Iraq

NOVANEWS Research  EDT ››› ERIC HANANOKI On the tenth anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, Media Matters looks back at the work of some of the media's most prominent pro-war voices. Instead of facing consequences for backing the invasion based on information that turned out to be false and criticizing war opponents, many of these media figures continue to hold positions of influence and continue to provide foreign policy reporting and commentary. Fred Barnes Richard Cohen Thomas Friedman Paul Gigot / Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Sean Hannity Stephen Hayes Fred Hiatt / Washington Post Editorial Page Bill Keller Charles Krauthammer Bill Kristol Judith Miller Joe Scarborough Fred Barnes Position At The Time Of Iraq Invasion: Executive editor and co-founder of The Weekly ...

NOVANEWS Confronting the lies about the Iraq invasion The core argument of the professional liberal commentators and historians is that Bush hoodwinked the country and the general public, with the help of a supplicant media, by scaring people into thinking that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and the Bush administration had to invade to defend America and its people.Ten years ago, the United States and Britain invaded Iraq. The history of how this invasion came about has been largely falsified by both the right-wing supporters of the invasion and the liberal commentators who opposed the war. The fallacious handwringing liberal position was typified in the recent 10th-anniversary account of the war by Micah Sifry, published by the National Memo. “But 10 years ago, it was not...

NOVANEWS Hans Blix, who was the head of U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion, looks back at the Iraqi campaign. Mr. Blix begins by saying that he view the Iraqi war as a ‘terrible mistake and violation of the US charter’. Reflecting on theevents that preceded the invasion and on the outcome of the war he tries to figure out what lessons should be learnt from it. Being the head of the UN inspection team responsible for verifying whether Iraq was really reviving its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program Mr. Blix faced a serious moral dilemma: although no evidence of weapons was found in Iraq the Bush administration was pushing for the invasion. Mr. Blix remembers that the then Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained that the W...

by The Guardian Award-winning photographer Sean Smith describes the experience of being on the frontline in Iraq and explains why he was driven to return again and again. His photos are a bloody and unmediated record of the Iraq war and a reminder of the importance of photography. © 2013 The Guardian

NOVANEWS reuters.com The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said. The war has killed at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians and may have contributed to the deaths of as many as four times that number, according to the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. When security forces, insurgents, journalists and humanitarian workers were included, the war’s death toll rose to an estimated 176,000 to 189,000, the study said. The report, the work of about 30 academics and experts, was published in advance of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of I...

NOVANEWS The full length version of 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq  

NOVANEWS By Bie Kentane Global Research Text of author’s presentation to a meeting at the United Nations, Palais des Nations, Geneva, March 15, 2013 For two decades, Iraqi children have been subjected to grave violations of human rights.Due to decades of war, foreign occupation and international sanctions, Iraq has turned into one of the worst places for children in the Middle East and North Africa with around 3.5 million living in poverty, 1.5 million under the age of five undernourished and 100 infants dying every day, (The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)(IRIN News, 2007). This report will focus on the violations by the occupying forces and the Iraqi government of the Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, (ICRC) and the UN Co...