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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. Late January, 2003: CIA Officer Deletes Erroneous Paragraph in Powell’s Upcoming Speech about WMD Trailers; Warns CIA Deputy Director
  2. Late September 2001: Cheney’s Chief of Staff Pressures Clarke to Support Alleged Mohamed Atta-Iraq Connection
  3. January 2003: Pentagon Creates Coalition Provisional Authority
  4. Mid-June 2003: David Kay Given Access to CIA’s Prewar Intelligence; Disappointed
  5. Mid-October 2002: State Department Intelligence Official Questions Authenticity of Niger Documents
  6. Early June 2003-Mid-June 2003: US and British Intelligence Experts Say Trailers Found in Iraq Not for Biological Weapons
  7. February 2003: Former Iraqi Oil Minister Believes Iraq Could One Day Rival Saudi Arabia in Oil Production
  8. After January 2003: Gen. Franks Rejects Anabasis Plan
  9. Mid-January 2003: White House Speechwriters Include Uranium Allegation in Draft of President’s State of the Union Address
  10. Early January 2003: White House Staffers Tasked with Improving Draft of Powell’s UN Speech
  11. 1918: British Secretary of War Writes That Control over Oil in Iraq and Iran Is ‘a First Class British War Aim’
  12. Summer 2001: IAEA Scientist: US ‘Wants to Attack’ Iraq
  13. 2002-2003: US Embassies Approached by Numerous Cons Claiming to Have Info on Iraqi WMD
  14. (Summer 2003): Iraq Survey Group Concludes Iraqi Drones Harmless
  15. December 2006: Iraq Study Group Final Report Recommends Urgent Changes to Iraq’s Oil Industry; Report Rejected by Bush
  16. July 2003: Iraq Survey Group Investigates Aluminum Tubes at Nasr Munitions Plant
  17. Late July 2001: CIA Analyst Argues with Group of International Scientists over the Potential Uses of the Confiscated Aluminum Tubes
  18. 2001-2002: Vice President’s Staff Read Unedited Transcripts of NSA Intercepts
  19. (2006): CIA Expert on Iraq Claims US Intelligence Never Had Any Evidence of Hussein-Al-Qaeda Link
  20. Late December 2002: White House Complains That Draft of Powell’s UN Speech is Lacking in Detail
  21. Late 2002-2003: Pentagon Neoconservatives Receptive to Israeli Intelligence Dismissed by CIA
  22. April 2003: State Department Oil and Energy Working Group Publishes its Formal Policy Recommendations for Post-Invasion Iraq
  23. January 2003: CIA Analyst Warns in Paper That Establishing Democracy in Iraq Will Not Be Easy; Ethnic and Religious Divisions May Fuel Violence
  24. Mid-January 2003: Pentagon White Paper Proposes Creation of a ‘Rapid Reaction Media Team’ to Control Iraqi Media
  25. Between March 2001 and May 2001: Richard Clarke: Bush Officials Discuss CreatingCasus Bellifor War with Iraq
  26. Summer 2002: Rumsfeld: ‘I’m Going to Create My Own Intelligence Agency’
  27. May 2002-September 2002: Top Iraqi Scientist Tells CIA Informant That Iraq’s Nuclear Program Ended in 1991
  28. 2004: Former CIA Official Condemns Iraq War as an ‘Avaricious, Premeditated, Unprovoked war’
  29. November 2002: CIA Officials Discuss Plans for Sabotage in Iraq at Secret Meeting in London
  30. August 2004: Shell Oil Looking for PR Officer with ‘Strong Family Connections’ to Work for Shell Iraq
  31. Late January 2003: US Army War College Report Predicts Civil War in Post-Saddam Iraq
  32. After Summer 2004: British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Advise Iraqi Oil Ministry
  33. Summer 2004: Britain Says Iraq Needs to Work with Foreign Oil Companies to Increase Oil Output
  34. 1947: British Paper States That Middle East Is a ‘Vital Prize’ for Any Power Seeking ‘Domination’
  35. 1945: US State Department Official Calls Saudi Oil ‘One of the Greatest Material Prizes in World History’
  36. March 2007: Journalist Calls Neocon Policy Paper ‘A Playbook for US-Israel Foreign Policy During Bush-Cheney Era’
  37. June 1982: Reagan Formalizes US’s Commitment to Aid Iraq
  38. Early 1984: Bush Begins Involvement in ‘Iraqgate’
  39. Late January 1984: US Official Meets with Iraqi Foreign Minister to Discuss Details of US Arms Deals
  40. Late August 1990: US Ambassador Says US Didn’t Expect Iraq to Take ‘All of Kuwait’
  41. April 1990: Hussein Threatens to ‘Burn Half of Israel;’ Bush Continues to Allow Iraq to Develop WMDs
  42. May 1990: Bush Administration Still Sharing Intelligence with Iraq
  43. December 1990: Cheney Tells Congress the President Does Not Need Its Approval to Go to War
  44. September 1980: Iraq Invades Iran; Start of Iran-Iraq War
  45. 1982: US Supplies Iraq with Military Intelligence
  46. February 1982: Reagan Administration Removes Iraq from Terrorist Sponsor List
  47. 1983: NSC Approves Sale of Helicopters to Iraq; Later Used in Poison Gas Deployment
  48. 1983: With Reagan’s Approval, US Allies Supply Iraq with Weapons to Use against Iran
  49. 1984: CIA Assists Iraq in Chemical Weapons Attacks
  50. 1985: Shultz Convinces Lawmaker to Drop Bill Placing Iraq on Terror List