Talk:Iraq after Saddam Hussein

This page is listed for deletion and the content should be covered in US-led occupation of Iraq and later History of Iraq. Get-back-world-respect 01:27, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I'm restoring this page, pending evidence that the content was covered in the two articles named above. --Uncle Ed 18:27, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Someone needs to rewrite the intro; it reads like a Bush administration press release. I'll do it if no one else gets to it before I do. 172 08:46, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I find the definition of civil society is presented from a very Western point of view. There are, and were, many institutions in Iraq ranging from important tribal structures to Islamic religious organizations. I also don't like the way the violence in Iraq is attributed to this supposed lack of civil society. This is preposterous. Could the violence perhaps not have something to do with the fact that the country is occupied by a foreign power? And also that that power failed to employ the necessary resources to keep the country stable, that it enforced an embargo for more than ten years and that it dismantled institutions like the army and the bureaucracy? I agree that this reads like a U.S. press release that blames Iraqis for their problems. --LeeHunter 00:50, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)