Twenty years on, reflection and regret on 2002 Iraq war vote


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Chairwoman Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee to examine the Department of Agriculture, on Capitol Hill, March 16, 2023, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP) Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow was sitting in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s conference room at the Pentagon, listening to him make the case that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. At some point in the presentation — one of many lawmaker briefings by President George W. Bush’s administration ahead of the October 2002 votes to authorize force in Iraq — military leaders showed an image of...