State media have given high-profile negative coverage to the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war.

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But his comments, coming on the eve of the first anniversary of the Iraq war, may be especially worrying for Mr Bush since Poland commands a sector of Iraq.

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We face today the oddest and most unexpected of spectacles: On its sixth anniversary, the Iraq war has been vindicated, while the war in Afghanistan looks like a hopeless undertaking in an impossible land.

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