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Article: Retiring GOP Rep.: Iraq War Unjustified
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- August 19, 2004
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08-19-2004
Dateline: LINCOLN, Neb.
U.S. Army soldiers run through a school courtyard during a gun battle with insurgent snipers near the cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004. Iraq's National Conference refused Wednesday to send a second delegation to the holy city of Najaf to negotiate an end to fighting between U.S. troops and loyalists of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a day after he rebuffed their demand for a meeting. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)
A top Republican congressman has broken from his party in the final days of his House career, saying he believes the U.S. military assault on Iraq was unjustified and the situation there has deteriorated into "a dangerous, ...