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Iraq's liberation comes with a ballooning price tag
By Charles V. Pena
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Thursday, February 24, 2005

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In February 2003 - a few weeks before the invasion of Iraq - President George W. Bush declared that "[r]ebuilding Iraq will require a sustained commitment from many nations, including our own: we will remain in Iraq as long as necessary, and not a day more. America has made and kept this kind of commitment before - in the peace that followed a world war."

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