1992

A southern no-fly zone is created to protect the Shiite population from Saddam Hussein and provide a buffer between Kuwait and Iraq ( Aug. 26).

What followed were years of UN inspectors, assaults against central Iraq where all the majority of the unrest is today.

The 'lead up' to the illegal invasion of Iraq was all to obvious to many Americans. Half the nation, actually.

There appeared in mid-2002 articles published in Chemical Abstracts's environmental journal that would prove without any provocation, biological weapons (WMD) would degrade into benign elements after exposure to cement, sand, basically any carbon element even though it was not a human body. The research was part of an effort by the USA Department of Defense to realize the time cities would be rendered useless after exposure to WMD. It provide, quite by accident as the findings were not expected, the VX liquid of which gas was produced would not only readily degrade it would degrade within four to twelve hours. It was proof that what Saddam Hussein was saying about not having any of the WMD on old inventories was very, very plausible.

Over the course of time, the UN inspectors would be kicked out, put back and then in March of 2003, would be kicked out again, but, not by Saddam, but by Bush.