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It was Bush's war. Now its Obama's. And the heat is on.
Dec 3 2009, Andrew

It is the soldiers who will bleed and die. But yesterday Barack Obama braced himself for the flak that awaits any American president who decides he must not merely carry another leader’s burden, but make a war his own.

Already the critics and...

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