The MRAP vehicle has its roots in the Iraq war. Improvised Explosive Devices wreaked havoc with the boxy, M-1151 Humvees.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

"The Iraq war contaminated democracy promotion, so that when you talk about democracy promotion in the region, people think invasion."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Its mission is to examine Britain's role in the run-up to the start of the Iraq war in 2003 through the conflict and its aftermath.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

In 2002,he voted against authorizing the Iraq war, a decision he later called "the best vote" he had made since becoming a senator in 1962.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

"I supported the Iraq war because I believed what the prime minister said.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Britain has held four different and more specific inquiries into the Iraq war.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Instead,his goal will be to ease tensions between the United States and the world's Muslims tensions intensified by the Iraq war and a lack of progress in the Middle East peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

The president said that includes bringing the Iraq war to a responsible end and pursuing a new, comprehensive strategy to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida and its allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

Mr.Major said it is for others to judge. A high-powered inquiry into Britain's entry and involvement in the Iraq war is currently under way in London and Mr.Blair will give evidence in the coming weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"In terms of foreign policy where Iran comes in, all three parties are following the same interventionist policies which gave us the Iraq war, the wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world and I think on that even the Liberal Democrats - despite being perceived as softer - they're following the same underlying policies.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

But he was a critic of the Bush administration on many other issues, including the war in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

The war in Iraq and the handling of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans took attention from one of the president's biggest successes.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

It also includes veterans of the Persian Gulf War and conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

VOA: special.2010.11.05

I think all those goals are still possible, but I think that as a consequence to the war on Iraq, we took our eye off the ball.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

He spoke about Iraq and the handling of his war on terror.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

There is a tense movie about the war in Iraq.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

The war in Iraq was fourth on the list.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

And there is still the war in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

And he added this: "For six years Afghanistan has been denied the resources it demands because of the war in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Many analysts interpreted that as an implicit rebuke to Mr.Obama's predecessor, George W.Bush,over his handling of the war in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09