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Iraq Needs Another Invasion Like We Need Another War

By David Faris

Philadelphia City Paper | November 6, 2007

The most recent disaster in Iraq is nearly 100 years in the making, with Turkey massing 100,000 troops on the border with Kurdish northern Iraq, erasing whatever gains might have been reaped from the recent drop-off in casualties.

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Tags: war in iraq, turkey

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