Word: iraq
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...just started a new job with FEMA in New York when his unit was recalled," Gary Sklaver said. "They were supposed to go to Iraq, but then the strategy changed along with his orders, and they were sent to Afghanistan...
...phones, hoping to convince world leaders that giving credence to the Goldstone report would "handcuff" and "cripple" the West in its war on terrorism. Adopting the Goldstone report, Barak warned, might pave the way for U.S. troops and their Western allies to be held liable for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Watch a video on smuggling in the Gaza tunnels...
More damaging to Blair's prospects is the enduring anger over Iraq. Sometime in the coming months, a new British inquiry into the war will summon Blair to give evidence. Families of dead troops have called for him to be indicted as a war criminal. Blair's support for the U.S. on Iraq curdled public opinion outside his homeland too. François Hollande, the former first secretary of the French Socialist Party, has dismissed the idea of a Blair candidacy. The first President of Europe, he said, should be "politically autonomous from...
...priority list. It's a very tricky transition. They made it very clear: our priorities are safety and victory. So anything that could compromise that isn't going to happen. But they are doing some real interesting innovation. For instance, something like half of the barracks in Iraq are now using this superinsulated kind of tent that's using a fraction of the energy that the uninsulated tents were using. That cuts down on the amount of fuel that they need to deliver to power the diesel generators that were powering the air-conditioners in these barrack units. That, then...
...degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths." - Arpaio to inmates living in tents that reached 138 degrees during a heat wave. Associated Press, July...