George W. Bush has told advisers that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein — and he has not changed his mind about that.

The key to Bush’s rehabilitation was burying his Iraq War record in the Memory Hole. The media played the same trick to expunge its own tawdry Iraq record.

Melvyn Leffler, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2023) Historians have always faced the ...

The current administration is supercharging many of the post-9/11 legal, tactical and political strategies Bush used, as a ...

The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie That Launched the Catastrophic War Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they were promoting false information.

Israel and the US have claimed their military strikes are aimed at preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Iran, for its part, ...

USA TODAY interviewed experts about what is happening in the world, and how it should be described. Here’s what they said.

Analysts agree Israel’s triumphs – backed by indirect U.S. military support in Gaza and Lebanon, and direct U.S. intervention ...

For these veterans, the U.S. bombing of Iranian uranium enrichment sites in June and the Trump administration’s ...

(THE CONVERSATION) After 12 days of trading deadly airstrikes, Israel and Iran confirmed on June 24, 2025, that a ceasefire is in effect, one day after President Donald Trump proclaimed the countries ...

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and Ramesh Ponnuru, editor for the National Review, join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including attacks on elected state officials, ...