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SELECTED
LINKS RELATED TO THE WAR IN IRAQ:
Includes:
Historians Against The War (has an excellent links page)
"Salem Pax" Chronicles the War: An Iraqi Eyewitness Account
University of Michigan Iraq War Debate 2002-03 Gateway
Veterans Against Iraq War: numerous articles on the antiwar movement spearheaded by veterans around the globe
Al-Jazeerah
Information Center (exclusively on the war in Iraq)
The Independent (UK)
Reporter Robert Fisk's coverage from Baghdad
Iraqi History and
the Background the Current Conflict:
Amnesty International 2002 Iraq Report
History of Iraq, 1990-present, in Brief
History of 20th Century Iraq in Brief
History of Iraq, at greater length
Iraq: A Country Study (from the Library of Congress Country Studies)
includes a section on: The Arab Conquests and the Coming of Islam
Report on the Humanitarian Implications of Iraq Sanctions, Aug. 2002
Security Council Resolutions against Iraq
Text of Dr. Blix's [UNMOVIC] Statement and Resolution 1441
Timeline of Iraq Weapons Inspection
UNDP Arab Human Development Report
UNICEF Report on Iraq, Jan. 2003
Use of Depleted Uranium during the Gulf War and its Aftereffects
US Department of Defense Briefing on the Use of Depleted Uranium (3/15/03)
"US Forces Use of Depleted Uranium 'Illegal'" Neil MacKay (The Sunday Herald, 3/30/03)
"Depleted Uranium Weapons: The Whys and Wherefores," Andre Gsponer (Independent Scientific Research Institute, March 2003)
WHO Factsheet on Depleted Uranium
"Next Stop Baghdad?" Kenneth Pollack (Foreign Affairs, March/April '02)
"Storm Warnings for a Supply Side War," Ian Lustick (The Nation, 3/24/03): a review of Pollack's book, the gist of which is offered in the above article
"We Must Fight Iraq," Christopher Hitchens (Mirror, 9/25/02)
"The Perils of Pax Americana," Gabriel Kolko (The Australian, 1/13/03)
“The Urge to Help, The Obligation Not To,” Ariel Dorfman (Washington Post, 2/23/03)
"The Case Against the War," Jonathan Schell (The Nation, 3/13/03)
"Today It Is We Americans Who Will Live in Infamy," Arthur Schlensinger, Jr. (LATimes 3/23/03): sets the current war in the broader panorama of US foreign policy history, as per 3/24 class discussion
"Blast From The Past" (The Guardian, 2/19/03): prominent historians weigh in on the (in)appropriate analogies
"The Uprising that Wasn't..." (The Independent, 3/29/03): sets the record straight on some recent disinformation
"Iraq War Illegal, but Trial Unlikely" (3/19/03 Reuters): On international law and the US-led war
"The Hubris of the Neocons," David Corn (The Nation, 3/31/03)
"Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates," Arudhati Roy (The Guardian, 4/2/03)
"To Imagine Iraq after Saddam Hussein, You Must Think Like an Iraqi," Ethan Bronner (NYTimes, 4/4/03)
"The Iraqi Time Bomb," Jeff Madrick (NYTimes, 4/6/03)
"US Betrays Its Core Values," Gunter Grass (LATimes 4/7/03)
"A Chill Wind Is Blowing in This Nation," Tim Robbins (transcript of address to National Press Club, 4/15/03)
"The Perils of Empire," Paul Kennedy (Washington Post, 4/20/03)
"Reports of weapons 'greatly exaggerated'" Bronwen Maddox (The [London] Times, 2/24/03)
"Pax Romana versus Pax Americana: Contrasting Strategies of Imperial Management," Waldon Bello (Present Danger, 5/12/03)
Biological Weapons, Iraq, and the US, (Washington Post, 12/02)
A Response to Bush's State of the Union Address
List of the 49 coalition member, of the 191 UN member states
US Plans for Post-War Iraq (Washington Post, 2/21/03)
"Toting the Casualties of War," (Business Week, 2/6/03): controversy surrounding estimates of Iraqi casualities during the 1991 Gulf War.
"The Balloon Goes Up," (This American Life, airdate 3/21/03), including Act IV "Fighting the Previous War," (31:40 min) on the US's first preemptive military strike in 1898.
"Red Cross Tells Horror of War," (Australian Broadcasting Company, 4/3/03), on estimates of Iraqi civilian casualties
"Is There Some Element in the US Military That Wants to Take out Journalists?" Robert Fisk (Independent 4/9/03)
"Arab Street Find Capitulation Hard to Swallow," (Al Jazeerah, 4/10/03)
"Rumsfeld Repeats Charges against Syria," (Al Jazeerah, 4/10/03)
for the report to which this article refers, see: "Syria and Iran Must Get Their Turn," Michael Ledeen (American Enterprise Institute, 4/7/03)
"White House Escalates Diplomatic Pressure on Syria," Dana Milbank (Washington Post, 4/14/03)
"Military Occupation of Iraq: Application of International Humanitarian Law and the Maintenance of Law and Order," (International Humanitarian Law Research Institute, 4/14/03)
"Iraq: Responsibilities of the Occupying Powers," Amnesty International (4/16/03)
"How Many Iraqis Died? We May Never Know," Edward Epstein (San Francisco Chronicle, 5/3/03)
Disclaimer: this page is intended to provide UI history students and others with a highly selective starting point for online resources about the war in Iraq. The desire to represent a variety of viewpoints governs the selection of links. Particular, though not exclusive, attention has been paid to viewpoints and information underrepresented in the mainstream American media. Links should not be taken as an endorsement of any other site’s content, in whole or in part.
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Last updated: May 12, 2003
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