Other items needed for the Iraq-bound trucks also were in short supply, such as oversized tires.
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American troops in Iraq -- any decision made on whether the withdrawal will be slowed down?
He added that Iraq-related concerns were rendering it "especially difficult" to forecast US economic performance.
The GOP also plans to block several other Iraq-related amendments to a defense policy bill.
Mr Howard's enemies hope that he will follow Spain's Popular Party into Iraq-induced electoral oblivion.
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He said we should still have troops in Iraq -- just said this a couple weeks ago.
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The trial is scheduled during a busy time in Iraq -- four days after the national constitution referendum.
They would have kept tens of thousands of our forces in Iraq -- indefinitely, without a clear mission.
When the Iraq-Iran War broke out in 1980, some 3, 000 workers on the project had to be evacuated overnight.
Fifty percent believe the United States is winning in Iraq -- the highest number in at least five years.
Christians have fled Iraq - one of their ancient homelands - en masse.
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The last troops to be rotated out of Iraq -- in April, 2004 -- would be the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
Two paragraphs of the letter - which concerned relations between the West, Turkey and Saddam Hussein's Iraq - was redacted.
The war in Iraq - clearly people who were concerned about the war in Iraq voted strongly against Republican candidates.
Britain has the second-largest contingent of troops in Iraq -- about 4, 100 -- after the United States, which has about 142, 500.
He made clear in the campaign for President in 2008 that he would end the war in Iraq -- he did.
The prime minister faced the predictable barrage of attacks on his policy towards Iraq - most of it from his own backbenches.
U.S. President George W. Bush wants the lifting of U.N. trade sanctions on Iraq -- imposed in 1990 after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Iraq -- a cradle of ancient civilization -- is the home of such fabled cities such as Ur, Babylon, Kabala and Nineveh.
Muqtada el-Sadr's Mahdi Army, although Iraq-based, was also supported by the Iranians.
Keane said the overall number of U.S. troops in Iraq -- now at about 156, 000 -- will begin dropping by late next year.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British soldier has died in fighting in southern Iraq -- the first British combat fatality of the campaign.
As he did in Iowa, Kerry beat Dean among the two-thirds of respondents who disapproved of the war in Iraq -- Dean's signature issue.
How he interact with General Douglas Lute, the Iraq-Afghanistan war czar - to use the phrase - who has been skeptical in the past?
About 4, 000 marines - many of them redeployed from operations in Iraq - moved into the Helmand River, supported by helicopters and Afghan troops.
Russia -- which opposed the U.S.-led war on Iraq -- on Friday urged the coalition to give an early account of the WMD search.
Babacan said Turkey -- a country flanked by Europe and Middle East hotspots such as Syria and Iraq -- is subscribing to the western-style democracy.
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U.S. officials said the attack was probably targeting Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq -- Sunni groups who have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said "as many as three or four" oil wells may be burning on the Iraqi side of the Iraq-Kuwait border.
Having interviewed him shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq - the ground element of which he masterminded - I can attest to his soft spoken, cerebral presence.
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