";s:4:"text";s:5170:" The city also has important archaeological sites including Babylon ruins, Kish ruins, and Alberes.Najaf is also located in central Iraq to the south of Baghdad, and it is often considered as one of the holy cities by the followers of Shi’a Islam, and also the Shiites' spiritual and political center within the country. The farms produce wide range of fruits, crops, and textile. What The Iraq War Can Teach Us About Better Policing. The canals were also used for transport across the city but die to pollution and low water levels, navigation is nearly impossible. The city has a rich cultural history recorded in several books. The biggest cities in Iraq are looked at below. Some 40 million Americans just lost their jobs, in part because of the ineptitude of the administration of which Esper forms a part (South Korea is better governed and did not close down, using large scale testing, contact tracing, and mask-wearing instead).A significant part of the American elite was shaped by Bush’s wars to think about dissidence as the equivalent of insurgency and to see challenges to the status quo as illegitimate.The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg concluded, “War is essentially an evil thing. When I’ve been privileged to address US military audiences, I’ve felt honored to do so. The US military took over a school as a base, and parents complained that it would ever after make their children a target. The Bush administration spent trillions on the unprovoked and worthless Iraq War, money that could have been used to train and finance minority university students and entrepreneurs. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”Bush’s war of aggression contained within itself the accumulated evil of the whole, and now that evil is spreading out to turn us all into Fallujans.
So in this column I am not putting them down in any way. Najaf is considered spiritual because of the tomb of Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib.
It is also the second largest city both in the Arab World and in Western Asia, after Cairo and Tehran, respectively. As a Bush administration official (deputy assistant secretary of defense for negotiations policy), he breathed in the atmosphere of illegality created by the 2003 war of aggression.