Sentences with phrase «supporting iraq»

IMO David Cameron's big mistake - and where I fall out with him - was in supporting the Iraq war, unlike the older and wiser heads such as Dougals Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, Ken Clarke, Douglas Hogg etc..

«At this critical time it is therefore vital that the government does not divert attention from supporting Iraq's development as a secure and stable country.»

A perceived turning point was when Blair controversially allied himself with US President George W. Bush in supporting the Iraq War, which caused him to lose much of his political support.

Walter Russell Mead was an early advocate of expanding American power in the vacuum left by the end of the cold war, and he supported the Iraq War in 2003.

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

Democratic politicians (such as Hillary Clinton) who supported the Iraq War pretend that they were hoodwinked, though they saw the same information as everyone else.

When our European allies expressed reluctance to support the Iraq War, we were encouraged to eat «freedom fries» instead of «French fries.»

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.

While she supported the Iraq War, during the Deputy Leadership campaign, she said that she would not have voted for it had she been in full possession of the facts, specifically about the lack of concrete evidence of weapons of mass destruction.

He never supported the Iraq war, and recently voted against arming the so - called Syrian moderates, believing Congress should have an open debate on the subject and the Obama administration should have an exit strategy.

Dave Rice: How exactly did Russ Feingold support the Iraq war?

Around the time of the by - election Owen Smith gave an interview to WalesOnline in which he appeared to support the Iraq war and favour privatisation in the NHS.

Bayer's K9 Advantix II brand has teamed up with K9s For Warriors for a three - month campaign that will enable dog owners to support Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans and shelter dogs.

Germany's former Social Democratic (SPD)- Green Party coalition government supported the Iraq war for oil.

Not exact matches

But Muslims who support sharia in Afghanistan and Iraq also favor a particularly harsh application of the law.

In Iraq, 58 percent majority of Muslims who support sharia law also support the stoning of adulterers, and 56 percent support corporeal punishments for stealing.

A marathon spectator named Carlos Arredondo, who had lost one of his sons in the Iraq war and the other to suicide, was attending the marathon to support a runner honoring his sons.

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.

In building support for war with Iraq, Fox News was indispensable with its trademark jingoistic / alarmist / patriot thing.

US - led coalition airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria hit record levels in August, dropping 5,075 bombs during close - air - support, escort, or interdiction operations.

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters)- Iran deployed on Monday a dozen tanks supported by artillery at the border with Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, a Kurdish official told Reuters.

Last March, a Marine outpost established to support the operation to retake Mosul, Iraq came under rocket attack by ISIS militants, killing Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin.

That unit topped the roughly 34,000 rounds fired in support of the invasion of Iraq, and it fired a little over half of the more than 60,000 rounds fired by the over 730 howitzers the Army and Marines used to support Operation Desert Storm, according to historical records seen by Marine Corps Times.

US troops supporting the fight against ISIS in Iraq have also started to draw down in the wake of Baghdad's declaration of victory over the terrorist group at the end of 2017.

«I would submit to the Democrats across the country we are going to be compromised in trying to win the election in 2016 if our nominee supported the war in Iraq,» Chafee said, as reported by CNN on Thursday.

The Deir al - Zor region had been «used by ISIS as a route for logistics support between ISIS in Iraq and ISIS in Syria, so whether you attack the stronghold or you attack the route that ISIS uses, it (has) the same result», Assad said.

With about one - third of the fleet operating in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (indeed, four EC - 130Hs, teaming up with the RC - 135 Rivet Joint and other EA assets, are operating over Iraq and Syria to deny the Islamic State the ability to communicate), the fact that a single EC - 130H (73 - 1590 «Axis 43») was recently deployed from Davis Monthan AFB to Osan Air Base, South Korea, where it arrived via Yokota, on Jan. 4, 2018, it's pretty intriguing.

The team of investigative reporters has broken a number of stories during the current election campaign, including one that dug up Trump's previous statements about his support for the Iraq War, as well as a piece that provided proof that Sen. Rand Paul (R - KY) plagiarized some of his speeches.

On the note of transferring forces, those vehicles that could be redirected from supporting NATO or conducting exercises could be set to Iraq, Syria, and other countries to fight ISIS, but is that America's job?

In April, 2003, Harper went on Fox News in the U.S. and attacked the Chretien government's failure to support the war in Iraq.

Then came last month's NDP convention, where delegates behaved as though they just couldn't wait to turn their party into a kind of wholly - owned Canadian subsidiary of the American anti-war left - adopting even the exact wording of what is essentially a brand - name American slogan that refers to the U.S. occupation of Iraq: Support Our Troops.

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.

The political establishment's support for those wars (particularly Iraq, the clearest «war of choice») and their decision to maintain significant active deployments in other conflicts was deeply unpopular among those most affected by them.

«After calling continuously for weeks for Director Pompeo to support President Trump's belief that the Iraq war was a mistake, and that it is time to leave Afghanistan, today I received confirmation the Director Pompeo agrees with @realDonaldTrump,» wrote Paul.

Within OPEC, so far Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Venezuela, and Algeria have said they would support some kind of extension, or would support a rollover of the cuts if others do.

He deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and also supported operation Enduring Freedom in Kuwait following September 11th.

Countries with rising oil production, such as Iraq and Libya, or large populations, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are attracting the interest of bankers seeking to support growth opportunities in the medium term.

I am NOT saying I support going back into Iraq with tens of thousands of troops.

«Granny», you should be asking yourself what Jesus would have done in regards to going to Iraq and murdering innocent women in Children... would Jesus have supported that?

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.

But did he condemn the violence of Islam supported by his own country in places like Syria and Iraq.

Known as the «vicar of Baghdad», Canon Andrew White has lived in Iraq since 2005 and made the brave decision earlier this year to stay and support the Christians that remain.

Editor's note: David French is a constitutional lawyer, veteran of the Iraq war and the co-author (most recently) of «Why Evangelicals Should Support Mitt Romney (And Feel Good about It!).»

The moment Hillary Clinton stood on the floor of the congress and said that she had reviewed the reports that Bush was given and she supported the war in Iraq and other Dems voted with her it stopped being a republican war.

While President Bush endorsed the 2005 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, which I supported, he also championed a pre-emptive war in Iraq that costs hundreds of thousands of lives.

The Prime Minister has reiterated her support of Christians who are persecuted in Iraq and other countries... More

Didion's point is that this tendency has flattened discussion since 9/11, and has created a government in which Democrats, with few exceptions, either have remained silent or have supported whatever the president wants with respect to foreign policy — the congressional vote on war powers in regard to Iraq being the, prime example.

For people who want to help and may not be familiar with your work there, can you tell me a little about what you guys are doing and how their support is directly helping the people in Iraq and Syria?

The way I personally was treated by the leftist poetry world in the run - up to the invasion of Iraq is one of the things that helped convince me to support the war: If their objections to the invasion were all culture - war retreads ¯ the open expression of anti-Semitism and hatred of Christianity were particularly appalling ¯ then I figured I should be for the invasion.

The connection between the public's misperceptions about Iraq and the administration's support of further media deregulation is an unholy alliance.