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By James Carroll | Monday, September 10, 2007 | The Boston Globe

“TALK ABOUT bad timing. It is unfortunate that the much-anticipated September accounting of “progress” in Iraq, centered on this week’s congressional testimony by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, overlaps with the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. American ears still ring from the blow we took on that crisp morning, and whenever the images of smoldering New York reappear on screens, the worst aspects of the trauma reassert themselves. The enormous injustice of that day comes back, and with it an unsatisfied longing for [revenge]….”…BS

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