Nicholas Goldberg: Remember when we thought George W. Bush was the worst president ever?
by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Aug 30, 2022
3 minutes
Twenty years ago next month, President George W. Bush stood before the United Nations and warned that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a "grave and gathering danger," setting the stage for an invasion six months later based on false premises about super-destructive weapons and purported connections to the 9/11 attacks.
The war ultimately killed 4,500 Americans and more than 100,000 Iraqis, and cost the United States $800 billion, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
I've been thinking about Bush's legacy because I
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