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	Learn more about 2003 occupation of Iraq timeline in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Timeline of events during 2003 occupation of Iraq, following 2003 invasion of Iraq, and relevant quotations about nature of occupation from officials.
		The people of Iraq are building a free society from the ground up, and they are able to do so because the dictator and his regime are no more.
		Occupation of Iraq: In the heaviest single loss for the coalition troops since cessation of the military campaign in Iraq two US Chinook helicopters are fired on by two surface to air missiles and one crashes near Fallujah and on its way to Baghdad airport; 16 soldiers are killed and 20 wounded.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /2/20/2003_occupation_of_iraq_timeline.html (2005 words)

	Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Troops for the occupation came primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom, but twenty-nine other nations also provided some troops, and there were varying levels of assistance from Japan and other allied countries.
		The establishment of a new civilian government of Iraq was complicated by religious and political divisions between the majority Shi'ite population and the formerly ruling Sunni class.
		The purpose of the Occupation of Iraq was, according to U.S. President George W. Bush, purely to bring about a transition from post-war anarchy to full Iraqi sovereignty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Occupation_of_Iraq (6844 words)

	Iraq Occupation Erodes Bush Doctrine (washingtonpost.com)
		The occupation of Iraq has increasingly undermined, and in some cases discredited, the core tenets of President Bush's foreign policy, according to a wide range of Republican and Democratic analysts and U.S. officials.
		Iraq was the next cornerstone in the global war on terrorism.
		Some analysts, including Republicans, suggest that another casualty of Iraq is the neoconservative approach that inspired a zealous agenda to tackle security threats in the Middle East and transform the region politically.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A10539-2004Jun27.html (670 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| US 'planning occupation of Iraq'
		The post-war occupation of Iraq might be carried out by a US force, a United Nations force, or a coalition of forces - perhaps including Britain.
		Correspondents have suggested that the floating of an occupation plan and the possibility of war crimes trials could be the US administration's way of warning the Iraq's generals of the cost of continuing to support Saddam Hussein or of using weapons of mass destruction in the event of US-led military action against Iraq.
		While opposing an occupation of Iraq or turning it into an American protectorate, Iraqi opposition groups say that a temporary foreign presence working with an Iraqi civilian government would be acceptable.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2320625.stm (535 words)

	Dennis Kucinich on Iraq
		U.S. military casualties in Iraq continue to rise, and the media has begun comparing the figure to the number of U.S. dead in Vietnam in 1965 prior to the significant expansion of U.S. operations there.
		Iraq had nothing to do with Al Qaeda's role in 9/11, nor with the anthrax attack upon this country.
		Iraq had neither the intention nor the capability of attacking the United States.
	www.kucinich.us /issues/iraq.php (719 words)

	Estimated Costs for the Occupation of Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		All estimates assume the $52 billion requested by the Administration for the occupation of Iraq in fiscal year 2004 will be provided without significant changes, as per the instructions in your request.
		The length of the occupation and force levels associated with each scenario are based on the guidelines prescribed in your request letter.
		In each of these variations, the number of personnel in Iraq would be 38,000 in 2009, 2007, and 2006 respectively for each of the scenarios, and then drop to zero by the start of the next fiscal year (see Table 2).
	www.cbo.gov /showdoc.cfm?index=4683&sequence=0 (1354 words)

	COMMITTEE TO END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ PO Box 1214
		One main thrust is to schedule dozens of presentations of a slide presentation produced by Robert Allen that provides a graphic depiction of the brutality of the US occupation.
		For their part, the Iraqi people are opposing the occupation in many ways: through massive marches, to sermons in Iraqi mosques, to non-violent blockades of military processions to armed resistance.
		We are continuing to present workshops around the US occupation of Iraq at as many high schools and colleges as possible during the month of September.
	www.endocciraq.org (959 words)

	GN Online: Iraq's occupation raises questions
		The present occupation of Iraq is raising a lot of questions about its international legality.
		But this is clearly not the case in Iraq, with the U.S. deliberately using and inventing the so-called doctrine of pre-emption to wage war on the country, institute "regime change" and then occupy it.
		And, according to international law, just as Iraq paid billions in war reparations to Kuwait in the 1990s because of "unlawful force", America and Britain are now legally required to pay Iraq for the destruction caused during the war.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/Opinion.asp?ArticleID=89228 (1377 words)

