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The Hindu
March 3, 2018
But in 2003, the U.S.' attention shifted to the Iraq war, and Taliban was plotting a comeback with help from the ISI. The Afghan intelligence ... Following intelligence pileup, President Bush asked Ambassador Khalilzad to meet President Musharraf to discuss the accusations. “There are no Taliban here,”Ãâà...
National Catholic Reporter
March 3, 2018
A person inspects the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 31, 2017. (CNS/EPA/Ali Abbas) .... Estimates vary on the number of Iraqis killed or injured — 250,000, 500,000, more than a million — by an American military sent to war 15 years ago by George W. Bush and Congress. Neither them nor TheÃâà...
Business Insider
March 3, 2018
They see traces of former President George W. Bush in Trump's confrontational rhetoric, disdain for international opinion, clashes with allies, and withdrawal from ... and he worked with considerable success to repair US relationships with Europe after the trauma caused by the debate surrounding the invasion of Iraq.
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 23, 2018
Bush, in their view, represented the type of abrasive unilateralism that Trump exemplifies. His confrontational rhetoric, alleged disdain for international opinion, diplomatic clashes with long-standing allies, and withdrawal from international agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol and Anti-Ballistic MissileÃâà...
FRONTLINE
February 20, 2018
The Iranians blew up the Iraqi embassy, so it shouldn't have taken a lot for us to connect dots that would suggest if they would do that to the Iraqis, they would do it .... [Secretary of Defense Caspar] Weinberger disliked the whole thing, tried to block any deployment, but did succeed in a very early withdrawal.
Jordan Times
February 19, 2018
In the end, then president George W. Bush ignored American public opinion and the sage advice of senior Republican statement like former secretary of state ... From 2003 to the formal withdrawal of US fighting forces in 2011, the war took the lives of 4,500 Americans and well over 150,000 Iraqi civilians.
gulfnews.com
February 18, 2018
In the end, Bush ignored American public opinion and the sage advice of senior Republican statesmen like former secretary of state James Baker and former national ... From 2003 to the formal withdrawal of US forces in 2011, the war took the lives of 4,500 Americans and well over 150,000 Iraqi civilians.
New York Times
February 7, 2018
There have been few national celebrations for the decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Following the withdrawal of most American combat troops from Iraq in December 2011, St. Louis was the only major city that held a “Welcome Home” parade for Iraq veterans in the weeks that followed. ThousandsÃâà...
VICE News
February 7, 2018
... as “depraved,” in a speech that critics described as eerily similar to the “axis of evil” one made by George W. Bush before the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003. ... The sudden and mysterious withdrawal last Tuesday of the United States' pick for ambassador to South Korea, Georgetown University professor VictorÃâà...
Times of India
February 5, 2018
AL-ASAD AIRBASE: The US has started to reduce the number of its troops in Iraq following Baghdad's declaration of victory over the Islamic State group last ... over IS in places like the city of Mosul, some of the Shiite-led paramilitary forces with close ties to Iran have called for the withdrawal of US forces.
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