Letter from Mideast: No new dawn, only long nightmare -- What did 23 years of U.S. intervention teach us Iraqis?

by Jamal Hashim

BAGHDAD, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- While political heavyweights and leading analysts around the world are tussling over what a more interventionist America will mean for the globe, we Iraqis already know the answer all too well.

On Jan. 18, Iraq announced the full withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq's federal government-controlled areas.

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