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...might have disappeared entirely from the minds of some students were it not for a frustrated and vocal minority. Neighbors battled across the Yard with politically charged banners, peace symbols and the stars-and-stripes. One first-year’s call for “No War on Iraq?? challenged a poster in the window directly above, which implored the U.S. to “Liberate Iraq.” War-related e-mails bloated student inboxes, sometimes a dozen in a day. Campus publications indulged the full spectrum of arguments for and against invasion, some subtle...
Much of the rhetoric advanced by war’s proponents rests on the premise that our efforts at “liberation” will lead to a more democratic Iraq; but this is overly optimistic. Installing the mechanisms for democratic government in Iraq??whose infrastructure will have been decimated by war—requires an enormous commitment. But after its failure in Afghanistan, we doubt the Bush administration’s will to follow through...
Known as embedded reporting, the practice first emerged in Kosovo and Afghanistan, but saw its first large-scale implementation in Iraq??where roughly 600 reporters were embedded in coalition units...
...Iraq was, at least in part, an example of this Bush doctrine in action. The Bush Administration’s concern over Saddam Hussein’s apparently insatiable appetite for WMD, weapons of mass destruction, constituted a major element in the case for war. Iraq??s failure to comply with the disarmament provisions of U.N. resolutions dating back to the 1991 Gulf War was the cause of the international crisis that, after much diplomatic wrangling, led to war. Ultimately, Washington concluded that regime change was the only reliable and durable solution to the threat posed by Baghdad?...
Steinkeller, who spent years excavating in Iraq before the first Gulf War, says he is as concerned for the fate of Iraq??s thousands of archeological sites as for the collection of the National Museum...