Hundreds of Thousands of Iraqis Were Killed in the War. One Was My Brother.
U.S. troops in Baghdad. (Chris Hondros via Getty Images)
But I don’t share the conventional wisdom that the U.S. invasion, which began 20 years ago this week, was a colossal failure.
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My eldest brother, Samir al Mutar, was born in August 1980. He was a talented computer engineer who led a company that, to this day, installs and builds internet databases across Iraq.
One day in November 2007, on his way to work with a couple of his friends, he was stopped at an al-Qaeda checkpoint. His friends fled. My brother was never seen again.
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