The Tom Woods Show, episode 916.

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Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. Our guest today is Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr., known as Jimmy Duncan, from Tennessee. He has been a member of the U.S.

Congress since 1988, and he is a Republican who believes that really the most important issue is

foreign policy, but he has opinions on foreign policy that run rather counter to those of many other Republicans.

Congressman Duncan, welcome to the show. Well, thank you very much, Dr. Woods. I'm a big fan of yours. I've watched about 50 or 60 of your podcasts, and I've seen a couple of your appearances at the Mises organization. And I guess I can tell you that my favorite website is

the Lou Rockwell.com. And I've written several articles for the American Conservative magazine

and Chronicles. So that sort of tells you where I come from. Well, that means we have a lot of

friends in common, you and I. Well, I hope so. Now, apparently you are the last remaining member of Congress to have voted against the war in Iraq.

Yes, I'm the only Republican left.

That's what I mean, yes.

There were only six of us in the first place, but, you know, I came to Congress as a very conventional Republican.

I believed everything. The industrial complex told me.

And I remember, in fact, I voted for the first Gulf War because I went to all these briefings with Colin Powell and General Schwarzkopf.

And I heard him talk about Saddam Hussein's elite troops and how he was another

Hitler and so forth and how dangerous he was and then I watched those same elite troops surrendering

to CNN camera crews and empty tanks and I thought then that the threat had been greatly exaggerated

and so I started looking at things a little bit differently.

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