Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the weekly report. How we can stop the coming war with Russia?

20 years ago this spring the US government was finally successful in lying us into war with Iraq.

Administration after administration had sanctioned and bombed that even invaded the country.

But finally 20 years ago next month the Bush administration unleashed

shock and awe to flatten the country that did not and could not threaten the United States.

After eight years of battle in Iraq perhaps as many as a million innocent people died.

Either directly or indirectly from Washington's aggression. No one was brought before

a tribunal over the lies and destruction. No one even apologized. Washington's puppet of the day

Ahmed Shalabi brushed off the lies about Iraq's WMBs by proclaiming that the war promoters were heroes in

error. They got the regime change and that is all they cared about. The propaganda machine pushing

the Iraq war seemed overwhelming at the time. At that time several fellow members of Congress began

to open communications across party lines to look for ways to stop the war. From conservatives like

the late Walter Jones and John Duncan to progressives like representative Dennis Kassinich and Jim

McGovern and so many more we began to organize and strategize. One tool we used to our advantage

was the idea of an improbable coalition of the left and right uniting to oppose the war.

The media may not have been interested in our anti-war views but they could not help themselves

when presented with this man bites dog story. Time and again this unlikely group held press conferences

introduced various legislative tools and communicated behind the scenes to try and grow the movement

against the Iraq war. Unfortunately with the 2008 election of Barack Obama who ran as an anti-war

candidate but then launched numerous military attacks abroad that old coalition fell apart.

Some progressives excused Obama's militarism and lost interest in cooperating with conservatives.

Some conservatives were driven by their personal dislike of Obama and lost sight of the target.

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