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Articles on U. S. Wars with Iraq (and Iran)

Fact Sheet on Oil and U. S. Policy Toward Iraq (pdf format) (html format)

2009

Iraq oil deal puts pressure on Opec--Financial Times

Eni wins Iraq oil field deal--Financial Times

Buoyant Iraqi minister sees 'big leap' coming in production--Oil and Gas Journal

Aramco production capacity at 12 million b/d--Oil and Gas Journal

Between Iraq and a Hard Place--Poten Partners

Crude competition--Financial Times

Pipeline-istan: Everything You Need to Know About Oil, Gas, Russia, China, Iran, Afghanistan and Obama--Tomdispatch.com

Iraqi Doctors in Hiding Treat as They Can --Interpress Service

Iraq Oil Production Could Surge --Energy Investment Strategies

2008

A New Assassination Program? -- Bob Woodward, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008

Has the Surge Put Iraq on the Path to Success? --Council on Foreign Relations

2007

The Mutiny of Charlie 1-26 --Army Times

Iran Report Sends Bush's War Rhetoric Out to Pasture --Der Spiegel

Can the Surge's Successes Be Maintained? --Der Spiegel

Why Did We Invade Iraq Anyway? Putting a Country in Your Tank--Michael Schwartz

How The Bush Oil Grab Went Awry--The Nation

Beyond the Age of Petroleum--The Nation

Over a Million Iraqi War Dead--Opinion Research Business

Future of Oil and Gas Industry--Poten & Partners

Bush denies preparing attack against Iran --Financial Times

Bush tackles growing unease over possible military action in Iran--Financial Times

2006

Time to Offshore Our Troops (to Diego Garcia)--New York Times

Talk of another preventive war in the Middle East is folly--Financial Times

Iraq Study Group Report excerpts--Financial Times

New Report on Guantanamo Review Hearings--Lefttalk.com

'No-Hearing' Process Traps Detainees--National Public Radio

U.S. Central Command Charts Sharp Movement of the Civil Conflict in Iraq Toward Chaos --New York Times

U.S. Central Command CHART from Previous Article --New York Times

Shia infighting in south threatens troop withdrawal --Financial Times

Amara unrest strains plans for unified Iraq --Financial Times

Bush sees support ebb away for military strategy in Iraq --Financial Times

Johns-Hopkins Researchers Estimate 655,000 Iraqi Deaths--Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2005

OPEC ON THE MARCH: Why Iraq still sells its oil à la cartel--Harper's

Shiite Cleric's Soldiers Battle Rivals in Najaf and Basra--N Y Times

Sunnis on Constitutional Panel: Determined by Impugned--N Y Times

U.S. Faces Pressure to Pull Troops from Iraq--Power and Interest News Report

Modern memorials stand for the warriors, not the war--USA Today

Arlington West Memorial, Oceanside, CA, Sept. 2004

Amnesty Takes Aim at 'Gulag' in Guantanamo--Washington Post

Pentagon Blamed for Lack of Postwar Planning in Iraq--Washington Post

Harsh Tactics Were Allowed, General Told Jailers in Iraq --N.Y.Times

Secret U. S. Plans for Iraqi Oil--BBC

Campus Group Honors War Dead--San Diego Union

Iraqi Election Turnout Lies, Future Oil Plans--Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

Fresh Details Emerge on Harsh Methods at Guantánamo--New York Times

Terror Suspect Alleges Torture, Says U.S. Sent Him to Egypt Before Guantanamo--Washington Post

Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground, CIA Advisers Report--Washington Post

2004

Soldiers Who Refused Suicide Mission

Diego Garcia: Paradise Cleansed --The Guardian

Medical Study Says 98,000 Dead Since Start of Iraq War--The Lancet

Generals Say Iraq Far Graver than Vietnam--The Guardian

Growing Pessimism on Iraq--Washington Post

ConocoPhilips and Lukoil to Share Production in Iraq--Oil and Gas Journal

U. N. Secretary General Annan Says Iraq War Illegal--BBC News

CIA Estimate Pessimistic About U.S. Control of Iraq--CBS News

Abuse Report Widens Scope of Culpability. Generals Point to Contractors, Military Intelligence Soldiers--Washington Post

