America's involvement in the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran has prompted comparisons with its 2003 invasion of Iraq.

After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran is fair game for criticism, like other major decisions by any president, ...

Middle East policy shifted from Bush-era interventions to Trump's approach, with Israel acting against Iran's nuclear program ...

President Trump is pondering swift military action in Iran. There were similar expectations that the war in Iraq would be quick and triumphant.

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This is mostly false. In August 2004, Trump said in an interview with Esquire that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein never had weapons of mass destruction at his disposal. But he made more ambiguous ...

Mass surveillance. Pre-emptive military strikes in the Middle East. Shipping people to domestic and foreign prisons. Citing ...

The Bush administration was hammered repeatedly for cooking the intelligence on Iraq’s alleged WMD program. Now, Trump has provided a clear historical parallel as a broader war looms.

University students today are too young to remember the March 2003 start of the Iraq War, which has future foreign policy implications, especially in light of conflict over Iran’s nuclear sites.