Iraq War

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/10/19
  

  Military Leaders Fear They’ve Seen This Before. It Ended in the Iraq War.

  The last time the United States abandoned allies in the Middle East, military officials say, it helped lead to the Iraq war.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  5/15/19
  

  Top Ten differences between the Iraq War and Trump’s Proposed Iran War

  by Juan Cole

  An informative look. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  1/17/19
  

  Army Releases a Critical History of the War in Iraq

  The history, which totals more than 1,300 pages, now is posted on the U.S. Army War College website, along with more than 1,000 declassified documents that were used in the research.

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• 6/17/18
  

  A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine

  by Tom Engelhardt

  The U.S. military has taken us through the gates of hell.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3-20-18
  

  The Iraq War and the Inevitability of Ignorance

  by James Fallows

  The U.S. is destined to keep overlearning the lessons of the last conflict.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  3-17-18
  

  How American High Schools Teach The Iraq War

  It’s hard to teach history that isn’t quite history yet.

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• SOURCE: Pew Research Center
  3-19-18
  

  43% of Americans still think the Iraq War was a good idea

  While both Republicans and Democrats were more supportive of the war initially than they are today, the partisan gap is roughly the same as it was then.

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• SOURCE: NY Magazine
  11-14-17
  

  Beware the Bush Family Image-Rehab Machine

  by Sam Tanenhaus

  Compared with Trump the Bushes are stellar.  But they lied too.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7-6-17
  

  Chilcot: Tony Blair was not 'straight with the nation' over Iraq war

  Head of Iraq inquiry says he does not believe former PM was clear enough about his decisions in the run-up to war.

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• 4-2-17
  

  Three Times When We Blundered into War

  by David R. Contosta

  Why it’s necessary to remember where and when we went wrong before.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  9-7-16
  

  Desert, Storm

  by Paul A. Kramer

  The Bush administration thought an elective war would make America safer. Then Katrina hit. The untold story of the Iraq war’s toll on New Orleans.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  8-11-16
  

  Retired Colonel William Astore says the military needs to embrace dissent

  by William J. Astore

  This is especially needed now that victory is elusive in wars that cost trillions.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7-19-16
  

  The Chilcot Report: Bush Ignored Numerous Warnings Before Invading Iraq

  The British report demolishes one of the certainties of some opponents of the Iraq War: that Bush lied his way into war.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  7-10-16
  

  Tony Blair could face Iraq contempt vote in Commons

  A group of senior MPs is calling for a vote to decide whether Tony Blair is guilty of contempt of Parliament over his decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  7-7-16
  

  Chilcot Report damns the charade of Iraq War

  by Andrew J. Bacevich

  Like Bush, Tony Blair chose to believe what he found it convenient to believe.

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• 7-6-16
  

  The Chilcot Report: Hollow Vindication for the War's Critics

  by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

  The British report on Iraq confirms the worst suspicions of the war's critics, including this:  Bush was determined to wage war no matter what the facts. 

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• 7-6-16
  

  Long-Awaited Chilcot Report: Britain’s Role in Iraq War

  The exhaustive report, which historian Martin Gilbert helped prepare before his death, will identify what went wrong. It will be published Wednesday. 

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• 3-10-16
  

  What Does Hillary’s Vote in Favor of the Iraq War Really Signify?

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  What happens when we put her vote in historical context is that the case against her judgment looks considerably weaker.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  2-5-16
  

  Pentagon withholds Iraq War photos showing detainee abuse

  The photos show U.S. troops posing with corpses and simulating forced sodomization.

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• SOURCE: CBS
  1-15-16
  

  Colin Powell looks back on Operation Desert Storm

  Twenty-five years ago, the first U.S. airstrikes began on Baghdad in Operation Desert Storm. In just six weeks, U.S. forces expelled the Iraqi military from Kuwait. David Martin spoke to Colin Powell about what we learned from the first Gulf War.