The Bush White House made 935 false statements about Iraq in the two years following 9-11. Brown University says over 30,000 service members from the 9-11 wars have ended their own lives. President Biden believes his own son, Bo, died of cancer that can be traced back to his own exposure to burn pits in Iraq.
The war in Iraq has been declared over by nearly every president since the one who started it 20 years ago today. But it’s still not done. At SXSW in Austin, Texas, Sean Rameswaram explained why it’s important we remember.
This episode was written by Sean Rameswaram, produced by Sean and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and mixed by Paul Robert Mounsey.
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