 Bringing 'democracy' to the world.
 Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates by Arundhati Roy, 02 April 2003. “How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilisation.”
Bomb before you buy by Naomi Klein, 14 April 2003. “What is being planned in Iraq is not reconstruction but robbery.”
The unthinkable is becoming normal. Do not forget the horror by John Pilger, 20 April 2003. “The saving of one little boy must not be a cover for the crime of this war.”
About Those Iraqi Intelligence Documents: Were They Planted? by Wayne Madsen, 29 April 2003.
Weapons of Mass Destruction Were a Fantasy From the Start by Gwynne Dyer, 05 May 2003.
Niger and Iraq: the war's biggest lie? by Neil Mackay, 13 July 2003. “Neil Mackay reveals why everyone now accepts that claims Saddam Hussein got uranium from Africa are fraudulent … except, that is, Britain's beleaguered prime minister and his Cabinet supporters.”
Task Force Unable To Find Any Weapons by Barton Gellman, 11 May 2003.
A latte - and a rifle to go by Euan Ferguson, 8 June 2003. “Baghdad's cafes are busy but there's no clean water. Galleries are opening, but visitors are armed. Patients freed from the bombed psychiatric hospital are returning there - because they feel it's safe. In this powerful dispatch, we reveal the reality of daily life in an upside-down city.”
Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oil by Ed Vulliamy, 20 April 2003.
Iraq: the human toll by Ed Vulliamy, 06 July 2003. “As news reporters tracked troops on the road to Baghdad, much of the suffering and loss of ordinary Iraqi civilians was left untold. Until now. Here, in a compelling dispatch, award-winning foreign correspondent Ed Vulliamy goes in search of their stories.”
Global Eye – Cake Walk by Chris Floyd, 18 July 2003. “The convoluted controversy over whether or not Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium "yellowcake" ore from Niger last year and whether or not George W. Bush should have mentioned this alleged attempted transaction in his State of the Union address last January is a classic case of fretting about a molehill when a mountainous volcano is erupting right behind you.”
Farah tried to plead with the US troops but she was killed anyway by Peter Beaumont, 07 September 2003. “The death of two innocent Iraqis was thought so unremarkable the US military did not even report it, but Peter Beaumont says it reflects an increasingly callous disregard of civilian lives in coalition operations.”
Everywhere and nowhere, Saddam retains his grip on Baghdad's imagination by Suzanne Goldenberg, 09 October 2003.
Mosul's pacification messages by Jonny Dymond, 18 November 2003. “The comparative calm in Mosul has not come about by accident. The Screaming Eagles may be a devastating fighting force. But their commander, Major General David Patraeus, confounds every cliché about an American military man.” [In this piece for the BBC, Dymond has evidently confused fear with calm. See the following piece from the Washington Post.]
Fear Grows Among Iraqis in U.S. Employ by Daniel Williams, 18 November 2003. “MOSUL, Iraq, Nov. 17 – At city hall, the Iraqis who interpret for the Americans were silent, and other employees who cooperate with the United States refused to identify themselves to a reporter on Monday.”
The Pentagon as Global Slumlord by Mike Davis, 20 April 2004. “Faced with intransigent popular resistance that recalls the heroic Vietcong defense of Hue in 1968, the Marines have again unleashed indiscriminate terror. According to independent journalists and local medical workers, they have slaughtered at least two hundred women and children in the first two weeks of fighting.”
Disintegration by Dahr Jamail, 31 May 2004. “Correspondent Dahr Jamail reports from Baghdad.”
Torture and Lies as Policy: America's Criminal Occupation by Roger Normand, 30 June 2004. “Each new revelation of torture, abuse, lies and cover-up exposes the American occupation of Iraq as a criminal enterprise masquerading as liberation.”
Can't Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can't Bush? by Robert Fisk, 01 August 2004. “The Prime Minister has accused some journalists of almost wanting a disaster to happen in Iraq. Robert Fisk, who has spent the past five weeks reporting from the deteriorating and devastated country, says the disaster has already happened, over and over again.”
After Abu Ghraib by Luke Harding, 20 September 2004. “Huda Alazawi was one of the few women held in solitary in the notorious Iraqi prison. Following her release, she talks for the first time to Luke Harding about her ordeal.”
Why is war-torn Iraq giving $190,000 to Toys R Us? by Naomi Klein, 16 October 2004. “Iraqis are still being forced to pay for crimes committed by Saddam.”
