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The Foreign Minister of France said the world should brace for a war with Iran.
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A march by thousands of protesters demanding an end to the Iraq war turned chaotic yesterday afternoon near the Capitol, where hundreds sprawled on the ground in a symbolic “die-in.” Police arrested 189 people.
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In a prime-time address last night, Bush said he foresees what he called “an enduring relationship” between Iraq and the United States, a long-negotiated deal over a new Iraqi oil law collapsed, two of seven soldiers who co-authored an article last month criticizing the US occupation were killed in a car accident, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki ordered the release of Iranian prisoners convicted of drug smuggling, stealing and destructive actions in Iraq, and a high-profile Sunni Arab sheik who collaborated with the American military in the fight against jihadist militants in western Iraq was killed in a bomb attack .
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General David Petraeus said he wasn’t sure if the War in Iraq has made America safer. “I don’t know,” he said. He later changed his mind and said yes.
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Syria lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations Tuesday over a “flagrant violation” of its airspace last week by Israeli warplanes, which dropped munitions on its territory.
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Osama Bin Laden urged Americans to embrace Islam.
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Two policemen were injured and three protesters arrested as thousands marched under tight security through Sydney on Saturday in a protest against visiting US President George W. Bush and the Iraq war.
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Bombs killed 20 people in Iraq on Saturday.
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It was reported that Iraq needs about $50 billion dollars to fix it’s oil and electrical infrastructure, a second British general criticized the US’ Iraq war strategy calling it a “fatally flawed” policy, a new independent assessment reported Iraq’s security forces will be unable to take control of the country in the next 18 months and Baghdad’s national police force is so rife with corruption it should be scrapped entirely, U.S. Representative Jon Porter warned that premature evacuation from Iraq would cause American gas prices to rise, and President Bush said we were kicking ass in Iraq. “We’re kicking ass,” he said.
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The British Army began withdrawing from its last base in Basra’s city center early Monday, a move that will leave Iraq’s second-largest city without foreign forces for the first time since the American-led invasion in 2003.
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Syria decided to stop letting in Iraqi refugees.
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Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the American government and military, very few are signing up to go, resettlement officials say. The reason, Iraqis say, is that they are not allowed to apply in Iraq.
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An Israeli tank shell killed three Palestinian children as they approached a rocket launcher in the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday afternoon, witnesses and paramedics said.
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The Bush administration prepared to ask Congress for an additional fifty billion dollars for the war in Iraq, a military jury exonerated the only officer facing trial for abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib, shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Wednesday ordered a six-month shutdown of his militia in what his aides described as an attempt to reform the organization, President Bush said Tehran’s atomic ambitions could put the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust,” Iran rejected US accusations it was fomenting instability in Iraq, and northern Iraq was hit by major cholera outbreak.
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Opium production in Afghanistan is at record levels for the second consecutive year.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has lashed out at Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin for calling for his replacement. “I don’t agree with Hilary,” he said.
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The Associated Press reported the death toll for Iraqi civilians is double what it was a year ago.
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President Bush refused to endorse the Al-Maliki Government as several key US politicians called for it’s ousting, and Al-Maliki responded by saying US politicians have no right to impose timetables on his elected government and that his country can find friends elsewhere.
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President Bush tried to argue for staying in Iraq using Vietnam as a historical example. “Does he think we should have stayed in Vietnam?” asked Vietnam historian Stanley Karnow.
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A 1994 interview with Dick Cheney regarding the first Gulf war was released to the web in which he said we shouldn’t invade Baghdad.
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