Jeb and other candidates would have you believe that while the invasion was based on faulty intelligence, it had everyone's support. But that's false: 156 members of Congress opposed war authorization.

Paul Wolfowitz not only championed the Iraq War — he obsessively promoted a bizarre conspiracy theory.

Will the end games in Iraq and Afghanistan follow the Vietnam playbook?

The sad news of Bob Simon's death this week had us reflecting on Bill's interview with him for the show 'Buying the War,' about the media’s cheerleading role leading up to the 2003 Iraqi invasion.

America is now fighting the Iraq War for the third time, somehow madly expecting different results.

As the US once again contemplates military action in Iraq, let's not let our history in the region disappear down the memory hole.

The insurgents are not only in a struggle against what they see as oppression by a largely Shiite government in Baghdad and its security forces, but also over who will control and benefit from the nation's oil.

Andrew Bacevich asserts that the "impoverished state of US foreign-policy discourse is laid bare" in a recent New Republic essay by historian Robert Kagan.

Historian and essayist Eric Alterman says neocon pundits are using the press to resell us the same damaged goods on Iraq.

After the start of the Iraq war in 2003, US Marines crossed the fertile river as they advanced toward Baghdad. Bill contemplates the historical significance.