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I Supported the Invasion of Iraq, but What About the Peace?

Karen Fonhippel worked as part of a red team for the British Ministry of Defence on scenarios that might unfold after an invasion. She drew on past experience of military interventions, including her own time in Kosovo and other cases she'd studied in her book, Democracy by Force. In America, meanwhile, Faisal Al-istrabadi was having his own conversations on what could and should unfold in Iraq. Graham Lam had served in the first Gulf War in 1991. By the summer of 2003, he was commanding British forces sent to southern Iraq who needed to deal with the ever-mounting practical and security challenges that followed the invasion. President George W. Bush's declaration of

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