• HNN INDEX: THE LOOTING OF IRAQ'S HERITAGE
  Articles and excerpts on HNN related to the looting and burning of the national museum, the national library and the repository of the Korans.

• ARMING IRAQ
  Chronology of the U.S. support for Iraq beginning in 1983.

• IRAQ AND DEMOCRACY
  Why Iraq Might Be a Better Candidate for Democracy than You Think

• HISTORY OF IRAQ IN 10 MINUTES
  Virginia Tech: Critical Media Literacy in Times of War

• HISTORY OF IRAQ IN 10 MINUTES
  Journalist Alan W. Bock, "A Turbulent Past"

• WAS WAR IN 2003 WISE?
  Historians' Roundtable: Ian Kershaw; Mark Mazower; Andrew Roberts; Simon Schama; Linda Colley; Eric Hobsbawm; Richard Evans; Avi Schlaim; Paul Kennedy; Michael Burleigh; Norman Davies; Richard Overy.

• REVIEW OF BOOKS ABOUT IRAQ
  A journalist reviews books about Saddam, American policy toward Iraq, and Iraqi history.

• BOOKS ABOUT IRAQ AND THE MIDDLE EAST
  NPR reading list.

• LESSONS FROM THE BRITISH CONQUEST OF IRAQ
  4 lessons about Iraq Americans should keep in mind.

• WHO ARE THE KURDS?
  Paul Sullivan explains the forces that have shaped Kurdish history.
  HNN .

• BRITAIN'S AWFUL WAR AGAINST IRAQ
  An attempt by a British force in 1915 to topple the regime in Baghdad ended in utter disaster.
  Times (London) .

• CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION ON WAR WITH IRAQ
  Text of the Joint Resolution on the use of force against Iraq, passed by Congress October 11, 2002.
  HNN.

• HNN: HOW DID IRAQ AND THE U.S. BECOME ENEMIES?
  While relations with Iraq have virtually dominated American foreign policy considerations for the past decade, and serve as the current casus belli of the Bush administration, the United States has a much longer history of involvement with that nation, a background which provides essential perspective on today’s crisis and Washington’s role in Iraqi politics over the past half-century.
  HNN.

• HNN: DID SADDAM GAS THE KURDS?
  In early February 2003 the NYT published an op ed by Stephen C. Pelletiere, a retired Army War college professor, that raised doubts about the claim that Saddam gassed the Kurds at Halabaja in 1988. Juan Cole disputed Pelletiere's claims in an article on HNN.
  HNN.

• ATLANTIC MONTHLY HISTORY OF IRAQ
  With the United States seemingly moving ever closer to a confrontation with Iraq, and with the debate about the advisability of an attack growing ever more heated, now seems a fitting time to take a considered look at Iraq, and at some of the arguments, both historical and new, on the subject of U.S. involvement there. A collection of Atlantic articles from 1958 to the present offers a variety of perspectives on this volatile nation and its contentious relationship with the United States.
  Atlantic Monthly

• HOW DID IRAQ COME INTO BEING?
  Saddam Hussein maintains, as a means of establishing the legitimacy of Iraq, that the country has a 5,000 year history. In this interview on NPR, Charles Tripp -- author of a history of Iraq --points out Iraq was actually the creation of the British.
  HNN.

• KURDISTAN TIMELINE
  A timeline of events in the modern history of Kurdistan, from the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), which provided for the creation of an autonomous Kurdistan, to the signing of a peace agreement in 2002 between the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which reactivated a unified parliament.
  Le Monde.

• IRAQ: THE FIFTY-FIRST STATE?
  In this piece, James Fallows predicts that a war on Iraq would require the United States to spend years reconstructing the country. He argues that the unforseen consequences in this war would probably be large and reviews cases in the past in which policymakers were confounded by the consequences of their actions.
  Atlantic Monthly (November, 2002).

• THE WAR POWER
  Why they call the war power the "stop look and listen" clause--and why we need to stop, look and listen now. By University of Utah law professor Edwin B. Firmage, co-author of: To Chain the Dog of War.
  HNN.

• TEACHING ABOUT IRAQ
  Materials useful in understanding the Iraq crisis, prepared by Brown University.

• IRAQ: WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
  Brief Summary of Iraqi WMD
  http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/iraq.htm

• IRAQ: WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
  Congressional research report on Iraqi WMD circa 1998
  http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/98-129-f.htm

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