And in Iraq, as in Vietnam, they have an incentive to show good news — which isn't always the same as the truth.

而且无论是在伊拉克或是越南问题上，他们都极力报喜不报忧——而这常常同真相相距甚远。

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The earliest of the city states of the ancient Near East appeared at the southern end of the Mesopotamian plain, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq.

古代近东地区最早的城邦出现在美索不达米亚平原的南端，该地区位于底格里斯河和幼发拉底河之间，也就是现在的伊拉克境内。

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The filling of the Ataturk and other dams in Turkey has drastically reduced flows in the Euphrates, with potentially serious consequences for Syria and Iraq.

阿塔图尔克大坝以及土耳其境内其它大坝的填埋已经极大地减少了幼发拉底河的径流量，这可能会给叙利亚和伊拉克带来严重后果。

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Those challenges included an economic downturn, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a promise to reform the health care system.

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So that you have civil war in Iraq, and the Iranians there, the Saudis, the Turks worrying about the Kurts.

导致伊拉克内战，还有伊朗问题，沙特问题，土耳其问题。

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He died in 323, when he was not yet 33-years-old, and he died in Babylon of a fever, that is, of course, modern day Iraq.

他死于公元前323年，未满33岁，在巴比伦死于疟疾，也就是现代伊拉克。

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Christians are good with their fellow Muslims and in Iraq there is mutual respect among them.

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But the president remains confident that America can fight terror simultaneously on this front and in Iraq.

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Instead they are fighting wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq, where Britain has over 7, 000 troops, including a divisional headquarters.

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