For most of the 30 months since American-led forces ousted Saddam Hussein , the Bush administration has argued that as democracy took hold in Iraq , the insurgency would lose steam because Al Qaeda and the opponents of the country 's interim government had nothing to offer Iraqis or the people of the Middle East .
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