The
best picks about Iraq war now
Features collected by TFF • October 8,
2004
The New York Times – Editorial The verdict is in Editor’s note I Could it be said more clearly?
The Guardian Dear Mike, Iraq sucks – letters from Iraq to Michael Moore
The Guardian, Jamie Wilson Tariq Aziz lost faith in Saddam. Miscalculations and divisions at top exposed
New York Times Iraq’s disappearing election
Sunday Herald The West’s battle for oil – five months before September 11 it was advocated to use force to secure control over oil…
Los Angeles Times Ramadi – Iraqi city on edge of chaos
Ray McGovern, TruthOut More troops to Iraq…After the election
Peter Grier & Faye Bowers, Christian Science Monitor Iraq efforts by the numbers. Details in little-seen government report (Amazing facts…)
James Glanz and Thom Shanker, IHT Iraqi rebels show wide pattern of resistance
Foreign Policy in Focus A failed "transition": the mounting costs of the Iraq war (Why it is going to go worse…)
Michelle Goldberg, Salon Marine declares war on Bush
Michelle Goldberg, Salon Bush lied, my son died
John Pilger, AntiWar.com The media’s culpability for the Iraq war
Farnaz Fassihi, TruthOut From Baghdad: A Wall Street Journal reporter’s e-mail to friends
Naomi Klein, The Nation You can’t bomb beliefs
Knigh Ridder Newspapers, Alison Young Iraq war veterans face long-lasting mental health issues, official says
Two very contradictory reports:
Los Angeles Times, Bob Drogin Iraq’s nuclear mastermind tells tale of ambition, deceit Saddam knew nothing… & Los Angeles Times, Bob Drogin and Mark Mazzetti Only Hussein had full picture
Indy Media Bringing death and mourning to the White House – about the demonstration with coffins
Paul Rogers, Oxford Research Group Monthly briefing – On Iraq and the (failed) war on terror
Harper Magazine, Naomi Klein Baghdad Year Zero Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia
Samir Haddad, IslamOnline Samarra buries its dead after "massacre"