(2012/09/14) Echoes of the past (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 September 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #643
Echoes of the past
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Ryan Advisor Pick Dan Senor Spotlights War Policy - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 8-17-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Hide and seek - Imogen Heap
Ch. 4: Act 2: Required Small Openings For Effective Propaganda - Counterspin - Air Date 8-24-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Needle in the hay - Elliott Smith
Ch. 6: Act 3: Obama Grilled About Kill List By Local Reporter - Young Turks - Air Date: 09-09-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Not the only one - Hotrod Cadets
Ch. 8: Act 4: Free Pussy Riot - BotL Activism Update
Ch. 9: Song 4: Free Pussy Riot - Mukluk
Ch. 10: Act 5: A Grisly Milestone for Afghanistan - The Progressive - Air Date: 8-22-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: War - Goldfinger
Ch. 12: Act 6: Reversing The Order Of The Telling on Iran - CounterSpin - Air Date 8-24-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Last word - Christopher Ames
Ch. 14: Act 7: US Ambassador Killed in Libya Consulate Attacks; Romney Politicizes - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 09-12-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: The killing moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
Ch. 16: Act 8: Clash of Fundamentalisms in Libya - The Progressive - Air Date: 9-12-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Duel of the fates - John Williams
Ch. 18: Act 9: Torture Widespread Based On New US Waterboarding Evidence - Young Turks - Air Date: 09-07-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Keep on moving forward - Emma's Revolution
Ch. 20: Act 10: Bush 9/11 FAIL: Worse Than You Think! - Majority Report - Air Date: 09-11-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Don't look back in anger - Oasis
Ch. 22: Act 11: Cheney In No Position to Fault Obama on Intelligence Briefings - The Progressive - Air Date: 9-11-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Warning - Green Day
Ch. 24: Act 12: 9/11: Devastating Book On Bush Admin, Bin Laden Warnings - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-12-12
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Voicemails:
Ch. 25: Discussing victim-blaming - Heather from Indiana
Ch. 26: Discussing rape culture - Ally from Philidelphia
Ch. 27: Joe clarifies previous statement about race and gender - Joe from New York
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Ch. 28: Final comments explaining the withdrawl of original version of Ep. 642
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at Best of the Left.com, and welcome to the award-winning Best of |
| 0:10.3 | the Left podcast with clips today from the Rachel Maddo show, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, |
| 0:14.7 | a Best of the Left activism update, The Progressive, The David Pakman Show, and The Majority |
| 0:18.8 | Report, and a note for any listener suffering from PTSD related to having lived through |
| 0:23.0 | the Bush years, I have to warn you that this episode does make reference to that administration. |
| 0:30.0 | This tyrant has amassed a large cache of chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction |
| 0:38.7 | and is aggressively seeking nuclear weapons. |
| 0:42.6 | He sees America as the only obstacle to his perverse ambitions, and that is what he shares |
| 0:51.1 | with Elkate of these terrorists against us, this deep hatred for America. |
| 0:57.2 | We must not let him share anything else with these terrorists, Mr. Speaker, and with |
| 1:01.6 | that, Mr. Speaker, it's a painful vote, it's a painful subject, it's a painful issue, |
| 1:07.9 | but this is a cause that we cannot go unanswered. |
| 1:11.7 | I urge a yes vote, and I urge passage to this resolution. |
| 1:15.0 | That was Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, now presumptive vice presidential nominee, |
| 1:19.3 | Paul Ryan, back in October 2002, explaining his vote in favor of invading Iraq, because |
| 1:25.9 | of all those weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein had stockpiled and was ready |
| 1:29.8 | to deliver to the Elkate of terrorists. |
| 1:33.0 | Paul Ryan will probably not be asked on the campaign trail about how wrong he was about |
| 1:37.0 | Iraq when he voted to authorize a unilateral preemptive preventive war for something that |
| 1:41.1 | wasn't there. |
| 1:42.1 | The Iraq war is over and pretty much nobody in American politics talks about it very much |
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