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Sinking into the Iraqi quagmire

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Paran Balakrishnan New Delhi
ran.jpg'>My Word!Paran Balakrishnan / New Delhi July 19, 2003
Life always turns out just the teeniest bit stranger than fiction. Did George W Bush ever dream that his troops would march almost unopposed into Baghdad and that the Iraqi army would just melt into history?

 
Did he envisage that the occupation of Iraq would be a messy affair with American soldiers always keeping an eye over their shoulder for random attacks?

 
And, did Bush Jr ever imagine, three months after Saddam Hussein disappeared into thin air, that he
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First Published: Jul 19 2003 | 12:00 AM IST

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