Introducing... The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq
The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight
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🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the host of the fault line Bush, Blair and Iraq. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the story of the crisis that unfolded over the 18 months |
| 0:12.0 | after the terrorist attacks on the 11th of September 2001. |
| 0:17.0 | I am a situation with a man who learned the possible hijack. |
| 0:20.0 | A crisis that led to war in Iraq. This will not be a campaign of half measures and we will accept no outcome but victory. |
| 0:29.0 | The Iraq war still a test of loyalties. |
| 0:33.0 | Another candidate voted for the war in Iraq. |
| 0:38.0 | But also a lesson in the ways the institutions that are meant to bind our society together can fail. We think of today |
| 0:45.0 | as an age of misinformation and lies. I think the media is among the most dishonest |
| 0:51.1 | groups of people I've ever known. |
| 0:53.4 | It's terrible. |
| 0:54.4 | But was a seat of distrust's own 17 years ago |
| 0:58.2 | that's taken root and spread. |
| 1:00.5 | Distrust in the political class that drove the war. |
| 1:03.0 | His regime aids and protects terrorists. |
| 1:07.0 | In those parts of the media that weren't asking enough questions in the run-up to it, |
| 1:12.0 | or the intelligence services that got it so wrong. |
| 1:15.0 | How difficult would it be if actually we don't find weapons and mass destruction? |
| 1:20.0 | And I said that would be I may have sworn difficult. |
| 1:30.0 | Over eight episodes I'm going to tell the story of how we got to war in Iraq. |
| 1:35.0 | It's a story of secret meetings behind closed doors. |
| 1:39.0 | The two of them were going off together to the Crawford Ranch with no advisors, and off they went into the sunset. |
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