We only went to war when Congress voted on it.
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And when that diplomacy failed two nations went to war.
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Then he went to war, largely for the Sunday Times.
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Democrats sneered him, went to war against him, assassinated him.
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Democrats smeared him, went to war against him, assassinated him.
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"When I was 22, I went to war," Kerry said.
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I was nine when America went to war with Iraq.
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Northern "free labor" went to war against the oligarchical slavocracy.
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"Another generation went to war and did not return," he sings.
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My dad, on the right trained many that went to war.
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She then, with Julius Caesar, went to war against her brother.
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"She went to war for me, to fight for my freedom."
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READ: Facebook went to war against white supremacist terror after Christchurch.
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READ: Facebook Went to War Against White Supremacist Terror After Christchurch.
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He says he went to war not knowing much about politics.
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At his Thursday press conference, he went to war with the media.
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In 1984, India and Pakistan went to war over the Siachen Glacier.
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But in 1998, the two went to war after a border dispute.
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When 2,21625 Americans were killed on 2900/220006, we went to war.
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"Shokin went to war," Kent told lawmakers during his October 15 deposition.
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We went to war in support of our American ally in Afghanistan.
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READ MORE: Facebook went to war against white supremacist terror after Christchurch.
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They studied how often European rulers went to war between 1480 and 1913.
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Last decade, America went to war, twice, then seemingly forgot all about it.
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In 1904, it went to war against Russia by launching a surprise attack.
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This weekend was 20163 years since the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan.
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Remember that over the summer, we almost went to war with the Iranians.
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That spring and summer, India and Pakistan briefly went to war in Kashmir.
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My father went to war with pride and returned to a hero's welcome.
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The big picture: No two countries went to war over the past decade.
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The reasons the country went to war with itself remain divisive, too: over slavery?
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If we went to war with China, would we win or would they win?
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A year ago it went to war in Yemen, and is now bogged down.
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The United States and The United Kingdom almost went to war over a pig.
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READ: These two guys from Brooklyn went to war in Syria to fight ISIS.
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Of course, I get that: I was a Marine who went to war once.
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"If Saudi Arabia and Iran went to war, this would be a disaster," Khan said.
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"3 years to the day myself and this Mexican animal went to war," Conor said.
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In the boardroom CBS CEO Les Moonves went to war with controlling shareholder Shari Redstone.
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Before his son went to war, the man had a full head of brown hair.
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And yet there are conspiracies, like how the United States went to war with Iraq.
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Even last year, as India and Pakistan nearly went to war, the show went on.
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When Trump went to war with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, Ryan dismissed questions about it.
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After the humans came, they went to war with the Children of the Forest over territory.
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The last time the US went to war in the Middle East was 2003 in Iraq.
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They almost went to war over an uninhabited islet each claims as its own in 1996.
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The two countries almost went to war over an uninhabited islet in the Aegean in 1996.
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Islamist rebels began launching attacks in northern Syria, and the Y.P.G. went to war against them.
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It also had a full panoply of bitchy parents and nice ones, who went to war.
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On day thirteen, Terunofuji went to war with the yokozuna Kakuryu but emerged with the victory.
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The United States went to war in Afghanistan in 2001 in the wake of the Sept.
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Jim Yardley on why China went to war with the N.B.A. Have thoughts about the show?
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Biden was a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the U.S. went to war.
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Benioff, flanked by other business leaders, went to war against the law and got the law changed.
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This happened a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two countries nearly went to war.
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"It was... in that moment that I went to war with everything that Fester represented," Parham writes.
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I lost a lot of money, went to war with a lot of powerful probably good people.
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And propping up an Afghan government was not the reason the United States went to war there.
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WHEN BOOKS WENT TO WAR: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II, by Molly Guptill Manning.
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In 1998 Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war over a border town, citing different interpretations of colonial treaties.
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Precisely how Uber went to war with police is where this story veers into the realm of absurdity.
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Instead of completing the trip, he took a bus ride back home, and went to war immediately after.
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He was not a privileged kid who begrudgingly went to war in order to boost his mother's campaign.
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Many contestants struggled to keep the weight off as their bodies effectively went to war with their willpower.
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And he only went to war because Lyanna Stark, whom he was betrothed to, was taken by Rhaegar.
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The agriculture industry went to war to save the mandate they worked so hard to put in place.
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We spoke to five people whose ancestors went to war or were enslaved, including Cherice Harrison-Nelson, above.
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Buy on Amazon These were also the people who, when their country went to war, answered the call.
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The United States went to war against Iraq under President George W. Bush thirteen years ago this week.
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India and China share a 3,500 km (2,200 mile) border, over which they went to war in 1962.
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But there's still a long way to go to help wounded men and women who went to war.
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As expected, Apple's legal department soon sent the brothers four large folders of legal documents and went to war.
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It is what's owed to the service members who selflessly went to war on behalf of the United States.
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Israel last went to war in Lebanon in 2006, against the heavily armed, Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah movement.
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The 28-year-old New Zealand lightweight went to war with the Australian striker Jamie Mullarkey at UFC 243.
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"I went to war for this country out of love for this country," Perez said before he was deported.
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He stood up to China, nearly went to war with Pakistan and brought India closer to the United States.
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As a teenager, Lisette Lukoji had a daughter, Lorette, with a boyfriend who went to war and never returned.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — His country nearly went to war with a neighboring enemy six and a half times its size.
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But all that got largely lost by the wayside as the president went to war with a Baltimore icon.
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When we went to war, the Puerto Ricans were hand in hand with the U.S. We defended the nation.
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Train service between the countries was suspended when they went to war in 1965 and 1971, but eventually resumed.
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Dakota natives went to war against white settlers in Minnesota, which had just become a state four years prior.
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Steve King, after he went to war with one of the oldest and largest anti-abortion organizations in the country.
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" Trump's position on the war in Iraq "Since the United States went to war in Iraq — now, listen to this.
