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Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.
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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
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Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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