Iraq

Iraq
Capital city	Baghdad
Location	Middle East
Leader	President of Iraq
Type	nation state
Interest of	George W. Bush, CENTCOM, Hassan Firouzabadi, Halliburton, House of Hashim
Member of	Arab League, UN
Subpage	•"Iraq/WMD" •Iraq/Deputy Prime Minister •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).

From about 1968 to 1991, Iraq enjoyed considerable economic progress with electricity and water available to the entire country. Since 1982 the government built 18 new hospitals some of which were renowned in the Middle East. Health care was virtually free and education was universal and free through college. Food was both inexpensive and abundant. People without land were offered low-interest loans on the condition that the land became productive within five years. Malnutrition was non-existent. A strong infrastructure of highways, dams, hydroelectric power, flood control, irrigation systems, and an efficient telephone system contributed to the growing strength of the economy.

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.

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.’

Invasion by USA

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. As of January 2016, even the highly conservative Iraq Body Count website suggested that the war had caused 242,000 deaths. Many estimates put the resulting death toll as much higher.

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.

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."

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
Madeleine Albright	“Lesley Stahl: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think the price is worth it.”	Madeleine Albright Lesley Stahl	12 May 1996
George Carlin	“This whole country has a manhood problem, biiiiiig manhood problem in the USA. You can tell from the language we use; language always gives you away. What did we do wrong in Vietnam? We pulled out! Huh? Not a very manly thing to do is it? When you’re fucking people, you gotta stay in there and fuck them good! Fuck ‘em all the way! Fuck ‘em ‘til the end! Fuck ‘em to death! Fuck ‘em to death! Fuck ‘em to death! Stay in there and keep fucking them until they’re all dead! We left a few women and children alive in Vietnam and we haven’t felt good about ourselves since. That’s why in the Persian Gulf George Bush had to say “this will not be another Vietnam!” He actually used these words, he said: “This time, we’re going all the way!” Imagine, an American president using the sexual slang of a 13-year-old to describe his foreign policy. If you wanna know what happened in the Persian Gulf, just remember the names of the two men who were running that war: Dick Cheney and Colin Powell… somebody got fucked in the ass!”	George Carlin
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
George Curzon	“[We need an] Arab facade ruled and administered under British guidance and controlled by a native Mohammedan and, as far as possible, by an Arab staff…. There should be no actual incorporation of the conquered territory in the dominions of the conqueror, but the absorption may be veiled by such constitutional fictions as a protectorate, a sphere of influence, a buffer state and so on.””	George Curzon
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.””
Jörg Haider	“Asked about the impression that Saddam is better for him than Bush, Haider said: "The choice is really hard for me. Both have been at war with international law and committed human rights violations. The one is lucky enough to command a world power, hence the power to write the laws, while the other has been a weak dictator"”	Jörg Haider
Television	“I once said to the chair, the heads of the CIA, when I was prime minister, that if you want to advance regime change in Iran you don't have to go through the CIA cloak and dagger stuff. What you want to do is, is take very large, very strong transponders and just beam Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 2050 and all that, into, into Tehran and into Iran because that is subversive stuff. They watch with, the young kids watch it, the young people. They want to have the same nice clothes and the same houses and swimming pools and so on.”	Benjamin Netanyahu	12 September 2002
Donald Trump	“Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They've become rich. I'm in competition with them. They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don't have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should've taken”	Donald Trump	June 2015
Donald Trump	“The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families.”	Donald Trump	2 December 2015

 

Events

Event	Description
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.
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War	Hamas attack on dozens of illegal Israeli settlements in Southern Israel provoking mass retaliatory killings by Israel. Corporate media call it the Israeli "9-11", while critics of Israel refer to "10-7" as a staged, military operation in order to manufacture consent for a disproportionate response.
Gulf War	A war used by the US to effectively cow the Saudis into submission and bolster US military domination of the Gulf region.
Iran-Iraq war	An war from 1980-1988, that was ended with a UN-brokered ceasefire.
Jessica Lynch/Rescue	Special forces rescue operation that was not actually necessary, but initiated to bring some uplifting news from Iraq.
Noricum scandal	Illegal sale of artillery guns to Iraq and Iran
Operation Provide Comfort	The no-fly zone instituted would become one of the main factors allowing the development of the autonomous Kurdistan Region.

 

Group

Group	Start	Description
University of Salahaddin	1968	Main university in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region

 

Citizens of Iraq on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Frans van Anraat	9 August 1942		Big supplier of Saddam Hussein. Rejected setting up a new deep state-front in Iraq during Iraq War and fled an AIVD safehouse. Only Dutch national to ever appear of FBI Ten most Wanted list. Jailed for 17 years.
Layla Anwar			Female blogger from Iraq. She has documented the war since 2006.
Nadhmi Auchi	11 June 1937		Cercle-connected fraudster
Tariq Aziz	28 April 1936	5 June 2015	Former Iraqi foreign minister and deputy prime minister under President Saddam Hussein
Alia Muhammad Baker	1952	13 August 2021	Iraqi librarian who saved thousands of books during the war.
Ahmed Chalabi	30 October 1944	3 November 2015	"A crafty, avuncular Iraqi exile beloved by Washington's neoconservatives" who attended the 2006 Bilderberg a month after quitting as Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq.
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	November 1914	February 1963	n Iraqi Army brigadier and nationalist who came to power in 1958 coup. Deposed in 1963 coup, possibly orchestrated by the CIA.
Haider al-Abadi	25 April 1952
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	28 July 1961	26 October 2019
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi	1968		Iraqi defector purported to be the source of the lies about Saddam Hussein's WMDs.
Nouri al-Maliki	20 June 1950		Iraqi Prime Minister during the US occupation. "'I have a name for you,' the CIA officer said. 'Maliki'".

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bandung Conference	1955	1955	Indonesia	Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
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

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