Iraq

Iraq is a Middle East country bordered by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria that was the home of many ancient civilisations including the Sumerians, who invented writing. It achieved its modern  independence in 1930, having been a British colony since 1920, before which it was ruled by the Ottoman Turks.

Bloggers may well be using the tag to refer to the Iraq war, which started in 2003 when America and its allies invaded the country to otherthrow the dictator Saddam Hussein.

The war and its aftemath has proved highly controversial and has inspired playwrights, novelists, and many bloggers within the theater of war, both soldiers and civilians.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Iraq”

• Obamas Rejection Speech

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 680
  That was not a peace prize acceptance speech. That was an infomercial for war. President Obama took the peace prize home with him, but left behind in Oslo his praise for war, his claims for war, and his view of an alternative and more peaceful approach to the world consisting of murderous economic sanctions. WRH ...
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• 2002 Dodgy Dossier further discredited

  
  Maine Owl — Authority: 118
  Its not like there is any need for more reasons to indict the UK "Dodgy Dossier" on Iraq. But unverified taxicab chit-chat seems to have been the major source for Tony Blairs creative writing exercise designed to whip up public fright during the fall of 2002 about being bombed with Iraqi weapons on 45-minute notice. ...
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• Normalising the Crime of the Century By John Pilger

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  "Under international law, “questionable legitimacy” does not exist. An attack on a sovereign state is a crime. This was made clear by Britain’s chief law officer, Attorney General Peter Goldsmith, before his arm was twisted, and by the Foreign Office’s own legal advisers and subsequently by the ...
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• Iraq-WMD Claim Came from ... a Cab Driver?

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  According to the report, the taxi driver worked near Iraqs border with Jordan. The cab driver is said to have made the comments while transporting two British intelligence officers. "Under pressure from Downing Street to find anything to back up the WMD case, [British intelligence services] were squeezing their agents ...
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• Clarity from Oslo

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 586
  That was our president today and I couldn’t have been prouder. Unflinching, reversing the muddled message of last week, once again regaining the moral authority of why we fight. That there are “just wars,” of which I’ve always believed Afghanistan is one. Today’s speech unraveling last week’s tangled ...
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• Obama accepts Nobel peace prize, defends use of force (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Oslo, Dec 10 (DPA) US President Barack Obama Thursday accepted the 2009 NobelPeace Prize saying he was a “living testimony to the moral force of non-violence”, while at the same time defending the use of force.Crediting the achievements of non-violence proponents like Mahatma Gandhi and 1964 laureate Martin Luther ...
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• History Matters In Iraq And Afghanistan

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 476
  Instead of trying to forget the mistake they made in 2002, politicians like Walter Jones would do better to remember the kind of thinking that led them to support what they should have known was an unwise policy.
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  Bildungblog — Authority: 451
  Oxmorons for Our Time #16 Just War
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• Gates in Iraq to Meet Maliki and U.S. Commanders

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited as Baghdad was reeling from bombings and U.S. forces are beginning to prepare for withdrawals this spring.
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• John Prescott expresses doubt over British support for Iraq invasion

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  In a wide-ranging interview with the New Statesman magazine the former deputy prime minister asks himself: " I do wonder, looking back now, having the privilege of discussing with Tony about all this, how did I go along [with it]?" Listening to some of Blairs video-conferences with George Bush was, he admits, a ...
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• A War President Accepts the Peace Prize

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today — and in doing so, he acknowledged the wars America is fighting and sought to justify his role in the Afghanistan conflict. “Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in ...
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• Iraq-WMD Claim Came from … a Cab Driver?

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 440
  John Byrne, Raw Story/AlternetA British parliamentarian claimed in a report published Tuesday that an Iraqi cab driver was the source of an infamous claim made by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.The member of Parliament, a member of the conservative British Tory Party, ...
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• Pilger: Normalising the Crime of the Century

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  By John Pilger, Information Clearing House, Dec 9, 2009 I tried to contact Mark Higson the other day only to learn he had died nine years ago. He was just 40, an honourable man. We met soon after he had resigned from the Foreign Office in 1991 and I asked him if the government knew that Hawk fighter-bombers sold ...
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• NOBEL-OBAMA/TEXT =4

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 713
  Source: Reuters Agreements among nations. Strong institutions. Support for human rights. Investments in development. All of these are vital ingredients in bringing about the evolution that President Kennedy spoke ...
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• The worlds media spin

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 601
  The spin has gone half way around the world before the Coverage Rebuttal Service has got its boots on. The Melbourne Age reports: "Blair told Saddam had no WMD." According to its reporter, Sir John Scarlett, former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, told the Chilcot inquiry on Tuesday that then Prime ...
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• The Exit-Strategy President

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Tomorrow’s historians may look back on this period and label it the “age of retreat.” After all, President Barack Obama has set withdrawal dates for U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, reversed course on missile defense in Eastern Europe and generally embraced a policy of realpolitik over the advance of freedom. ...
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• "Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the..."

  
  BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. — Authority: 724
  “Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am...
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• Afghan Army pay raised – recruits flock to join – surprised?

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Its cheaper to beat Taliban wages than bribe officials.
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• Vermont Says No to War!

  
  Blazing Indiscretions — Authority: 121
  Protest Obamas Escalation Saturday December 12th 12 Noon - 1:30 PM Burlington City Hall Steps Burlington, VT With President Obamas announcement of a massive escalation of the war in Afghanistan, with upwards of 30,000 additional US troops to be deployed in early 2010, the anti-war movement is responding with a ...
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• Yeswecanistan

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 134
  All the crying from the left about how Obama “the peace candidate” has now become “a war president” … Whatever are they talking about? Here’s what I wrote in this report in August 2008, during the election campaign: We find Obama threatening, several times, to attack Iran if they don’t do what the ...
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