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Iraq WMD failures shadow US intelligence 20 years later

The Paducah Sun 24 Mar 2023
Two decades ago, Crow was a 24-year-old platoon leader in the American invasion of Iraq ... The mistakes of Iraq are still fresh in his mind ... As many as 300,000 civilians died in two decades of conflict in Iraq, according to Brown University estimates ... “We’ve lived with the ghosts of Iraq for two decades and it’s impacted our credibility,” Crow said.
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Virginia native identified as soldier killed in South Carolina shooting, Army says

The Virginian-Pilot 24 Mar 2023
Slacks served as a tracked vehicle mechanic from June 1999 to July 2006, Welch said, and had been deployed to Iraq and Kuwait in two separate stints ... “We collectively mourn the immense loss of his presence in our lives.”. The Virginia native joined the Army in July 2002 and served in Iraq and Kuwait among other tours in the Middle East, Welch said ... .
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Editorial: 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, responsibility remains

Daily Camera 23 Mar 2023
Twenty years ago, the United States launched its first wave of attacks against Iraq ... What the country should not forget — what it must not forget — is the selfless sacrifice of the American armed forces who risked their lives in the noble hope of helping Iraq forge a democratic future ... Bush ramped up pressure on Iraq, building the case for war.
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Remember our veterans of Irag

The Bryan Eagle 23 Mar 2023
Twenty years ago, the United States launched its first wave of attacks against Iraq ... What the country should not forget — what it must not forget — is the selfless sacrifice of the American armed forces who risked their lives in the noble hope of helping Iraq forge a democratic future ... Bush ramped up pressure on Iraq, building the case for war.
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Lesson we should learn from American invasion of Iraq

Blitz 23 Mar 2023
Two full decades passed, during which Iraq lived, and still is, a state of suffering and pain, confirmed by the numbers of dead and wounded, and migrants who fled their country in search of security and a decent human life ... A decade before the invasion of Iraq, the United States ...
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Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at George W. Bush says his only regret is he ...

Democratic Underground 23 Mar 2023
Al-Zaidi returned to Iraq after living and working outside the country for years, and he's among the thousands of people who have joined protests since 2011 against Iraq's Western backed government ... https.//www.cbsnews.com/news/iraq-war-journalist-threw-shoes-george-w-bush-muntazer-al-zaidi-on-only-regret/.
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Oral Histories of Mosul: A new way of documenting history

The New Arab 23 Mar 2023
In-depth - ‘Eye on #Iraq ... That day, in a matter of hours, Iraq’s second-largest city fell in the hands of a terrorist group, as it occurred later to around a third of the country’s territory, completely changing the lives of millions ... And too many times in Iraq we have seen that the winners’ versions have prevailed," Omar continues.
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Dennis Kucinich: From Iraq Into the Abyss?

Scheerpost 23 Mar 2023
Except Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 ... We were attacking Iraq! ... presence in Iraq ... The Iraq High Commission for Human Rights reported in December 2021 that there were 5 million orphaned children in Iraq and 4.5 million children in families living below the poverty line, with a million child laborers ... Congress, for the people of Iraq was alarming.
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Middle East round-up: Remembering the Iraq War and its legacy

Al Jazeera 23 Mar 2023
Twenty years on from the Iraq War, water scarcity in the Middle East, and the start of Ramadan ... Over the past week we’ve been looking at the events of the Iraq war, and its aftermath ... What’s left are the people of Iraq, who now live with the consequences of an invasion that many today see as having been unjustifiable and downright illegal.
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Uganda LGBTQ leader says gay bill threatens homelessness

The Associated Press 23 Mar 2023
Two decades ago, Crow was a 24-year-old platoon leader in the American invasion of Iraq ... The mistakes of Iraq are still fresh in his mind ... As many as 300,000 civilians died in two decades of conflict in Iraq, according to Brown University estimates ... “We’ve lived with the ghosts of Iraq for two decades and it’s impacted our credibility,” Crow said.
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ICC arrest warrant for Putin

Korea Times 23 Mar 2023
Could it be that Bush secretly realizes that he committed not only a great blunder but also a great crime when he invaded Iraq? That would be nice, although it's too late to apologize for the lies, the hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and the ruin of Iraq ... invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year.
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Kurds remain biggest winners from US-led invasion of Iraq

Chatanooga Times Free Press 23 Mar 2023
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Complexes of McMansions, fast food restaurants, real estate offices and half-constructed high-rises line wide highways in Irbil, the seat of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq ... That rapidly changed after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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The New York Times Still Can’t Face Its Iraq War Shame

Truth Dig 23 Mar 2023
... of Iraqis live at or below the poverty line” and, above all, to “the increasingly entrenched government corruption.” (Today, Iraq shares the rank of 157 out of 180 countries on the Transparency International corruption index with Myanmar and Azerbaijan, as the Times noted.).
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Army: Decorated soldier killed in South Carolina shooting

Index-Journal 23 Mar 2023
Slacks served as a tracked vehicle mechanic from June 1999 to July 2006, Welch said, and had been deployed to Iraq and Kuwait in two separate stints ... “We collectively mourn the immense loss of his presence in our lives.”. The Virginia native joined the Army in July 2002 and served in Iraq and Kuwait among other tours in the Middle East, Welch said.
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Salvation lies in ending conflict

The News International 23 Mar 2023
Consequently, the Global South witnessed more than 180 conflicts and wars during the cold war decimating millions of people with the Korean war claiming around three million lives, Vietnam 3-7 million, Afghanistan over two million and Iran Iraq war over one million ... Iraq after losing more than three million people since 1979 is in a shambles.

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