Background On the Iraq War & Occupation

THE ANGRY ONE: Republican senator Chuck Hagel sounds off on the sorry state of Congress, the president's lies, and the vote for war that he now regrets http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_5326

  War Crimes Committed by the United States in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountablility

The Iraq War Debate-resources from the University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/iraqwar.html

War Times/Tiempo de Guerra: excellent list of resources in Iraq
http://www.war-times.org/resource.htm

American Library Association's Alternative Resources on the US War Against Iraq
http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/iraq.html

Institute for Policy Studies: Understanding the US-Iraq Crisis: A Primer, by Phyllis Bennis
http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/primer.htm

American Friends Service Committee: Learn About Iraq Page
http://www.afsc.org/iraq/guide/default.shtm

The New Yorker Magazine's complete coverage on the War in Iraq:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/previous/articles/
060724frprsp_previous1

Comprehensive report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/index.html

The illegality of the invasion of Iraq under international law

Charter of the United Nations http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-un.htm

The Myth of Preemptive Self-Defense by Mary Ellen O'Connell, Professor of Law, Ohio State University
http://www.asil.org/taskforce/oconnell.pdf

Addendum to armed force in Iraq: Issues of Legality by Mary Ellen O'Connell, Professor of Law, Ohio State University
http://www.asil.org/insights/insigh99a1.htm

The War on Iraq as Illegal and Illegitimate by David Krieger, Ph.D., J.D.
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2005/03/
00_krieger_war-illegal-illegitimate.htm

Legality of Use of Force Against Iraq by Rabinder Singh, QC and Alison McDonald on behalf of Peacerights
http://www.lcnp.org/global/IraqOpinion10.9.02.pdf

British Attorney General's Advice to Blair on the Legality of the War by Lord Goldsmith, Her Majesty's Attorney General, March 7, 2003
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/
document/2003/0307advice.htm

Wilmshurst Resignation Letter
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/
attack/law/2005/0324wilmshurst.htm

Annan: Lessons of Iraq War underscore importance of UN Charter.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/
storyAr.asp?NewsID=11953&Cr=iraq&Cr1=

Blix: Iraq War Was Illegal by Anne Penketh
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0305-01.htm

International Law Aspects of the Iraq War and Occupation (Global Policy Forum)
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/
attack/lawindex.htm

Lawyers Against the War
http://www.lawyersagainstthewar.org/

The illegality of the invasion of Iraq under U.S. law

Congress is the wrong place to debate the central question on Iraq: Is the war legal? http://www.realchangenews.org/2007/2007_02_21/opinion.html 

The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War produced at the request of U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/iraqrept.html

The illegality of the ongoing occupation

Our Obligations

Geneva Conventions
http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-proto.htm

Iraq and the Laws of War, by Francis Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois
http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle12222005.html

The U.S. as the occupying power over portions of Iraq and Relevant Responsibilities under the Laws of war.
Jordan J. Proust, Law Foundation Professor, University of Houston.
http://www.asil.org/insights/insigh102.htm

The record--Overview

NGO Letter to the Security Council on Iraq, May 19, 2006. 
Compiled by 27 Non-government human rights organizations, this document provides an overview of the serious human rights abuses for which the U.S. Multinational Force is responsible in Iraq, and urges the UN Security Council to "substantially reconsider, revise, or terminate" the MNF's Mandate to bring it into conformity with international law.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/
unrole/2006/0519iraqletter.htm

A Policy of Arbitrary Detention and Torture

Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees (Human Rights Watch)
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/us0405/

By the Numbers: Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project--More than 600 implicated in detainee abuse. (Human Rights Watch, et al.)
http://hrw.org/reports/2006/ct0406/

A Policy of Using Prohibited Weapons and Tactics

Off Target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq (Human Rights Watch) http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1203/

Hearts and Minds: Post-War Civilian Deaths in Baghdad Caused by U.S. Forces. (Human Rights Watch)
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/iraq1003/

Willy Peter (On the Use of White Phosphorous during the Siege of Fallujah) by Danny Mayer (January 2006)
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/
fallujah/2006/01willypeter.htm

UN Food Envoy Says Coalition Breaking Law in Iraq, Reuters, October 15, 2005
"A drama is taking place in total silence in Iraq, where the coalition's occupying forces are using hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon of war against the civilian population," Ziegler told a news briefing.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/
attack/consequences/2005/1014food.htm

Denial of Water to Iraqi Cities
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/
attack/law/2004/1100water.pdf

Lack of Accountability

Iraqi Leaders Question U.S. Troops Immunity by Jonathan Finer and Joshua Paltrow, Washington Post, July 6, 2006
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/
attack/law/2006/0706immunity.htm

A soldier's duty

Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950
http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm

A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders: An Advisory to US Troops by Lawrence Mosqueda, PhD., The Evergreen State College
http://www.counterpunch.org/mosqueda02272003.html

Torture and Civilian Deaths in Iraq: The Nuremberg Principles Today, by Nancy Oden
http://www.counterpunch.org/oden01192005.html

Soldiers Fear They're Acting Illegally Sunday Herald, June 29, 2003
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/
attack/law/2003/0629soldiers.htm

Curriculums and Guides for Educators

American Friends Service Committee's list of books, videos and Journals on Iraq http://www.afsc.org/iraq/guide/resources.shtm

Five Day Curriculum by NYCORE, New York Collective of Radical Educators
http://www.papertiger.org/media/
Military_Myths_Curriculum.pdf

http://www.militaryfreeschools.org/curric.html

Waging Peace-great guide on demilitarization of schools:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/youth-outreach