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The Tchotchkes of war.(Iraq War)
American Prospect, The, July, 2006 by Kinzer, Stephen
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TO SPEND CHRISTMAS IN BAGHDAD IS NOT A DREAM of many travelers, but it was what The New York Times assigned me to do in 1998. American bombs were raining down on the Iraqi capital that season, as they did periodically during the 1990s. Each morning I visited the places that had been bombed the night before.
One day I was trudging through the rubble of a large building that, until a few hours earlier, had been the Ministry of Labor. As I wandered around the site, a piece of twisted metal caught my eye. I picked it up, and found it remarkably heavy and smooth. Soon I realized ...
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