On March 19, 2003, as troops packed gear into their trucks on the Iraq-Kuwait border and loaded weapons for combat, President George W. Bush told the American people he had given the order to attack.
"At this hour, American and coalition forces are at the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger," he said.
Ten years later, however, it is clear that most of the reasons given for the second post-9/11 war were dubious at best.
Rachel Maddow recently aired a documentary (which will re-air on Mar. 22 at 9 EST) called Hubris: Selling the Iraq War, in which she reminds us of how we got to that moment.
The documentary is based on a new book by Michael Isikoff and David Corn. It begins with the devastation of the 9/11 attacks ...
One day later, Pres. Bush ordered his counterterrorism director to find an Iraq connection.
Richard Clarke told the President: "We've done it before ... and the answer has always been no, and it's likely to be no this time."
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