1997 - PNAC wants Clinton to invade Iraq
An obscure, ominous-sounding right-wing policy group called Project for the New American Century, or PNAC - affiliated with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld's top deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Bush's brother
Jeb - even urged then-President Clinton to invade Iraq back in January 1998.
Unknown Month, 1999 - Bush tells an Author that he wants to invade Iraq
"He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999," said author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz. "It was on his mind. He said to me: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.' And he said, 'My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.' He said, 'If I have a chance to invade·.if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1028-01.htmOctober, 1999 - Bush meets with the secretive Council for National Policy
Bush and the CNP meet for the first time. It is
not known what they discussed.
September, 2000 - Rebuilding America's Defenses (PNAC)
"The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor..."
January, 2001 - Bush's Real Plans
The Bush Administration began making plans for an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops, within days of President Bush's inauguration in January of 2001.
http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/iraq/doc/bush3.htmlDays before 9/11 - Jeb Bush writes an order declaring Martial Law if a catastrophic event were to happen
September 11, 2001 - 9/11 Attacks
Hours after 9/11 - Jeb Bush seals up records at Dekker's Flight School. Why did Jeb do this?
Strange Things:
1. We were not 100% certain of the identity of the Hijackers at that time. So, how did Jeb know where to go?
2. Two of the 9/11 Hijackers trained there
3. Jeb and Katherine Harris promoted this school
March 8, 2002 - Iraq Options Paper, Iraq: Legal Background, Memo from David Manning, Memo from Christopher Meyer, Memo from Peter Ricketts, and a Memo from Jack Straw to Blair all show that:
*The UK government anticipated "nation building over many years," in contradiction to public case by Bush administration. British also believed Iraq might acquire WMD without Saddam Hussein in power.
*Bush administration's interpretation of international law, which eventually invoked for the invasion, was so bizarre it was not shared by any other nation on earth (including UK).
*Aim was always regime change. Bush had no plan for future of Iraq.
* The UN process was a sham for Blair's sake; aim was not disarmament but regime change, which had already been decided on.
*Aim was regime change, but that wouldn't sell; WMD issue was useful for PR reasons.
*Even UK government at the highest levels believed the Bush administration claims of an Iraq-Al Qaida links were false.
*UK government at its highest levels did not believe the US had any plan to be certain a new Iraqi government would be an improvement on Saddam and would not develop WMD.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3846427May, 2002 - The Bush Administration meets with the secretive Council for National Policy to deal with Saddam. The person who wrote about the Bush-CNP meeting, Dr. Alexandr Nemets, reported that among the 500 "prominent" attendees, "several high-ranking officials in the Bush administration made speeches and participated in panel discussions." He reported a complete uniformity of judgment – at a meeting attended by Bush administration officials when the Bush administration would still pretend for several months to try diplomacy – that Saddam needed to be deposed with military force.
May, 2002 - Air Raids Increase
THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1632566,00.htmlJuly 23, 2002 - The Downing Street Memo
The Memo details how intelligence was "fixed" to sell the case for war to the American public and how the Bush administration’s public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions.
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/January, 2003 - Bush's SOTU Address
On January 29 President George W. Bush gives his State of the Union speech. Toward the end of the speech he says, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." (Plame)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/28/sotu.transcript/March 20, 2003 - Invasion of Iraq begins
(Last updated June 13, 2005)