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”

• American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Peter W. Galbraith.
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• Names of the Dead

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The Department of Defense has identified 4,352 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 906 who have died as part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans on Tuesday:.
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• Obama pushes for changes in Aghan strategy options

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 718
  Source: Reuters * Option for 30,000-plus troops gaining aides support * U.S. commitment "is not open-ended" - official * U.S. ambassador expresses doubts about Karzai - report (Adds Obama seeking ...
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• Just a little live fire…

  
  Bring the heat, Bring the Stupid — Authority: 459
  No real point to it, just liked the video and thought I’d share. It’s rare to see training footage using service ammo. Posted in armor, army, ARMY TRAINING, guns, infantry, iraq, war Tagged: 25mm, army, army life, ARMY TRAINING, bradley, ducks, guns, infantry, iraq, machine guns, war
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• Journalist brutally assaulted in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  Alert Journalist brutally assaulted in Kurdistan  Incident details Assault Nabaz Goran, Editor This is available in: English Français 10 November 2009  (RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for police to do their utmost to find those responsible for a “cowardly” physical ...
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• Raising Morale Far From Home

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Clockwise from top left, Staff Sgt. Ryan Royer, of the South Dakota National Guard, spent a year in Bagram, Afghanistan. A thank-you note from care-package recipients in Iraq, and soldiers in Afghanistan with stockings sent by Give2TheTroops. Dr. Lester Tenney, left, and Dan May loading care packages for soldiers.
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• Iraqi Parliament Passes Electoral Law; Kurdistan wins on Kirkuk

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  Juan Cole Comments Extract Monday, November 09, 2009 Iraqi Parliament Passes Electoral Law; Kurdistan wins on Kirkuk  Update: Steve Clemons reports that Vice President Joe Biden played a cental role in the negotiations . Clemons stresses his calls with Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani. But since the ...
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• Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  Blackwater Attempted to Bribe Iraqi Officials By Jeremy Scahill www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/scahill   November 10, 2009 In the aftermath of the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad by operatives working for Blackwater, top company officials including then-president Gary Jackson “authorized ...
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• Charges Prompt Iraqis to Look Into Blackwater

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 142
  The Iraqi interior minister ordered an investigation into whether top Blackwater officials approved of bribes to Iraqi government officials after fatal shootings in 2007.
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• In Memoriam - Happy Veterans Day

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, originally posted to VVAW.NET, was forwarded to the blog by David Zeiger, November 11, 2009 Please Dont Thank Me For My Service - Veterans Day Any Year I can see That Wall in DC. Im thinking of those two hundred names and faces I cant remember, eighteen and nineteen year old boys from my Basic Training ...
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• Minorities In Iraq Face ‘Catastrophe’, Human Rights Watch Warns

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  Minorities In Iraq Face ‘Catastrophe’, Human Rights Watch Warns November 10, 2009   By Nishant Dahiya Iraq’s minorities — including Yazidis, Shabaks, Turkoman and Assyrian Christians — face a “full-blown human rights catastrophe” as the long-festering territorial dispute between the Kurdistan ...
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• XE’s (Blackwater) Christian Crusader Prince; Takes “no child left behind” to a new disturbing level

  
  Butner Blogspot — Authority: 124
  Blackwater Used ‘Child Prostitutes in Iraq’Source: Salem-News.comThe criminal activities of the firm first came under scrutiny after a group of the firm’s members who were tasked to guard US diplomats in Iraq opened fire on civilians in Baghdad on September 2007, killing 17 people.Erik PrincePhoto: ...
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• Veteran’s Day

  
  State of Affairs — Authority: 417
  Sometimes I try very hard to forget one serious fact- I’m American.  Even though my home base is in Toronto, smashing whiskey bottles over the head of the almost always haggard Alex, I was born in Philadelphia.  I travel a lot, and usually tell foreigners that I’m Canadian.  It saves a lot of hassle, and [...]
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• Grateful Remembrance

  
  World-Wide-Matel — Authority: 129
  Most of the fathers in my neighborhood were veterans of World War II or Korea. I remember them mostly as middle aged guys with short haircuts, strong forearms and thick necks. They were like everybody else in our working-class neighborhood because they were the neighborhood.   Non-veterans were rare.  We ...
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• Veteran Photo-Journalist Honors Military in New Book

  
  Heart Book Series — Authority: 91
  Veteran Photo-Journalist Honors Military in New Book Debra Ann Ristau served for nine years as a photo-journalist and public affairs specialist in the California Army National Guard. In 1987, Pope John Paul II came to California and said Mass at the Laguna Seca racetrack, and spoke at Carmel ...
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• Reporting from Iraq: Freedom at risk

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  "We take our freedom for granted. But imagine not to be able to speak or discuss or debate or even question the society you live in," Tony Blair told the House of Commons in March 2003, urging MPs to support the invasion of Iraq. They were fine words. But they ring hollow more than six years after a war held in the ...
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• WATCH: "Hey #P2!" When Will Progressives Fight for LGBT Rights?

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 563
  Phil Reese at Ameriqueer is an amazing young Twitter-based progressive and gay activist. Phil just produced this powerful new video that calls all progressive political allies the—Twitter hashtag is #P2—and asks, "When do LGBT issues get their turn?" Phil writes:...
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• Dogs Welcoming Home Veterans

  
  Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go! — Authority: 607
  Get ready for the waterworks. Theres an entire compilation of these here. I love dogs. Source
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• The UCL incantation bowls: did they come from Iraq?

  
  Looting matters — Authority: 512
  I have noted last weekends discussion of the UCL incantation bowls in the British press. I now see a Washington-based cultural property observer wisely notes that the newspaper article "fails to detail the basis for the conclusion that the bowls originated in Iraq as opposed to Jordan". And there is the issue. The ...
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• Supporting Veterans

  
  Northwest Harley Blog — Authority: 117
  On this Veterans Day we still feel the shock of the 13 who were killed and the 43 injured on the base of Fort Hood just 6 days ago. I have not been injured or nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.  Nor do I personally understand the trials and long road to recovery that the injuries of war demand.  In war, ...
  8 hours ago

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