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She is a Sunni Muslim, from the religiously mixed area around Samarra about two hours north of Iraq’s capital, and at first the fighting did not touch her. But in 2005, she said, “we began to ...
Former President Barack Obama ordered the deployment after rightly withdrawing US forces in 2011 due to domestic pressure against the Iraq war and occupation. Today’s Iraq is not that of 2014.
The “bad” war, meanwhile, yielded battlefield victories, first during the 2007 surge, then—even more emphatically—in the fight against the Islamic State a decade later.
Iraq was being run by a caretaker government headed by then-prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. The day before the fighting began, the commander in charge of the prime minister’s special division ...
We were able to bring the war to a reasonably successful conclusion in 2008. When President Obama took office, Iraq was calm, al-Qaeda was weakened and ISIS did not exist.
Former President Barack Obama ordered the deployment after rightly withdrawing US forces in 2011 due to domestic pressure against the Iraq war and occupation. Today’s Iraq is not that of 2014.