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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. 2003-03-18 March 18, 2003: Bush’s Parents Say They Are Staying ‘Off the Stage;’ Barbara Bush Says She Will Not ‘Waste’ Her ‘Beautiful Mind’ Watching War Coverage
  2. 2003-03-18 March 18, 2003: British House of Commons Votes to Authorize Attack on Iraq
  3. 2003-03-18 March 18, 2003: Bush Sends Formal Determination of Iraqi WMDs to Congress, but Determination Is Later Criticized as Inadequate
  4. 2003-03-18 March 18, 2003: President Bush Sends Letter to Congress Justifying Decision to Invade Iraq
  5. 2003-03-18 (Before March 18, 2003): CIA Conducts Major Review of Iraq Intelligence; Finds No Evidence of a Link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda
  6. 2003-03-19 March 19, 2003: Neoconservative: ‘Iraq Is a Battle, Not a War’
  7. 2003-03-19 (7:40 a.m.) March 19, 2003: Bush Gives ‘Order to Execute Operation Iraqi Freedom’
  8. 2003-03-19 August 2002-March 19, 2003: Vast Majority of Washington Post Reporting on Iraq Supports Push for War
  9. 2003-03-19 Before March 19, 2003: CIA Briefings Do Not Mention Yellowcake Allegation
  10. 2003-03-19 March 19, 2003: US and Partners Invade Iraq
  11. 2003-03-19 July 2002-March 19, 2003: Intelligence Groups Refute Bush Claim of Iraqi Ties to al-Qaeda
  12. 2003-03-19 (March 19, 2003-July 16, 2003): Donald Rumsfeld Approves All Requests for Air Strikes With High Risk of Killing More Than 30 Civilians
  13. 2003-03-19 March 19, 2003: US Diplomat Resigns over Invasion of Iraq
  14. 2003-03-19 Before March 19, 2003: US and British Officials Say Hussein Not Developing Nuclear Weapons
  15. 2003-03-20 March 20, 2003: US Forces Obliterate Dora Farms Compound, Miss Hussein
  16. 2003-03-20 Before March 20, 2003: CIA Discusses Producing Fake Videos to Assist Iraq Invasion
  17. 2003-03-21 March 21, 2003: Press Secretary Fleischer Insists Bush Administration Has Evidence of Iraqi WMDs
  18. 2003-03-22 March 22, 2003: Pentagon Official Continues to Assert that US Knows Location of WMDs in Iraq
  19. 2003-03-22 March 22, 2003: General Franks Claims Evidence of WMDs and SCUD Launchers in Iraq
  20. 2003-03-23 March 23, 2003: CIA Analysts Confirm Pressure from Administration to Conform Reports to Bush Policies
  21. 2003-03-23 March 23, 2003: Defense Policy Board Member Expresses Certainty of Imminent Discovery of Large WMD Caches
  22. 2003-03-24 March 24, 2003: Antiwar Critics ‘Foolish’ to Predict Sectarian Violence in Iraq, Says Columnist
  23. 2003-03-24 March 24, 2003: Rumsfeld Says He Has Seen Intelligence Showing Iraq Has Chemical and Biological Weapons
  24. 2003-03-25 March 25, 2003: New York Times Explores Role of Retired Generals as Network Military Analysts
  25. 2003-03-25 March 25, 2003: Arab League Says Invasion of Iraq Violates UN Charter
  26. 2003-03-25 March 25, 2003: Neoconservative Michael Ledeen Does Not Believe US Casualties Will be an Issue if War Goes Well Because ‘We Are a Warlike People and… We Love War’
  27. 2003-03-25 March 25, 2003: Wolfowitz: World Will ‘See an Explosion of Joy and Relief’ in Iraq after US Overthrow of Iraqi Government
  28. 2003-03-26 March 26, 2003: Powell Says US Wants to Work with Iraqi Commander ‘As Soon As Possible’
  29. 2003-03-26 March 26, 2003: Bush Says US Will Help Iraq Find Benefits of Self-Government
  30. 2003-03-27 March 27, 2003: Wolfowitz Says Iraqi Oil Will ‘Finance Its Own Reconstruction’
  31. 2003-03-27 March 27, 2003: Rumsfeld Says Iraqi Government and International Community Should Pay Share of Reconstruction Costs
  32. 2003-03-27 March 27, 2003: Deputy Secreatry of State Armitage Says Iraqi Oil Money Will Be Significant
  33. 2003-03-30 March 30, 2003: Rumsfeld Says Iraq’s Chemical and Biological Weapons are Near ‘Tikrit and Baghdad and East, West, South and North Somewhat’
  34. 2003-03-31 March 31, 2003: US Forces Overrun Supposed Militant ‘Poison Factory’ in Iraq, but Its Poison Capabilities Appear Overblown
  35. 2003-04-01 April 1, 2003: Wolfowitz Says US Wants Iraq to Be Democracy
  36. 2003-04-02 April 2, 2003: Questions Begin to Arise over Post-Invasion Planning in Media
  37. 2003-04-02 April 2, 2003: Powell Says US Wants End to Iraq War ‘As Soon As Possible’
  38. 2003-04-03 April 3, 2003: CIA Notifies Congress of Findings Regarding Iraq-Niger Uranium Deal
  39. 2003-04-04 April 4, 2003: Rice Says Iraq Will Be Handed over to Iraqis ‘As Quickly As Possible’
  40. 2003-04-05 April 5, 2003: US Intel Report: Iraq Probably Did Not Try to Obtain Uranium from Niger
  41. 2003-04-06 April 6, 2003: Wolfowitz Says US Will Arrive in Iraq as ‘Army of Liberation’
  42. 2003-04-06 April 6, 2003: Iraqi Training Camp Overrun by US Forces; Allegations Facility Was Used to Train Islamist Terrorists Is Found Baseless
  43. 2003-04-09 Shortly After April 9, 2003: US Troops Find Many Forged Documents in Iraq that Attempt to Link Hussein and Al-Qaeda
  44. 2003-04-10 April 10, 2003: Press Secretary Fleischer: War Is about Iraq’s Alleged Arsenal of WMDs
  45. 2003-04-10 April 10, 2003: Wolfowitz Says Pentagon Wants Fast Transfer of Power to Iraqis
  46. 2003-04-13 April 13, 2003: Chalabi Says Iraqi Reconstruction Should be Completed In ‘Only a Few Weeks’
  47. 2003-04-13 April 13, 2003: Rumsfelds Says US Invasion of Iraq Aimed at Bring Democracy
  48. 2003-04-13 April 13, 2003: Gen. Tommy Franks Says Iraq Will Be A Model
  49. 2003-04-14 April 14, 2003: CBS News Anchor Dan Rather Says His News Coverage Has Pro-US Bias
  50. 2003-04-16 April 16, 2003: State Department Official Talks about Creating Iraqi Interim Authority