Civil war in Iraq: External Links 2004

The following are Articles and Commentary for 2004 related to civil war in Iraq.

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 * 2002 and 2003
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 * April-June 2006
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January 2004

 * "When Sistani speaks, Bush listens," Asia Times, January 17, 2004.
 * Naomi Klein, "Bush's Iraq: An Appointocracy," Globe & Mail (Canada), January 22, 2004.
 * Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, "CIA Officers Warn of Iraq Civil War, Contradicting Bush's Optimism," Knight Ridder Newspapers (Common Dreams), January 22, 2004.
 * Marc Erikson, "Why Saddam's arrest did matter," Asia Times, January 24, 2004: "The Saddam arrest could very well prove a turning point - for the worse only if collective US foreign and intelligence services' memory utterly fails. That - given customary State Department and CIA institutional lack of attention span - cannot, of course, be ruled out. The crucial issue is what policy the United States adopts toward elements of the Iraqi resistance cast loose by the capture of their nominal leader."
 * Jim Lobe, "Bush Administration Faces Growing Chaos in Iraq While Some Plan Expansion of War," Foreign Policy in Focus (Dissident Voice), January 31, 2004.

April 2004

 * Ivan Eland, "The Long Ignominious Slide to Defeat in Iraq," Dissident Voice, April 6, 2004.
 * Tariq Ali, "The Iraqi Resistance: a New Phase. All Talk of Meaningful Democracy has Faded," CounterPunch, April 9/10, 2004.
 * Naomi Klein, "Intifada, Iraqi Style," Dissident Voice, April 12, 2004.
 * Jason Vest, "Fables of the Reconstruction. A Coalition memo reveals that even true believers see the seeds of civil war in the occupation of Iraq," The Village Voice, April 20, 2004.

June 2004

 * "U.S. returns sovereignty to Iraq. Handover comes 2 days before date coalition had announced," CNN, June 29, 2004.

July 2004

 * Sami Ramadani, "America has sown the seeds of civil war in Iraq," Guardian Unlimited (UK) (ZMag), July 14, 2004.
 * William S. Lind, "Civil War in Iraq?" Antiwar.com, July 22, 2004.

September 2004

 * Tom Regan, "Report: Civil war most likely outcome in Iraq. Major British institute says breakup of Iraq is a likely scenario," Christian Science Monitor, September 6, 2004.
 * Luke Harding, "Iraq: a descent into civil war?" Guardian Unlimited (UK), September 15, 2005.

November 2004

 * Jim Lobe, "U.S.-IRAQ: 'Phantom Fury' Poised to Become Phantom Victory," Inter Press Service, November 8, 2004.
 * Pepe Escobar, "The recipe for civil war," Asia Times, November 25, 2004.

December 2004

 * "Iraq Edges Towards Civil War," UPI (military.com), December 28, 2004.