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Article: Iraq five years later
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- March 19, 2008
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face=+Bold; Dealing with mess will haunt next presidentface=-Bold;
Trudy Rubin
On Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, Americans should be holding the administration responsible for its record in Iraq.
I use the word "should" advisedly. Many people will argue that it is useless to rehash the past. We are where we are. Let's focus in presidential elections on who best can handle Iraq's future.
But Iraq's future cannot be divorced from U.S. policies that led to the devastation of that country. Tens of thousands (or more) of Iraqi civilians and thousands of American soldiers did not die because of mistakes made by Martians. They died because of gross White House ...