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The Iraq War started on March 19, 2003.
Here is a great
timeline of the Iraq War provided by the New York Times.
And here is an article from the National Security Archive:
PR Push for Iraq War Preceded
Intelligence Findings
The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than
previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data
justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on
the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados.
The documents suggest that the public relations push for war came
before the intelligence analysis, which then conformed to public
positions taken by Pentagon and White House officials.
For example,
a July 2002 draft of the "White Paper" ultimately issued by the CIA
in October 2002 actually pre-dated the National Intelligence
Estimate that the paper purportedly summarized, but which Congress
did not insist on until September 2002.
A similar comparison between a declassified draft and the final
version of the British government's "White Paper" on Iraq weapons of
mass destruction adds to evidence that the two nations colluded in
the effort to build public support for the invasion of Iraq.
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