Iraq

Reagan’s WMD Connection to Saddam Hussein

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2004

Given all the indignant neoconservative “outrage” over the financial misdeeds arising from the UN’s socialist oil-for-food program during the 1990s, when the UN embargo was killing untold numbers of Iraqi children, one would think that there would be an equal amount of outrage ...

The Senate Needs to Get to the Point about Abu Ghraib

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 12, 2004

It’s nice that the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee has summoned the secretary and undersecretary of Defense and a string of generals to testify about policies and procedures established by the Pentagon for the proper treatment of prisoners and detainees. But while that’s important, it’s not as ...

It Was About “Regime Change” from the Get-Go

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2004

Spain has now completed the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq. Other countries that are following suit include the Dominican Republic and Honduras; El Salvador and Poland are contemplating doing the same. Unlike the United States, which is determined to continue its indefinite occupation of Iraq, it is ...

Imperial Shame for America at Abu Ghraib

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 3, 2004

The sex-abuse, rape, and torture scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq might explain why U.S. officials have steadfastly opposed joining other nations in the formation of an international war-crimes tribunal. When government officials are actively involved in war crimes, the last thing they want ...

Resisting the Occupation (“Liberation”) of Iraq

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 2, 2004

Imagine that Chinese troops have invaded the United States with the stated goal of liberating the American people from the grips of the IRS, DEA, BATF, and the many other departments and agencies that violate the principles of freedom set forth by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence. ...

Iraq: One Year Later

by Sheldon Richman March 19, 2004

Islamist terrorism, the eradication of which President Bush listed among his reasons for invading Iraq, has now made its way to Spain. Good show, Mr. Bush. When he says the world is safer one year after the war, one must wonder which world he means. The Spanish are being slandered ...

Compilation of Articles on the Sanctions against the Iraqi People

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 9, 2004

American Policy Gave Hussein Reason to Deceive by Stanley Meisler Los Angeles Times Sanctions: The Cruel and Brutal War Against the Iraqi People, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger Future of Freedom Foundation

Sanctions: The Cruel and Brutal War against the Iraqi People, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2004

Part 1 | Part 2 By 1996, an increasing number of people were speaking out against the sanctions against Iraq, which motivated U.S. officials to embrace a diplomatic fig leaf that would protect them from adverse public opinion while, at the same time, enabling them to continue their cruel and brutal policy against the Iraqi people. That was when ...

Iraqi Sanctions and American Intentions: Blameless Carnage? Part 2

by James Bovard February 1, 2004

Part 1 | Part 2 While Pentagon officials bluntly admitted in 1991 that sanctions aimed to punish the Iraqi people, candor evaporated as the death toll rose. The State Department’s website announced in June 1999, Sanctions are not intended to harm the people of Iraq. That is why the sanctions regime has always specifically exempted food and medicine. This ...

Sanctions: The Cruel and Brutal War against the Iraqi People, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2004

Part 1 | Part 2 Immediately after the September 11 terrorist attacks, President Bush and other U.S. officials announced that the attacks had been motivated by hatred for America’s “freedom and values.” Nothing could have been further from the truth, and U.S. officials knew it. For 12 years, they had been waging a cruel and brutal, silent and undeclared ...

Iraqi Sanctions: Were They Worth It?

by Sheldon Richman January 1, 2004

In May 1996 Madeleine Albright, who was then the U.S. ambassador to the UN, was asked by 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, in reference to years of U.S.-led economic sanctions against Iraq, We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, ...

Iraqi Sanctions and American Intentions: Blameless Carnage? Part 1

by James Bovard January 1, 2004

Part 1 | Part 2 President Bush’s advisors assured Americans that U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators — with flowers and hugs — when the United States invaded Iraq. That promise turned out to be one of the biggest frauds of the Iraqi debacle. One major reason for the animosity to U.S. troops is the lingering impact and bitter ...