A Critical Guide to the Iraq War 2003
compiled by Jason Beale
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US imperial ambitions
1.
The president's real goal in Iraq (Jay Bookman)
2.
Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President (Neil Mackay)
3.
The Project for the New American Century (William Rivers Pitt)
US-Iraq ties
4.
Shaking Hands With Saddam Hussein (National Security Archive)
5.
Please, no more made-in-the-USA monsters (Col. David H. Hackworth)
The sanction regime exposed
6.
Squeezed to death (John Pilger)
7.
Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (University of Cambridge)
8.
The Myth that all Iraq needs to do to lift sanctions is comply with weapons inspectors (Glen Rangwala)
Motives and justifications for war
9.
Bush's Alderaan: "F--- Saddam," Bush said. "We're taking him out." March 2002 (Robert Parry)
10.
CIA fails to find Iraqi link to terror (Dana Priest)
11.
UK accused of lifting dossier text (CNN)
12.
Claims in Secretary of State Colin Powell's UN Presentation concerning Iraq, 5th Feb 2003 (Glen Rangwala)
13.
Noam Chomsky Interviewed (Noam Chomsky and Michael Albert)
The real weapons of mass destruction
14.
US Weighs Tactical Nuclear Strike on Iraq (Paul Richter)
15.
Irregular Weapons Used Against Iraq (Simon Helweg-Larsen)
16.
US Use of Clusters in Baghdad Condemned (Human Rights Watch)
17.
When 'Precision' Bombing Really Isn't: The Evil, the Grotesque and the Official Lies (Marc W. Herold)
18.
Depleted Uranium and the Liberation of Iraq: A report from Hiroshima (Christian Scherrer)
19. Extreme Birth Deformities
Caused by Depleted Uranium Ammunition (note: contains disturbing graphic photographs)
20.
Scientists Urge Shell Clear-Up to Protect Civilians: Royal Society spells out dangers of
depleted uranium
21.
War crimes case planned against US (Steven Edwards)
Civilians in the firing line
22.
Baghdad market massacre sheds ghastly light on nature of US invasion (Henry Michaels)
23.
Another market massacre in Baghdad (Henry Michaels)
24.
US 'Precision' Bomb Destroys Civilian Bus
25.
Saddam's freeway bears witness to slaughter (The Age)
26.
The Marines Shot Anything They Considered a Threat (Paul Eedle)
27.
Embedded Photographer: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians" (Michel Guerrin)
28.
US rampage through Baghdad kills thousands (James Conachy)
29.
Images of war
Prisoners of war
30.
US remembers Geneva Convention (Al Jazeera)
31.
US Sidesteps Charges of Mistreating Detainees (Human Rights News)
32.
Children held at Camp Xray, US admits (ABC Australia)
US targets journalists
33.
Pentagon Threatens to Kill Independent Reporters in Iraq (Fintan Dunne)
34.
Fury at US as attacks kill three journalists (The Guardian)
35.
US-British forces turning journalists into targets (Index on Censorship)
36.
Does the US Military Want To Kill Journalists (Robert Fisk)
"The only thing that the coalition will discuss with this regime is their
unconditional surrender" (Rumsfeld)
37.
Your New Next Door Neighbor May Be A Republican Guard! How Bush And Rumsfeld Traded American $,
Citizenship And Residency In The US For The Capitulation Of Baghdad: The Deal (Walid Rabah)
The propaganda of war
38.
How the Press Downplayed the Protests (Wayne Madsen)
39.
Murdoch's war on truth in war reporting (Margo Kingston)
40.
False Claims Litter Iraq Conflict (Merissa Marr)
41.
"Down the Memory Hole" With Weapons of Mass Destruction? (Paul Street)
42.
Iraqis Say Lynch Raid Faced No Resistance (Keith B. Richburg)
43.
How We Lost the Iraq War (Ted Rall)
44.
The photographs tell the story... Is This Media manipulation on a grand scale? (NYC IndyMedia)
45.
Moral Meltdown: The Guardian And Observer Descend To New Depths (David Edwards)
Looting versus oil wells
46.
Untouchable Ministries (Robert Fisk)
47.
The Rape of Mesopotamia: Museums versus Oil Wells At the "End of History" (Paul Street)
48.
"US Forces Encourage Looting" (Ole Rothenborg)
49.
Exposed: Are These US Marines Looting Liberating Or Fixing Saddam's Door
(Information Clearing House)
50.
Bush Cultural Advisers Quit Over Iraq Museum Theft (Niala Boodhoo)
51.
Who is to blame for the collapse in morality that followed the 'liberation'? (Robert Fisk)
The civilian toll
52.
Amid Jubilation A Child Lies In Agony (Robert Fisk)
53.
Child casualties 'fill Iraq hospitals' (BBC)
54.
Cluster Bombs: a Hidden Enemy for Iraqi Children (Rosalind Russell)
55.
Iraq Body Count Database
56.
US Has No Plans to Count Civilian Casualties (Bradley Graham and Dan Morgan)
57.
Fighting is over but the deaths go on (Michael Howard)
A humanitarian crisis
58.
Occupying powers responsible for grave humanitarian crisis in Iraq
59.
Hospital chaos... but UK docs are sent home (Stephen Martin and Lorraine Fisher)
60.
Don't Save The Children?! (Reuters)
61.
Baghdad - A Lying Marine (Matthew Green)
62.
'They Did the Destroying. So Why Can't They Get Everything Working Again?' (Kim Sengupta)
63.
U.S. Clueless in Iraq Humanitarian Work (Jacob Park)
Protests in post-war Iraq
64.
US bans media from protests (The Age)
65.
US troops accused of carnage (Agencies)
66.
Four killed in fresh shooting in Mosul (Al Jazeera)
67.
Pictures of massacre at Fallujah, Iraq (Yahoo News)
68.
Two Killed In New Iraq Demo Shooting (Chris Hughes)
Reconstruction contracts
69.
Reconstruction Of Iraq (Humeira Iqtidar)
70.
Rebuilding Iraq? It's privatization in disguise (Naomi Klein)
Further threats to peace
71.
US warned over Syria stance (BBC)
72.
US starts military-build along Iraq's border with Syria (IRNA)
73.
US Allies Also Have Chemical Weapons (Jim Krane)
74.
Syria calls for arms ban (BBC)
75.
Armitage claims that Hezbollah may be the terrorist "A-team,"
while Al Qaida "may be actually the B-team
UN and US face-off
76.
US sends in its own weapons inspectors (John Hooper and Oliver Burkeman)
The future of Iraq
77.
An Eyewitness Report: Peace activist Neville Watson on Iraq
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