Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...journalists who have covered this country through its darkest months, the barrage of mortars and the smoke plumes rising out of the Green Zone brought to mind Baghdad of a year ago, when the Iraqi capital was wracked by sectarian violence and terrorist attacks. For many Baghdadis, the violence served as a unnerving reminder that the improvements that have come with the "surge" are fragile, easily shattered. Said Mithal Alusi, a Green Zone resident and member of Iraq's parliament: "In a minute, in a second, just like that... we can fall into hell again...
...message to Iran that the United States will never leave, even after Bush is gone.' WAEL ABDUL LATIF, Iraqi parliamentarian, on Senator John McCain's recent visit to Iraq...
...Iraq wanted us to win. Hadn't the Poles and Czechs celebrated when we defeated the Soviets? Hadn't Afghans cheered the overthrow of the Taliban? Swirling in the air in the spring of 2003 was an intoxicating blend of militarism and moralism. Our troops would destroy Saddam, and Iraqi gratitude would take care of the rest...
...message to Iran that the United States will never leave, even after Bush is gone.' WAEL ABDUL LATIF, Iraqi parliamentarian, on Senator John McCain's recent visit to Iraq...
...Speaking from the front steps of University Hall, Timothy P. McCarthy, a History and Literature lecturer, urged the crowd to remember what he said the Bush administration wants them to forget. “They want us to forget that none of the men on those planes were Iraqi. They want us to forget that there were no weapons of mass destruction.” McCarthy said that he has been protesting the war since its beginning. “In 2003, Lynne Cheney produced a list of academics who were ‘short on patriotism...