Sentences with phrase «about gulf war»

I caught myself ready to have a fully - formed political opinion about the Gulf War and the necessity of action against Sadaam Hussein on the basis of how that headline made me feel.

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According to AdAge, the Anheuser - Busch InBev - owned (ahbif) beer will feature the word «America» on its front and will be adorned with various nationalistic phrases --» Land of the free, home of the brave,» «From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf stream waters,» and «Indivisible since 1776» (apparently they forgot about the Civil War).

Public dialogue in the U.S. about the Persian Gulf war has drawn heavily on the language of the just war tradition — more so than has been the case with any war since at least the 1860s.

In writing about the Iran - Contra scandal and the Persian Gulf War, Tesich had said «we, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world».

As oil spewed from Kuwait's sabotaged wells during the Gulf War, the world worried about the damage it might cause.

Pearce is a good storyteller: tales ripple through the book about how the Libyans are creating a great artificial river in the Sahara, how the ancient ziggurat at Ur was saved from bombing in the recent Gulf War, and how a tribunal in Valencia has been resolving disputes over water allocation continuously since medieval times.

Since the Korean War right through the Persian Gulf War I, the death rate for a soldier wounded in the battlefield has been about 25 percent.

Post-traumatic stress disorder, obviously, is something that has become very well known to everybody; there have been lots of concerns about the levels of that that we see among people who are veterans of the Gulf War and of course Vietnam War before all of that.

While the RAC panel applauded an increase in the number of treatment studies funded by the Department of Defense's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, it expressed grave concerns about a lack of research on other health problems and mortality among Gulf War veterans.

The high density of DU helps shells pierce armour and about 270 tonnes of it have been fired during wars in the Gulf and the Balkans in the last decade.

I chatted with the original owner for the first few minutes and he told me some stories about being in Kuwait during the most recent gulf war and also time he spent in preparation for Desert Storm, although he never went over.

In The Manchurian Candidate, Denzel Washington plays U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco, a man who spends his days giving inspiring speeches about his platoon's ambush in the Kuwaiti desert in the first Gulf War and in particular, the heroics of Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Schreiber), who won the Medal of Honor (the actual medal, not the video game) for saving Marco's crew.

This is just a bad film that tried to say something about social injustice, the class differences between the rich and the poor, the unfair loss of welfare programs, the inhibiting cost of health insurance that is falsely being blamed on the government when it is the fault of insurance companies why the rates are so high, the hypocrisies of the Gulf War, and the failure of the media to be more responsive in covering all the political corruption.

I remember chortling about the first Gulf War, too, thinking how funny it was that our military pounded fourth - generation Chinese armour with bombs left over from Vietnam in a withering blitz that left Saddam Hussein's vaunted «million man army» of non-volunteer soldiers buried in their trenches and surrendering to the press.

Here's another example: About midway through Underground, as Assange is using his access to the US military's databases to figure out where troops are being deployed for the first Gulf War, his live - in girlfriend asks whether his computer can locate Melbourne, «where your son and his mother are.»

Amreeka, is a semi-autobiographical story about Cherien's family's experience as Palestinians living in America during the start of the first Gulf War.

Phoenix plays a tormented, hammer - wielding Gulf War veteran with violent tendencies living in New York, where he's regularly recruited to find missing children, including a teenager (Ekaterina Samsonov) whose whereabouts uncover secrets about sex trafficking and political corruption.

Ramsay retreated to Santorini, Greece and began writing, and within less than a year's time, adapted Jonathan Ames» novella You Were Never Really Here about a PTSD Gulf War vet / former FBI agent - turned - addled assassin who gets hired to bust a senator's daughter out of a sex - trafficking ring.

Earlier this month, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pulled out from Rutgers University's ceremony after complaints about her position on the Gulf War.

My recollections of Sega as a hardware manufacturer may come off like your grandfather talking about fighting in the Gulf War, but Sega leaving hardware manufacture is what signaled the decline of Sega.

The American military used them during the Gulf War, and more recently, after a program handed them down to local police forces, Ziman said he had seen them in news reports about protests surrounding Black Lives Matter.

After the first Gulf War started, I concluded that visual art wasn't the place for political change and began to learn about abstract geometric painting in earnest.

I never thought that Saddam had ordered 9/11 or had had direct involvement, and whether he had WMD's left over from the first Gulf War or not, I wasn't too bothered about.

With Donald Trump's decision to shred the Iran nuclear agreement, announced last Tuesday, it's time for the rest of us to start thinking about what a Third Gulf War would mean.

At about the same time, a «secret and personal» letter that he had written to Tony Blair materialised in which, just before the start of the second Gulf War, he indicated his doubts about the course on which his prime minister was so clearly determined.

I just finished Once a Marine, an inspiring Persian Gulf and Iraq war veteran biography about a U.S. 8 Strategies for Parents to Help Their Children's.

For example, there's a wonderful short documentary called the aeroplane song and it's about remote Gulf of Carpentaria Aboriginal communities and during the war, one of the American aeroplanes crashed and the people who survived, there were 3 of them, the pilot and a couple of others were trying to walk to safety and this is the story about how only one of them survived and how they were eventually found by the Aboriginal people.