Mar 25, 2023
This is the third in a multi-part series of episodes
examining the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which
began on March 20, 2003. The video version of this episode will air
on C-SPAN 2's American History TV on April 1.
Melvin Leffler, an eminent historian of U.S. foreign
policy, joins Martin Di Caro in a conversation about Leffler's new
book, "Confronting Saddam Hussein." The historian argues the Bush
administration was influenced by fear, overconfidence in U.S.
power, and hubris rather than outright dishonesty when it drove the
country to war in 2003.