Prelude to War

The Weapons of Mass Deception1998 – 2010

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By Bill LereDeVry University

2011

January 26, 1998:

The Project For the New American Century

(Including, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton)

• Urge President Clinton to Take Out Saddam Hussein.

• Claiming policy of containment is a

failure• Recommending total removal of the

dictator• Citing weapons of mass destruction as an

immediate threat to USA and allies (Alexandrovna, Kane )

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May-July 1999

• Governor of Texas George W. Bush has his eyes on invading Iraq

• Vice President Cheney encourages small invasions.

• Bush impressed by Margaret Thatcher and Falkland War

• Bush wants to be a wartime

President (Alexandrovna, Kane )

December 1999• Governor Bush As Presidential Front Runner in New

Hampshire• Makes bold statements about Saddam’s weapons

stash• Proclaimed he would remove the WMDs• Proclaimed he would finish the job his father started

(Alexandrovna, Kane )

January 2001• President George W. Bush• Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill announces

Bush fully intends to invade Iraq• Colin Powell predicts Saddam’s demise• Dick Cheney suggests the use of force. Rumsfeld

supports the suggestion. (Alexandrovna, Kane )

April 2001:* Dick Cheney’s energy task force Meets* Topic? The oil reserves in Iraq*Targets Sadamm because he controls the

oil reserves (Alexandrovna, Kane )

February 16, 2001:• United States and British war planes strike

inside Iraq

September 11, 2001

• Tragedy Strikes America, • America Attacked by Terror• 3000 Americans Die• Bush Address to The Nation– Stern warning to those who sponsor terror and

harbor terrorists (Alexandrovna, Kane )

AMERICA UNITES

September 12, 2001

• Osama Bin Ladin Named as mastermind of attacks

• Bush Tries to link Saddam

• Publicly Bush talks about justice regarding Osama Bin Ladin

• Behind Closed doors, with Joint Chiefs, he discusses implicating Iraq. (Alexandrovna, Kane )

September 13, 2001

• Paul Wolfowitz Pumps the rhetoric on Iraq

• Powell and others very alarmed about inflamatory language concerning Iraq

• Powell tries to calm the rhetoric

• Powell will not concur with Paul Wolfowitz

(Alexandrovna, Kane )

September 16, 2001

• Bush and Condoleezza Rice plan to attack Afghanistan first them move on to Iraq

• Rumsfeld encourages taking out Saddam

• Bush and Condoleezza Rica resolve to make it part of the plan after Afghanistan . (Alexandrovna, Kane )

October 2001

• Bush and company try to tie Saddam to nuclear Chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction

• The public begins to buy it.• October 7th, 2001 US. Invades Afhanistan• Cheney tries to link Yellow Cake Uranium to

Saddam• Investigation proves it was a lie. (Alexandrovna, Kane )

November 21, 2001

• Bush Pushes Rumsfeld for war plans against Iraq

• General Tommy Franks begins war planning (Alexandrovna, Kane )

January 29, 2002

• Bush give State of the Union Address

Names the Axis of Evil, Includes Iraq

• Bush openly accuses Saddam of pushing a Nuclear Program

• Says Saddam bought Uranium from Niger in Africa (Alexandrovna, Kane )

July 23, 2002

• The Downing Street Memo discloses that Bush and Blaire Knew WMDs didn’t exist.

• Intelligence was fixed around the policy of war

• Military Action was just on the horizon against Iraq

• Un Weapons inspectors found no evidence of WMDs (Alexandrovna, Kane )

July 23, 2002 – March 16, 2003

• Bush pushing hard for war, No WMDs ever found

• Inspectors turn in a report confirming no WMDs

• Bush calls Saddam a liar and falsely links him to Osama Bin Ladin

• Iraq wants inspectors to stay as long as they want to.

• Bush Orders them out. (Alexandrovna, Kane )

March 19, 2003

• SHOCK and AWE: War begins in earnest.• America holds it’s breath• Public opinion is against the war (Alexandrovna, Kane )

Conclusion

• The run up to the war started years before the war did

• A result Of Group Think• Lack of courage of conviction• A morally bankrupt ideology• A tragedy that will affect the world for many

years to come

References

Alexandrovna Larisa and Kane Muriel (n.d). The Path of War Timeline, Raw Story. Retrieved from website. http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/muriel/path_of_war_timeline_613.htm (09/29/2011)

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