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	March 24, 2008

Five years of war in Iraq – costs US trillions: March 19 marked the completion of five years of war in Iraq. It was on this day that the US invaded Saddam Hussain-ruled Iraq accusing it of having an active nuclear weapons programme. Protesters in the US held sit-ins and demonstrations across the country demanding an immediate withdrawal of US soldiers. Police in Washington arrested 33 people for blocking entrance to the Internal Revenue Service as demonstrators sought to focus attentio ...