Alison Packer

Hours after the attacks of September 11th, 2001, on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which killed over 3000 people, the Bush administration was blaming Osama bin Laden his alleged Al-Qaeda network declaring a war on terrorism.

There was no suggestion was made that Iraq was connected with the September 11th attacks.

September 2002 the US government and US media’s campaign was launched to persuade Americans that Iraq was behind the attacks.

The CIA failed to turn up any evidence that Iraq was linked to the war

None of the 9/11hijackers were from Iraq most were Saudis

Iraq has the 2nd largest proven oil reserves in the world

Some people believe that the real reason for the war is to control oil

About $1 trillion of US taxpayers' funds spent or approved for spending through 2011.

Total 40,000 U.S. troops in Iraq

32,195, 20% are serious brain or spinal injuries

30% of US troops develop serious mental health problems within 3 to 4 months of returning home

The war has resulted in the death of 4,439 US troops

Iraq civilian casualties stands at over 600,000

Drop in oil Production

December Saddam is

captured after being found hiding underground

March~President Bush gives

Saddam 48 hours to step down or face war.

~President George W. Bush addresses the

American people of the beginning of a mission to

disarm Iraq

~US-led forces take control of Baghdad. Iraqi

civilians cheer on advancing US troops 

Aprila truck bomb explodes

outside the UN headquarters building in Baghdad

MarchFour private security

contractors are killed and their burned bodies are

dragged through the streets and then hanged from a bridge over the

Euphrates River.

DecemberThe hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq ends

Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity. 

JanuaryIraq's first

competitive election in a half-

century takes place

October Iraqi voters approve a new constitution, which aims to create an Islamic federal

democracy ~

former Iraqi President Saddam

Hussein goes on trial for crimes against humanity

JuneAbu Musab al-Zarqawi

is killedNovember

Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by

hanging for crimes against humanity

DecemberSaddam Hussein is

hanged

JulyThe Iraqi Parliament passes the Status of Forces Agreement

requiring all US forces to withdraw from Iraq no later

than Dec. 31, 2011.

JanuaryUS forces in Iraq hand over control of Baghdad's Green Zone to the Iraqi one of the

Most expensive, US embassies ever built opens

in Baghdad government

February 2009President Barack Obama

announces that "by August 31, 2010, our

combat mission in Iraq will end." 

AugustUS Withdraws More

Than 90,000 Combat Troops in

IraqOfficial End to US

Combat Operationsin Iraq

There is talk about pulling troops out by

Christmas

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