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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 Ideology of the Anthrax Attacks

Paul Wolfowitz was a key figure in the Bush administration's neoconservatism. He saw Saddam Hussein as someone who could be checked against Iran, but Israelis didn't agree with him. Donald Brumsfeld and Dick Cheney were more interested in projecting force than democratization. The idea that you don't need to deploy 500,000 troops to defeat what was once the fourth largest army in the world before desert storm took hold.

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