sentences:  The controversial United States invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003.The invasion was based on faulty intelligence that suggested Saddam Hussein and his government were in possession of weapons of mass destruction.Five days later on March 25, 2003 a major story arc in the second season of "24" began, in which the United States was put on a war footing after a recording (referred to in the show almost exclusively as "The Cyprus Recording") surfaced that implicated three unnamed Middle Eastern countries in the detonation of a nuclear bomb in the United States.