Sentences with phrase «before iraq»

I remember before the Iraq was he was on CNN saying we should be investing in alternative energy instead of invading Iraq.

Let me here mention a few of the cases where I've been wrong:... Just before Iraq torched the Kuwaiti oil wells in January 1991, I warned that so much smoke might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia; as events transpired, it was pitch black at noon and the temperatures dropped 4 - 6 °C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

Since July, before Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, the price of bench - mark self - service regular unleaded in Florida has surged 29.2 cents a gallon, according to AAA.

Compare a younger President George W. Bush, left, before the economic crisis, before Iraq and before Sept. 11, 2001, to Bush in early November.

The Chilcot inquiry into the significant intelligence and political failings before the Iraq war should be «a salutary lesson to all of us on the importance of there being total scrutiny of what goes on, and the government being required to come to the house in advance of major decisions», Corbyn said.

Cuomo won't actually be worried about losing — he's broadly popular, has got $ 33 million tucked away, and is a Democrat in a state that hasn't elected a statewide Republican since before the Iraq war.

Well to the right of labour supporters, I appreciate we lost supporters after 97 ′ mainly staying at home in 2001 as another landslide meant they didn't need to vote, and liberal interventionism, of Afghanisatan Eastern Europe, saw some supporters withdrawal support before Iraq, remember this ex Tory voters who voted Labour for the 1st time in their lives in 97 ′ did it with caution, of fear of labour returning to the 80 ’s

You don't need a competent Shadow Chancellor: you need a miracle worker who is as smooth tongued and persuasive as Tony Blair was before the Iraq war..

Graham Allen, now chair of the Commons» political and constitutional reform committee, recalls: «As we know from efforts to recall parliament before the Iraq war (which started this whole bloody story) MPs can not recall parliament, neither can the Speaker.

«I'm much more critical of the fact that under the Blair era we knew, and this will all come out in the pubic inquiry, we knew that Blair flew just before the 1997 election to the other side of the world to meet Murdoch, we know that Tony Blair, three times in the ten days before the Iraq war was declared, was in touch with Rupert Murdoch»

Blair destroyed his own credibility with the working class core voter even before the Iraq war.

Bower rams home the point that before the Iraq invasion Blair was far from being President Bush's poodle, but rather his active partner.

And then there was Tony Blair, who discovered he'll be back before the Iraq inquiry in the new year.

At the end of 2013 — even before the Iraq crisis forced an estimated 1.8 million Iraqis from their homes — around 51.2 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to «persecution, conflict, generalised violence or human rights violations», according to the UN News Centre.

Not exact matches

James Ball — Buzzfeed: Ball's investigative work, both for Buzzfeed and the Guardian before that, has uncovered massive stories about the Iraq War logs, Edward Snowden and the leaked State Department cables.

Dyncorp didn't donate any money to candidates in the election cycles immediately before and after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

He said he was «driving around with a big «Stop the Iraq War» sign on my car window» in the months before basic training began in 2003.

Interestingly, one of the 8 RAF Tornados deployed at Akrotiri could be regularly tracked online during its transit from Cyprus to Iraq via Israel, Jordan, accompanied by a Voyager tanker: the example #ZA556 (the only «visible» aircraft in a formation of at least two planes) can be often spotted on Flightardar24.com as it flies into Israel, then into the Jordanian airspace before turning its transponder off to enter the Iraqi airspace.

After his bonus falls short, but before things turn truly rotten, Yount compares his position to «being in some shithole in Iraq or somewhere, where some Yank pilot has dropped a bomb on you by mistake.

According to one account, Edwards was arrested and detained four days, then brought before a judge who told him he would serve a six - year jail sentence if he ever set foot in Iraq again.

Chris Nolte was an avid cyclist before a debilitating back injury suffered in Iraq.

ISIS, whose predecessors date back to 2004 and before, is the most recent evolution of al Qaeda in Iraq, a group that derived influence and support from the massive missteps that characterized the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.

As I've noted before, the greatest act of respect for American troops would be for the Bush Administration to extract the U.S. from the role of occupier and to legitimize its role as peacekeeper; to abandon the objective of unilaterally shaping Iraq, shift enforcement to a wider force of NATO troops, and expand the role of the United Nations in civil matters.

