On Iraq At The Fifth Anniversary of Invasion

Some time-pressed picks and recommended reads on this reprehensible fifth anniversary of the US neocon-led invasion. Cartoon credit: Carlos Latuff, Iraq war: Five Years

• Salon Iraq Roundtable, Robbing the cradle of civilization, five years later

• Jim Lobe, Reasons Revisited: Why Did the U.S. Invade Iraq?

• Dahr Jamail, Five Years, And Counting

• Patrick Cockburn, This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie

• DN!, Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Winter Soldier Hearings

• Juan Cole, Five years of Iraq lies

• John Ross, What Do We Owe Iraq?

• Seamus Milne, There must be a reckoning for this day of infamy

• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, ‘We live in a nightmare. Death and carnage is everywhere’ Ali, Baghdad resident

• Dahr Jamail, US/IRAQ: “We Reacted Out of Fear, and With Total Destruction”

• Dahr Jamail, US/IRAQ: Rules of Engagement “Thrown Out the Window”

• Gideon Polya, US-UK-Australian Iraqi Holocaust And Iraqi Genocide

• Kate Randall, Iraq: A Humanitarian Crisis Of Catastrophic Dimensions

• Sharat G. Lin, How To Get Out Of Iraq

• Robert Fisk, The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn

• All Iraqi tagged posts at Reclaiming Space