Sentences with phrase «opposed iraq»

Graham is best known for his tenure as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee during and after 9/11 (he opposed the Iraq War).

This is a party, after all, that opposed the Iraq war, took some creditable stands on the banks, and was less tainted by the worst excesses of the parliamentary expenses saga.

He opposed the Iraq war.

So are many mainland Europeans, especially those that opposed the Iraq war.

• You say Clare Short opposed the Iraq war.

Last year we had a leadership election and nearly all the candidates opposed the Iraq war, opposed the privatisation of the post office, opposed 90 and 42 day detention without trial, thought we had become too illiberal on issues like ASBOs and control orders and were failing to deliver for the poorer end of society.

The former far - left Labour politician, one of the longest - standing members of Parliament, strongly opposed the Iraq war and is president of the Stop the War Coalition.

He opposed the Iraq war and the creation of the coalition not only out of principle but because he knew in his bones that the political dynamic of both decisions could only benefit the right.

He opposed the Iraq War, and was at the forefront of a successful campaign to recall Parliament in September 2002, attempting to organise an unofficial recall if the House would not formally sit.

Before entering the Commons, Khan opposed the Iraq war.

His comments suggest Mr Clegg is resigned to losing a section of his party's support after departing from the strategy of Charles Kennedy, who opposed the Iraq war.

That fact was not lost on former prime minister Tony Blair, who urged those who opposed Iraq to accept the need for intervention in Syria.

On launching his leadership bid, McDonnell, who vehemently opposed the Iraq War and was an ardent critic of the new Labour government, called for «a challenge to the present political consensus».

He said that while he opposed the Iraq War, he «admired» the former Prime Minister for the introduction of the minimum wage, working tax credits, record NHS spending and building new schools.

I don't know what fraction of the fallen dead they would regard as «heroes», but whatever it is, it hasn't stopped many of them from opposing the Iraq War or the Afghan Surge.

The most effective vote winning policies are ones which are popular on their own, but which also tell a bigger story about the party's values and are consistent with their other policies - opposing the Iraq war and top - up fees were both popular policies, but also clearly signalled to disillusioned Labour voters that the Lib Dems shared their values as a centre - left party of peace and public services.

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.

The Respect Party, launched 12 years ago as a platform for opposing the Iraq war, has ceased to be.

Very sad to hear about death of Charles Kennedy - he deserves to be remembered foremost for his judgement & principles opposing the Iraq War

Gainsborough MP Edward Leigh was one of the few Conservative MPs who voted to oppose the Iraq War.

Like Michael Moore suggests, despite allegedly opposing America's overseas wars («I oppose the Iraq War.

Not exact matches

He opposed President George W. Bush's troop surge in Iraq, seeing it as a costly nation - building endeavor.

This financed the domestic U.S. federal budget deficit, which stems largely from the war in Iraq that most foreign voters oppose.

Boehner should also address why he and other Republicans enthusiastically supported the unnecessary trillion tax dollar War in Iraq while the Vatican (and many other religious groups) opposed it because it violated Just War Criteria.

(CNN)- Thousands of government supporters demonstrated in at least five Shiite provinces in southern Iraq on Tuesday, opposing protests by thousands of people in mainly Sunni provinces that have gone on for more than two weeks.

A pair of articles on the justice of the Iraq war have appeared on the website Right Reason, in the form of a review of a new book bitterly opposing the war, President Bush, and the neoconservatives.

She is unabashedly pro-choice, and most republican voters would oppose her positions on universal health care, gun control, immigration, and the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

Only two democracies — Israel and the United States — opposed the ICC, thereby joining a rogue's gallery of regimes like China, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Sudan.

Finally, and most bizarrely, there is Trump's proposal to seize Iraq's oil in order to defray American expenses for a war that Trump (to his credit) opposed.

Whether this was a reference to the United States in Iraq, or to the structural dominance of the Security Council in the U.N., or to the efforts of select nations to use the U.N. in imposing population and family policies opposed by the Holy See, Benedict did not say.

The difference is Bush ignored anyone who opposed his plan to go to war with Iraq and did it anyway.

The idea that the U.S. was an unquestioned military colossus athwart the world, which no power or people could effectively oppose, was hubristic nonsense certain to get the country into deep trouble — as it did — and bring the U.S. Army to the point of collapse, as happened in Vietnam and may well happen again in Iraq (and Afghanistan).

And he opposed the war in Iraq on the same grounds.

But Bishop Wright's central aim in the lecture is to offer theological judgment - indeed, a critique that discerns God's own judgment - on the efforts (chiefly by the Bush administration) to oppose terrorists by waging war in Iraq and elsewhere.

It also meant that I had no compunction whatsoever about opposing him rather vigorously over Iraq.

Still they have a cause as they had when they opposed the war in Iraq.

I voted against the war in Iraq and I am vigorously opposed to an endless war in the Middle East that cost us trillions...

Asked during a briefing to journalists whether Corbyn opposed military action in Iraq, he said: «Jeremy Corbyn has said publicly that he thinks that needs looking at again.

Del Cecato first encountered Barack Obama at a little - noticed speech the then - State Senator gave in 2002, opposing the war in Iraq.

With then - Councilmembers Bill Perkins and Brewer, and dozens of their colleagues on the Council, Brian helped to draft and secure passage of Council Resolution 549, opposing the imminent invasion of Iraq.

Under Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrats stood against the Iraq war, did not want a replacement for Trident, opposed tuition fees, and favoured a 50p tax band for Britain's highest earners.

If Britain's heroes were people who lived in sixties terraces, people who don't know all six verses of the national anthem, people who had opposed Apartheid in the 80s, and the Iraq war in the noughties, maybe a society with that kind of a hero would be a decent one?

«One of the things most troubling to me was Secretary of Defense (Robert) Gates», not quotation, but recitation of when he was sitting with Obama and Hillary and she was acknowledging that she opposed the surge in Iraq solely to help her political career.

Ellison joined fellow Minnesota freshman Democrat Tim Walz in opposing President George W. Bush's plan to increase troop levels in Iraq.

BillerickyDickie is about Iraq now, no one cares, look at the Libdems opposed to it, had worse result ever,

Leanne Wood said: «Plaid Cymru strongly opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and we have tried hard to hold the former Labour government to account.»

It notes the MP for Henley on Thames supported the election of George W Bush in 2000 and 2004, voted for the war in Iraq, opposed the Kyoto treaty, opposed the national minimum wage and pension rights for part - time workers and defended Section 28.

A staunch liberal who often engaged in spirited battle with television pundits Bill O'Reilly and others on Fox News, Hinchey was one of the first and most outspoken members of Congress to oppose President Bush's effort to invade Iraq.

Ed Miliband The younger Miliband has won support from the left by calling for the retention of the 50p tax rate, opposing a third runway at Heathrow and criticising the decision to go to war in Iraq.

Abbott has a record of differing from some party policies, voting against the Iraq war, [7] opposing ID cards and campaigning against the renewal of Britain's Trident nuclear weapons.