(2010/09/04) Rachel Maddow gives credit where credit is due (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 September 2010
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #403
Rachel Maddow gives credit where credit is due
Act 1: 9 Billion lost - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 1: Where Did It Go - Jimmy Cliff
Act 2: The insane cost of war - Young Turks
Song 2: Goodbye yellow brick road - Elton John
Act 3: Taliban code of conduct - Rachel Maddow
Song 3: Sometimes I rhyme slow - Nice and Smooth
Act 4: Reaction to 9/11 - Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Song 4: John Adams theme song - HBO
Act 5: Growing intelligence community - Colbert Report
Song 5: Under the gun - The Killers
Act 6: Still not out of Iraq - The Progressive
Song 6: Drowning men - Fanfarlo
Act 7: Mission accomplished part 2 - Wait wait don't tell me
Song 7: Don't talk - 10,000 Maniacs
Act 8: US always has money for war - Young Turks
Song 8: Give a little bit - Supertramp
Act 9: Iraq numbers - Le Show
Song 9: Trillion Dollar Bargain - Harry Shearer
Act 10: Credit where credit is due - Rachel Maddow
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| 0:11.9 | Wait-Wait-Don't Tell Me, The Young Turks, The Rachel Maddo Show, Common Sense |
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| 0:30.0 | A new report this week shows that in just nine months at the beginning of the |
| 0:34.5 | Iraq War, the Coalition Provisional Authority spent nine billion taxpayer |
| 0:40.6 | dollars on what? We. We? We for the soldiers to play. We games. We. Yeah. They did |
| 0:51.1 | other than headweeds back in 2003-2004. It was very cutting-edge military |
| 0:57.1 | technology. No, no. I don't $9,000,000. $9,000,000. I'm stopped. Doesn't involve |
| 1:06.2 | Jenny McCarthy and a USO show. No, it doesn't. Just asking. Well, didn't they lose |
| 1:11.0 | nine billion dollars? So maybe that's it. That's the answer. Nobody knows. Nobody has |
| 1:16.7 | any idea. You know what it's like? You know what it's like? You go to the ATM, you |
| 1:21.0 | get out a hundred bucks a few days later, you go to buy a diet snapple and you're |
| 1:25.2 | looking your wallet. There's nothing there. You're like, where the money go? Just like |
| 1:29.0 | that. So in a strange way, I kind of got the answer right. You did actually. You |
| 1:33.6 | didn't know neither. How could we, how could we punish you for not knowing where the |
| 1:40.7 | money went when they didn't know where the money went? I like this game. Now the |
| 1:47.8 | Coalition Provisional Authority could have done a better job preventing this kind |
| 1:50.9 | of carelessness. Their first mistake was getting the nine billion dollars from |
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