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As the U.S. military formally ends operations in Iraq, four top expert voices in the debate on the war differ over whether it merited the cost in blood, treasure, and U.S. credibility.
According to a recent Gallup poll, a majority of Americans believe that the Iraq War was not worth fighting. "Our war in Iraq, I think was the most fundamentally bad, dangerous decision since...
With more than 200,000 Iraqi civilians and 4,500 US soldiers killed, and chaos and instability gripping the whole region as a result of the invasion, questions over why this war was waged in the...
The 10-year mark for the start of the war in Iraq is hardly something to commemorate, but it serves as a reminder to review the good, bad and the ugly. USIP’s Manal Omar reflects on the state of Iraq today.
Supporters of the Iraq War tend to argue that Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator guilty of genocide who had a credible program to construct weapons of mass destruction. He also violated the sovereignty of other states as seen with Kuwait in 1990.
Saddest of all, the war took a grim toll on the people of Iraq and the armed forces of the U.S. and its coalition partners. More than 4,000 U.S. and coalition troops were killed. Thousands...
In 2003, Iraq was given a score of 0.579, where life expectancy was around 65.9 years. Now its rating is 0.686 and life expectancy is at 70.4 years. As well, according to UN figures, Iraq's GDP...