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When President Bush addressed the nation Monday on the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war, he said "our most important mission" is helping the Iraqis secure Baghdad.
That statement brought tears to my eyes, and not because I'm hearing horror stories from Iraqi friends whose relatives are dying. I teared up from anger at remembering the early days in occupied Baghdad, when looters were destroying Iraqi ministries and universities. Iraqis anxiously asked: "Why don't the Americans impose a curfew and establish order?"See the full content of this document
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Bush Still Trying to Find Way in Iraq
The Iraqi insurgency was born right then; hard-line Baathists used the looting to test whether the Americans would crack down. Instead, Don Rumsfeld blew the looting off with his cocky proclamation that "...
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