On April 10, 2003, former Reagan official and former Donald Rumsfeld Aide Ken Adelman “published an op-ed article in The Washington Post headlined, ‘Cakewalk Revisited,’ more or less gloating over what appeared to be the quick victory, and reminding readers that 14 months earlier he had written that war [with Iraq] would be a ‘cakewalk.’ […]
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4/9/2003
In Iraq, “By April 9 [2003] Baghdad had fallen, and two days later U.S. and Kurdish fighters captured the final stronghold of Mosul to the north. In a campaign that lasted just over three weeks, 300,000 coalition troops had been deployed and only 140 had lost their lives.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, […]
4/9/2003
In Iraq, “the only government building in Baghdad that was protected [by U.S. military forces] against the attentions of the looters [who were ransacking most of the city in the immediate aftermath of the April 9, 2003, fall of the city] was the Ministry of Oil, which remained in pristine condition with two Abrams tanks […]
4/9/2003
“On 9 April [2003], US troops entered Baghdad and ‘helped’ a small group of Iraqis to topple a statue of Saddam Hussein.” – Clare Short, An Honourable Deception?, Page 195 […]
4/9/2003
“On entering Baghdad on April 9 [2003], the American troops stood by as looters burned and ransacked public buildings, including government ministries–except for the Oil Ministry, which they guarded diligently. Within the next few days, at a secret meeting in London, the Pentagon’s scheme of the sale of all Iraqi oil fields got a go-ahead […]
4/9/2003
“In April [9] 2003, Iraqis, with the help of US troops, toppled the bronze statue of Saddam Hussein in capital Baghdad, marking the fall of the Saddam regime.” – China Daily Staff, “Profile: Former Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein,” China Daily, June 30, 2004 […]
4/9/2003
Following the U.S. occupation of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, “The first seeds of Iraqi cynicism must have been sown by the discovery that the Ministry of Oil was one of the very few public buildings secured by US forces.” – Robin Cook, The Point of Departure, Page 329 […]
4/9/2003
In Iraq, on “April 9 [2003], an American tank toppled a twenty-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square. It was the iconic image of what seemed like the end of the war…” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 212 […]
4/9/2003
In Baghdad, Iraq, on April 9, 2003, “A few hours after the statue [of Saddam] was toppled, looters arrived at the Ministry of Industry… No troops had been sent to protect it because no one in Washington saw the need. The looters set upon the ten-story building and stole computers, telephones, furniture, and file cabinets. […]
4/9/2003
Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, fell to U.S. troops on April 9, 2003. “At the time, the only government building protected by American troops, other than the Republican Palace, was the Ministry of Oil. Two weeks earlier, the ORHA [Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance] ministers had worked up a list of sites in Baghdad that needed […]