• Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona stated that "I commend General Petraeus for his honest and forthright assessment of the situation in Iraq. (wikipedia.org)
  • If the Democrats don't believe General Petraeus in his sworn testimony to Congress, how are any of them going to react as the chief executive when the military comes to them and brings them information to respond to a political or global crisis? (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • Q Gordon, is the White House trying to restrict the testimony of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker when they come here in mid-September with their latest report on the situation in Iraq? (archives.gov)
  • MR. JOHNDROE: General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will testify to the Congress in both open as well as closed sessions prior to the September 15th report. (archives.gov)
  • We know with the recent success being seen in Iraq that the Democratically controlled Congress and Senate cannot stand in the way of our continued progress and that no major shift in strategy will occur after the September testimony by General Petraeus and the president's report is given. (blogspot.com)
  • When General Petraeus betrayed us with his testimony last month, a congress member asked him what he would do if congress were to cut off funding for the occupation of Iraq and Bush were to order him to keep it going. (freepress.org)
  • 5. MoveOn:org runs full-page newspaper ads attacking U.S. generals and troops, including the integrity and honesty of the top mililtary commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, during his testimony before Congress. (blogspot.com)
  • So when General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker testified before Congress, April 8-9, 2008, both specifically denied that permanent bases were envisioned in Iraq for U.S. soldiers. (ips-dc.org)
  • However, Washington analysts claim that it makes a direct correlation between the success of US operations in the Muslim world, namely in Iraq and Afghanistan, and US support of Israel, implying that such support potentially endangers US soldiers serving in these zones. (ynetnews.com)
  • This linkage was reflected in the testimony Gen. David H. Petraeus, the military commander overseeing America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, gave before Congress. (ynetnews.com)
  • Ellsberg described the similarities with Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and the near-certainty of comparable failure. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • One member of the House who voted against the new authorization - Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California - was the one member of Congress who voted against the authorization of military force (AUMF) in Afghanistan in 2001, then, as now, because there was inadequate discussion and too many questions left unanswered. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • And if we believe that the killing of innocents on September 11 was wrong, then we need to be doing more to protect civilians and noncombatants around the world-not just in New York City and Washington but also in Iraq and Afghanistan. (uscatholic.org)
  • Nearly 30,000 veterans have suffered some kind of traumatic brain injury in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, an estimated 2,000 of them severe enough to put the warriors into comas or leave them with severe disabilities. (truthout.org)
  • Shinseki's longevity gave him ownership of - and responsibility for - the VA's myriad problems, many exacerbated by the needs of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • The VA had trouble keeping up with the number and complexity of the claims coming from veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • The lower number, she said, also reflects the fact that the size of the Army has been shrinking from the 485,000 level during the peaks of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (wkrg.com)
  • Press reports indicate that Congressional Democrats may combine the remaining $103 billion FY 2008 request and $70 billion FY 2009 placeholder into a "super supplemental" that will fund ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through early 2009. (armscontrolcenter.org)
  • Refusing to submit its full FY 2009 war funding request may have been an attempt on the part of the administration to shield the American public from the price tag of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the cost of which is projected to reach $870 billion or more by the end of 2008. (armscontrolcenter.org)
  • MATTHEW PALEVSKY, JOURNALIST, TRNN: Two months ago, The Real News covered a three-day symposium held by Iraq Veterans Against the War, where veterans from both Iraq and Afghanistan testified to their experience and why they believe the war should be ended. (therealnews.com)
  • The Bush administration was right, I think, not to devote excessive resources to Afghanistan, which is virtually without strategic significance compared with countries like Iran, Iraq and Egypt. (captainsjournal.com)
  • This testimony, presented by veterans who have witnessed firsthand the devastation of Iraq and its people, comes on the same day that Congress is expected to debate a bill extending funding for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan through 2009. (accuracy.org)
  • Winter Soldier on the Hill is taking place two months after Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, a four-day summit where hundreds of members of IVAW gathered to present testimony about their military experiences to the public. (accuracy.org)
