Only a U.S. Withdrawal Will Stop Al Qaeda in Iraq

Only a U.S. Withdrawal Will Stop Al Qaeda in Iraq

By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted October 5, 2007.

The conventional wisdom has it all wrong

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