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“Green Zone”: the movie

This new movie is about the good old days of Iraq, about seven years ago, when the Americans were too busy fighting each other there to acknowledge the rise of the insurgency. I’d love to see a movie break the “Iraq jinx,” and maybe this will be the one. ifitsmovies/ flickr

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This new movie is about the good old days of Iraq, about seven years ago, when the Americans were too busy fighting each other there to acknowledge the rise of the insurgency. I’d love to see a movie break the “Iraq jinx,” and maybe this will be the one.

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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