  • But in the rush to assign blame for America's failures, the general who got things right militarily about Iraq-and spoke out publicly from the start-has been forgotten. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • WASHINGTON - The national commander of the nation's largest organization of combat veterans fully agrees with President Bush that much progress has occurred in Iraq over the past 15 months, and after two days of testimony by America's top general and diplomat in Iraq, he believes lawmakers in Congress are also starting to realize that, too. (vfw.org)
  • October 2, 2014) - At a recent talk at the National Press Club in Washington DC, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971, says he believes there's not one person in the Pentagon who would agree that President Obama can achieve his aim of destroying ISIS in Iraq and Syria with air strikes, along with training and arming local military forces. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • That authorization is still on the books, and the Obama Administration still cites it (along with the AUMF 2002), 13 years later, as sufficient authority for further escalation in Syria and Iraq. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • ERBIL, Iraq -Just days before Christmas, a leading human rights lawmaker, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), went to Iraq to witness first-hand the plight of Christians who escaped ISIS into the Erbil area of the Kurdistan region and the failure of the Obama Administration to help them. (csce.gov)
  • Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, Barack Obama predicted yesterday Congress will not directly challenge President Bush's plan, will focus instead on putting a ceiling on the number of troops deployed. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • You have to at least give people a one-year break for every year served in Iraq,' Obama said. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • Why Won't the Obama Administration Label the Massacre of Christians in Iraq, Syria Genocide? (dailysignal.com)
  • But with Obama recognizing Congress' role in war-related decision-making, the ensuing debate in the House and Senate-and the external, surrounding debate that could well affect congressional deliberations-will shape how the United States responds to events in Syria . (motherjones.com)
  • In testimony to a U.S. congressional human rights commission, two prominent human rights experts decried the ongoing repression of the Catholic Church by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and urged additional action by the U.S. to oppose Ortega's regime. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • But Shinseki quietly stood his ground following his February Congressional testimony. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • In 2002, he appeared before Congress as a private citizen to join a Congressional panel looking into the alleged threat from Iraq. (blogspot.com)
  • The Congressional Research Service estimates that DOD could continue to finance war costs for an additional one to two months by using currently available tools, such as transfer authority, to provide additional resources to the Army if Congress has not passed the pending FY 2008 supplemental request by July 2008. (armscontrolcenter.org)
  • On Thursday, May 15, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War will testify before members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. (accuracy.org)
  • The Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq (sometimes referred to as the Petraeus Report) was a two-part report released on September 10, 2007 by General of the Multinational force in Iraq David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on progress by the Iraqi government in the ongoing Iraq War. (wikipedia.org)
  • TEHRAN (PIN) Iran has presented 270 papers at world oil congress, ranking first in this regard f. (wn.com)
  • No "strategic significance compared with…Iran, Iraq and Egypt. (captainsjournal.com)
  • Far from establishing that Iraq was any threat to this nation or apologizing for having clearly lied about it, this gang is using almost identical lies to push this nation toward an attack on Iran. (freepress.org)
  • Given that the Assad Regime has been a major supplier of insurgents and armaments into Iraq since the 2003 invasion, and actively does the bidding of Iran in Lebanon, the U.S. has a keen interest in seeing him toppled. (captainsjournal.com)
  • Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday he is "very concerned" about reports that Iran and Shiite militias are taking over the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and potentially fueling sectarian strife in that nation. (militarytimes.com)
  • The U.S. military typically considers Iran an adversary, but their two militaries share the same goal in Iraq - the defeat of the Sunni Islamic extremists who have seized large parts of western and northern Iraq. (militarytimes.com)
  • Iran and its proxies have been inside Iraq since 2004," Dempsey told the senators. (militarytimes.com)
  • Congress, I believe, needs to fund our troops by Memorial Day…Failure to act quickly could result in an unfortunate replay of what happened last December, when furlough warnings were issued by the Department of Defense. (armscontrolcenter.org)
  • The Department of Defense (DOD) told Congress that the Army could finance its Operations & Maintenance costs until the beginning of July 2008, and its Military Personnel costs until about late June, using funds already appropriated by Congress to date. (armscontrolcenter.org)
