The Road to the Iraq War | 4. Fighting Words
Intellectuals on the right and left found themselves on the same side in the debate over Iraq.
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Show Notes
In the year leading up the invasion, George W. Bush sketched his justification for the war: good vs. evil, us vs. them. The president wasn’t interested in fleshing out the details beyond that, but lots of other people were.
How did intellectuals, on both the right and left, help bolster the Bush administration’s case for war? And how much responsibility should they bear for one of America’s deadliest mistakes?
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