Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Vice President Joe Biden.

So thank you both President Bush and Mrs. Bush for your ongoing commitment to honor and

support the brave men and women who serve the United States military, who is without

fear of contradiction. The finest fighting force in the history of the world. That is not

hyperbolic. The finest president.

I'm just a president. I'm very serious notice. My honor to present you both with the National

Co-Assistions solar 2016 Liberty Medal. We both deserve it.

Welcome to Blowback. I'm Brendan James.

I'm Noah Colwin. And this is our final bonus episode. We have gotten interview with author

activist, public intellectual Naomi Klein. And it was a really great conversation. We talked

with Naomi about the different modes of exploitation and plunder that took place during the Iraq

war. Talked about Naomi's own experiences sort of coming up in the Bush years as a writer

and a left wing thinker. Obviously for those familiar with her book, The Shocked Octrine,

much of her analysis in that book is based on the American invasion and occupation of Iraq.

And finally we discussed the rehabilitation of the Bush administration. Why that might

be going on right now. What's the deal with that? So it was a really good chat and let's

let her rip. Naomi, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Happy to be with you. So to kick things off, I guess I'd first ask, you were one of the

most popular and visible left wing intellectuals during the Bush era. What was it like coming

up in that Iraq war decade that this world that the Bush administration was creating

or perhaps destroying? Was it a similar apocalyptic flavor to our current moment?

I think it was pretty different in lots of ways. I kind of cut my teeth as a journalist

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