05 March 5, 2003: British Prime Minister Blair Seems to Agree with Robin Cook that Iraq Unlikely to Use WMD against US
  21. 2003-03-06 March 6, 2003: Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, and Russia Oppose UN Resolution
  22. 2003-03-06 March 6, 2003: ’Scripted’ Press Conference Gives Bush Opportunity to Air Talking Points on Iraq War
  23. 2003-03-06 March 6, 2003: Bush Says Decision Has Not Been Made To Use Force Against Iraq
  24. 2003-03-06 March 6, 2003: President Bush Says US Will Ask for UN Vote on Iraq Regardless of Anticipated Outcome
  25. 2003-03-07 March 7, 2003-July 7, 2003: US and Britain Continue to Maintain They Have Evidence Iraq Was Trying to Buy Uranium from Niger; Evidence Based on Forged Documents
  26. 2003-03-07 March 7, 2003-March 9, 2003: Poll Shows 45 Percent of People Beleive Saddam Hussein Personally Involved in 9/11
  27. 2003-03-07 March 7, 2003: UNMOVIC and IAEA Reports on Iraq Weapons Inspections Undermine Bush Administration’s Claims
  28. 2003-03-07 March 7, 2003: UN Diplomats Debate Text of Resolution Calling on Iraq to Disarm
  29. 2003-03-08 March 8, 2003: State Department Official: ‘We Fell for’ the Iraq-Niger Forgeries
  30. 2003-03-08 March 8, 2003: Wilson Decides to Expose Administration Duplicity over Iraq-Niger Uranium Claims
  31. 2003-03-08 March 8, 2003: Ambassador’s Report on Iraq-Niger Claim Disseminated by CIA
  32. 2003-03-08 March 8, 2003: Professor Rebuts Bush’s Case for Overthrow of Hussein
  33. 2003-03-08 March 8, 2003: Bush Says Saddam is Refusing to Disarm; Says US Is Doing Everything Possible To Avoid War
  34. 2003-03-09 March 9, 2003 and After: White House Begins Campaign to Smear, Discredit Wilson
  35. 2003-03-09 March 9, 2003: Condoleezza Rice Suggests Hussein Could Work with Al-Qaeda to Attack US
  36. 2003-03-09 March 9, 2003: UN Investigates NSA Wiretapping of Security Council Delegates
  37. 2003-03-10 March 10, 2003: US Diplomat Resigns over Iraq War
  38. 2003-03-11 March 11, 2003: CIA Report: Iraq-Niger Uranium Claims Are False
  39. 2003-03-11 March 11, 2003: Wolfowitz: Iraqis ‘View Us as Their Hoped-For Liberator’
  40. 2003-03-14 Shortly Before March 14, 2003: CIA Allegedly Prevents Bush from Mentioning Atta in Prague Claim in Speech
  41. 2003-03-14 March 14, 2003: Ranking Senate Intelligence Committee Member Asks for FBI Investigation of Forged Iraq-Niger Documents
  42. 2003-03-14 March 14, 2003-March 15, 2003: 51 Percent of US Poll Respondents Think Saddam Hussein Personally Involved in 9/11
  43. 2003-03-16 March 16-19, 2003: Washington Post Buries Reporting Questioning Evidence Justifying Iraq War
  44. 2003-03-16 March 16, 2003: Vice President Cheney Says Iraq Has ‘Reconstituted Nuclear Weapons’
  45. 2003-03-16 March 16, 2003: US Warns UN and IAEA That It Is not Safe for their Staff To Remain in Iraq
  46. 2003-03-17 March 17-18, 2003: House of Commons Leader Resigns Post in Protest of Iraq Invasion
  47. 2003-03-17 March 17, 2003: President Bush Justifies Imminent US Invasion of Iraq, Claims Iraq Has WMDs and Al-Qaeda Links
  48. 2003-03-17 January 2003-March 17, 2003: CIA Provides Centcom with Target Intelligence, but It Is ‘Crap’
  49. 2003-03-17 March 17, 2003: UN Weapons Inspectors Leave Iraq
  50. 2003-03-17 March 17, 2003: British Attorney General Says Invasion of Iraq Is Legal