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war with someone

to fight or dispute with someone. Ruth is always warring with someone, usually about something trivial. Please don't war with me!

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Political and economic insiders in Washington were "avid for war with someone three years before the Maine exploded" in Havana harbor, Karp points out.

The war party's playbook

Finally, Alabama Baptists emerged from the Second World War with a more ecumenical and internationalist perspective.

Alabama Baptists and the Second World War

The authors recount tales of the Gulf War with scholarship, clarity and moral force.

War in the Gulf, 1990-1991: The Iraqi-Kuwait Conflict and It's Implications: Views from the Other Side

Iraq was economically in very bad shape, having only recently ended a costly eight-year war with Iran, which Iraq had launched in the hope of seizing Iran's oil fields.

1991: the war before the war: the Persian Gulf war ended with an allied victory--and Saddam Hussein still in power

There was no more candor in the Persian Gulf War or the war in Afghanistan or the war with Iraq than there was in Vietnam.

Heckled in Rockford. (Cover Story)

Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said war with Iraq is well justified: "If you are looking for just cause, we have already passed that threshold.

Atheists in foxholes, christian in uniform

But some American analysts think that: Because of the failure to oust Hussein, the United States will be in a state of war with Iraq until he is overthrown.

Gulf War: the socio-political background

Since Oceania was perpetually at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia (depending on the week), to oppose or even doubt Big Brother was an act of treason that endangered the nation's very existence--at least, according to official propaganda.

War party's ministry of truth: the Woodrow Wilson administration pioneered using the media to cultivate uncritical loyalty, a technique being emulated by "conservative" media organs under President Bush

In the long run, will the war with Iraq ignite a democratic revolution in the Middle East?

From here to eternity: the unintended consequences of war

The coming war with Iraq is likely to produce its own crop of killer vets.

The strong, violent type. (Flip Side)

Before America joined the war, the Wilson administration had to overcome public opinion against the war with a huge propaganda effort, and after the war a great deal of disillusionment set in.

The politics of war

Who would have anticipated back in 1952 that, more than a half-century after the supposed end of the Korean War, we would be poised to fight a nuclear war with a still-menacing Communist North Korea?