Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The Republic of Iraq ... is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and also including southern Kurdistan. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the west, Syria to the north-west, Turkey to the north, and Iran (Persia) to the east. Iraq has a very narrow section of coastline at Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf. ..."
Iraq Exit Strategy: America's Path Forward [PDF], by Libertarian Party, 29 Jun 2005 Related Topic: United States "Our exit strategy will help to end the senseless loss of American and Iraqi lives. It will ensure that Iraq is rebuilt in an efficient and expedient manner, at the lowest possible cost to the American taxpayers. Above all else, the intent of this proposed strategy is to remove our troops from harm's way and, in the near future, return them to their families ..."
Iraq Quiz, by Jim Cox, 15 Apr 2004 20 questions, with answers
Iraq after the Gulf War: Sanctions, Part 1, by Rahul Mahajan, Freedom Daily, Nov 2007 Reviews the effect of the sanctions imposed on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War and the Oil for Food program started in 1996 "Never, however, have there been such comprehensive international restrictions on all exports and imports as were imposed on Iraq after the Gulf War; never have prohibitions on imports been enforced by attaching a country's entire foreign earnings and placing them in a closely monitored bank account, with numerous bureaucratic impediments to disbursement of funds."
Iraq after the Gulf War: Sanctions, Part 2, by Rahul Mahajan, Freedom Daily, Dec 2007 Related Topic: Gulf War Continues the review of the effect of the sanctions imposed on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War and the Oil for Food program started in 1996 "The United States, in its partial administration of Iraq through the sanctions, oversaw a decline in literacy, as elementary schools emptied for lack of supplies, and Iraq was forced to impose user fees. It saw the near-total destruction of the middle class and a massive 'brain drain,' as doctors, scientists, engineers, and other socially necessary people fled to the West."
Iraq: The Hidden Horror: 650,000 Iraqis dead - now that's 'liberation'!, by Justin Raimondo, 13 Oct 2006 "... even if the figure of 650,000 is off by half, the vastness of U.S. war crimes in Iraq is quite a shocker. ... The Iraqi government derides the Johns Hopkins numbers, as well they might: either that, or they'd have to admit they were installed into power by a pack of mass murderers. And that would be far too close to the truth."
Will Congress Finally Face Up to Their Responsibility and Debate Iraq?, by Kevin B. Zeese, 31 Mar 2006 Related Topic: Ron Paul "We are in the midst of a military quagmire in Iraq ... yet the Congress has never declared war. Indeed, they've barely even debated Iraq policy. ... That may finally change. Six members of Congress, three Democrats and three Republicans, are calling for a full debate [for April 5] on ending the Iraq War."
Democracy: The God That Failed: In Iraq, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, by Justin Raimondo, 12 Oct 2005 Related Topics: Democracy, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine "The invasion and conquest of Iraq, and the imposition of a 'democratic' regime at gunpoint, is intended to be a model of the Bush Doctrine in practice. But it doesn't look like the experiment is working. ... In Iraq ... the consequences are much bloodier, with the nation fast descending into all-out civil war ..."
If the State Falls, Does Society Crumble?, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mises.org Daily Article, 25 Jan 2007 Related Topics: The State "The US should abandon Baghdad. ... Iraq would split into many states, some of them noncontiguous. ... The main reason for the ghastly killing – fear of the rule by one group over another – would vanish. Here is the highest hope for peace in Iraq. So long as the US insists that Iraq be a single nation under one government, it will inspire chaos and killing."
One Hundred Years in Iraq?, by Sheldon Richman, 4 Apr 2008 Related Topics: John McCain Analyzes John McCain's comment about staying in Iraq for 100 or more years and his previous comments on the occupation "McCain is wrong about al-Qaeda in Iraq. By nearly all accounts, it is a minor element in the country, largely despised by its fellow Sunni Muslims. Moreover, the group wasn't even in the country until the United States invaded. Saddam Hussein distrusted Osama bin Laden. Before 2003 an al-Qaeda operative was in northern Iraq, but that was the semi-autonomous Kurdish region that Saddam did not control."
Pentagon Whistle-Blower on the Coming War With Iran, by Karen Kwiatkowski, 27 Feb 2007 Related Topics: War "... we have built four mega bases, they are complete. ... of the 150,000, 160,000 troops we have in Iraq probably 110,000 of those folks are associated with one of those four mega bases. Safely ensconced behind acres and acres of concrete. To operate there indefinitely, no matter what happens in Baghdad, no matter who takes over, no matter if the country splits into three pieces or it stays one."
Rambo Was A Chump: John Kerry Should Be Ashamed of Vietnam Service, by Ted Rall, 27 Aug 2004 Related Topics: War, Vietnam "Serious people and historians know that Kerry was right the first time around. Like Iraq, Vietnam was an ill-conceived, doomed war that wasted countless lives for no good reason, launched by a president who lied about a Cold War threat (the absurd "domino theory") that simply didn't exist."
Road to Empire: An illegal treaty with Iraq seals our fate, by Justin Raimondo, 28 Nov 2007 Related Topics: Imperialism Discusses the "Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America" "There's just one big problem for the War Party: the Iraqi constitution requires a vote by the Parliament in order to give the Status of Forces Agreement (or this preliminary declaration of intent) the force of law. And that looks problematic, at best, given the weakness of the Maliki regime."
Stop the Cannon Fodder, by Charley Reese, 27 Jan 2007 Related Topics: Children, War "Iraq is an artificial country created at the end of World War I by British colonialism. It has always existed because a powerful central government, wielding its authority in the most savage manner, has forced it to hold together. ... 10 years from now ... if Iraq exists, it will exist the way it always has – with a central government wielding its power in a savage and bloody manner."
The State in the Dock, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 26 May 2006 Related Topics: Government "If Saddam is to be tried in court, the US lacks the credibility to be the prosecutor. ... It becomes more complicated. Tariq Aziz, the senior member of Saddam's cabinet, riveted the courtroom the other day with testimony that the current puppet government is led by people who attempted to assassinate Saddam and Aziz in the 1980s."
The War the Government Cannot Win, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 1 May 2007 Related Topics: Terrorism, Iraq War (2003), Socialism, The State, United States Discusses how government cannnot win the war on terror because economic law is more powerful than the state "A federal oversight agency went to inspect a sample of eight projects that US officials in Iraq had declared to be a success. Of these eight successes, seven of them were not actually functioning at all due to plumbing and electrical failure, poor maintenance, looting, and just general neglect. Keep in mind that these are the projects that the US government declared successes! The failures must be abysmal beyond belief."
