But behind the Obama administration's optimism on security despite occasional spectacular attacks, violence levels have remained at postinvasion lows and their repeated insistence that the religious and secular parties will find a compromise, U.S. officials remain fixated on one thing: persuading Iraqi politicians to avoid a Shiite-only solution. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The mission Rumsfeld gave to Lt.Gen. Jay Garner — the first postinvasion civilian administrator in Iraq — was to cobble together some provisional Iraqi government. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The government cites a postinvasion Security Council resolution on the reconstruction of Iraq to assert that Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and his troops serve in an international army that "is legally distinct from the U.S. military." ❋ Unknown (2008)
I wanted to find out if any movies were made in the city during the postinvasion turmoil. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Not surprising perhaps, since reports by experts blaming the U.S. for the postinvasion destruction of Iraq's heritage have been regular fixtures of the news. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Molecular studies may also prove helpful in the postinvasion control of aquatic introduction. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Average oil exports in November came in just shy of two million barrels a day, a postinvasion record. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Government and state-sector jobs, the largest share of employment in Iraq, would be distributed to all three communities, which would entail a reversal of the postinvasion purges that swept up, for example, schoolteachers who happened to be members of the Baath Party. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"The finding amounted to the starkest portrayal yet of a vast gap between the Bush administration's prewar assertions about Iraqi weapons and what a 15-month postinvasion inquiry by American investigators has concluded were the facts on the ground." ❋ Unknown (2004)
In practice, however, many of those opportunities were squandered because of the lack of planning for the postinvasion period. ❋ James Risen (2006)
And the most fateful decision of the postinvasion period—the move by American proconsul L. ❋ James Risen (2006)
In a highly revealing postinvasion interview with The Atlantic magazine, Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith proudly acknowledged as much. ❋ James Risen (2006)
Still, the biggest problem facing U.S. intelligence officers in postinvasion Iraq was the same thing that plagued the U.S. military—the glaring fact that no one had developed a plan for what to do after American troops got to Baghdad. ❋ James Risen (2006)
Administration officials still argue that there was a plan for what they called “Phase IV,” or the postinvasion stage of Operation Iraqi Freedom. ❋ James Risen (2006)
It took the "failures" of the US effort in postinvasion Iraq, Ambassador Herbst says, to shift the discussion in favor of a standing civilian corps. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In postinvasion testimonies IDF soldiers recalled the macabre scenes of destruction in Gaza: ❋ Norman Finkelstein (2010)
Many of the trenches date to the postinvasion chaos, but others have been freshly dug. ❋ Unknown (2010)
