credibility of the United States on intelligence is really low right now.

If that intelligence is going to cause US forces to die and bleed in combat,

the US to deploy military force, I'm going to be very skeptical of that intelligence.

Very skeptical.

Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Maddie Hussin. It's a Middle Eastern country with lots of oil,

the first three letters are IR and A and America wants to bomb it.

In 2003, it was Iraq. Today, it's Iran. The parallels are beyond eerie.

John Bolton and Mike Pompeo look a lot like the characters from the Bush administration,

with Pompeo being the sick of it and Bolton being the leader.

That's my guest today, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to colon

Powell in the run up to the Iraq invasion in 2003 and subsequently became a very vocal critic

of that conflict and of the George W. Bush administration. So on today's show, we'll discuss

how close are we to a catastrophic conflict with Iran and what lessons can we all learn?

Politicians, the media, the public from the 2003 Iraq War debacle.

Is the Iranian government behind a series of recent attacks on a number of tankers in the Gulf?

Most recently on a pair of Norwegian and Japanese tankers carrying petrochemicals.

And if it turns out that Iranians are responsible, is that a cuss' bell I for a new war in the

Middle East between the United States and the Islamic Republic? The US government has released a

video supposedly showing Iranian Revolutionary Guards on a patrol boat trying to covertly remove

an undeternated mine from the hull of one of the two tankers. And President Trump,

speaking on state television's Fox and Friends the other morning, said there was no doubt in his

mess of a mind as to who was to blame. Well, Iran did do it and you know they did it because you

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