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Roundup

8-23-05

America, 1787 vs. Iraq, 2005

Slate's War Stories: Madeleine Brand speaks with Slate military affairs correspondent Fred Kaplan about President George Bush's inaccurate comparison of the establishment of an Iraqi constitution to the "growing pains" of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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