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Julian Borger in Washington

How the Iraq war altered US politics and led to the emergence of Trump

Navy doctors carry a wounded US Marine in Ramadi, Iraq on 7 March 2004.
Navy doctors carry a wounded US Marine in Ramadi, Iraq on 7 March 2004. Photograph: Maurizio Gambarini/EPA

Twenty years ago, Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski was working as a desk officer in the Pentagon, when she became aware of a secretive new department called the Office of Special Plans.

The OSP had been set up to produce the kind of intelligence that the Bush administration wanted to hear, about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Kwiatkowski, then age 42, saw first-hand how the disastrous war was confected.

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