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Four years later:

"I am Shiite," Ali said. "My uncles and cousins were murdered by Saddam’s regime. I wanted desperately to get rid of him. But today, if Saddam’s feet appeared in front of me, I would fall to my knees and kiss them!"

(Photo of a Baghdad girl injured by the chaos unleashed by the US invasion by Ahmad al-Rubaye/Getty.)

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