When US President Barack Obama confirms this week that all American combat forces have left Iraq, you can be sure of one thing. He will not repeat the triumphalism of former president George W. Bush's suggestion seven years ago that America's mission there has been accomplished. Obama always considered this a ‘dumb' war, and events have proved him largely right. America and its allies may have rid the Middle East of a bloodstained dictator, but Saddam Hussain's vaunted weapons of mass...
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