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Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Iraq's Marshes Renewed Decades of damming and canal building under Saddam Hussein's regime and in other parts of the Middle East have diminished the Iraqi marshlands to 7 percent their original size. There are only good reasons to restore the marshes of Iraq.
Reason March 2004 Steven Vincent	Faith, Shame, and Insurgency After visiting Iraq, the author still supports the war -- even more so, in fact. But he is less optimistic now.
Geotimes October 2003 Sultan et al.	Water, Agriculture and Land Cover: Lessons for the Postwar Era Countries of the Middle East have many reasons to envy their neighbor Iraq: not only does Iraq have the second-largest proven oil reserves (after Saudi Arabia), but it has more renewable water resources than any other Middle Eastern nation.
Reason June 2006	Three Views on Iraq, Three Years Later In May 2003 George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq. A trio of analysts debates the current state of the region: Why I Supported the Iraq War... You Can't Bring Order to the Middle East... Six Facts About Iraq...
Salon.com June 18, 2002 Laura Miller	Before Baghdad burns The author of a new book on Iraq cautions that a U.S. invasion to get rid of Saddam Hussein could be even more dangerous than his weapons of mass destruction.
Outside July 2003 Peter Maass	The Rough Guide to Iraq This spring, a quarter of a million Americans took a trip. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn't come back.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Glenn Zorpette	Re-engineering Iraq U.S. and Iraqi officials have spent billions on restoring Iraq's electrical system. So why is Baghdad getting just six hours of electricity a day?
Parameters Autumn 2008 William Mcdonough	Time for a New Strategy The Surge Strategy proposed by George W. Bush in 2007 has accomplished the majority of its goals and now is the time to significantly reduce the US presence in Iraq.
Salon.com September 6, 2002 Asla Aydintasbas	The Kurdish dilemma Barham Salih, prime minister of Northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, talks about the recent attempt on his life, why he wants a regime change in Baghdad and what should happen in the days after Saddam is deposed.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Bruce Nussbaum	It's Time To Shelve The Rumsfeld Doctrine Denial is rampant in Washington. There is denial that intelligence mistakes were made in the months and years before September 11. There is denial that foreign policy mistakes were made in the runup to the war in Iraq.
Fast Company February 1, 2007 David Axe	Digging Out The idea of putting people to work in Iraq was largely neglected after the invasion. Now, as debate mounts over troop withdrawals, one British army captain's VC strategy might help fill the void.
Salon.com January 18, 2001 Vivienne Walt	Saddam won't die Ten years after the Gulf War, the Iraqi leader is stronger than ever...
Outside August 2006	Babylon by Bus, LeMoine & Neumann An excerpt from a soon to be published autobiographical book about two civilian's three-month adventure in Baghdad.
Parameters Autumn 2004 Bill Park	Iraq's Kurds and Turkey: Challenges for US Policy The pieces of the jigsaw thrown up by the US-led regime change in Baghdad are yet to hit the ground, and Washington might yet have to reap what it has sown--in Kurdistan in particular.
Aviation History Kelly Bell	Air War Over Iraq In May 1941, British forces were fighting to keep Iraq in Allied hands -- a struggle that belatedly involved German and Italian aircraft as well.
Fast Company January 2004 Fast Company	"Now we live!" Ride along with a consultant who's sniffing out business opportunities in Iraq.
BusinessWeek December 29, 2003 Stanley Reed	Forging One Nation From Three Agendas What's the best way to bring Iraq's Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds together under a cohesive democracy?
Salon.com March 20, 2002 Hadani Ditmars	Denis Halliday The former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq says an American invasion would be an international crime -- and would make the U.S. even less safe...
BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 Stanley Reed	Iraq: Why The Bombers Won't Win The Day The identities of those who organized the bombings that killed more than 200 people in Karbala and Baghdad on Mar. 2 may be obscure, but their motives are clear. The bombers want to frighten the Shiites into dialing back their political aspirations, and they want to plunge Iraq into the chaos of a sectarian civil war.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Crock et al.	A Most Dangerous Moment Can the U.S. restore order -- and engineer a credible transition to Iraqi sovereignty? How many troops are needed, and how many are available?
National Defense November 2006 David Axe	Equipment Shortages Undermine Iraqi Forces As long as local Iraqi forces rely on the coalition for logistics support, a complete withdrawal is unlikely.
BusinessWeek August 4, 2003 Stan Crock	Iraq: After the Shootout This is one guerrilla campaign the U.S. can't afford to lose.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Stanley Reed	Hearts, Minds, And Mistakes How can the U.S. win back the goodwill it lost in Iraq? First, empower the Iraqis
Reason January 2003 Mueller & Lindsey	Should We Invade Iraq? A debate
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Stanley Reed	Mosque And State: Just How Close? Iraq's new government may be more influenced by Islam than the U.S. hoped.
