Event class: iraq, war, u. s., nuclear, military, government, invasion, united states, afghanistan, said

Events with high posterior probability

Freddie Viggers	On 9 December 2009, Viggers gave evidence to The Iraq Inquiry in which he was highly critical of the administration of post-war Iraq.
Ralph Peters	Peters' 1997 article'' Constant Conflict'' stated :'' There will be no peace.
Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith	Goldsmith gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry on 27 January 2010, in which he was asked to explain his position on the legality of the invasion of Iraq.
Roger Etchegaray	The Vatican opposed the 2003 U. S. invasion of Iraq and sent Cardinal Etchegaray as an envoy to persuade Iraqi authorities to cooperate with the United Nations in order to avoid war.
Ronald Reagan	With the approval of Congress, Reagan in 1983 sent forces to Lebanon to reduce the threat of civil war.
Henry Kissinger	Kissinger played a key role in secretly bombing Cambodia to disrupt PAVN and Viet Cong units launching raids into South Vietnam from within Cambodia's borders and resupplying their forces by using the Ho Chi Minh trail and other routes, as well as the 1970 Cambodian Incursion and subsequent widespread bombing of suspected Khmer Rouge targets in Cambodia.
George Will	Even though Will had been hawkish in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he eventually expressed reservations about Bush administration Iraq policies, eventually openly criticizing what he perceived to be an unrealistically optimistic set of political scenarios.
George Ball (diplomat)	Ball was one of the architects of Cable 243, and a supporter of the 1963 overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Azar Nafisi	When asked by an interviewer in 2003 if there was'' ever a time, when you were living in Iran, when you would have welcomed the idea of a regime change implemented by foreign forces'', Nafisi claimed,'' Some Iranians were so desperate that they would have wanted the foreign powers to come in, but I did n't feel that way... in Iran, I do n't think that we needed foreign intervention at any point.''
Robert McNamara	McNamara maintained his involvement in politics in his later years, delivering statements critical of the Bush administration's 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Peter Kent	His participation at the U. N. Climate Change Summit in Nov. 2011, has been controversial as it has been noted Canada plans to withdraw from the Kyoto protocol and is urging other countries to do the same - even though Canada is among the top 10 GHG polluter nations.
George F. Kennan	During John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential election campaign Kennan wrote to the future president to offer some suggestions on how his administration should improve the country's standing in the world, in light of Soviet and Chinese efforts to break down the Americans and their Western alliances.
Lanny Davis	In 2008, Davis questioned the United States' response to the conflict between Russia and Georgia and advised present and future U. S. leaders to consider the point of view of the Russian leaders before unilaterally supporting the government of Georgia in the conflict.
Chester Bowles	In early December 1961 he was replaced by George Ball as Undersecretary, a consequence of his perceived failure to adequately fulfill his duties as an administrator in the Department of State, and his earlier leaking of his opposition to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Philip M. Breedlove	He is presently stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan and is regularly quoted in western media ; in July 2013, he told the BBC about his views on the longevity of the Afghan war.
Rosie Malek-Yonan	She has candidly criticized the U. S. for failure to protect the Christians in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
John Scarlett	Kelly had been found dead in the Oxfordshire countryside near his home, after being exposed as the source of allegations that the government had'' sexed-up'' intelligence regarding existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Omar al-Bashir	On 29 June 2004, U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell met with al-Bashir in Sudan and urged him to make peace with the rebels, end the crisis, and lift restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian aid to Darfur.
Hina Rabbani Khar	On 12 August 2012, while speaking at the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, Khar maintained that'' growing confrontation over Iran's nuclear program was threatening further instability in the broader region, and a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible on the basis of reciprocal confidence-building measures and security assurances against external threat.''
Correlli Barnett	In December 2003 Barnett published an article in The Spectator, asserting that Al-Qaeda was winning the'' war on terror'' -- a label Barnett rejects because'' you can not in logic wage war against a phenomenon, only against a specific enemy... America is combating not' terrorism' but a specific terrorist network, al-Qa' eda''.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas	Since his retirement from the UN in 2003, de Zayas has become a vocal critic of the Iraq War indefinite detention in Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons, nuclear pollution, and extreme poverty.