  • The committee is hearing testimony global security issues and President Obama's FY2016 Department of Defense budget request. (militarytimes.com)
  • The New York Times noted on Sept. 18 that only a third of those voting on authorizing American advisers, arms, and trainers for Syrian rebels were in Congress the last time there was a vote on war, which was for Iraq, in 2002. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • And the next year, with Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, she helped organize 133 votes in the House against the AUMF 2002 on Iraq. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • Like Byrd and Kennedy in 2002, I'm calling on people in comparable positions to save themselves from such remorse, that they didn't do what they could to warn and inform Congress and the public now, before decisive escalations occur. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • In 2002, there were as many as 1.4 million Christians in Iraq. (csce.gov)
  • Yet, the November 2007 NIE is the only one I know of that deserves unambiguous credit for stopping an unnecessary war, one that could have been even more disastrous than the Bush administration's excellent adventure in Iraq. (consortiumnews.com)
  • He's one of them - a disabled veteran who lost part of his right foot to a mine in Vietnam, a soldier who riled his superiors in the Bush years by telling Congress the U.S. needed more troops in Iraq than the administration wanted. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • But his words proved prophetic - and subsequent military leaders acknowledged as much when President George W. Bush ordered a "surge" of troops to Iraq. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Bush also urged Congress to authorize the use of military tribunals and to amend the War Crimes Act. (globalissues.org)
  • A war of naked aggression, what Bush did to Iraq is a capital crime under US Codes, prohibited by the Nuremberg Principles which loom like a specter over his criminal administration. (blogspot.com)
  • With nine months left in office, the Bush administration has opened negotiations with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that are expected to set parameters within which future relationships between Iraq and the United States will be conducted. (ips-dc.org)
  • Moreover, as a harbinger of what the administration hopes will come out of its discussions with Baghdad, even as Bush was signing the latest bill banning permanent bases in Iraq, his Office of Management and Budget was compiling the president's budget for the 2009 fiscal year including requests in the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars destined for military construction throughout Iraq. (ips-dc.org)
  • In fact, Bush misappropriated funds to build bases and move troops and equipment to invade Iraq over five years ago. (freepress.org)
  • But Bush would keep it going, and Congress would have two choices. (freepress.org)
  • Though Crocker acknowledged slow political progress in many areas, and a lack of progress on many important pieces of legislation, he argued that, "a secure, stable democratic Iraq at peace with its neighbors is attainable. (wikipedia.org)
  • Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker came to Washington this week to update Congress on the security situation in Iraq, and to make recommendations to the administration on The Way Forward strategy. (vfw.org)
  • In contrast to their last appearance before Congress seven months ago, Petraeus and Crocker came armed with 15 months of data to prove that forward progress is being made in Iraq. (vfw.org)
  • The progress is real but fragile," answered Petraeus during questioning, a response that was echoed by Crocker, who said "Almost everything about Iraq is hard, but hard does not mean hopeless. (vfw.org)
  • Iraq Veterans Against the War was founded in 2004 to give those who have served in the military since September 11, 2001 a way to come together and speak out against an unjust, illegal and unwinnable occupation. (therealnews.com)
  • Thus administration officials can testify, as they did repeatedly during the hearing just referenced, that the United States will have no permanent bases in Iraq because their "state of mind" is that the bases are non-permanent. (ips-dc.org)
  • The subpoena orders Rice to testify about forged documents that were used by the president to claim Iraq had tried to purchase uranium in Africa. (freepress.org)
  • Millard will testify on endemic racism during his tour of Iraq, including among high-ranking Army officers. (accuracy.org)
  • Despite allegations that Petraeus' report would be written by the White House, Petraeus insisted that he had written this testimony himself, without it having "been cleared by, nor shared with, anyone in the Pentagon, the White House, or Congress. (wikipedia.org)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon misled Congress by using inaccurate or vague information about sexual assault cases in an effort to blunt support for a Senate bill that would make a major change in how the military handles allegations of sexual misconduct, an Associated Press investigation found. (allgov.com)
  • There also is nothing in the records that supports the primary reason the Pentagon told Congress about the cases in the first place: To cast top military brass as hard-nosed crime fighters who insisted on taking the cases to trial after civilian law enforcement said no. (allgov.com)
  • Former Navy helicopter pilot Lt. Paula Coughlin, a member of the group's board of directors, called on Congress to hold hearings on what she called 'this latest deception. (allgov.com)
