العلاقات الأمريكية – العراقية بعد أحداث الحادي عشر من سبتمبر 2001م : الثوابت والمتغيرات

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the constants of the US-Iraqi Relations after the incident of the September 11th, 2001, as well as present the changes that arose in the relations as a result of this event, and finally identify the consequences that emanated from these changes in their relations. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, three approaches were employed, the first of which is the historical approach by which the researcher tracked the beginning of the US-Iraqi Relations in the periods preceding the incident of September 11th, 2001 until the withdrawal of the US from Iraq in 2011. Second, an analytical approach was adopted to study, analyze, and interpret the kind of relations between the two countries. The third is a comparative approach by which the constants in their relations prior to the incident of the September 11th were compared, and the changes which emerged after the incident. The researcher concluded the study with a number of findings, the most important of which go as thus: The US-Iraqi Relations were confined to the framework of economic interests between them during the era of Independent Iraqi Regime adopted by the late President Saddam Hussein in his foreign relations with foreign countries, particularly the United States of America. The US sought to contrive plots and incite the media and global public opinion against the former Iraqi regime so as to dethrone Saddam Hussein and abolish his National Arab Project and his independent regime. Moreover, the US claimed that the independence of the Iraqi former regime and its National Arab Project represent the offences committed by Saddam’s regime. This reflected on the US’s interests in the Middle East, particularly concerning Israel’s security affairs. It was also found that the former Iraqi regime was a major obstacle to the US project in the Middle East. Finally, those who rule Iraq today are part of a tripartite American-Israeli-Iranian project despite their differences in passions. However, they agreed on one fact; which is to destroy Iraq entirely so that it does not exist anymore.