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• October 20 -- David Sanger Remembers the Maine
The Times has often linked the Iraq war with the Vietnam "quagmire," but David Sanger reaches back to the Spanish-American War: "Some of [Bush's] critics have argued that the justification for invading Iraq bore a resemblance to the rationale the United States used to begin that war in 1898, citing evidence, discounted as flimsy, that the battleship Maine had been deliberately blown up in Cuba by Spanish forces."