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billion reconstruction effort was largely a failure with most of that money spent on security or lost to waste and fraud, it said. Former President George W. Bush's administration cited its belief that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's government held weapons of mass destruction to justify the decision to go to wa

a dangerous dictator and his supposed stocks of weapons of mass destruction. It was also to create a functioning democracy and thereby inspire what Bush called a "global democracy revolution." The effort was supposed to be cheap -- to require few troops and even less time. Instead, it cost the Unite

ber 2003, Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan rec

T's REMEMBER: Ten years ago when President George W. Bush announced the invasion into Iraq in March 2

in the Broadway revival of "The Boys from Syracuse," and went on to receive honors from the White House, United Nations, six California mayors and the Los Angeles. And like myself family seems to have played second fiddle to his mastery of putting people in touch with their genuine feelings to evoke the expre

that I don't believe it can," said Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who served as a senior Middle East adviser to Bush. Obama's visit will coincide with growing concern in the region that the two-state solution favored by him is in peril, as Israeli settlement constru

ro-Israel hawk who served as Obama's top adviser on Iran during much of the president's first term. "I think 2013 is going to be decisive," Ross told the Los Angeles Times, expressing concern about Hagel's previous comments. "Time really is running out. For diplomacy to have a chance of success, the Iranians need

that I don't believe it can," said Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who served as a senior Middle East adviser to Bush. Obama's visit will coincide with growing concern in the region that the two-state solution favored by him is in peril, as Israeli settlement constru

ro-Israel hawk who served as Obama's top adviser on Iran during much of the president's first term. "I think 2013 is going to be decisive," Ross told the Los Angeles Times, expressing concern about Hagel's previous comments. "Time really is running out. For diplomacy to have a chance of success, the Iranians need

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ort has dropped by 12 points (from 27%) and Biden's has decreased by 6 points (from 25%)." -- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti endorsed Biden. From the Los Angeles Times: "Garcetti will be one of Biden's highest-profile supporters in California's March 3 primary, but the endorsement is unlikely to have any pra