I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people. And the people who knock these buildings down will hear all of us soon. Rather than get to the bottom of what actually happened, the Bush administration immediately exploited the crisis to push for what it really wanted, which was an invasion of Iraq. In his book Against All Enemies, George W. Bush's counterterrorism czar, Richard Clarke, said that when he went back to the White house immediately after 9 11, he, quote, expected … (03:33–03:44)
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Asserts that the Bush administration used the 9/11 crisis to justify invading Iraq.
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