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The invasion and occupation of Iraq have brought alongside an explosion in sectarian warfare, social dilapidation, gangsterism and corruption. Impacting the whole of Iraq, children have been particularly victimized by the dismantling of the organizing forces of both state and society.
In this survey, it is argued that the degradation of the child's status flows from conscious policy decisions that have been made by occupation authorities. Neo-liberal prerogatives demanded the dismantling of Iraq's social sector, the destruction of its working and middle classes, and the
creation of a pliable non-representative Iraqi government. Reconstruction of Iraq has become a cruel farce, and the engineering of social collapse and fractured identity have created a widespread environment of violence and hopelessness. It is in this environment that Iraq's next generation
is being raised. The contemporary status of Iraq's children is surveyed on several dimensions: first, the collapse of Iraq's health infrastructure is shown to have had deleterious effects on the physical status of children, reflected by a dramatic rise in infant mortality rates and treatable
disease; second, endemic violence and desperate poverty has forced many children to withdraw from primary education, denying them the formative learning experience necessary for social and intellectual growth. Finally, the cumulative effects of surrounding violence, poverty and psychological
trauma has created a host of social pathologies in Iraqi children and society, robbing Iraqi children of their innocence, and portending a future Iraq that will be dominated by the maladjusted and the violent.

This paper is an attempt to explain how the American strategy regarding Iraq has broken up the social fabric and led to a state of disorder, which the American administration has failed to address after six months since the fall of Baghdad. The concomitant psychological disorders of children provide a reasonable example of potential reverberations that this scenario will have for years to come. This paper also underscores multiple discriminations against Iraqi women from the re- emerging tribal and religious parochialisms, which the occupation forces and the Iraqi Governing Council tolerate, thus encouraging the atmosphere of atavistic recidivism that is prevalent in neighboring Gulf States. The movement towards female emancipation, which had already receded under the Hussein regime, is being further eviscerated and replaced by the sex trade, a phenomenon typical of the record and practice of the American military forces.

Abstract
This article covers a 23-year period, from 1990 to 2013, to describe the systematic degradation in the quality of life that children born in Iraq over this period were subjected to by global geopolitical machinations. The period is broken into three successive stages – sanctions, invasion and post-military occupation – to describe the process of occupation and its impact on infants and children. The statistics that were regularly published by international agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) throughout the process showed the plight of Iraqi children as innocent victims of global policies known to the policy-makers.

What is the impact of almost a decade of war (IraqIran war), followed by 13 years of sanctions and then an occupation that is now in its fifth year? Ask women, as we did in a research project initiated in 2004 that asked Iraqi women to reflect on the course of turbulence and change
in Iraq over their lifetimes. Invariably, we found, they focused on the Iraqi household, a level of analysis seldom addressed in all the literature on Iraq generated over the last decade or so which generally focuses on the macro level of institutional change, not the micro level of household
change. Because of the centrality of the household in the social and cultural construction of Iraqi society, the assessment of change at the household level is central to any assessment of the impact of turbulence on Iraqi society. This essay is based on analysis of interviews with Iraqi women
conducted between 2005 and 2007. Nested in a grounded theory methodology, the interviews were conducted face-to-face. Intended to be in-depth, unstructured and open-ended, the interviews focused on exploring significant events in the women's lives.

Over the latter half of the twentieth century, Iraqi women enjoyed a substantial expansion in their opportunities and rights. Where the reforms of the latter half of the twentieth century freed women from the bondage of tribal and feudal forces, the American occupation of 2003 has jolted
Iraqi women back into the bondage of reactionary forces. In addition to the general horrors that have come to dominate Iraqi life, Iraq's women have become the target of a campaign of sexual terrorism by the Anglo-American occupation regime in addition to the criminal and sectarian elements
that were unleashed by the occupation. This article studies the shifting status of women in modern Iraq, and considers the various forms of oppression that held Iraqi women in thraldom (tribal, sectarian, neo-feudal). Finally, the article considers the place of women within the emerging
international environment of corporate neo-feudalism.

Why did the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction and killings of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to remake it as a client regime. Post-invasion chaos created conditions under which the cultural foundations of the state could be undermined. The authors painstakingly document the consequences of the occupiers' willful inaction and worse, which led to the ravaging of one of the world's oldest recorded cultures. Targeted assassination of over 400 academics, kidnapping and the forced flight of thousands of doctors, lawyers, artists and other intellectuals add up to cultural cleansing. This important work lays to rest claims that the invasion aimed to free an educated population to develop its own culture of democracy

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