Washington Watch Articles From 2023
20 Years After Iraq: No Accountability and No Lessons Learned
It’s tragic and deeply distressing that twenty years after the U.S. launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq that the ignorance, lies, and cruelty of that war have never been acknowledged.
Twenty Years Ago: The Debate We Should Have Had on Iraq
Twenty years ago this month, the U.S. was rushing headlong into war with Iraq—a war that has proven to be one of the most fatal and consequential travesties in modern American history. What follows is the story of how one congressman and I tried and failed to get the Democratic Party on record opposing that war.