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Months until the invasion, attention turns to who will run iraq in the immediate days and weeks after the fall of saddam. retired army lieutenant general jay garner, a man with deep experience in the region, gets the call from donald rumsfeld. >> he said what we need right now is somebody to come in, put a staff together and operationalize the plans we put together. you know, you think if youre going to put that together, youd have office space and desk, computers, telephones and all that. i did...

Every crisis we face internationally, every big national security decision we make, all of these decisions are made and all of these crises are confronted in the shadow of the last ten years. we are a country that is really quite desperately weary of war after simultaneously fighting two of the longest protracted land wars and foreign occupations in american history, and we are newly and legitimately wary of what gets us into wars in the first place and we come by that wariness honestly. that wa...

The more disturbing things i have ever worked on since i have been here at msnbc. honestly i think this is going to be upsetting to a lot of people when we air this documentary, but i also think that we have documented and found out some things that are really important. as the u.s. government considers our options and makes our case to the world in the middle of another international crisis right now, i feel a real sense of urgency that weve got to get this out there now, for the sake of clarit...

The american people based on a pretext, based on evidence that in many cases was known inside the government to be false. that documentary, hubris, answered the question of how, how that war was sold to the american people. but there remains the question of why. what was behind that public case for war? if what they were telling us was false, why did they really think we needed to go to war? if the case made to the public was a false case, what was the true case? why did we really do it? for muc...

Selling the iraq war. it was the most watched documentary on msnbc in the last decade. that documentary was based on their reporting and told the story of how the bush administration sold the war to the american people based on a pretext, based on evidence that in many cases was known inside the government to be false. that documentary, hubris, answered the question of how, how that war was sold to the american people. but there remains the question of why. what was behind that public case for w...

Internationally, every big national security decision we make, all of these decisions are made and all of these crises are confronted in the shadow of the last ten years. we are a country that is really quite desperately weary of war after simultaneously fighting two of the longest protracted land wars and foreign occupations in american history, and we are newly and legitimately wary of what gets us into wars in the first place and we come by that wariness honestly. that wariness is earned. we ...

Was syria or libya or egypt or iran or ukraine now or even just the budget decisions we have to make about what size we want the u.s. military to be and what we want it to be designed to do, every crisis we face internationally, every big national security decision we make, all of these decisions are made and all of these crises are confronted in the shadow of the last ten years. we are a country that is really quite desperately weary of war after simultaneously fighting two of the longest protr...

Story of how the bush administration sold the war to the american people based on a pretext, based on evidence that in many cases was known inside the government to be false. that documentary, hubris, answered the question of how, how that war was sold to the american people. but there remains the question of why. what was behind that public case for war? if what they were telling us was false, why did they really think we needed to go to war? if the case made to the public was a false case, wha...

For this documentary is one of the more disturbing things i have ever worked on since i have been here at msnbc. honestly i think this is going to be upsetting to a lot of people when we air this documentary, but i also think that we have documented and found out some things that are really important. as the u.s. government considers our options and makes our case to the world in the middle of another international crisis right now, i feel a real sense of urgency that weve got to get this out th...