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Iraq War 20th Anniversary | Robert Draper on How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq

The Realignment

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The Military Industrial Complex: A Memoir of the Cold War

Marshall: There is a fascinating cast of characters that on their merits are really incredible, or horrifically miscast for the moment they hit. He says Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld were overmatched by alpha dogs Colin Powell and Dick Cheney. CIA Director George Tenet who was beloved within the Clinton administration also lost his job because he didn't give Bush enough information to make an informed decision.

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