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Two decades ago, then-President George W. Bush announced the start of combat operations in Iraq. The bloody occupation that followed lasted longer and cost more in lives and money than anyone guessed.

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

Aides to the then PM warned at the time that the new US president would not be as helpful as his predecessor Bill Clinton.

The 9/11 hijackers and Osama bin Laden, all deservedly dead, planned a coordinated attack with multiple strikes, killing thousands. They made no distinction between victims at the World Trade Center or at the Pentagon or at the likely target of the Capitol, which was saved when heroic passengers brought down…

Who killed those kids as the U.S. left Afghanistan? Donald Rumsfeld? George Custer and Barack Obama? You and me?

British ambassador to the US in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq who later served as chair of the Press Complaints Commission

Last week, a war of words between the Conservative Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury was not on my bingo card. But this is 2022, and as Donald Rumsfeld almost said, you open your newsletter with the headlines you have, not the headlines you might wish to have.

America's massive hypocrisy makes a mockery of international law, and threatens to lead our planet to apocalypse

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) defended his assertion that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson called then-President George W. Bush and his Pentagon chief “war criminals,” rejecting Democrats’ contention Wednesday that he distorted her petitions on behalf of militants detained at Guantánamo Bay.

Four men once held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were central to some of the questions Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson fielded during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing