Iraq
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Capital city | Baghdad |
Location | Middle East |
Leader | President of Iraq |
Type | nation state |
Member of | Arab League |
Subpage | •"Iraq/WMD" •Iraq/Minister of Communications •Iraq/Vice President |
Iraq possesses the 5th largest oil reserves of any nation state. |
Iraq is an oil rich nation state in the Middle East, formerly ruled by Saddam Hussein. It has been twice attacked by US led coalitions after US public opinion was influenced by deceitful war propaganda (such as, for example, Nurse Nayirah).
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Fossil fuel reserves
Iraq has the 5th largest oil reserves and the 7th largest gas reserves of any nation state, about 3% of total global gas reserves.[1]
Iraq was on a list of seven countries which retired 4-star general Wesley Clark (former supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe 1997-2001) stated the US military had plans to invade:
In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’[2]
Invasion by USA
- Full article: Iraq War
- Full article: Iraq War
The US invaded Iraq in 2003, amid a cooked up casus belli about Saddam Hussein's effort to acquire "WMD". World opinion turned against the United States after that, distinctively more in Muslim countries.[3] As of January 2016, even the highly conservative Iraq Body Count website suggested that the war had caused 242,000 deaths.[4] Many estimates put the resulting death toll as much higher.[5]
Continued destruction
A UN report released in January 2016 stated that over 3,000,000 people had been internally displaced in Iraq since January 2014, including over a million school age children.[6]
Dismemberment
Nafeez Ahmed headlined an article in March 2017 that "a network tied to Cambridge Analytica, Islamist insurgents, ExxonMobil and Koch convinced Trump to let go of Iraqi unity."[7]
War Crimes
- Fallujah - indiscriminate attack on a densly populated city
- 2015 Hawija bombing
- Collateral Murder
- Abu Ghraib - torture and murder as policy
- Depleted Uranium use
- ...
Related Quotations
Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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Wesley Clark | “In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’” | Wesley Clark | 2 March 2007 |
Document:US Planned Syrian Civilian Catastrophe Since 2007 | “Nasrallah said he believed that President Bush’s goal was “the drawing of a new map for the region. They want the partition of Iraq. Iraq is not on the edge of a civil war — there is a civil war. There is ethnic and sectarian cleansing. The daily killing and displacement which is taking place in Iraq aims at achieving three Iraqi parts, which will be sectarian and ethnically pure as a prelude to the partition of Iraq. Within one or two years at the most, there will be total Sunni areas, total Shiite areas, and total Kurdish areas. Even in Baghdad, there is a fear that it might be divided into two areas, one Sunni and one Shiite...
“I can say that President Bush is lying when he says he does not want Iraq to be partitioned. All the facts occurring now on the ground make you swear he is dragging Iraq to partition. And a day will come when he will say, ‘I cannot do anything, since the Iraqis want the partition of their country and I honor the wishes of the people of Iraq.’" Nasrallah said he believed that America also wanted to bring about the partition of Lebanon and of Syria. In Syria, he said, the result would be to push the country “into chaos and internal battles like in Iraq.” In Lebanon, “There will be a Sunni state, an Alawi state, a Christian state, and a Druze state.” But, he said, “I do not know if there will be a Shiite state.”” |
Ambassadors to Iraq
Nation state | Start | Description |
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Ambassador to Iraq | 1929 | |
France/Ambassador to Iraq | ||
Turkey/Ambassador to Iraq | 1929 | |
UK/Ambassador to Iraq | ||
US/Ambassador to Iraq | 1931 |
Events
Event | Description |
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2003 Iraq War | A war for oil carried out after "Operation Mass Appeal" an MI6-backed propaganda campaign. |
2015 Hawija bombing | A bombing of an IED plant that was ordered under suspicious circumstances went awry. Dutch Cabinet denied involvement, then denied any knowledge of the casualties until Dutch FOIA requests showed otherwise. |
2016 Hurriyah car bombing hoax | A real bomb in the Hurriyah area of Baghdad reported as having killed people by commercially-controlled media but exposed as a hoax after CCTV footage appeared online. |
Iran-Iraq war |
Citizens of Iraq on Wikispooks
Title | Born | Died | Description |
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Frans van Anraat | 9 August 1942 | ||
Layla Anwar | |||
Nadhmi Auchi | 11 June 1937 | Cercle-connected fraudster | |
Tariq Aziz | 28 April 1936 | 5 June 2015 | Former Iraqi foreugn minister and deputy prime minister under President Saddam Hussein |
Saddam Hussein | 28 April 1937 | 30 December 2006 | A brutal dictator who enjoyed US support until he ceased following their orders. |
Abd al-Karim Qasim | 21 November 1914 | 9 February 1963 | |
Haider al-Abadi | 25 April 1952 | ||
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | 28 July 1961 | 26 October 2019 | |
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi | 1968 | The purported source of the lies about Saddam Hussein's WMDs. |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:Ed Miliband’s decision to oppose military action against Syria is an action of statesmanship of which Britons will be proud | Article | 28 August 2013 | Michael Meacher | It is all very well to rush to war in a surge of moral outrage, it is quite another to spell out clearly what are the war objectives and how exactly they are to be achieved. |
Document:From Pol Pot to ISIS: Anything that flies on everything that moves | article | 8 October 2014 | John Pilger | The parallels between the rise to power of Cambodia's Khymer Rouge under Pol Pot in the 1970's and that of ISIS in the Iraq/Syria of 2014. |
Document:Haditha: Another Small Massacre – No One Guilty | article | 5 February 2012 | Felicity Arbuthnot | On the US The Double standards and the vicious psychopathic cruelty of the US military. |
Document:Iraq’s attack on the Kurds 1963-65 | book extract | 12 February 2007 | Mark Curtis | |
Document:Jihadism and the Petroleum Industry | article | 23 June 2014 | Thierry Meyssan | The ISIS/ISIL 'Jihadi invasion' of Iraq is nothing of the sort. It is a determined attempt by Usaia to Balkanise Iraq in furtherance of a carefully laid contingency plan to maintain control over the region. |
Document:Niyirah al-Sabah’s Story | article | 28 August 2011 | Sandra Barr | Niyirah al-Sabah presenting her lies about Saddam Hussein's troops taking babies out of incubators that led to the Iraq War and Iman al-Obeidi claiming she was gang-raped by Muammar Gaddafi's forces justifying the 2011 Attacks on Libya |
Document:Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq | Article | 3 June 2015 | Seumas Milne | American forces bomb one set of rebels while backing another in Syria, and mount what are effectively joint military operations with Iran against ISIS in Iraq while supporting Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen |
Document:The New Silk Road Will Go Through Syria | Article | 13 July 2017 | Pepe Escobar | Beijing is working non-stop for the Iran-Iraq-Syria triumvirate to become a key hub in the New Silk Road (OBOR). Any bets against a future, booming Shanghai-Latakia container route? |
Document:US Apocalypse in Mosul in the Guise of Bombing ISIS | article | 27 April 2016 | Felicity Arbuthnot | Impassioned denunciation of the history of US military operations in Iraq and spring 2016 bombing campaign alledgedly aimed at 'liberating' the North-Eastern Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS |
File:Birth Defects In Iraq.pdf | report | 16 September 2012 | M. Al-Sabbak S. Sadik Ali O. Savabi G. Savabi S. Dastgiri M. Savabieasfahani | |
File:Sinjar-records final.pdf | report | December 2007 | Joseph Felter Brian Fishman | |
Document:Iraq 1990-91 | book extract | 2003 | William Blum |
References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_proven_reserves
- ↑ Interview radio Democracy Now, 2007-03-02
- ↑ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2004/03/16/survey-report/
- ↑ https://www.iraqbodycount.org/
- ↑ http://unwelcomeguests.net/336
- ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/staggering-civilian-death-toll-in-iraq-un-report/5502314
- ↑ https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-inside-the-trump-lobby-that-wants-to-break-up-iraq-3ecf122f0ead?source=user_profile---------1-----------