Twenty years ago next month, President George W. Bush stood before the United Nations and warned that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a "grave and gathering danger," setting the stage for an invasion six months later based on false premises about super-destructive weapons and purported connections to the 9/11 attacks.
The war ultimately killed 4,500 Americans and more than 100,000 Iraqis, and cost the United States $800 billion, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
I've been thinking about Bush's legacy because I saw a book in a half-price bin at a local bookstore subtitled "How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq" and I realized that, frankly, no one cares anymore. At least not in this country. Too much has happened in the intervening two decades.
