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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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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. ...
Odierno wants to retain a muscular US presence in Iraq, capable of assisting Iraqi troops or police, until there is clarity about the security situation. ...
18 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Iraqi president Jalal Talabani appealed Wednesday for large scale of investment by French enterprises to Iraq when addressing a main ...
Baghdad, Nov 18 (Reuters) - al Qaeda in Iraq is becoming more Iraqi and less dominated by foreigners as the insurgent group increasingly joins forces with ...
Vice President Tariq Hashimi, a Sunni, carried out his threat to veto the law because, he said, it does not provide for enough seats to represent Iraqi ...
military officials say the 77th fighter squadron from Shaw Air Force Base outside Sumter is preparing for a deployment to Iraq in January. ...
... military base in Texas, have raised questions about combat stress and the mental health of forces stretched to their limits in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...
Two Fort Carson memorial services today honors 15 soldiers who died last month in Iraq. October was the deadliest month for the military post since American ...
According to the Iraqi government, Syria is responsible for 90% of the insurgent violence still wracking the country. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ...



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