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News - Updated Daily |
| 07/03/2009 02:11 AM |
| Soldiers Say Goodbye to Orphans |
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE DELTA — Children from the Kut orphanage were treated to an evening of games, gifts and entertainment at the Rehanah Al-Haydaryah Family Park by 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regiment, 41st Fires Brigade, June 26. It was an idea to have an event before the American forces left that they could say goodbye to the Iraqi children; and it should be in an open area like the park, said Ms. Nisreen Abdul Raoof, the director of the Kut orphanage.Lt. Col. Timothy Bush, commander 2nd Bn., 20th FA Regt.,
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| 07/02/2009 02:01 AM |
| U.S. Medical Task Force Improves Health Care in Iraqi Province |
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FOB DELTA — Soldiers serving with a medical task force here completed nearly a year's worth of missions last week, satisfied that they've helped to improve health care in Iraq's Wasit province. Soldiers from Task Force Gunner Med wrapped up Operation Bring on the Docs with a recent visit to the Jassan Health Clinic for a cooperative medical engagement.
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| 07/01/2009 02:11 AM |
| Baghdad Declares Holiday as U.S. Troops Withdraw from Cities |
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WASHINGTON — As the United States completed its withdrawal of combat forces from Iraqi cities in accordance with yesterday's deadline, Baghdad commemorated the milestone with a national holiday. The departing American brigades and battalions leave behind a significantly smaller contingent of U.S. trainers and advisors in the cities, where Iraqi forces now have primary
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| 06/30/2009 12:57 AM |
| Historic Day for Future of Iraq |
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BASRAH — Today is an important day for the people of Iraq. In accordance with Article Five of the Security Agreement between the United States and the Government of Iraq signed in Baghdad in November of last year, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) are now responsible for securing their cities. As of today, U.S. combat forces will turn over the security of cities to Iraqi Security Forces, and begin a period where our primary security role is one of training, mentoring and advising the ISF, said Maj. Gen. Rick Nash, commander, Multi-National Division-South. Today's ISF is capable, ready and dedicated to keeping the people of Iraq safe.
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| 06/29/2009 02:44 AM |
| Iraqi Helicopters Get Critical Upgrades |
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BAGHDAD — Two Iraqi Air Force (IqAF) MI-17 helicopters recently returned from Amman, Jordan after undergoing modifications and upgrades critical to IqAF operations.The IqAF accomplished the helicopter upgrades by establishing a team with members from Jordan, Germany, the U.S. and Iraq.
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"The world is a dangerous place to live. not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Albert Einstein How to Lose to Terrorists Ben Stein | August 01, 2006 We are in real serious trouble, and I'll tell you how and why I know it: * Because the Hezbollah -- as has been well reported -- launches missiles at purely civilian targets in Israel as a matter of course, and no one in Europe or in the American left says "boo" about it. It's considered the Hezbollah's "right" to kill Israelis and when they do, they boast about it and promise to do more; * Because it's been also well documented that the Hezbollah hides behind civilian targets and adjacent to civilian dwellings in Lebanon to fire its rockets at Israel, and when Israel fires back and mistakenly hits a home with civilians, the world of "intellectuals" and "thinkers" blames Israel and calls Israel bloodthirsty; * Because when the Israelis kill civilians, they apologize, but when the terrorists kill civilians, they brag -- and the beautiful people scream at Eretz Israel and excuse the terrorists; * Because if you substitute "America" for "Israel" and the "terrorists in Iraq" for the Hezbollah, you get what's happening in Iraq; * Because it is impossible to beat a terrorist movement without using terror tactics, and we as a people of compassion and restraint, both in Israel and the U.S., will not use terror tactics even when survival is at stake, and this means we will not survive. It is very much as if, after Pearl Harbor, after the bombing of London, we said, "We will fight the Japanese and the Nazis, but we will only use humane means, and we will show total restraint and will never kill civilians. And we will search our souls and agonize about every move." It is this attitude that kept the United States from winning in Korea, in Vietnam, and now in Iraq. If we had followed that code of suicide, we would have lost World War II and the world would have been plunged into eternal darkness. You cannot fight inhumane people with humane means. You cannot fight savages with one hand -- no, two hands -- tied behind your back. No wars were ever won using restraint and only civilized means. That's a formula for complete defeat and for the end of civilized life. If we allow our media and French intellectuals to prevent us and the Israelis from using the means necessary to win, we'll lose...in Lebanon, in Iraq, and everywhere and this civilization is very well worth preserving. Yes, as sad as it would be to use terror tactics to win a war, it would be incomparably worse to lose. At the end of the war we win, there is light. At the end of the war we lose, there is the end. This originally appeared in The American Spectator. |
