The Tom Woods Show, episode 606.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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Hi, everybody. You are in for a treat today because not only of the subject matter, but really

because of our guest. What a great guest we have.

First, we're going to be talking about the subject, were we lied into war?

Now, I know that most of my listeners, if not all, would say, yes, certainly we were.

But you know that not everybody agrees with you.

You get people who say it was an honest mistake or it wasn't a deliberate attempt to mislead.

It was just a confluence of bad, let's say, bad intelligence and this and that.

Can we accept that explanation?

And if not, why not?

That's what we're going to talk about today.

And we're talking to Karen Quatowski.

And I want to point out that if you see her name spelled

on the show notes page, tomwoods.com slash 606, you're going to think I'm mispronouncing it,

but it is actually pronounced Quatowski. That's how her wing of the family pronounces it anyway.

She is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon

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