This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings by friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers

and peace freedom in the American way.

Well Donald Trump started it, Joe Biden is finishing it, both screwed it up.

We just had to say that, the Biden administration did not see this moment coming, is a huge testimonial

to the bizarre naval gazing that's been going on inside the Pentagon and the State Department

apparently for the last year and a half.

Where this really all began, writing about this today over at Harbin Report with the

headline, when will we stop letting our presidents lie us into wars?

Let's start at the beginning actually, it began right after 9-11.

The Taliban actually reached out to Bush and said, we will give you bin Laden, we won't

give him to you, we'll give him to a third country.

If you'll give us any evidence that bin Laden had something to do with 9-11.

Bush said, screw you, I want to bomb this country.

Afghanistan at that point in time was the second poorest country in the world.

They had no functioning air force, their army was a joke.

It would have been easy to take down, which is what Bush did.

He went ahead and took them down.

He was in big trouble at that point in time.

He was viewed as an illegitimate president.

His father's guy in the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, had been the deciding vote to make

him president in the 2000 election.

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