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...violence is way down since the mid-2000s, there's been a resurgence of car bombs and sectarian killings. The Iraqi government barely functions, and the country ranks nearly at the bottom of the Transparency International corruption index...
...all make is the urgency of the situation.One translator who helped carry out a U.S. investigation of fraud in Iraqi government ministries wrote that two attempts had been made on his life; he's had to live on U.S. bases since February...
...stable and self-reliant." He then outlined how the U.S. would achieve that goal by working "to promote an Iraqi government that is just, representative and accountable, and that provides neither support nor safe haven to terrorists...
...former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who was found in hiding by U.S. troops. Saddam was tried and hanged by the Iraqi government. Gadhafi's only daughter, Aisha, was a lawyer who helped in Saddam's unsuccessful legal defense.___8...
...of this year. But many in the government want to ask Washington to leave some forces behind. Imagine that. The Iraqi government asking the Americans to stay. It's enough to make the Iran-backed al-Sadr threaten a new civil war. Of course...
...have "democracy" on the terms of the American elite who decide who will be reliable, cooperative stooges in the Iraqi government. The Iraqis see right through this. If the U.S. went there to liberate Iraqis, it should give them back their...
...military force in Iraq. Congress last week passed a resolution authorizing such force. "While the behavior of the Iraqi government has been unconscionable, it is imperative that we continue to seek peaceful resolutions that involve the entire...
...to associate with the "War on Terror" in quotes from two Marine commanders involved in the attack by U.S. and Iraqi government forces on the border town of Husaybah. This is a poor Sunni Arab town of about 30,000 people, targeted by coalition...
...freedom, they should engage us in an open, honest debate about the real goals of the Iraq war: establishing an Iraqi government friendly to U.S. interests, protecting Israel, ensuring preferential access to Iraqi oil, substituting Iraq...
...grenade - standing beside them. The captors threatened to kill the hostages unless Germany stopped dealing with the Iraqi government. Germany opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and refused to send troops here, but it has been training Iraqi...