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Iraq War focus for Lincoln Chafee campaign launch - CNN Wed, 03 Jun 2015 21:16:37 GMT

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Iraq War focus for Lincoln Chafee campaign launch
CNN
A defining issue for Chafee has been the war in Iraq; he was the lone Republican to vote against authorizing the war as a senator in 2003. Hillary Clinton was among the Democrats to vote in favor of giving President George W. Bush the authority to invade.
Lincoln Chafee Joins Presidential Election 2016, Targets Hillary Clinton On ...International Business Times
Hillary Clinton's Iraq War Vote Returns in Human FormSlate Magazine (blog)
Chafee Candidacy Willl Bring A Relentless Attack on Clinton's Iraq VoteNBCNews.com
McClatchy Washington Bureau -Tribune-Review
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Strike levels huge Iraq car bomb factory in blow to IS - Yahoo News Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:53:02 GMT

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Strike levels huge Iraq car bomb factory in blow to IS
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Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - An air strike in the Iraqi town of Hawijah completely levelled one of the Islamic State group's largest car bomb factories, causing heavy casualties and extensive destruction, officials said. The blast caused by the strike and the ...
US, Coalition Partners Looking at Post-IS Strategy in IraqVoice of America
Iraq Pleads for More Help From West as Bombs Continue to Drop on Islamic StateVICE News
US: Shiite Fighters in Iraq Are a Necessary, if Unlikely, …Foreign Policy (blog)
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Gen. Martin Dempsey On Iraq: A Fight That Will Take 'Multiple Years' - NPR Wed, 03 Jun 2015 21:27:54 GMT

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Gen. Martin Dempsey On Iraq: A Fight That Will Take 'Multiple Years'
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Gen. Martin Dempsey has spent more than a decade dealing with Iraq, and as his tenure as chairman of the Joint Chiefs winds down, he sees a conflict that will long outlast his time in uniform. Dempsey helped train the Iraqi military from 2005 to 2007 ...
Islamic State militants use water as weapon in western IraqReuters
Dude, where's my Humvee? Iraq losing equipment to Islamic State at staggering ...Reuters Blogs (blog)
International coalition vows unity in fight against ISISCNN
Department of Defense -Telegraph.co.uk
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More than 10000 Isis fighters killed in Iraq and Syria since start of US-led ... - The Independent Wed, 03 Jun 2015 18:47:57 GMT

The Independent

More than 10000 Isis fighters killed in Iraq and Syria since start of US-led ...
The Independent
Despite Isis making recent gains by seizing the city of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria, he insisted there had been progress battling the extremists. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff director of operations shows photos of the impact of air strikes on ...


Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq - The Guardian Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:56:23 GMT

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Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq
The Guardian
For the past year, US, British and other western forces have been back in Iraq, supposedly in the cause of destroying the hyper-sectarian terror group Islamic State (formerly known as al-Qaida in Iraq). This was after Isis overran huge chunks of Iraqi ...
Iraq Pins Hopes Of Retaking Ramadi On Newly Trained Sunni FightersInternational Business Times
On the Front Lines in Iraq: War at 'Standstill' as Kurds Still in Need of More ...Breitbart News
How Bush lost Iraq twiceDaily Kos
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Joe Biden May Have Been Right About Iraq - New York Observer Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:32:47 GMT

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Joe Biden May Have Been Right About Iraq
New York Observer
Biden and Gelb said President Bush did not “have a strategy for victory in Iraq. Rather, he hopes to prevent defeat and pass the problem along to his successor.” The two then proposed breaking Iraq into three “largely autonomous regions – Kurdish ...

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Americans Fault Obama, Bush Equally For Iraq's Problems - Daily Signal Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:23:59 GMT

Daily Signal

Americans Fault Obama, Bush Equally For Iraq's Problems
Daily Signal
Six years ago, President Obama ran on a promise to end the war in Iraq. Gearing up for the 2012 election, his campaign ran an ad titled, “Ending the War in Iraq: A Promise Kept.” Two years later, against the context of a fragmented, volatile Iraq ...
On Iraq, President Obama is getting as much blame as George W. BushWashington Post (blog)
The White House's Game Plan for Iraq: Run Out the ClockDefense One
Jeb Bush is wrong; Iraq was not stable before ObamaThe Hill (blog)
GovExec.com -CNN -The National Interest Online
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Petraeus: U.S. 'probably losing' in Iraq - Politico Wed, 03 Jun 2015 22:31:42 GMT

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Petraeus: U.S. 'probably losing' in Iraq
Politico
Former CIA director and retired four-star general David Petraeus told CBS Wednesday that the U.S. is “probably losing” its fight against the Islamic State in Iraq. Asked directly by anchor Charlie Rose whether or not the United States was winning in ...

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Iraq War Veteran Charged with Murder in Deaths of 3 Relatives He Allegedly ... - People Magazine Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:57:19 GMT

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Iraq War Veteran Charged with Murder in Deaths of 3 Relatives He Allegedly ...
People Magazine
An Iraq war veteran and Bronze Star recipient was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his estranged wife's mother, stepfather and brother. Roy H. Murry, 30, surrendered to authorities on Saturday, four days after the home ...
Iraq War Vet Charged With Premeditated Murder in Deaths of RelativesMilitary.com

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Iraq, Iran fighters deployed to defend Damascus: security source - Yahoo News Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:49:03 GMT

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Iraq, Iran fighters deployed to defend Damascus: security source
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Beirut (AFP) - Thousands of Iranian and Iraqi fighters have been deployed in Syria in past weeks to bolster the defences of Damascus and its surroundings, a Syrian security source told AFP on Wednesday. "Around 7,000 Iranian and Iraqi fighters have ...

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