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for anyone who thinks we haven't done good in Iraq.

Last Friday my oldest uncle, along with his 16-year-old son, visited us, as he used to do this once every month. My uncle is a high school manager and a history teacher at the same time in the same school. I saw that he was wearing a nice suit that I had not seen him wearing before. I said "Nice suit uncle. Is it new?" He said "Yes, I bought it about a month ago". "It must be expensive" I asked and he replied, "Yes it is, but your uncle now can afford it".

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Read the whole thing. Trust me.

It's stuff like this that makes it worth it. Despite the shame of Abu Ghraib, on the whole, we've still done much more good than harm. (I'm not excusing Abu Ghraib. Never that. But I do believe the prison abuse is an aberration.)