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March 20, 2013

U.S. responsibilities to Iraq many on 10th anniversary of 2003 invasion

esidents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in late February in Baghdad. A decade after the 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led forces, Catholic observers say America has broad responsibilities to the Iraqi people for reparations in the aftermath of war and long occupation.

WASHINGTON - Attending the installation of Patriarch Louis Sako as the new leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, looked around at the large crowd gathered in St. Joseph Cathedral and what he saw gave him a sense of hope.

Published in International