Iraq
“
Death to America, and butter sauce. Don't boil me, I'm still alive! Iraq Lobster! Iraq Lobster!
— 
Peter Griffin
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country located in the Middle East. He is a 
federal 
parliamentary 
republic country, and is considered an emerging middle power. He is a founding member of the 
United Nations, the 
OPEC as well as of the 
Arab League, the 
Organization of Islamic Cooperation, 
Non-Aligned Movement, and the 
International Monetary Fund. With a strategic location, the country has one of the largest oil reserves in the world and is among global centers for oil and gas industry.
History
In 2003, 
USA under 
George W. Bush sent an invasion to topple and liberate Iraq from 
Saddam Hussein's regime. This succeeds, and the 
Coalition Provisional Authority began disbanding the 
Ba'ath army and expelling Ba'athists from the new government. The insurgents fought against the coalition forces and the newly installed government. Saddam was captured and executed. The 
Shia-Sunni 
civil war took place from 2006 to 2008. The US should have pulled out by now, but Bush didn’t want to, and stayed for the oils.
The coalition forces were criticized for war crimes, such as massacres, torture and rape. But, the insurgents have also committed such atrocities, including kidnap, torture, and murder of even more inhumane levels. The Mainstream Media covers up the torture methods of the insurgents while trumpeting outrage at the milder US techniques. The USA conducted “time-sensitive targeting”, where USA conducts fast military strikes on what intel suggests might be important targets (like Saddam). But, by the end of 2003, of the 50 of these attacks carried out, 0 hit their targets. Even though the civilian collateral casualties were ultimately lower in Iraq than in previous wars, it was still far from zero. 
Barack Obama declared an official end to the US troops in Iraq on August 31, 2010 and ceased funding the War on Terror in 2009. US troops pulled out in 2011.
The subsequent efforts to rebuild the country amidst sectarian violence and the rise of the 
Islamic State began after the war. Iraq was galvanized by the civil war in 
Ba'athist Syria. After some operations, ISIS was removed from Iraq in December 2017.
2020 does not seem the best year for Iraq, one of his generals got killed in an airstrike by USA which caused Iraq to make a vote to remove American soldiers from his clay. In February 2020, Iraq had his first infection of coronavirus which caused him to close many of his borders and schools. In 2022, protests occurred due to instability and close ties with 
Iran.
However, in 2023, good things has come as Iraq is hosting the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup after being isolated since Saddam's rise. Iraq even ended up becoming the winner of the Gulf Cup.
Relations
Friends
United States - Thanks for trying to bring 
democracy and fight 
terrorist. But the post-war effect has been pretty bad, and your bombings and airstrikes aren’t really helping… Just of leave already, I can handle things on my own. Pull out your troops. And stop taking my oil
Armenia - Many Armenians living in my clay is also a good friend.
Australia - Many of us living in his clay, and he is also very friendly with me.
Neutral
Saddam Hussein - One of the most complicated leaders of me. He changed me and the entire glory, and made my people proud. You still suck when it comes to making friends! All you do is invade, invade, invade! 
Iran, 
Kuwait, 
Saudi Arabia, they’re all on your list! You invade them for power and oil! ALSO WHY IN THE HELL WHOULD YOU KILL 
KURDS AND 
SHIAS?! THEY DID NOTHING TO YOU!!
Russia - Thankings for help against terrorist, but I won’t be your puppet. You are conquering of another country and nobody invaded you because of that? man... I sincerely envy you. But I want to improve my relationship with Kuwait, so I have to condemn this act. Sorry, 
Crimea belongs to 
Ukraine.
United Kingdom - We both like tea and can into it, But never forget invasion!! But yuo still good tho. Gib training.- Kurdistan - Helped me fight ISIS and restore peace. But don't dare and try to hold a referendum! You can't into independence! Ha! Take this, your independence referendum is failed.
Enemies
- Islamic State - YOU RUINED ME YOU F*CK!! YOU ENACTED A RULE JUST AS OPPRESSIVE AS SADDAM IN YOUR OCCUPIED CLAY, AND YOU DESTROYED MONUMENTS OF MY
SUMERIAN PAST!!! I AM SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE DEAD FOR GOOD!! 2017 BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE!!! 
Israel - HANDS OFF OF 
PALESTINE, YOU 
HEZBOLLAH KILLER!
How to draw
Iraq has a drawing rating of intermediate.
- Draw a ball.
- Fill the ball with three horizontal stripes of color top-to-bottom in the following order: red, white, black.
- Write “الله اكبر” in green on the white stripe.
- Add the eyes and you are done!
| Color Name | HEX | |
|---|---|---|
| Philippine Red | #CE1126 | |
| White | #FFFFFF | |
| Black | #000000 | |
| Jordan Jazz | #017B3D | |
