I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq,.. The best bet is that the president doesn't actually know what's happening there, is cocooned from reality, has no one in his high-level staff able to tell him what's actually happening, and has created a culture of denial and loyalty that makes fixing mistakes or holding people accountable all but impossible.
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In Iraq and Afghanistan, we need troops on the ground and they need to be protected. It's an area of recurrent spending.
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My inspiration for Baker Tonys Pizza came from my desire to educate our children on the politics of the Iraq war in a light-hearted fashion.
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My inspiration came from my desire to educate our children on the politics of the Iraq war in a light-hearted fashion.
Tom's work was very important, and the way that we will honor him is to try to continue that work, maybe not for each of us going to Iraq, but we all have the opportunity to create peace in our own community.
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We were very cognizant of the fact that there are a lot of people being killed over in Iraq every day, and not just foreigners, a lot of Iraqis are being killed. This tragedy that we are feeling is a part of a much larger tragedy.
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Simply leaving your hotel to try to go out and report in Iraq is dangerous and possibly life-threatening.
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[Lamott is an unstoppable storyteller, whether writing about church-going with a sullen adolescent or reconciling with her late mother. She rages against the Iraq war but takes comfort from her sage-like Presbyterian minister, who says faith] is not about how we feel; it is about how we live... Rule 1: We are all family. Rule 2: You reap exactly what you sow, that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds. Rule 3: Try to breathe every few minutes or so. Rule 4: It helps beyond words to plant bulbs in the dark of winter. Rule 5: It is immoral to hit first.
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There is a degree of urgency among both parties not to see Iraq slide into civil war.
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I think he knows Iraq isn't Afghanistan and that his profile has to be different.
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If you pull out troops too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.
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Kuwaitis will be relieved this crisis is over at a time when they need strong leadership because of upheaval in nearby Iraq and Iran.
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Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, all of them in harm's way, deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care.
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Even when he was in Iraq fighting a war, he was always smiling
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Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan... Deserve to come back to 21st-century medical care,.. Whatever it costs, we need to incur that cost to provide that world-class care to an extraordinary group of men and women in harm's way.
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We live in the greatest country in the world. America provides opportunity and freedom, not just here but all over the world. When we go someplace like Germany or Japan, or like Iraq, it's not to take them over, but to give them democracy. I feel for our young people now fighting in Iraq. I'm so proud of them and the job they're doing.
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In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
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We will repeat these visits as we do for all prisoners of war and all civilians deprived of liberty in Iraq, regularly, at a rhythm that we choose, and as long as necessary.
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It is clear that Germans will not [send troops] to Iraq and it is quite clear that Germans are against any military action against Iran.
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Refined product fundamentals are quite strong and likely to pull up crude prices. If one adds to all this the possibility of continued 'hot' news from Iraq, Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela, crude prices are likely to rise next week.
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But I do not believe that the Bush administration decided that they would set up a scenario that gave us the rationale for going into Iraq.
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Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and of Saudi Arabia controlled by regimes which are revolutionary, and which are Islamic fundamentalist? Mr. Bush wants that like he wants a hole in the head.
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My husband's in Iraq, getting shot at every day, avoiding bombs so people like this can come under their own country and talk crap about them? Are you kidding me?
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The results of the referendum have indicated the degree of political polarization in Iraq
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The ministry paid 50 million two days ago and the rest of the money will be paid within days. The ministry had agreed with the firms as well to provide Iraq with oil products for the first quarter of 2006.
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