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Article: Notes from the Editors.(aftereffects of war on Iraq)(Editorial)
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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It took a few months following the official ending of the Iraq War for U.S. imperial design to unravel almost completely. The Bush administration is now under fire from the intelligence community, the media, and the political elites for having lied its way into the war with its claims regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. More damaging still to administration plans, occupying troops and their iraqi collaborators are being killed on an almost daily basis in what is now taking on the appearance of a classic guerilla war. This would be impossible without the support offered to the insurgents by substantial sections of the Iraqi population. Consequently, the United ...