And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...
George Bush thought of the Iraq War as a ‘mission from God’, according to a top US official who tried to persuade Tony Blair to give the president a ‘dose of reality’.
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Bush asked Ambassador Paul Bremer to act as Iraq’s leader for a year ... terrorism and civil war. But all the voting made things worse. The problem was that, in the hasty move to elections ...
Bush the ultimate power ... By summer that year, the war in Iraq was a transparent disaster. American elites, particularly the ruling Republicans, became determined to drown out news of a savage ...
George Bush thought of the Iraq War as a ‘mission from God’, according to a top US official who tried to persuade Tony Blair to give the president a ‘dose of reality’. Newly released UK ...