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Iraq: An encouraging word (for the US) from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia11/07/2003
Not everyone in the Arab world is dead set against the US occupation of Iraq, as shown
Even more interesting, is the change of heart experienced by columnist Fawaz Turki, who Ami Isseroff
Revisionist Thoughts on the War on Iraq Fawaz Turki, disinherited@yahoo.com http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=34682&d=6&m=11&y=2003 Is it too early to adopt a revisionist view of the US war in Iraq and for this column to admit its mistake in having vehemently opposed it from the outset?
At issue here is whether the Iraqi people have benefited from the overthrow of the Baathist
One need offer no apology for saying that the supreme virtue of this war is that Saddam
One doesn't become a revisionist in a vacuum. I pore over material from various media sources
Last Saturday, the Washington Post's Peter Finn filed a gut-wrenching report about Baghdad's
That, in my book, is enough to warrant extending my support for that invasion and for
Washington may not succeed in turning Iraq into a "beacon of democracy" but it will succeed,
Look, I have no illusions about the shenanigans and hypocrisies of a big power like the US,
All true. Yet, the US may, just may, end up doing in Iraq what it did in war-ravaged European
No, I don't believe that by going to war, America had dark designs on Iraq's oil or pursued an
And no, it's not too early to adopt a revisionist view of the US war in Iraq, or too late for
Another call for liberation http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/opinion/view.asp?msgID=257
By Ahmed Al-Jarallah
THE Syrian regime's political maneuver, in holding a ministerial conference of Iraq's neighbours
Representatives of Iraq's neighbours - who attended the conference - succeeded in steering the
These countries were wise enough to force the Syrian regime to reevaluate its policy in view of the
Iran and Turkey have done what was expected of them, calm international opinion. Kuwait, Saudi
This regime should have acted prudently by calling for a conference to stabilise the security
This regime, which thrives by terrorising and torturing its own people, lives in an illusory world.
Countries which participated in the conference have taught a valuable lesson to the Syrian regime.
Is this the conclusion which the Syrian regime was scared of? Or is this the end which they wished
Answers to these questions are in the hands of Damascus and these answers must reflect in its
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