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News Source: Miami Herald
| 5 months ago
Colin Powell says the U.S. took too long to strengthen its forces in Iraq after Baghdad fell early in the war. Powell, the nation's top military officer under President George H.W...Bush, said the decision to use a lighter force to defeat the Iraqi...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
Iraqis are skeptical that much will change after last week's pullback of U.S. combat troops from Baghdad and other cities, a sentiment not shared by their government. The government declared the June 30 pullback National Sovereignty Day and...
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News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
Vice President Joe Biden says the United States' ability to assist Iraq economically likely depends on the degree of political stability that is achieved. Biden was in Iraq Saturday to oversee the swearing in of 237 U.S. soldiers as American citizens...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Major milestone this week here in Iraq with the American troops pulling out of the cities. And I wonder if you can put the broader American mission in context...Look, the president and I laid out a plan in the campaign which was twofold. One,...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
Vice President Joe Biden poses for a photo with US soldiers at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 4, 2009. Biden celebrated the Fourth of July with his son and other American troops in Iraq on Saturday, a day after warning...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
At least ten people were wounded on Sunday in bomb attacks in the city of Mosul, the capital of northern Iraq's Nineveh province, a provincial police source said. A booby-trapped car parking near a police office in central Mosul detonated in...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
When US Vice-President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad this week for a surprise visit, two days after taking on a new role overseeing US policy in Iraq, he said this was a moment when we "have to make sure that the Iraqis don't take their eyes off the...
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News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 5 months ago
Biden also warned Friday that U.S. assistance may not be forthcoming if the country reverts to ethnic and sectarian violence. "The political situation won't accept that the United States intervenes in an internal issue, whether that issue is...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Iraq has warned the US to back off when it comes to resolving rows between the country's ethnic and religious sects. A government spokesman says visiting US President Joe Biden has to tell his boss Barack Obama outside interference will only make...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
Obama, who was speaking to military families at the White House on Saturday, hailed Iraq's independence adding that "Iraq's future now rests in the hands of its own people." He made the remarks days after US combat troops pulled out of Iraqi cities...