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Cushman, Thomas , ed. (2005) A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Schwartz, Michael ( 2008) War without End: The Iraq War in Context. Chicago: Haymarket Books.