As Freedom and Capitalism take root in Iraq, the question remains: How long before the head of that Saddam statue is auctioned off on eBay?

KRG says independent tanker loadings to begin The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has announced that it will market crude from oil fields under its control sent autonomously of Iraq's central government to the Turkish port of Ceyhan in a pipeline it claims as its own, with the first shipment up for sale before the end of January.On the KRG's website late on Jan. 8, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) gave «public notice of the commencement of the sale of its first shipment of crude oil exported via Kurdistan Region's new...

ISIS's quest for funding began long before it seized oil fields in northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

And before you rebuttal about how Jews had better technology because of their alliance with the U.S. remember how we struggled just to fight against Iraq in the middle east.

And have you ever read Bush's former press secretary's McCullough's book or his report on what was said in Bush's cabinet before he declared war on Iraq?

In the weeks before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Pope John Paul II dispatched a Vatican diplomat, Cardinal Pio Laghi, to the White House with an unequivocal message: Stand down.

It's just another lie perpetuated by christians, rather like Darwin's deathbed refutation of evolution, or the lies about Pat Tillman's behavior before his death in Iraq.

Among them will be Iraq's Father Douglas Bazi, a Catholic priest who was kidnapped, tortured, and shot before being released for ransom and who now cares for 500 ISIS survivors, and the daughters of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian mother on death row since 2010, for blasphemy against Islam.

I heard stories of protesters holding candles outside nuclear facilities, Christian Peacemaker Teams venturing to Iraq just before the fighting, and so on.

Who invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, and before that Kuwait, and before that... what's that island again that was Ronnie; s littlle war?

FYI, Pres. Bush consulted the President of the mormon church and prominent leaders from other churches in the country before deciding to attack Afghanistan and Iraq.

«When he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, before he became pope, he made a much - quoted remark dismissing the idea of Iraq as a «just war.

In Iraq, a Christian population estimated at more than a million before the 2003 war — and considerably more prior to that — today stands at less than 300,000.

The money, over 70 percent of which would go to support operations in Iraq, includes the estimated $ 600 billion spent since 2001, Congressional Budget Office Director Pe - ter O - r - szag said in tes - timony before the House Budget Co-mmittee.

totoally out of context, when you are in war you fight thats what you do or unlike our US govt wage wars on innocent countires, veitanam, iran, iraq, afghanistan before being attacked.

In Iran, Christianity is fastest growing than all the other Muslim countries... There were two million Christians in Iraq before the invasion..

And that was before ISIS turned large parts of Iraq into a killing zone in which Christian lives were automatically forfeit.

In the days before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. officials spoke of a «democratic domino effect,» by which the installation of a democratic government in Iraq would set off a wave of pro-democratic regime changes elsewhere in the Middle East.

Although, God willing, he did manage to hide our WMD in Syria before General Bush invaded Iraq.

Tor Valla, a water engineer with Norwegian Church Aid, a partner of the ecumenical Action by Churches Together, left Iraq just before the bombs started falling.

He hardly had time to recover from Madrid before preparing for Germany: and immediately on his return to Rome he was preparing to be off again: Benin in November and Iraq in January.

In reality, Arab tribes and ethnic groups were very powerful indeed long before this, and some formed influential states in the lands that we would today think of as Jordan, Iraq and Syria, territories contested between the two great empires.

You ask me to not judge christianity based on what happend in the Middle Ages, unfortuantely we still have protestants like George Bush claiming to have spoken to god before invading Iraq and using those weapons that science created for christians means.

In 1990, shortly before the first Gulf War between the U.S. and Iraq, he flew to Baghdad to speak with Saddam Hussein to secure the release of 15 U.S. hostages.

We knew, for example, that the Bushies had Iraq in their sites long before coming to power; Cf Zvi Bar «el's well documented articles in Ha'aretz.

The son of a high court judge and nephew of a Tory MP - turned - life peer, he learned to speak Arabic in Yemen before serving as an intelligence officer in Iraq.

They were banned well before the invasion of Iraq.