This week on the Lectures and History podcast, The Road to the War in Iraq.

University of Kansas, political communications professor Robert Rowland breaks down President

George W. Bush's October 2002 speech. He examines how the administration made its case for military

action, the rhetoric used to persuade Congress and the public,

and the broader political and historical context leading up to the invasion.

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The invasion of Iraq is now remembered as one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest

born in military policy failure in American history.

A study published in the national interest in 2014 labeled it the greatest fiasco

in American foreign policy history.

A professor Samuel Helfont at the Naval War College wrote of the invasion of Iraq

that the Iraq War descended into the extended tragedy

of insurgents, counterinsurgents,

and the apocalyptic terror of the Islamic State.

That occurred because it was based on several misconceptions

about Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad.

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