Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Washington Times for this special episode of history. As it happens, im martin di caro. Today were going to talk about the iraq war. 20 years on, on march 20th, 2003, president George W Bush announced the United States was invading iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction, weapons that did not exist. The war killed thousands of american soldiers and contractors and hundreds of thousands of iraqi people. We were not greeted as liberators. Why . Well, our guest today for this special episode of the podcast is the dean of us Foreign Policy historians melvyn leffler, welcome. Thank you. Im delighted to be here to discuss this really important topic with you. Welcome to the Washington Times, Professor Emeritus of history at the university of virginia and the author of confronting Saddam Hussein. George w bush and the invasion of iraq. So the book was published to coincide with the anniversary of the war. But youve been working on
Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Washington Times for this special episode of history. As it happens, im martin di caro. Today were going to talk about the iraq war. 20 years on, on march 20th, 2003, president George W Bush announced the United States was invading iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction, weapons that did not exist. The war killed thousands of american soldiers and contractors and hundreds of thousands of iraqi people. We were not greeted as liberators. Why . Well, our guest today for this special episode of the podcast is the dean of us Foreign Policy historians melvyn leffler, welcome. Thank you. Im delighted to be here to discuss this really important topic with you. Welcome to the Washington Times, Professor Emeritus of history at the university of virginia and the author of confronting Saddam Hussein. George w bush and the invasion of iraq. So the book was published to coincide with the anniversary of the war. But youve been working on
and britain s nhs is stepping up its vaccination programme against monkeypox as more supplies of a jab come on the market. against monkeypox as more supplies of the jab come on the market. hello and welcome. the congressional committee in the us investigating last year s attack on the capitol by donald trump s supporters have shown evidence that the then president made no calls from the white house while the violence was unfolding. the latest hearing was told that instead of intervening to calm the situation, mr trump sat in the dining room, where the television was tuned to fox news. the committee presented several witnesses who said they repeatedly called on donald trump to say something. this is former white house counsel pat cipollone, one of the people closest to mr trump. i think ithinki i think i was pretty clear there needed to be an immediate and forceful response statement, public statement, that people need to leave the capitol. mi; that people need to leave the
closest advisers. secret service was omnipresent, full stop. those text were and by the agents but a city in the rooms where it happened could be the key to the investigation, as testimony, of course, presents themselves as well. giving evidence about the coronation of trump s plans leading up to and on the day of the riot, but who spoke to the president that day, who also was in the room as things were happening, and what the president may have told them. maybe communications about what exactly was happening inside the white house over those nearly 187 minutes, well over three hours, filling in the gaps, gap soon when donald trump told supporters to go to the capitol and when he tweeted a video to the rioters telling them that he loved them and to go home. we know that is the very focus of thursday s primetime hearing. we have someone tonight who knows the people who were in the white house with then president trump during those three hours. he knows them quite well. trump s
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