The Blessington campsite stands pre-invasion ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Tabloid]

This buildup has all the earmarks of a pre-invasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was Iraq War a 'Blunder' or Was It Treason?] Reference

Not even oil production has matched pre-invasion levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRAQ'S ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES] Reference

Remember the Taliban's pre-invasion rule of the country?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Weigant: We're All Terrorist Supporters] Reference

The Hotel Al Hamra was the place to be in those pre-invasion days.    From Wordnik.com.  [House Arrest in Baghdad] Reference

The Iraq oil fields are now producing at 55% of pre-invasion levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [WAR NEWS: Iraq oil give-away] Reference

Even the likes of Bill Kristol had nothing over WaPo's pre-invasion cheerleading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Post Editorial Falsely Claims Iraqi Political Leaders Don't Support Obama's Withdrawal Plan] Reference

How did I know it sounded fishy in pre-invasion 2003 without any inside information?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary vs. Kucinich: the battle for the Democratic Party] Reference

TODD: Iraqi oil production is still below pre-invasion levels but has almost caught up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2008] Reference

(Excess deaths are the difference between pre-invasion and post-invasion mortality rates.).    From Wordnik.com.  [655,000 IRAQI DEATHS IS GENOCIDE] Reference

I think this is in one way, this is a hangover from, you know, the pre-invasion government.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Foreign Correspondent Reflects On Iraq War] Reference

Not to mention that pre-invasion Iraq did not have the Islamic militant problem that it now faces!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamal Dajani: Hajj and Terrorism] Reference

It recovered to near pre-invasion levels in 2004 but sunk again as the insurgency in Iraq heated up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq War Fallout Fuels Oil's Surge] Reference

Allied logistics as well as U-boat pens, the ports had been high priorities in pre-invasion planning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steel Victory]

He knows the bombing and shelling and mining we are doing are part of traditional pre-invasion strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Time to Break Silence (Declaration Against the War in Vietnam)] Reference

I am editing their statements to show the Agency's pre-invasion planning in as positive a light as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Tabloid]

Nobody spewed more pre-invasion falsehoods and confused and misleading claims about Iraq than John McCain did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mitchell Bard: The Press Talks About an Obama Bias, All While Giving McCain Special Treatment] Reference

All at once the bitter inter-service pre-invasion arguments over the length of the beachheads swelled up again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Sea Lion]

Arafat's popularity surged briefly, but within weeks he was back to his pre-invasion numbers, a measly 35 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn Swords Into Ballots] Reference

Sam Faddis, a veteran of pre-invasion covert operations in Iraq told Stein that Panetta is "a disappointing choice.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Naif: Whining CIA Officials, Leon Panetta, and Einstein's Definition of Insanity] Reference

In the pre-invasion period Fighter Command was to defend its own organisation and the aircraft industry against the Luftwaffe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Sea Lion]

On a different note, I don't agree with the author that the courage shown by al-Zaidi is an example to the pre-invasion press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muntadar al-Zaidi Did What We Journalists Should Have Done Long Ago] Reference

I think you'll be good at the job, even though your pre-invasion appraisal of exile readiness turned out to be quite inaccurate.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Tabloid]

When the pre-invasion rationale falls apart, war hawks have a tendency to abandon factual debate and enter the realm of clairvoyance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Shaffer: Hey War Hawks: What Are You Thinking These Days?] Reference

I think it's great he opposed the war pre-invasion, but as a Senator he has voted over and over for more war by voting for more funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Obama Ad: "The Cynics In Washington Roll Their Eyes"] Reference

No. I used to take some comfort in her pre-invasion speech from the Senate floor, but as the war dragged on, the speech lost its luster.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT: Hillary Camp In Disarray, Sensing The End] Reference

When they look back at the Washington Post's performance on the Iraq story, the good ones will go back to pre-April 2003 - pre-invasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Gizbert: London Calling: The Washington Post's Missed Lessons] Reference

Under western rule, production of oil - Iraq's staple product - is still below its pre-invasion level, and homes enjoy fewer hours of electricity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War] Reference

IIRC, the point was to compare pre-invasion death rates and causes with post-invasion death rates and causes to see what effect the invasion had had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lancet Study of Iraqi Deaths] Reference

Incidently, one thing that struck me on reading the article was that the rate of non-violent deaths was said to be stable compared with the pre-invasion rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Wall Of China Fallacy] Reference

The tankers and their infantry partners found they were unprepared to communicate and operate together effectively, just as pre-invasion exercises had foreshadowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steel Victory]

Obviously pre-invasion, a lot of the university professors were members of the Baath party and I know a lot of Sunnis, you know, were typically higher education levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2006] Reference