16OCT22: The Operation Iraqi Freedom FAQ utilizes issue-rule, fact pattern analysis and adapts the legal standard for primary sources, as opposed to the looser political science standard that allows primary source status for secondary expert sources:
Sources: Stanford Law School (top) and Hal Brands & Peter Feaver (bottom).
07APR22: If you prefer to read very enlarged text due to low vision or any reason, an effective method to adjust the OIF FAQ display is loading the mobile version on a large viewport, such as a maximized browser window on a desktop monitor, and zooming the browser to the preferred text size. The mobile version uses sans-serif font and, when zoomed, adjusts responsively to wrap the text and fit inside the viewport window.
02NOV20: The # bookmark links to OIF FAQ answers that were affixed to the site URL, e.g., https://operationiraqifreedomfaq.blogspot.com/#didBushlie, are now affixed to the post URL, e.g., https://operationiraqifreedomfaq.blogspot.com/2014/05/operation-iraqi-freedom-faq.html#didBushlie. The change was made because OIF FAQ answers affixed to the site URL would not auto-scroll to their anchor on the site's mobile version on some mobile devices. OIF FAQ answers affixed to the site URL auto-scroll properly on the site's web version, which is the usual default for computers.
08DEC18: If a citation's link is defunct, try plugging the URL in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to find an archived copy of the reference. The Library of Congress Web Archive explains: "Web sites are ephemeral and often considered at-risk born-digital content. New web sites form constantly, URLs change, content changes, and web sites sometimes disappear entirely."
19OCT18: Clicking on links to archived Clinton presidential documents with the "http://clinton[x].nara.gov/" domain prefix returns the error message, "This site can’t be reached clinton[x].nara.gov’s server IP address could not be found." The National Archives Office of Innovation (webprogram@nara.gov) explains:
These domains were changed in June 2017 to the following:For example, President Clinton's 17FEB98 remarks on Iraq to Pentagon personnel that had been linked at http://clinton6.nara.gov/1998/02/1998-02-17-president-remarks-on-iraq-to-pentagon-personnel.html are now linked at https://clintonwhitehouse6.archives.gov/1998/02/1998-02-17-president-remarks-on-iraq-to-pentagon-personnel.html. Manually changing the defunct domain prefix to its replacement domain prefix opens the document.
clinton.nara.gov - replaced by clinton.archives.gov
clinton1.nara.gov - replaced by clintonwhitehouse1.archives.gov
clinton2.nara.gov - replaced by clintonwhitehouse2.archives.gov
clinton3.nara.gov - replaced by clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov
clinton4.nara.gov - replaced by clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov
clinton5.nara.gov - replaced by clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov
clinton6.nara.gov - replaced by clintonwhitehouse6.archives.gov
Redirects were removed in September [2018] due to security issues with the old domains.
07DEC17: If you are using Chrome browser version 61 or 62, many # bookmark links on the OIF FAQ site won't auto-scroll to their anchors due to a programming error. The affected # bookmark links work in other browsers and prior Chrome versions. Update: The error is fixed in Chrome browser version 63 (07DEC17).
20JAN17: The Operation Iraqi Freedom FAQ site employs three methods to clarify the Iraq issue:
Expository posts. The eponymous OIF FAQ post synthesizes the primary source authorities — i.e., the set of controlling law, policy, precedent and determinative facts that define OIF's justification — into a coherent narrative form that is purpose-designed to lay a proper foundation and provide a study guide for the Iraq issue. The OIF FAQ answers, oriented to the main talking points of the usual anti-OIF narrative, also function as a dialectical cheat sheet. Other expository posts, particularly 10 year anniversary of the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom: thoughts and A problem of definition in the Iraq controversy: Was the issue Saddam's regime or Iraq's demonstrable WMD?, examine key facets of the Iraq issue with additional scope and depth, and supplement the OIF FAQ post.
Model answers. The OIF FAQ site includes a selection of corrective Critical responses to leaders and pundits, such as President George Bush and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Fundamental correction of the Iraq issue in the public discourse is required because endemic conjecture, distorted context, and misinformation by leaders and pundits, including putative OIF supporters, have warped the path-setting politics of Iraq. The critical responses to leaders and pundits balance the disadvantage of shorter subject coverage than the expository posts with the advantage of demonstrating dialectical application with actual examples.
Table of sources. The bedrock legal-factual sources of the Iraq intervention are straightforward, thorough, plain — incontrovertible. To learn the sources, first learn the OIF FAQ post as a study guide. Then learn the basic essential sources listed in the further reading section of the OIF FAQ post, which are equivalent to the required readings in a course syllabus. That should provide sufficient grounding to assimilate the comprehensive table of sources compiled at Perspective on Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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