Only a week after the US president announced that many thousands more American military were destined for Iraq, an amazing thing happened. The war ended.
Even as he said, “Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. There will be no surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship,” a winner was already rising out of the skirmishes.
The combatants were three words. Welcome to the world of Washington English where . . . read on >>
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