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Soon the anniversary of our military initiative, in other words, pre-emptive war, in Iraq will be upon us. Will we stop and ask what we have accomplished? We can safely claim the ouster of a terrible and repressive dictator...but what a price we have paid. The war in Iraq goes on and on with daily reports of both American and Iraqi casualties. The rhetoric that rushed us into war, the claims of weapons of mass destruction and linking of Iraq with Al Queda, has been discounted. Our campaign to destroy Iraq was accurate and swift...but our skills at nation building...

Soldier sleeps in fridge to escape Iraq heat Sat 2 August, 2003 03:31 BST LONDON (Reuters) - A British soldier serving in Iraq tried to escape from the sweltering heat by sleeping in a walk-in fridge but ended up being treated for hypothermia. The lance corporal, an army medic in his 20s, had sought shelter from the blazing summer sun but was found asleep in a dangerous condition by a colleague and was taken to hospital, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Saturday. The soldier told officers he had become trapped while getting supplies but they didn't believe him, the...