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iraq: understanding the handoveropenDemocracy has tracked the prelude, course and aftermath of the Iraq war – always seeking to voice vital ideas and perspectives from around the world. Here, a brief guide to our coverage, and a selection of choice cuts.
The fight against corruption should be the foundation-stone of a clean post-occupation Iraq
A peaceful vote for an empowered centre - but losers' fear augurs a tense year
The United States president-elect promises to withdraw troops from
Iraq. Will he deliver?
The Pentagon's analysis of Iraqi trends is trapped in misunderstanding of even basic realities
Three countries with three elections in 2008-09 make a political strategy for Iraq's future urgent
The conflict in Basra is part of a wider political struggle over the future of Iraq
The United States occupation of Iraq is five years old. Has it been wicked or merely foolish?
Iraq's political system must be repaired at national level if local progress is to be made
How Iraq’s complex political dynamics are beyond the US’s grasp
The science, politics and ethics of a post-invasion count
A new study assesses the human costs of war. What is at stake? (archive)
David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker have had too easy a ride over their Iraq failure
US policymakers must address the humanitarian tragedy of millions of displaced Iraqis
The United States plan to cantonise Baghdad follows the sectarian logic of its occupation, says Zaid Al-Ali. Read the rest of this post...
Saudi Arabia's new diplomatic activism is a challenge to American plans in the region, says Tareq Y Ismael. Read the rest of this post...
Whatever official narratives and recovery plans say, the real experience of Iraqis since 2003 is a collapse of livelihoods under war and occupation, says Zaid Al-Ali. Read the rest of this post...
The hanging of Iraq's ex-dictator was an instrument of the country's new sectarian logic rather than of justice, says Tareq Y Ismael. Read the rest of this post...
The
post-2003 occupation is only the latest chapter in Washington's long,
disastrous involvement in Iraq. Zaid Al-Ali tracks a bitter history and
draws a lesson.
Iraqis themselves must be at the centre of any attempt to make President Bush's new strategy for their country a political success, says Reidar Visser. Read the rest of this post...
While Saddam deserves no sympathy, says Anthony Barnett, the ugly gallows scenes confront us with our role in Iraq's horror: we let Blair and Bush lead. Read the rest of this post...
The implementation of the Baker report would be a betrayal of Iraq's Kurds and a defeat for the United States itself, says Dlawer Ala'Aldeen. Read the rest of this post...
The Baker report's recommendations for future United States policy in Iraq cannot work while United States violence and coercion dominates so much of Iraqis' lives, says Tareq Y Ismael. Read the rest of this post...
The Iraq Study Group has still not understood what people in Iraq well know, says Sami Ramadani: that it is the United States military occupation of Iraq itself that is fuelling the violence there. Read the rest of this post...
The debate in the United States about its military strategy in Iraq and the deployment of forces there is intensifying. Morton Kondracke and William R Polk present sharply contrasting recommendations. Read the rest of this post...
An ethno-sectarian solution is the only way to preserve Iraq as a coherent entity, argue Gareth Stansfield and Liam Anderson. Read the rest of this post...
The voices of Iraqi patriotism in Basra are a rebuke to western advocates of the country’s fragmentation, says Reidar Visser. Read the rest of this post...
A US call to spare Saddam from the gallows could restore America's reputation for justice, and be a powerful gesture of reconciliation for the middle east, says John Sloboda. Read the rest of this post...
United States politicians are rethinking their options in Iraq. But would a new policy resolve or intensify the war? Zaid Al-Ali assesses Washington's evolving agenda. Read the rest of this post...
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