Yahoo! News: Iraq

First Iraq war begs questions for Libya 20 years on (AFP)
Is Libya the Next Iraq? (ContributorNetwork)
Obama to Have Harder Task in Justifying War Than Bush (ContributorNetwork)
Iraqis warn Libyans against excessive optimism (AFP)
Libya: live report (AFP)
Gates says turning around Iraq was biggest task (AFP)
Iraq's Barzani calls for Kurdistan reforms (AFP)
Iraq wastes 50% of water: UNICEF (AFP)
US military: 1 US soldier killed in southern Iraq (AP)

First Iraq war begs questions for Libya 20 years on (AFP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 01:38 PM PDT

AFP - Twenty years after the First Gulf War against Iraq, the Western airstrikes on Libya have similar backing from the UN and Arab states but are raising similar questions.

Is Libya the Next Iraq? (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:32 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | With President Barack Obama announcing Saturday that the U.S. had started airstrikes on Libya with the help of British and French forces, my mind began to wander back to May 2, 2003, when President George W. Bush made a grand entrance by helping to pilot a jet onto an aircraft carrier, then announcing the end of combat operations in Iraq were over after only about a month and a half of fighting.

Obama to Have Harder Task in Justifying War Than Bush (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 10:31 AM PDT

ContributorNetwork - The Libya no-fly zone has put America in another controversial war. With President Barack Obama lending weight to the no-fly zone, the political cost of the war will land squarely on him. He inherited Iraq and Afghanistan from President George W. Bush and faced criticism for expanding in Afghanistan. Yet this is his first war of choice that he did not inherit -- and it may be harder to get domestic support for it than it was for President Bush.

Iraqis warn Libyans against excessive optimism (AFP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:32 AM PDT

AFP - Eight years after their own country was plunged into chaos, Iraqis are warning Libyans against excessive optimism but insist that the international community had no option but military intervention to deal with a "sick" dictator.

Libya: live report (AFP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:58 AM PDT

AFP - HERE'S A QUICK RECAP of Monday's major developments concerning the unrest in Libya and Western powers' UN-mandated military intervention in the North African country which began on Saturday.

Gates says turning around Iraq was biggest task (AFP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 07:47 AM PDT

AFP - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that turning around the war in Iraq represents his most important accomplishment during more than four years at the Pentagon.

Iraq's Barzani calls for Kurdistan reforms (AFP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 06:00 AM PDT

AFP - The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region called Monday for a raft of reforms after protests against nepotism, corruption and a political stranglehold by the two main parties.

Iraq wastes 50% of water: UNICEF (AFP)

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 05:02 AM PDT

AFP - Fifty percent of water resources are wasted in Iraq, where six million people have no access to clean water, the United Nations said on Monday, the eve of World Water Day.