(2012/01/01) Sorry about that (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 January 2012
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #561
Sorry about that
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Act 1: Victoryish - Mark Fiore Air Date 12-26-11
Act 2: Sorry - Al Franken Show
Act 3: General Pushes For U.S. War With Iran - Young Turks Air Date: 10-26-11
Song 3: Auld Lang Syne - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 4: Shitzkrieg - European Wars - Daily Show Air Date: 8-9-11
Song 4: I Saved the World Today - The Eurythmics
Act 5: ACLU on Redacted Documents - On the Media Air Date: 12-9-11
Song 5: Secrets - OneRepublic
Act 6: US Spends 59% of Budget on Defense - Young Turks Air Date: 12-4-11
Song 6: Cuts like a knife - Soft
Act 7: New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler Of Iraq - The Onion
Song 7: Mickey - Toni Basil
Act 8: 9 Children killed in US Afghan Air Strike - Counterspin Air Date: 12-1-11
Song 8: Cry - James Blunt
Act 9: Game Of Drones - Daily Show Air Date: 12-7-11
Song 9: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Act 10: For Afghan Women, Rape Law Offers Little Protection - NPR Air Date: 12-3-11
Song 10: Marry You - Bruno Mars
Act 11: Virginity Tests Banned - Young Turks Air Date: 12-28-11
Song 11: Put it to the test - They Might be Giants
Act 12: Time Magazine Columnist - Tensions toward Pakistan - Counterspin Air Date: 12-8-11
Song 12: Ruby - Kaiser Cheifs
Act 13: Lowe's Balls of the Week - Daily Show Air Date: 12-14-11
Song 13: Big Balls - AC/DC
Act 14: Syrian Government Attacking Citizens - Young Turks Air Date: 12-21-11
Song 14: Call for help - Clay Schneider
Act 15: Iraqi war invasion historiography, a rewriting - Counterspin Air Date: 12-8-11
Song 15: Turn it over - Bluegrazer
Act 16: U.S. Plans To Give Every Iraqi $3,544.91 And Let Free Market Do Rest - The Onion
Song 16: From the ashes - Gamma Ray
Act 17: Iran Sanctions, War, Israel, Gas Prices - Young Turks Air Date: 12-28-11
Final comments on a profoundly good idea to get people to call their reps in congress
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from MarkFurray.com, |
| 0:13.6 | the Al Franken Show, the Young Turks, the Daily Show, on the media, the Onion Radio News, |
| 0:18.4 | Counter-Spin and NPR, with a bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from |
| 0:23.8 | the Onion. |
| 0:30.0 | Victory-ish, on the march! |
| 0:32.4 | From the signing ceremony on the deck of the USS Honky Dory, the announcement is made. |
| 0:37.7 | Mission accomplished-ish. |
| 0:39.8 | With the shores of Iraq and Greater George Landia fading in the distance, |
| 0:43.8 | the quasi-victory is forced to agree to a complete pull-out of troops. |
| 0:47.8 | As per his predecessor's timetable and the demands of the Iraqi government, |
| 0:51.5 | the semi-victorious commander declares the great expense of blood and treasure worth it. |
| 0:56.8 | 4,500 U.S. deaths and over 100,000 Iraqi deaths later, |
| 1:01.5 | a virtually stable demutra-something is at hand, and is a model for other countries in the region, |
| 1:08.0 | yearning to become stabilized demutra-somethings too. |
| 1:11.6 | Victory-ish, the gift that keeps on, giving us death payments, giving us more veterans in need of |
| 1:18.3 | care, and giving us the largest embassy in the world with an army of mercenaries from Baghdad to |
| 1:24.7 | Baghdad. |
| 1:25.7 | Shock and awe is a thing of the past, and victory-ish is forever, good night, and sorry about that. |
| 1:55.5 | Sorry they got tortured, sorry it got taken, sorry it was evil, but they're the evil doers. |
| 2:05.9 | Sorry the next photo might upset our viewers, believe me when I say, |
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