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Biden in Iraq to mark transition
The Swampby Michael Muskal Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Monday as part of the formal end of the United States' combat role in Iraq, the White House announced. Biden will also hold talks with Iraqi officials, who have......Tags: Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, George W. Bush, Jalal Talabani, International Military Interventions
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Joel Brinkley: Mission failure
American VoicesTen years ago this month, President George W. Bush climbed confidently from the cockpit of a fighter jet that had landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln flight deck. He strode to the microphone and declared an end to major military operations in Iraq....Tags: Al Jazeera (tv network), United Nations, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Television Industry
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Who's to blame for our politics? Don't ask
There is a classic "Doonesbury" cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other's politics for everything that's wrong in...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), National Rifle Association of America, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abraham Lincoln, John Kerry
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How Obama lost the war
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama was a principled opponent of the Iraq War from its beginning. But when he became president in January 2009, he was handed a war that was won. The surge had succeeded. Al-Qaida in Iraq had been routed, driven to...Tags: Japan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Germany
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This is something we must not forget
Arianna Huffington"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." It's one of Milan Kundera's most famous lines, from his novel "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting." It's one worth keeping in mind as we approach March 20, the 10th...Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Dick Cheney, Arianna Huffington, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Joel Brinkley: Self-interested leaders roil chaos in Middle East
American VoicesSen. Lindsey Graham said it best. Talking about the challenges the next secretary of defense will confront, Graham, a South Carolina Republican, warned that he will face "a world on fire." So true, and the Middle East along with the larger Islamic world...Tags: Zine el Abidine ben Ali, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Petraeus: Driven, Focused Leader Falls
The Hartford CourantDavid Petraeus achieved genuinely great things in his career, so his fall as CIA director over what he bluntly described in his resignation letter Friday as "extremely poor judgment … engaging in an extramarital affair" has the poignancy you...Tags: U.S. Army, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Rebellions, George W. Bush
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Iraqi ironies
Victor Davis HansonAmid all the stories about the ongoing violence in Syria, the most disturbing is the possibility that Syrian President Bashar Assad could either deploy the arsenal of chemical and biological weapons that his government claims it has, or provide it to...Tags: Dick Cheney, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Iraq War (2003-2011), Victor Davis Hanson
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Shifting US foreign policy reflective ofor>Cal Thomview
William PfaffPARIS -- Counterinsurgency is out. Drones, assassination teams, targeted killings and special forces are in. A New York Times report on May 27 described the "existential debate" going on inside the faculty at West Point, the national military academy....Tags: NATO, Nazi Party, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Familiar script calls for war with Iran
Arianna HuffingtonWith the war there officially "ended" and most of our troops back home, Iraq isn't getting much ink these days. But the story is far from over. Indeed, according to Wadah Khanfar, former director general of Al-Jazeera, Iraq is still the most important...Tags: Al Jazeera (tv network), Arianna Huffington, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Saudi Arabia
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McManus: An elusive victory in Iraq
With the final headlong withdrawal this month of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to end the war. But was the nearly nine-year mission a success?
Iraq is still struggling even to ensure its own security. Its air force...Tags: U.S. Army, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq War (2003-2011), Rebellions
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Was the end of the Iraq war the top story of 2011?
Yes It is perhaps the most recent piece of "big" news of the year. And its importance overshadows all other events of 2011 — at least for Americans. When the U.S. military quietly pulled out of Iraq on Dec. 15 officials ended nearly nine years of...Tags: U.S. Military, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq War (2003-2011), Wars and Interventions
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