History > 21st century > USA / UK > Iraq war / Second Gulf War    2003-2011

Abu Ghraib, WMDs, Saddam Hussein (1937-2006)

TIME cover 05-17-2004

"Iraq: How Did it Come to This?"

Illustration for Time by Matt Mahurin depicting a hooded Iraqi prisoner.

Location: US

Date taken: May 17, 2004

Life Images

Iraq War > Ten years on / after

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/iraq-war-10-years-on

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/ten-years-after-the-iraq-war-began.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/friedman-democrats-dragons-or-drones.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/the-silver-linings-of-iraq.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/iraq-a-school-for-terrorists-thanks-to-america.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/a-decade-of-despair.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/03/19/the-most-iconic-images-from-the-iraq-war-photos.html

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/03/19/the-iraq-war-was-it-worth-it

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/10-years-right-invaded-iraq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/01/occupying-iraq-us-army-veteran

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/iraq-war-not-justified

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/bush-administration-sold-iraq-war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/26/iraq-war-was-justified

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/feb/14/douglas-alexander-iraq-eu-referendum

U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over        December 15, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/opinion/friedman-the-end-for-now.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/middleeast/last-convoy-of-american-troops-leaves-iraq.html

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/what-iraqis-think-of-the-american-withdrawal-kurdish-region/

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/a-unit-near-last-in-the-military-withdrawal-from-iraq/

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/what-iraqis-think-of-the-american-withdrawal-kirkuk/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/us/politics/iraq-war-shaped-obamas-foreign-policy-white-house-memo.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/us/at-fort-bragg-obama-showers-praise-on-troops-back-from-iraq.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/opinion/a-formal-end-to-the-iraq-war.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/panetta-in-baghdad-for-iraq-military-handover-ceremony.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/end-for-us-begins-period-of-uncertainty-for-iraqis.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/opinion/an-unstable-divided-land.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/opinion/in-iraq-abandoning-our-friends.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/panetta-in-baghdad-for-iraq-military-handover-ceremony.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2011/12/11/reliving-history-iraq-war-mission-accomplished.html

USA        President Barack Obama

declares an end to combat mission in Iraq        31 August 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/world/01military.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/world/01obama-text.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01wed1.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/31/world/middleeast/iraq-drawdown.html

http://www.cagle.com/news/IraqExit10/main.asp

UK        Iraq war inquiry

The inquiry considers the period

from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009,

embracing the run-up to the conflict in Iraq,

the military action and the aftermath

There were protests outside the inquiry yesterday

featuring a 'Tony Blair' and fake blood

Lewis Whyld/PA

Chilcot Iraq Inquiry:

Britain 'knew Saddam Hussein had destroyed WMD'

Times Online        November 25, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6931174.ece

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/iraq-war-inquiry
http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/world/europe/22britain.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/21/chilcot-inquiry-tony-blair-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/20/tony-blair-chilcot-inquiry-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/21/tony-blair-chilcot-inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2011/jan/21/iraq-war-inquiry-tony-blair-in-pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/26/tony-blair-summoned-back-to-chilcot-inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/02/clare-short-warned-tony-blair
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7009090.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/6789231/Tony-Blair-Iraq-War-was-right-even-if-there-were-no-WMDs.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tony-blair-and-his-ohsoclean-conscience-1883656.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/to-gasps-from-the-gallery-blair-said-we-should-be-proud-of-the-war-1883651.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-unrepentant-and-assured-mr-blair-sees-nothing-to-learn-1883679.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/29/tony-blair-iraq-inquiry-chilcot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/29/blair-iraq-chilcot-inquiry-analysis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/gallery/2010/jan/29/tonyblair-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/29/responsible-no-regrets-blair-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/27/lord-goldsmith-iraq-inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/26/chilcot-inquiry-iraq-invasion-lawyers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6976933.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/dec/14/blair-iraq-regime-change-inspections
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/14/tony-blair-ken-macdonald-deceit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/12/tony-blair-iraq-chilcot-inquiry
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6931174.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2009/jul/31/martin-rowson-comment-cartoon
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/the-daily-cartoon-760940.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/chilcot-iraq-inquiry-blair
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/sir-john-chilcot-profile
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/iraq-war-inquiry
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6929750.ece

Iraq        Ali Hassan al-Majid,

better known as Chemical Ali, is executed        25 January 2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/25/chemical-ali-execution-iraq-kurd

Boston Globe > Big Picture > Documenting the return of U.S. war dead        2009

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/documenting_the_return_of_us_w.html

Timeline: Iraq        2003-2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/iraq-timeline-2003-2009

Timeline: Iraq        2002-2008

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/18/world/middleeast/20080319_IRAQWAR_TIMELINE.html#tab1

Chronology: Iraq        1918-1999

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/feb/18/kurds.rostaylor

Boston Globe > Big Picture > Daily Life in Sadr City, Iraq        2008
 

A boy carrying plastic toy weapons

approaches a U.S. Soldier of 1-6 battalion, 2nd brigade, 1st Armored Division

patrols in the Shiite enclave of Sadr city, Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, June 16, 2008.

AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris

Boston Globe > Big Picture > Daily Life in Sadr City, Iraq        June 18, 2008
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/daily_life_in_sadr_city_iraq.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/daily_life_in_sadr_city_iraq.html

Index of U.S. troop deaths in Iraq         7 May 2009

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/iraq-casualties.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-03-13-iraq-casualties_N.htm

Civilan casualties

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/middleeast/10casualties.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/18/world/middleeast/20080319_IRAQWAR_TIMELINE.html#tab7

TIME cover 06-12-2006

HADITHA: "Inside the investigation of whether the death of a U.S. Marine triggered the killing of 24 Iraqis

--and a military cover-up."

Video stills courtesy of Hammurabi Human Rights Group.

Location: US

Date taken: June 12, 2006

Photograph by Lucian Read--WPN (top);

Life Images

massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, Iraq        2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/middleeast/united-states-marines-haditha-interviews-found-in-iraq-junkyard.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/may/10/usa.iraq
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0426498320080605
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2184310,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-01-06-haditha-comments_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-06-haditha-probe_x.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2515579,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-08-02-haditha-report_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-10-marine-haditha_x.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1790499,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-04-pace-haditha_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-29-pace_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-05-29-haditha-background_x.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2201470,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-05-27-iraqallegations_x.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2199287,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1784307,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2200170,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2199287,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2103695,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2097541,00.html

Tariq Aziz

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/05/iraq-us-tariq-aziz-iran

Former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein,

makes a point during his initial interview by a special tribunal,

where he is informed of his alleged crimes and his legal rights.

July 2004 (2004-07)

Image and text from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saddam_Hussein_at_trial,_July_2004-edit1.JPEG

Primary source
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Still_Details.cfm?SDAN=DDSD0503992&JPGPath=/Assets/2005/DoD/DD-SD-05-03992.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein

Saddam Hussein abd al-Majid        1937-2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/saddam-hussein

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/h/saddam_hussein/index.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/10-years-right-invaded-iraq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/28/saddam-hussein-memoirs-daughter-publisher

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/may/13/this-much-i-know-trevor-mcdonald

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/world/middleeast/archive-offers-rare-glimpse-inside-mind-of-saddam-hussein.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/05/iraq-us-tariq-aziz-iran

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/world/middleeast/30saddam.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/30/iraq.guardianobituaries

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4304000/4304853.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/oct/23/iraq-war-logs-pictures#/?picture=367985784&index=8

Saddam Hussein is executed         30 December 2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/30/iraq.iraqtimeline

Trial of Saddam Hussein        2006-2005

http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1595622,00.html

Saddam Hussein is arrested        13 December, 2003

Saddam Hussein shortly after capture

14 December 2003 (2003-12-14)

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

Primary source
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/Still/2005/DoD/DD-SD-05-01884.JPEG
http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/about.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3317881.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3317429.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,,1106953,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,,1107008,00.html

Iraq War

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/worldspecial/index.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/h/saddam_hussein/index.html

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/index.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/saddam-hussein

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/george-bush

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/0,2759,423009,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1319718,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/us/politics/03rumsfeld.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/washington/28troops.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/us/politics/27obama-text.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51P0AY20090227
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-02-26-marine_N.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/27/obama-iraq-war-end-august-2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/18/uk-troop-withdrawal-iraq-brown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/17/iraq-agreement-brown-maliki
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/a-moment-for-truth-as-britain-exits-iraq-1202312.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/
without-fanfare-or-much-thanks-britain-departs-from-iraq-1202313.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/
patrick-cockburn-our-troops-had-few-friends-in-basra-1202314.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/
matthew-norman/matthew-norman-nobody-threw-shoes-at-brown-ndash-but-his-guilt-is-still-undeniable-1202268.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/0,2759,423009,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/opinion/23trans.html

Abu Ghraib prison

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib

02.28.2008 | 12:00 AM

This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is taken from a presentation by Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can, under the right circumstances, become evil

Image 7 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib?slide=7&slideView=2

TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired        By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is taken from a presentation by Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can, under the right circumstances, become evil

Image 3 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib?slide=3&slideView=3

TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired        By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is taken from a presentation by Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can, under the right circumstances, become evil

Image 1 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib

TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired        By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is taken from a presentation by Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can, under the right circumstances, become evil

Image 2 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib?slide=2&slideView=5

TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired        By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is taken from a presentation by Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can, under the right circumstances, become evil

Image 8 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib?slide=8&slideView=2

TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired        By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Attorneys for Lynndie England,
a U.S. soldier charged with abusing Iraqi inmates at a Baghdad prison,
asked on Wednesday to have her early statements to investigators and photos of her with naked prisoners
thrown out as evidence in her court-martial. Photographs of England holding a naked prisoner on a leash
and pointing to the genitals of another inmate at Abu Ghraib prison shocked the world
and damaged the Bush administration's efforts in Iraq when they surfaced publicly in April.

