Taking Cover: The Gulf School

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Tom and Graham meet Shihab's brother in Baghdad — but he's wary. They also visit Fallujah, to find the schoolhouse and talk with people who were on the other side of the occupation. Then, finally... back to Camp Pendleton.

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0:00.0	And note before we start, this program deals with war.
0:03.8	You'll hear descriptions of violence and strong language.
0:08.7	Previously on Taking Cover.
0:10.7	There's several cultures of political culture,
0:13.7	the military culture of covering up, of lying,
0:17.6	of being afraid to admit to a mistake.
0:20.5	Having just returned from Iraq last week
0:22.6	and visited the areas of Amozal,
0:25.6	Belad, Tecrete, Ramadi, Fallusion, Baghdad,
0:29.2	I can report that there are many more good things going on
0:31.8	in that country to restore freedom
0:33.2	and provide a modicum of democracy to the Iraqi people.
0:38.4	And then the two that were killed.
0:40.7	The three killed.
0:42.0	There were two.
0:43.0	I was told to do.
0:44.0	Two were killed.
0:45.0	There was an army integrity.
0:46.5	That's new news to me.
0:49.0	My hope has always been
0:51.0	to see if I could find his family
0:53.6	and maybe to get to Baghdad.
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