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"Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."
George H.W. Bush (Bush senior) and Brent Scowcroft in their 1998 book, "A World Transformed"
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Iraq retina scan
Marine Lance Cpl. Luis Molina scans an Iraqi citizen's retina at Brahma Park in Fallujah, Iraq, on Jan 25, 2005. U.S. Marines are utilizing a Biometric Analysis Tracking System to record and identify Iraqi civilians entering the battle torn city of Fallujah in an attempt to find and identify insurgent forces. The tracking system uses thumbprints, a photograph of the face, and a retinal scan to establish positive identity. Molina is deployed with Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan C. Knauth, U.S. Marine Corps.
Cost of the War in Iraq
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In the bitter aftermath of the Iraq invasion, Tony Blair was many times accused of sending British troops to war on a deceit. ...
This is the dilemma Obama has faced when, as a candidate, he cast his lot with Afghanistan while opposing the war in Iraq. The issue that was avoidable then ...
Australia has drawn a line in the sand over its involvement in the Iraq war by welcoming home the men and women who served in the bitter conflict with a ...
(CNN) -- A US military court demoted and jailed a soldier for mistreating troops in Iraq, behavior discovered during the investigation ...

... with the Iraqi Oil Ministry. Such delays in approving oilfield deals -- or any other official business for that matter -- are not uncommon in Iraq. ...
""That is the Iraqi government's decision and oppositions in this regard will not influence Baghdad's decision,"" he reiterated. The MKO has been in Iraq's ...
The failure of Iraqi legislators to reach agreement cast further doubt on the likelihood that the parliamentary election would be held on time, ...
A total of 17000 defence personnel were sent to Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion to help the post-war reconstruction of the country. ...
Exacerbating the problem, Iraqi and US officials say, is that hundreds of thousands of people from Iraq's professional class have fled or been killed during ...
Despite the indictment, the company will continue to hold the coalition food-delivery contract for Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait through December 2010. ...
13 and goes into wider release in the coming weeks, focuses on a young soldier, Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), wounded in the Iraq war and returned to duty ...
the US says 14 people were killed but an Iraqi investigation put the number at 17. children were among those killed, and several people were wounded. Iraq ...
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Kids in school rarely smile so much, or sing so loudly. But at Baghdad's Al-Noor School for the Blind, ...
Adel al-Mashhadani's arrest in March set off a two-day battle in Baghdad pitting US and forces of Iraq's Shiite-led government against al-Mashhadani's group ...
Any surge of US troops to Afghanistan is likely to be tougher than it was in Iraq, because of the dearth of good roads and airfields, say defense officials. ...
It's thought to affect as many as one in five veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. The mystery is why certain troops develop paralyzing stress ...
"I think a lot of times we thought the insurgency would dissipate, we were working closely with the government of Iraq, we were trying to improve the Iraqi ...
Mosul - A roadside bomb struck a police patrol, wounding a policeman in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. ...
Montgomery, wounded and decorated, has recently returned from Iraq to find his ex-girlfriend engaged to be married. Playing out the final months of his ...
It is part of the 3200 member 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, which has less than two months left to serve in Iraq. The main job at Camp Cropper is ...
Sprenger, 26, served under Petraeus in the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. On Dec. 9, 2003, he was 10 months into his first deployment when an insurgent ...
A longtime Red Cross worker from Culpeper has been deployed to Iraq in support of the troops. Felecia Chavez, former American Red ...
... handed down Monday, the Washington Post reported. is the rating Iraq received on a scale of 10 in Transparency International's annual corruption report, ...
But why are American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place? Why do they remain there, and why is our military intervention in Afghanistan ...
... to crack down on Ashraf through its Iraqi proxies, the United States must ensure that Ashraf residents are safe and not forcibly displaced inside Iraq. ...
... roughly matching the number of refugees who return to Iraq or are resettled in third countries. And with Iraqi national elections scheduled for January ...
Staff Sgt. Will Montgomery, a decorated Iraq war veteran who gets the title role in The Messenger, is back in the States, close to ending his ...
He demanded a change that would allocate more parliamentary seats for Iraqi Sunnis living abroad. It is unquestionably better for Iraq's political leaders ...
He said he was afraid of reporting the crime while he was in Iraq, fearing his fellow soldiers would turn on him. Based on Cunningham's information, ...
DAMASCUS, Nov 18 (Reuters) - the United States will take in "substantial" numbers of Iraqi refugees next year, US Assistant Secretary ...
PA), all of whom are working in Iraq or hoping to. Total, in particular, wants to tie up its first oil contract with the post-war Iraqi government and said ...
... parliamentary elections after Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashim's veto of the recently passed electoral law, RFE/rl's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports. ...
... in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where ethnic and political conflicts threaten to derail Iraq's halting progress toward a working democracy. ...
... military contractors under the jurisdiction of American laws following an appeal from the parents of a soldier allegedly killed by a contractor in Iraq. ...
The eight-woman, four-man jury took nearly seven hours to find Jomar Falu-Vives, a 25-year-old Iraq war veteran, guilty of first-degree murder in the June 6 ...
... arms shipments to Iraq, as a key Congressional committee is asking for a separate investigation into whether the company bribed Iraqi officials. ...
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - the United States will take in "substantial" numbers of Iraqi refugees next year, US Assistant Secretary of ...
18 (Xinhua) -- Iraq and France have reached several "important" pacts on ordnance and defense personnel exchange, the visiting Iraqi Defense Minister ...
Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said Wednesday he vetoed Iraq's new election law, a move that threatens to delay (Al-Jazeera) January elections and ...
Garma - A roadside bomb struck a police patrol, wounding two policemen, in Garma, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. ...



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