Photo by The Washington Post/Reuters
Lawyers Want Photos Thrown Out in Iraq Abuse Case, R, Wed Dec 1, 2004 08:08 PM ET
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6972100

Pvt. Lynndie England, 372nd Military Police Company
 is escorted by guards and her defense counsels,
Capt. Jonathan Crisp and Capt. Katherine Krul, from Fort Hood’s Williams Judicial Center
Tuesday night after she was sentenced to three years for prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
Spc. L. B. Edgar
Army News Service
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/uploads/large/OCPA-2005-09-28-175506.jpg

Court sentences England to 3 years
By Spc. L. B. Edgar
Army News Service

FORT HOOD, Texas (Army News Service, Sept. 28, 2005) --
The last Soldier to be tried for prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib
was sentenced to three years confinement Sept. 27
at Fort Hood’s Williams Judicial Center.
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7988

abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11367615
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2008/02/abu_ghraib_shocking_new_images.html
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib
http://www.salon.com//news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/index.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D81738F930A15752C0A9639C8B63 
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/10/040510fa_fact
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/08/25/abughraib.report/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/20/usa.iraq
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506EFD81630F93AA35755C0A9629C8B63

The New York Times > Times topics > Abu Ghraib
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/abu_ghraib/index.html

Abu Ghraib: shocking new images, shocking claims        2008
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2008/02/abu_ghraib_shocking_new_images.html
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib

The Abu Ghraib files        2006
279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army's internal investigation
record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison.
Warning: Photos contain disturbing images of violence, abuse and humiliation
http://www.salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/index.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-02-16-prison-abuse_x.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4718328.stm

Errol Morris’s “Standard Operating Procedure”        2008
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896866/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/jul/18/documentary
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/movies/26morris.html
http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/5147/errol-morris-on-standard-operating-procedure.html
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/movies/25stan.html
http://www.arte.tv/fr/cinema-fiction/Berlinale-2008/Tous-les-films/1927544.html
http://www.errolmorris.com/

Abu Ghraib > Pvt. Lynndie England
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/03/abu-ghraib-lynndie-england-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/28/iraq.usa
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7988
http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/iraq/england1.jpg

Abu Ghraib > Staff Sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/oct/22/usa.iraq

UK        Prime Minister Tony Blair        May 1997 - June 2007

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/tonyblair

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/28/tony-blair-iraq-spirit-broke

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page12009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6625869.stm

UK        Speech given by prime minister Tony Blair in Sedgefield,

justifying military action in Iraq and warning

of the continued threat of global terrorism        Full Text        5 March 2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/mar/05/iraq.iraq

USA        Unedited transcript of President George W. Bush's speech

from the flight deck of the USS Lincoln        May 1, 2003

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/05/01/bush.transcript/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/01/iraq/main551946.shtml

UK        Speech given by prime minister Tony Blair        Full text

Debate on the Iraq crisis in the house of Commons        18 March 2003

"There are glib and sometimes foolish comparisons with the 1930s.

No one here is an appeaser.

But the only relevant point of analogy is that with history,

we know what happened.

We can look back and say: there's the time; that was the moment;

for example, when Czechoslovakia was swallowed up by the Nazis

- that's when we should have acted."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/mar/18/foreignpolicy.iraq1

Massive aerial assault against Iraq

U.S. "shock and awe" campaign        March 2003

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/21/sprj.irq.war.main/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/21/sprj.irq.aday/

http://www.cnn.com/2003/fyi/news/03/22/iraq.war/

Iraq invasion        2003

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/10/iraq.iraqtimeline

WMDs / Weapons of mass destruction claim        2002-2004

Life and times of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, AKA Curveball

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's testimony

was one of the key planks of the argument

for the ousting of Saddam Hussein.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/feb/15/curveball-cia-iraq-interactive-timeline

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/bush-administration-sold-iraq-war?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/17/curveball-doubts-cia-german-foreign

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/colin-powell-cia-curveball

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/curveball-jail-war-mongering-germany

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/curveball-exile-wmd-lies-iraq-politicians

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/curveball-questions-cia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/15/curveball-wmd-carne-ross

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/feb/15/curveball-cia-iraq-interactive-timeline

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/curveball-iraqi-fantasist-cia-saddam

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/defector-admits-wmd-lies-iraq-war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/curveballs-lies-consequences-iraqi-defector

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/08/donald-rumsfeld-book-misstatements-wmd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3054991.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/mar/18/foreignpolicy.iraq1

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/07/17/saddam.ritter.cnna/

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/bush.speech.txt/

USA        President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address

'Axis of Evil' speech        Full text        January 29, 2002

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/politics/30BTEX.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/18/world/middleeast/20080319_IRAQWAR_TIMELINE.html#tab1

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/bush.speech.txt/
 

Saddam Hussein's administration uses mustard gas

against Kurds at Halabja in Iraq: more than 5,000 die        March 1988

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/feb/18/kurds.rostaylor

Iraq became independent in 1932,

but British influence, though diminishing, remained important

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2719939.stm

Iraq is formed

as a mandate of the League of Nations, under British administration        1920

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/time2.html

Iraq History

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/recent/iraq/britain_iraq_01.shtml

 

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