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A U.S. soldier aims his weapon at a man who a soldier had just shot in the neck as he attempted to flee down a narrow alley in a van, across the street from the scene of Tuesday’s intense shootout on a house in Mosul, Iraq on Wednesday, July 23, 2003. (AP)


Ten Years On: The Iraq War Was Not Justified

Ten Years On: The Iraq War Was Not Justified

The first Westerner to invade and occupy Iraq has been respected and admired by its people ever since. I refer, of course, to Alexander the Great, known in Arabic as Dhu Al–Qurnain. Even the British, when they took over the administration of the country a hundred...