In the aftermath of 9/11, no blunder was more tragic than the country’s war in Iraq. Even Democrats failed to question the legitimacy of the evidence used to justify the war, and the vast majority of Democrats voted to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq. We wanted to know what led up to their vote, how they felt about it, and what lessons, if any, could be learned. “If you watched the evening news on almost any of the networks, if you read the print media, including the New York Times, there was this constant, incessant emphasis on war with Iraq,” Conrad recalled. Conrad added: “If the president of the United States wants to take this nation to war, he can take this nation to war.

Source: Huffington Post September 23, 2017 11:03 UTC