Sentence examples for botched occupation from inspiring English sources

Fourth, what ended Iraq's nuclear ambitions was a full-scale military invasion in 1991 – followed by an (unnecessary and botched) occupation in 2003.

Cheap gas sounds nice initially but it always comes at a high price.The stubborn attractiveness of the 'Euro-Atlantic orientation' is striking given that it survives both the hideously botched occupation of Iraq and extraordinarily selfish agricultural protectionism.

The misread intelligence, the botched occupation, Abu Ghraib and other prisoner scandals would have mattered for little against his demonstrated malevolence.

America sullied not just its moral authority, thanks to Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation", but also its reputation for competence, thanks to faulty intelligence about WMD and a botched occupation.

What the cold war made, the invasion of Iraq largely unmade: beginning in 2003, a party that had long promised — and mostly delivered — peace through strength became identified with an intelligence fiasco, a botched occupation and the squandering of American resources, credibility and lives.

Just as the post-Vietnam Democrats came to be regarded as incompetent, wimpy and dangerously radical all at once, since 2004 the Bush administration's blunders — the missing W.M.D., the botched occupation — have been woven into a larger story about Youth and Science and Reason and Diversity triumphing over Old White Male Faith-Based Cluelessness.

Your Nov. 2 headline -"Who Botched the Occupation?" -- and accompanying article by David Rieff echo a Saturday Evening Post article of Jan . 26 , 1946entitled "How We Botched the German Occupation".

It distracted us from the more important mission in Afghanistan, and on top of that we botched the occupation.

Iran continues to make forward progress in its nuclear programme, and America's Arab neighbours are furious at the US for botching the occupation of Iraq and increasingly jittery that the Iraq debacle portends a broader American withdrawal from the region, leaving Arab governments to fend for themselves.

By embarking on a gloriously foolish crusade into Iraq while botching the occupation, Washington unleashed sectarian war that killed perhaps 200,000 Iraqis before ebbing, only to flare again under the Islamic State, a malign force spawned by the conflict.

Who will protect our country if I quit and others quit?" Many policemen said the occupation forces had botched Iraq's security, and it was now up to Iraqis to fix it.