Iraq Is Not Our War Anymore. Let It Be Iran’s Problem.

All Yours, Ali K

It’s time the Iraqi Pottery Barn rule—‘You break it, you pay a trillion dollars for it’—is applied to someone else.

World News Editor

Published Jul. 17 2014 5:45AM EDT

articles/2014/07/17/iraq-is-not-our-war-anymore-let-it-be-iran-s-problem/140714-dickey-iraq-tease_l2lpqf — Reuters

Back in the George W. Bush administration’s darkest days occupying Iraq, I ran into a guy who was about as close to Bush as you could get without being Bush himself.

Christopher Dickey

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Iraq Is Not Our War Anymore. Let It Be Iran’s Problem.

It’s time the Iraqi Pottery Barn rule—‘You break it, you pay a trillion dollars for it’—is applied to someone else.

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Christopher Dickey