U.S. military marks end to nearly nine bloody years in Iraq<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. forces formally ended their nine-year war in Iraq on Thursday with a low key flag ceremony in Baghdad, while to the north flickering violence highlighted ethnic and sectarian …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The best thing that can be said for the Iraq War is that, yes, Saddam Hussein is gone, and even (future) potential of his (perhaps once again) pursuit of WMDs (even if he wasn't doing so at the time of the invasion) is eliminated. That's … it. Non-trivial, but … Have there been unexpected results? … Continue reading “Mission Accomplished?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27286,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/top-10-lessons-from-iraq.html","url_meta":{"origin":24549,"position":0},"title":"Top 10 Lessons from Iraq","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Apr-12 11:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"As someone who supported the Iraq invasion (in part because of my own \"faulty intelligence\"), In the end, the Iraq invasion and war and counter-insurgency and nationbuilding effort really only accomplished one positive thing: it got rid of Saddam Hussein. 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