What Went Down At The January Democratic Debate

What could you have purchased for the cost of the Iraq War? Among other things: you could run the EPA for 600 years at its current budget.

Also, it’s an obvious point, but man, it’s still kind of wild to me how much weight these Iraq War votes still carry. It’s been defining presidential elections for over a decade.

Twenty years later, and George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld’s arguments for going to war in Iraq are leading off a presidential debate. It just speaks to how consequential that era in American history turned was.