New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge--Washington Post

Iraq as Vietnam--The Nation

Fury Ignites Solidarity in Iraq--Los Angeles Times

Iraq Solidarity Action- Resist the Massacre in Fallujah--Middle East Realities

Iraqi Battalion Refuses American Orders to 'Fight Iraqis'--Washington Post

Bush bullied CIA in order to dupe us--Atlanta Constitution

Chalabi's Power grab in Iraq--Washington Times

The Thirty Year Itch: Strategy for US control of the Persian Gulf's oil--Mother Jones

Chief Weapons Inspector Admits There Were None--Associated Press

There Was No Failure of Intelligence--Guardian

Money to rebuild Iraq still lost in the pipeline --The Straits Times

Why the US Really Opposes Democracy In Iraq--Green Left Weekly

White House Source Confirms Invasion Plans Before 9/11--ABC News

2003

The Missing History of the U.S.-Saddam Relation--In These Times

Kurds Claim They Captured Saddam FIrst--Sydney Morning Herald

US limits international participation in Iraq reconstruction contracts--Oil & Gas Journal

CIA Role in Rise of Saddam Detailed--UPI

Richard Pearle Admits U. S. Invastion Illegal--The Guardian

Politics of Casualty Numbers--New York Times

U. S. Sale of Iraqi Assets Contrary to International Law--The Guardian

Uzbek Dictator Karimov is U. S. / U. K. Friend--The Guardian

U. S. Soldiers Buldoze Iraqi Farmer's Crops--The Independent

Iraq Made Last Minute Attempt to Avert War--New York Times

Oil Folly--The Washington Post

Lack of "Transparency" in Iraqi Oil Deals--Oil and Gas Journal

Oil Investor Interest Grows in Iraq--Oil and Gas Journal

OPEC Still Has Customers Over a Barrel--The Economist

Bush Ideologues Trump Big Oil Interests in Iraq--Alternatives

Inspectors Still Find No WMD's in Iraq--CNN

Iraq, OPEC and U. S. Access to Iraqi Oil--Washington Post

Russian and U. S. Plans for Iraqi Oil--Oil and Gas Journal

Why We Aren't Winning the Peace in Iraq--San Diego Union

BP and Shell Make Iraq Oil Deals--Oil and Gas Journal

Bush Grants Oil Companies Immunity for Iraqi Dealings--L. A. Times

U. S., Iraqi Casualities Mount--S. F. Chronicle, Guardian

Iraqi Mobile Labs Not Weapons--London Observer

No Iraqi Ties with Al-Qaeda--San Diego Union

U. S. Gov't's 10 Big Lies about Iraq--Alternet

Cheney Taskforce Studied Iraqi Fields before War--Associated Press

Wolfowitz Admits War Was About Oil--The Guardian

Wolfowitz: "Iraq Swims in a Sea of Oil"--Die Welt

Iraq's pipeline damage could hinder its oil exports--Oil and Gas Journal

Republican move to close hearings on US' Iraq intelligence--Agence France Presse

US-led coalition pushes for early privatization in Iraq--AFP

CIA officer: Bush ignored warnings--KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS

White House in Denial--New York Times

Revealed: The Secret Cabal Which Spun Iraq Intelligence for Blair--Sunday Herald (Scotland)

Still no WMDs--New York Times

Wolfowitz: WMDs Were Only a "Bureaucratic Reason' for War--Sidney Morning Herald

Those Elusive WMDs--San Diego Union

Wolfowitz Admits WMDs Just Conventient Excuse for War--London Independent

Better Security Needed to Export Iraqi Oil--Oil and Gas Journal

Disputes over Russian and Chinese Oil Contracts with Iraq--Oil and Gas Journal

UN Resolution Allowing Sale of Iraqi Oil--UN Security Council

US seeks accord on Iraqi oil revenue by June deadline--Oil and Gas Journal

US Admits Saddam had no WMDs--Sunday Herald, AP

US, UK intelligence cannot be trusted on WMDs--BBC

Western companies' pipe dream of Iraqi oil--AP

US WMD lies a "matter of emphasis" Paul Krugman--N. Y. Times

Iraq oil production delayed--Oil and Gas Journal

Corporate Colonialism In Iraq--Village Voice

"Crude Visions," Rumsfeld's Role in Arming Saddam--Institute of Policy Studies

"Making Iraq Safe for...Theocracy?--A Dave Ross Audio Commentary CBS Radio (requires MP3 Player)

