An inside look at how world leaders and the American public were duped into a war that cost thousands of lives. On the evening of 9/11, George W Bush made a vow to the American public - that he would defeat terrorism. Unknown to those listening in shock to the presidential address, the president and his advisers had already begun planning their trajectory into an invasion of Iraq. It was packaged as "holding responsible the states who support terrorism" by Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser between 2001 and 2003.