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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC Mar 18

    “Bush Orders Start of War on Iraq”--15 years ago tomorrow:pic.twitter.com/mW5AX01yHA

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      2. Dean Beckette‏ @BeckInvestLLC Mar 18
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @pdacosta

        Yep. Sad day. What did it accomplish? Yes a brutal dictator was put down. At what cost in human lives, the swath of destruction left in the wake by his ouster, arguably a "stabilizing" force in a area rife with violence under the surface?

        1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
      3. John Whitaker‏ @Jizbam Mar 19
        Replying to @BeckInvestLLC @BeschlossDC @pdacosta

        Didn't certain oil companies get more favorable deals post-war? Seems like a fair trade-off, right?

        1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      4. Dean Beckette‏ @BeckInvestLLC Mar 19
        Replying to @Jizbam @BeschlossDC @pdacosta

        Don't give a crap about the bloated oil companies.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. John Whitaker‏ @Jizbam Mar 19
        Replying to @BeckInvestLLC @BeschlossDC @pdacosta

        At the time, a lot of people recognized that it was a blood-for-oil war but were drowned out by people playing "God Bless the USA" on their truck stereos.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      6. Dean Beckette‏ @BeckInvestLLC Mar 19
        Replying to @Jizbam @BeschlossDC @pdacosta

        Or the ribbon magnets "Support Our Troops", Made in...wait for it...China.

        0 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
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      2. KEVIN 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈‏ @kgwrotethis Mar 18
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        The war of choice. After creating the Axis of Evil (Iran, North Korea, and Iraq) in the 2002 State of the Union address the Bush/Cheney Administration went after the one country that was not thinking about WMDs.

        5 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
      3. KEVIN 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈‏ @kgwrotethis Mar 18
        Replying to @kgwrotethis @BeschlossDC

        France, Germany, and Russia told us their intelligence agencies showed no WMDs in Iraq. The US believed otherwise and we were told the Iraqi government would be able to give those WMDs to terrorists who could use them against the US on the (new term) homeland.

        1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
      4. KEVIN 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈‏ @kgwrotethis Mar 18
        Replying to @kgwrotethis @BeschlossDC

        We ignored the warnings of our allies and Russia. Instead we renamed things with "French" in the name like French Fries became Freedom Fries or French Toast became Freedom Toast.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. KEVIN 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈‏ @kgwrotethis Mar 18
        Replying to @kgwrotethis @BeschlossDC

        Bush declared major combat operations over on May 1, 2003 but we would never find WMDs, we would destabilize the country and the region, the US Military would occupy to provide protection for the reconstruction,

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      6. KEVIN 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈‏ @kgwrotethis Mar 18
        Replying to @kgwrotethis @BeschlossDC

        fighting against insurgencies and the new to Iraq Al-Qaeda which would spin-off a group known as ISIS/ISIL. Saddam Hussein would be captured in December 2003 then tried by the Iraqi people and executed by hanging in 2006. Iraqis vote with purple ink and their fingers in 2005.

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      7. KEVIN 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈‏ @kgwrotethis Mar 18
        Replying to @kgwrotethis @BeschlossDC

        The war that started in 2003 ended in 2011, but the U.S. Military is still there.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Breather‏ @BreatherOfEther Mar 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        oopspic.twitter.com/ZldDZtchU2

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      1. Santa Claus von Bülow‏ @SidAndFinancy Mar 18
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @rachelnpr

        He didn't know the half of it, did he?pic.twitter.com/smnQ6UgEeQ

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      1. Stefan Versac  🇺🇸 🇫🇷‏ @StefanVersac Mar 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Iraq had absolutely nothing to do in 9/11... Saudi Arabia did

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      1. MCalifra‏ @MichaelCalifra Mar 18
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        War crime.

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      1. Mira Schor‏ @miraschor Mar 19
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        One of the biggest & costliest sins we have committed as a country

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      2. Taylor Desloge‏ @TaylorDesloge Mar 18
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        I will never forget that. I remember watching the bombing of Baghdad as it began on my 15th birthday.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. J Burrell‏ @JBurrel47549198 Mar 18
        Replying to @TaylorDesloge @BeschlossDC

        I know one who was your age that night. With his parents & siblings in their home. In Baghdad. Years of mayhem destruction millions misplaced killed. Water food electricity medicine difficult. Iraq’s new way, still. A generation with PTS, now perpetual.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. J Burrell‏ @JBurrel47549198 Mar 18
        Replying to @JBurrel47549198 @TaylorDesloge @BeschlossDC

        My life & career includes vets from this, Afghan, & VietNam. All I know served well, all were harmed by their experience. They have parades & thanks. They need services & opportunities. They r our *collateral damage* for waging undefined wars.

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