Sentences with phrase «iraq study»

America may have got much wrong but it didn't quit: «In the early days in Iraq we bragged that our forces could deploy in berets and soft - sided vehicles while US forces roared through Baghdad in heavily armoured convoys... If a fair - minded account of the Iraq war is written, credit should go to President Bush for rejecting two years ago the report by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that called for force reductions.

Earlier this month the influential Iraq Study Group chaired by former US secretary of state James Baker called for the gradual withdrawal of troops from the conflict - stricken Middle Eastern country.

The Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan committee of senior US statesmen, said most American troops should leave their combat role by early 2008 and also urged greater cooperation with the country's neighbours, Iran and Syria.

He gave evidence to the Iraq Study Group to this effect last month, and the group today argued the US's aims in Iraq would only be achieved with a «renewed and sustained commitment to a comprehensive peace plan on all fronts».

Mr Bush has already indicated that the White House will take the Iraq Study Group's findings «very seriously» and promised to act on them «in a timely fashion».

Mr Blair's words appear to throw doubt on his commitment to the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, a US report which said talks with Iran and Syria were crucial in stabilising Iraq in the future and which he last week described as a «strong way forward».

Bush, faced with a political meltdown at home and defeat in Iraq was prepared to back the Surge against the phased withdrawal proposals of the Iraq Study Group.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

A famous case study is the 2002 national intelligence estimate on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

For instance, hubris might have contributed to the 2008 global market collapse and recent wars, including the 2003 Iraq invasion, study leader Johnson speculated.

«I was finally able to process all the dark stuff that happened,» Nicholas Blackston, 32, a study participant who had been a Marine machine - gunner in Iraq, said in an interview.

Other centers for higher Islamic studies today are found at Fez in Morocco, at Zaitouna University in Tunisia, at Medina, at Istanbul and Ankara in Turkey, at Baghdad and Karbala in Iraq, at Tehran in Iran, at Lahore in Pakistan, at Lucknow and at Alighar and Usmania Universities in India, and at Jogjakarta in Indonesia.

These studies make it clear that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war and, in particular, about three issues — the link between Iraq and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

Studies show that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war in Iraq and especially about three issues — the link between Iraqu and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

Disturbing reports of suffering endured by Christians and Yazidis at the hands of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria will serve as case studies during the meeting, which is highlight conflicts in Africa and the Middle East.

Although A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq is primarily a translation and a historical study of the writings of Riccoldo da Montecroce, George - Tvrtkovic, the translator, has a theological agenda.

The fall of Iraq and the Arab Spring have had an impact in recent years, according to Albert Hickman of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity.

In Iraq, a case - control study (Aldabran 2013) was conducted for one year with 215 pregnant women who breastfed during pregnancy and 288 pregnant women who did not.

The findings in the Iraq and Turkey studies regarding birth weight speak to another big concern associated with continued breastfeeding during pregnancy: is it risky to try to «eat for three»?

Her doctoral thesis entitled «United States Presidential Decision - Making and the Use of Force during Crises in the Middle East and North Africa: 1979 - 2009» examined the American use of force in the Middle East and North Africa, utilising the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979), the Bombing of Libya (1986), the Gulf War (1991), and the Iraq War (2003) as case studies.

The book also reveals an extraordinary confrontation between Mr Miliband and Mr Balls in 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, when Mr Miliband took a year off to study at Harvard University in the US.

Neyer is one of many veterans of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan coming back on campus, many of them to study science or engineering.

We met a group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans returning to campus to study science and engineering (a feature that resulted in an official Army commendation for Alan Kotok, our managing editor), another group of faculty members who were the first in their families to graduate from college, and still another group who became science - policy fellows, combining politics and science.

Meanwhile, other researchers are studying serum to garner clues about links between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and DNA methylation among individuals who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, gleaning information from samples on 150 service members with mild to severe TBI, along with 50 control subjects.

