Word: withdraw
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...what of the Iraqis themselves? Perhaps if Secretary Rumsfeld’s plan for an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, install a government of exiled politicians, and quickly withdraw had not been superseded by dreams of whole-scale political reconstruction, some of the damage might have been averted. True, there were not enough American troops to have prevented much of the looting of ministries and other offices. True too that there would have been considerable popular opposition to an American-backed administration, especially from the al-Qaida militants who were already beginning to infiltrate the country. Yet it is easy...
...surge Then last year was a critical year. We had the debates just before Memorial Day. In fact we had 41 debates in the Senate over the course of the year on amendments to withdraw our troops, come home and, in the words of some, "declare defeat." But those were defeated, often times very close, sometimes substantially. The surge was finally approved. The supplemental appropriation to fund it was approved. By July, we had the additional 30,000 troops in place. And the counter-insurgency plan - that General Petraeus, who had then been put in charge...
...could - the level of security that exists. What they did in February - on the de-baathification law, on establishing the provincial elections, on reconciliation - are major steps forward. And if they can complete the job on the hydro-carbon law, I think we have a chance to gradually withdraw, turn over the security to the Iraqi troops, of which we now have 500,000 trained and in uniform. Then we will have accomplished the goal of a fledgling democracy in the Middle East...
...they were essentially like, ‘Well, I don’t really know why you came, because we basically already made our decision,’” says a friend of the student. At the end of this trying process, the student was required to withdraw for a year...
...procedure, where a decision seems to have been made before all the evidence was collected, happens even more often in cases of academic review, students say. In a case that went before the Board last January, a sophomore whose grades were unsatisfactory due to health reasons was required to withdraw for a year. Though the student believes that she did benefit by taking time off, she says that she had not discussed her academic performance with her resident dean, and that there was little she could do by the time she was contacted. When she was ultimately asked to submit...