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So, now that the USA left Iraq can the country rebuild herself and become stable? Related Information to Post War IraqPost Date: 23rd Mar, 2005 - 8:28pm / Post ID: #
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Division of Iraq's ministries finalised
The Shias will take 16 to 17 ministries in the next government, the Kurds will hold seven to eight ministries, and the country's Sunni minority will be awarded four to six ministries, Shia negotiator Mariam Rais said.
Ref. https://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/78A...0FFA5535EB8.htm
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BLAIR ACCUSED OF IRAQ WAR COVER-UP
Prime Minister Tony Blair's government faced claims of a "cover-up" after a
document emerged which suggested Britain's top law officer changed his mind
about the legality of the Iraq war just before its outbreak.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/24...vice/index.html
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https://www.townhall.com/columnists/cliffor...m20050324.shtml
Why we fought
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| Two years ago this week, the American invasion of Iraq was underway. Why had we gone to war? In the months leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, President Bush repeatedly gave his reasons. Saddam Hussein, he said on Oct. 7, 2002, "has tried to dominate the Middle East, has invaded and brutally occupied a small neighbor, has struck other nations without warning, and holds an unrelenting hostility toward the United States." The President added: "Some al-Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al-Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year"¦" He was talking about the now infamous Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who to this day commands suicide bombers and cuts throats for video releases. The president had also made the case for taking action before the UN General Assembly on Sept. 12, 2002. "If we meet our responsibilities," he said, 'the people of Iraq can shake off their captivity. They can one day join a democratic Afghanistan and a democratic Palestine, inspiring reforms throughout the Muslim world. These nations can show by their example that honest government, and respect for women, and the great Islamic tradition of learning can triumph in the Middle East and beyond." |
As I have repeated over and over in this topic, this is a complex subject. It is just as complex in the UK, Australia, Spain, Poland, and Latvia as it is in the US. This article puts forth some great information about the reasons for the US to go into Iraq two years ago.
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CANADA: NO REFUGE FOR U.S. SOLDIER
The Canadian government has denied refugee status to former U.S. Army
paratrooper Jeremy Hinzman, a major blow to a handful of U.S. military
deserters who have fled to Canada rather than fight in a war they claim
commits atrocities against civilians.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/03/...r.ap/index.html
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More good news from Iraq, but this time from the perennially anti-Bush, anti-anything-to-do-with-good-news-from-Iraq NY Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/internat...ner=rssuserland
Ordinary Iraqis Wage a Successful Battle Against Insurgents
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| BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 22 - Ordinary Iraqis rarely strike back at the insurgents who terrorize their country. But just before noon today, a carpenter named Dhia saw a troop of masked gunmen with grenades coming towards his shop and decided he had had enough. As the gunmen emerged from their cars, Dhia and his young relatives shouldered their own AK-47's and opened fire, police and witnesses said. In the fierce gun battle that followed, three of the insurgents were killed, and the rest fled just after the police arrived. Two of Dhia's young nephews and a bystander were injured, the police said. |
This isn't the first time such a thing happened. On election day, when some foreign-born "insurgents" returned to a town to punish the inhabitants, the villagers drove them away in a hail of gunfire.
This last week, local Iraqis led Iraqi and US forces in an ambush on a terrorist site, netting loads of IEDs, car bombs, and other weapons.
As the Iraqi people get hold of this freedom and liberty thing, we will see more of this. They will defend their liberty themselves, and the foreign terrorists will find themselves on the short end - again.
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"I can't go back to Iraq", says Anderson
"You can't have a normal life after killing innocent people."
Ref.https://dominionpaper.ca/accounts/2005/03/28/i_cant_go_.html
US soldier faces 20 years in jail for killing Iraqi driver
A US soldier went on trial in Germany yesterday accused of killing a critically injured Iraqi man.
Ref. https://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1447213,00.html
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I read through the article about the deserters in Canada, and I must say the beginning of it was a bit disturbing to me:
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| Darrell Anderson hated his seven months in Iraq. He hated the people he was fighting against, hated the people he was fighting for. There was hate between soldiers. And hatred against the Iraqi people. |
If I am not mistaken, Darrell Anderson enlisted in the US military of his own free will. While he may be against the concept of the war in Iraq, why should he hate the people he was fighting for or his fellow soldiers? It is apparent before 9/11 there were many of those who saw enlisting in the army as an alternative to life in the real world, or as a funding mechanism for college. They had no intention of going to war or fighting in one. Unfortunately for them, that is a risk one takes when enlisting in the military.
I don't mean to sound cold about this issue. I have no doubt that not everyone, or maybe very few are capable of dealing with what they have been through in Iraq. I realize that there have been over 1500 US military deaths in Iraq. I also think there is a stark difference in this war vs the war in Vietnam, and that would be the draft. There were a lot of soldiers who did not want to be involved with the military, much less the war in Vietnam. No one in Iraq has that excuse to use. They all enlisted, signed their names on the dotted line and committed themselves to the US military; all of their own free will.
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Seven Iraqis killed in attacks, Britain apologises for raiding Iraqi MP's home
Seven people were killed in attacks in central Iraq Wednesday, as the British army apologised for a raid in the southern port of Basra on the home of a new Iraqi MP.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._afp/iraqunrest
U.N.: Iraq kids suffer from malnutrition
Almost twice as many Iraqi children are suffering from malnutrition since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, a U.N. monitor said Monday.
Ref. https://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeas...m_malnutrition/
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