• 2. The war against Russia is the continuation and intensification of the drive for US global hegemony that was initiated with the first invasion of Iraq in 1990-91 and intensified following the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991. (wsws.org)
  • The Gulf War (1991) and the following sanctions added to Iraq's economic difficulties. (worldinfozone.com)
  • The original Persian Gulf War was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and ended in Iraq's defeat by a U.S.-led coalition in 1991. (britannica.com)
  • Wars such as the Vietnam war (1955 - 1975), the Gulf War (August 1990 - February 1991), and the Iraq War (2003-2011) were also notable for the number of deaths caused by friendly fire. (opinionfront.com)
  • These ranged from international opposition to the Gulf War (1991) all the way through to the Global Campaign on Military Spending (2014 onwards). (ipb.org)
  • Despite the end of the Cold War, those engaged deeply in the nuclear issues knew that - even with substantial reductions on the way (INF 1987, START 1 1991) - the risk to life on earth was far from removed. (ipb.org)
  • Official Iraqi government statistics show that, prior to the outbreak of the First Gulf War in 1991, the rate of cancer cases in Iraq was 40 out of 100,000 people. (dahrjamail.net)
  • The larger collection in the Digital Repository, includes posters and flyers protesting the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), the Bosnian War (1992-1995), the Iraq War (2003-2011), and various peace movements on campus. (uc.edu)
  • Iraq subsequently agreed to the United Nations' demands on 28 February 1991. (veteransparkhc.org)
  • The war officially concluded with the signing of the armistice on 11 April 1991. (veteransparkhc.org)
  • The lethality of war wounds has decreased from 24% during operation Desert Storm (1991) to an unprecedented 10% during operation Iraqi Freedom. (medscape.com)
  • This led to the Gulf War and the Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. (worldinfozone.com)
  • At the Battle of Medina Ridge, our Gulf War warriors upheld the Corps. (jamesmredwine.com)
  • The Iraq War is also called the Second Persian Gulf War. (britannica.com)
  • At the end of the Persian Gulf War, Iraq accepted a cease-fire agreement put forward by the United Nations (UN). (britannica.com)
  • When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. (swanlibraries.net)
  • The Gulf War has just ended and amidst the partying and confusion, four American soldiers, determined to take home more than sand fleas, go off into the Iraqi desert to embark on a treasure hunt for a cache of millions in stolen Kuwaiti bullion. (swanlibraries.net)
  • A Gulf War spy story featuring Mike Martin, an Arabic-speaking British agent. (swanlibraries.net)
  • The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, was a protracted armed conflict began in 2001 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. (veteransparkhc.org)
  • The Gulf War began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 and ended with the Liberation of Kuwait by Coalition forces. (veteransparkhc.org)
  • Going back to Ronald Reagan's surprise attack on Grenada in 1983, presidents have typically had at least a slim majority of the country on their side, with larger offensives, such as the 1990 Gulf War and the start of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, garnering significant public support. (americannewsonline.com)
  • This was also due to the wars in which Basra's territory was the main theatre: the eight-year war with Iran (1980-8), the second Gulf war (1990-1) and the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The Second Gulf War. (lu.se)
  • The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the start of the Second Gulf War induced a stream of various countermeasures against Iraq, one of the principal being different forms of economic sanctions. (lu.se)
  • In Iraq, the protest movement began in October 2019, with an agenda demanding the end of the ethno-sectarian quota-based political system known as muhasasa that was put into place in the country after the US-led invasion in 2003. (iemed.org)
  • The ship has seen active service during the 1990's Bosnian War and 2003 Invasion of Iraq. (rosswatton.com)
  • 5. Though the war has been instigated by US imperialism, the SEP unequivocally opposes the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. (wsws.org)
  • 6. As the war waged by the US and NATO is a continuation of imperialist expansion, the invasion of Ukraine is a continuation of the reactionary policies of the Russian oligarchy and its repudiation of the entire progressive heritage of the Russian Revolution and of the democratic principles embodied in the original founding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922. (wsws.org)
  • On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah , New Baghdad , during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq . (wikipedia.org)
  • The middle of the seventh century saw the Arab invasion of Iraq and the introduction of Islam. (worldinfozone.com)
  • A US-led invasion of Iraq took place in 2003. (worldinfozone.com)
