Word: kuwait
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...septuagenarian folksiness and alpha-male swagger. That skill has helped Rumsfeld deflect blame for the mismanagement of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and keep his job as Defense Secretary for George W. Bush's second term. But when Rumsfeld fielded questions last week from soldiers preparing to move from Kuwait into Iraq, he finally met his match. Army Specialist Thomas Wilson, 31, asked the Secretary why soldiers are being sent to war in humvees and trucks so vulnerable that troops must forage for "rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass that's already been shot up, dropped, busted, picking...
Besides serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Yemen from 1997 to 2001, Bodine has served various posts related to the Middle East, inlcuding acting as the Deputy Principal Officer in Baghdad from 1980 to 1983 and as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. More recently she was appointed coordinator for post-conflict reconstruction for Baghdad and the central regions of Iraq...
...standardized his plywood interiors, which were to be "assembled like a big jigsaw puzzle in space," when his relationship with the N.S.W. government broke down and he resigned. During the '70s, Utzon would go on to perfect his "additive architecture" with the box-like Bagsvaerd Church and the modular Kuwait National Assembly, though in recent years his design has become sparer. A building should be left "to be what it wants to be," he has said, echoing the words of American architect Louis Kahn...
...soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?" SPECIALIST THOMAS WILSON, of the Tennessee National Guard, to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in a town-hall meeting with soldiers at Camp Buehring in Kuwait; later a reporter revealed that he had prompted Wilson to ask the question...
...ahead. Fill in the thought bubble. Take a moment and make it a good one. In the meantime, here's the caption: Sopranos stars JAMES GANDOLFINI and Tony Sirico mixed and mingled with troops as part of a U.S.O. tour. After a stop at Camp Doha, Kuwait, where Gandolfini posed with a Saddam Hussein bust, the TV mobsters headed to Iraq. The duo even donned fatigues. The gunning, however, they left to the professionals--as far as we know...