Veteran Hawks Recycle Iraq Scripts

News outlets are re‑presenting former Iraq War architects as trustworthy witnesses to justify new interventions, often without confronting their past errors. That recycling leverages personal credibility and institutional familiarity to shortcut public skepticism and revive discredited arguments. — If media repeatedly repurposes discredited hawks as credible validators, it lowers the bar for selling future military action and distorts democratic oversight of war decisions.