WASHINGTON - Just hours before announcing an escalated campaign against Islamic extremists last week, President Obama privately reflected on another time when a president weighed military action in the Middle East - the frenzied weeks leading up to the American invasion of Iraq a decade ago.
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U.S. President Barack Obama participates in an interview with Chuck Todd of NBC News, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Nov. 7, 2013.
