Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111218:13:24:00
Didn't start in 2003, in fact it long predates that going back to the picture with donald rumsfeld shaking hands with saddam hussein, and then the gulf war in the early 1990s, and then there was a period of sanctions. i think this is a little lost on the american public is just how devastated iraq was as a country prior to 2003. that's a study done -- i did some reporting on this, and there's one study of gdp in iraq in the first three years of the sanctions declined by 98%. and the great depression was a 27% gdp decline. what would happen to a country that lost 98% of its gdp? what do you thi...