This is a short entry as I'm swamped in pulling together work on various projects, but I wanted to draw your attentions to a couple of interesting-looking sites now that the war is "over" and Iraq is "free."
The War in Context.org is pulling together a host of articles on the aftermath of Gulf War II in an attractive and easily accessible form. The Iraq War Reader, edited by Michah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, looks to be a good resource for people trying to understand the so-far dominant story of 2003. The Village Voice has a review online. (Sifry and Cerf edited The Gulf War Reader, a collection of documents and essays about the first Gulf War in 1991.)
A couple of quick pointers
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Hi there! Thanks for stopping in. I'm Christopher Allbritton, former AP and New York Daily News reporter. In 2002, I went stumbling around Iraqi Kurdistan, the northern part of Iraq outside Saddam's direct control, looking for stories. (Some might call it "looking for trouble.") In March 2003, I made it back in time for the war, becoming the Web's first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger. With the support of thousands of readers, we raised almost $15,000. You can read my dispatches here. It was one of the moments in journalism when everything worked. It was a grand -- and successful -- experiment in independent journalism. In 2004, I moved to Iraq, where I would spend the next two years. It was a raucous, scary and exciting place with a lot of news going on. But I've since moved on to Beirut and the wider region. I now report for a variety of outlets.
As long as we’re summing things up, the final civillian body count is 2233-2706. That’s only a thousand shy of the death toll on 9-11.
Salam Pax is alive & well. There is an update at his site: http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
Re: Civilian body count
My, my - such a few dear souls to give up their lives for Shrub’s and his puppeteers’ ambitions. I guess that bodes well for the next group of people the neocons decide are evil, because less than a thousand will have to be sacrificed. Yes, that is a blatantly sarcastic tone, and no, I will not apologise for it.