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Everyone knocks Iraqi politicians, for missing their benchmarks, going on vacation, and generally not being all we want them to be.(The Week)(Brief article)

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Everyone knocks Iraqi politicians, for missing their benchmarks, going on vacation, and generally not being all we want them to be. But they take risks of which average politicians know nothing. They are always being kidnapped, maimed, murdered. And the same things happen to their wives and children and friends--routinely. We were reminded of this fact by the recent murder of two ...

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