April Glaspie	One version of the transcript has Glaspie saying : Later the transcript has Glaspie saying : Another version of the transcript (the one published in The New York Times on 23 September 1990) has Glaspie saying : When these purported transcripts were made public, Glaspie was accused of having given tacit approval for the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which took place on August 2, 1990.
Maria Cantwell	; Iraq War On the issue of the Iraq war, on October 11, 2002 Cantwell voted in favor of the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq.
Michael O'Hanlon	Writing in the National Interest in May 2008, O’Hanlon gave himself 7 marks out of 10 for his predictions about Iraq, although he acknowledged that among his incorrect positions was his initial support for the war - given the Bush administration's poor preparations for the post-Saddam period.
Chuck Hagel	In July 2006, Hagel criticized the Bush administration on its handling of the 2006 Lebanon War, saying'' The sickening slaughter on both sides must end and it must end now.
Kofi Annan	In the years after 1998 when UNSCOM was kicked out by the government of Saddam Hussein and during the Iraq disarmament crisis, in which the United States blamed UNSCOM and former IAEA director Hans Blix for failing to properly disarm Iraq, Scott Ritter the former UNSCOM chief weapons inspector, blamed Annan for being slow and ineffective in enforcing Security Council resolutions on Iraq and was overtly submissive to the demands of the Clinton administration for regime removal and inspection of sites, often Presidential palaces, that were not mandated in any resolution and were of questionable intelligence value, which severely hampered UNSCOM's ability to cooperate with the Iraqi government and contributed to their expulsion from the country.
Paul Bremer	It was shut down by the United States - led administration headed by Bremer on March 28, 2004, after being accused of encouraging violence against Coalition troops.
Michael O'Hanlon	He decided in 2003 to create Brookings' Iraq Index, a web-based resource tracking trends in the country that has been perhaps Brookings most widely viewed site this decade, and which led to later decisions to create Afghanistan and Pakistan indices at Brookings as well.
William Sloane Coffin	With his CIA background, he was terribly dismayed when he learned in 1964 of the history of French and U. S. involvement in South Vietnam and how it differed from what the U. S government public position was, especially regarding broken promises to hold a referendum in the south about unification with North Vietnam.
Goli Ameri	As part of the U. S. government's Iraqi relief efforts, Ameri traveled to Baghdad, Iraq in October 2008, where she announced her bureau's Iraq Cultural Heritage Project efforts to renovate and improve the National Museum of Iraq.
Mark Hatfield	In 1970, with Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota), he co-sponsored the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, which called for a complete withdrawal of U. S. troops from Vietnam.
Jimmy Carter	In a 2003 op-ed in The New York Times, Carter warned against the consequences of a war in Iraq and urged restraint in use of military force.
Christopher Hitchens	In 2004, Hitchens stated that neoconservative support for US intervention in Iraq convinced him that he was'' on the same side as the neo-conservatives'' when it came to contemporary foreign policy issues.
Yukihisa Fujita	At the DPJ's committee for Foreign Affairs and Defense in February, 2009, on the topic of sending the Self-Defense Force to the coast of Somalia as an anti-piracy measure, Fujita focused government attention on establishing clear guidelines on Japan's use of Self-Defense Force to combat piracy.
Peter W. Galbraith	In December 2009, Kai Eide and Vijay Nambiar accused Galbraith of proposing enlisting the White House in a plan to force the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to resign, and to install a more Western-friendly figure as president of Afghanistan.
George Marshall	As Secretary of State in 1947 -- 48, Marshall seems to have disagreed with strong opinions in The Pentagon and State department that Chiang's success was vital to American interests, insisting that U. S. troops not become involved.
John Nagl	In April 2011, he wrote favorably about President Obama decision to name Leon Panetta, then director of the CIA, as Secretary of Defense, and General David Patraeus, then commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, with whom Nagl had worked on the new Army/Marine Corps counterinsurgency manual, as director of the CIA, noting the increasingly intertwined nature of the relationship between the intelligence and defense establishments in the United States.
Russell Walter Fox	In 1977, Fox, in an independent and confidential report to the Australian Government, questioned the United States' nuclear safeguards strategy.
Chris Shays	On July 27, 2005, Shays said on a local radio program that he was optimistic about the future of Iraq, and that he opposed any timetable for troop withdrawal.
