Economy and social policy. Welfare, education, consumer and Worker Protection and inflation, watch, free to choose saturday on American History tv. On cspan 2. Hello, everyone, welcome to washington times, a special episode of history as it happens. Today we will talk about the iraq war, 20 years on. On march 20th, 2003 bush announced they were invading iraq and getting rid of sad Saddam Hussein. The war killed hundreds of people. We were not greeted as liberators, why . Our guest today for the podcast is the dean of u. S. Foreign policy historian, welcome thank you, i am delighted to be here to discuss this important topic with you welcome to the washington times. And the author of confronting Saddam Hussein george w. Bush and the invasion of iraq the book was published to coincide with the war but you have been working on this book for awhile. You seemed reluctant as you state to take on this project to begin with, why . I was reluctant for two reasons. First i was trying to finish u
Welcome to the Washington Times for this special episode of history. As it welcome to hthe Washington Times. Well talk about the iraq war, 20 years on. On march 20, 2003, president bush announced that the United States was invading iraq and wars of mass destruction. The weapons did not exist. We were not greeted add liberators. Why . Im delighted to discuss this important topic with you. Welcome to the Washington Times. This is the author of confronting saddam hussian and president george w. Bush and the invasion of iraq. Youve been working on this book quite a while. You seemed reluctant to take on this project to begin with. Why . I was reluctant for two reasons. First i was trying to finish up work that i was doing on the evolution of the cold war, topic of which ive written a great deal about. And secondly, and most importantly, i was reluctant to take it on because it was really contemporary history and the availability of primary source documents would be very limited. Im a histo
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
Director Johns Brennan and National Intelligence director james clapper. The Nixon Foundation hosted the event. It is an hour and a half. Good afternoon, everyone. On behalf of all my colleagues, i want to welcome you to todays event, the president s daily brief, delivering intelligence to president s nixon and ford. My name is joe lambert. Im the director of Information Management at eia. At cia. Events like this take a lot of work and i want to acknowledge the efforts of the cia officers who reviewed and declassified these 28,000 pages over the last year. They are assisted by a number of agencies, but the work of one in particular deserves special thanks, the National Security agency. Todays event marks the cias 25th major declassification and release event since 2007. The first was last september at the johnson president ial library. We are very fortunate once again to have two people with us who probably know more about the daily brief than anybody i can think of. That is the direc