Hello everyone and welcome to Amunfor. Here's what's coming up.

These are open stages of what will be a abroad and concerted campaign.

20 years since the invasion that changed America's place in the world,

we look at the domino effects of the war in Iraq felt to this day.

First, Mr. Gee goes to Moscow. The Chinese president

embraces Putin, chipping away at democracy and America's unchallenged global status.

Then, a stranger in your own city the true cost of the

Iraq war with journalists and author Gait Abdullah had on the human price. Plus there were good reasons for American policy makers to be extremely

distrustful and suspicious of him. Confronting Saddam Hussein, why the US chose war and what it's learned 20 years later.

Historian Melvin Leffler joins Walter Isakson. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.

Tonight, as the war in Ukraine throws the spotlight

on democracy and accountability,

we'll look back to look forward

because it's 20 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq and the reverberations are still being felt today.

President George W Bush once said the road to democracy in that region would lead through

Baghdad and be a watershed event in the global Democratic

revolution. Well it didn't quite the contrary in fact here he is back in 2002.

The days of Iraq acting as an outlaw state are coming to an end.

The United States is committed to helping make the world more peaceful and more just.

Instead, the war upended the Middle East, plunged Iraq into chaos,

killed hundreds of thousands there,

and led directly to the rise of ISIS.

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