Hello and welcome to the Bible in your chair.

No sit-chat podcast.

We'd like to get right into it.

And what we're going to get into today is an anniversary.

Not a happy anniversary.

20 years after the United States invasion of Iraq.

It has been two decades since March 19, 2003,

when the United States forces invaded Iraq.

Now President George W. Bush ordered the invasion to neutralize

what he said was the threat of weapons of mass destruction,

posed by Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator.

Now it turned out Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction.

American forces searched and searched and searched,

and they never found them.

In all, 4,586 American servicemen and women died in the war.

32,455 were wounded.

I think it was the largest military

and national security blunder of anybody's lifetime.

It was a mistake so enormous that it beggared belief.

Bush acknowledged that, and the years after he wrote

that just thinking about it made him sick.

And what I'm going to do is read to you a portion of Bush's memoirs

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