Iraq Reviews

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[MAGPIE] The Real News in the Downing Street Memos: a full-scale bombing campaign, an air war, the first stage of the conflict. British government... Iraq would become. Even by the cynical standards of realpolitik, the decision to overrule this expert... realize was Plan B. Put simply, U.S. aircraft patrolling the southern no-fly zone were dropping a lot

[Stromata.typepad.com] Stromata Blog: Iraq: Just as a reminder, what we knew was that the Ba’athist regime in Iraq sympathized with anti-Western terrorists, rewarded the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, kept on good terms with the world’s most active terrorist apparatuses, was in violation of the conditions of the Gulf War cease fire, regularly tried to shoot down U.S. aircraft enforcing the U.N.-imposed no-fly zone, had failed to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors, had not accounted for the stocks of chemical weapons that it was known to have possessed before the Gulf War, was capable of manufacturing chemical and biological weapons, had shown a persistent interest in nuclear weapons development, and, by the way, oppressed and brutalized the Iraqi people.

[Highclearing.com] What is the Opposite of a Peace Process § Unqualified Offerings: As hawks and doves debate the merits of a full-scale invasion of Iraq, it is easy to ignore the fact that we have been conducting a low-intensity war for more than a decade.

 [Blog.light-of-reason.com] The Light Of Reason: A new acquaintance I made through my blog has now started blogging on his own. The pattern of public opinion on Iraq ”” strong support for the first two .

[Hongpong.com] HongPong.com: Iraq Archives: Rozen, a perceptive reporter who has been following this story from the start, gives us the essential context of the Franklin affair by showing that he was very much a part of a small, tightly-knit network inside the Pentagon dedicated to provoking war not only with Iraq but also igniting a regional conflict including Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and beyond. She does a very good job, in her piece, of showing how Franklin was at the center of this group's covert machinations: he had a penchant, as she puts it, for "showing up at critical and murky junctures of recent history":

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