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Mar 2023
20m 53s

Episode 2: ’My father was taken from us’

THE NATIONAL NEWS
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When politicians, journalists, academics and others talk of the 2003 war in Iraq, they often speak in numbers, the money it cost, the estimated number of people killed and injured, the number of foreign troops stationed there, and so on. But for Iraqis, the conversation is often about what cannot be measured in numbers: the immense sense of loss, the dashed ... Show More
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