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15 Nov 12
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Congress authorizes an attack on Iraq.
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UN weapons inspectors return to Iraq, for the first time in almost four years.
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President Bush approves the deployment of U.S. troops to the Gulf region. By March an estimated 200,000 troops will be stationed there. British and Australian troops will join them over the coming months.
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UN inspectors discover 11 undeclared empty chemical warheads in Iraq.
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In his state of the union address, President Bush announces that he is ready to attack Iraq even without a UN mandate.
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Massive peace demonstrations take place around the world.
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13 Nov 12
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Oct. 11, 2002 Congress authorizes an attack on Iraq.
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Mar. 20, 2003 The war against Iraq begins 5:30 AM Baghdad time (9:30 PM EST, March 19), when the U.S. launches Operation Iraqi Freedom. Called a "decapitation attack," the initial air strike of the war attempted to target Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi leaders in Baghdad.
The U.S. launches a second round of air strikes against Baghdad, and ground troops enter the country for the first time, crossing into southern Iraq from Kuwait. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims that the initial phase of the war is mild compared to what it to come: "What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and a scope and a scale that has been beyond what we have seen before."
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08 Aug 10
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