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July 27, 2009

Iraq: The War We'd Like to Forget

Ross Douthat, New York Times

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It was the kind of symbolic moment that George W. Bush must have yearned for during the Iraq war’s darkest days. Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the prime minister of a sovereign (sort of), stable (up to a point) and democratic (within limits) Republic of Iraq came to Arlington National Cemetery Thursday, and laid a wreath in honor of the 4,328 American soldiers who have died fighting in his country.

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