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The Pentagon isn't bragging about sending bombers two-thirds of the way around the world to strike Iraq. In 1991, B-52s used cruise missiles to hit targets in northern Iraq that were beyond the range of aircraft operating from Saudi Arabia because the Turks would not allow attacks to be launched...
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