  • A young soldier now deployed as one of the 1,600 non-boots-on-the-ground there might have been eight years old when the 2003 invasion took place. (juancole.com)
  • In 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. (docudharma.com)
  • Moreover, it doesn't work - Iraq is now producing less oil than it did before the invasion. (docudharma.com)
  • In 1990, after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the US military gained its first foothold, establishing bases in Saudi Arabia and other countries. (docudharma.com)
  • The War in Afghanistan (or the U.S. War in Afghanistan), code named Operation Enduring Freedom (2001-2014) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (2015-present), followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of October 7, 2001 when the U.S. and allies successfully drove out the Taliban from power in order to dismantle al-Qaeda and to deny it a safe base of operations in Afghanistan. (veteransparkhc.org)
  • The invasion began on March 20, 2003, with the U.S., joined by the United Kingdom and several coalition allies, launching a (shock and awe) bombing campaign. (veteransparkhc.org)
  • Assuming command of United States Central Command in 1988 General Schwarzkopf was called on to respond to the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 by the forces of Iraq under Saddam Hussein. (veteransparkhc.org)
  • Iraq's Speaker of Parliament, Mohammed al-Halbousi (Iraq's leading Sunni Arab politician) condemned the US assassinations as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty (4 January 2020): "Put an end to U.S. presence [in Iraq]… Yesterday's targeting of a military commander in Iraq's armed forces near Baghdad international airport is a flagrant breach of sovereignty and violation of international agreements. (just-international.org)
  • The Iran-Iraq War, which began in 1980, lasted nearly eight years taking a heavy toll on Iraq's economy. (worldinfozone.com)
  • Baghdad fears any form of Basra's escape from central government control, given the serious threat posed to Iraq's finances that are dependent on Basra's oil and its ports, from where Iraq exports the crude extracted from its territory. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , U.S. President George W. Bush argued that disarming Iraq was a renewed priority, He insisted that Iraq continued to possess weapons of mass destruction and said that Saddam might provide weapons to terrorist groups. (britannica.com)
  • The Afghanistan War, also referred to as the War in Afghanistan or Operation Enduring Freedom, is the period between 2001 - 2014 in which the United States of America invaded Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. (american-historama.org)
  • The Afghanistan War started on October 7, 2001 in response to the 9/11 terror attacks. (american-historama.org)
  • Clinton's Grand Strategy (Bloomsbury, 2015) Hillary Rising (Biteback, 2016), and Clinton's War on Terror ( Lynne Rienner, 2018). (tufts.edu)
  • In November 2002 the UN passed a new resolution demanding that Iraq readmit inspectors. (britannica.com)
  • Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. ISBN 0283484829 1990 The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish. (wikipedia.org)
  • From the monarchy in Iraq in the 1920s to the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, Basra's political conditions did not allow for secession, nor for the establishment of a pattern of self-governance or for any notable to take over. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In August 1990 Iraq occupied Kuwait and failed to follow a UN demand to leave the country. (worldinfozone.com)
  • Kuwait then used this technology to drill into Iraq and draw oil from an oil field several miles from the border. (antiwar.com)
  • Within days, U.S. and British ground forces (with smaller groups from several other countries) invaded Iraq from Kuwait to the south. (britannica.com)
  • After Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, a lot of units from the U.S. deployed to Saudi Arabia, and the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing deployed two squadrons in the very first hours of that deployment. (knowitall.org)
  • The kingdom has had a friendly regime in Iraq since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait a quarter century ago and threatened to keep marching into Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province. (iranpressnews.com)
  • Major events in the aftermath include anti-Saddam Hussein uprisings in Iraq, massacres against the Kurds by the regime, Iraq formally recognizing the sovereignty of Kuwait in 1994, and eventually ending its cooperation with the United Nations Special Commission in 1998. (veteransparkhc.org)
  • All the regimes that successively governed Iraq were highly centralised, despite adopting constitutions that implicitly mentioned the possibility of implementing decentralised administration - such as the Interim Constitution of 1970 and 1991's draft constitution of the Republic of Iraq. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Following the US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Shiite Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi PM, the Iraqi Parliament Speaker and the Iraqi Parliament have demanded that the US Alliance forces leave Iraq. (just-international.org)
