![The US Squandered the Chance for Democracy in Iraq](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/iraq10.jpg)
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This Thursday, March 14, 2013 photo shows a general view of the crossed swords monument at the site of an Associated Press photograph taken by Karim Kadim of U.S. soldiers taken on Nov. 16, 2008.(AP)
![The US Squandered the Chance for Democracy in Iraq](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/iraq10.jpg)
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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](https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/iraq.jpg)