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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Where Are The Architects Of The Iraq War Now?

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, left, shakes hands with Vice President Dick Cheney at the Pentagon in 2006 photo. (AP)

Then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, left, shakes hands with then-Vice President Dick Cheney at the Pentagon in 2006. (AP)

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney release their memoirs early next year.  What are they and other neoconservatives who pushed for the Iraq War in the Bush Administration saying now? Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Justin Vaisse explains that many have been lying low and backtracking from their earlier positions.  Vaisse’s new book is called “Neoconservatism: The Biography of A Movement.”

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