“A lot of guys gave their all, left home and were gone for a long time, proud to defend and protect our country,” said former Chicago Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago.
‘To Start a War’ author Robert Draper talks about the intelligence disasters that led Bush to invade Iraq
The New York Times Magazine writer talks with Business Insider about George W. Bush’s Iraq fiasco and what Washington still hasn’t learned from the war.
Three decades on, Iraq and Kuwait still haunted by Saddam’s invasion
Saddam sent his military, already exhausted by an eight-year conflict with Iran, into Kuwait to seize what he dubbed “Iraq’s 19th province.” The two-day operation turned into a seven-month occupation …
Iraq invasion of Kuwait: What Saddam Hussain did to Arabism is irreparable
An abandoned Iraqi Soviet-made T-62 tank sits in the Kuwaiti desert as an oil well at Al Ahmadi oil field is burning in the background, on April 2, 1991. Image Credit: AFP Kuwaiti politician and …
‘We feel hopeless’: Iraq says 560 killed in protests, as crippling power cuts spur new rallies
Iraq has been rocked by months of nationwide protests as thousands of Iraqi youth have taken to the streets to decry rampant corruption, poor services and unemployment. Security forces have used live …
Second former Unaoil executive jailed over Iraq contract bribe
A second former executive of Monaco-based consultancy Unaoil has been jailed in the UK for his role in a multi-million-dollar bribery plot to secure oil infrastructure contracts in Iraq after the fall …
Former Unaoil manager gets three-year jail sentence over Iraq bribery
A former manager of consultancy Unaoil was sentenced to three years in jail by a London court on Thursday for bribing an Iraqi official to secure a $55 million (42.3 million pounds) oil deal after the …
Three Decades On, Iraq And Kuwait Haunted By Saddam’s Invasion
Saddam sent his military, already exhausted by an eight-year conflict with Iran, into Kuwait to seize what he dubbed “Iraq’s 19th province.” The two-day operation turned into a seven-month occupation …
From Vietnam to coronavirus: The U.S. can’t win
The president calls the fight against the novel coronavirus a “war.” True, it is a war we neither started nor wanted. But like Vietnam and Iraq II, it is “war” we are losing for surprisingly similar …
How the U.S. Turned Iraq Into a Kleptocracy
Corruption, as much as violence, has made Iraq unlivable. It helped fuel the rise of ISIS. And America provides the cash to sustain it, at least $10 billion a year in hard currency.