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https://victorhanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hanson-Logo-1.png595200by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Views on the war in Iraq now transcend reasonable discussion. The war rests in the realm of emotion, warped by the hysteria of partisan bickering.