GI Bill Enabled Veterans Begin 'College Life' Courses To Ease Transition Huffington Post "Forgive me," an Iraq war veteran begins haltingly. "I have to use notes. I have a brain injury." The students are participants in a veterans writing seminar at George Washington University, where for two days they immerse themselves in the basics of ... |
San Francisco Chronicle | Car bomb explosion, gunmen kill 4 people in Iraq on start of Muslim holiday Washington Post BAGHDAD — A car bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad and gunmen opened fire at a security checkpoint elsewhere in Iraq, leaving four people dead and eight wounded in attacks Friday. Violence has ebbed across Iraq, but insurgents ... Militant Attacks Leave Four Dead In Iraq Officials: Gunmen kill 2 policemen in Iraq Live! Car bomb explosion, gunmen kill 4 people in Iraq |
TPM | John McCain: Colin Powell "Got Us Into Iraq" Gather.com Says former Republican presidential nominee John McCain: "Colin Powell, interestingly enough, said that Obama got us out of Iraq. But it was Colin Powell, with his testimony before the U.N. Security Council, that got us into Iraq." McCain makes a good ... McCain: Powell 'Got Us Into Iraq' McCain Dumps On Powell Again: He 'Got Us Into Iraq' Obama ad takes Romney remarks on Iraq and Afghanistan out of context |
WND.com | Competition for influence in Iraq heats up WND.com While the U.S. may introduce special operations forces in Iraq for training missions, the Turks want to establish bases in northern Iraq, which is predominantly Kurdish. Not only does Turkey have designs on northern Iraq's oil resources, Ankara wants ... Lawrence Solomon: Oil majors back Kurdistan A Kurdish awakening in Iran Iraqi Ambassador: The Dutch Interested in Business from Basra to Kurdistan |
Army Corps Can't Show $1 Billion in Iraq Fuel Delivered Businessweek In a review of 12 major payments through the Development Fund for Iraq, one of three documents needed to properly verify delivery -- a “receiving report” -- was missing from more than 95 percent of the files, according to the audit issued yesterday by ... US can't produce $1 billion of fuel receipts in Iraq |
Iraq War veteran points to benefits of service dogs The Augusta Chronicle From the VA's perspective, Jefferson is a prosthetic because he assists in Smith's recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder and other injuries he suffered during his deployment to Iraq in 2005. The VA pays for dogs to assist veterans with physical ... |
Christian Science Monitor | Shades of Iraq in Afghanistan? Problems with shoddy contracting work Christian Science Monitor The specifics of the report are reminiscent of dozens of previous reports on US contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. In Iraq, contracting problems were apparent almost from the start of the war. (I wrote in June 2004 on shoddy ... |
NDTV | Iraq: Attacks Kill 12, Including Schoolboy ABC News A 9-year-old schoolboy was among at least 12 people that insurgents killed across Iraq on Wednesday, rattling nerves ahead of a holiday weekend. Violence has declined since the height of Iraq's insurgency, but the attacks once again showed that Sunni ... Iraq attacks kill 15 in deadliest day this month Iraq: 9 killed in separate attacks in Baghdad Burning rubber, Baghdad bikers race to escape war, strictures of religion |
Iraq War Epilogue Jewish Times of Southern New Jersey The Iraq War lasted from the “Shock and Awe” bombing of Baghdad in March, 2003 to the armed convoys carrying the last American troops under cover of darkness through the desert to Kuwait on December 31, 2011. The sharp contrast between our entry ... |
Al-Monitor | Iraq's Weapons Deals with Russia Weaken American Role Al-Monitor The backlash continues over Iraq's arms deals with Russia and the Czech Republic, and the purported relationship between these moves and regional political alignments. Questions are being posed regarding how these these moves relate to the ... The Iraqi Military Is Going On One Big Fat Shopping Spree |