The colonial precedent by Mark Curtis, 26 October 2004. “The growing brutality and deception of the Iraq war mirrors Britain's recent imperial history.”
Peace & The New Corporate Liberation Theology by Arundhati Roy, 04 November 2004.
It's a time for giving by AL Kennedy, 15 December 2004. “And what could be more Christmassy than slaughtering innocents? Modern ingenuity has taken us way beyond simple stabbing and drowning. In Falluja alone, we off them with cluster bombs, napalm them, starve them, deprive them of medical attention and leave them to watch their relatives being eaten by dogs in the street. Our special surprise gift of depleted uranium means that, even should we all retire to the north pole tomorrow, we'll keep right on slaughtering (in and out of the womb) for the next 4.5bn years.”
What about the Children of Iraq? by Jack Dalton, 05 January 2005.
A man-made tsunami by Terry Jones, 11 January 2005. “Why are there no fundraisers for the Iraqi dead?”
What I Heard about Iraq by Eliot Weinberger, 03 February 2005.
Fraud and corruption by George Monbiot, 8 February 2005. “Forget the UN. The US occupation regime helped itself to $8.8 bn of mostly Iraqi money in just 14 months.”
The Election In Iraq: The U.S. Propaganda System Is Still Working In High Gear by Edward S. Herman, 13 February 2005.
Let them eat bombs by Terry Jones, 12 April 2005. “The doubling of child malnutrition in Iraq is baffling.”
Money for Nothing by Philip Giraldi, 24 October 2005. “Billions of dollars have disappeared, gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors' pockets… In one notorious incident in April 2004, $1.5 billion in cash that had just been delivered by three Blackhawk helicopters was handed over to a courier in Erbil, in the Kurdish region, never to be seen again. Afterwards, no one was able to recall the courier’s name or provide a good description of him.”
The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it by George Monbiot, 15 November 2005. “Saddam, facing a possible death sentence, is accused of mass murder, torture, false imprisonment and the use of chemical weapons. He is certainly guilty on all counts. So, it now seems, are those who overthrew him.”
US Involvement in Torture.
Art, Truth and Politics by Harold Pinter, 07 December 2005. The Nobel Prize Lecture. “We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'.”
The Destruction of Iraq’s Educational System under US Occupation by Ghali Hassan, 11 May 2005. “"The Education system in Iraq, prior to 1991, was one of the best in the region, with over 100% Gross Enrolment Rate for primary schooling and high levels of literacy, both of men and women. The Higher Education, especially the scientific and technological institutions, were of an international standard, staffed by high quality personnel". – UNESCO Fact Sheet, 28 March 2003.”
Urgent Appeal to Save Iraq's Academics from The Brussells Tribunal, 29 December 2005. “A little known aspect of the tragedy engulfing Iraq is the systematic liquidation of the country's academics. Even according to conservative estimates, over 250 educators have been assassinated, and many hundreds more have disappeared. With thousands fleeing the country in fear for their lives, not only is Iraq undergoing a major brain drain, the secular middle class – which has refused to be co-opted by the US occupation – is being decimated, with far-reaching consequences for the future of Iraq.”
The corporate plunder of Iraq by Dave Whyte, 11 February 2006. “The looting of Iraq's oil wealth is unprecedented in the history of corporate crime, writes criminologist Dave Whyte.”
Negroponte's 'Serious Setback' by Dahr Jamail, 03 March 2006. “If we briefly review the political history of John Negroponte, we find a man who has had a career bent toward generating civilian death and widespread human rights abuses, and promoting sectarian and ethnic violence.
Remember when Negroponte was the US ambassador to Honduras, from 1981 to 1985? While there he earned the distinction of being accused of widespread human rights violations by the Honduras Commission on Human Rights while he worked as "a tough cold warrior who enthusiastically carried out President Ronald Reagan's strategy," according to cables sent between Negroponte and Washington during his tenure there.”
Atrocities By Any Other Name...: When is Killing Arab Civilians Considered a Massacre? by Omar Barghouti, 29 March 2006.
Racism and Religious Desecration as US Policy: Islamophobia, a Retrospective by Trish Schuh, 06 May 2006.
Pentagon Report Said to Find Killing of Iraqi Civilians Deliberate by Drew Brown, 18 May 2006.