In another ongoing study, psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer of Charleston, South Carolina, is testing MDMA (3,4 - methylenedioxymethamphetamine) on people suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including rape victims and Iraq War veterans who have not gotten any relief from conventional treatments such as antidepressants and therapy.

So at least 100,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are probably already studying — or have studied — science and other technical fields, several thousand at the graduate level.

Then an undergraduate enrolled in premed studies, Goss had returned recently from a tour of duty in Iraq.

After analyzing reams of publicly available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the scientists conclude that «insurgents pretty much seemed to be following a progress curve — or a learning curve — that's very common in the manufacturing literature,» says physicist Neil Johnson of the University of Miami in Florida and lead author of the study.

The study is one of several published last week by The Lancet as part of a special report on the health consequences of the 2003 - 2011 Iraq war on the Iraqi population and coalition troops.

But according to a new study, this tendency may not apply to soldiers or at least not to those who have served in the Iraq War.

Some of the vets in the study went all the way back to World War I, with the more recent vets having served in the first Iraq War in the early «90s.

Soldiers who served in the glaring desert sunlight of Iraq and Afghanistan returned home with an increased risk of skin cancer, due not only to the desert climate, but also a lack of sun protection, Vanderbilt dermatologist Jennifer Powers, M.D., reports in a study published recently in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

Many of the veterans in the study returned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and were involved in combat patrols.

In Better (Metropolitan Books, $ 24), Gawande, for his part, gives us case studies of high - performing medical innovators — from military surgeons in Iraq who have devised ways to improve the survival of the severely injured to the designers of hand - washing campaigns to reduce hospital - borne infections in the United States — and roots through the methods of these «positive deviants» to reveal how they do things, well, better than the rest of us.

«This is very positive,» agreed Chen Kane, senior research associate at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies, although she said precautions should be taken in case Syrian President Bashar al - Assad tries to conceal part of his chemical weapons stockpile as did dictators Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.

Many of these studies were based on safety requirements in the US, where Iraq's director of nuclear safety was trained.

The study examines Afghanistan, Arab Republic of Egypt, Bahrain, Djibouti, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Republic of Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Political scientists and sociologists studying the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have emphasized tribal affiliations, nationalism, religion, social networks, and other cultural concerns.

Soldiers returning from Iraq in the early 1990s with several health issues display difficulty in learning and memory, new study says

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life story, Gerry Cobian explains how he went from serving as a Marine in Iraq to studying botany in Hawaii.

Maguen points out that these rates of PTSD are lower than the commonly cited rates of 11 to 20 percent among returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans because the study excluded men and women who had PTSD at the outset.

All the men and women in the study were free of PTSD at the outset of the research, and they all deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan at least once.

A 2010 study of more than 18,000 soldiers returning from Iraq found approximately 40 percent had physical bursts of anger, more than 30 percent threatened someone with physical violence and over 15 percent got into a physical fight.

Dr Hoge's study surveyed 1822 US soldiers, 946 of whom had been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The researchers studied the behavioral health data of 2,077 U.S. soldiers (1,823 men and 254 women) who were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and subsequently sought behavioral health services at a large military installation.

According to a new study in JAMA Neurology, U.S. military service members who endured a mild concussion after blast injury while deployed in Iraq...

Dr. Mac Donald's team studied five - year outcomes in 50 service members who experienced mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in Iraq or Afghanistan and compared the findings to 44 controls who were deployed but not injured.

According to a new study in JAMA Neurology, U.S. military service members who endured a mild concussion after blast injury while deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan may continue to experience mental health symptoms as well as decreases in quality of life for at least five years after their injury.

The study included about 286,000 mostly male veterans between the ages of 45 and 81 who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and conflicts dating back to the Korean War.

Currently the US Army is researching Miller's iRest protocol through studies at Walter Reed Army Hospital, in conjunction with the Samueli Foundation, with active duty soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who are experiencing post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD).