Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


9/11 At 20: So, Why Did We Attack Iraq?

July 29, 2021

Regime change in Iraq was on Bush’s agenda since 1998, September 11 merely enabled it. On this show is historian Larry Hartenian whose new book is titled George W Bush Administration Propaganda for an Invasion of Iraq, subtitled Absence of Evidence. He explains that Cheney, Rumsfeld, and others rejected any evidentiary standards. Intelligence was tailored, politicized, and shaped to fit a narrative predetermined by the White House. They knew there was no evidence of connection to 9/11. So a precedent was set for Trump’s “reality.” Have any lessons been learned?