Timeline

  • March 19, 2003 Bush announced war on Iraq.

  • April 9, 2003 much of Baghdad comes under American control. They took Saddam Hussein statue is taken down.

  • December 13, 2003 Saddam Hussein is arrested.

  • September 16, 2004 President Bush warns citizens about a possibility of a civil war.

  • October 19, 2005 Saddam Hussein went on trial for killing 148 people in 1992.

  • December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein is hanged.

    • February 27, 2009 President Obama plans to take two-thirds of the troops out of war by the end of the year.

    • December 15, 2011 war ended.