"You can see what happened. People were wounded and people died, but what is the point? There were no Americans, here, no Iraqi soldiers," he said.

他解释说，你能看到发生了什么事。有人被炸伤了，有的被炸死。但究竟是为什么呢？这儿没有美国人，没有伊拉克士兵。

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But no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, despite thorough searches of the Iraqi countryside by U.S. soldiers and teams of weapons specialists.

然而，尽管美国军人和武器专家组对伊拉克农村地区进行了全面的搜寻，但并没有找到任何大规模杀伤武器。

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There were no Americans,here, no Iraqi soldiers,".

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But U.S. soldiers, who left Iraq in late 2011, are no longer available to help Iraqi security forces subdue militants or reconcile warring factions.

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