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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 Toxic Process of the Iraq War

Iraq was the least priority of those three countries. Bush by that point was already getting pretty sold on the notion that Saddam had operational contacts with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. There is no soul that would be bombed to smithereens if you do anything in Iran or North Korea, he says.

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