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History will have to make a judgment on Iraq, Powell says

 

Published 7/5/2009 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says history will make the ultimate judgment on whether the U.S. war in Iraq was worth its costs – in both taxpayer dollars and American lives. “A dictator is gone. A despicable regime is gone,” the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush said Sunday [...] (link)

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