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Forget Iraq, US Is in Need of Nation-Building

Healing country is top priority in November, Friedman writes

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 29, 2008 12:54 PM CDT

(Newser) – The key issue in the presidential election won’t be national security or Iraq, as many once believed—it will be how to fix our ailing nation at home, writes Thomas Friedman in the New York Times. “We are a country in debt and... Read full story »

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Forget Iraq, US Is in Need of Nation-Building

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