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April 13, 2011

Why Iraq Was a Justified War and Libya Is Not

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review

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The Left, as I said, was humiliated, since its former criticism of Iraq had lived on the principle that George Bush had precipitously taken us to war against a Middle East oil-producing nation and now died with the principle that Barack Obama far more precipitously took us to war against a Middle East oil-producing nation.

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TAGGED: United States, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Iraq, Libya

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