20 years after Iraq: No accountability and no lessons learned
Apr 03,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby It is tragic and deeply distressing that twenty years after the US launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq that the ignorance, […]
Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq
Mar 17, 2023RICHARD HAASS Wars are fought not only on the battlefield but also in domestic political debates and in histories written after the fact. In the case of the […]
How the Iraq war was sold
In Pictures Gallery|In Pictures The US invasion of Iraq 20 years ago was sold to the world as one thing, but then the story had to be changed when the […]
2003 – 2011. The Iraq War
In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and […]
A Look Back at How Fear and False Beliefs Bolstered U.S. Public Support for War in Iraq
BY CARROLL DOHERTY AND JOCELYN KILEYMARCH 14, 2023 Twenty years ago this month, the United States launched a major military invasion of Iraq, marking the second time it fought a war in that […]
Costly Iraq intervention must never be repeated
CHRIS DOYLE March 13, 2023 The consequences of the Anglo-American decision to go to war on Iraq 20 years ago this month have haunted that country and the region ever […]
Twenty years ago: The debate we should have had on Iraq
Feb 06,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby Twenty years ago this month, the US was rushing headlong into war with Iraq, one of the most consequential travesties in […]
Colin Powell: Former US secretary of state dies of Covid complications
Tributes are being paid to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has died of Covid-19 complications aged 84. The former top military officer died on Monday morning, his […]
How the US neocons’ dreams turned to dust
YASAR YAKIS September 19, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/b2ej4 In a public statement in October, 2007, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Wesley Clark revealed details that shed light on […]
The Trump administration is hungry for war with Iran
Source: Independent By Negar Mortazavi and Assal Rad, who is a senior research fellow at the National Iranian American Council. She received her PhD in history at the University of […]
The Iraq War fifteen years on: “America destroyed my country”
Fifteen years ago, on 20 March 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq. Iraqi novelist and poet Sinan Antoon describes the pain of watching his country disintegrate in […]
PBS special depicts George W. Bush impatient with diplomacy after 9/11: ‘F— it, we’re going to war’
Searing footage jogs memories of crises that punctuated Texan’s presidency: the 9/11 attacks, Iraq invasion, Hurricane Katrina and the financial meltdown. […]
‘You’ve caused an international incident’: how my work mistake came back to haunt me
It was the Observer’s big scoop of 2003, and as a young journalist, I was asked to type up a top-secret memo. Now my mess-up has made it to the […]
Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren’t Worth It: Pew Report
10 Jul 2019 Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk A majority of veterans taking part in a new research study says that the cost and burden of the wars […]
Colonel Wilkerson on George W. Bush’s Iraq War and Trump’s Possible Iran War
December 17, 2018 This former official says the Trump admin is priming Americans for war with Iran — and he would know, since he helped George W. Bush do the same for Iraq https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/colonel-wilkerson-on-trumps-possible-iran-war?jwsource=cl
The Ignored Legacy of George H.W. Bush: War Crimes, Racism, and Obstruction of Justice
Mehdi Hasan December 1 2018, The tributes to former President George H.W. Bush, who died on Friday aged 94, have been pouring in from all sides of the political […]
Tony Blair should be prosecuted over Iraq
May 31,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power President Barack Obama was not a war criminal despite US involvement in wars in Iraq, Somalia, and Afghanistan and against Daesh. His […]
Baghdad’s infrastructure in ruins 15 years after Saddam fell
By AFP – Apr 09,2018 A US soldier watches as a statue of Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad, Iraq, on April 9, 2003 (Reuters file […]
Iraq’s war: the seminal event that polarised, destabilised the region
Mar 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen March is a month of anniversaries. Two weeks ago, I wrote about the demonstrations that set Syria on the course for seven […]
The $3,850 per second war and its victims: Bernd Debusmann
Editor’s Note. This article is from 2007. In ‘commemoration’ of the 15 years anniversary of the Iraq war – and in view of renewed warmongering – I thought I should bring you this article. The International Organization for Migration, Iraq, is mentioned in the article. I was its Chief of […]