File Photo: US President George W. Bush (C) answers questions from the media as US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (L) and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (R) look on during a meeting with military leaders at the Pentagon 17 September, 2001. The President said that the United States wants Saudi-born suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden brought to justice “dead or alive”. (Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images, File)
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reports on how the Bush administration viewed the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as an opportunity to remove Saddam Hussein from power in part one of Hubris. You can read more about the Bush administration’s marketing of a war they had already decided to wage; take a look at Rumsfeld’s secret documents; and read an interview with the co-author of “Hubris”: he talks about torture, secrets, and what we still don’t know.
