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iraq war 20th anniversary

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Middle East

Forget the shot and chaser, Gen Z got the Iraq War hangover

And it seems to have influenced in part, their strong views against U.S. militarism today

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Middle East

Torture files: how the most notorious scandal in Iraq came from GiTMO

Still no reckoning for those who took criminal interrogation tactics from the dark corners of the GWOT and blew them up at Abu Ghraib.

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Middle East

A requiem for a lost Iraq

What did the US accomplish? Two decades after the invasion, the Iraqi people are still struggling to pick up the pieces.

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Asia-Pacific

How I spent a year losing hearts and minds in Iraq

We never learn: Reconstruction became nothing more than 'checkbook diplomacy' and 20 years later, it shows.

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Middle East

It was 20 years ago but the Iraq War folly could be our fate

Despite all we know about one of the worst US foreign policy blunders ever, with the right conditions, history is bound to repeat itself.