	Iraq - sacbee.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was 10 percent for the five weeks it took to topple Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and 20 percent for 2004 as a whole.
		But the league may not be entirely welcome in a new Iraq where a Shiite-Kurdish majority is embittered by the predominantly Sunni pan-Arab group's silence over Saddam Hussein's crimes against the two communities and its indifference to groups that opposed his regime from exile.
		HILLAH, Iraq (AP) - A bomb exploded at the entrance of a Shiite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad as hundreds of worshippers gathered for prayers on the first day of Ramadan and for the funeral of a man killed in an earlier bombing.
	www.sacbee.com /24hour/special_reports/iraq (4579 words)

	Iraq War & Occupation - Nader for President 2004 - www.votenader.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We should not be mired in the occupation of Iraq risking further upheavals when our infrastructure, schools and health care are deteriorating.
		The Bush Administration is feeling the pressure of the failure of its Iraq occupation so much so that they have flip-flopped and have sought an international costume for its continued occupation of Iraq.
		Due to the suffering and devastation of the children of Iraq caused by the US/UN economic sanctions that were inflicted on innocent civilians, in addition to war and military occupation of Iraq, Nader urges them to make an equivalent donation to credentialed and appropriate US charities for Iraqi children.
	www.votenader.org /issues/index.php?cid=17 (1307 words)

	Opposition to the War and Occupation in Iraq - Global Policy Forum - NGOs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While the majority of participants marched against the US occupation of Iraq, activists also addressed a number of other causes, including the campaign to end global poverty and the campaign for economic justice.
		A reserve marine has refused orders to join the war in Iraq saying the war is “immoral because of the deception involved by our leaders.” The marine prefers the prospect of a military prison to a lifetime with a tortured conscience.
		Koizumi has supported the US position on Iraq so far but his ambiguous rhetoric on the issue is causing increasing mistrust among the Japanese public.
	www.globalpolicy.org /ngos/role/iraq.htm (4721 words)

	The U.S. Occupation of Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is difficult to see how the U.S. occupation is creating the preconditions for democratic rule in Iraq when trade unions, which have historically provided key social support for democracy in countries around the world, are de facto illegal, and workers are denied the elementary right to strike.
		The country of Iraq was an artificial colonial invention in the first place, and has no automatic reason to remain united, though the breakup of the country would obviously raise crucial questions of minority rights in each of the three new nations.
		In response to the unexpectedly high level of resistance to the U.S.-led occupation in Iraq, there are signs that the United States may decide to desert its handpicked Iraqi Governing Council and declare an end to the occupation as early as June of 2004.
	www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue36/landy36.htm (5392 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Al-Qaeda 'spurred on' by Iraq war
		The institute says the war in Iraq has focused the energies and resources of al-Qaeda and its followers, while diluting those of the global counter-terrorism coalition.
		And it concludes that if Iraq were to become a failed state or revert to dictatorship, it would be a "strategic nightmare" for the West.
		The report also addresses the broader issue of relations between Islam and the West, saying the Bush administration did not fully appreciate that the 11 September attacks were a "violent reaction to America's pre-eminence".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3746205.stm (322 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Iraq under occupation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The UN boosted its aid deliveries to Iraq, bringing 100 trucks of food from Turkey and opening up a new supply route via Jordan...
		Iraq's Shi'a population are shaping up to be a force to be reckoned with.
		The Iraq war has had a profound impact on Latin America.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/635/special.htm (275 words)

	Iraq Occupation and Resistance Report
		Further, as resistance to this occupation spreads, it is critical that information on this resistance be made available from a variety of sources.
		Iraq's interior minister, from the Iranian-backed Badr Organization: Foreign fighters leaving Iraq to export terror, warns minister.
		As Iraq heads for its Saturday referendum on its disputed constitution, conservative analysts in Washington and Iraqi supporters of President Bush's decision to go to war in 2003 are in a somber mood, reflecting their current view that a long, hard slog remains ahead.
	psychoanalystsopposewar.org /ORR.htm (11334 words)

	United for Peace : Background Information and Links on the Occupation of Iraq
		Operating under the auspices of United for Peace and Justice, the Occupation Watch Center monitors the ongoing military and economic occupation of Iraq.
		Bring Them Home Now is mobilizing military families, veterans, and GIs themselves to demand: an end to the occupation of Iraq and other misguided military adventures; and an immediate return of all US troops to their home duty stations.
		A running tally of the financial cost of the Iraq war and occupation, with an interactive feature that allows you to calculate what education, health care, and other human needs could have been met by that money.
	www.unitedforpeace.org /article.php?id=359 (640 words)