Michael Dugan (general)	On January 17, 1991, the aerial bombardment of Iraq began which destroyed much of the civilian infrastructure of Iraq, though Saddam Hussein, his family, and mistress were unharmed.
Richard Ottaway	In 2011 he was declared The Week's Back Bencher of the year based on an enquiry into Afghanistan that was highly critical of Government policy and urged the UK to do more to encourage the US to talk with the Taliban.
Adnan Pachachi	Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Pachachi has been an important figure in Iraqi politics, often described as Iraq's elder statesman.
David Petraeus	The enacted legislation did mandate that Petraeus and U. S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, deliver a report to Congress by September 15, 2007, detailing their assessment of the military, economic and political situation of Iraq.
Pete Hoekstra	; Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) On June 22, 2006, Hoekstra made headlines by announcing at a press conference in the Capitol that weapons of mass destruction had been located in Iraq in the form of 500 chemical weapon s.
Richard Lugar	On June 25, 2007, Senator Lugar, who had been'' a reliable vote for President Bush on the war'', said that'' Bush's Iraq strategy -LSB- is -RSB- not working and... the United States should downsize the military's role''.
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi	This claim was repeated several times in the run-up to the war, including in then - Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U. N Security Council on February 5, 2003, which concluded with a long recitation of the information provided by al-Libi.
Earl Pomeroy	Although he supported authorizing force in Iraq in 2002, he has increasingly spoken out against the war.
Bernard Lewis	Buruma ultimately rejects suggestions by his peers that Lewis promotes war with Iraq to safeguard Israel, but instead concludes'' perhaps he (Lewis) loves it (the Arab world) too much'' : In 2006, Lewis wrote that Iran had been working on a nuclear weapon for fifteen years.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	But on March 20, 2011, the day after the NATO strikes to enforce the no-fly-zone began, she expressed a different view in a press release :'' I am concerned that the President has yet to clearly define for the American people what vital United States security interests he believes are currently at stake in Libya.''
Desmond Tutu	In January 2003, Tutu attacked British Prime Minister Tony Blair's stance in supporting American President George W. Bush over Iraq.
Leonid Brezhnev	Economic stagnation The Era of Stagnation, a term coined by Mikhail Gorbachev, was seen as the result of a compilation of factors, including the ongoing'' arms race'' between the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States ; the decision of the Soviet Union to participate in international trade (thus abandoning the idea of economic isolation) while ignoring the changes occurring in Western societies ; the increasing harshness of its policies, such as sending Soviet tanks to crush the Prague Spring in 1968 ; the intervention in Afghanistan ; the stifling domestic bureaucracy overseen by a cadre of elderly men ; the lack of economic reform ; the political corruption, supply bottlenecks, and other unaddressed structural problems with the economy under Brezhnev's rule.
Fouad Ajami	In a 2003 essay in Foreign Affairs,'' Iraq and the Arabs' Future,'' Ajami wrote, There should be no illusions about the sort of Arab landscape that America is destined to find if, or when, it embarks on a war against the Iraqi regime.
Eric S. Edelman	In a private letter to Senator Clinton in response to a request made to the Pentagon in May 2007 for an outline plans for withdrawing troops from combat in Iraq, Edelman rebuffed her request and wrote :'' Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U. S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia.''
Julianne Moore	Moore played the role of Nadia, a former war correspondent who finds her views on the 2003 invasion of Iraq challenged.
Paulo Portas	In 2002 Paulo Portas was Minister of Defence and after returning from an official visit to the US he declared that'' he had seen irrefutable evidence of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.''
Constance Berry Newman	She helped determine that'' genocide has been committed'' in Sudan's Darfur region for Colin Powell's speech in September 2004.
Stockwell Day	In March 2003 Day and Harper co-wrote a letter to The Wall Street Journal in which they condemned the Canadian government's unwillingness to participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Raza Rabbani	In 2003, Rabbani demonstrated his opposition against the Iraq war in 2003, over the issue of its nuclear program.
Chris Shays	That same day, he told other reporters,'' I totally support the war,'' and Shays supported the President's decision to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq on February 17, 2007, when he voted in favor of the surge.
Ann Clwyd	Having been prominent in her concern for the situation in Iraq before the war there in 2003, Tony Blair made her a Special Envoy on Human Rights in Iraq in the run-up to the War.
