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Thursday 18 August 2011	War on Iraq


Tim Black Why the US is still stuck in Iraq The interminable occupation of Iraq exposes the crazy idea that Western forces can liberate foreign peoples.

Wednesday 13 July 2011
Tim Black The Human Rights Watch plan to save US imperialism HRW is demanding that Bush be tried for war crimes only because it wants to resuscitate US authority over the uncivilised hordes.

Thursday 16 June 2011
Patrick Hayes Is the Archbishop still having sleepless nights? Moralists who were outraged by America’s killing of bin Laden have said diddly-squat about subsequent assassinations.

Thursday 2 September 2010
Tim Black The US withdrew from Iraq a long time ago The removal of US troops isn’t that significant. Politically and emotionally, Washington left Iraq some time around 2004.

Thursday 19 August 2010
Brendan O’Neill The chattering classes’ favourite conspiracy theory The idea that David Kelly was murdered is as baseless as the idea that Bush crashed planes into the Twin Towers. So why is it so respectable?

Thursday 29 July 2010
Brendan O’Neill Hans Blix’s Stalinist rewriting of history Far from being anti-war heroes, UN weapons inspectors paved the way for the bombing of the ‘bastards’ and ‘moral lepers’ of Iraq.

Tuesday 9 March 2010
Tim Black Britons, why can’t you be more like Iraqis? Political observers are cynically celebrating the Iraqi elections as a welcome contrast to dumb apathy here at home.

Monday 1 February 2010
Mick Hume Why don’t they just hang Blair and have done with it? The shrillness and rank stupidity of the anti-Blair hysteria around the Iraq inquiry echoes the way Saddam was monstered to justify the war.

Wednesday 13 January 2010
Tim Black Why they hate this ‘modern Machiavelli’ The idea that Alastair Campbell is single-handedly responsible for the disaster of Iraq is politically bonkers.

Wednesday 16 December 2009
Mick Hume Which fool ever thought the Iraq War was about WMD? The most surprising thing about Tony Blair’s ‘revelation’ that he would have deposed Saddam regardless was that so many found it shocking.

Wednesday 9 December 2009
Tim Black We need honest debate, not a bureaucratic inquiry We wouldn’t need another bloody inquiry into Iraq if there had been some serious moral and political discussion about the war.

Wednesday 17 June 2009
Tim Black Iraq: we don’t need another inquiry Supine, shameless politicians want a public inquiry to do what they signally failed to do six years ago: refute the case for invading Iraq.

Thursday 26 February 2009
Brendan O’Neill The cult of transparency is a threat to democracy I’m opposed to the Iraq war and to Jack Straw. But he has a point when he says that not all Cabinet minutes should be published.

Tuesday 14 October 2008
David Chandler British forces: a token army of occupation The Iraqi PM’s attack on Britain’s lack of commitment in Basra has shot a hole in the government’s ‘Iraq Story’.

Thursday 20 March 2008
Brendan O’Neill Why haven’t they learned the lesson of Iraq? On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, spiked’s criticisms of the war and the anti-war movement have been vindicated.

Tuesday 18 March 2008
David Chandler Humanising Haditha By showing all sides as victims of war, Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha can only find ‘common humanity’ in our ability to suffer.

Monday 17 December 2007
Frank Furedi From Singapore to Basra: British militarism as farce If the fall of Singapore in 1942 exposed holes in the British Empire, today's 'fleeing' from Basra reveals a confused and complacent British elite.

Thursday 11 October 2007
Brendan O’Neill Mercenaries in Iraq: Dogs of Indecision The most striking thing about the Blackwater scandal is the American state’s readiness to share its means of coercion with others.

Monday 10 September 2007
Tara McCormack Throwing money at Basra’s problems Meet the British merchant banker and part-time soldier who was given $1 billion, some odd instructions and an order to reconstruct Basra.

Tuesday 4 September 2007
Brendan O’Neill Basra withdrawal: a media stunt to end a PR war British army chiefs pulled out all the stops to get the ‘right image’ of the pullout from Basra.
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