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The Iraq Project

Documenting U.S. policy toward Iraq for more than two decades.
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The National Security Archive’s Iraq Project began in the early 1990s and has worked for more than two decades to secure and curate historically significant documents regarding U.S. relations with Iraq, with a specific emphasis on “Iraqgate” and the 2003 Iraq War. The Iraq Project first published a 10,000-page document collection in 1994 on the “Iraqgate” scandal –the extensive financial, intelligence, and (at minimum, indirect) military support provided to Saddam Hussein by the Reagan and first Bush administrations, in full knowledge of Iraq’s repressive policies and widespread and illegal use of chemical weapons. The Iraq Project will publish a second document collection on the 2003 Iraq War in 2017. In addition to these two major document collections, the Iraq project has posted 25 Electronic Briefing Boks to date, which complement 16 separate ones on terrorism.