Civil war in Iraq: External Links 2005

The following are Articles and Commentary for 2005 related to civil war in Iraq.

Also see External Links for:

• 2002 and 2003
• 2004
• 2006:

• January-March 2006
• April-June 2006
• July-December 2006

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External links

January 2005

• James Dobbins, "Iraq: Winning the Unwinnable War," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005.
• Gareth Porter, "Does U.S. Occupation Prevent Civil War in Iraq? Think Again," Foreign Policy in Focus, January 19, 2005; in Common Dreams, January 20, 2005.

February 2005

• Mike Whitney, "Washington’s Plan to Foment Civil War in Iraq," Dissident Voice, February 14, 2005.

May 2005

• Juan Cole, "Melting pot of blood. With the insurgency boiling over and sectarian strife spreading, ethnic divisions threaten to derail the new Iraqi government," Salon, May 6, 2005.
• Seymour M. Hersh, " Iraq 'Moving Towards Open Civil War'," Democracy Now!, May 11, 2005.
• Timothy M. Phelps, "Experts: Iraq verges on civil war," Newsday, May 12, 2005.
• Paul Craig Roberts, "Bush Opts for Civil War in Iraq. From Cakewalk to Bloodbath," CounterPunch, May 28/30, 2005.

June 2005

• Robert Dreyfuss, "The Quagmire. As the Iraq war drags on, it's beginning to look a lot like Vietnam," Rolling Stone, May 5, 2005.
• Gareth Porter, "How Bush Is Contributing to Civil War in Iraq. And the alternative policy war foes should propose," Antiwar.com, June 15, 2005.

July 2005

• Sami Ramadani, "Occupation and Civil War," Guardian Unlimited (UK) (ZMag), July 8, 2005.
• Hala Jaber, "Allawi: this is the start of civil war," Times Online (UK), July 10, 2005.
• Georg Mascolo and Bernhard Zand, "Crumbling Iraq. Is the Country Heading for Civil War?" Spiegel (Germany), July 25, 2005.

August 2005

• "Bush's Exit Plan: Fomenting Civil War in Iraq?" Democracy Now!, August 3, 2005.
• A.K. Gupta, "Analysis: Civil War in Iraq, Made in the USA," Independent Media Center (WhyWar.com), August 4, 2005.
• Catherine Philp, "Sunnis threaten civil war as Iraq constitution deadline extended," Times Online (UK), August 23, 2005.
• Stan Goff, "The Case Against Post-Occupation Civil War in Iraq," The Feral Scholar, August 30, 2005.

September 2005

• Mike Whitney, "America’s Covert War in Iraq," WilliamBowles, May 12, 2005.
• Lionel Beehner, "IRAQ: Is there Civil War in Iraq?" Council on Foreign Relations, September 16, 2005.
• Pepe Escobar, "Welcome to civil war," Asia Times, September 16, 2005.
• Lara Logan, "Undeclared Civil War In Iraq," CBS News, September 26, 2005.
• Jim Lobe, Analysis: "Can the US Military Presence Avert Civil War?" Inter Press Service, September 26, 2005.

October 2005

• Bill Weinberg, "Civil War in Iraq: Already Here?" World War 4 Report, October 1, 2005.

December 2005

• Seymour M. Hersh, "Up in the Air. Where is the Iraq war headed next?" The New Yorker, posted November 28, 2006; December 5, 2005 issue.
• Robert Dreyfuss, "Iraq: Game Over," TomPaine.com, December 22, 2005.
• Norman Solomon, "A New Phase of Bright Spinning Lies About Iraq," Common Dreams, December 22, 2005.