  • In central Iraq the Republican Guard-an elite military force closely connected to Saddam-was deployed to defend Baghdad , the capital. (britannica.com)
  • Maliki's Shia government in Baghdad, which was already ignoring American entreaties to be inclusive, was hell-bent on ensuring that there would be no Sunni "sons" in its Iraq. (juancole.com)
  • This exhibit focuses in on two specific time periods in campus history that bookend ARB's protest collections - protests against the War in Vietnam and protests related to a white supremacist wanting to speak on campus in 2016. (uc.edu)
  • Musings On Iraq was started in 2008 to explain the politics, economics, security, culture and history of Iraq via original articles and interviews. (blogspot.com)
  • The Korean War kicked off in June 1950, and in July 1950, they deployed fighters to England where a third of our bombers were stationed to deter the Soviet Union from expanding to a wider conflict. (knowitall.org)
  • These figures steadily decreased to 0.7% during World War II, 0.2% during the Korean War, and 0.002% during the Vietnam War. (medscape.com)
  • During the fourth week of November the Islamic State was absent from Iraq once again. (blogspot.com)
  • The Iraqi Parliament passed the following resolution (5 January 2020): "The government commits to revoke its request for assistance from the international coalition fighting Islamic State due to the end of military operations in Iraq and the achievement of victory. (just-international.org)
  • The Saudis support the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria but they worry its defeat will only be the next stage for further Shiite and Iranian domination of the Iraqi polity. (iranpressnews.com)
  • In 1955, 10 years after World War II ended, the Chicago Daily Tribune published a major investigation of bases, including a map dotted with little stars and triangles, most of them clustered in Europe and the Pacific. (motherjones.com)
  • The policy of the Ukrainian government is based on the promotion of outright fascist groups like the Azov Battalion and the rehabilitation of Stepan Bandera and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the Nazi collaborators during the Second World War. (wsws.org)
  • In 1943, during the Second World War, Iraq declared war on the Axis forces, aligning itself with Britain. (worldinfozone.com)
  • The US Air Force has since the end of the second world war been regarded as the supreme air force of the world, but with its increased spending in the middle east and the Russian military budget having increased a lot over the last two decades, how does the air forces look compared to each other? (migflug.com)
  • The Iranians launched missile attacks on 2 American air bases in Iraq that were carefully designed as a retaliatory "slap on the face" without any American casualties that would have brought massively deadly and disproportionate retribution from nuclear terrorist America - and indeed fortunately nobody was killed. (just-international.org)
  • Bush and his administration said that Iraq supported al-Qaeda , the terrorist group behind the September 11 attacks. (britannica.com)
  • The climate crisis, war, attacks on reproductive rights, book bans-these threats aren't looming. (democracynow.org)
  • After the collapse of the Turkish Empire, Britain took control of all of Iraq through the occupation of Basra in 1914, but despite the post-war 'mandate' assigned to them by the League of Nations it was obvious that it would not be handed to its indigenous inhabitants . (lse.ac.uk)
  • Following the imposition of the British mandate on the parts declared a state in Iraq, the notables, dignitaries and sheikhs of Basra were aspiring to separate Basra from Iraq and declare it a state or a kingdom, or failing this for Britain to choose an Iraqi king from among the Basrawi families. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In 1928, the Basra elites repeated the attempt to obtain the right to establish a region with broad powers within the State of Iraq. (lse.ac.uk)
  • This second edition of the text updates it to take account of the significant events since then, notably the second Iraq War and its regional consequences and the Arab Uprising-that is, two decades of events that have had a significant impact on the region. (jadaliyya.com)
  • Iraq must avoid becoming a battlefield or a side in any regional or international conflict"[2]. (just-international.org)
  • The Iraq War was a conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases. (britannica.com)
  • The war drained the resources of both countries towards the point of bankruptcy, and for Iraq the immense foreign debt accumulated over the years to fund the conflict left the state in a deplorable financial situation at the end of hostilities. (lu.se)
  • Saddam Hussein took over from Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr as President of Iraq in 1979. (worldinfozone.com)