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That storm erupted in 2013, when the country's president, Salva Kiir, and his vice president, Riek Machar, went to war.
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They worked together to become two of Mexico's most powerful drug lords, then they went to war with each other.
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When the United States went to war in Afghanistan in the fall of 20093, the impetus and aims seemed clear.
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Trump said Friday that "millions" of people would be killed if the United States went to war with North Korea.
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Georgia, a proud nation in the Caucasus that went to war with Russia in 2008, is no stranger to conflict.
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It's been six months since Furie went to war against the far right against their use of his creation, Pepe.
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He believes Trump is doing great things for America, for the country that he went to war for in Iraq.
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The Checkup Young people who went to war 217 years ago often died from what are now preventable childhood diseases.
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Two rival factions of the infamous Zetas cartel went to war inside the facility ... setting the cell blocks on fire.
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In February, the rivals nearly went to war again, after a suicide attack in Indian Kashmir killed 40 paramilitary troopers.
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It's time for every American to sacrifice for the sake of the country, just like those who went to war.
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Documents Offer History Lesson for Trump: President Trump claimed the Soviet Union went to war in 1979 to battle terrorists.
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The United States went to war to prevent Saddam from seizing the 10% of global oil reserves then controlled by Kuwait.
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Still, the Taliban sheltered al-Qaeda before September 11, and the US went to war to push them out of power.
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The Tories went to war over the most important problem facing the country—one that is largely of their own making.
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The all-time champion in that regard was President Kennedy, who went to war with the American steel industry in 1962.
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The divorce wasn't exactly the friendliest split ... they went to war over everything from mansions to clothing and even hair care.
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Sergeant Duncan, who went to war convinced it was an anti-Communist crusade, ended his Special Forces duty a changed man.
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This was not "colonialism" but the post-Holocaust will of the world: Arab armies went to war against it and lost.
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The goal: to avoid handing over the country to the same militants that the United States went to war to dislodge.
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And he went to war with the bus company because its drivers were demanding, illegally, that the Africans produce identity papers.
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In 19183, European troops went to war with sabers, rifles, and the garish and brightly colored uniforms of the 18th century.
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With the RM leaderless, the Angels made their move to take over street distribution, and the two clubs went to war.
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The major problem Johnson and his military advisers had, McMaster found, is that they went to war in Vietnam without a strategy.
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The Zetas and Gulf Cartel went to war over Tamaulipas, the military was at war with both; Tamaulipas was a war zone.
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When Anupam Sud joined the Delhi College of Art in the early 1960s as a student, India went to war with China.
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Today, we got a firsthand look at the place where it all began the last time that our country went to war.
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Image: Akiko Russell/Flickr Tinder recently went to war with 3nder, an app designed to help users find some three-person fun.
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From 1947-1999, the two nuclear powers went to war with each other four times in addition to other serious border skirmishes.
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The network recently went to war with Game of Thrones prediction YouTuber Frikidoctor by issuing takedown requests for his spoiler-filled vlogs.
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Though the nonintervention movement collapsed when the nation went to war in 1941, its most conservative set of donors and organizers endured.
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The last time U.S. forces went to war without an overwhelming advantage was against Nazi German troops in North Africa in 1943.
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We went to war with ourselves, our own bodies, and our own sexual natures, all under the strict commandment of the church.
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HONG KONG — In 1840, Britain went to war with China over questions of trade, diplomacy, national dignity and, most importantly, drug trafficking.
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In February, Mr. Modi nearly went to war with Pakistan, which proved to be a huge boost as the election drew near.
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I recently read "When Books Went to War," about librarians working together during World War II to send books to the troops.
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And that was just one 15-second slice of my Navy life, at the very beginning, and before we even went to war.
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"Be obedient to Allah and use your intelligence instead of resorting to arms," he used to counsel when fellow Arabs went to war.
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But when Yugoslavia broke up and the republics went to war, not only the state but the language of Serbo-Croatian was dismantled.
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He took advantage of the Tijuana Cartel's weakness and went to war with the embattled cartel for possession of the territories they controlled.
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Presumably, medieval men could lock their wives up with it while they went to war, secure in the knowledge they wouldn't be cuckolded.
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Saudi Arabia went to war in Yemen after the Houthis seized the capital, Sana'a, and moved to take the port city of Aden.
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They became engaged a year and a half later, before he went to war as a Navy torpedo bomber pilot in the Pacific.
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It nearly went to war during Taliban rule when the militants killed at least eight Iranian diplomats and an Iranian journalist in 1998.
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George H.W. Bush predicted that he might be impeached if he went to war to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi forces without congressional approval.
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"Who's gonna care for the ones who care for the ones who went to war?" the song asks in its very first line.
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First, Mr. Guzmán went to war with one of his former partners, Arturo Beltrán Leyva, and the cartel chieftains demanded the brothers' loyalty.
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Arabs, however, rejected Resolution 181, went to war, lost, and under the Armistice Israel took control of West Jerusalem, which became its capital.
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So we began an era where two groups of Americans, both thinking that they were acting patriotically, went to war with each other.
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The two sides went to war again over their border, from 1998 to 2000, after Ethiopia refused to abide by an international ruling.
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In response, Britain went to war to keep its largest opium market and won, a loss the Chinese still consider a humiliation today.
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India and Pakistan almost went to war after a terrorist attack killed lots of Indian paramilitary police in the Indian bit of Kashmir.
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Lester Irwin Tenney was born in Chicago on July 1, 1920, and went to war as a member of the Illinois National Guard.
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A question is whether the United States can avoid handing over the country to the same militants it went to war to dislodge.
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Earlier this year Trump went to war with India over tariffs on motorcycles imported from the U.S., which were as much as 75 percent.
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Back then, a Democratic president went to war with his own base to eliminate tariffs on imports from and exports to Canada and Mexico.
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The Egyptian and American militaries have cooperated closely for decades, and Egypt went to war against Saddam Hussein alongside United States forces in 1991.
