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Blair, power and public trust: the Iraq war 20 years on – Politics Weekly UK podcast

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Was It a Regime Change?

I wonder, did the soldiers you were with ever talk about the reason they were there? And I mean, wars very often have multiple extensible reasons why they're taking place. So your whole life is just really, really shrunk down into the day to day minutiae of being with a fighting force. A lot of the soldiers that you were with are only 18, 19 and 20. They signed up to be in the army, train, then that was what they trained for.

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