In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
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Related We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by Multinational Forces is the root cause of the inse... CAROL ROSE The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it. TOM ANDREWS We have achieved objective assessment of past events that so far have been neglected, we have induce... VAIRA VIKE FREIBERGA We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by Multinational Forces is the root cause of the inse... DOUG PRITCHARD Rockets are one of the resistance tools. Our people have the right to resist the occupation. The occ... GHAZI HAMAD Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be ther... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF the United States must seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq. DENNIS KUCINICH One of the bogus reasons that George Bush gives for this invasion (and) occupation of Iraq is to mak... CINDY SHEEHAN Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don... RAND PAUL Many in Congress have been concerned for many years about China's violation of human rights, occupat... NANCY PELOSI Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not h... TIM RUSSERT One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little rel... TIMOTHY NOAH The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistanc... DANNY GLOVER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our ... AMR MUSSA We demand democracy, security, stability and termination of occupation in Iraq to provide the ground... MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD I won't answer to this so-called court...Who are you? What are you? The occupation is illegitimate, ... SADDAM HUSSEIN I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I ... MICHAEL FRANTI the death toll associated with the invasion and occupation of Iraq is probably about 100,000 people,... LES ROBERTS The more Iraqis feel that they are in charge of their own country, the more rapidly we'll get away f... PAUL WOLFOWITZ The occupation is the cause of this type of martyrdom operation whose aim is to fight the occupation... YUSSEF RIZKA The most popular occupation of people is that of deceiver of their peers. MARIANA FULGER We were forced to do these things in the past because we live under occupation. We will still live u... MAHMOUD RAMAHI The report seems, more (than) anything else, to be an elaborate justification of extending the occup... DYLAN PENNER Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. ANNE BRONTë Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward with... JEAN PARKER I don't know of any other occupation so susceptible to so many abuses. ABEL VALENZUELA I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The n... MANUEL PUIG Public opinion is now overwhelmingly on our side as it becomes clearer every day that this occupatio... DUSTIN LANGLEY More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already drive... THOMAS KING Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate ... AYMAN ODEH Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation. GAIL CARSON LEVINE If the United Nations does not take over the situation and there is not a rethinking of this chaotic... JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly h... ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is clear that the camps are targets of the occupation forces. SAID SIAM The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a pe... ALAN BRIEN Another occupation might have been better. F. H. BRADLEY Another occupation might have been better. FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For ... BASHAR ASSAD Let me first thank President Bush for his concern about Lebanon and the fair and free elections that... IMAD MOUSTAPHA Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation ... MUQTADA AL SADR This is to assure people they have not shifted. They are moving in one direction -- fighting corrupt... NASHAT AQTASH We told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq, because the occupation is only promoting more radicali... DIN SYAMSUDIN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occup... ROBERT KENNEDY L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occup... NICK CAVE Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't ... TRUMAN CAPOTE The basic ingredient for all the ails that we are witnessing there is the continuation of the Israel... SAEB ERAKAT It is a very popular occupation in Britain among people interested in aviation. I just cannot believ... GERALD HOWARTH A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a n... EARL BLUMENAUER I think it's critically important for all kinds of reasons that this not be an American occupation, CARL LEVIN If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights ... HASSAN NASRALLAH There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a f... LOUISE BROOKS If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of o... RAND PAUL These resources can make (a) future human return to the moon and future human occupation of the moon... BUTLER HINE The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The c... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE Our concern was that what has been a heritage occupation or hobby in this country would be destroyed... JOEL SALATIN You can't have occupation and human rights. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I would say that we all - in whatever world we're in, whatever your occupation is, we all have a... BENJAMIN WATSON DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally, and no occupation is consid... DIGNITY,LABOR,INDICATES,TYPES,JOBS,RESPECTED,EQUALLY,,OCCUPATION,CONSIDERED,SUPERIOR,LIVELIHOOD,INVO The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a pe... ALAN BRIEN In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the on... JAMES C. MAXWELL Why this is important is because these resources can make future human occupation of the moon much m... BUTLER HINE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. T... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. T... BILLY BEANE What kind of people will these ghettos of Palestinians produce? What form of morality, national cons... SAYED KASHUA Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one ... GEORGE LUCAS The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things t... KANDYSE MCCLURE We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into... ED GARVEY My occupation is solely that of a painter.
No one can argue with pictures
(re descriptions in Uncle ... LOUISA MAE ALCOTT After 38 years of ugly occupation, they are leaving and they will never come back, AHMED QUREIA We don't want them to leave behind anything that will remind of us of the Israeli occupation, FAROUK Occupation is the scythe of time. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Occupation maybe means when army of another country enters our country and refuses to return to thei... TARIF NAAZ People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to ... HASSAN NASRALLAH The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a... OCTAVIA SPENCER The vast majority of Americans want to see the end to the US occupation of Iraq. There's increasing ... MARCY WINOGRAD Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. JULES RENARD Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. JULES RENARD We're on the wrong track in Iraq. As many of our most distinguished former generals and anti-terrori... ELI PARISER That was a marvelous occupation and very successful, JOHN ORTON I say to the world no peace with occupation. Occupation contradicts peace. If they want security, th... ABDEL AZIZ RANTISSI We need a moral road map toward the end of the occupation and the signing of a permanent agreement. ... AMIR PERETZ But I recognize it as part of the occupation. CHRIS REED No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that ... THOMAS JEFFERSON About half the soldiers I've talked to feel that we shouldn't be there. There's only about 1 percent... CLIFF KINDY There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hou... H. L. MENCKEN I do not think we can dismiss the contribution that people make, particularly when it is a very dang... MARTIN MCGUINNESS Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an ... PETER DRUCKER Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN we were not prepared for the occupation. BILL NELSON I have always felt that the occupation of Palestine is an American issue, because we give Israel som... CHRIS TOWNE I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a p... JERRY WEST
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