Reconsidering the President's script for war in Iraq

Reconsidering the President's script for war in Iraq - The Pitt News

The fundamental lie of this campaign is that it is merely an extension of the interminable War on Terror. We are meant to believe that invading ...

The Iraq War Reconsidered - The Atlantic

The war transformed U.S. politics too. The presidential hopes of Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush numbered among the casualties of Iraq. Donald ...

Revisiting America's War of Choice in Iraq

Wars are fought not only on the battlefield but also in domestic political debates and in histories written after the fact.

Curb the President's War Powers to Prevent Future Iraqs

The Iraq War is turning 20. And while Saddam Hussein is long gone, thousands of U.S. troops remain in Iraq — and the legal authorities ...

Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? The Debate at 20 Years

The 9/11 attacks, however, revolutionized U.S. foreign policy and set the stage for the Iraq War. The Bush administration felt extraordinary ...

Trump falsely claims, again, to have opposed the invasion of Iraq

I had absolutely nothing to do with going into Iraq, and I was totally against it.” He added: “President Bush went in. I strongly disagreed with ...

Transcript | The Invasion Of Iraq | FRONTLINE - PBS

The president had decided to gamble on ending the war with one dramatic strike. MARC GARLASCO: We were told that the CIA source was without ...

Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein - The National Security Archive

Rumsfeld was to discuss with Iraqi officials the Reagan administration's hope that it could obtain Export-Import Bank credits for Iraq, the ...

Joe Biden's Iraq problem - Vox

The final resolution gave Bush broad power to go to war in Iraq. “The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he ...

The Origins of the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait Reconsidered

That narrative misleadingly suggests that the Iraqi invasion happened to coincide with, but was unrelated to, the dawn of the post-Cold War era.

Vice President Speaks at VFW 103rd National Convention

The United States has entered a struggle of years -- a new kind of war against a new kind of enemy. The terrorists who struck America are ...

Confronting the Iraq War: Melvyn Leffler, George Bush and the ...

Historians have always faced the problem of deciding how much to trust their sources, given that their sources often lie, mislead, sugarcoat, ...

George W. Bush - Press Conference on the Iraq War

As President, my most solemn responsibility is to keep the American people safe. So on my orders, good men and women are now fighting the ...

Congress and the Persian Gulf War

' II. FROM OPERATION DESERT SHIELD TO OPERATION DESERT. STORM: A BRIEF RECAP OF KEY EVENTS. On August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops under President Saddam Hussein's ...

A Shocked Iraq Reconsiders Its Relationship With the U.S.

BAGHDAD — American oil workers were fleeing Iraq on Friday, as fears grew of war between the United States and Iran. · Iraqis awoke to the news ...

Greed as a Weapon: Teaching the Other Iraq War

Of course, like every war, there is a battle over what version of that history is passed on. Modern World History presents the Iraq invasion as reasonable and ...

The Iraq War Ten Years After - The National Security Archive

The Iraq Primer: Key Documents on Operation Iraqi Freedom ... In late April 1999, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), led by Marine ...

The Invasion of Iraq Wasn't a “Mistake.” It Was a Crime. - Jacobin

At the time, Bush and his cronies didn't say, “We're going to invade Iraq because there were some cease-fire violations from the war that ended ...

The Decision to Go to War with Iraq - James P. Pfiffner

When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, President George H.W. Bush assembled a broad international coalition to confront Saddam and throw his troops out of ...

As The Iraq War Ends, Reassessing The U.S. Surge - NPR

"I think it was the Iraqis who essentially figured out their problems [and] used the Americans who were there to help them formulate that ...