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May 13, 2010

A Conversation with US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill, Cont.
Posted by Shadi Hamid

Last month, I blogged about a conversation I moderated at the Brookings Doha Center with US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill. The full transcript of Hill's comments, for those who are interested, can be found here. Particularly of note are Ambassador Hill's rather interesting - and, for me, surprising - comments on the decision to go to war, which brings up a whole set of difficult issues about how - or whether - wars are justified in retrospect

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