So within a few years after the Iraq campaign commenced, the Army decided it needed something better.
Mr. Obama does not have to offer the Iraq campaign post facto vindication.
But as he does battle in the same wider theatre of that Greater Middle East, he will have to draw the proper lessons of the Iraq campaign.
He also received several decorations, including the National Defense Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Sea Service Deployment Medal and Navy Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon.
Analysts warn that however successful the first phase of the French operation in Mali, it is likely to encounter challenges similar to those faced by U.S. and British forces in Iraq as the campaign evolves.
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After much criticism, Clinton later said he was talking about Obama's opposition to the war in Iraq, not his campaign.
President Bush announced the start of the military campaign against Iraq shortly afterward in a televised address from the White House.
Next month, America's long campaign in Iraq will come to an end with the departure of the last US forces from the country.
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Mr Feingold, who opposed the Iraq war and sponsored campaign-finance reform, probably faces another close race for re-election, but most people think he will win.
Mr Berlusconi sought to align Italy more closely to the US, breaking ranks with the country's traditional allies, France and Germany, in his support for the US-led campaign in Iraq.
In a statement released after President Bush's address to the nation, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said intelligence officials believe terrorists will attempt multiple attacks against U.S. and coalition targets worldwide in the event of a U.S.-led military campaign against Iraq.
For example, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates decided to surge production of armored trucks for the Iraq counter-insurgency campaign in 2007, it was discovered there was only one steel plant in the nation producing steel of sufficient strength to meet military needs.
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Dodd's presidential campaign expects the war in Iraq to be a focal point for the Connecticut Democrat, not only on the campaign trail but also in the Senate, a Dodd policy aide told CNN.
Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker to update their joint campaign plan for Iraq, so we can adjust our military and civilian resources accordingly.
The campaign group, Iraq Body Count, said the civilian death toll by October 2007 was between 74, 000 and 81, 000, although it has warned many deaths may have gone unreported.
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John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, has been criticizing Obama for his opposition to the surge, which began in 2007 when President Bush ordered nearly 30, 000 additional troops to Iraq as part of a campaign to secure Baghdad and its surrounding provinces.
For starters, the Bush Administration made an inexplicable and tragic mistake with respect to its campaign management of the Iraq issue.
It came to an end in September 2002, when the Iraq rollout and the midterm election campaign began, and the country's bitter divisions re-emerged.
The campaign is part of Iraq's Measles Elimination Plan, which has so far reduced the incidence of measles cases nearly 20-fold - from 9, 181 in 2004 to under 500 last year.
President Bush ordered nearly 30, 000 additional troops to Iraq in January as part of a campaign to pacify Baghdad and its surrounding provinces.
McCain's fortunes also rebounded as U.S. commanders in Iraq credited the 2007 launch of a campaign to pacify Baghdad and its surrounding provinces with a sharp decline in American and Iraqi casualties.
Iraq suspended cooperation with UNSCOM on October 31, as part of its campaign to get the United Nations to lift the strict sanctions it imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Britain is slowly withdrawing from Iraq, but finds itself fighting an unexpectedly hard campaign in Afghanistan, where it forms the second-largest foreign contingent.
Mr Cheney led the firm between 1995 and 2000, and Halliburton's operations in Iraq have become an issue in the presidential election campaign.
During the course of his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama insisted that Iraq was but a distraction in the war on terrorism and vowed to go after those who were truly responsible for September 11.
Chief of Staff Doug Coutts served with him in Iraq and was the first to sign up with his campaign.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British soldier has died in fighting in southern Iraq -- the first British combat fatality of the campaign.
Representative Les Aspin, then-Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, proposed using the Iraq military as it existed during the 1991 Desert Storm campaign as the baseline regional threat.
He's also a Democrat, and he's struck by how much the midterm elections changed the role of Iraq from a political weapon the Democrats could use in the campaign to a burden they now share with the president.
Mr Hashemi is accused of running a death squad with his bodyguards which is alleged to have carried out a campaign of political assassinations and bombings at the height of Iraq's insurgency.
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