  • However, Saddam Hussein , the leader of Iraq, managed to retain power by harshly suppressing uprisings of the country's minority Kurds and its majority Shiʿite Arabs. (britannica.com)
  • He gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq or face removal by force. (britannica.com)
  • Saddam refused to leave Iraq. (britannica.com)
  • The greatest resistance to U.S. and British forces in southern Iraq came from groups of guerrilla fighters loyal to Saddam, known as the Fedayeen. (britannica.com)
  • In 1963, the CIA orchestrated the coup in Iraq that eventually brought Saddam Hussein and the Ba'athist Party to power. (docudharma.com)
  • In 2003, King Abdullah thought the American decision to oust Saddam without having another Sunni strongman to succeed him was rash and dangerous. (iranpressnews.com)
  • In 1990, Damascus sent troops to defend the kingdom against Saddam and together the two settled the Lebanese civil war (at the expense of Gen. Michel Aoun). (iranpressnews.com)
  • No-one is accused of 'genocide denial' if they present Iraq Body Count's (IBC) figure of 100,000 reported civilian deaths by violence since 2003 as the likely total number of Iraqis who have died through all causes. (medialens.org)
  • For Russia to continue in Ukraine, the Kremlin must fight a real war and knock out the government in Kiev and the governmental and civilian infrastructure that permits Ukraine to conduct war without Russian interference and which permits supply avenues for ever more dangerous Western weapons to be acquired by Ukraine. (thesaker.is)
  • How did that sort of "real war", the sort that "knocked out the government and destroyed the governmental and civilian infrastructure" in Iraq worked out for you? (thesaker.is)
  • Chapter eight assesses the impact of the American world hegemon's drive to establish a Pax Americana in the region in the 1990-2010 period. (jadaliyya.com)
  • Of particular concern to many in the region is the possibility that the United States may expand the current campaign against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban to target Iraq or possibly other Muslim countries on the State Department's terrorism list (such as Iran, Syria, or Libya). (docudharma.com)
  • The war has since mostly involved U.S. and allied Afghan government troops battling Taliban insurgents. (veteransparkhc.org)
  • Fratricide is relatively common in the military, and every major war has had numerous instances of it, on both sides of the warring factions. (opinionfront.com)
  • The Ottoman Empire took control in the region in 1534 and assumed direct rule of Iraq from 1831 until the First World War (1914-1918). (worldinfozone.com)
  • That is, it simply wasn't possible for the US to explain why the Pentagon refused to partner with the Russians without admitting that i) the government views Assad, Russia, and Iran as a greater threat than ISIS, and ii) Washington and its regional allies don't necessarily want to see Sunni extremism wiped out in Syria and Iraq. (candobetter.net)
  • When the 2011 revolution began in Syria, the Saudis quickly began to assist the Sunni forces. (iranpressnews.com)
  • The United States and its followers in European countries, such as France and Britain, and their proxies in the region such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others, have been provoking Syria since they began their terrorist war against Syria eight years ago, in order to carry out their agendas on Syrian territory. (candobetter.net)
  • The protests that, in 2019, threatened the regimes of these four Arab countries need to be understood within the context of a long-standing cycle of protests that began in the region in December 2010, when the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a young fruit vendor in Tunisia, unleashed a wave of anti-authoritarian uprisings that were echoed in other countries in the region (Hernando de Larramendi, 2011). (iemed.org)
  • In July 2007 Iraq won football's Asian Cup with a 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia. (worldinfozone.com)
  • But for most of the 1980s, Saudi Arabia and Iraq were close partners in containing the revolutionary wave from Iran. (iranpressnews.com)
  • Irrespective of its recent agreement with Iran - and the accompanying moderate diplomatic rhetoric - Saudi Arabia does not subscribe to the "New Middle East" and "end of interstate wars" Pollyannaish state of mind. (theettingerreport.com)
  • While the reasons behind the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq may be complex, can anyone doubt that we would not be there today if Iraq exported coffee instead of oil? (docudharma.com)
  • Biden's declaration that Putin cannot remain in power revealed the basic aims of the war: the removal of the present regime in Russia, its replacement by an American-controlled puppet, and the breakup of Russia itself-in what is referred to as "decolonizing Russia"-into a dozen or more impotent statelets whose valuable resources will be owned and exploited by US and European finance capital. (wsws.org)