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I don't know the overall survival statistics, but out of the 1966 boys from my high school who went to war, 11 were killed.
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"What crushes me is that he went to war, and survived and came home," she said, referring to Mr. Hill's military service in Afghanistan.
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"The world, in fact, voted to send inspectors in and they still went to war," Biden said at the debate of his 2002 vote.
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You'll recall, Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb went to war over their frozen embryos, but David and Rose are clearly on the same page.
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President Trump went to war Wednesday with Nordstrom, the department store, over its decision to stop carrying his daughter Ivanka's line of branded apparel.
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Yet, unlike the last time the country went to war with itself, this American struggle doesn't center around just one specific moral or political issue.
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But as the Russia probe continued and intensified with the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump went to war with his own Justice Department.
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Six years after Russia went to war with Georgia, it turned to Ukraine, seizing the Crimean peninsula and meddling in the east of the country.
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Eritrea formally seceded from Ethiopia in 1993 after a long battle for independence, but the two went to war in 1998 over a border dispute.
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I never went to war, but I served alongside some real heroes and grew deeply loyal to the service of those who fought and died.
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National pride, friendly competition between countries that once went to war, an appetite for kitsch, schadenfreude, questionable taste — the reasons for applauding Eurovision are numerous.
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Weeks of violence in Amazonas in 2017 resulted in 150 prison deaths as local gangs backed by Brazil's two largest drug factions went to war.
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And then fate delivered another lethal blow: India and Pakistan almost went to war in February after a suicide attack on Indian forces in Kashmir.
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Iran nearly went to war with the Taliban when their militias notoriously killed 22001 Iranian diplomats and an Iranian government journalist in fighting in 22001.
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He has cozied up to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and spoken admiringly of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator Bush literally went to war to depose.
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Still, the number of female legislators in the Assembly continued to rise, as men went to war and women stepped in to take their places.
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According to the conventional view of World War II, American business made all this happen simply because it rolled up its sleeves and went to war.
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Then, Austin and Rob went to war to save humanity from the alien menace in the year's best strategy game, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen.
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Or Amason's "Went to War" has this line: "Wonder where the nerves are, still numb," which is another one that very literally applied to my situation.
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Mr. Timberg's best-known book, "The Nightingale's Song," wove together the lives of five of his fellow Naval Academy graduates who went to war in Vietnam.
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The raids became more frequent, Mr. Cifuentes said, in 2008 when Mr. Guzmán went to war with the Beltrán-Leyva brothers, his cousins and former allies.
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He went to war with only essential equipment: helmet, poncho, spoon, toothbrush, compass, soap and backpack containing two canteens, an exposure meter, film and two cameras.
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Seventeen years after the United States went to war in Afghanistan, the Taliban is gaining momentum, seizing territory, and killing Afghan security forces in record numbers.
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The UK and its NATO allies would lose to Russia if they went to war as they are woefully outgunned, a leading defense think tank says.
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So, we did some research trips, we went to France, we went to Belgium, we looked at some really good museums and went to war graves.
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Turkey demanded that Russia stay out of Poland's internal affairs, and instead, Catherine went to war against the Turks, seizing Azov, Bessarabia, and, most notably, Crimea.
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But early on Wednesday, at the Mahagun Moderne in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India's capital, the madams and the maids went to war.
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As Trump's approval ratings tanked and his agenda stalled and his aides went to war with each other, he came to blame Priebus for his troubles.
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The UK had ample warning that Iraq would collapse after the invasion and make the problem of terrorism worse — but it went to war anyway. Why?
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By 1860, slavery had become such a divisive issue between the North and South that the two regions of America literally went to war over the issue.
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Don't worry, The Jet says everyone is calm and cool now ... but the big men almost went to war last night in a debate over LeBron James.
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There was the time Trump went to war with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after she questioned him in a debate about his history of sexist comments.
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The Kabul embassy is a testament to the size of America's investment in Afghanistan since it went to war there in 2001 after the September 11 attacks.
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When I went to war for the first time, I was 23 years old, a light-attack/reconnaissance helicopter pilot, and had no idea what to expect.
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It's like the TV series "Band of Brothers," a group of people who went to war together but were all heading in a variety of different directions.
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The truth is, white Southerners went to war to destroy the United States in order to continue enslaving nearly 40 percent of the people in the region.
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The two countries almost went to war in 1974 over Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, and again 20 years ago over a territorial dispute in the Aegean Sea.
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Meanwhile, Tehran has improved its ties with the Taliban leadership, unlike the 1990s when Iran almost went to war with the Taliban regime over its hostility to Shiites.
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Vladislav Horohorin, an experienced hacker, recalls that when Russia and Georgia briefly went to war in 2008, Russians without any government connection hacked into the Georgian telecom infrastructure.
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Thirteen years earlier, the two nations nearly went to war after an American settler shot a pig owned by an Irishman who worked for the Hudson Bay Company.
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In separate incidents this season, he goofily went to war with management over Drake LaRoche, and struck himself in the head with a baseball repeatedly out of frustration.
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When the mob bosses of Philadelphia went to war — I was a senior in high school at the time — Marvin Marx disappeared while on vacation in Hollywood, Fla.
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A year later, the United States went to war with Germany, and McLaughlin joined the Army's new 26th Blackhawk Division, taking command of the 22rd Machine Gun Battalion.
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Back in 2016, Max Fisher wrote for Vox about "neoconservatism," and how that ideology proved the real culprit for why the Bush administration went to war in Iraq.
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" While the wannabe stars discuss the topic in black and white and judgmental terms, Barry reminds them he, as a former Marine, went to war and took lives. "What?
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To the sound of a thousand thunderclaps from the stands, Halldórsson, Saevarsson, Arnason, Gunnarsson, Bjarnason, Sigthorsson, Sigurdsson, Gudjohnsen, Skúlason, Gudmundsson and Finnbogason went to war for the last time.