Haditha is Arabic for My Lai by Rahul Mahajan, 29 May 2006. “One day in November 2005, Marines in Haditha decided to take revenge for the death of one of their comrades from an IED by deliberately murdering 23 innocent, unarmed men, women, and children. They went into their houses and shot them at close range. Adults begged and pleaded and attempted to save their children by shielding them with their bodies, praying to the same god the soldiers pray to.”
The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi: Hubub in Hibhib by Chris Floyd, 08 June 2006. “Abu Musab Saddam Osama al-Zarqawi, the extremely elusive if not entirely mythical terrorist mastermind responsible for every single insurgent action in Iraq except for the ones caused by the red-tailed devils in Iran or the stripey-tailed devils in Syria, has reportedly been killed in an airstrike in Hibhib, an area north of Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced today.”
How Many Top Lieutenants Does Zarqawi Have? from Various Sources, 01 October 2005.
The Anti-Empire Report: Some things you need to know before the world ends by William Blum, 21 June 2006. “National Public Radio foreign correspondent Loren Jenkins, serving in NPR's Baghdad bureau, met earlier this month with a senior Shiite cleric, a man who was described in the NPR report as "a moderate" and as a person trying to lead his Shiite followers into practicing peace and reconciliation. He had been jailed by Saddam Hussein and forced into exile. Jenkins asked him: "What would you think if you had to go back to Saddam Hussein?" The cleric replied that he'd "rather see Iraq under Saddam Hussein than the way it is now."”
The Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds by Nir Rosen, 27 June 2006. “Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen, an American reporter who has lived for the last three years in Iraq and who can pass as Middle Eastern, describes what it's like to live under the boot of a culturally callous – and sometimes criminal – occupying force in Iraq.”
Baghdad is under siege by Patrick Cockburn, 01 November 2006.
Despite a $168B budget Army faces cash crunch by Greg Jaffe, 12 December 2006.
Bush slashes aid to poor to boost Iraq war chest by Ewen MacAskill, 06 February 2007. “Bill for Iraq conflict will soon overtake Vietnam: $78bn squeeze on medical care for elderly and poor.”
Why I fled George Bush's war by Joshua Key, 07 February 2007.
Serving British soldier exposes horror of war in 'crazy' Basra by Terri Judd, 27 April 2007.
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 Fuelling suspicion: the coalition and Iraq's oil billions from Christian Aid, 28 June 2004. “The US-controlled coalition in Baghdad is handing over power to an Iraqi government without having properly accounted for what it has done with some $20 billion of Iraq's own money.”
 uruknet.info. “Information from Occupied Iraq.”
Research Guide to the U.S. War on Iraq. An extensive collection of links and information.
U.S. Operatives Killed Detainees During Interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq from the ACLU, 24 October 2005.
Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches. “Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself.” An excellent source for the truth about the current situation in Iraq.
Belief that Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Destruction Has Increased Substantially from The Harris Poll, 21 July 2006. “[In the US] seventy-two percent believe that the Iraqis are better off now than they were under Saddam Hussein (slightly down from February 2005 when 76 percent said this was true). Just over half (55%) think history will give the U.S. credit for bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq (down substantially from 64% in February 2005). Sixty-four percent say it is true that Saddam Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda (the same as 64% in February 2005).”
 War Crimes Committed by the United States in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability from Consumers for Peace.org, 10 October 2006. (Also  available in Arabic).
 A Timeline of the Iraq War from Think Progress.
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Bibliography
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War In Iraq. News from Iraq: war, politics, economy. A valuable resource for alternative news from Iraq and the Middle East.
ZNet Iraq Watch.
Citizens Concerned for the People of Iraq. Links to many sites.
Resistance: In the Eye of the American Hegemon - Special Issue on Iraq articles by Edward S. Herman and Gregory Elich and Denis Halliday et. al., 02 February 2004.
The fire this time “Official leaders, through mainstream media outlets, repeatedly assure us that America is a civilised and democratic nation. When it comes to foreign policy, it is easy to prove otherwise, as much of this site will demonstrate. Successive American governments' actions bear a chilling similarity to exactly the kind of terrorism that has now been visited upon their shores and their people.” [Link may be dead]
Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre: a documentary on the US Use of Napalm-Like White Phosphorus Bombs, 08 November 2005. “Today marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S. assault on the Sunni city of Fallujah when U.S. and Iraqi military forced out the town's residents, bombed hospitals and buildings, attacked whole neighborhoods, and denied entry to relief workers.”
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