March 5, 2013

Was Invading Iraq Worth It?

David Frum, The Daily Beast

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The Iraqi WMDs did not exist. The replacement regime in Iraq is not a democracy in any usual sense of the word. But 10 years on, it would be wrong to say the war achieved nothing.

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