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Ten years after Iraq war began, Iran reaps the gains
BAGHDAD — Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the geopolitical winner of the war appears to be their common enemy: Iran. American military forces are long gone, and Iraqi officials say Washington's...Tags: Tehran (Iran), Politics, Government, Iraq, Religion and Belief
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Admitting wrong about Iraq
Kudos to Scott Stantis for his Op-Ed page cartoon on March 25. As a Vietnam veteran who opposed the Iraq War from the beginning, I applaud his willingness to admit he was wrong. Too bad others, like Dick Cheney, who led us into this debacle, can’t...Tags: Iraq, Dick Cheney
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Letters: Remembering fallen warriors
Re "Mothers aid military in the names of their fallen sons," Column, March 24 Thanks to Steve Lopez for highlighting the work of two wonderful Gold Star mothers who work in the name of their sons' service and ultimate sacrifice. The Iraq war may have...Tags: George W. Bush, Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, Iraq, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Petraeus to speak at USC event, expected to apologize for affair
This post has been corrected; see note at bottom for details.Former CIA Director David Patraeus will speak Tuesday night at USC's annual dinner for veterans and ROTC students, his first public speech since resigning as head of the intelligence agency because of an extramarital affair. According to an advance copy...Tags: Iraq, International Military Interventions, Central Intelligence Agency
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Fort Meade VA Outpatient clinic advances effort to serve women veterans
When retired Master Sgt. Sheryl A. Webb left the U.S. Army in 1997, she was scarcely aware of services that U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals offered specifically for women. That was well before women became the fastest growing demographic group...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Infertility, Medical Procedures and Tests, Martin Garcia, Osteoporosis
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Mothers aid military personnel in the names of their fallen sons
They didn't know each other before the war. But loss united them, and friendship helps sustain them. "Every one of us wants our child to be remembered," said Sue Pollard, who, like her friend Debi Win'E, lost a son in Iraq. "Our main thing is to do...
Tags: George W. Bush, World War I (1914-1918), Armed Conflicts, Religion and Belief, Iraq
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Letters: WMD intelligence -- errors or lies?
Re "The what if's of Iraq," Opinion, March 19 Max Boot claims that the justification of ending Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program for going to war with Saddam Hussein was an error, not a lie. He then assigns much of the blame for the ongoing...
Tags: Al Gore, Politics, Weaponry, Iraq, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Iraq veteran, paralyzed by sniper, prepares to take his own life
An Iraq war veteran, paralyzed by a sniper's bullet, is preparing to take his own life rather than live sick. “My life is coming to an end,” Tomas Young wrote in an open letter published on Truthdig.com this week. “I am living under...
Tags: Erectile Dysfunction, The New York Times, Iraq, Dick Cheney, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival
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Review: 'Kill Hole' a muddled thriller about war veterans
Leaving aside the rather unfortunate title that makes it sound like a far more ridiculous exploitation film, "The Kill Hole" is a promising debut for writer-director Mischa Webley, even as he often seems to get in his own way. Made up of four or five...
Tags: 42 (movie), Action (Movie Genre), Entertainment, Jackie Robinson, Movies
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On Syria, Iraq's shadow is long
WASHINGTON -- This week's 10th anniversary of the Iraq War passed quietly, and that's not a bad thing. Most Americans have no wish to celebrate the war, fought under false pretenses to a costly and ambiguous end. But in Washington this week there are...
Tags: Politics, Juan Vargas, Scott Perry, Iraq, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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Are Amazon and the CIA doing business?
Amazon can already track your book purchases, recommend titles based on your latest browsing history, and is annoyingly great at peppering the websites you see with ads based on your shopping habits. So would it surprise you to learn that the online...Tags: Online Advertising, E-Commerce Industry, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions, BBC
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The war in Iraq: Embedded with the U.S. Military
FrameworkAfter returning from assignment in Afghanistan in 2003, Times photojournalist Rick Loomis asked to be sent out in the first wave of journalists to cover the Invasion of Iraq. He spent several weeks traveling in the back of a canvas topped Humvee with U.S....
Mar 28, 2013
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