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”

• Jesse Ventura Claims MSNBC Bought His Silence For Opposing Iraq War

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 799
  In the midst of promoting his TruTV show “Conspiracy Theory,” Jesse Ventura casually dropped what sounded like a conspiratorial claim of his own. Speaking to the LA Times , “The Body” told an interviewer that when MSNBC found out that he opposed the war in Iraq, the network “silenced” him by canceling ...
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• Saudi columnist: Obama will be President of the "United Collapse of America"

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 612
  Hamad al-Majed can see it. Is it only Americans who cant perceive the disaster that the post-American President is already? And it is doubtful that he will improve. "Saudi Columnist: Obama Will Be President of the United Collapse of America," from MEMRI , November 25 In a November 16, 2009 op-ed in the ...
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• How The Fraudsters Are Taking Advantage Of Iraqs Fragile Security Forces

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 503
  An Iraqi police officer using a bomb detector that has been likened to a dowsing rod. (Khalil Al-Murshidi/AFP/Getty Images ) Iraqis spent $80m On ADE651 Bomb Detectors Described As Useless -- Times Online The Iraqi parliament is looking into the sale by a British company of “bomb detectors” costing ...
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• U.S. Imperialism, 9/11 and the Iraq War

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 593
  On WSWS : While the American corporate media has given little attention to it, an official British inquiry into the war with Iraq has brought to light damning testimony about the Bush administration’s deliberate launching of an invasion to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein and subjugate Iraq to American ...
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• Iraqi Orphans Receive Food for the Holidays

  
  Canada Free Press — Authority: 165
  BAGHDAD – U.S. troops delivered 300 packages containing cooking oil, flour, tortillas, beans, canned meat, canned tomatoes, and powdered milk; purchased for distribution to needy families in the 150th Armored Recon Sqdrn, 30th HBCT’s area of ops.
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• Adventures in New Atheistland: Jerry Coyne Calls Out Robert Wright for Being a “Blame America First” Muddle-Head in the War on Terror!

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  University of Chicago atheist biologist Jerry Coyne, at his blog today,  summed up  Robert Wright’s recent piece in the New York Times this way: The title of Wright’s piece is “Who created Major Hasan?”, and of course the answer is “America!” Coyne then went on to attribute to Wright a ...
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• Video: Your Weekend War Porn Video

  
  Political Byline — Authority: 608
  I must say, that this, is SWEET to watch. The footage is from 2004 and was shot in Iraq. This comes via Apache Clips : I love posting stuff like this, because makes the Paleo-Conservative cowards and the liberal sissies heads explode!
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  Byzigenous Buddhapalian — Authority: 477
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• Try Blair for War Crimes: General Sir Michael Rose Echoes BNP Demand

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 608
  Retired British Army General Sir Michael Rose has echoed the demand first made by the British National Party for Tony Blair to be prosecuted for war crimes trials following the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Writing in a daily newspaper today, Sir Michael used the language that the BNP has already been using ...
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• All For A Lie

  
  cab drollery — Authority: 519
  It was an interesting visit to Watching America today. There were a few articles on American health care reform, a few on Afghanistan, a few more on Israels discomfort with the Obama administration, in some cases castigated as "the worst ever," and a few analyses of the Obama visit to China. The one that caught my ...
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• Julio Huertas is Navy Seal charged in Punching a Terrorist Incident

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 621
  Julio Huertas is one of three Navy SEALS charged in the "punching a Fallujah, Iraq terrorist" incidence. Navy Seals Huertas is 28-years-old. He enlisted in 1999 and has served in "secial warfare units since 2002. He has an Iraq Campaign Medal and was advanced to the SEALs in June 2006. He is ...
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• Jonathan Keefe is Navy Seal Charged in Punching a Terrorist Incident

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 621
  Jonathan Keefe is one of three Navy SEALS charged in the "punching a Fallujah, Iraq terrorist" incidence. Navy Seals Keefe is 25 years old. He enlisted in 2006 and began his SEAL training the same year. He is originally from Yorktown, Virginia. Keefe is charged with offenses occurring around ...
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• Matthew McCabe is Navy Seal Charged for Punching Terrorist

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 621
  Matthew McCabe is one of three Navy SEALs charged with punching a Fallujah, Iraq terrorist in the mouth and bloodying his lip, or "punching him in the gut" or both. McCabe is 24 years old. He enlisted in the Navy in 2003 and is originally from Perrysburg, Ohio. He is charged with offenses occuring around ...
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• MILITARY DIVORCE RATES CONTINUE TO CLIMB

  
  THE COMMON PROGRESSIVE — Authority: 130
  As we see America going into its ninth year of war, we can see the effects that this is having on American military families. Divorces within military families are on the rise, even in the face of military efforts to curb the trend. Of more than 765,000 married servicemen and women, more than 27,000 are facing ...
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• The Iraq War ‘Inquiry’: ‘Revelations’? What revelations?

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  by William Bowles     Global Research , November 27, 2009 Creative-i       “We spent a long time at dinner on IRAQ. It is clear that Bush is grateful for your support and has registered that you are getting flak. I said that you would not budge in your support for regime change but ...
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• Militia return to Basra and threaten those who helped force them out

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 651
  When he stopped his car at a traffic light in Basra, Bassam Rady noticed the motorbike with two riders on it inch past him. Suddenly the bike swung round and Mr Rady, sensing danger, tried to drive off. Before he could, a man on the back of the bike pulled a gun from his jacket and fired. The bullet went through the ...
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• UK Diplomat Wanted UN Resolution For Iraq War

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  Six years ago a frenzy enveloped both the American people and leaders of the United Kingdom resulting in an invasion that was predicated on the assumption Saddam Hussein had WMD that must be seized and destroyed before employed. UN inspectors urged they be afforded additional time to pursue their investigations, but ...
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• People believe what they read in the papers shock

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 594
  The Rebuttal Service is falling some way behind the tidal wave of misinformation, but allow me to note briefly an opinion poll on Thursday for Politics Home , which found that most of the public reflected back every cliché of the reporting of Chilcot: 79% believe that there are "still questions on the war that ...
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• Trumpet blow and observation…

  
  Kings of War — Authority: 494
  A while ago – and it seems ages ago now – I wrote a journal article (based on my PhD) about the Saint Malo negotiations of 1998, which concerned the very opening shots of the European Security and Defence Policy (as was). In it I made a series of observations about the decision making style of former Prime ...
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