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Lulu Garcia-Navarro
From New York Times Opinion, I’m Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and this is “First Person.” 20 years ago, in March of 2003, Ali Hamdani was in Baghdad — a medical student getting ready to take his final exams and become a doctor. And after months of threats by the US, he says it was clear that there was going to be an invasion.