Sentences with phrase «iraq war every year»

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Keith Orr was active in the Army for 24 years, serving in in the first Gulf War, Haiti, Egypt, Ukraine, Kosovo and Iraq.

The U.S. military's 15 - year focus on counterinsurgency during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan allowed other military powers — in particular China — to produce new equipment and modernize its forces at a rate that has Pentagon leaders concerned.

The increase in domestic production barely moved the supply needle during the first few years of the shale boom because it was merely offsetting the production shut - ins from war - ravaged Libya and Iraq.

The restrictions fly in the face of Pentagon assertions over the past year that it was striving to be more transparent about the US war campaigns across Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

The former subsidiary of Halliburton Co. has seen one of its largest sources of profits — wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — wind down in recent years, and this development led the company to embark on a strategic review.

A few years later in 2009, the British science journal Nature featured Gourley's research on the mathematical structure of insurgencies in war - torn regions, like Iraq and Afghanistan, on its coveted cover.

Bush's speech came just six weeks after the US invaded Iraq, but the war dragged on for years after, costing thousands of lives and billions in taxpayer money.

US F - 16s have led the three - year air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, flying 15 % of the sorties.

The pattern of operations in 2017 in what the Obama administration used to call areas «outside of active hostilities» (or active war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria) indicated that the US will continue the reinvigorated air campaign in these theaters in the coming years.

This rebound reflects a general recovery in international travel following the containment of SARS, with the number of short - term visitor arrivals in September the highest in over two years and well above the level recorded prior to the war in Iraq and the SARS outbreak (Graph 46).

Over the ensuing years, I saw faith marching us to war, with George W Bush, a president who claimed to get his marching orders from God, and the subsequent disastrous invasion of Iraq.

European Colonization of Americas (1492 - 1900) 2,000,000 100,000,000 Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864) 20,000,000 100,000,000 Dungan Revolt (1862 - 1877) 8,000,000 12,000,000 Napoleonic Wars (1804 - 1815) 3,500,000 7,000,000 Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648) 3,000,000 11,500,000 Yellow Turban Rebellion (184 - 205) 3,000,000 7,000,000 Deluge (Polish - Lithuanian)(1655 - 1660) 3,000,000 4,000,000 French Wars of Religion (1562 - 1598) 2,000,000 4,000,000 Second Sudanese War (1955 - 1972) 1,000,000 2,000,000 Crusades (1095 - 1291) 1,000,000 3,000,000 Mexican Revolution (1911 - 1920) 500,000 2,000,000 Iran - Iraq War (1980 - 1988) 500,000 2,000,000 Armenian Genocide (by Turkey)(1915 - 1923) 300,000 1,500,000 A-ssyrian Genocide (by Turkey)(1915 - 1918) 275,000 750,000 Greek Genocide (by Turkey)(1915 - 1918) 200,000 1,000,000 Parti - tion of India (1947) 300,000 300,000 Iranian Revolution (1979) 3,000 60,000 Spanish Inquisition (1480 - etc.)

Years ago, at the outbreak of the first Iraq war, I was to give some lectures at the Washington cathedral for the continuing education of Episcopal clergy.

Two years after the end of the Iran - Iraq war, Al - Doura found itself facing another catastrophe.

I was working on the Air force Satellite communications for many years and had security clearance (Secret) and over two years serving military war effort in Iraq.

During the 1980s, the U.S. supported Iraq in the ten - year war of attrition against Iran.

Although this scenario might sound painfully familiar, the year in question is 1095, not 2004; the leader is Pope Urban II, not President George W. Hush; and the call to arms initiates not a war in Iraq but the long and bloody conflict between Islam and the West know as the Crusades.

Early in his career, he was something of a Trotskyite, but in the years following September 11, 2001, he emerged as a strong advocate of the Iraq war and, much to the chagrin of his colleagues on the left, a supporter of George W. Bush.

The Iraq war has cost us nearly a TRILLION dollars, the Afghan war has cost about $ 800 billion and all of the government agencies cost in the neighborhood of tens of billions per year.

Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864)... 20,000,000... 100,000,000 European Colonization of Americas (1492 - 1900)... 2,000,000... 100,000,000 WWII 1939 - 1945...................................................... 40,000,000...... 72,000,000 Dungan Revolt (1862 - 1877)... 8,000,000... 12,000,000 Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648)... 3,000,000... 11,500,000 Napoleonic Wars (1804 - 1815)... 3,500,000... 7,000,000 Yellow Turban Rebellion (184 - 205)... 3,000,000... 7,000,000 Deluge (Polish - Lithuanian)(1655 - 1660)... 3,000,000... 4,000,000 French Wars of Religion (1562 - 1598)... 2,000,000... 4,000,000 Crusades (1095 - 1291)... 1,000,000... 3,000,000 Second Sudanese War (1955 - 1972)... 1,000,000... 2,000,000 Mexican Revolution (1911 - 1920)... 500,000... 2,000,000 Iran - Iraq War (1980 - 1988)... 500,000... 2,000,000 Armenian Genocide (by Turkey)(1915 - 1923)... 300,000... 1,500,000 Siege of Jerusalem (70)... 1,100,000... 1,100,000 Iraq War (Dubya)(2003 - etc.)

His beliefs and politics: Graham prayed with George W. Bush — a fellow Texan — several times in the White House during the early years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he told Baptist Press.

