S1 Episode 10 - "The Iraq War Did Not Take Place"
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🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On Monday, George W. Bush will campaign in South Carolina for his brother. |
| 0:04.1 | As you said tonight and you've often said, the Iraq war and your opposition to it was a sign of your good judgment. |
| 0:09.7 | Do you still believe President Bush should be impeached? Should have been impeached? |
| 0:12.3 | First, we'll have to say, as a businessman, I get along with everybody. I have business all over the world. |
| 0:19.7 | I get along with everybody, which is my obligation to my company, to myself, etc. |
| 0:24.4 | Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake, all right? |
| 0:29.9 | Now, you can take it anywhere you want. And it took, it took Jeb Bush, if you remember, at the beginning of his announcement, when he announced the president, |
| 0:37.5 | took him five days, he went back. It was a mistake. It wasn't a mistake. |
| 0:41.5 | It took him five days before his people told him what to say. |
| 0:45.3 | And he ultimately said, it was a mistake. |
| 0:48.1 | The war in Iraq, we spent two trillion dollars, thousands of lives. |
| 0:51.9 | We don't even have it. Iran is taking over Iraq with the second largest oil reserves in the world. |
| 0:57.4 | Obviously, it was a mistake. So, George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. |
| 1:02.5 | But that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East. |
| 1:07.9 | So you still think he should be impeached? |
| 1:11.1 | I think it's my turn. You do whatever you want. You call it whatever you want. I want to tell you, they lied. |
| 1:16.1 | They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none. And they knew there were none. |
| 1:21.0 | There were no weapons of mass. |
| 1:23.0 | Okay. |
| 1:27.3 | Welcome to Blowback, a final episode. I'm Brendan James. |
| 1:50.9 | And I'm Noah Colwyn. And this is episode 10, Iraq, Nephobia. |
| 1:54.7 | So if you've hung in there with us through 10 episodes, we appreciate you and we love you. |
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