Is Iraq better today than it was at the start of the U.S. invasion in 2003? “Absolutely not” says @GhaithAbdulahad. He and @Yanar_Mohammed join @mehdirhasan to describe life in Iraq today.
It's been 20 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and @mehdirhasan asks: shouldn't we be prosecuting George W. Bush over the brutal and illegal war?
Watch his full commentary here: youtube.com/watch?v=4B3UmwZK…
.@MehdiRHasan: "Name one instance, just one instance, of the former president ever, ever showing even a glimmer of reciprocated loyalty to his die-hard followers. You can't."
"If it is true, America would be a different country today if Jimmy Carter had been re-elected and not Ronald Reagan." @MehdiRHasan on a new @peterbakernyt story about a 1980 plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter's re-election.
Why have architects of the Iraq War largely failed up? @PeterBeinart says it’s partly because “they’re very tied to the military industrial complex, and they tend to have a set of hawkish, American exceptionalist attitudes.”
"[Young people speaking out] to not be shot and killed is not a sign of hope, but a canary in the coal mine for our democracy."
@davidhogg111 on how little has changed in the five years since the first March For Our Lives.
.@peterbakernyt's advice for Republicans ahead of a potential Trump indictment? “They want to be careful about going too far. If he's going to go down, they hope he goes down on his own."
"Donald Trump chose Michael Cohen to do his bidding and Michael Cohen went to prison," @jentaub hits back on claims that Cohen is an unreliable witness.