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No good from a rush back to Iraq

  • Tom Switzer
    Tom Switzer
    Presenter, ABC Radio National
   
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  • Tom Switzer
    Tom Switzer
    Presenter, ABC Radio National

    Tom Switzer was a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre until March 2017. He is a presenter on the ABC’s Radio National and a columnist at Fairfax publications.

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2 September 2014

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