  • As Army chief of staff in 2003, Shinseki bluntly told Congress that it would take a sustained presence of several hundred thousand troops to secure Iraq after the U.S. invasion, an estimate far higher than Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld used to sell the public on American intervention. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • While other top military brass were ducking for cover, former Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki put his career on the line to defy Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and tell the truth about the danger of going to war in Iraq with too few troops. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • In response to a question posed to him at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on how many troops would be needed in Iraq, General Shinseki replied, "Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably…a figure that would be required. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • Some of the higher-end predictions that we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq, are wildly off the mark," Wolfowitz declared. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • TPMmuckraker's Spencer Ackerman has been counting coalition members with troops on the ground and has been able to find only 34 - many of whom have just a minor presence in Iraq. (blogspot.com)
  • Congress has heard from the Generals and the politicians - now it's time they heard from the troops," said Kelly Dougherty, Executive Director of IVAW and former Military Police Sergeant. (accuracy.org)
  • The total fighting force of Iranian-backed militias and Iraqi regular forces was estimated at up to 30,000, making it the largest operation in Iraq since the U.S. sent more troops to Iraq and began airstrikes last year. (militarytimes.com)
  • About 2,700 U.S. troops are now in Iraq, most of them providing training and assistance to Iraqi security forces. (militarytimes.com)
  • Older Democrats recalled with bitterness their vote to back the invasion of Iraq, a vote that ended many careers. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • An example of this is the blaming of the people of Iraq for the blood-drenched debacle that has resulted from the illegal and immoral invasion of their nation. (twoday.net)
  • Other big lies in our recent past include the notion that climate change is nothing but a Chinese hoax, that Russia was responsible for Hillary Clinton's electoral defeat in 2016, and that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was necessary because that country's leader, Saddam Hussein, had something to do with the 9/11 attacks (he didn't! (tomdispatch.com)
  • This Christmas season, the survival of Christians in Iraq, where they have lived for almost 2,000 years, is at stake," said Smith, who chairs both the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the House panel on global human rights and international organizations. (csce.gov)
  • Most of the Christians who survived ISIS fled to the Erbil area, which now hosts more than 70,000 internally displaced Christians, almost a third of all Christians in Iraq. (csce.gov)
  • concluding, "We need to get out of Iraq, for that country's sake as well as our own. (wikipedia.org)
  • After Petraeus' testimony, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada argued the General's "plan is just more of the same" and "is neither a drawdown or a change in mission that we need. (wikipedia.org)
  • The way to stop funding the occupation of Iraq is for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to announce on Monday that they will not bring to the floor any more bills to fund the occupation. (freepress.org)
  • How do U.S. actions in Vietnam compare with what the US is doing today, with advisers in Iraq and air strikes in Iraq and Syria, to destroy ISIS? (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • I hope that President-Elect Trump will act urgently to make sure his Administration helps these Christians with the funds Congress has approved for survivors of ISIS atrocities. (csce.gov)
  • When ISIS entered northern Iraq and secured the city of Mosul in June 2014, Christians were a primary target. (dailysignal.com)
  • The VFW national commander said it also appeared during the question and answer sessions that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were finally able to see beyond Iraq and address the larger picture of Middle East stability, and the impact the high operations tempo was having on military readiness, training and equipment. (vfw.org)
  • Photos emerged Monday on social media showing Iranian Quds Force commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq, directing Shiite militias in their fight against IS militants. (militarytimes.com)
  • As such, he recommended a gradual drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq, with a goal of reaching pre-surge troop levels by July 2008. (wikipedia.org)
  • On this day 11 years ago, then - General Lloyd J. Austin III cased the colors of the U.S. Forces - Iraq, officially marking the end of Operation New Dawn. (vfw.org)
  • Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified he will recommend US ground forces in Iraq if and when air power alone is not sufficient. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • They're just not getting what they deserve and what's available," said Karen Bohlinger, whose son suffers from a severe brain injury he sustained as a special forces officer in Iraq. (truthout.org)