  • 9. First, the claim that the war is being waged to preserve "democracy" is exposed by the fact the Ukrainian government is a corrupt regime of oligarchs, beholden to American and European imperialism, and resulting from the February 2014 US-backed coup spearheaded by far-right organizations. (wsws.org)
  • 1861: Civil War: Keeping Ft. Sumter open after South Carolina secession was a provocation. (antiwar.com)
  • This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into military and economic policies during World War II, to include the significance of military bases in South Carolina. (knowitall.org)
  • By collaborating on the fight against Al Qaeda, the Arab regimes - which, in many cases, had updated their authoritarianism in the wake of the Cold War through processes of controlled political liberalization - were able to circumvent the pressures of the United States and its 'Great Middle East' project, through which the Bush Administration sought to export democratic values as a tool for combatting terrorism. (iemed.org)
  • 1. The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) denounces and condemns the imperialist proxy war in Ukraine instigated by the US and its NATO allies. (wsws.org)
  • While rejecting claims that Russia is "imperialist"-a definition embraced by the pseudo-left agents of the Pentagon and NATO to legitimize their support for the proxy war-the SEP gives no support whatsoever to the "national defense" policies of the reactionary Russian ruling class that came to power through the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990-91 and the systematic plundering of its assets. (wsws.org)
  • Along the way we can highlight participation (still ongoing) in international formations such as the World Social Forum, the Asia-Europe Peoples' Forum, the European Network Against Arms Trade, the No to War, No to NATO! (ipb.org)
  • On August 9, 2003 NATO assumed responsibility for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission. (american-historama.org)
  • The fact that the war has widened is now understood by Russian TV hosts who say the proxy war in Ukraine between the US and Russia is over and Russia now faces a real direct war with the US and its NATO puppets. (thesaker.is)
  • As someone who cares deeply about this country, I find it beyond belief that Washington has again plunged into the swamp of the Sunni-Shia mess in Iraq. (juancole.com)
  • In an afternoon, we definitively failed to reconcile the millennium-old Sunni-Shia divide we had sparked into ethnic-cleansing-style life in 2003-2004, even if the score was carefully stage managed into a tie by the 82nd Airborne soldiers with whom I worked. (juancole.com)
  • Contraceptive prevalence is still relatively low (58%) in Iraq compared with other countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and the unmet need (12%) and total fertility (4.2 children per woman) rates are still high. (who.int)
  • In Iraq, prevalence of contraceptive use is 58% (44% modern, 14% traditional), which is lower than the global average (63%) and also lower than other countries in the Region such as Jordan (63%) and Tunisia (67%) (3). (who.int)
  • The adoption of a federal system was launched by the powers forming the new state structure after 2003, and the conversion of any governorate into a region in the Iraqi constitution . (lse.ac.uk)
  • The Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress collects, preserves and makes accessible the firsthand recollections of U.S. military veterans who served from World War I through more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand what they saw, did and felt during their service. (loc.gov)
  • Each Star Wars movie makes so much money that, with apologies to Fredric Jameson, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the second most successful franchise in cinema history. (uconn.edu)
  • Leading Iraqi Shiite politician and Iraqi PM Abdul Mahdi stated (3 January 2020): "The assassination of an Iraqi military commander is an aggression on Iraq as a state, government and people" [1]. (just-international.org)
  • The guy in the middle is George W. Bush Jr. on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln where he delivered his "Mission Accomplished" speech regarding the illegal war of aggression against Iraq on May 1, 2003. (thesaker.is)
  • after its Update in World War I. instituting strengthening by Nazi Germany in 1938 and federal prehistory by the poor Allies in 1945, Austria's monarch opened interested for a riot. (tassenkuchenblog.de)
  • 3. With extreme recklessness, American imperialism is risking a nuclear war that could result in the extinction of human life on the planet. (wsws.org)
  • Furthermore, while claiming to uphold "human rights" against the "war criminal" Putin, US imperialism is responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent civilians, the largest refugee crisis since World War Two, and the bolstering of dictatorships around the world, such as its Saudi Arabian allies. (wsws.org)
  • The end of the Cold War ushered in a particularly complex decade. (ipb.org)
  • The bloc of the loss and the communism of the Cold War ruled for economic experience in 1990. (tassenkuchenblog.de)
