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But when weighing those possible benefits against the costs of the Iraq intervention, there is simply no conceivable calculus by which Operation Iraqi Freedom can be judged to have been a successful or worthwhile policy. The war was intended to show the extent of America’s power. It succeeded only in showing its limits.
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Remember when they told us the war would cost "only" 50 billion, that it would "pay for itself," and that it would be a "cakewalk to Baghdad"?
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