Last Throes of Credibility: Five Years of Lies & Deception

[paineinthearse]

A great chronology of Rove-gate, the Downing Street Memos and all the events that lead up to the war on Iraq.

http://politerra.com/images/Iraqchronologyrawstory.pdf

Thank you, Rep. Conyers/ Raw Story!

[MelissaB]

1. This is excellent!

Thanks!

[Nothing Without Hope]

2. This is a great chronology. Put together by the folks at Raw Story?

I know they had put one together when the DSMs were breaking - is this the same with an update? I'd like to know who to thank for all the careful work that went into this.

Nominated.

[paineinthearse]

3. I assume so, but...

you know what happens when one assumes!

I sent the question to my contact there....

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. Two other Iraq timelines:

From Raw Story:
http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/muriel/path_of_war_timeline_613.htm
(January 26, 1998 through May-July 2003 - please post if there is a more recent update of this)

From Black Max:
http://www.iraqtimeline.com
(This one goes back to the Spanish-American War (!), but grows increasingly detailed with recent events.)

[autorank]

5. Well, that's certainly illuminating...

If nothing else, these people are relentless. They can't think things through, they can execute, they can't follow through and they can't crisis manage. But they can sure stay on message. Wait, is'nt that the key characteristic of a zealot. Hmmm...

:kick: Recommend

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Thank you, Paineinthearse

This is a valuable resource.

[AuntiBush]

7. Really. Thank you Rep. Conyers/Raw Story & You, too Paineinthearse

:hi: Kicked

[Tigress DEM]

8. Cool - long read -- one big oops....

Jan 2004 and Sept 2004 both list US Military Casualties Reach 1000, Jan shows tops 500 in the sidebar, just a typo, but it caused me to do a double take.

[wiggs]

9. Beautiful. The mother lode of info....

quite sad and embarrassing too. Timelines like this will help people see the forest in spite of the trees....if published.

A couple of things I'd like added....sibel edmonds experiences at FBI and subsequent discussions....9/11 commission stuff...august 2001 pdb....reports of halliburton corruption....announcements of record oil company profits....

Important...but Disgusting stuff all. Really. Who would have thought, in 2000, that all this was possible? Not only possible, but practically ignored for years?