Contains fourteen articles, including primary and secondary documents, that provide insights into the history of conflict in Iraq, discuss the 2003 U.S. war against the country and its leader Saddam Hussein, and examines the challenges facing postwar Iraq.
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Iraq's history of political conflict / Mark Lewis. -- The ride of Saddam Hussein / Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn. -- The Iran-Iraq war / Geoff Simons. -- Saddam Hussein's chemical attacks on the Kurds in the 1980s / Human Rights Watch. -- The Gulf War to liberate Kuwait / George H.W. Bush. -- America declares war on Iraq / George W. Bush. -- The Iraq war was a great success / the National Review. -- Bush's illegitimate war / David Corn. -- The war's unfinished business / Nancy Gibbs. -- Getting Iraq's oil flowing / the Economist. -- Establishing an interim government in Iraq / Mark Sedra. -- Democracy and ethnic divisions in Iraq / Efraim Karsh. -- The war in Iraq and the demise of international institutions / Paul Johnson. -- A destabilized postwar world / Joseph Cirincione.