From Vietnam EOD to Delta Force: Mike Vining's Path to Elite Operations | Ep. 277 | Pt. 2
Mike Drop
Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I was going to ask, do you think that there's any correlation or parallel between the mental or, I guess, the sentiment of fear, which led to us going into Vietnam the way that we did in a similar fashion to Iraq in that, you know, in a very close proximity post--11 where there's this fear of it happening again, |
| 0:25.3 | of that, you know, we don't want, you know, to be attacked on our own soil. |
| 0:31.6 | And there's this preemptive nature with which our government now wants to operate to avoid even the |
| 0:38.4 | slightest chance of that happening? |
| 0:40.5 | Do you think that that was both a predominant reason and a justifiable one to go into Iraq? |
| 0:46.7 | Or do you think that there's more to it in a nefarious way? |
| 0:51.1 | Well, the reason we went to Iraq is supposedly weapons of mass destruction that they didn't have. |
| 1:01.4 | You know, we, you know, after Desert Storm, we sent people, there people went in there, |
| 1:09.6 | and we made sure that the Iraqi people, you Iraqi people got rid of all of the Scud missiles, that we accounted for every single Scud missile, and they were all destroyed. |
| 1:23.3 | And looking for any weapons of mass destruction that they had |
| 1:29.3 | so and we destroyed it all to to me post desert storm the they did not have any |
| 1:41.3 | weapons of mass destruction. Now, what happened was Germany had an agent, one of their agents in Iraq, and this is what I've |
| 1:55.0 | been told. |
| 1:56.6 | And this agent is totally unreliable, but he was feeding information to the German government |
| 2:04.2 | that Saddam Hussein was redoing, you know, rebuilding his weapons of mass destruction |
| 2:12.1 | and stuff like that, and told the German government so. |
| 2:25.3 | The German government is under obligation to inform the United States about this information. |
| 2:32.6 | But the German government caveated it as this person that the source is unreliable. |
| 2:34.4 | But they went with the source is unreliable. But they went with that the source and not the unreliable part. |
| 2:41.0 | And of course, former General Colin Secretary of State at this time, then went to the |
| 2:48.5 | UN and declared that they restarted the weapons of mass |
| 2:52.7 | destruction program. |
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