Iraq

Ayatollah Khomeini, He was also the head commander giving orders wheter to attack or defend cities.

None. Nuclear weapons have not been, nor are likely to, authorized for use.

The life expectancy really depends on what branch of the military you are in and what platoon you are in... Let's say if you are a marine, your average life expectancy is 1.5-2.5 years... Yeah, I know, it's low. And the army isn't much higher, it is about 3-4.5 years... I myself am going to be an Army Ranger, their life expectancy is good, but not great, it's around 5-7.5 years.

There are really three important geographic features of Mesopotamia. It is made up of an area of land known as "the fertile crescent". This land lies between and around two important rivers that give this rich area its life-- the Tigris and Euphrates.

Quite possibly, since the increase of communications and data collection has improved, the time frames have been condensed and the numbers of units and people have been compressed, information of this type is available in a datatbase somewhere. It simply hasn't been put together and made available to the public at this time.

Iran is the country that lies between Iraq & Afghanistan. Iran's historical name was Persia, though it did not have today's borders since those were defined in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Just because a group of people belong to the same party does not mean that they feel the same way about everything.

You'd need to ask the specific republican than you are wondering about how he or she feels.

There are several names that were used for the region long before the Arabic al-'Iraq (which forms the basis for the English "Iraq". The most common is Mesopotamia, which means "[the land] between two rivers". (Al-'Iraq has a similar meaning.)

Iraq was also named by the dominant civilization in the area. These include:

1) Endemic Civilizations: There were a number of ancient civilizations that had a strong presence in the region (and used it for its capital provinces) including Assyria, Babylonia, Chaldea, and Sumer.

2) Imperial Territory: Babylon marked a turning point after which most countries that occupied Iraq were entities that had their capital provinces elsewhere. The Persian Empire was the first such empire to conquer this area and add it to their territory. Following them, the Macedonian Greeks took control of the region, naming it Mesopotamia. The Macedonian Empire fell apart, making Iraq a battleground between the Syrian and Seleucid Greeks. Iraq eventually became part of the Roman and subsequent Byzantine Empire for some 500 years. Arab armies then conquered the area and brought the Arabic language and the Moslem religion to the region.

3) Abbassid Caliphate: During the 500 years of the Abbassid Caliphate, Baghdad, Iraq was the reigning capital and center of their empire.This is when the term al-'Iraq came into common usage as the name of the general region, but not of a political province.

4) Imperial Territory, round 2: Later the Ottoman Turks seized Mesopotamia and made it part of their empire. Next the British came and took Mesopotamia from the Turks durning World War I and helped the local leaders set up a government in 1921 called Iraq with King Faisal I as the first ruling monarch.

They wanted to protect their investments in oil

well, i would say it started on march 19th 2003 president Obama plans to finish this war in the summer of 2010 in augast but something bad is going to happen afhter we defeat Iraq AFHGANISTAN is going to start fighting us until 2020 mabe because afhganistan thinks they are so strong cause they have alot of neuclear missles and atomic bombs so we can loase and die. So PRAY to GOD to say that WE WILL WIN.

The USA got into conflict in Irag during the Desert Shield Desert Storm 1990 invasion by Iraq into Kuwait. Its been a off and on war from then on. The attack on US soil 9/11 opened it up to where we are today. "Sadam asid it would be the mother of all wars"

This fight is not much unlike the Vietnam era from 1955-1975 how ever the Vietnam fighters did not bring their fight directly on to the United States soil as did Japan in WWII and the Islamist militant group knowen as al-Qaeda, in the Middle East countries.

Prayer is a good thing! Return to Gods moral teachings & laws will help too.

more information see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/desert_shield.htm

Im not quite sure about Iraq but, in Afghanistan, roughly 1222 of our boys have passed. Mostly by IEDs. God Bless them.

As of November 7, 2008, the count is at 285, which is about 43% less than the number of people killed in New York City last year.

