(2016/07/26) Remember the Iraq War? (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 July 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1031
Today we reminisce about the origins of the Iraq war brought back to the fore by the Chilcot Report coming out of the UK that took seven years and thousands of pages to tell us a lot of things some of us already knew
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Beating the drums of war montage - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 7-6-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Rock'n Me - Steve Miller Band
Ch. 4: Act 2: Stephen Zunes on the story we tell ourselves about the Iraq war - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 2-26-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: People say - Portugal. The Man
Ch. 6: Act 3: What you need to know about the Chilcot Report - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 7-6-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: White People for Peace - Against Me!
Ch. 9: Song 4: Masters of War - Bob Dylan
Ch. 10: Act 5: Corbyn: Iraq War a Terrible Decision 'Launched on a False Pretext' - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 07-13-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: WMD - Blow Up Hollywood
Ch. 12: Act 6: Finally - PROOF The Bush Administration LIED About Iraq's WMDs - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-09-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Handlebars - Flobots
Ch. 14: Act 7: Tariq Ramadan: Iraq War Waged for U.S. Economic Interests Has Destabilized All of Middle East - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 07-06-16
Ch. 15: Song 7: Everybody's Gone To War - Nerina Pallot
Ch. 16: Act 8: The manipulation of intelligence leading up to the war - Le Show w @TheHarryShearer - Air Date 7-17-16
Ch. 17: Song 8: Trillion Dollar Bargain - Le Show
Ch. 18: Act 9: "We Will Prevail": Three Words, Three American Presidents & An Endless War in Iraq - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 04-08-16
Voicemails
Ch. 19: Understanding why the Dallas shooter did what he did - V from Central New York
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on the toxicity of getting high on your candidate of choice
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:00.0 | The UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. |
| 0:09.6 | Military action at the time was not a last resort. |
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| 0:27.5 | And welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Kupsadeh from the broadcast, counter-spin, democracy now, the majority report, the young Turks and the show. |
| 0:45.0 | There can be no doubt that Saudi Hussein has biological weapons in the capability to rapidly produce more. |
| 0:51.5 | Many more were resting our case. |
| 0:54.0 | On the fact that Saudi Hussein has developed weapons of mass destruction, has them in his possession, the real threat to peace, the son of Hussein and his possession of weapons of mass destruction. |
| 1:03.0 | There's a smoking gun and it involves weapons of mass destruction. They have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about. |
| 1:13.5 | Every statement I make today is back to fight sources. Solid sources. He's an honest assertion. |
| 1:19.0 | What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. |
| 1:27.0 | The massief and sudden horror. Massive death and destruction. Death on a massive scale. The danger to our country is grave. |
| 1:35.5 | Keep on rockin' me baby. |
| 1:39.0 | Iraqi regime could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes. |
| 1:44.5 | The regime is seeking a nuclear bomb and with fizzle fizzile material, it build one within a year. |
| 1:56.5 | The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. The Iraqi regime is building the facilities necessary to make more biological and chemical weapons. |
| 2:14.5 | In its case, the Congress, the Prime Minister, opened the door to the possibility that you may be too wrong about the threat from weapons of mass destruction. |
| 2:27.5 | We may be too wrong. |
| 2:44.5 | I say, when we bring our things together, stop beating our partners why not? |
| 2:51.5 | To decide to stop the plan, start by belittling them from home. |
| 2:59.5 | Now I know that I am too empty to worry about my problems. |
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