The Rush to War

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.

October, 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.html

Mid 2001 - Cheney's secret Energy Meetings.

Days 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

May, 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.html

July 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

It's useful to revisit the timelines now and again. It helps new members catch-up. You sure aren't going to find this on corporate news.

If a few top Dems in Congress stood in front of the WH with signs declaring these things. Dems need to get out in front instead of hiding out in buildings.

Original entry edited because of strange characters