They had their property confiscated and had to rebuild from scratch when the war was over.
Then, when the war was over, everybody waited to get paid.
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They were getting all kinds of promises about visits when the war was over so we pretended to feel slighted till we got assurances of the same.
And when the war was over, they studied under the GI Bill, and they bought a home under the FHA, and they raised families supported by good jobs that paid good wages with good benefits.
And when the war was over, they both decided to go to Baghdad and to meet people, like Sergio Vieira de Mello, head of the UN there at the time, and hopefully to meet with refugees in cells to discuss the humanitarian costs of the war.
Optimists in both camps still talked about how they would reach out to the other side when it was all over, like the World War I infantrymen who played soccer on Christmas Day before going back to their trenches to try to kill each other again.
When the outcome of the war in Iraq was in doubt, Bob Gates presided over the extraordinary efforts that helped restore order.
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When pressed he said it was a piece of unexploded ordnance left over from the Vietnam War.
The French approved of Chirac's handling of foreign policy and he was never more popular than when he stood up to the United States over the war in Iraq.
It was a reminder, he says, of the time during the war when he looked up at it flying over Westminster.
Former CIA chief George Tenet said the Bush administration used him as a scapegoat over intelligence issues with the war in Iraq, and debate among top officials was absent when decisions were made to invade the country.
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