Discussion, particularly the new reporting in the film. Weve had a lot of feedback on it. Im really glad we did it. Were now talking about hopefully reairing it some more times on msnbc. But a lot of people have been asking specifically about the timing. Why do this now. Well, we specifically did not time the new documentary to coincide with the anniversary of the invasion of iraq. The invasion of iraq of course in march 19th, 2003. The invasion of iraq and the war in iraq are obviously a big deal and a specific thing that is worth examining in its own right. But what we did with hubris was not tell the story of the iraq war, but rather the story of what made us start that war. So we didnt peg to it the tenyear anniversary of the invasion, we pegged it earlier than that. We pegged it to the lying to us by our own government that made that invasion possible. And that irreducible truth, that we were told by our government that we had to go to war because of things they said were true abo
As ed mentioned, last night we did air this new msnbc documentary on why the iraq war happened. It has sparked a lot of discussion, particularly the new reporting in the film. Weve had a lot of feedback on it. Im really glad we did it. Were now talking about hopefully reairing it some more times on msnbc. But a lot of people have been asking specifically about the timing. Why do this now. Well, we specifically did not time the new documentary to coincide with the anniversary of the invasion of iraq. The invasion of iraq of course in march 19th, 2003. The invasion of iraq and the war in iraq are obviously a big deal and a specific thing that is worth examining in its own right. But what we did with hubris was not tell the story of the iraq war, but rather the story of what made us start that war. So we didnt peg to it the tenyear anniversary of the invasion, we pegged it earlier than that. We pegged it to the lying to us by our own government that made that invasion possible. And that i
It has sparked a lot of discussion, particularly the new reporting in the film. Weve had a lot of feedback on it. Im really glad we did it. Were now talking about hopefully reairing it some more times on msnbc. But a lot of people have been asking specifically about the timing. Why do this now. Well, we specifically did not time the new documentary to coincide with the anniversary of the invasion of iraq. The invasion of iraq of course in march 19th, 2003. The invasion of iraq and the war in iraq are obviously a big deal and a specific thing that is worth examining in its own right. But what we did with hubris was not tell the story of the iraq war, but rather the story of what made us start that war. So we didnt peg to it the tenyear anniversary of the invasion, we pegged it earlier than that. We pegged it to the lying to us by our own government that made that invasion possible. And that irreducible truth, that we were told by our government that we had to go to war because of things
shahzad and abdul farouk abdulmutallab. but the frustration of this previous administration lingers on. when it comes to fixing what went wrong in that era, this is not all that complicated an issue. the plan to close it was fairly simple. the only reason it didn t happen is that congress, elected officials, democrats and republicans freaked out and decide they d were scared of their own shadow back in 2009 and 2010, and then congress acted to say no, no, no, the president can t do this. they decided to not do what everyone left, right and center had previously agreed needed to be done and would be done. and so we just got stuck by dent of congress keeping this open from the previous administration with no plan of keeping it open other than hoping the prisoners might die of their own accord if we leave them there long enough. it s not 2009 or 2010 anymore. a lot that is in our politics feels different now in 2013 than it felt in 2009.