Duke University professor Christopher Gelpi, who studies public opinion, says it's the popular sense that progress is not being made in Iraq that's led to the decline in public support.
"I recognize that many Americans voted last night to register their displeasure with the lack of progress being made" in Iraq, Mr. Bush said Wednesday afternoon.
In their testimony, these men made clear that our challenge in Iraq is formidable.
Santorum also says that the dramatic rise in sectarian violence in Iraq in recent months has made clear that a shift in U.S. tactics may be necessary.
Then, in early 2003, the decision was made to wage a second war, in Iraq.
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Petraeus said Friday he thinks progress has been made with the military escalation in Iraq.
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Petraeus's success in Iraq has made him something of a hero with congressional leaders in both parties.
That order granted private security contractors immunity from prosecution in Iraq but made them subject to the law of their "sending state".
But the White House has already made it clear that in the Iraq agreement, it won't go to Congress to ask for permission.
It is past time for an honest rendering of the facts suggested by "connecting these dots": America will not be made more secure by surrendering in Iraq.
Tony Odierno, who made a great sacrifice here in Iraq on behalf of his country and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star with a V for Valor.
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Advocates of more troops have long believed that inadequate U.S. force levels in Iraq have made it impossible to implement a "clear and hold" strategy - the only approach that has proven successful in dealing with insurgencies.
In this context, she recalled that Iraq made voluntary contributions to UNESCO amounting to over USD 4 million in the first six months of 2012 alone, notably through self-benefiting projects in the field of cultural heritage preservation, and emphasized that such cooperation would be expanded to the fields of education and sciences.
On Tuesday, Zebari said progress was made in one aspect of the deal: Private security contractors working in Iraq would no longer receive immunity from prosecution in that country.
In 2008, she made The Hurt Locker, a thriller about an EOD team in Iraq.
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The councils, also known as Sons of Iraq, are mainly made up of former Sunni insurgents who turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Kirkuk in northern Iraq today.
Kerry also made a direct connection between the war in Iraq and America's homeland security.
But the army's experience in Iraq and Afghanistan has made such ideas seem fanciful.
Other nations still are in Iraq, but have made deep troop cuts such as South Korea, Bulgaria and Latvia.
Since then, she has made repeated calls to end the war in Iraq.
We have made clear all along that much as in Iraq when we turned over full security lead to the Iraqi forces that would be part of a process that may include troops in support.
Although Blair has dodged a lot of the skeletons that haunt his fellow politicians' closets--adultery, embezzlement, bribery--his emblematic association with the controversial invasion of Iraq in 2003 has made him a household name, from Toledo to the caves of Tora Bora.
Abu Risha is head of the Anbar Awakening Council, a group composed primarily of Sunni Arab fighters who turned on al Qaeda in Iraq, which was made up of predominantly Sunni extremists, in late 2006 and who joined forces with the U.S.-led coalition.
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He repeatedly made statements about not wanting to serve in either Iraq or Afghanistan and allegedly requested a discharge.
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However, when they failed to garner any meaningful international support for their war in Iraq, the decision was made to go forward on our own.
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He will talk about the need, at this summit, for nation's around the world, including some in Europe - again, it's just an EU summit - to make good on pledges they have made in the past to send financial aide to Iraq to help pay for reconstruction.
On defence, although like many other European countries Italy still spends too little, it has in the past few years made a useful contribution in places such as Kosovo and Afghanistan as well as in Iraq.
To avoid fighting in the war against Iraq, Zamani and his brother Farhang (Frank) made harrowing escapes and met up in Pakistan before getting asylum in the U.S. in 1988, where they were later joined by their parents.
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