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May 19, 2022 · Former U.S. President George W. Bush mistakenly described the invasion of Iraq as "brutal" and "unjustified" before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Jun 8, 2022 · It makes perfect sense to confuse Russia’s war in Ukraine with Iraq: The two events have much in common. Saddam Hussein was no Zelensky, but the Iraq invasion was, indeed, brutal and...
- Jody Rosen
- George W. Bush
- Dick Cheney
- Colin Powell
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Paul Bremer
- Paul Wolfowitz
- Condoleezza Rice
- Edward Chin
- Pfc. Jessica Lynch
- Hans Blix
The 43rd president pledged in March 2003 to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and stop it from helping terrorists. “Before the day of horror can come, before it is too late to act, this danger will be removed,” he said. Bush, living outside Dallas since he left office in 2009, has yet to comment on the most recent Iraq crisis. He has generall...
The former vice president has taken exactly the opposite approach: This week he published an Op-Ed and a YouTube video accusing Obama of putting the United States “on a path of decline.” He wrote “rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.” Cheney told NBC's “Meet the Press” on the eve of the Iraq war in 2003...
As secretary of state, Powell appeared before the United Nations in March 2003 to build international support for the war. In an indelible image of the time, he held up a model vial of anthrax. In an appearance this week with the Prime Minister of Japan, Powell expressed hope that “some solution can be found” to the violence so that “diplomatic pro...
Asked in February 2002 whether there was evidence that Iraq was supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists, the defense secretary spun a riddle about “known knowns,” “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns.” He has not commented publicly on the new violence in Iraq. Filmmaker Errol Morris asked him for a documentary earlier this year whethe...
The top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq during the early days of the war said this week that Obama should not have ruled out putting troops on the ground. He said the militants pose a threat to the United States and the Middle East, he said. “I’m not in favor of sending combat forces into Iraq at the moment,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”“B...
As deputy defense secretary, Wolfowitz was an architect of the war. He told Congress that Iraqi oil revenue would generate up to $100 billion in three years and suggested it would take fewer troops to keep the peace than to conduct the war. Wolfowitz went on to become president of the World Bank. On “Meet the Press” last Sunday, Wolfowitz said Iraq...
As national security adviser, Rice was asked on CNN in September 2002 whether Saddam Hussein was close to developing a nuclear weapon. She said there was some uncertainty, but added: “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” he said. Rice now teaches political economy at Stanford University. She was heckled Thursdayduring a speech at ...
The Marine created one of the enduring images of the war when, in April 2003, he draped an American flag over the face on a statue of Saddam Hussein. Then he draped a rope around the neck that was used to tear the statue down. He returned home to New York, went to back to school and became an architect. He now has doubts about the war. “What did we...
She emerged as one of the first heroes of the war when American special forces rescued her from an Iraqi hospital after her convoy was attacked in Nasiriyah. She was 19. She told Congress in 2007 that the story of her rescue — an account that had her going down shooting, a “little girl Rambo” — was not true. She said her weapon jammed in the ambush...
The United Nations weapons instructor reported in early 2003 that Iraq probably didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. He later published a book and accused the U.S. government of dramatizing the threat. He now gives lectures and occasionally writes on the crisis over the Iranian nuclear program. Last fall, he credited the Obama administration fo...
Feb 27, 2022 · Baghdad, Iraq – The air assaults and gunfire on Ukrainian soil following the Russian invasion are stirring up memories barely sealed in Iraq nearly 19 years after the US-led invasion.
- Shawn Yuan
Dec 22, 2022 · Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed gratitude for US support in fighting Russia in an impassioned address to Congress during his first overseas trip since the war began.
May 19, 2022 · George W. Bush mistakenly described the invasion of Iraq as “brutal” and “unjustified” before correcting himself to say he meant Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mar 20, 2023 · Today, it is the savvier and more seasoned Putin who is waging an imperial war in Ukraine – a blunder that now-President Biden has pounced on, warning of its destabilising implications for the...
