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With no PoDs before 9/12/2001, is it plausible for the Bush-Cheney Administration to launch an invasion of Iraq over a year earlier than OTL, before the end of January 2002?

Would there have been any insuperable logistical or other military obstacles to doing so?

Would the U.S. have had to cancel any operations in Afghanistan to enable the earlier invasion?

Regardless of how similar this alternate, early Iraq War might turn out to OTL's in its broad outlines and outcomes, what knock-ons to the war itself, US and international politics might stem from starting the war earlier?
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