Inside the New Iraq
Tags: IRAQ War, 2003-2011; CHILDREN & war
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- editorial--blessed are the peacemongers. Hein, John // ScotsGay Magazine;Mar2003, Issue 50a, p3
Editorial. Discusses demonstrations in Scotland against the war in Iraq. Concerns of the demonstrators regarding the children in the Iraq; Details on the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; Criticisms on the objectives of the war.
- Iraq's Young Blood. Caryl, Christian; Hastings, Michael; Johnson, Scott; Obeidi, Ayad; Obeidi, Ahmed; Sadeq, Mohammed; Dickey, Christopher; Smith, Karen Fragala // Newsweek;1/22/2007, Vol. 149 Issue 4, p24
This article profiles the emerging Iraqi youth--nearly half the country is under 18-- a generation of children acclimated to war and terror, spending less time in the classroom, and increasingly viewing the United States as an occupying force. Particular focus is on the sectarian violence, which...
- "AS I WRITE THIS, I AM CRYING" Children's Letters to Iraq. // War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Huma;2007, Vol. 19 Issue 1/2, p198
The article presents a collection of letters written to soldiers serving in the Iraq War by third-grade schoolchildren. The author discusses how the children volunteered to send letters after a classmate was unsatisfied with the response to a letter she had sent to the White House. The children...
- Casualties at Home. // America;4/28/2003, Vol. 188 Issue 15, p3
Editorial. Emphasizes the need for reform in public education finance in the U.S. Impact of the U.S.-led war with Iraq on education finance; Role of states and local municipalities in the reform; Level of education funds available to U.S. children.
- No return. // Christian Century;5/3/2005, Vol. 122 Issue 9, p8
Interviews U.S. Army Sergeant Kevin Benderman about his refusal to return to Iraq for a second tour of duty. Comments on the reaction of other people to his decision; Reaction to the order of a company commander to fire on small children who were throwing rocks at the U.S. troops during the war...
- Tough. Wieseltier, Leon // New Republic;6/7/2004, Vol. 230 Issue 21/22, p46
Presents concerns about the number of children who are dying as casualties of war in Iraq and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Moral implications of such casualties; Increase in questions of humaneness following the demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza; Doctrine of moral equivalence;...
- Too busy fondling their self-esteem. // New Statesman;10/16/2006, Vol. 135 Issue 4814, p22
The article argues that Great Britain's leaders are essentially war criminals complicit in the deaths of half a million Iraqi children following economic sanctions in the 1990s and the Iraq War. The idea of a "sectarian" conflict is merely a screen that guards to public against the notion that...
- Orphans of Tall Afar. Matthews, Owen // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);3/28/2005, Vol. 145 Issue 13, p26
Looks at the impact of U.S.-led military operations in Iraq on the orphans of civilian casualties. Case of the Hassan children, whose parents were killed by the U.S. Army's Apache Company in Tall Afar, Iraq in an incident of mistaken identity; Report that many of the Hassan children were wounded...
- Orphans of Tall Afar. Matthews, Owen // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);3/28/2005, Vol. 145 Issue 13, p28
Looks at the impact of U.S.-led military operations in Iraq on the orphans of civilian casualties. Case of the Hassan children, whose parents were killed by the U.S. Army's Apache Company in Tall Afar, Iraq in an incident of mistaken identity; Report that many of the Hassan children were wounded...
