(2013/03/27) 10 years already? (Foreign Policy)
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🗓️ 27 March 2013
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Summary
Edition #702
10 years already?
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Accountability for the Iraq War - The Progressive - Air Date: 3-18-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: The persuaded - Faded Paper Figures
Ch. 4: Act 2: Reliving George Bush's Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later - Majority Report - Air Date: 03-19-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: One million miles away - J. Ralph
Ch. 6: Act 3: Iraq 10 Years Later - Was it Worth It? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-20-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Gerudo Valley - Nintendo
Ch. 8: Act 4: Haliburton, As Long As You Can Pay The Bill - David Feldman Show - Air Date 3-22-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Wavin' Flag - K'naan
Ch. 10: Act 5: 10 Years Later in Iraq, Huge Suicide Bombing - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-20-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Your biggest mistake - Ellie Goulding
Ch. 12: Act 6: Scarborough Iraq war predictions dead wrong - CounterSpin - Air Date: 3-22-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
Ch. 14: Act 7: Gathering Support For War With Fear And Lies - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 3-22-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Julie-O - Kevin "KO" Olusola
Ch. 16: Act 8: Fox News: Iraq War, The Smartest Thing George Bush Did! - Majority Report - Air Date: 03-21-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: All these things that I've done - The Killers
Ch. 18: Act 9: The Tenth Anniversary Party - David Feldman Show - Air Date 3-22-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: I paid for the party - The Enchanters
Ch. 20: Act 10: Rumsfeld's Chutzpah - The Progressive - Air Date: 3-19-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: How do you sleep? - Emily DeLoach
Ch. 22: Act 11: Dying Veteran's Last Letter to Bush and Cheney - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-20-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: If you're a catholic and not shouting from the rooftops about child rape, that's a problem - Susanne from Australia
Ch. 24: I don't leave the church like I don't leave the US - Molly from Eureka, MS
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 25: Final comments on the tacit culpability of Catholics
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.2 | the membership tab at BestOfLeft.com, and welcome to the award-winning BestOfLeft Podcasts |
| 0:11.2 | with Cubsiday from the Progressive, the Majority Report, the Young Turks, the David Feldman |
| 0:15.0 | Show, the David Pakman Show, Counter-Spin, and the Jimmy Doar Show, and a note of caution |
| 0:19.6 | about the potentially flashback-inducing nature of today's episode for any listeners |
| 0:23.5 | suffering from post-traumatic stress brought on by eight years of the Bush administration. |
| 0:30.1 | It's the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War this week, and there's no cause for celebration |
| 0:34.1 | just for mourning and self-reflection. |
| 0:36.7 | This foolish war of aggression by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld |
| 0:41.3 | and Paul Wolfowitz, which was sold to us on a chain of lies, came at a huge cost. |
| 0:47.2 | Almost 4,500 young American men and women were killed, almost 32,000 were injured, and |
| 0:52.4 | hundreds of thousands came back home with psychological trauma. |
| 0:56.1 | On the Iraqi side, anywhere from 150,000 to over 1 million people were killed, and millions |
| 1:02.1 | more were made homeless. |
| 1:03.9 | On top of that, the country's been torn by ethnic strife between Sunnis and Shiites |
| 1:08.4 | that was almost nonexistent before the war. |
| 1:11.4 | The cost to the U.S. Treasury has been astronomical, approaching $3 trillion, and Republicans |
| 1:17.3 | have the gall to complain about the national death. |
| 1:20.5 | One amazing and troubling thing about the Iraq Wars is the total lack of accountability |
| 1:24.4 | for the disaster. |
| 1:26.0 | Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld all have published their memoirs and gone on their book tours |
| 1:30.7 | and given the most self-serving accounts. |
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