Last Straw

United States officials declared themselves “heartened” by a strong election turnout in the face of violent reprisals from insurgents. The turnout was described as a “keystone” in the President’s plans to encourage constitutional processes and deemed likely to allow the new government to act with a “confidence and legitimacy” long lacking. Iraq, 2005? No. Vietnam, 1967:

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