From the Iraq Coalition Casualties Count website

http://icasualties.org/oif/

1 trillion dollars and counting

The great grand children of American tax payers will be paying for Iraq, Afghanistan, as well as "aid" to Israel

The insurgency is becoming bolder and more persistent, but the United States has withdrawn all troops. It is currently an Iraqi domestic mess.

There are 68,000 troops in Afghanistan


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Marine Lance Corporal Jose Gutierrez 22 Lomita, California Killed in action in southern Iraq. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California. Died on March 21, 2003. He was the first casualty of war in Iraq, it was later found that he was killed not by enemy fire but friendly fire. He was an orphan on the streets of Guatemala City who heard about America from the minister at a children's shelter; at the age of 14, by walking and jumping freight trains, he made his way to California, where he was brought up in foster homes. He joined the Marines to make money for college-and to send to a sister in Guatemala. "Pray for all of us, not just me," he wrote his foster mother on March 1.

Ever since the First Gulf War (1990), hardly a year goes by where we aren't inundated by rumors of re-instatement of a military draft. In December 2007, the Selective Service System announce that it plans to conduct a comprehensive test of the draft system sometime in 2009. This, coupled President Bush increasing our force size in Iraq, has caused a flurry of newspaper editorials, speculating about the possibility of a draft. The draft for the Iraq mission is not needing to be put in use.

Whoever put down. ITS GOING TO KILL EVERYONE is an absolute fool. If it was you wouldn't have been sitting here writing that foolish response. The Iraqi war will be like any other in our history. Once its over with. It will go down in the history book. Have a few monuments in its honor. And an endless repitition of video games will be made about it. Simple as that. Theres no doomsday prediction in that.

Within hours of the invasion, Kuwaiti and US delegations requested a meeting of the UN Security Council, which passed Resolution 660, condemning the invasion and demanding a withdrawal of Iraqi troops. On August 3, the Arab League passed its own resolution demanding a withdrawal. The resolution also called for a solution to the conflict from within the League, and warned against foreign intervention. On August 6, the Security Council passed Resolution 661, placing economic sanctions on Iraq.
There were three Gulf Wars in the 20th & 21st Centuries: 1. Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) 2. Operation Desert Storm (Jan/Feb 1991) 3. Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003- )

other nations believed that Saddam Hussein had become a more responsible ruler.

No there has never been a credible link made between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. The 9/11 attacks where carried out by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and the majority of the hijackers, 15 of the 19 came from Saudi Arabia, none where Iraq citizens. Even George Bush said that in 2003: "No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th," Bush said. You can read the quote at http://www.seattlepi.com/national/140133_bushiraq18.html and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3119676.stm. Here is a quote from George Tenet: On April 29, 2007, former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet said on 60 Minutes, "We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al-Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America, period." You can read the entire interview at http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/04/30/snow/index.html. In fact Saddam Hussein never really liked al-Qaeda and the relationship was never overly positive. The official report of the 9/11 commissions says "Bin Ladin was also willing to explore possibilities for cooperation with Iraq, even though Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, had never had an Islamist agenda---save for his opportunistic pose as a defender of the faithful against "Crusaders" during the Gulf War of 1991. Moreover, Bin Ladin had in fact been sponsoring anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan, and sought to attract them into his Islamic army." The full report is at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/fullreport.pdf. I think when George Bush and his Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet say there was no link and they were the man that decided to invade Iraq I think it is safe to say there is no link.

As is "normal", figures will vary from year to year, and especially from source to source. But more often than not, the figures given closest to the date of occurrence appear to be the most accurate. During the early 1970's the figure of 3,000 rounds of small arms fire, per enemy casualty, was given. This had a profound effect on individual rifleman tactics. Shortly after these figures were accepted by the US Army, the M-16 rifle's full automatic switch was modified for short bursts. Until there is another change made, Vietnam will be the FIRST and LAST time in history in which the individual rifleman had "Rock an Roll" (full automatic capability).