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Jul 29, 2023 25 min

Allow Us to Explain: The Second Iraq War - Episode 1

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Episode 1: Background Allow Us to Explain presents our miniseries on the second Iraq War. Rohan Krishnamoorthy (Foreign Policy and Defense Policy Team Lead) and Sam Taylor (Our National Conversation Managing Editor) will analyze the second Iraq War chronologically over the course of eight episodes. We set the stage in episode one by introducing the characters, settings, and events that led to the second Iraq War. Bibliography Post, J. M. (1991). Saddam Hussein of Iraq: A Political Psychology Profile. Political Psychology, 12(2), 279–289. https://doi.org/10.2307/3791465 Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2023, May 29). Saddam Hussein. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saddam-Hussein Tripp, C. (2007). A History of Iraq (pp. 105-142). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511804304.011. https://archives.ungeneva.org/mandate-for-mesopotamia https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/03/world/the-iraqi-invasion-in-two-arab-capitals-gunfire-and-fear-victory-and-cheers.html Cooper, Tom; Sadik, Ahmad (6 August 2007). "Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait; 1990". Air Combat Information Group Journal. Archived from the original on 6 July 2013 Warbrick, Colin. "The Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq." The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 2, 1991, pp. 482–92. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/759738. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/index.htm http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-03-02-un-wmd_x.htm

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