Word: soldiers
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...thinking at the time,” he said, “this is great, but not every soldier in Iraq knows the right person to ask for supplies. Mom and Pop are not going to send you Arabic language books...
...weaving past Japanese tourists having their photos snapped with Israeli soldier girls, McCain was accosted by a gaunt, Jewish ex-settler, one of 7,000 removed from Gaza in 2005, who pleaded with the Senator for money since he wasn't getting any from the Israeli government. He was quickly pushed away by McCain's American and Israeli security guards...
...economist, not a soldier,” he wrote. “I came to help Iraq’s economy get moving. Why would anyone want to hurt...
...problems facing Iraq We have also the problem rising, like, IDPs [internally displaced people]. We have women trafficking, and prostitution. We have juvenile detainees suffering. Before we didn't have child soldier problem, a lot of drug victims, complete failure of public services. These things need to be identified. This is the job of all civil society and media, just to draw attention that the humanitarian crisis needs to be worked at different levels...
...tours would be 15 months. Everyone kind of just accepted it. It didn't really surprise or shock anyone, and we hadn't yet deployed so it wasn't like we thought we were coming home and then found out it would be later. I actually had one soldier who, in his earlier tour, was pulled out of Iraq to Kuwait and they were on the plane to go home, and they had to turn back around to Baghdad. So we were actually kind of happy that the situation had happened, it became a lot easier to accept...