Vice President Dick Cheney told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” March 16, 2003 that the US forces would be welcomed in Iraq as “liberators.” ... Obama’s preferred policy is therefore to hold Iraq together by pressuring for political reconciliation. ..…

-appointed oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, announced Iraq’s return to good standing in the organization and full commitment to collectively pricing. . ... As the fighting subsided, starting in 2008, the U.S. pressure for the continuation and amplification of its neoliberal policies became..…