Talk:Iraq

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Need to update military figures

Compare "The Iraqi Navy is a small force with 1,500 sailors and officers, including 800 Marines, designed to protect shoreline and inland waterways from insurgent infiltration. The navy is also responsible for the security of offshore oil platforms. The navy will have coastal patrol squadrons, assault boat squadrons and a marine battalion.[96] The force will consist of 2,000 to 2,500 sailors by year 2010.[98]" to "As of February 2011, the navy has approximately 5000 sailors and marines which form an Operational headquarters, 5 afloat squadrons, and two marine battalions." I see no value to having a prediction from 2007 over far more recent and accurate actual recent figures.

References

Establishment of Iraq Opinion

Since in the last few days an edit war started because of different opinions on that if Iraq should have it‘s history in the info box section or not like other countries, I wanted to hear from other Wikipedia users too what they think about that. Some people believe that Ancient Mesopotamia and the Abbasid Caliphate are or aren‘t continuations of Iraq but since it was the same people who governed the countries in the history and nothing changed except the language and religions. I think the establishment should contain the history like other countries. HDI2001 (talk) 17:52, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

You didn't add a full history. You added just 2 entities out of the many that governed this area over thousands of years. These two would be presented with zero context or explanation for the reader. CMD (talk) 01:28, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Government and Politics

I think there is a simple error here in "Government and Politics"- the document says.

 In 2018, according to the Failed States Index, Iraq was the world's eleventh most politically unstable country.[132][133] The concentration of power in the hands of Prime Minister 
 Nouri al-Maliki and growing pressure on the opposition led to growing concern about the future of political rights in Iraq.[134] Nevertheless, progress was made and the country had 
 risen to 11th place by 2013

This does not make sense. I think that where it says "In 2018...Iraq was the world's eleventh..." it means "In 2010...Iraq was the world's seventh" and where it says "risen to 11th" it means "fallen to 11th". Trbl0001 (talk) 09:58, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

You beat me to it. This is the third paragraph specifically. Geolodus (talk) 18:23, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 October 2019

Iraq was not created after the first world war, instead a new king was appointed in 1920, Iraq is one of the oldest countries if not the oldest on the planet. The name Iraq came from old Sumerians Urouk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.50.142.75 (talk)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 13:42, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Official Languages

Kurdish is a minority official language, only Arabic is the official. Shoay (talk) 19:40, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Is there some anti-U.S. bias in this article?

For example, in the 2003-2007 section, it starts by saying "under the pretext". This implies that he U.S. absolutely knew that the reason was false well in advance of the ISG investigation and prior to the invasion of Iraq, without providing or citing any proof thereof, i.e., baseless. The evidence was of sufficient quality to convince the United Nations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Three other nations joined the invasion of Iraq because it was necessary based upon the available evidence. So, I suggest this should be reworded to say "under the belief". The article is semi-protected, so I'm not able to correct this.