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Iraq still suffers, 20 years after invasion

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The Arguments the Americans Made to Go to War

For many Iraqis, they didn't feel upset about that taking this justification at the beginning, because only what they care about is getting rid of something. But we also realized that especially after immediately when coalition administrations decided to abolish the Iraqi army, and that meant putting thousands of trained military people in the streets without any job,. We realized that this will have a backlash and it will generate violence. And that's what was happening shortly.

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