Please note: Ten years after a U.S. - led war to topple a dictator and establish the rule of law, things are so bad that a U.S. government commission has named Iraq as a particularly worrisome country with respect to religious freedom.

They have had a run of good luck, notably with the course of the first four years of the Iraq War.

There is a purge of Christians in the Middle east over the last 10 years unlike any other time in the 2000 year history of Middle Eastern Christianity, coinciding with the Iraq war and the «Arab Spring.»

His supporters might point out that the 9/11 attacks hurt the economy; that the recession that hit in March of 2001, his first year, probably really began earlier; and that the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and against terrorism have further weakened the economy.

Moreover, the often bloody drama of the postwar transition to responsive and responsible government in Iraq» a society that suffered for thirty years under the lash of a regime that rivaled those of Pol Pot and Kim Il Sung for viciousness» has guaranteed that the seismic shocks generated by the Iraq War will affect world politics for years, and likely decades, to come.

For example, in the essay's section on «defining success,» Father Neuhaus writes, «Finally, success will be if, three or thirty years from now, Afghanistan and Iraq have reasonably decent and stable governments, operating under something believably like the rule of law...» This lacks the specificity to qualify as a serious application of just war theory.

, which dealt with the ongoing familial consequences of the Iraq War, were both left out of this year's nominees.

The Iran - Iraq war, which would drag on for eight years and lead to the death of hundreds of thousands of young Iraqis, was demoralizing Iraqi youth.

As the Iraq War came to an official end Thursday, several Chicago - area veterans and service members talked about the youthful idealism that led them into the military and the hard experience of serving in the Middle East during a war that dragged on for eight yeaWar came to an official end Thursday, several Chicago - area veterans and service members talked about the youthful idealism that led them into the military and the hard experience of serving in the Middle East during a war that dragged on for eight yeawar that dragged on for eight years.

«The decision to go to war in Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power in a coalition of over 40 countries led by the USA, was the hardest, most momentous, most agonising decision I took in 10 years as British prime minister.

I don't think there are many who relish another Tory Government, but frankly, when you have «New Nazi» in power for 12 long and bloody years (Iraq & Afghan Wars) you get to the stage where absolutely ANYONE BUT LABOUR will do.

Walker spent 20 years as a reporter working for Reuters on beats including foreign affairs during the latter years of the Iraq War, and never fancied crossing the Rubicon into politics.

In the years prior to the 2014 Gaza conflict, far left - wing and Islamist traditions came together and cross-fertilized each other in the context of the failure of the Israeli - Palestinian peace process, the Second Intifada, the Durban conference, the 9/11 attacks, and widespread and fierce public protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

- He confirmed discussing the looming Iraq War with Tony Blair in March 2003, but says he only met the New Labour leader two or three times a year, on average.

After three electoral victories and 13 years in office, New Labour had lost its appeal due to the legacy of the Iraq war, a series of burning scandals and endless backbenchers» rebellions.

Khojasteh, who was born in Iran, and moved to the U.S. with his parents after the Islamic Revolution and during the early years of the Iran - Iraq War, says he and his wife, Anjella, also a child of immigrants from Iran, «are blessed to be products of that long - talked - about «American Dream» — raised by parents with nothing more than hard work, determination and a dream to provide their children as much possibility as possible.»

Over the last year, the UK government has encouraged the UN Security Council to create an international investigative team to support Iraq in gathering evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

And Derek Draper and Damian McBride have been creating it in large quantities, and they're by no means the first or the most obvious examples, given the loans - for - peerages scandal, various bits of chicanery around the Iraq war and subsequent investigations (e.g. David Kelly), ministerial expense fraud (or at least it would be fraud if you or I tried the same thing on our tax returns), pretty much anything to do with Peter Mandelson and the various leaks, briefings and spin cycles that have characterised the Labour party for the last fifteen years.

A large street movement developed, albeit not quite in the same proportions the Iraq War mobilised 10 years earlier.

Tensions between the U.S. and Islam have been inflamed in recent years by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo and unflinching U.S. support of Israel.

Afghanistan and Somalia (as well as states at risk of failure such as Iraq today) are salient examples of what can happen to a state after years or decades of civil war.

First elected to Congress in 1988, the 79 - year - old has been a liberal leader in the House for 26 years, championing single payer health insurance and voting against the Iraq War.

Smith can portray himself as the «change» candidate who will move Labour on from the past as he is untainted by the Iraq War and was not in parliament during the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown years.

The Iran Iraq war dragged on for 8 years.

A year into his role as Archbishop, the mystical poet from Wales turned on his government over the Iraq War.

That is why IOCs continued to invest in Nigeria throughout our years under military rule and why there are still global companies taking mineral resources from D.R Congo, Iraq and Libya in spite of war and instability!

She served on active duty for eight years, learning Russian and working in military intelligence before a deployment to Iraq during the Gulf War.

Those, like me, who have stuck with Labour through the years of the Iraq war, PFI and privatisations don't appreciate lectures from those like Polly Toynbee who walked out to form the SDP when things weren't going their way (This is bigger than Labour: if Corbyn wins, Britain could be out of Europe, 25 August).

A vice-chair of CND and a columnist for the Morning Star, Mr Corbyn has frequently been at odds with his party over the past 20 years, opposing the Iraq war and other foreign interventions and backing public ownership of the banks.