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She went to war with the Obama administration over its nomination of Antonio Weiss, a Lazard banker, to serve as undersecretary of domestic finance, ultimately forcing the nomination's withdrawal.
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Since we first went to war in Afghanistan in 2001, 7,013 service members have been killed and 53,088 have been wounded in conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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He was critical of the way the Bush administration went to war in Iraq and became an important thinker behind the strategy change that helped turn the war around.
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"Martin McGuinness never went to war, it came to his streets, it came to his city, it came to his community," fellow Republican leader Adams told Irish national broadcaster RTE.
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Weeks after the United States and Iran nearly went to war, many Americans still want to know not just whether an attack was really "imminent," the question that consumed Washington.
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The government of Eritrea went to war with its larger neighbor and former ruler, Ethiopia, in 1998, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of soldiers on each side.
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Over the next eight years, Canada went to war on science by preventing researchers from talking to the press (in a word, "muzzling"), and cutting billions in funding for research.
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Still, even behind closed doors, the administration can't satisfactorily answer why it nearly went to war with Iran in the first place — and that, on its own, is deeply worrying.
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The two NATO members again nearly went to war in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus, and also in 113 and 1996 over disputed territory and rights in the Aegean Sea.
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After graduating from Ole Miss in 1940, he took a P.R. job with H.K. Ferguson, an engineering and construction company, which began building military installations as America went to war.
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If confirmed, the series of airstrikes would rank among the highest civilian death tolls in an American air mission since the United States went to war in Iraq in 2003.
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Billions In the first season of "Billions," Wendy Rhoades acted as the narrative linchpin, the basest and truest explanation for why Chuck and Axe went to war against each other.
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After we went to war, that humble, great superhuman I admired so much – Lt. Nathan White – was killed in action, shot down while flying a combat mission over Iraq in 2003.
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What is especially worrisome are the startling similarities between the occupant of the White house and the racist combatants who went to war to protect a glorious past that never existed.
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The Saudi government says Houthi rebels have fired at least 116 missiles at the kingdom since it went to war in Yemen in 2015, and claims that all have been intercepted.
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As we previously reported, Azarenka -- who's a citizen of Belarus -- went to war with her baby daddy Billy McKeague in 2017 after he filed paternity papers in L.A., where Azarenka trains.
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Athens and Sparta, old allies, went to war 2,500 years ago, according to the historian Thucydides, when plucky Athens grew powerful enough to rival Sparta, then the pre-eminent Greek power.
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Name Withheld Despite persistent attempts to rewrite the past, responsible historians agree that the Confederacy went to war in order to maintain a system predicated upon the enslavement of black people.
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We were reminded that the Greatest Generation went to war because it believed that we were the good guys — that wherever there was oppression, tyranny or despotism, America would be there.
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There are known knowns, there are known unknowns and then there is a musical offering an absurd yet apparently plausible explanation for how the United States went to war in Iraq.
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But after the final buzzer, roughly a dozen people went to war in the 300 level of the United Center in Chicago -- throwing haymakers and slamming each other to the floor.
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In fact, Kurdish revolutionaries in parts of Syria took up secular socialism as their ideology as they asserted independence from Bashar al-Assad's iron-fisted regime and went to war against ISIS.
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To add to the mix, India went to war with Pakistan in 1971 -- a war that saw the liberation of Bangladesh, only a few short years after my grandfather had passed away.
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But it is also true that he went to war with Georgia in 2008 and sent aircraft and troops to intervene in the Syrian war on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Prince's estate wants to get into the reality show biz, and that's why it went to war to shut down the release of a new album on the anniversary of his death.
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She went to war-torn Sri Lanka, to the Republic of Kiribati for a story about people being displaced because of rising sea levels and to Senegal for a story about surfing.
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Jackson's most passionate defenders — a group known for its ardency — went to war, immediately demanding that Ms. Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer winner and one of America's most respected dramatists, be fired.
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Mr. Fuller was a director who not only went to war but also returned to it repeatedly as a subject, in films as personal and visceral as a knife to the throat.
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The kingdom was such a crucial supplier of oil to the United States that Washington went to war in the early 1990s in part to protect it from a possible Iraqi invasion.
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The negotiations have raised the question of whether the American withdrawal from Afghanistan will mean handing the country over to the same militants that the United States went to war to dislodge.
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Many died after succumbing to their illness, but nearly all who fear they got sick from exposure to burn pits never received proper help from the country they went to war to defend.
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In 2014, when Israel and Hamas went to war in Gaza, social media became a prime place for the spread of propaganda, which took the form of an extensive Twitter tit-for-tat.
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But Duffy later wrote that he and his fellow "Fighting Irish" went to war alongside the British as volunteers against "the tyranny of the strong", fighting for "the oppressed peoples of the Earth".
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There's also an element of the left that believes Bush and Cheney went to war in Iraq purely to get the oil; unwarranted on my view, but still held by friends and colleagues.
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There's also an element of the left that believes Bush and Cheney went to war in Iraq purely to get the oil; unwarranted on my view, but still held by friends and colleagues.
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Russia's sailors might be new to carrier strike operations, but they are also the only navy to have fought with anti-ship missiles since Britain went to war in the Falklands in 1982.
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Editorial It seems a long time ago, and in a world far, far away, that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, enthusiastically supported by Tony Blair, went to war with Iraq.
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Benioff famously went to war with Pence last year when the Indiana governor signed a law that would have potentially allowed business owners to refuse to serve people based on their religious beliefs.
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When Justice Antonin Scalia unexpectedly died in 2016 the court was forced to work with only eight members for more than a year as the political branches went to war over Scalia's replacement.
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FILM SERIES Fuller was a director who not only went to war but also returned to it repeatedly as a subject, in films as personal and visceral as a knife to the throat.
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Also last week, U.S. allies went to war to oust Islamic State terrorists from their command center in Raqqa, Syria, a sharp shift from the orders once given by the very same man.
