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UK 'is leaving Iraq a better place'

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The toppling of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent rebuilding of Iraq was worth it, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said as British military operations in the country finally came to an end.



Mr Hague said the UK was leaving Iraq a much better place than we found it, insisting that after years of tyrannical rule under its former president, it was now a democratic state with a growing economy.



But David Miliband, his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, said progress in Iraq would have been much quicker had the allied forces developed a proper strategy for peace from the outset of the conflict. He said that while there have been gains, the list of negatives has been long, longer than the list of gains in Iraq.



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