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Online condolences may be expressed at www.coldrencrates.com. Published in the Advocate on February 14, 2012 Share your memories, express your condolences and add photos in the Guest Book for George B. Hupp. Learn how to place an obituary Honor those...
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What Obama's 2013 Budget Says About the Drug War, Police Militarization, and Intellectual Property
Reason
If there’s evidence that veterans make worse cops than civilians, I haven’t seen it. But there is something disconcerting about shuffling veterans from the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan to American streets. Intellectual Property The raid and...
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Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki opens an oil pipe valve during the inauguration of a new Single Point Mooring (SPM) outlet in Iraq's southern province of Basra February 12, 2012. Iraq opened a new Gulf crude export outlet in the southern oil hub of... View Photo »
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I saw so many soldiers returning home from their last tour of duty in Iraq, in time for the Christmas holidays.
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Postal Service cut: $25 billion would be cut from the U.S. Postal Service, and Saturday mail delivery would end. Wars: Of the $4 trillion in savings that Obama claims over 10 years, $848 billion comes from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...
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Please enable JavaScript for your browser in order to use greenvilleonline.com. This content and other exclusive local content now require a subscription. Get access now for only $9.95 per month! In a barracks near Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006, Michael Batton...
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One should not come at the expense of the other. This is a critical moment for both our nation and our armed forces. We have service members deployed overseas in support of a number of military and humanitarian operations, including Iraq, Afghanistan,...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, cuts the ribbon during a ceremony for the opening of a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf, southern Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian... View Photo »
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The Baath Party fell with Saddam in Iraq in 2003. Until it is toppled in Syria, regional instability can only grow.
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At least three people have been killed and 19 others injured when a car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in Mosul, Iraq, a health official said. Most of the dead and wounded were civilians. Three Iraqi soldiers were among the wounded. The bomb went...
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Benny Morris thinks the choice is now clear and stark: 'Either Iran, led by fanatical, brutal and millenarian leaders, will get the bomb, or it will be prevented from doing so by military assault on its nuclear installations, by America or Israel. If...
About Iraq
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The Republic of Iraq (conventional short form: Iraq) (Arabic: العراق (help·info) translit: 'al-‘Irāq, Kurdish: عيَراق), is a country in Southwest Asia encompassing most of Mesopotamia as well as the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the... Full Article
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, cuts the ribbon during a ceremony for the opening of a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf, southern Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing...
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Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, symbolically opens the valve of a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf, southern Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing revenue for...
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Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Assadi, speaks during an interview with the AFP at his offices in Baghdad on February 11, 2012. Assadi said, Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria, as are weapons being sent to opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime. There are...
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In this Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 photo, an Iraqi couple leave a shop selling Valentine's Day gifts in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's capital is embracing Valentine's Day this year with a huge public display of affection in what its residents say is the nation's most amorous celebration of the...
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Iraqi police display men arrested for drug smuggling in Baghdad February 11, 2012. Seven men were arrested attempting to smuggle over 4 kg of hashish into Iraq, according to Iraqi police.
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Iraq's secret services chief Taher Jalil Habbush shows in Baghdad 21 August 2002 a fake passport which he said belonged to international terrorist Abu Nidal, with an Iranian visa stamped on it. Abu Nidal, who's real name was Sabri al-Banna, committed suicide in the Iraqi capital by...
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Iraq's secret services chief Taher Jalil Habbush shows pictures in Baghdad 21 August 2002 of International terrorist Abu Nidal after he shot himself (R) and fake identity documents (L). Abu Nidal, who's real name was Sabri al-Banna, committed suicide in the Iraqi capital by shooting...
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Iraqis hold portraits of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (L) and his assassinated father, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr (R), during a mass celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad on February 9, 2012.
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Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (picture R) attends a mass celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad on February 9, 2012.
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An Iraqi woman holds a portrait of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during a mass celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad on February 9, 2012.
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Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (picture R) hold an anti-US army picture (L) during a mass celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad on February 9, 2012.
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Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wave their national flag during a celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad on February 9, 2012.
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Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr chant anti-US slogans during a celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad, on February 9, 2012.
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Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Asadi speaks to Reuters during an interview in Baghdad February 8, 2012. Iraq's government intends to impose tough restrictions on private security companies to rein in what amounts to a "giant army" threatening the country's stability, a senior...
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An Iraqi soldier stands guard at a new jetty harbour which opened at the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq on February 7, 2012. Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell,...
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Iraqi people unload their belongings from a bus that has travelled from Syria after arriving in Baghdad February 7, 2012. Many Iraqi families who escaped the violence in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 are now fleeing the violence in Syria, and returning home, though Iraq is...
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UAE players celebrate after scoring a goal against Iraq during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
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Iraq's players pose for a group picture before the start of their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match against UAE in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
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Iraq's Ahmad Yasin (R) challenges Rashed Issa (R) of UAE during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
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Iraq's Ahmed Jabbar (L) heads the ball with Rashed Issa (R) of UAE during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
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Iraq's Ahmed Jabbar (L) challenges Khamis Ismail (R) of UAE during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
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Iraq's Ahmed Ibrahim (R) challenges Ali Ahmed (L) of UAE during their 2012 London Olympics qualifying football match in the Qatari capital Doha on February 5, 2012. UAE won the match 1-0.
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Iraq's Ahmed Gheni (L) fights for the ball with UAE's Rashed Eisa (C) and Mohamed Abdelaziz during the FIFA men's Olympic Football Tournament 2012 in Doha February 5, 2012.
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Iraq's Mohanad Karrar (L) fights for the ball with UAE's Mohamad Gharib during the FIFA men's Olympic Football Tournament 2012 in Doha February 5, 2012.
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UAE's players kiss the pitch after scoring against Iraq during the FIFA men's Olympic Football Tournament 2012 in Doha February 5, 2012.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, cuts the ribbon during a ceremony for the opening of a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf, southern Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Iraq has opened the taps at a new oil export terminal in the Persian Gulf in a vital step to bringing...
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