Making Sense of the War in
A web page compiled to support POLS 401, Politics of
the War in Iraq.
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Origins: The War on Terror and Invasion of
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The
Washington Post has a page with
links to the 9/11 Commission Report.
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Many
of the links for POLS 326, about 9/11
and responses to it, still work.
This was the first time the course was offered.
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From
PDA (Project on Defense Alternatives), A Critical Appraisal of
Operation Enduring Freedom (includes a link to .pdf version)
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Origins: Adding
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The
White House Page on Iraq
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The
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has a page on Iraq
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The
Guardian (UK) has a
page on the conflict with Iraq
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The Project for a New American
Century director called for a war on
Iraq back in October of 2001, and founders wrote a letter about it
to Clinton in 1998. The PNAC
principles and founders are here.
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Center
for Defense Information published a short discussion of preemptive war and
international law.
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The
New York Times special
page on the Iraq Standoff has mostly recent stories
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A
comparison of the Cuban Missile Crisis with Bush’s Iraq Policy
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Bush
spoke to US Military Academy about pre-emption,
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Bush spoke to the UN,
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Nicholas
Lemann article in The New Yorker, The War on What?
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National Security Strategy,
with some emphasis on pre-emption,
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Secretary
Powell before Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
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Michael
O’Hanlon, testimony
before Congress on prognosis for a war, 10/02
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Francois
Heisbourg, in The Washington Quarterly, on the pre-emption
doctrine.
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White
House response to Hussein, called
“Apparatus of Lies” (html version here)
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The Center for Cooperative
Research put together this
list of events and statements about the decision to invade.
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January
2002 Discussion of new Bush Doctrine, from Brookings
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Early
on (July 2002) our govt. was talking to the British govt. See the Downing Street Memo.
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Early
on, Most Americans Support War with Iraq, Shows New Pew/CFR Poll; Poll Details.
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Secretary
Powell on Meet the Press, says disarmament, not regime change the goal
(10/20/02); This was a slight change from the month before, when disarmament
and regime change were the goals in
this Meet The Press interview from Sept. 15, 2002. Part of this shift of emphasis was because
of ongoing discussions of UN role.
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"Democratic Mirage in the Middle East"
by Marina Ottaway, Thomas Carothers, Amy Hawthorne, and Daniel Brumberg (Policy
Brief #20, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
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President Bush’s
speech of Oct. 7, 2002, just before Congress passed the resolution giving
him the power to go to war.
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Paul Wolfowitz spoke to
CFR on 1/23/03
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VP
Cheney spoke to CPAC, 1/30/03. This
might be the most succinct presentation of the Bush administration position on
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Dpy.
Sec. State Armitage spoke to Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1/30/03. Here are his comments with questions and
answers from the entire
hearing that day.
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Secretary
Powell’s
Case Against Iraq, presented to the Security Council of the UN,
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Secretary
Powell’s Remarks to CSIS, 3/5/03.
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Effects
of Powell’s Arguments on the Nation’s Largest Newspapers, from Brookings.
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The
President’s 3/6/03 News Conference
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Just
before the war began, Vice President Cheney was on the news talk show, Meet The
Press. Here is a transcript
of the show.
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Many in
the academic and literary worlds are against
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The
Council on Foreign
Relations page on the UN debate over Iraq
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3/17,
Bush
and Blair Pull Resolution from UN, WA Post
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Iraq: A
Chronology of UN Inspections And an Assessment of Their Accomplishments,
from ACA.
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The
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3/17,
Second
Resolution Withdrawn in Guardian story
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3/18,
Check the
Guardian Page for international reactions
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3/15,
Bush,
Allies Set Summit on “Options,” WA Post
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3/16,
Bush
in Final Push for Support, WA Post
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3/17,
US
Officials Make it Clear: Exile or War, WA Post
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3/18,
Poll:
Support for Bush, War grows, WA Post; Fleisher
Blasts Daschle for War Remarks; Bush,
Allies Give Diplomacy 24 More Hours; and President
Bush’s Address to the Nation.
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3/19,
US
Names 30 Countries Supporting War Effort, WA Post; Poll
Reinforces US, European Divide on Iraq.; Parliament Backs Blair on Action in Baghdad.
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3/20,
No
Outcome But Victory, Bush Vows, WA Post
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Guardian archive
of stories about Iraq
The Technology, Strategy and Conduct of War,
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A
page of links to stories emphasizing tech., strat., conduct of war, from Project
on Defense Alternatives. For their
articles and
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See the NYT page on
war technology and strategy
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CNN
Index Page, Day by Day
War Stories
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Once
the war started, the NYT devoted a pages to stories about war
action
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S.
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3,17
Guardian article, Tactical
Lessons that Must Be Learnt
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3/18
Guardian stories. New Weapons
on Trial. and Ragtag Army
or Expert Street Fighters?
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Human
Rights Watch report on
civilian casualties, from December of 2003. This produced the 100,000 estimate of civilian casualties. Note:
A radio interview with one of the researchers, who previous to this
worked for the Department of Defense and was chief of high-value targeting
during the Iraq War in 2003, is available
here.
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Here
is a summary of the Lancet
study, by Burnham et.al., that produced the 600,000 estimate of civilian
casualties.
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Links
to stories about media
and the war, various sources
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World Press Online, press
coverage in Middle East, in Asia,
and in Africa.
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Planning
for the post-war period was begun in October of 2001. Documents
from the National Security Archive are available here. The National Security Archive is a
nongovernmental collection of mostly government documents run by people at
George Washington University.
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The
Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
website keeps track of official stats.
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Dpty. Nat. Sec. Adv.
Hadley on rebuilding
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John Dower, “A Warning
from History,” in the Boston Review
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The
report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities
of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Check its description of the “curveball”
evidence.
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Tim
Russert, Meet the Press, interview
with the President, Feb. 7, 2004.
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If
you have not read much about just war theory, please
see this description from the BBC website.
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Defense Strategy Review, courtesy
of Commonwealth Institute
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University
of Maryland’s Center for International Development
& Conflict Mgmt