Salon.com December 20, 2001 Asla Aydintasbas	The midnight ride of James Woolsey The former CIA director presents himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age, trying to waken America to its greatest threat -- Saddam Hussein. Should we be listening?
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Stanley Reed	Iraq: Repeating A Painful History The British made many of the same nation-building mistakes in the 1920s as the US is making now in Iraq.
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Anthony York	How big a war? Hawk Paul Wolfowitz wants the U.S. to attack Iraq. Colin Powell doesn't -- and nobody knows who has Bush's ear...
Salon.com October 3, 2002 Bill Clinton	What should the world do about Saddam? The author electrifies a British Labor Party conference with a more sweeping vision for global peace and progress than the current president has been able to muster.
Salon.com March 9, 2001 Ben Barber	Colin Powell veers right After conservative critics chastise him for softening sanctions against Iraq, the secretary of state hardens his line...
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 James K. Wither	British Bulldog or Bush's Poodle? Anglo-American Relations and the Iraq War There are many factors beside Blair's leadership that helped to shape the British government's role in Iraq. This article addresses these issues and places them in historical context.
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo	U.S. Moves to Rearm Iraq The U.S. government--following an extended delay--is aggressively moving to train and equip Iraqi security forces to provide for the internal and external defense of that war torn nation.
Smithsonian May 2007 Stephen J. Glain	Welcome to Rawda Iraqi artists find freedom of expression at Rawda, a coffee house in the Al Sahin district of Damascus, Syria.
National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Complex Realities Lie Behind U.S. Rush to Train Iraqi Army It has become crystal clear that fielding a competent Iraqi Army is a tenet of the U.S. exit strategy. What is far less apparent is what exactly constitutes a competent Iraqi fighting force, and how long it will be before it can relieve American troops.
Reason March 2004 Charles Paul Freund	Waiting for Antar Saddam Hussein is only the latest in a series of mock heroes of the region who have assumed a posture of strong, cunning, and courageous leadership, only to lead their Pan-Arabist followers to catastrophe.
The Motley Fool November 16, 2011 David Lee Smith	$200 Crude in 2012? With U.S. forces exiting, the Persian Gulf region becomes a tinderbox.
Parameters November 2004 Franklin Eric Wester	Preemption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq This article demonstrates that the use of military force by the Bush Administration against the regime of Saddam Hussein does not meet the ethical criteria for "preemptive war" set forth in the classical Just War tradition.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Glenn Zorpette	Working in a War Zone Working in Iraq isn't for everybody. Nevertheless, over the past three years, a few thousand engineers of many nationalities have gone to work on the country's massive, $60 billion reconstruction. Here's a sample of what they encounter.
Salon.com August 6, 2002 Robert Scheer	The Baghdad double-whammy George the Younger sees a chance to boost his sluggish poll ratings and avenge daddy's big political mistake.
Reason April 2006 Michael Young	How Did Iraq Go Wrong? In The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, by George Packer, liberal hawks blame incompetence but sidestep American narcissism.
Salon.com October 7, 2002 Arianna Huffington	The Iraq question nobody's asking No one in the Bush administration is talking about how many of our soldiers will be sent home in body bags.
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Crock & McNamee	How Long To "Stay The Course" In Iraq? Approval for the Bush Administration's open-ended commitment to its Iraq mission is eroding.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation.
ifeminists March 11, 2003 Glenn Sacks	Iraqi Draftees: We Should Care About Their Boys, Too In the debate over the war let us not forget the one group of inevitable casualties in whom neither the war's opponents nor proponents have taken sufficient interest -- Iraq's young men. We should care about their lives, too.
BusinessWeek December 29, 2003 Crock et al.	That's One Problem Solved Saddam's capture is a big break for the U.S. -- but the road to a stable Iraq remains long and treacherous.
Salon.com August 2, 2002 Anthony York	The Iraq non-hearings Defense retreads Cap Weinberger and Sandy Berger fail to bring any substance to Washington's aimless war debate.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2011 David Lee Smith	Iraq Could Send Crude Prices to the Moon More Iraqi demonstrations could blast crude prices to nosebleed levels.
Salon.com February 28, 2001 Fiona Morgan	Washington sobers up on sanctions The Bush administration plans to abandon 10 years of failed Iraqi policy and instead hit Saddam where it will hurt him most: His cash-lined pockets...
The Motley Fool August 19, 2011 David Lee Smith	You Can't Afford to Ignore the Middle East It's only far away in geographic terms. Along with my clear-cut notion that investors should monitor the Middle East as never before, dubious energy circumstances also dictate energy inclusion in your portfolio.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Kieron Murphy	The Man in Charge of Restoring Iraq's Telecom The White House put Dan Sudnick in charge of restoring civilian telecommunications following the Iraq War. The efforts of his staff, successors, and Iraqi counterparts are beginning to bear fruit.