“So why did we invade Iraq?” | Two Coal Region editorials from the Iraq War, 2003-04

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“So why did we invade Iraq?” Two editorials from a Coal Region newspaper. One written in the opening days of the war, full of certainty about what must come next. The other, just a year later, asking harder questions as the cost became clearer and the answers more uncertain. Read the Full Story.

A year after the invasion | How a Pennsylvania newspaper reflected on the Iraq War in 2004

Posted on by Jake Wynn

“So why did we invade Iraq?” That blunt question appeared in a Pottsville, PA newspaper editorial one year after the invasion in 2004. Written as the war’s first justifications were already unraveling, it captured the uncertainty many Americans were beginning to feel. Two decades later, that war's impacts still resonate as a new conflict has begun. Read the Full Story.