The age of colonialism1 It is over, but oil-producing countries today are the objects of neocolonial expansion, which is caused by the growing need of industrialized countries for hydrocarbon fuels. This may be evidenced by the US policy in Iraq. Keywords: modern Iraq, USA in Iraq, British colonial policy, coalition forces in Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, united Kurdish opposition, Chalabi, Talabani, Barzani, Allawi. The fact that the US policy towards Iraq at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries. The existence of the "colonial style" feature is confirmed in part by a comparative analysis with the British colonial policy in the Persian Gulf countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Great Britain justified its colonial activities by the need to" civilize " supposedly backward states and societies. At the very beginning of the period under review, the United States motivated its policy towards Iraq by the need to protect Kuwait from an aggressor country whose leadership does not respect human rights in domestic politics. Then, after a period of six months of occupation of Kuwait by Iraqi forces, from January to February 1991, the multinational force (MNF) led by the United States carried out a successful operation that went down in history as the "Gulf War"2 and had as consequences international sanctions against Iraq [War in the Gulf..., 1991]. In the years that followed, the negative attitude of the United States towards Iraq was widely covered by the media. On international platforms, Washington began to actively accuse the Iraqi leadership, led by Saddam Hussein, of supporting terrorism, including in the person of Al Qaeda, and creating and storing weapons of mass destruction. Since 1998, the IAEA commission has been searching for these weapons [President's Bush..., 2001]. The official US position was that Iraq violates the main provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 and is engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and the ... Read more