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At about 9:30 p.m. on March 19, 2003, the shooting phase of
Operation Iraqi Freedom began, with an unsuccessful “decapitation
strike” aimed at top Iraqi leadership, including Saddam Hussein.
Shortly thereafter, President George W. Bush told the American
people in a nationally televised address that we’d gone to war “to
disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave
danger.”

Ten years later, writes Gene Healy, the future of “Iraqi
Freedom” is unclear at best, but it’s evident that there wasn’t
much to disarm and that the world was never in grave danger.

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