Miles Parks

sort of bedrock things that we think of as being part of the USA.

So for example, former Vice President Dick Cheney is considered a leading voice from back then of neoconservatism.

And here he was talking in 2003, talking to CBS about why the US should go into Iraq.

He's not really talking there about we're doing this for us.

We have some real fundamental reasons to protect the U.S.

going in there.

Yes, this administration did promote the idea of WMDs.

But when they were selling this idea, they said, no, this is also about human rights, as Cheney said there.

This is about building democracy there.

So that is what neoconservatism was.

Yeah.

So let's start with the end of the George W. Bush era, right?

By then, the view of what the U.S.

had done and was doing in Iraq was slipping.

People were just getting really sick of having U.S.

soldiers in Iraq, having sent them there and

thinking that they were going to improve things and get out.

Well, it turns out it was really hard to do that.

So even Republicans had soured on the U.S.

being involved in Iraq.