List of people associated with the 2003 invasion of Iraq

List of people associated with the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.



Australia

 * John Howard, Prime Minister
 * Andrew Wilkie &mdash; intelligence officer, resigned in protest at misuse of intelligence reports

China

 * Hu Jintao, President
 * Li Zhaoxing, Foreign Minister

France

 * Jacques Chirac, President
 * Dominique de Villepin, Foreign Minister

Germany

 * Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor
 * Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister

Iraq

 * Rafid Ahmed Alwan, aka "Curveball"
 * Tariq Aziz
 * Ahmed Chalabi - Iraqi National Congress
 * Qusay Hussein
 * Saddam Hussein
 * Uday Hussein
 * Taha Yassin Ramadan - Vice President
 * Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Sadi - Liaison to UNSCOM who insisted there were no WMDs
 * Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf - Information Minister
 * Abdul Razak al-Hashimi - coordinated with human shields

Russia

 * Vladimir Putin, President
 * Igor Ivanov, Foreign Minister

Spain

 * José María Aznar

Government

 * Tony Blair
 * Prime Minister
 * Lord Goldsmith
 * Attorney General, who secretly advised the cabinet that the war may be illegal
 * Jeremy Greenstock
 * UK ambassador to the UN during the buildup, and then UK representative in Iraq post-invasion.
 * Geoff Hoon
 * Secretary of State for Defence
 * Clare Short
 * International Development Secretary, threatened to resign then didn't
 * Jack Straw
 * Foreign Secretary
 * Elizabeth Wilmshurst
 * Deputy chief legal adviser to the Foreign Office, who resigned on the eve of war, protesting its illegality.

Military

 * Major-General Tim Cross
 * Most senior British officer involved in preparations for reconstruction
 * Johnson Beharry
 * Awarded a rare Victoria Cross for two separate acts of bravery. First living recipient of the award since 1969.
 * Air Marshal Brian Burridge
 * In charge of UK invasion, Operation Telic

Other

 * Robin Cook
 * Leader of the House of Commons, resigned from cabinet in protest at the war
 * Katharine Gun
 * Interpreter at GCHQ who was tried for breach of the Official Secrets Act 1989 for whistle-blowing on a U.S. dirty tricks campaign against UN Security Councils. The trial collapsed when the prosecution declined to offer evidence.
 * David Kelly
 * Weapons expert whose revelations stirred controversy over the case for war

United Nations

 * Kofi Annan, Secretary-General
 * Hans Blix, head of UNSCOM
 * Mohamed ElBaradei - Director General of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency

CPA

 * L. Paul Bremer - former head of the CPA
 * Jay Garner - former head of ORHA

Government

 * George W. Bush, President
 * Dick Cheney, Vice President
 * I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby – Former Chief of Staff to the Vice President and his Assistant for Security Affairs; founding member of the Project for the New American Century; former student and close associate of Paul Wolfowitz
 * Richard Perle - former Assistant Secretary of Defense
 * Colin Powell - Secretary of State
 * Condoleezza Rice - National Security Advisor
 * Donald Rumsfeld - Defense Secretary
 * George Tenet - CIA Director
 * Paul Wolfowitz - Deputy Secretary of Defense

Military

 * Joe D. Dowdy, U.S. Marine RCT-1 Commander
 * Lynndie England
 * General Tommy Franks
 * Corporal Sean Huze, USMC, RCT-1, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
 * PFC Jessica Lynch
 * Lieutenant General David D. McKiernan, CFLCC Commander
 * General David Petraeus-Commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq
 * Lieutenant Colonel Eddie Ray USMC Battalion Commander, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
 * General Ricardo Sanchez
 * Gunnery Sergeant Justin LeHew USMC, RCT-2 Task Force Tarawa, Hero of Nasiriya
 * SPC Dustin Knoll
 * SSG Mitch Hallum Jr., Personal Security Detail NCOIC, Task Force Fajr, 1st Brigade, 3d Infantry Division, U.S. Army

Theorists

 * Bruce P. Jackson - Chairman of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and current chair of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
 * Bernard Lewis
 * Michael Rubin - A specialist on Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
 * Randy Scheunemann - President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was created by the Project for the New American Century
 * Harlan K. Ullman - Military theorist responsible for the shock and awe strategy
 * James Woolsey - former CIA Director

Other

 * Peter Arnett - journalist
 * Joseph C. Wilson - Former diplomat whose criticism of the claim Saddam sought uranium from Niger led to the Plame affair