Iraq: Fifteen-Year Criminal War of Aggression

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, Ralph talks about the true costs of war with executive director of Veterans for Peace, Michael McPhearson and un-embedded war correspondent, Dahr Jamail, eyewitness to the battle of Fallujah.

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0:00.0	From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,
0:03.6	it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.7	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.8	You've been sitting ready to jump.
0:10.3	Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is David Feldman. Steve Scrovan has the
0:18.1	week off. He's in Arizona watching spring training for his beloved Cleveland Indians, but the man of the hour is here.
0:26.0	Yankee fan Ralph Nader.
0:28.0	Hello, Ralph.
0:30.0	You're a Yankee fan.
0:32.0	I always find that surprising. I would think you would root for the underdog.
0:36.0	That was when Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio were supreme many, many years ago,
0:42.0	before the George Steinbrenner era.
0:45.0	15 years ago on March 19, 2003, President George W Bush made this announcement from the Oval Office.
0:54.0	My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military
1:00.5	operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from
1:06.0	grave danger.
1:08.6	Then in October of 2011, President Barack Obama said this.
1:13.0	Today I can report that as promise the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.
1:22.0	After nearly nine years,
1:24.7	America's war in Iraq will be over.
1:28.4	Six years after that, Trump made this announcement.
1:32.3	They were doing very well in Iraq.
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