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Saddam_Hussein"s capture anniversary

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. The deaths equaled the highest number of Marines killed in a single day since a car bomb killed eight outside Fallujah on
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. A Year After Saddam's Capture, Iraq's Rebels Fight On
Reuters - Sun Dec 12, 8:50 PM ET
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5 Soldiers Killed in Israeli Base Bombing

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinians tunneled half a mile and used more than a ton of explosives to blow up a heavily fortified Israeli army base at the Gaza-Egypt crossing, killing five Israeli soldiers and wounding five in the bloodiest Palestinian attack since Yasser Arafat's death.
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1213 "In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over," Bush declared in a television address the day after the capture on Dec. 13. "A hopeful day has arrived. All Iraqis can now come together and reject violence and build a new Iraq."

President Bush hailed the capture as a breakthrough at the time:-

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. 'Hitler figure' could rise from Iraq's instability - The Scotsman - 51 minutes ago
Anniversary of Saddam’s capture: 22 killed in Iraq violence - Daily Times - 3 hours ago
Iraq's insurgency continues at a fierce pace - Kansas City Star (subscription) - 4 hours ago
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. Explosion Rocks Baghdad Close to Green Zone
Reuters - 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

· Two U.S. Marines Killed Around Baghdad
Reuters - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
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Forming Mind Days in which we stop to draw lines.
Lines there, and here.
Dividing countries, and dividing opinions.
I'm here, they're there.
I was born in this small hospital in America.
He was raised in his home in Iraq.
So we sit and smash glasses when others born here die. Their lives taken so soon.
And three Iraqis die and we shed no tears. But sit, blind-faced. When did we become ignorant? When did blood mean something different when sheading from another man?
We will mourn the loss of life in such a unneccesary way. But we will mourn for not the American or the Iraqi, but the life.
The breathing that stopped.
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