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People should know that the South went to war in order to preserve slavery and then put up Confederate memorials in order to celebrate or obfuscate that legacy a couple of generations later.
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They reportedly went to war with their father's brother, their uncle, Aureliano Guzmán Loera, alias "El Guano," over drug turf and the fact that Guano was trying to charge extortion in parts of Sinaloa.
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At the end of February, for instance, hoaxes and misinformation that spread on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp stoked tensions in both India and Pakistan after both countries nearly went to war.
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I will forever cherish the relationships within the organization — the friends and teammates that I went to war with on the court for nine years, and all the fans and people of the community.
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ELSEWHERE > Taliban's surge: 17 years after the United States went to war in Afghanistan, the Taliban has regained power, seized territory and killed Afghan security forces in record numbers (roughly 85033 deaths per day).
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"I will be with you, whatever," Mr. Blair wrote, in what appeared to be a blanket promise of British support if the United States went to war to topple Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader.
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Andrew is responsible for Olivia's kidnapping, and Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) went to war with West Angola because of it — even though many top White House officials agreed that saving Olivia wasn't worth the risk.
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This gave Mr. Trump, with his tendency to improvise his own facts, an assist — and, when he briefly went to war against Fox News and its anchor Megyn Kelly during the primary, a weapon.
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China went to war with Vietnam in 1979 after Deng Xiaoping, who had recently returned to power, pushed to punish Vietnam for occupying Cambodia and overthrowing the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, a Chinese ally.
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It is about family members who went to war and family members who were sold in the slave market downtown, and family in whom the bloodlines overlapped in ways that have seldom been acknowledged.
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Dan Patrick, an eccentric suburban Christian soldier who unnerved many in his own party, immediately went to war with House Speaker Joe Straus, a moderate Jewish Republican from the leafier parts of San Antonio.
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Nixon embraced journalist Whittaker Chambers, a reformed communist agent, and went to war with the establishment by identifying one of the New Deal's golden lads, the former diplomat Alger Hiss, as a Soviet spy.
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Their sheikhs might withdraw their ambassadors when tempers flared, but even when King Salman of Saudi Arabia went to war in Yemen in 2015, he let more than a million Yemenis in his kingdom stay.
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Chapo isn't even the lead defendant on his own indictment — he's listed below Arturo Beltrán-Leyva, a top capo who split from the Sinaloa cartel and went to war with Chapo's faction of the group.
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And even though Trump, who never went to war, believes he would meet North Korea with "power the likes of which this world has never seen before," we've already seen pretty devastating conflicts throughout history.
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No one, and I mean this in the nicest, most humane way, no one is paid to help clients avoid the kind of massive stock market downdraft we'd see if the two went to war.
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We were very critical, confrontational band, and we basically went to war with the punk scene—not particular individuals, but with the concept of the punk/hardcore community thinking it was always the good guys.
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In 1962, during Mr. Trump's junior year, the United States and the Soviet Union almost went to war after the Soviet leader, Nikita S. Khrushchev, shipped missiles to Cuba to be pointed at American territory.
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Intelligence is hardly a perfect process, as Americans learned when the nation went to war in Iraq based in part on an estimate that Saddam Hussein was once again in search of a nuclear weapon.
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I went to war several times, including as a tactical-air-operations command-and-control officer during Desert Shield, and from within Bosnia, with the UN and then NATO, during the war there in 28503.
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Bush committed forces to a U.N. effort to liberate Kuwait, but ended hostilities after only four days of ground combat, leaving Saddam Hussein in power until his son went to war with Iraq in 2003.
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One of them was that we could create a channel for reflection and candor from veterans about the unceasing run of years since the United States went to war after the terrorist attacks in 2001.
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But the atmosphere feels markedly different from even just a few months ago, when Russian and U.S. forces nearly went to war in Syria, and Moscow taxi drivers were wary of talking politics with a foreigner.
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Formerly part of Sudan, the southern section went to war demanding greater investment and representation in the central government, which was keeping the vast majority of the money made from drilling oil in the southern territories.
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Remember, getting the deal done for this fight was not easy -- the sides went to war over how to split the profits ... with Canelo and his promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, threatening to walk several times.
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Upside-down arrows produce spurious negative signs that can wreak havoc in physics, so nearly 40 years after Hamilton's bridge vandalism, physicists went to war with one another to keep the quaternion system from becoming standard.
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RELATED: The night Michael Cohen went to war with Donald Trump At the meeting, Trump Jr. was joined by his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign chairman at the time.
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But seeing as how Pennywise the Dancing Clown had been wreaking havoc on Derry every three decades or so long before the Losers Club went to war with him, there's easily the possibility of a prequel.
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The flare-up is the latest incident in a steadily deteriorating relationship between the Asian giants who are unable to agree on their 33,500 km (2,175 miles) border, over which they went to war in 1962.
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This eight-part series from the BBC revels in sex, blood, elaborate costuming and rousing monologues to tell the story of the two countries that went to war over the most beautiful woman in the world.
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But while the Islamic State got its start as Al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq more than a decade ago, that theory is disputed because the two groups later split and went to war with each other.
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But the two countries nearly went to war in the late 1990s after their forces clashed in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo where they jointly helped topple former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko before turning on each other.
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"Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other," said Helmut Kohl, Germany's chancellor who, together with France's president, François Mitterrand, championed monetary union in the 1990s to cement deeper political and economic integration.
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But even here, an individual's class was a factor in whether he actually went to war — men from privileged backgrounds had many options to avoid the draft, the burden of which fell mainly on the working class.
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Seventeen years ago the US went to war on the strength of a single sentence: 60 words that were written, debated, and voted upon before the US even knew for certain who was behind the 20013/11 attacks.
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To say that NATO went to war after the American invocation of Article 5 is a falsehood; NATO did not budget, grow or deploy equally and this dichotomy shows through in the maturity of member state militaries today.
