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* '''2006-07-23''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072201004.html In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam]: also makes some comparisons with the [[1994 Balkan Intervention|Balkans]] | * '''2006-07-23''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072201004.html In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam]: also makes some comparisons with the [[1994 Balkan Intervention|Balkans]] | ||
| + | * '''2006-07-17''' [http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/38986/ Iraq's Reconstruction a Boondoggle by Design] by Joshua Holland, AlterNet | ||
* '''2005-12-01''' [http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2005/12/lying-about-war.html Lying about the War]: "truth became the first casualty in their campaign to whip up support." | * '''2005-12-01''' [http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2005/12/lying-about-war.html Lying about the War]: "truth became the first casualty in their campaign to whip up support." | ||
* '''2003-01-21''' [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/pinter1.html One of the More Nauseating Images] by [[wikipedia:Harold Pinter|Harold Pinter]] | * '''2003-01-21''' [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/pinter1.html One of the More Nauseating Images] by [[wikipedia:Harold Pinter|Harold Pinter]] | ||
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This page is about the United States Invasion of Iraq, which took place during George W. Bush's presidential administration.
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Reference
- Wikipedia
- Iraq editorials at Salon.com
- AfterDowningStreet.org: "nonpartisan coalition ...[working]... to pressure both Congress and the media to investigate whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war"
Effects
- 2006-03-20 Top Ten Catastrophes of the Third Year of American Iraq
- 2005-07-18 Invasion was boost for Al Qaeda
News Articles
- 2006-06-07 Officer says he won’t fight in ‘unlawful’ Iraq war
- 2005-11-17 Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania calls for a change of direction
- 2005-09-19 $1 billion missing from Iraq's defence ministry
Reports
Opinionated Very Brief Summary
- Got rid of Saddam, but resulted in a very expensive quagmire and harmed global opinion of America
- The current occupation of Iraq, with no timetable (much less a plan) for exit, is an example of an endless crisis
Other Opinions
- 2006-07-23 In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam: also makes some comparisons with the Balkans
- 2006-07-17 Iraq's Reconstruction a Boondoggle by Design by Joshua Holland, AlterNet
- 2005-12-01 Lying about the War: "truth became the first casualty in their campaign to whip up support."
- 2003-01-21 One of the More Nauseating Images by Harold Pinter
David Brin
From http://www.davidbrin.com/neocons.html :
- Over a thousand Americans lost, with more dying almost daily and no end in sight.
- Uncounted (and secret) numbers of Iraqi civilian deaths.
- Scandals; poorly supervised thugs ruining our reputation for decent behavior.
- A Western Alliance in shambles.
- Relentless lies; intervention justified by fabricated evidence reminiscent of Tonkin Gulf.
- Plummeting readiness levels — our military is being used-up.
- Utterly divisive of American public (possibly a desired goal), repeating the social effects of Vietnam (Editor's note: further enhancing Bush's existing divisiveness)
- Clever incarceration tricks overused as bludgeons, wrecking credibility and undermining due process.
- Incompetent preparation and handling of the aftermath, featuring rapid deterioration of political, economic and social life in Iraq
- Worldwide acceptance of US moral leadership plummeting.
- And the fundamental strategic outcome — provoking a radicalized Islam, further stirred by Saudi-funded Al Jazeera Network and Saudi-funded religious schools, from Morocco to Mindanao, threatening a pan-Islamic coalescence into Jihad mentality for the first time in a thousand years.