Iraq

Is it time Iraqis showed some gratitude for what the US-UK invasion did to their country?

"If a country has sent its young men to another country to die, to restore - create democracy, you'd expect, well you'd expect a bit of gratitude, wouldn't you?" - John Humphreys, BBC

The victims of Fallujah's health crisis are stifled by western silence

It is well known that the US used depleted uranium weapons in Iraq during the 1991 Gulf war; and Iraqis, at least, are well aware of the increases in cancers and infant mortality rates.

New report shows huge rise in birth defects due to US bombing of Iraq

The latest study found that in Fallujah, more than half of all babies surveyed were born with a birth defect between 2007 and 2010. Before the siege, this figure was more like one in 10.

Iraq: who benefited from one of the biggest lies in American history?

After ten years, we have never held anyone accountable for one of the biggest lies in American history. Perhaps it would be a useful to look at who benefited from the war.

Dark side of British army reveals systematic torture in Iraq

An official has resigned from the inquiry examining whether British troops abused and tortured Iraqi prisoners because she says it has become "little more than a whitewash".

He's not a celebrity, get him out of here: the war crimes of Alistair Campbell

Alastair Campbell basks in the celebrity limelight, his war crimes expurged from the collective imagination, instead of demanding prosecution alongside those of Tony Blair.

Selling War: ten years since Tony Blair's 'dodgy dossier'

Far too many of those who lied to parliament and people in order to take us in to an illegal and devestating war are still in positions of public power and responsibility.

Saddam Hussein returns to Iraq: the legacy of the US-UK war and occupation

There have been 96 executions so far for 2012, with another 196 people on death row. Many Iraqis, including former detainees, believe the number is much higher than the government reports.

Iraq today: the bloody legacy of Tony Blair's web of lies

Tony Blair said the Iraq war was a "blood price" worth paying. But it's not a price he has paid - it's been paid in the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians.

Chilcot Iraq Inquiry: started as a whitewash, ends as a washout of Tony Blair's lies

The two main parties -- Labour and Conservative -- which were complicit in going to war are now complicit in preventing the truth about Tony Blair's lies from coming out.

UK torture and killing of Iraqis the government wants to hide forever

The UK government has introduced its new secrecy law in Parliament, which, if enacted, would mean details of torture scandals like this would be hidden for ever.

The hospital of horrors that is the legacy of the Iraq war

In their destruction of the city of Fallujah in 2004, the United States used chemical weapons that have left a horrific legacy for an Iraqi hospital visited by Robert Fisk.

No Arab Spring for the child victims of US chemical weapons in Fallujah

The phosphorus shells that devastated this city were fired in 2004. But are the victims of America's dirty war still being born?

Two weeks early for April Fool's Day Obama declares Iraq war an honorable success

Didn't the mission end without finding the mythical weapons, without forcing the Iraqis to accept US domination, and with the country essentially destroyed?

After nine years leave Iraq to the Iraqis says ex-US marine

Should foreigners have any role in building Iraq’s culture of peace? No, says ex-US marine Ross Caputi, Iraqis are quite capable of doing that without the help of Americans.

What's the difference between the Haditha murderers and Bradley Manning?

What's the difference between US soldiers who slaughtered 24 civilians, including women and children and a man in a wheelchair, and the US soldier who helped expose such atrocities?