An opinion piece reflects on the Iraq War's intelligence failures and draws parallels to the Iran conflict.

Trump, Vance, Hannity and other Iran war advocates are falling into a familiar trap. Among the minority of Americans and others who support the war with Iran, there is a tendency to say it is nothing like the Iraq War that began in 2003 and has become entrenched in American memory as a disastrous failure.

Linda Bilmes, along with economist Joseph Stiglitz, previously calculated the true cost of the 2003 Iraq war was at least fourfold greater than initially projected.

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Musician and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst said in 2003, "This war on Iraq is bulls***. Just watch, in 2025 they'll try to pull the same s*** with Iran. They'll say it's WMDs or whatever. It's all lies. It's all propaganda. Never trust the government.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned Wednesday that the Middle East war presented a "far worse" scenario than the invasion of Iraq in 2003. "This is not the same scenario as the illegal war in Iraq. We are facing something far worse. Much worse.

Saddam Hussein was Iraq's President from 1979 to 2003, known for his authoritarian rule and human rights abuses. He oversaw major conflicts, was removed by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003, captured, and executed in 2006 for crimes against humanity.

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President Trump says negotiations to end the war will continue, but Iranian state media has pushed back.