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Maya Schenwar, TruthOut.org. August 5, 2009.
On July 30th, a public referendum was supposed to give Iraqis a chance to vote on a deadline for U.S. withdrawal. It never happened.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. June 30, 2009.
It is very doubtful that, decades from now, Iraqis will tell their grandchildren about where they were on June 30, 2009.
Cynthia Hubert, TruthOut.org. June 12, 2009.
"I saw things today that I think will mess me up for life," Army Spc. Trevor Hogue wrote to his mother from Baghdad in 2007.
Robert Fisk, Independent UK. May 1, 2009.
179,000 dead Iraqis? Or closer to a million? The British never cared about the Iraqis. That's why we don't know the figure. That's why we left Basra.
Basim al-Shara, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. April 29, 2009.
As security has improved and curfews have eased, Baghdad's once-famous nightlife is slowly re-emerging.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. February 28, 2009.
Obama's speech promising a full withdrawal from Iraq adopted the long-discredited narrative of the Bush administration.
Dahr Jamail, Tomdispatch.com. February 14, 2009.
Fallujah remains devastated, even as the U.S. military delivers shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills to the sheiks in charge.
Institute for War and Peace ReportingFebruary 11, 2009.
Many Baghdadis say they will not vote in December if newly elected leaders do not deliver on their promises.
Renee Feltz, Indypendent. February 10, 2009.
A new book on Halliburton looks at how a symbol of epic fraud in Iraq achieved so little with so much money.
John Tirman, The Nation. February 2, 2009.
Now that Bush is gone, perhaps we can honestly face the damage we have wrought and the responsibilities we must accept from it.
Abeer Mohammed, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. January 21, 2009.
Among Iraqis, joy at the U.S. handover is tempered by doubts about the competence of its new guards.
Antiwar.comJanuary 12, 2009.
Nearly the size of Vatican City, the new U.S. compound sends a stark message: Washington expects to be Iraq's boss, not its friend.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent UK. December 23, 2008.
Words cannot do justice to the rage of Iraqis at the renewed arrogance of those who devastated their country and now congratulate themselves.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. December 5, 2008.
The president-elect's thinking 'evolves' -- we can expect tens of thousands of American troops to stay.
Raed Jarrar, Raed in the Middle AlterNet: PEEK. November 7, 2008.
It's time to take a sober look at President-elect Barack Obama's Plans for Iraq.
Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 27, 2008.
Whatever the U.S.-Iraqi "agreement" ends up looking like, it is unlikely to have much of an effect on the occupation.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. October 22, 2008.
An interview with Iraq correspondent Patrick Cockburn and Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar on the Status of Forces Agreement.
Middle East OnlineOctober 20, 2008.
While some reports are treating the SOFA as a forgone conclusion, top Iraqi players are fiercely opposing it.
Shawkat Al-Bayati, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. October 20, 2008.
"Conditions for journalists and media workers were relatively good, but now we are seriously thinking of quitting our work."
David Enders, The Nation. October 17, 2008.
What will the United States do with the thousands of Iraqis it is holding in legal limbo?
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. October 17, 2008.
Months after the Pentagon pundits flap, the Department of Defense continues to hand down contracts for propaganda in Iraq and beyond.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. October 16, 2008.
The Bush administration will present the pact as a sign of its success in Iraq, but in fact it is very different from what it intended.
AzzamanOctober 15, 2008.
Attacks against Iraqi doctors are on the rise.
Terry Macalister, Nicholas Watt, The Guardian. October 13, 2008.
BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are being given access to eight oil fields, which represent some 40 percent of Iraq's oil reserves.
Yaser Abbas, Azzaman AlterNet: PEEK. October 13, 2008.
Police have started investigating some 49 files related to Iraqi journalists killed or kidnapped since the 2003 invasion.