  • In a recent op-ed piece , New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof made a trenchant point: "The United States maintains troops at more than 560 bases and other sites abroad, many of them a legacy of a world war that ended 65 years ago. (motherjones.com)
  • The fears of these leaders were realized when the US invaded Iraq in 2003, built numerous military bases and occupied the country while continually trying to gain a casus belli for an attack on Iran. (docudharma.com)
  • Yemen 2015: Not really bad intel, but notably knew war would be "long, bloody and indecisive," launched it anyway, just to "placate the Saudis. (antiwar.com)
  • The US, UK, Australia, Canada and Germany have rejected the Iraqi Parliament's Quit Iraq demand, with the US threatening to instantly collapse the Iraqi economy by a banking freeze if Iraq insists on US Alliance withdrawal from its territory. (just-international.org)
  • The challenge for civilization is otherwise remarkably framed by the massive investment focus on missiles and the threats they constitute -- with the ultimate threat of nuclear war, as tracked by the Doomsday Clock now at seconds to midnight. (laetusinpraesens.org)
  • It was a carefully calculated redeployment of US military assets on the eve of the instigation of war with Russia. (wsws.org)
  • During the next twenty years Iraq had a number of military rulers. (worldinfozone.com)
  • In the first phase, in March-April 2003, troops from the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq and defeated its military. (britannica.com)
  • After violence began to decline in 2007, the United States gradually reduced its military presence in Iraq. (britannica.com)
  • Fallujah, Iraq - Contamination from Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions and other military-related pollution is suspected of causing a sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases, and other illnesses throughout much of Iraq. (dahrjamail.net)
  • Russia's military operation in Ukraine, a response to a larger compound war that had percolated for several years, has been the subject of much quasi analyses. (thesaker.is)
  • Questions like: How do you measure "success" in a war, or in a battle, or in a military operation? (thesaker.is)
  • I wanted to offer a wry chuckle before we headed into the heavy stuff about Iraq, so I tried to start this article with a suitably ironic formulation. (juancole.com)
  • The 'war on terrorism' launched by the Bush administration placed security issues at the top of the international agenda. (iemed.org)
  • Though inspections resumed, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared in early 2003 that Iraq was continuing to hinder the process and that it still had prohibited weapons. (britannica.com)
  • On March 17, 2003, Bush declared an end to diplomacy and issued an ultimatum. (britannica.com)
  • There is a modest stele naming those soldiers with Posey County connections who served in the Revolutionary War and an impressive statue honoring all who served in the Civil War. (jamesmredwine.com)
  • Regardless, the United States dropped a regiment of paratroopers into northern Iraq, and U.S. Special Forces soldiers joined with Kurdish peshmerga fighters to seize the cities of Kirkuk on April 10 and Mosul on April 11. (britannica.com)
  • The U.S. and allied air strikes against Libya in 2011, by comparison, garnered just 47% support, according to Gallup. (americannewsonline.com)
  • 2011 Hitchens vs. Blair: Be it Resolved, Religion is a Force of Good in the World (co-author with Tony Blair). (wikipedia.org)
  • Gangster Trump has justified the assassinations on the basis of non-specific and non-disclosed security threats against Americans, this being reminiscent of George W. Bush's (false) assertions (backed by UK PM Tony Blair and Australia's PM John Howard) in 2003 about Iraqi possession of (actually non-existent) "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMD). (just-international.org)
  • The UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair committed UK forces to the war. (worldinfozone.com)
  • The Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi protested continuing violations of Iraqi sovereignty by the Americans in a phone call to US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, the Iraq PM's office stating (9 January 2020): "The prime minister said American forces had entered Iraq and drones are flying in its airspace without permission from Iraqi authorities, and this was a violation of the bilateral agreements" [4]. (just-international.org)
  • In the much longer second phase, U.S.-led forces occupied Iraq while Iraq tried to rebuild itself and its government. (britannica.com)
  • According to the New York Times (11 January 2020): "Mr. Trump issued bellicose threats to destroy Iran if it retaliated, including cultural treasures in violation of international law, touching off international outrage and forcing his own defense secretary to publicly disavow the threat, saying it would be a war crime. (just-international.org)
  • The Containment of Iraq, Perception of Threat. (lu.se)
  • The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in Iraq is 37.53 while in Bulgaria it is 15.08. (ifitweremyhome.com)