They control the national government now for the first time in the history of Iraq.
The White House calls it a landmark day in the history of Iraq.
'Today we witnessed a landmark event in the history of Iraq: Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal, ' Mr. Bush said to roars of approval in a hockey auditorium packed with supporters in Grand Island, Neb.
There's still a lot of difficult work to be done in Iraq, but thanks to the courage of the Iraqi people, the year 2005 will be recorded as a turning point in the history of Iraq, the history of the Middle East and the history of freedom.
This agreement marks another milestone in the history of modern Iraq.
During a joint news conference Friday with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Bush called the operation "a defining moment in the history of a free Iraq, " saying the government is fighting criminals there.
Mr. Obama in his address offered an abbreviated history of the costly Iraq war, but his focus was on the sacrifices of troops: Nearly 1.5 million men and women have served, more than 30, 000 have been wounded and nearly 4, 500 have died.
"We had a regime that had a history of using weapons of mass destruction and had a history of defying the international community and had a history of ties to terrorist organizations in Iraq, " he said.
Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility.
"The common determination on the part of the Soviet Union and the United States to preserve the territorial integrity of such imperial accidents of history as Yugoslavia -- to say nothing of the USSR and Iraq -- under centralized, totalitarian rule is emerging as the ironic definition of the so-called 'New World Order, '" said Frank J.
The prime minister's dispute with the Sunni protesters is vital at this moment of Iraq's history, but his real battleground is within his Shia community.
Although Baathist propaganda is out, so is most of the modern history of the Middle East that has affected Iraq.
"If you go back in history, and look at the beginning of Iraq, and what they've been through with Saddam Hussein, we wouldn't be the people we are today if we lived the way they have lived, " Robbins says.
Why would people who do not live under the jackboot of the likes of Hizbullah, Hamas or their sister groups in places like Iraq obsequiously parrot untruths about Islamic history and theology and deny the very existence of Islamic supremacism?
Another Iraq-related piece of recent history deserves careful consideration.
Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied, by Toby Dodge, Columbia University Press, 2005.
It should have taken no great literacy in the theories and the history of "state-building" to foresee the favorable endowments of Iraq and the built-in disadvantages of Afghanistan.
Given the difficulties in Iraq and Afghanistan, American officers are relearning the history of their own interventions in Latin America and, more important, the lessons of British imperial policing.
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If Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney or Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the administration's leading neoconservative, had been aware of the brutal war America had fought in the Philippines, or of Wilson's misadventures in Mexico, or of the blighted history of Western imperialism in the Mideast, they might still have invaded Iraq.
The town also has special meaning in Iraq's military history, as it is the birthplace of Muslim leader Saladin as well as Saddam.
Last week -- after seven-and-a-half years that tested our mettle like no conflict in recent American history -- the last of our combat units followed that same dusty highway out of Iraq, on their way home.
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Asked about taking action over North Korea, Mr Blair said that the reason that Iraq was the "right place to start" was because of the history of UN sanctions against the country.
"The decision was made after looking into the dark history of this terrorist organization and crimes that they committed against the Iraqi people and neighbors of Iraq, " a statement from the council said.
Politicians often rewrite history to their own purposes, but, as Bush's analogy to Iraq suggested, there was more than passing significance to his revision of the history of the Spanish-American War.
That's because beginning tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives will stage one of the most unusual debates in its history -the House will debate a brief resolution disapproving of President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq.
And whereas both Germany and Japan had been democracies in varying degree, Iraq has been ruled by a succession of terrifying autocrats since the beginning of human history.
The trouble in Saudi Arabia (and in Iran, just outside the Arab fold but still influential in parts of it, such as Iraq and Lebanon) is that conservatives, on whom for reasons of history and realpolitik the regime still relies, have grabbed a near-monopoly of religious authority, imposing an exceptionally narrow interpretation of Islam on the people, especially women.
Fuad Hussein, an Iraqi who has returned from abroad and is now in charge of revising the curriculum, says he plans to set up a committee made up of Iraqis from different religious, political and ethnic groups to debate and rewrite Iraq's history.
But there is one thing we know already: the Americans that went to war in Iraq served their country as well as any generation of fighting men and women in our remarkable history.
The former commanding general of U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan equated the situation in Syria today with one of the most deadly nuclear accidents in history.
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