The Iraq War Explained

Mr. Beat tells the story of arguably the most controversial war in American history- the Iraq War.

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SoGyb9gQ0YHAotREmz6QqYc3ndr2QsIvyVA-9lVGldk/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/further reading:
To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq by Robert Draper
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
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Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix
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The American Pageant. (16th edition). Cengage Learning.
The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (9th edition)
America Through the Lens (National Geographic)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2019.1551567
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/why/said.html
https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F03%2F08%2Fmovies%2Foscars-iraq-2003.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRCREVuE9_c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
https://www.britannica.com/event/Iraq-War
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/perspectives-on-the-iraq-war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMSNUX3n6yA
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1151160567/colin-powell-iraq-un-weapons-mass-destruction
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64914542
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/20/iraq.foreignpolicy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/why-u-s-forces-remain-in-iraq-20-years-after-shock-and-awe
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html

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