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I was updating my John F. Kerry Timeline and ran across this item on the Kerry-Edwards official web site (johnkerry.com). John Kerry's Vietnam Service Timeline March 17, 1969 The policy of Coastal Squadron One, the swift boat command, was to send home any individual who is wounded three times in action. After sustaining his third wound from enemy action in Vietnam, Kerry was granted relief under this policy. Question for military freepers: 1. Is this a policy for the Navy or just the Coastal Squadrom One? Or just John Kerry? 2. What about the Army, Air Force, Marines, etc. 3....

Several days I ago I realized that all the dates of John Kerry's activities were totally jumbled in my head. I sat down to make a little timeline. It grew into a massive timeline - and covers his entire life. I know several other FReepers had the same confusion. So here is the result. It is still a work in progress, and any additions, corrections, etc. will be most appreciated.The entire timeline along with pictures will be archived at my web site: http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html. I will be making the additions there, so you might want to bookmark that site. John...

I have seen a lot of requests for a Kerry timeline. Here it is courtesy of wintersoldier.

This shows just about every little event detailing America's war with Saddam. It starts off in 1974, has a lot about the Iran/Iraq War and the US involvement, and then goes into mega detail from that point on. I think you'll all like it. :)

ABSOLUTELY THE MOST COMPLETE TIMELINE AROUND Details the creation and rise of Al Queda Details America's relations and War with Iraq, Iran, etc. THIS IS A MUST VIEW -Good sourcing too http://www.finchfactory.com/howdiditcometothis.htm

Much information on the Iraq prison torture story is making it's way into the major media. Most of it is confusing, if not deliberately misleading. Given the amount of information available to the average news reader, a better understanding of the situation could likely result from reviewing the events of the story in chronological order.

Key dates in Chechnya's four-year conflict with Russia. 1999 Oct 1: Russian forces enter Chechnya for the first time since the end of the 1994-1996 war, forcing the rebels to abandon almost a third of the country. Oct 29: 50 people are killed as refugees fleeing towards Ingushetia are bombed. Nov 12: Russian forces take the second Chechen town of Gudermes without resistance. Nov 25: Start of the battle for Grozny, defended by 2,000 separatists. 2000 Feb 1: The rebels say they are withdrawing from Grozny, followed five days later by an announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the...

Activists 'MoveOn' Into Clinton's Office Yesterday's Event at Senator's Midtown Office Designed to Protest Bush's 'Misleading' Policies By Jen SokolerColumbia Daily Spectator February 20, 2004 As thousands across the country visited their congressional representatives yesterday, a group paid a visit to Senator Hillary Clinton's New York office, asking Congress to "censure" President Bush for "misleading the country about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."MoveOn.org, an Internet-based activist organization, and Win Without War, a coalition of 42 national organizations, co-sponsored the event. MoveOn.org was founded to help the country "move on" from the Clinton impeachment to "real issues." Recently, they sponsored a...

<p>WASHINGTON — U.S. forces in Iraq believe they may be facing an Al Qaeda cell in Fallujah after a man with suspected ties to the terror network was captured last week, sources told Fox News Friday.</p> <p>The man said to have been arrested was Husam al-Yemeni, said to be part of the leadership structure of Ansar al-Islam (search), the Al Qaeda-associated terrorist group based in Iraqi Kurdistan. Some U.S. officials described al-Yemeni as the first Al Qaeda operative captured in Iraq.</p>

(KRT) - When the Wright Brothers defied gravity a century ago, they also supposedly defied science. After all, hadn't scientists said that human-controlled heavier-than-air flight was impossible? Back then, flying through the atmosphere was just as much science fiction as H.G. Wells' recent fantasy about traveling through time. But then two bicycle builders proved science to be wrong. Or so goes the popular conception. Surprise. The popular conception was wrong. Far from defying science, the Wright Brothers exploited it, drawing on a century's worth of experiment, math and theory by prominent scientists and performing a few wind tunnel experiments of...

Dec. 14, 2003 -- Following is a chronology of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's capture by U.S. forces, Saturday, Dec. 13, according to U.S. military officials and NPR reports: 10:50 a.m. Saturday: U.S. military officials receive intelligence that Saddam Hussein may be hiding in one of two locations near the town of Adwar, about 10 miles south of his hometown of Tikrit. About 600 soldiers from the First Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division along with coalition Special Forces units are assigned to kill or capture Saddam. About 6 p.m. Saturday: Under cover of darkness, the...

Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist. Details of Atta's visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively...

September 11 - Hijacked aircraft flown into major US landmarks, destroying New York's World Trade Centre and ploughing into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked flight crashes in rural Pennsylvania. 2,976 people are killed. December 2 - Palestinian terrorists attack three times in 24 hours - at a pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem, in a car in downtown Jerusalem and on a Haifa bus, killing 25. 2002 March 9 - Palestinian terrorists bomb Jerusalem’s popular Moment Café, around the corner from the Prime Minister’s residence, killing 11. March 27 - A Hamas suicide bomber strikes at Netanya’s Park Hotel during a...

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (AFP) - The United States wants the United Nations to play a role in its accelarated plan to return power to Iraqis, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday after speaking to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. But Powell did not specify exactly how involved Washington wants the world body to be, following months of wrangling on how much authority US occupation authorities are prepared to grant to the United Nations. "I have been in touch with Secretary General Annan within the last 24 hours to discuss the role the UN might play and to inquire of...

THE FRONT PAGE of the November 7 Washington Post says it all. The first headline, in large type: "Bush Urges Commitment to Transform Mideast." Below, in slightly smaller type: "Pentagon to Shrink Iraq Force." And below that: "Iraqi Security Crews Getting Less Training." It's a jarring juxtaposition. The president eloquently makes the case for a necessarily and admirably ambitious foreign policy. Yet his own administration's deeds threaten the achievement of his goals. In his fine speech to the National Endowment for Democracy last Thursday, the president made the case for "a forward strategy of freedom" in the Middle East. He...

  June Is Too Soon! Rev. Ken Joseph Jr. (archive) November 17, 2003 June Is Too Soon! Shivers went up my spine as I read the sudden announcement of a tentative agreement to disband the Coalition Provisional Authority and American control in Iraq by June. First for the shocking lack of understanding of the conditions on the ground or even a cursory understanding of history and second because I had been told over and over by Iraqis that precisely this would happen. I was in Iraq before the war during Sadaams time against the war.  Seeing and experiencing the sheer terror that...

Governing body in Baghdad wants to limit American military to patrolling borders and guarding oil installations Rory McCarthy in Baghdad Monday November 17, 2003 The Guardian Iraq's governing council wants to significantly reduce the role of the US military after the rapidly advanced handover of sovereignty in July next year. The American-appointed governing council signed a groundbreaking agreement with the US civil administration in Baghdad on Saturday, paving the way for a new transitional Iraqi government to take power much faster than originally intended. US officials, including the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, have insisted that American troops will stay in...

Agreement on Political Process 1. The “Fundamental Law” · To be drafted by the Governing Council, in close consultation with the CPA. Will be approved by both the GC and CPA, and will formally set forth the scope and structure of the sovereign Iraqi transitional administration. · Elements of the “Fundamental Law”: – Bill of rights, to include freedom of speech, legislature, religion; statement of equal rights of all Iraqis, regardless of gender, sect, and ethnicity; and guarantees of due process. – Federal arrangement for Iraq, to include governorates and the separation and specification of powers to be exercised by...

U.S. Presence in Iraq May Continue After June By K.L. VantranAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2003 – U.S. military forces may remain in Iraq when full sovereignty is given to the Iraqi people in June and the Coalition Provisional Authority dissolves, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, CPA administrator, said in an interview from Baghdad, Iraq, today. "Every indication we have in our discussions with the governing council (and) with the ministers suggests a strong desire from the majority of the Iraqi people to have the coalition forces stay until the situation is stabilized," he said on Fox...

Rumsfeld: No Immediate Iraq Withdrawal NewsMax.com WiresMonday, Nov. 17, 2003KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- The new accelerated plan for restoring self-rule in Iraq does not mean U.S. troops will withdraw anytime soon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday. In an interview en route to a U.S. Air Force base in southern Japan, Rumsfeld said the United States continues to plan to rotate a new contingent of troops into Iraq next year, with no final pullout date set yet. Accelerating the political process will not affect military planning, he said. "This has nothing to do with U.S. troops and coalition troops...