Prognosis for Iraq

The capital city of Iraq Baghdad, the largest city in Iraq today where
all the political ideas happen. If there are any changes to come to
Iraq this is the place that it will happen.

The future for this country is viewed in many different ways. Americans, and other countries against Iraq, often view their future as a failure ready to happen. They believe that because of their history, Iraq will not be able to succeed. This assumption has information to back it up such as the idea that because they think that since Islam will not allow church to be separate from state, than they cannot have a good democratic country. Also they argue that because the country is so young, it has not had time to gain the political community that it needs. The separate and very strong three ethnic groups that make up Iraq also make many believe that it will be hard to take on this new government without complications and arguments. Though, on the other side many argue that it will be good. They think that they can pull it off because in the past, the religions had meetings were they came together and talked about their views and choices and made democratic-like decisions. Also, with the help from others and they have an example that can show them how to work and help them along the way. The people on this view often say that they are only seeing Iraq as far as the Baathist regime. They are not looking further than that. Because of this, they are drawing conclusions that Iraq is always bad, violent, and chaotic, when really it is not. The future of this country could work, if everyone surrounding it gave it a chance.

Modern Day Iraq

The current president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani. 

Iraq is in the news currently because it has recently changed its government from a republic to a democracy. Because of this dramatic change, people don’t think that it can be done and are making a big deal about it. Another more current reason is that they are beginning to actually start off this new government. They are starting to vote on things and talk more democratic and allow the people to have a say in what the government does. Although now that the second year of votes are in, the people around the world are questioning even more if it can be done. After comparing the results of the votes, the first vote in the democratic government had much bigger attendance than that of the second. This made the news because people now were beginning to criticize that they are failing because of the drop in attendance. However, it this true or not? People can assume whatever, but if we were to compare the number of attendance to our votes in America, the Iraqi votes were significantly larger than ours. This might show that they are succeeding, but it still makes headlines because the question is in the air.

Key Leader of Iraq Today

     This is Jalal Talabani he is the current president of Iraq. Although the
country is getting ready to elect in a new president.

Key Leaders of Iraq

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, Iraq was under the control  of the British. In 1921, Faisal I became the king of Iraq, and later he achieved in getting Iraq it's independence later in 1932. After the death of Faisal, his son, Ghazi  took the spot previously own by his father. Many violent attacks on the government took place over the next several years during Ghazi's reign and when he was killed in an accident, his son, Faisal II was the next person in line. However since he was only three years old, his uncle,  Emir Abd al-Ilah took his spot until he grew up. General Abdul Karim Kassem killed Faisal II and declared Iraq a republic, and became the ruler of Iraq. Kassem was killed in 1963 by a coup led by Colonel Abd al-Salam Aref and the military as well as members of the Ba'ath party. The Ba'ath party supports secularism, and socialism. Colonel Aref became the president, and when his time was up, Ahmed Hasan al-Bakr of the Ba'ath party became the president. As more people began to take power through violence, the Ba’ath party began to take over more and began to gain more and more power in Iraq. When Al-Bakr resigns, Saddam Hussein took over the power and immediately began to execute political rivals. On December 2006, Saddam Hussein was hung. The next leader was voted by the people in their new government. This leader was President Jalal Talabani, and he has been president since April 6, 2005. Hussein, before his death was taken

out of power, and he was put in.

History Synopsis

Iraqi men stand with the Iraq flag during a protest to represent
who they want to win the election.

 Iraq was first a part of the Ottoman Empire, but then during World War I, Britain was in ownership of Iraq. Over a period of time, Iraq slowly began to gain more and more of it's independence. In 1932 Iraq was declared an independent country and by 1958 it was concluded to be a republic. During the republic, several strong leaders took charge of the country and executed, destroyed, and killed people and the country. Within these leaders reign, there was an eight year war. These men ruled the country killing one another to get the power until the last one, Saddam Hussein, was taken out by a US invasion. In 2005, Iraqis created a constitution and in agreement made a Council of Representatives. The next year everything was approved, and marked Iraq’s firsts transition to a constitutional government in a little less than a century. The first election was held in 2009 for all govern-orates but three. In 2010, they held a national legislative election where they chose 325 legislators. In the same year the government was officially approved and immediately after, the Second Gulf War began. In 2011, US military operations were ended, and they have kept on with their government since.

Where Iraq is Located

This map shows where the Sunni, Shia and the Kurdish
Muslims live in Iraq.

Iraq is located in the Middle East. It is on the coast of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.

The Iraqi Society

This is the Iraqi flag. 

In the Iraqi society everyone treats everyone with respect and the young people show great respect to their elders. The main religion in Iraq is Muslim, there is about 60 - 65% Shia Muslims and about 32 - 37% Sunni Muslim. There are some Christians in Iraq still today but there is not many because most of the Christian population left to go to Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.  The country is mostly made up of Arabic and Kurdish people.  There are two official languages of Iraq, Arabic and Kurdish. In the country of Iraq there is 31,858,481 people. The amount of years spent in school varies for the young men and women, for young men it is about 11 years and for young women it is about 8 years. More than half of the Iraqi population lives in the urban area of Iraq. The capital of the country is Baghdad along with other major cities known as Mosul and Erbil. The people of Iraq believe that their country can survive but the rest of the world is not so sure that the people and the leaders can keep the country together and make it work.









Works Cited:
PDF:
http://www.fpri.org/orbis/4902/davis.historymattersiraq.pdf

CIA: World Fact Book (Iraq)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/iz.html

Iraq History

http://www.historyofnations.net/asia/iraq.html

Iraq timeline

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/iraqtimeline1.html#ixzz2QlR2I9Fl

Picture Links:

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