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Allen West • Fri 2015 Jun 19, 7:45pm

It’s a situation that didn’t have to be but now seems inevitable. The Obama administration was given a stable Iraq and it seemed the possible would actually happen. … Now, some are arguing that Iraq is no more.

Kumasi Aaron / News4Jax • Fri 2014 Jun 27, 5:38pm

… just four days before he was scheduled to return home. …Moncie Lamar Johns joined the Marines when he was 17 years old and served 22 years, including fighting in Operation Desert Storm. He retired in 2010 as a gunnery sergeant and moved back to the United States, wanting to spend time with his two young daughters. But [Father] Bill Johns said something was missing for his son, who was one of four siblings. His two brothers also served in the military. "He's been always a person to want to help. And he found out really on the jobs here he couldn't help a lot of people,” Bill Johns said. “But he told me a couple times he said, 'Dad, I can help them overseas.'”

Moonbattery • Fri 2014 Jun 27, 4:33pm

Bush's Iraq compared with Obama's "Iraq" [image at link]

Associated Press, David Martosko, James Nye / Daily Mail • Mon 2014 Jun 16, 8:36pm

President Obama announced on Monday evening that US ground troops 'equipped for combat' are being sent to Iraq - just days after claiming that no American soldiers would be deployed to the war-torn country.

In a letter to Congress, the president said American troops will be returning to Iraq only three years after they left and their deployment began on Sunday.

However, Obama said that their only purpose will specifically be to protect US personnel and the US Embassy in Baghdad - and not join in the fierce fighting raging outside the Iraqi capital.

Joseph Klein / Right Side News • Mon 2014 Jun 16, 6:56pm

The release of al Baghadi and other jihadist insurgents from the Bucca prison, coupled with President Obama’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 rather than follow the military’s advice to leave a residual force behind, turned the smoldering embers of the once defeated al Qaeda-backed insurgency into a raging out-of-control conflagration.

news.yahoo.com • Tue 2009 Jun 30, 6:11pm

Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad's background track. Left alone to protect the capital Tuesday were thousands of Iraqi troops and police manning checkpoints, with army tanks deployed at potential trouble spots and convoys of pickup trucks with machine guns roaming the streets.

csmonitor.com • Thu 2009 Apr 23, 9:56pm

announced Thursday that security forces had arrested the group's current leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. The news was a morale boost in Iraq, which has seen increased violence in recent weeks, including two bombings Thursday that killed dozens.

breitbart.com • Fri 2009 Apr 10, 1:48pm

A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into a wall around a police headquarters in northern Iraq on Friday, killing five American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen in the single deadliest attack against U.S. forces this year, the U.S. military and Iraqi police said. A sixth American soldier and 17 Iraqi policemen were also wounded in the blast that took place near the national police headquarters in southwestern Mosul—Iraq's third-largest city and al-Qaida's last urban stronghold.

iht.com • Mon 2009 Mar 2, 3:55pm

Iraq's special criminal court Monday acquitted Tariq Aziz, the man who once served as the urbane, cigar-smoking public face of Saddam Hussein's rule, delivering the most significant not-guilty verdict in a series of prosecutions for crimes against humanity that occurred before the U.S. invasion in 2003.