Corn on "Hardball": Why Did We Go To War in Iraq?

Tue Aug. 31, 2010 3:53 PM PDT

On the occasion of President Obama's Oval Office speech on Iraq, David Corn and Dan Senor duke it out over the origins of the Iraq war on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. Spoiler alert: Corn outclasses Senor with an Ernest Hemingway quote.

David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief. For more of his stories, click here. He's also on Twitter.

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