TIMELINE of war deception DMS - HELP me complete this!!!

for competist purposes-anyone got any significant dates or quotes? I think it's pretty damning when it's all laid out in front of you

sources include parts of greg palast's email and others

February 2001 - Only one month after the first Bush-Cheney inauguration, the State Department's Pam Quanrud organizes a secret confab in California to make plans for the invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam.

March 2001 - Vice-President Dick Cheney meets with oil company executives and reviews oil field maps of Iraq. Cheney refuses to release the names of those attending or their purpose.

Sept 11 2001 - Al Queda attack on WTC

Sept. 2001 - General Wesley Clark states that following the attacks, he was pressured by the Bush White House to link the attacks to Iraq

Sept 12, 2002 - counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke recounts conversation of that day in his book:
Clarke's book also recounts a conversation on September 12, 2001, in which President Bush himself said:
Bush - "Go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he's linked in any way..."
I was once again taken aback, incredulous, and it showed. "But Mr. President, al Qaeda did this."
"I know, I know, but ... see if Saddam was involved. Just look. I want to know any shred ..."

October/November 2001 - An easy military victory in Afghanistan emboldens then-Dep. Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to convince the Administration to junk the State Department "coup" plan in favor of an invasion and occupation that could remake the economy of Iraq.

March 2002 - Time Magazine reported – a full year before the invasion – Bush outlined his real thinking to three U.S. senators, “FUCK SADDAM,” Bush said. “We’re taking him out.”

July 23, 2002 DOWNING STREET MINUTES - " Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

2002 - Grover Norquist and other corporate lobbyists meet secretly with Defense, State and Treasury officials to ensure the invasion plans for Iraq include plans for protecting "property rights." The result was a pre-invasion scheme to sell off Iraq's oil fields, banks, electric systems, and even change the country's copyright laws to the benefit of the lobbyists' clients.

September 7, 2002 "White House chief of staff Andrew H. Card, Jr. explains adminstration's wait until after labor day to begin pushing for war to the NY Times "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August," Card said.

Fall 2002 - Philip Carroll, former CEO of Shell Oil USA, is brought in by the Pentagon to plan the management of Iraq's oil fields. He works directly with Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. "There were plans," says Carroll, "maybe even too many plans" -- but none disclosed to the public nor even the US Congress.

November 2002 - Bush calls war with Iraq a "last resort"and states "If the collective will of the world is strong, we can achieve disarmament peacefully," the president said. "But one thing is certain, he'll be disarmed, one way or the other, in the name of peace."

January 2003 - Robert Ebel, former CIA oil analyst, is sent, BBC learns, to London to meet with Fadhil Chalabi to plan terms for taking over Iraq's oil.


March 2003 - United States starts war by invading Iraq

i cant seem to find it

thought this might be of use to someone