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Iraq
A timely country study
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Flags obtained from:http://www.cia.gov/cia/publicatio
ns/factbook/© 2010-Jon Benignus
20th Century Iraq• Conquered by the U.K. from the
Ottoman Empire
• Given independence in 1932–British established a monarchy
• Ba’ath party took over in 1963
Saddam Hussein• Leader in Iraq
since 1968• President since
1979• Killed ½
million Iraqishttp://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38160000/jpg/_38160566_saddam_hussein_ap300.jpg
Genocide• 300,000 Kurds
–Chemical Ali
• 150,000 Shias and Marsh Arabs
• 50,000 Police State
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4637/terr35a.html
Wars• Iran/Iraq War
– 1980 – 1988– 450,000 Iraqis dead
• 1st Persian Gulf War - 1991– Invades Kuwait– U.S. liberates
Kuwait– 90,000 Iraqis dead
http://i-cias.com/e.o/iranirqw04.htm
Sanctions• Prevent Trade
with Iraq
• Myth – Hit Saddam in pocketbook
• Reality –Children starve
http://www.megastories.com/iraq/images/apriltrip/measles.jpg
Iraqi Death Toll
0100,000200,000300,000400,000500,000600,000700,000800,000900,000
1,000,000
Genocide War Sanctions
Iraqi Deaths
Iraqi Freedom
• 2003– War is
over in a few weeks
• Saddam’s army evaporates
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Iraq-War-Map.png
Iraqi Insurgents• Terrorists from
Saddam’s followers
• Also Al-Qaeda
• Many people taught to hate the United States
• Use IEDs– Improvised Explosive
Devices
• Or car bombs http://truthout.org/imgs.art_01/3.irq.celb.burn.tnkr.jpg
Three Factions• Kurds in the north
– 20%• Sunnis in the
middle – 20%• Shia in the south –
60%• Oil in Kurdish and
Shia areas• Sunnis used to be
in controlhttp://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5669856
Ayatollah Sistani
• Most respected Ayatollah in Iraq
• Not happy with U.S. occupation
• Knows that Shi’ites will win from Democracy
http://www.alsiraat.com/shasiat/images/ola-sistani1.jpg
Sectarian Violence• Sectarian
mean religious
• Sunnis bomb Shia shrines and mosques
• Shia bomb Sunni mosques
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5572723
Moqtada al-Sadr • Father was well
respected Ayatollah• Moqtada is young
and ambitious• Has used violence to
get U.S. to leave Iraq• Using violence
against Sunnishttp://www.msnbc.com/news/1895362.jpg
Militias & Troop Surge • U.S. sent extra troops to Iraq in 2007 –
2008– Reduced violence in Iraq
• Want to train Iraqi police in proper police methods
• All U.S. troops have left the cities
• All U.S. troops out by end of 2011
Elections - 2010 • Parliamentary Elections
held
• Nouri al-Maliki won– Prime Minister– Shia Muslim– Is starting to behave just like
a dictator– Arrested his Sunni vice-
president right after U.S. troops left
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_parliamentary_election,_2010
Elections - 2010 • Shia
– Maliki89 seats
– Sadr70 seats
• Sunni– Allawi
91 seats
• Kurds49 seats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_parliamentary_election,_2010