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Ep. 234 - Zalmay Khalilzad

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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The President's Decision to Invade Iraq

I'm not even going to ask you the big question which was whether we should have gone in in the first place. But my question is what went wrong? Myself, because I was at the same time that Iraq was going on, I was the president's envoy for Afghanistan. And the timing I was most concerned about because I was... You wanted the resources devoted to Afghanistan? So I do not believe that the president, President Bush, told the intelligence community to make up the intelligence with regard to Iraqi WMD.

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