Due to the Iraq war and post war events, Iraq was unable to host home matches in Iraq.

Make Politics, Not War, in Iraq

The War Against Iraq s Children

Chirac vociferously opposed the war in Iraq.

He has ended the war in Iraq and soon will end the war in Afghanistan. And he has resisted the temptation to wage war in Iran or Syria.

Dissent and criticism of Bush's leadership in the War on Terror increased as the war in Iraq continued.

Then, two years later, I covered another war the war in Iraq.

When Bush declared war on terror, he used that war to invade Iraq.

The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war. The recent photographs of detainees being abused and sexually degraded in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison added fuel to the fire.

Refugees of Iraq are Iraqi nationals who have fled Iraq due to war or persecution.

The 2001 war against Afghanistan and the 2003 war against Iraq were markedly different.

By this standard, the war in Iraq was a monumental failure.

The recent elections in America were a referendum on the war in Iraq.

The war in Afghanistan and the complex situation in Iraq have highlighted the importance of a comprehensive approach.

There can be little doubt that the current war in Iraq is fundamentally about oil.

In large part, this was because of the unpopularity of the Iraq War.

Iran In 1988 Iraq's main foreign policy issue was the war with Iran.

Most people in the West regard Syria s civil war as a continuation of the sectarian violence in Iraq.

If this occurs in Iraq, it may provide some post hoc legitimization for the war.

Likewise, Palin has called the Iraq War a task from God.

During the war, the PKK established bases in Iraq and Syria.

Today, Iraq may be on the verge of civil war between Shiites and Sunnis.

The Iraq war also meant that America ignored the Israeli Palestinian peace process.

True, the war in Iraq distracted America s attention from Afghanistan.

The largest cost of this mismanaged war has been borne by Iraq.

Bush then claimed that America went to war to liberate Iraq.

Iraq played all their home matches on neutral ground because of the Iran Iraq War.

Critics warned that the war would cause instability in Iraq and the Middle East, and that this would lead to high oil prices.

To put it into perspective, if you compare this to the soldiers in Iraq, for instance, right now fighting the war 0.5 percent.

But the war in Iraq and enormous military expenditures are quite another matter.

George W. Bush went to war with Iraq in 2003 to change the government.

But history will remember him mainly for his strategic error in going to war in Iraq.

Some opponents of the Iraq War, including me, believe that a fundamental and deeply misguided objective of the war from the outset has been to create a long term military base (or bases) in Iraq, ostensibly to protect oil routes and oil concessions.

George W. Bush s disastrous war in Iraq has put Europe in a bind.

It is precisely this kind of macho reasoning that led America to war in Iraq in the first place.

Of course, the Vietnam War was different in almost every respect from the war in Iraq.

British and Empire forces landed in southern Iraq and overthrew the coup in the brief Anglo Iraqi War of May 1941.

This is unexpected, because only six months ago the war in Iraq dominated the political landscape.

During the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire after the war, Iraq came under British mandate.

We ended the war in Iraq we are implementing an effective transition and drawdown in Afghanistan and we have seriously weakened Al Qaeda s leadership in the fight against terrorism.

Ostensibly, President Bush has embarked on a new political and military strategy for the war torn Iraq.

Midan El Tahrir or El Tahrir Square has been the site for numerous major protests and demonstrations, including in March 2003 when people came out to protest the War in Iraq.

These forms of cooperation survived the divisions over Iraq.

Major regional issues, like the war in Iraq or Iran s nuclear program, were barely mentioned.

But bilateral treatment of the issue threatens to do just that to divide Europe along the same fault lines as did the war in Iraq.