Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein,1 written by Michael A. Newton2 and Michael P. Scharf,3 is a fascinating, insider’s account of the establishment of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) in Baghdad and its first trial against former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The book does a fine job exploring the background of the Tribunal’s creation, detailing Saddam’s capture by Ame...

A critical analysis of the available accounts given about the United Sates (US) and United Kingdom (UK) – Iraq war (This was actually not a war but deliberate invasion) reveals a very cleverly calculated and planned strategy. The US and UK knew well in advance that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) (If Saddam Hussein had WMD then US and UK might have given him during Iran-...

Identity has become a major concern in contemporary thought and many fields of research, especially political social, before that psychological reflection. Therefore, the identity crisis is considered one most complex crises facing, current era, modern peoples societies, including those ancient civilizational origins. Or even lack belonging to civilization alike. And Iraq, as well-known histori...

1Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Department of Community Medicine, Saddam Medical College, Saddam University, Baghdad, Iraq (Correspondence to W. A. Al-Kubaisy: [email protected]). 3Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Al-Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq. Received: 13/09/01; accepted: 07/04/04 ABSTRACT To determin...

© 2004 Society of Rural Physicians of Canada 178 O n March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein attacked his own people, blanketing them with deadly chemicals, cluster bombs and artillery fire. Five thousand Kurdish residents of Halabja, a rural community in northern Iraq, died that day, in the largest recorded chemical warfare incident in history. In November 2003, a 4-person rural medical education team ...

In the search of world order after Cold War, two conflicts were particular significance. The first, in Kosovo 1999, was fought to end Serbian genocide Kosovar Albanians. second, Iraq 2003, a war choice ostensibly remove threat Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime and weapons mass destruction it supposedly held. Although distinct, these wars joined as attempts by United States governments Bill Clinton ...

In political argumentation, analogies are often used to convince an audience of one’s views. For example, in political debates leading up to the Iraq War, one such analogical argument was that Saddam Hussein was like Hitler and therefore Saddam should be forcibly ousted. But are all analogical arguments really convincing? In this paper we investigate whether analogical arguments are actually mo...

This paper introduces the concept of rational countefactuals which is an idea of identifying a counterfactual from the factual (whether perceived or real) that maximizes the attainment of the desired consequent. In counterfactual thinking if we have a factual statement like: ‘Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and consequently George Bush declared war on Iraq‘ then its counterfactuals is: ‘If Saddam...

Abstract This article investigates the collective memory that occurred as a result of chemical attack on Halabja, March 16, 1988. In light discussions deal with and reconciliation in post-genocide societies, we look at how “postmemory” are formed among survivors their descendants. The merit is it brings together victim's accounts creates bottom-up perspective challenges official created by Kurd...