  • It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in a post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • There has been none of the record in Iraq of ethnic militia fighting one another that produced so much bloodshed and permanent scars in Bosnia, along with a continuing requirement for large peacekeeping forces to separate those militias. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • The main thrust of the security document reportedly will be a traditional status of forces agreement (SOFA) that defines the extent to which Iraq's laws will apply to U.S. personnel in Iraq. (ips-dc.org)
  • Our approach to combating ISIL in Iraq is to work with the Iraqi security forces and a multisectarian government that takes a multisectarian approach to defeating ISIL," he said. (militarytimes.com)
  • The good news from Iraq just keeps coming, we recently saw the political progress that we have been so insistent on, and we have seen Democratic and Republican politicians returning from Iraq with reports of amazing progress and today we see that al-Sadr, being so weakened since the surge began has declared a suspension or " freezing " of his Mahdi Army and all violent acts. (blogspot.com)
  • It's a very, very timely and important question asked of the most important person in the country you could ask it to, and this is the answer: The dirty little secret, Charles, is that if one of these Democrats becomes the chief executive in 2009, we're not leaving Iraq, and the military, whatever they tell President Clinton, will be what she goes by. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • Ironically, the basing debate is more of a U.S. domestic controversy that pits Democrats in Congress against Republicans in Congress and the White House than an issue between the United States and Iraq. (ips-dc.org)
  • Netanyahu went on to tell Congress that he believes "that even free and unfettered inspections will not uncover these portable manufacturing sites of death" - referring to centrifuges Iraq was supposedly using to produce nuclear weapons. (blogspot.com)
  • In testimony before Congress during his confirmation hearing, Gen. Randy George, who is now chief of staff of the Army, called recruiting " the No. 1 challenge that we face and the one thing that we have to be focused on. (wkrg.com)
  • Army personnel stood in front of nearly a dozen separate stations, each displaying newly developed weapon technology that was under consideration for further funding by Congress. (therealnews.com)
  • My Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act legislation is a blueprint for how to assist Christians and other genocide survivors and hold perpetrators accountable. (csce.gov)
  • What perfect justice for the U.S. to return the favor to Assad tenfold by infiltrating weapons into Syria from western Iraq. (captainsjournal.com)
  • It seems we have a victory in Iraq over the Mahdi Militias, to go with the victory over al-Qaeda. (strata-sphere.com)
  • Scott Ritter, former head of the U.N. arms inspection team in Iraq, on the NBC Today Show, 12/17/98, explained, "Washington perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. (mediamonitors.net)
  • Military representatives defended the accuracy of the information sent to Congress. (allgov.com)
  • Military strikes would also complicate Washington's longer-term desire to bring stability to a country that borders Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Israel. (motherjones.com)
  • In both his speech to Congress and his book published a year earlier, he dedicated a significant amount of words to the supposed Iraq WMD threat as well. (blogspot.com)
  • An argument can still be made whether Iraq was a threat to America in 2003, but there are Al Qaeda and other extremists from neighboring countries who are in Iraq today just to kill Americans. (vfw.org)
  • WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) joins a grateful nation in remembering the end of the Iraq War and honoring the service and sacrifice of the veterans of the conflict. (vfw.org)
  • Obviously Iraq needed to rebuild its agriculture and transport infrastructure to feed itself, but this was prevented by Washington. (mediamonitors.net)
  • Two é If Iraq allowed inspections for wmd (weapons of mass destruction), Washington would remove the blockade. (mediamonitors.net)
  • And I had to go to Iraq myself to find out that that was not the case, and that the greatest enemies of the Constitution are not to be found in the sands of Fallujah, but are right here in Washington, DC. (therealnews.com)
  • Both times Lee echoed Senators Wayne Morse, D-Oregon, and Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska, the only two members of Congress who voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • Morse warned that it was an unconstitutional, undated blank check for war in Vietnam, and which President Lyndon Johnson used after deceiving other senators that he would not escalate without coming back to Congress. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • Three other government reports measuring progress in Iraq were commissioned prior to Petraeus' testimony. (wikipedia.org)
  • They have no intention of getting out of Iraq with themselves in charge and the noose of defeat hanging around their necks. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • The courage that it took for Shinseki to confront the president and secretary of defense was brought home recently with the forced retirement of Admiral William Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command and an opponent of a long-term surge in Iraq. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • As Congress moves toward a vote, we will track commentary within Congress and within the commentariat, and gather it in one handy place. (motherjones.com)
