"I assumed the same thing had happened and on that basis I supported reluctantly the second Iraq war."

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Smart, funny, fearless and brazen, he's the go-to kid in Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles Can Fly, " a film of sometimes hallucinatory power set in Iraqi Kurdistan on the eve of the second Iraq war.

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Then, in early 2003, the decision was made to wage a second war, in Iraq.

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He also traveled to the Middle East that year to report on the second anniversary of the war in Iraq.

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