Wendy Sherman	In 1999, James Baker criticized her team's negotiating strategy with North Korea as' appeasement' - that was rewarding the North Korean regime for minimal concessions, and he said that as a result they would fail to prevent their nuclear program.
Phuntsog Nyidron	Her sentence was reduced one year in 2001, The Chinese government,'' taking account the strong views of the Bush administration'', released her for better relations with the United States, and to signal an increased willingness to talk with the Dalai Lama.
Kenneth I. Juster	Juster's research, analysis, and public discourse on the so-called Iraqgate scandal was instrumental in demonstrating that, contrary to media reporting and popular opinion, there was, in fact, no improper or illicit assistance by the U. S. Government to Iraq before the 1991 Gulf War.
Carne Ross	He also negotiated for the UK the resolution establishing the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan and the Council's resolution of 12 September 2001 condemning the attacks of the day before.
Chang Chia-juch	In mid April 2013, commenting on Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant construction, Chang said that the power plant has undergone rigorous integration and testing, therefore it is inappropriate to call the plant as an'' assembled car''.
Francis Fukuyama	He was also among forty co-signers of William Kristol's September 20, 2001 letter to President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 attacks that suggested the U. S. not only'' capture or kill Osama bin Laden'', but also embark upon'' a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq''.
Margaret Hassan	She remained in Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War, although the British Council suspended operations in Iraq, and she was left jobless at the end of it.
John Boyd (military strategist)	Boyd is credited for largely developing the strategy for the invasion of Iraq in the Gulf War of 1991.
Adel Darwish	The day before, Darwish had published a story on the meeting between the American chargé d'affaires, Joseph C. Wilson, and Saddam Hussein on 6 August 1990, when the Iraqi President offered to give America oil below market price if he were to annex Kuwait.
Anthony Cordesman	In March 2009, Cordesman issued a detailed assessment entitled `` Study on a Possible Israeli Strike on Iran's Nuclear Development Facilities''.
Gerald Ford	In a pre-recorded embargoed interview with Bob Woodward of The Washington Post in July 2004, Ford stated that he disagreed'' very strongly'' with the Bush administration's choice of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction as justification for its decision to invade Iraq, calling it a'' big mistake'' unrelated to the national security of the United States and indicating that he would not have gone to war had he been President.
George H. W. Bush	Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans | NAS JRB, New Orleans personnel before receiving briefs on the status of -LSB- -LSB- Joint Task Force Katrina relief efforts, October 2005 -RSB- -RSB- George Bush was widely seen as a'' pragmatic caretaker'' president who lacked a unified and compelling long-term theme in his efforts.
Jiang Yi-huah	Two weeks into his premiership in early March 2013, Jiang stated that he will tender his resignation from the Premier of the Republic of China if the nation votes to halt the construction of Taiwan's 4th nuclear power plant in the upcoming referendum due to the long ongoing debate of nuclear power plants in Taiwan.
Carl Levin	After continued criticism over the Iraq War troop surge, in August 2007, Levin and senator John Warner (R - VA), visited military bases in Mosul and Baghdad, saying that the surge brought'' credible and positive results,'' though it failed to bring the political reconciliation needed and urged the Iraqi Parliament to hold a'' no-confidence vote'' on the government of Prime Minister al-Maliki.
Peter DeFazio	In 1995, he challenged President Bill Clinton s stance on Bosnia, claiming Clinton and his Cabinet did not make a convincing claim for the operation.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	Jaber is most famous for having been monarch of Kuwait during the 1990 Iraqi invasion of his country, which led to the Gulf War in which his country was liberated by an international coalition acting under United Nations sanction, composed of troops from the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and France, together with forces from several Arab states.
Isabelle Stead	In 2010 Stead established the Iraq's missing campaign and began lobbying for the DNA testing of Iraq's mass graves.
Eddie Rickenbacker	For this, he drew criticism and ire from the press and the Roosevelt administration, which ordered NBC Radio not to allow him to broadcast opinions critical of Roosevelt's policies after Rickenbacker had harshly denounced the president's decision to rescind existing mail contracts in 1934 and have Army Air Corps pilots carry the air mail.
Henry Rowen	On February 12, 2004, President Bush named Rowen as a member of the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (the'' WMD Commission''), -LSB- http://www.
