Iraq War
The Iraq War was a conflict in the early 21st century, beginning in 2003.
History
Invasion
In early 2003, television news reported on the invasion, showing journalists in flak jackets and infra-red footage of green blobs flashing back and forth over a burning city.
On 10 April 2003, American soldiers pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein in a town square. The soldiers draped the statue in an American flag. The sight made Rebecca Whitaker feel sick and ashamed and remarked that they would be handing out chocolate bars next. (PROSE: Touched by an Angel [+]Loading...["Touched by an Angel (novel)"])
Post-invasion
Following the fall of Saddam Hussein, (PROSE: Touched by an Angel [+]Loading...["Touched by an Angel (novel)"]) the British Army began fighting insurgents. (TV: To the Last Man [+]Loading...["To the Last Man (TV story)"])
In the 2000s,[nb 1] Lance Metcalf's father, Simon Metcalf, was killed fighting in this conflict just before Christmas. (PROSE: Warriors of Kudlak [+]Loading...["Warriors of Kudlak (novelisation)"], TV: Warriors of Kudlak [+]Loading...["Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)"])
In the 2000s, Major Philip Kirby was fired for abusing Iraqi prisoners. (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"])
Sally Morgan's grandfather was a colonel in the Iraq War. (AUDIO: Black and White [+]Loading...["Black and White (audio story)"])
Cotter Gleason served their under Major John Rider. Rider was killed after he stood on a landmine. (PROSE: The Men Who Sold the World [+]Loading...["The Men Who Sold the World (novel)"])
Images of the war were present among several broadcasts monitored by far future Cybermen through the 2000s. The Cyber-Controller used the image as justification to save the world from itself and convert early 21st century Earth. (COMIC: The Flood [+]Loading...["The Flood (comic story)"])
When ICIS committed acts of false flag terrorism in 2005, media pundits suggested this may be Islamist attacks in response to the Iraq War. (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"])
In 2007, a BBC News bulletin reported on the Iraq War. The report indicated that the United States and United Kingdom governments were anticipating final victory in Iraq in the near future. (AUDIO: Unregenerate! [+]Loading...["Unregenerate! (audio story)"])
In the 2000s,[nb 2] Tommy Brockless saw a news broadcast on the war, while drinking in a pub, after being taken out of suspended animation. He was saddened that wars still took place ninety years after he had fought in the First World War, which had been described at the time as "the War to End All Wars." (TV: To the Last Man [+]Loading...["To the Last Man (TV story)"])
In 2008, Connie Winter described the Iraq War as "a war which shouldn't have happened." (AUDIO: A Perfect World [+]Loading...["A Perfect World (audio story)"])
Sally Morgan's grandfather served as a colonel in the Iraq War. (AUDIO: Black and White [+]Loading...["Black and White (audio story)"])
When he was a news reporter in the 2000s, George Wilson reported on the Iraq War. (AUDIO: The Conspiracy [+]Loading...["The Conspiracy (audio story)"])
Individuals on Earth in 2019 found themselves unable to remember the aftermath of the war when 2004 briefly disappeared from Earth's history. (PROSE: Time Lapse [+]Loading...["Time Lapse (short story)"])
Behind the scenes
- In World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"], Joseph Green claims that "massive weapons of destruction" could be launched in forty-five seconds. This is a parody of Tony Blair's claim that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction in forty-five minutes, a major factor in the decision to go to war. Rose Tyler alludes to this when she notes that Green's claims were believed "last time".
Footnotes
Notes
- ↑ No on screen date is given for the first two series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, outside of The Day of the Clown from the second series being set shortly after 9 October in an undisclosed year. While Donna Noble's present from the fourth series of Doctor Who is set around the same time as the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith from the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is explicitly described as being set a year after Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? from the first series, Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008 (heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast and TV: The Giggle as well), and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.
- ↑ The second series of Torchwood is set anywhere from 2007-2010 as a result of conflicting evidence shown in the episodes Ghost Machine, Greeks Bearing Gifts, Random Shoes, To the Last Man, Reset, Adrift, Fragments, Exit Wounds, and The New World, as well as Meat placing the series about a year after the start of series 1.
