Daniel's dad by the way was on team B and Daniel pipes is the had it was the time was the head of the Middle East

He was at the top. He's so the head of the Richard pipes was his dad, right?

Yes, okay, I'm gonna make sure I got that right Richard laying pipe

That's why he got the job. Yeah

They were like I don't agree with his methods, but his pipe game is five stars

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Welcome to Blowback I'm Noah Cohen I'm Brendan James

Today's episode is about the media. We've titled it dead links

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What are we up today? So for the rack war to have gone down the way it did a

Lot of things in a very specific order and specific timing needed to happen

The Bush administration needed to raise suspicion that Osama bin Laden was in kuhuts with Saddam Hussein

The Bush administration also had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein had WMD's and he planned to use them

The Bush people needed to get Congress on board and Colin Powell had to go to the UN to at least pretend that the US cared

What other countries thought and to sell all that the White House needed some help from the media and

Boy did they get it for today's episode?

We're actually gonna chop it up and do a couple different parts for the first bit

Brandon and I are gonna be walking you through some of the reporting that was used to support the case for

Invading Iraq and then in the next part we're going to bring in special guest Will Maniker

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