Ted Kennedy	In reaction to the attacks, Kennedy was a supporter of the American-led 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai	As the U. S. Armed Forces were preparing for a confrontation with the Taliban in September 2001, Karzai began urging NATO states to purge his country of al-Qaeda.
Jeremy Greenstock	On 27 November and 15 December, 2009, Greenstock gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry regarding his time as ambassador to the United Nations.
R. W. Scott McLeod	C. L. Sulzberger, in an article lamenting how diplomats were being misjudged and mistreated in the application of security standards, described a conversation with McLeod : In 1955, McLeod told a surprised Senator Hubert Humphrey that his view of a security risk was not absolute :'' It is our policy that we will not be so secure that we will not get our work done.
Vito Fossella	In June 2003, Fossella wrote an op-ed for the Washington Times, in which he said'' The claims that progress is too slow, the situation unstable and the United States lacks the expertise to get the job done does not reflect reality on the ground in Baghdad, Kirkuk and beyond.
James Lovelock	In 2005, against the backdrop of renewed UK government interest in nuclear power, Lovelock again publicly announced his support for nuclear energy, stating,'' I am a Green, and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy''.
James Mattis	Following a U. S. Department of Defense survey that showed only 55 % of American soldiers and 40 % of U. S. Marines would report a colleague for abusing civilians, Mattis told U. S. Marines in May 2007, that,'' Whenever you show anger or disgust toward civilians, it's a victory for al-Qaeda and other insurgents.''
Chaka Fattah	In 2005, Fattah opposed the War in Iraq and supported Congressman John Murtha's call for troop withdrawal.
George W. Bush	This is in stark contrast to the stance taken by his predecessor, Clinton, whose approach and response to India after the 1998 nuclear tests was that of sanctions and hectoring.
Tim Flannery	In May 2007 he told a business gathering in Sydney that while nuclear energy does have a role elsewhere in the world, Australia's abundance of renewable resources rule out the need for nuclear power in the near term.
Didier Julia	A long-time friend of the government of Saddam Hussein, especially of Tariq Aziz, he was the leader of the pro-Iraqi lobby in the National Assembly until the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States of America and their allies.
Roger Alton	Under his editorship, The Observer's editorial view supported the invasion of Iraq, a stance that Alton, speaking to Stephen Sackur on BBC's HARDtalk, (22 August 2008) has since admitted may have been incorrect.
John McCain	In September 2005, he remarked upon Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers' optimistic outlook on the war's progress :'' Things have not gone as well as we had planned or expected, nor as we were told by you, General Myers.''
Dmitriy Ustinov	In October 1979, the sentiment for Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan grew stronger in the Soviet politburo where Ustinov and Andropov were the strongest proponents for military intervention.
Pat Roberts	Almost two years after finishing of Phase I investigation, Roberts released the Committee's schedule for completion of Phase II on March 14, 2006, saying, `` Today members of the Committee were provided three draft reports of the Phase II inquiry including : postwar findings about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments, the use by the Intelligence Community of information provided by the Iraqi National Congress (INC), and prewar intelligence assessments about postwar Iraq.
John William Vessey, Jr.	His tour was marked by increased tension caused by evidence of a North Korean buildup and by President Jimmy Carter's 1977 announcement that U. S. ground forces would be withdrawn.
Mansoor Ijaz	In 2006, in an interview with Gulf News, Ijaz claimed that Iran already had a nuclear bomb and that US think-tanks were already formulating strategies to overthrow the Iranian Government.
Ralph Peters	By July 2007, he had changed his mind, writing that U. S. troops were making'' serious progress against al-Qaeda-in-Iraq and other extremists'', and that while'' Iraq's a mess'','' we've finally got a general in Baghdad -- Dave Petraeus -- who's doing things right.''
Mike Turner	In 2012, Turner called for a missile defense site on the east coast of the United States, to defend against missiles that would be launched from Iran.
Nancy Pelosi	In 2002, Pelosi opposed the Iraq Resolution authorizing President Bush to use military force against Iraq, while stating that Iraq, like'' other countries of concern'', had WMDs.
James R. Schlesinger	Some senators criticized Schlesinger and questioned him sharply during his confirmation hearings in June 1973 after he stated that he would recommend resumption of U. S. bombing in North Vietnam and Laos if North Vietnam launched a major offensive against South Vietnam.