DipityPresident Bush issued an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to enter into exile within 48 hours or face military conflict. Saddam defiantly refused, thereby setting the stage for Bush's orde...
At the United Nations US Secretary of State Colin Powell presents the US government's case against the Saddam Hussein government of Iraq, the diplomatic side of US intention to invade Iraq. The pre...
In his state of the union address, President Bush announces that he is ready to attack Iraq even without a UN mandate.
Blix says, "No evidence of proscribed activities have so far been found,". Highly critical of UN heads who authorized search: "Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today,...
the United States declared Iraq in "material breach" of Security Council resolution 1441 and war loomed early in the new year.
Iraq accepts U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 and informs the UN that it will abide by the resolution. The resolution demands that Iraq declare all weapons of mass destruction to the council, ...
impose tough new arms inspections on Iraq and precise, unambiguous definitions of what constitutes a "material breach" of the resolution. Should Iraq violate the resolution, it faces "serious conse...
The 33-page document presents a bold and comprehensive reformulation of U.S. foreign policy. It outlines a new and muscular American posture in the world -- a posture that will rely on preemption t...
challenging the organization to swiftly enforce its own resolutions against Iraq. If not, Bush contends, the U.S. will have no choice but to act on its own against Iraq.
Iraq rejects new UN weapons inspection proposals.
In some instances, the president asserts, the U.S. must strike first against another state to prevent a potential threat from growing into an actual one.
replacing them with "smart sanctions" meant to allow more civilian goods to enter the country while at the same time more effectively restricting military and dual-use equipment .
he Iraq, along with Iran and North Korea, as an "axis of evil." He vows that the U.S. "will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."
Al-Qaeda, a Muslim terrorist organization, executes a plan to hijack commercial American planes. Over 2,700 people are killed and the Twin Towers are destroyed.
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