Smart, funny, fearless and brazen, he's the go-to kid in Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles Can Fly, " a film of sometimes hallucinatory power set in Iraqi Kurdistan on the eve of the second Iraq war.
Then, in early 2003, the decision was made to wage a second war, in Iraq.
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He also traveled to the Middle East that year to report on the second anniversary of the war in Iraq.
Bush began his second term with opposition to the Iraq war on the rise, and was further damaged by the deeply held view that his administration failed to properly respond to Hurricane Katrina.
With the Iraq War set to end soon and the Afghanistan War entering its second decade following the death of Osama bin Laden, this may be the biggest and most important Veterans Day for our community ever.
The war in Iraq was the second most important issue for voters in both parties -- but concerns about illegal immigration rated third among Republicans, while Democrats said health care was just behind Iraq.
Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outlined progress in the war in Iraq, now in its second week.
They will not have the ground attack function which was a key role for coalition aircraft in the Iraq war: this will come with the second tranche.
As Charlie Cook, a veteran observer of politics, remarks, if Mr Kerry, who voted against the first Iraq war, had done the same with the second one, Dr Dean would still be an asterisk now and Mr Kerry the front-runner.
Britain may have had "second thoughts" about the Iraq invasion had the scale of post-war violence been anticipated, he said.
John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, announced Wednesday that he will skip a second run for the White House to concentrate on bringing the war in Iraq to an end.
On the world stage, one interesting test if Bush wins a second term would be his ability to manage strains in longtime alliances because of the war in Iraq and other first-term Bush administration decisions.
There has been a three-year decline in sales in the U.S., France's second-biggest export market, partly because of the backlash to France's stance in the Iraq war.
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