Editing Naomi Klein (section)

=== Iraq War criticism ===
Klein has written about the [[Iraq War]]. In "Baghdad Year Zero" (''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', September 2004),<ref name="Harpers">{{cite magazine|url= http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html|title= Baghdad year zero: Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia|first= Naomi |last=Klein| date= September 2004| magazine= [[Harper's Magazine]]|publisher= The Harper's Magazine Foundation|access-date= September 9, 2007}}</ref> Klein argues that, contrary to popular belief, the [[George W. Bush administration]] ''did'' have a clear plan for post-invasion Iraq: to build a completely unconstrained [[free market]] economy. She describes plans to allow foreigners to extract wealth from Iraq and the methods used to achieve those goals.<ref name="Democracy-Now">{{cite interview|last= Klein|first= Naomi|title= Broadcast Exclusive: James Baker's Double Life in Iraq: The Carlyle Group Stands to Make Killing on Iraqi Debt| interviewer= [[Amy Goodman]] |work= [[Democracy Now!]]| publisher= [[Pacifica Radio]]| date= October 13, 2004| access-date= February 17, 2009| url= http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/13/144220|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20041013192326/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04%2F10%2F13%2F144220| url-status= dead|archive-date= October 13, 2004|df= mdy-all}}</ref><ref name= "PBS">{{cite interview|last= Klein|first= Naomi|title= The Persuaders: Interview Naomi Klein|publisher = [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]|date= January 22, 2004|work= [[PBS Frontline]] |access-date= February 17, 2009|url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/interviews/klein.html}}</ref> Her "Baghdad Year Zero" was one of the inspirations for the 2008 film ''[[War, Inc.]]''<ref name= "film.guardian">{{cite news|url= http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2159038,00.html|title= I'm basically a brand (article about John Cusack's career)| access-date= February 17, 2009|first= Ryan |last= Gilbey| date= August 31, 2007| newspaper= The Guardian |location= London}}</ref>

Klein's "Bring Najaf to New York" (''The Nation'', August 2004) argued that [[Muqtada Al Sadr]]'s [[Mahdi Army]] "represents the overwhelmingly mainstream sentiment in Iraq" and that, if he were elected, "Sadr would try to turn Iraq into a [[theocracy]] like Iran," although his immediate demands were for "direct elections and an end to foreign occupation".<ref name="Najif-Nation">{{cite web |url= https://www.thenation.com/article/bring-najaf-new-york/ |title=Bring Najaf to New York |access-date=August 12, 2017 |first=Naomi |last=Klein |date= August 26, 2004 |work=[[The Nation]] |archive-date=August 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812220445/https://www.thenation.com/article/bring-najaf-new-york/ |url-status= dead}}</ref>