How Trump’s 2026 Iran ‘war’ script echoes and twists the 2003 Iraq playbook

In January 2003, President George W Bush stood before the United States Congress to warn of a “grave danger” from a “dictator”, a former US client in the Middle East, armed with weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

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