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The Republican presidential front-runner swatted away a report that he'd supported the Iraq war in September 453 and tore into the last GOP president, asserting that he only went to war to finish George H.W. Bush's business.
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Khan's decision came after several other countries offered diplomatic assistance to de-escalate the confrontation between two countries that have almost went to war in 2002 for fourth time since their independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
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I have parted ways and broken ties with former comrades who I went to war with because of their foolhardy and abhorrent views on unarmed black people being wrongfully killed and their complete misconstruing of the Kaepernick protest.
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If the US and South Korea went to war with the North, their key strategic goal would be to capture or destroy all of Pyongyang's nuclear sites, as well as the bases that house its long-range missiles.
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For the first and only time in NATO's history the alliance unanimously agreed Article 5 of the NATO treaty that links us all together -- an attack on one is an attack on all -- and NATO went to war.
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The embarrassing exchange was the latest escalation amid mounting tensions that stirred China to threaten India with "greater losses than in 22014," a reference to India's inglorious defeat the last time both sides went to war over borders.
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In 22012, after the two cities went to war for a day because an American guard shot a Mexican citizen at the border crossing, authorities on both sides agreed to construct a permanent chain-link fence between them.
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Bruce Ackerman, a legal scholar, predicts the federal courts are heading for a period of "hyper-politicisation" not seen since the 1930s, when Franklin Roosevelt went to war with the Supreme Court over its hostility to the New Deal.
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In 1812, when America went to war with Britain and French Emperor Napoleon invaded Russia, Alexander saw an opportunity to strengthen Russia's influence in the world by offering to mediate a peace treaty between Britain and the United States.
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Even agreeing to participate in a tour to help the DNC — an organization he went to war with during the primary — was a concession, allies say, and if nothing else he and Perez have now forged a personal bond.
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He enacted austerity measures to stanch fiscal bleeding, and when Iran-backed Houthi rebels captured the Yemeni capital, MBS went to war in what became one of several proxy conflicts in which Riyadh and Tehran stand on opposing sides.
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While it is possible that when Vietnam and China went to war in 1978 there were some Vietnamese soldiers who had once studied on Chinese soil, there are nevertheless many who continue to cherish their study years in China.
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The hospital industry went to war with the White House in 2017 over Trump's efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, saying that rolling back the sweeping health law would harm patients and do damage to their bottom lines.
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Serbs killed 44 Albanians in the village of Racak in 1999 before NATO went to war to drive Serb forces out of Kosovo, ending a counter-insurgency war in which more than 13,000 people, mainly local Albanians, were killed.
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In what is now known as Robert's Rebellion, Robert went to war with the entire Targaryen clan over his belief that Rhaegar had kidnapped Lyanna, resulting in the downfall of the Targaryen dynasty and the ascension of Robert to the crown.
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Lighthizer, Navarro, and nominee for Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross — who went to war against Chinese steelmakers in the early 2000s but is not as hawkish as the other two — will work in "close coordination" on trade policy, per Trump's transition.
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Their courtship with political Islam, which began in the late 1970s, resumed in the 2010s after Mr Erdogan ditched his liberal allies, broke off peace talks with the PKK and went to war with the Gulen community, a powerful sect.
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ASMARA (Reuters) - When Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war in 1998 and deported each other's nationals en masse, Addisalem Hadgu thought he had nothing to worry about, safe in the belief his Ethiopian passport would shield his Eritrean wife from expulsion.
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Just as they went to war with frat leaders Teddy (Zac Efron) and Pete (Dave Franco) in the first film, in the sequel they reenlist their friends Jimmy (Ike Barinholtz) and Paula (Carla Gallo) to sabotage Shelby and her sisters.
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"I went to war for this country, I served overseas for this country, I have stepped down from jobs that paid me well more ... and each time it was to serve the public good," Esper said in response to Warren.
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No consultation Throughout the discussions held by Thatcher's cabinet, the chief concerns expressed in the secret memos were retaining market "confidence" in Hong Kong, and avoiding a situation like the Falklands, over which Britain went to war with Argentina in 1982.
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Other painted references included Sebastiano Venier, an Italian admiral who went to war with the Turks in the 16th century, and Luca Traini, an Italian right-wing terrorist who opened fire on a group of African migrants last year, wounding six.
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While decency and decorum are dying in this administration, irony and hypocrisy thrive: Sessions' defense of the First Amendment came just days after Donald Trump needlessly went to war against professional athletes who were exercising the very rights it protects.
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She loved him before he joined the Marines and went to war, before he descended into depression and alcoholism upon his return, before he was convicted on a felony charge for a crime he did not remember through a blackout fog.
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But now that we know everything, we've got a clearer image of what happened as the race for president got closer, as Congress went to war over the president, and as one of the world's richest people ran to beat him.
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African states engaged in regional warfare long before European interference, and, after the transatlantic trade incentivized the kidnapping of enemies, the kingdoms of Akwamu, Akyem, Asante, Dahomey, Denkyira, and Oyo went to war with one another over territory, minerals, and people.
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Many of the same countries that welcomed Slovenia and Croatia, and went to war to help Kosovo secede, and that compete for the title of best friend to a new Palestinian state, act as though Catalonia is trying something unheard of.
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Much of the modern friction between the two countries dates from a century ago, when they went to war as the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and more than a million people were forced to relocate from one country to the other.
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Chairman, president, CEO, BoeingRole: Participant in the manufacturing initiative Why he's there: Boeing took plenty of heat from the president in the earliest days of his administration, as Trump went to war with the company over the cost of Air Force One.
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Still, none of them went to war with the professional staff the way Mr. Trump has, a war fomented in part by far-right media and conspiracy theorists who have gained favor in the Trump era, propelling wild ideas into mainstream conversation.
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While Sam and Dean are busy bringing up Lucifer's baby, Jack, on earth, Lucifer and Mary are stuck in an alternate universe where the Winchesters were never born and Heaven and Hell went to war, leading to the destruction of... just about everything.
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Just kidding, but only kind of: Casper, the startup which sells high-tech memory foam and latex mattresses, went to war with at least three online mattress review sites before bankrolling an effort to acquire one of them, Recode reported this weekend.
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The only truth I can feel certain of now is that Hod had once been a young man who went to war, and that he died an old man who never found a way to make peace with what he had experienced.
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His narrative began in the early 1990s when Mr. Guzmán and his Sinaloan partners — including Mr. Zambada and his brother, Ismael Zambada García — went to war with another pair of brothers, Benjamín and Ramón Arellano Felíx, who ran a cartel in Tijuana.
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Soon after the United States went to war with Japan and Germany, Admiral Karl Dönitz, the commander of the German submarine service, sent six U-boats to attack oil tankers and freighters in American and Canadian waters before they could head overseas.
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While the United Nations still has an observer group to report on cease-fire violations in Kashmir, it has stepped back since the 1970s, when, after the two nations went to war, they agreed to take care of future differences through bilateral negotiations.
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That group, also known as the Beltran Leyva Organization, split from and went to war in 2008 against the Sinaloa cartel, formerly run by the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, sent to U.S. prison for a life term in July.
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"If migrants come to Italy it's because someone went to war with Libya, and the prime minister was Berlusconi," said the PD leader Matteo Renzi, adding that migrants got stuck in Italy because of an EU refugee pact that Berlusconi signed in 2003.
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But even though the powerhouses of the Eastern Conference went to war over which team could add the biggest piece, it is worth taking a look at some under-the-radar moves that could prove significant this season or in the near future.
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Few will escape the impact of this seemingly endless war that stands to deteriorate further after the Houthis and Saleh loyalists went to war with each other in the streets of the capital Monday, resulting in the death of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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Likened to an action-movie hero ahead of Britain's latest bout of brinkmanship, Prime Minister Theresa May went to war with fellow lawmakers who refused to eat a perfectly good bowl of porridge that a bunch of chefs in Europe had rustled up for them.
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We live, after all, in a country that went to war over slavery, then created Jim Crow—and where a white nationalist used racist rhetoric to become president in 2016, put over the top by a number of those infinitely more enlightened states up North.
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He picks up an M40 rifle, one used by the Marines, and it looks comfortable in his grasp — and when Mike relays an off-handed memory about how the gun's older material dealt with swampy water, it becomes clear that Mike once went to war.
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Even before Trump fired FBI Director James Comey and went to war with his own Justice Department in 2017, the president was fixated on McCabe due to his wife Jill's previous unsuccessful campaign for a state Senate seat as a Democrat in Virginia. Gov.
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READ MORE: Why Trump went to war with the Navy over a SEAL accused of war crimes One particularly bewildering part of the segment found Martin and Gallagher in the retired SEAL's home gym, which doubles as a showcase room for his war memorabilia.
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General McMaster, 54, made a name for himself as a young officer with a searing critique of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for their performance during the Vietnam War and later criticized the way President George W. Bush's administration went to war in Iraq.
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He also testified that Shokin was extremely corrupt — when an anti-corruption unit in Ukraine went after his former driver (and seized a cache of diamonds from him), Shokin "went to war" to try to retaliate against anyone involved in the investigation, Kent said.
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On Wednesday, the two sides went to war over who should set U.S. standards for vehicle emissions and electric cars, the first feint in what is sure to be a long legal battle over issues that will affect the auto industry and consumers nationwide.
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"[It] cherry picks lyrics from a Mellencamp song, 'Peaceful World,' (which was written right before we went to war w Iraq ) … and another more obscure song, 'The West End,' which is about Seymour, Indiana, and how big box stores have ruined the small towns," the caption reads.
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Bryan and Long were creatures of depressed economies; Mr Perot went to war with free-trade, which many Americans feared, just as the two big parties decided to embrace it; Mr Buchanan stoked the same nativist fires that have given Mr Trump's candidacy much of its heat.
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" Just days after pulling back from striking Iran for its downing of an American surveillance drone, Mr. Trump also said he was "not looking for war," but added that if the United States went to war with Iran, "it'll be obliteration like you've never seen before.
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Ultimately, it's vital to remember that groups like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda think of themselves as sublime movements, and thus their ideologues are convinced that they went to war to fulfill divine obligations, making setbacks merely temporary — with remnants sure to carry on the fight.
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RuPaul's Drag Race My fellow Ru-mericans, it has been one week since we went to war, and I regret to inform you that, in followance of our made-great governing principles, RuPaul has assigned our new Ru-merican centauries the project of profiting from it.
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The president told reporters at the White House that he expects the Taliban, a militant group the US went to war with in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qa'ida, to pick up the fight against ISIS and other terrorist organizations.
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CreditCreditBruno Barbey/Magum Photos In 133, the world went up in flames, the auteur theory ignited debate, parental guidance at the movies was suggested, women in film were on the verge of a breakthrough, flesh-eating zombies hit the screen and American movies went to war (again).
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Very occasionally American presidents will depart from this internationalist agenda, as Nixon did when he unilaterally withdrew American support for the Bretton Woods system of financial exchange in 1971, or as George W. Bush did when he went to war in Iraq in defiance of the United Nations.
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The Azerbaijanis and Armenians unsurprisingly have differing versions of exactly what happened and why, but in a nutshell, the two countries declared their independence and went to war over disputed territories in 1918, the war ended in 1920 and the countries became part of the Soviet Union in 1922.
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In late 2018, technology companies went to war with one another over Proposition C, a ballot measure passed last November that levies a new tax on some San Francisco companies to raise money for programs to combat homelessness, which affected more than 28,000 people in the Bay Area in 2017.
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In 2003, Samsung missed the opportunity to acquire the then small maker of the Android smartphone operating system, just two weeks before Google bought it for $50 million plus incentives, according to a 2013 book by Fred Vogelstein "Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution".
