Meeting as the Commonwealth of Independent States, the leaders spoke out in support of enhancing the role of the United Nations in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq.
During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran.
For Israel, the results of the American debate over the future of the war in Iraq are of critical importance.
Russia had wanted a greater role for the UN in the post-war administration of Iraq and for the UN's weapons inspectors to return in order to certify that the country has no weapons of mass destruction.
The colonel was himself investigated, after a false claim that he had mistreated civilians and prisoners of war in Iraq, and was later cleared of any wrongdoing.
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He was critical of the war in Iraq, critical of the way the government responded to Hurricane Katrina, had his criticisms about the way things are going economically for the middle class, referring to high gas prices.
In an interview with NPR's Juan Williams, Albright discusses what it was like to be the first female secretary of state, her opinion about the timing of the recent war in Iraq and the lessons of the U.S.-led war in Kosovo.
Matters of U.S. intelligence, the wisdom of the war in Iraq and the threat of terrorism against the United States, those issues are at the heart of the debate over an intelligence report leaked over the weekend and then declassified in part yesterday.
Would the intellectual architect of the Iraq war make as much of a hash of fighting poverty as his former employers had made of governing Iraq?
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- With opinion polls showing more than 90 percent of Spaniards are against the war, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar vowed his support of the war in Iraq would not lead to his ruling Popular Party being "cornered" by leftists and antiwar protesters.
"I think that the American people realize that I'm very different in many ways, whether it be spending, or the conduct of the war in Iraq, or climate change, or treatment of prisoners, or a number of other issues, " he said.
One of those Iraq veterans struggling with the mental wounds of the Iraq war is Adam.
Disapproval of the Iraq war and the state of the economy are just too high.
From the beginning of the Iraq war, a number of officers and policy intellectuals, including Petraeus, believed that the war had to be fought a different way.
However, the strategies of the Cold War were largely no longer relevant for the type of war being fought in Iraq: it was different enemies, a different physical environment, dramatically better technology and different era troops.
The war of words over Iraq is escalating between congressional Democrats and the White House.
These days, for many Iranians, are reminiscent of the time of war with Iraq.
But my generation grew up during eight years of war with Iraq and then reconstruction.
The prospect of war in Iraq, coupled with the threat from international terrorism, has discouraged businesses from investing.
Former UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who quit over the issue of war against Iraq, has also re-entered the debate.
The Democrats are desperate to shift the political debate back to the economy and away from the prospect of war with Iraq.
The success of the film in the US has been attributed to the US public's desire for escapism in the midst of war with Iraq.
This week, several of America's allies refused to go along with a proposal that Nato should begin planning for the event of war against Iraq.
And after nearly nine years of war in Iraq, tonight is an opportunity for us to express our gratitude and to say once more: Welcome home.
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With Gen Petraeus' public downfall, the American public can begin to grapple with why after 11 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan "we haven't won anything", Bacevich says.
He also told the graduates that they must begin to build the future Army as the service recovers from the strains of more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"He spoke in terms no American president has done before, " Aslan said, citing Obama's description of the invasion of Iraq as a war of choice, and the word "occupation" in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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