George McGovern: The Reason Why--Nation

The Fight Over Iraqi Oil Revenue--Oil and Gas Journal

History Is Not On America's Side--San Diego Union

Hell in an Iraqi Hospital--Sydney Morning Herald

New Afghan Pipeline Plans--Oil and Gas Journal

Planned Iraq Reconstruction is Really Robbery--Observer

Iraq is Trial Run for U. S. Policy--ZNET

U. S. Wants to Privatize Iraqi Oil--L. A. Times

Gauging Promise of Iraqi Oil--L. A. Times

U.S. Marines Kill Civilians on Bridge of Death--Times (London)

Treatment of Prisioners, Iraqis vs. Quantanamo--Guardian (London)

U.S. Names Desert Oil Depots "Exxon" and "Shell"--Guardian

U.S. Marines Kill Civilians in Nasiriya--Times (London)

Collective Portrait of U. S. Neoconservative War Planners--AlterNet

U. S. is Fighting for Control of Oil, says fromer Saudi Oil Minister --BBC

A Russian Take on U.S. Aggression --Moscow News

Excerpts from U. N. Charter on Justifications for War

The Empire Needs New Clothes --Common Dreams

US Claims It Will Follow Law As Occupier Of Iraqi Oil Fields --Energy Intelligence Group

Americas By Far The Largest Buyer Of Iraqi Crude Oil--Energy Intelligence Group

War in Iraq boils down to oil profits--Daily Aztec

Cóilín Nunan: Oil, Currency and the War on Iraq--Feasta Website

Saudi Arabia quietly eases US crude oil supply trouble --Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections

"It's not all about oil, but ..." --Business Week

Unilateral Imperialists: Interviews from Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Pearle

Multilaterial Imperialist: Excerpts from C. Kupchen, The End of the American Era

As Venezuela Returns, Oil Market Can Handle Iraq War--Energy Intelligence Group

It's Final: Russian Oil Company Forced Out of Iraq--Energy Intelligence Group

Code Word: "Stability" -- Oil and War--Counterpunch

Exclusive List of Iraqi Weapons Providers, includes 24 U.S. firms--die tagezeitung

Iraqi Weapons Supplier--Interview--Democracy Now

2002

War-Wary Saudis Move to Increase Oil Market Clout--Washington Post

US Plans to Ditch Industry Rivals and Force end of OPEC--Reuters

THE ROVING EYE:China, Russia and the Iraqi oil game--Asia Times On Line

C.I.A. Letter to Senate on Baghdad's Intentions--N Y Times

White House Disputes C.I.A. Estimate--London Observer

Oil Is Factor in Iraq War Equation--L A Times

Oil Economics Lubricates Push for War--L A Times

Headline: Is it all about oil?--Christian Science Monitor

Spoils of War: In Iraq War, to the Victor Goes the Oil--ABC Nightline

Background Information on Oil Companies and War Plans Against Iraq

Speech in Bagdad by Former U.S. Weapons Inspector--CSPAN

U. S., French and Russian Oil Companies Fight Over Iraqi Oil--Washington Post

Top Republicans Break With Bush on Iraq Strategy--New York Times

Iraq for Whimps--New York Times

Former Blair Cabinet Member Says U.S. Wants to Seize Saudi Oil--The Guardian

New York Times Attacks Bush War Plans

U. S. Battle Plan for Iraq Attack--New York Times

Oil Moves the War Machine, by Michael T. Klare--The Progressive, June 2002

Oil Greases the Wheels of U.S. Conquest of Afganistan--Toronto Globe and Mail

Bush Admin's Plan for Attack on Iraq--From New Yorker Magazine

Bush Admin. Debates When to Start War With Iraq--New York Times

U.S. Strategies to Manage its Empire-- New York Times

Declassified Document Shows U.S. Knew It Was Creating Epidemics In Iraq

(Note: "AFMIC" means the Armed Forces Medical Information Center, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland. "ARCENT" means Army Forces Central Command. For the Pentagon link to this document: Click here))

2001

An Oil War Coming? Letter to the New York Times 9/27/2001

America is rushing blindly into a war of its own creation--Daily Aztec

Madeline Albright on U.S. Policy of Starving Iraqi Children

U. S. Oil Companies Buy Most Iraqi Oil--ABC News

Henry Kissinger Advocates Attack on Iraq--L. A. Times

Iraqi missiles had no VX gas

1998

Iraq's big oil promise clouded by bigger political questions --Oil and Gas Financial Journal

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