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Considering the likelihood the Pearson brothers went to war together at their father's forceful urging, Nicky died there, and Jack likely had to watch this tragedy unfold amid the chaos of battle — remember, he's "not going anywhere" — it's no surprise Jack would wall off that kind of trauma with alcohol.
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Burns' series The Civil War isn't perfect, but it's a solid examination into the causes and direction of the war, paying particular attention to not only the motivations for why the men and women of the Northern and Southern armies went to war, but also how the war was remembered.
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"It is personally disappointing to Congressman Hunter that he is now being told that he cannot use this motto or image that thousands of Marines like Congressman Hunter, who went to war under this banner, have used for tattoos, coins, and multiple other items of personal sentiment," Harrison told Task & Purpose.
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What could be more unpredictable than the man who went to war with his own party over building a wall on the southern border pivoting to cut a deal (or a potential deal) with Democrats to allow DACA recipients to stay in the US -- without any border wall money being attached!
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Frankly, it's a disgrace that Trump administration officials and American business tycoons enabled and applauded M.B.S. as he imprisoned business executives, kidnapped Lebanon's prime minister, rashly created a crisis with Qatar, and went to war in Yemen to create what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis there.
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He famously made his co-anchor Suzy Kolber cry when he was briefly moved to ESPN2 to start the channel and its flagship program "SportsNight," and later went to war with Current TV when he was fired from the network in 2012, one year into a five-year, $50 million contract.
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While worries about the unravelling of the JCPOA and Tehran's possible moves to develop nuclear weapons continue, European powers seem to be less concerned about a nuclear Iran per se than what would happen if the United States or Israel and its Arab allies went to war to prevent that outcome.
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An Indian government official said the main impediment to signing the LSA had been cleared, after Washington gave an assurance that New Delhi was not bound by it if the U.S. went to war with a friendly country or undertook any other unilateral action that New Delhi did not support.
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Long before I went to war, I read Guy Sajer's account of his service as a Frenchman conscripted to the German Army to fight the Russians during World War II. "A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important," he wrote in one passage.
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While the Bloomberg administration in its final years went to war with the teacher's union over issues like school closures, teacher evaluations, seniority rules and the status of so-called reserve teachers who had lost their positions, Mr. de Blasio and Ms. Fariña have pursued an amicable and cooperative relationship with the union.
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In the 1840s and 50s, as anti-immigrant sentiment rose, riots tore through cities such as Philadelphia, Louisville, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Baltimore; members of the xenophobic Know-Nothing Party launched attacks on Catholics in Maine; and Chicago's Know-Nothing mayor essentially went to war with the city's German and Irish immigrants.
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Literally every other major candidate got jumped on by our very competitive political staff, and as they went to war over Pete Buttigieg and were picking the bones of Joe Biden from their teeth, I asked if I could write about you, and they shrugged and said, Yeah, sure, fine, we guess.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — President Trump's headway in Afghan peace negotiations with the Taliban raises the same question that has bedeviled other presidents who extracted American troops from foreign wars: Will the departing Americans end up handing over the country to the same ruthless militants that the United States went to war to dislodge?
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Amrullah Saleh, former head of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, the country's primary intelligence agency, said that he pressed Iranian counterparts in July on why they were cultivating ties with the Taliban, with whom they nearly went to war in 1998, after the group executed 11 employees of Iran's consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif.
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There were only certain moments, Mark, that we really were concerned, and that was for instance, 1994, when we almost went to war, but you know, during the administration of George W. Bush, you know, they spent a lot of time on North Korea, but for them, the most important thing was integrating China into the international system.
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The play is about the waste of life that was the Trojan War, and the assembled crowd is familiar, including Hecuba (DeAnna Supplee), widow of the king and mother of the slain Hector and Paris; Helen (Rebeca Rad), the legendary beauty the Greeks went to war to recover; and the fiery Cassandra (Lindsley Howard), Hecuba's vengeful and prophetic daughter.
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"The Vice President was referring to how he immediately opposed the specific way we went to war -- without giving diplomacy and the weapons inspectors a chance to succeed, based on hyped intelligence, without sufficient allies and without a plan for the day after -- and the manner in which the war was being carried out," Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in an email.
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We&aposre the basket of deplorables, we are the people who are the great unwashed, but Donald Trump understands that the great unwashed people, people like me, who grew up more comfortable working in the kitchen than sitting at a head table, that we&aposre the people that actually gave this country its strength, its roots and raised the kids that went to war and won battles.
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As the image of the game was rehabilitated and the authorities went to war with conspicuous racism on the terraces, a new generation of footballers including Paul Ince, Dwight Yorke, Les Ferdinand, Frank Sinclair and Ian Wright – with Ince, Yorke and Ferdinand of Trinidadian, Tobagonian and St Lucian descent respectively, and the others of Jamaican parentage – arrived on the scene to lead the way.
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The denial of the millennial Jewish link to the Holy Land and the dismissal of the legal basis for the modern Jewish state in United Nations Resolution 181 of 1947 (Arab armies went to war against its Palestinian-Jewish territorial compromise and lost) as a means to argue for the abolition of the Jewish homeland and portray it as an immoral, colonial exercise in theft often flirts with anti-Semitism.
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Even as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan morph into shapeless struggles with no clear ends in sight, they have given birth to an extraordinary outpouring of writing that tries to make sense of it all: journalism that has unraveled the back story of how and why America went to war, and also a profusion of stories, novels, memoirs and poems that testify to the day-to-day realities and to the wars' ever-unspooling human costs.
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The linkage goes like this: So beloved was tea back in Britain that the East India Company ran out of silver bars to pay the currency-suspicious Cantonese and instead plied them with India-made opium; the Chinese Empire went to war to stop this grubby trade in what they called "foreign mud"; it lost and was forced to cede Hong Kong to Britain; a thus-weakened China was then first nibbled at, then serially gnawed into further humiliating submission by Russia, France, Germany, America — and Japan, newly open to the outside world.
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