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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. 2003-10-28 October 28, 2003: Watergate Counsel: Plame Wilson Leak an Act of ‘Domestic Terrorism’ under Patriot Act
  2. 2003-10-30 October 30, 2003: Judiciary Committee Chairman Ignores Request for Plame Wilson Investigation
  3. 2003-11-02 November 2, 2003: Rumsfeld Claims that No Administration Official Claimed Iraq Had Tried to Obtain Nuclear Weapons
  4. 2003-11-14 November 14, 2003: Neoconservative Magazine’s Attempt to Revive Iraq-Al-Qaeda Link Is Immediately Discredited
  5. 2003-11-19 November 19, 2003: Prominent Neoconservative Admits Invasion of Iraq Was Probably Illegal
  6. 2003-11-21 November 21, 2003: Former Weapons Inspector Tells British of Two Disinformation Campaigns
  7. 2003-11-24 November 24, 2003: Administration Official: Plans for Chalabi to Be US’s ‘Man in Baghdad’ Based on Nothing More than Faith
  8. 2003-11-24 November 24, 2003: Russert Tells FBI He Did Not Speak to Libby about Plame Wilson
  9. 2003-11-26 November 26, 2003: Libby Interviewed a Second Time by FBI Concerning Plame Wilson Leak
  10. 2003-12-03 December 3, 2003: Study Finds Iraq Invasion Could Cost Almost $2 Trillion
  11. 2003-12-07 December 7, 2003: Iraqi Claims to be Source of 45-Minute WMD Claim; Tells Lurid Tale to British Reporter
  12. 2003-12-10 December 10, 2003: CIA Official Tells FBI of Conversations with Libby regarding Wilson, Wife
  13. 2003-12-11 December 11, 2003: Oversight Committee Chairman Ignores Third Request for Plame Wilson Investigation
  14. 2003-12-14 December 14, 2003: Dubious Document Links Mohamed Atta to Saddam Hussein’s Government
  15. 2003-12-17 December 17, 2003: Bush on Iraq’s Lack of WMDs: ‘So What’s the Difference?’
  16. 2003-12-19 December 19, 2003: BearingPoint Completes Iraq Oil Report for State Department
  17. 2003-12-30 December 30, 2003: Justice Department Names Patrick Fitzgerald as Special Counsel for Plame Wilson Leak Investigation
  18. 2004-01-01 January 1, 2004: Critics Worry about Fitzgerald’s Objectivity
  19. 2004-01-02 January 2-5, 2004: Fitzgerald Investigators to Ask for Blanket Waivers of Confidentiality from White House Officials
  20. 2004-01-08 January 8, 2004: FBI Interviews CIA Briefer for Cheney, Libby, Who Fails to Reveal Previous Conversations about Plame Wilson
  21. 2004-01-08 January 8, 2004: Powell Says No Smoking Gun of Al-Qaeda-Iraq Link
  22. 2004-01-09 January 9, 2004: Cheney Says Feith’s Intelligence is ‘Best Source of Information’ on Links between Hussein and Al-Qaeda
  23. 2004-01-12 January 12, 2004: Fitzgerald Informs Novak of Waivers from Sources
  24. 2004-01-12 January 12, 2004: Army War College Report: Iraq War ‘Unnecessary,’ War on Terror ‘Unrealistic’
  25. 2004-01-12 (January 12, 2004): Donald Rumsfeld Warns Paul O’Neill About Going Ahead With Book
  26. 2004-01-14 January 14, 2004: Novak Discloses Sources to Fitzgerald
  27. 2004-01-15 January 15, 2004: Cheney’s Communications Director Interviewed by Fitzgerald Investigators
  28. 2004-01-20 January 20, 2004: Former CIA Staffers Push for Congressional Probe of Plame Wilson Leak
  29. 2004-01-20 January 20, 2004: Bush Gives State of the Union Address; Claims Iraq had WMD-‘Related Program Activities’
  30. 2004-01-21 January 21, 2004: House Democrats Ask that Plame Wilson Documents Be Turned Over
  31. 2004-01-22 January 22, 2004: Former CIA Officials Ask that Congress Open Inquiry into Plame Wilson Leak
  32. 2004-01-22 January 22, 2004: Grand Jury Subpoenas White House Records
  33. 2004-01-22 January 22, 2004: Cheney: Trailers ‘Conclusive Evidence’ of Iraqi Bioweapons Program
  34. 2004-01-23 January 23, 2004: Former Cheney Press Secretary Testifies before Grand Jury
  35. 2004-01-23 January 23, 2004: David Kay Resigns as Head of Iraq Survey Group
  36. 2004-01-27 January 27, 2004: Iraqi Claims of 45-Minute WMD Deployment Shown to Be False
  37. 2004-01-28 January 28, 2004: David Kay Tells Congress Iraq Survey Group Found No Evidence of WMD in Iraq, Says Hussein Deceived Own Generals
  38. 2004-01-29 January 29, 2004: David Kay Meets with President and Other White House Officials to Discuss Lack of WMDs
  39. 2004-02-05 February 5, 2004: Gore: Bush Manipulated Fears of 9/11 to Conflate Iraq and al-Qaeda
  40. 2004-02-05 February 5, 2004: Novak Quizzed Again by Fitzgerald
  41. 2004-02-05 February 5, 2004: Garner Says US Military Will Use Bases in Iraq ‘for the Next Few Decades’
  42. 2004-02-05 February 5, 2004: CIA Director Tenet Says Trailers ‘Could be Made to Work’ as Biological Weapons Labs
  43. 2004-02-06 February 6, 2004: White House Press Official Testifies before Grand Jury
  44. 2004-02-06 February 6, 2004: Former White House Press Official Testifies before Grand Jury
  45. 2004-02-06 February 6, 2004: Press Secretary Testifies before Grand Jury
  46. 2004-02-06 February 6, 2004: Acting Attorney General Confirms Fitzgerald’s Broad Powers of Investigation, Prosecution
  47. 2004-02-08 February 8, 2004: In Interview, Bush Admits Iraq Had No WMD, Says Invasion Was Necessary
  48. 2004-02-10 February 10, 2004: Former US Attorney Says Plame Wilson’s CIA Status ‘Well Known,’ Says Proving Crime in Identity Leak Almost Impossible
  49. 2004-02-10 February 10, 2004: Rumsfeld, Myers Claim Not to Remember 45-Minute Claim
  50. 2004-02-12 February 12, 2004: Cheney’s Chief Counsel Gives Statement to FBI concerning Conversation with Libby