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Why Did the U.S. Attack Syria?

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Report: Bush ratcheting up terror war in final days.

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Over at The New Republic, Eli Lake has the key background on the United States' attack inside Syria on Sunday. Heralding a "new phase" in the war on terror, Lake writes that, in July, "the Bush administration formally gave the military new power to strike terrorist save havens outside of...

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