  • Tuesday's testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson left no doubt why the committee scrambled so uncharacteristically. (thenationalnews.com)
  • Today they were invited into the halls of Congress by the Progressive Caucus, on the same day that Congress is to vote on supplemental funding for the war on Iraq, funding Iraq into '09. (therealnews.com)
  • This means I know what Vietnam means as well as Iraq, unlike most members of Congress. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • So the top-two Democrat candidates for president are members of this ineffective Congress. (rushlimbaugh.com)
  • It's a record that members of Congress should ponder on before they leap to applaud for his upcoming address. (blogspot.com)
  • Before members of Congress vote to provide more funding they need to hear about the true costs of the occupation of Iraq from those who have experienced it first-hand. (accuracy.org)
  • But this rationale doesn't hold up in light of the fact that the full FY 2008 war funding request was submitted at a time when the "surge" was only beginning in Iraq and conditions were just as uncertain as they are today. (armscontrolcenter.org)
  • That key judgment has been revalidated in testimony to Congress every year since. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Haaretz reporter Barak Ravid references Jim Lobe's widely read article about Bibi Netanyahu's testimony to Congress on Iraq one year prior to the US-led war in 2003. (lobelog.com)
  • At the start of the conflict I listened to him from Iraq-these days communications are so much easier than through the old cable offices-as he made his way with a tank unit from the Kuwait border to Baghdad among American soldiers who had been told that they would be welcomed as liberators. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • Iraq is a crime scene --Bush's crime scene where the evidence against him is found. (blogspot.com)
  • Background The Senate must pass this critically needed legislation before the end of the 117th Congress. (vfw.org)
  • Beginning in April 2003 with the looting of hospitals and the Iraq National Museum, events on the ground quickly vindicated Shinseki's Senate testimony. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • And we have seen in past months legislation passed that represents major progress in creating an integrated Iraq across the various factions, and we have new Iraqi elections coming. (strata-sphere.com)
  • The current (110th) and previous (109th) Congresses enacted legislation banning the expenditure of funds for the construction of "permanent" bases in Iraq. (ips-dc.org)
  • My Lords, in a few weeks' time, in March, we will come to the fifth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Iraq. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • The fifth anniversary of the Iraq war has been marked by long postmortems about where America went wrong. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • ADAM KOKESH, SERVED WITH 3RD CIVIL AFFAIRS GROUP: In the two weeks between being activated and deploying to Iraq, I learned that what we were doing in civil affairs was going to be working with the Iraqi people on schools and mosques and clinics and water projects, and to me it sounded like exactly what the president was promising that we would be doing in Iraq. (therealnews.com)
  • Answer é There's No Connection Between Inspections and Sanctions on Iraq and consequently no incentive for Iraq to comply. (mediamonitors.net)
  • Re inspections, Reuters reported, 12/13/99, é "The (European) aim was to prevent the United States and Britain from imposing arms requirements that Iraq could not meet and thus keeping the sanctions in place for years to come. (mediamonitors.net)
  • You may have heard that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified in Congress this week. (freepress.org)
  • Yet eight years into the wars, testimony before Congress shows that veterans still suffer yawning gaps in coverage for what's become the conflicts' signature wound. (truthout.org)
  • If the situation continues to improve, the six month break will likely turn into a permanent end to the Mahdis and their influence on Iraq. (blogspot.com)
  • Congress and the Administration should continue focusing on enforcement. (blogspot.com)
  • Spokespersons for the administration also reiterated that the discussions with Iraq did not include permanent bases. (ips-dc.org)
  • The administration has drawn comparisons between the structure of bases in post-World War II Germany and in South Korea after 1953 and its expectations for the longevity of bases in Iraq. (ips-dc.org)
  • And as it always does, Congress rolls over when it hears this phrase and votes to appropriate the funds requested. (ips-dc.org)
  • Progress is happening in Iraq, albeit slowly and with no guarantee of success, but what can be guaranteed is that if America simply quits Iraq, chaos will reign throughout the entire Middle East, and our brave sons and daughters in uniform will be tasked to go back again to finish the job. (vfw.org)
  • Adam Pittman a dozen times in his three tours in Iraq, most severely when his Bradley fighting vehicle ran over one hidden in the dirt in 2005. (truthout.org)
  • Iraq is now also getting substantial monies through sales of smuggled oil, especially since the price of oil went up and the rest of the world tires of the American blockade. (mediamonitors.net)
  • They will report to Congress, and more importantly, they will report to the American people on what they see on the ground there. (archives.gov)