Numerous studies conducted on the Iraq War have consistently highlighted ongoing controversy surrounding its justification, even to this day. In response, several political and linguistic delved into issue, seeking understand how George W. Bush managed persuade global community support removal of Iraqi government. This particular study focuses analyzing speeches, specifically State Union Speech...

transferred from Europe, sent in new warships and called up combat-ready National Guard units. Bush, asked directly whether he was going to w ar against Saddam Hussein, said: “ I would like to see a peaceful solution to this question." " I f this movement of force is what convinces him , so much the be tte r,” Bush said. “ Le t’s hope he comes to his senses,” he added. Defense Secretary Dick Ch...

iraq is a country with many social cleavages, due to its ethnic and religious diversity, and because pf the inability of its political elite, this feature has always hindered resolving its problems. with the removal of the authoritarian regime of sadam hossein, ethnic and religious disputes escalated to their peak. the main question in this article is why has ethnic and sectarian violence exace...

yahyaal-samawi, iraqi poet, is one of the most prominent figures of resistance literature and contemporary arabic poetry. al-samawi defended his motherland with his poems, and in this course he went through torture, adversary, and moving out of his land. he started writing his resistance poems during ba’athist rule in iraq under saddam. he played an important role in opposing saddamists’ misgui...

of Amnesia,” writer Gore Vidal comments at one point in Why We Fight. This comment struck me more than anything else in the movie, especially considering numerous utter falsities stated by the Bush administration about which I had forgotten. “There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,” Dick Cheney said in 2002. Bush attempted to justify the war as a response to 9...

Part of my childhood was spent in Baghdad, Iraq, during the rule Saddam Hussein. At that time, regime offered free and universal education healthcare. Literacy rates country surpassed much Arabic-speaking world and, indeed, Global South. As celebrated Egyptian intellectual, Taha Hussein, famously put it: “Cairo writes; Beirut prints; Baghdad reads.” Booksellers were everywhere Baghdad. Its peop...

Regarding to Dr. Richard Stone’s report entitled “Iran, a shady market for papers flourishes” published in Science 15th September 2016.  There are several points in the articles that require particular attention. The report, although presents some truth, lacks depth and balance on a problem that is not unique to Iran. To begin to understand this, perhaps one needs to remi...

yahya alsamavi is one of iraqi's contemporary poets who has experienced iraqis’ predicament in the years of saddam dictatorship and in the following years of american occupation and the false liberty. he is a committed poet has devoted himself honestly to the iraqi people and their sufferings, while he is himself a victim of resistance on ideals and became homelessness. his true feelings r...

Abstract:Iraqi Shiites make up near 60 percent of the population live in the southern half of the country. However, they have been rarely in the circles of power throughout history and often under colonial domination of minorities that reached its peak during the rule of the Ba'ath Party. Thus, the Shiites were considered as an opposition through the history of Iraq, particularly after th...