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Killed By A Soldier The US Trained

By The Daily Dish
Jan 8 2008, 9:47 AM ET

A heart-breaking story - and a very atypical one, it should be said. But there is a real difficulty in creating a disciplined national Iraqi army without including many people whose loyalties are ultimately elsewhere. Sometimes those loyalties trump everything. Sometimes they deliberately target American soldiers. And many of those the US is now training once targeted Americans for annihilation.



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