The following picture, taken by Joao Silva, accompanies Andrew E. Kramer and James Glanz’s report on a recent incident in Baghdad.
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This is, necessarily, the price of our course of action. I don’t know whether or not the United States should withdraw. But it seems to me self-evidence that we’re responsible
for creating the situation. Should we stay, we need – even at greater risk, at greater cost – to treat Iraqi lives as though they were as precious as American lives. American lives that we care about, mind you – not quite like Americans who live in New Orleans, if you take my meaning.