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Mar 13, 2023 · President Barack Obama ordered a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2009, much as Bush had done in Iraq in 2007. Yet the “good” war ended in utter defeat. The Taliban rule Afghanistan again, and ...
Mar 18, 2023 · The United States invaded Iraq as part of its “war on terror” announced by President George W. Bush after the Al Qaeda attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. ... are not good. The electricity is still bad ...
Mar 20, 2023 · Most Iraqis, of all sects, who have not benefited from the bonanza of theft, face constant power cuts, bad water, and inadequate medical care, in hospitals that were once considered to be as good ...
Mar 21, 2023 · q&a. Mar 21, 2023. A statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein remains in front of a destroyed communication center in Baghdad, Iraq, March 28, 2003. Photo by Reuters Photographer/Reuters. This week marks the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, a conflict with a complicated legacy and repercussions still being felt domestically and around the ...
Mar 20, 2023 · I stepped away from Iraq and the Middle East for several years, serving as ambassador to Pakistan from 2004 to 2007. There was nothing easy about Pakistan, but it was a welcome change. Still, Iraq has a way of pulling those it has touched back into its orbit. In the autumn of 2006, President George W. Bush asked me to return to Iraq as ambassador.
Mar 17, 2023 · The Iraq War took the lives of some 200,000 Iraqi civilians and 4,600 US soldiers. The economic costs to the US were in the range of $2 trillion, and the war upset the balance of power in the ...
Mar 20, 2023 · Iraq faces political turmoil as leaders try to form new coalition government 04:14. For a generation of Iraqis who've grown up during the various grim chapters of the devastating war, it can be ...