	ZNet \|Iraq \| Bush's Occupation Of Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In his new documentary, Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror, Pilger demolishes the case for going to war on Iraq as it was put forward by George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
		IN YOUR new documentary, you expose evidence that Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice knew that Iraq was not a threat.
		The occupation does have parallels with Vietnam, but the closest likeness is the Soviet disaster in Afghanistan.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=4530 (3171 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Occupation bombs Iraq wedding party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The attack took place in the small town of Qaim in Iraq's western desert bordering Syria early on Tuesday, reported Aljazeera's correspondent.
		US occupation authorities-reeling from the prison abuse scandal in which US soldiers are accused of sexually humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners-denied they had targeted a wedding.
		Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the US military in Iraq, told Aljazeera that the occupation had "intelligence" that there was no wedding taking place at the time.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/9133A091-4BD1-418C-B205-79E0B9B9BD06.htm (317 words)

	Iraq Occupation Focus
		Iraq Occupation Focus and Red Pepper are running an open poetry competition, following the success of last year’s contest
		This 2-sided A4 sheet gives a handy summary of topics such as Paul Bremer’s notorious CPA orders, the ‘reconstrcution racket’, the misappropriation of ‘reparations’ to benefit corporate greed, the future role of the IMF in Iraq, and Iraqi workers’ resistance to the takeover of their country.
		We have launched a solidarity appeal in support of the independent trade union of Southern Oil Company workers, based in the British-occupied district of Basra.
	www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk (332 words)

	Occupation of Iraq
		With respect to the situation in Iraq, they are conscious of two realities that seem to have been lost in the narrow debate about Saddam Hussein himself.
		Webb is not the only strategic thinker who questions the wisdom of engaging in a long-term occupation of Iraq.
		His article is a detailed account of all of the factors that would have to be considered in the occupation of Iraq.
	www.newtotalitarians.com /OccupationOfIraq.html (6594 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Occupation of Iraq: Postponed Liberation or Recolonisation?
		November was the bloodiest month for U.S. forces in Iraq 79 soldiers died, 39 of them were killed in the downing of 4 military helicopters.
		And if this occupation carries on as Bush said on his visit to the Philippines, that the model for Iraq was the Philippines, which is a crazy thing to say, because that occupation lasted 47 years.
		One is the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestine which has now been added to by the United States occupation of Iraq.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=03/12/04/1523254 (4883 words)

	WWW-VL: History Index: Iraq History; Gulf War, Ba'th Party Fall, US Occupation, Allawi, Artifacts, Election
		The Conquest of Iraq and Süleyman I, from Gilgamesh
		Iraq - The cradle of civilization at risk
		Iraq's parliament approves cabinet of ministers, IRNA Islamic Republic News Agency
	vlib.iue.it /history/asia/Iraq (1479 words)

	EDITORIAL: End the occupation of Iraq! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Under the pretext of providing security for Iraq’s US-dictated January 30 parliamentary election, the Pentagon announced on December 1 that its occupation force will be “temporarily” boosted by an extra 12,000 troops — taking its total size to 150,000 troops, the highest number since the US war on Iraq began 19 months ago.
		As in Vietnam, escalation in Iraq will simply prolong the war, inflict more death and destruction on the Iraqi people and more fatalities and crippling injuries on US soldiers.
		The only way to end this nightmare is to immediately withdraw all the US and allied occupation troops and let the Iraqi people have genuine control over their own affairs.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2004/610/610p3b.htm (962 words)

	Swans Commentary - Special Iraq: "Table of Contents"
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		Civilian Deaths: The Achilles Heel Of The Coalition Occupation?
	www.swans.com /library/art10/iraq/toc.html (242 words)

	British writer and American Occupation of Iraq
		British Writer and Professor of History at the University of Michigan Juan Cole criticized the American policy in Iraq, asserting that the U.S administration has committed mistakes on all levels and it is time to change this policy.
		In an article published by Qatari newspaper of "al-Wattan" Wednesday, Cole said that the Bush administration has achieved nothing in Iraq but chaos, unemployment and partition.
		and if the U.S. doesn't want to stay in Iraq É why is it establishing 14 military bases?" The writer warned against the repercussions of violence against the Iraqi people, stressing that the security situation will worsen in the future.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/041007/2004100711.html (196 words)

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