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on yesterday we played this clip yesterday but i wanna play it again
today because
um the because the context either yesterday or today depending on which
time zone you're looking at
George W Bush start a bomb in Iraq
without the UN's permission
over the objection have many countries around the world
he began bombing Iraq and killing
Iraqi civilians Bab silly innocent people and
and started a war that to this day I mean right now
as we speak violence in Iraq
is is continuing car bombings
suicide bombings muggings murders
revenge killings *** is at an all-time high
on its it's basically turn into a lawless country and to the extent that
there is a government the government has been taken over by Sunnis
excuse me by Shias who are favorable to Iran
the first business to really formally open business in
in Iraq was the the bank if Tehran
in downtown baghdad and so it's basically an
you know it's it's an oil state a Petro state just exactly what *** cheney and
George W Bush envisioned
in fact in in the spring of 2001
long before 9/11 *** Cheney had been given to jobs as vice president one was
to run the
the to counter terrorism taskforce which didn't bother to meet until September
2001
and the second was to run the the
the energy Task Force which was meeting in March
and February March April May and June a 2001
in secret nobody but oil executives and fossil fuel executives were invited
the public was not invited legislators were not invited
environmentalists were not invited and they were literally and Larry claiming
to a judicial Watch
you know doug this stuff out and published it you know the Freedom of
Information Act
literally in march in April of 2001
six months before 9/11 *** Cheney was carving
up the oilfields Iraq including lol feels that had
not yet been drilled and deciding which countries
in which companies they're gonna sell that oil to
ants
I A you know this this is
this was this was the the big the the beginning in and
Paul O'Neill was Paul O'Neill was it that was
rant about yesterday was on the cabin is this is secretary of the Treasury in the
bush administration
public he was fired by george bush in his second year on the job any
published a book in which he said the very first cabinet meeting he went to
very first cabinet meeting in January of 2001
a week after the president was sworn in the first thing they put on the table
was how do we invade Iraq and take down saddam hussein
even though he represented no threat to the United States
he had nothing to do with al Qaeda at that time
you know with this was even be this is long before 9/11 I do we take this guy
out
and get his oil Paul O'Neill wrote a the
repeated it in his book so
today is the anniversary of that though it would be the 11th anniversary I guess
2014 that was 2003 March
was the day the twenty at the March 19th and 20th
the 13th anniversary or the 11th anniversary the invasion and upper rack
the illegal invasion of Iraq based on lies
by the United States and here's where George Galloway member the British
Parliament the time representing
part of Scotland as I recall
%uh not only said on this program he came on our program a number of times
but here's what he said speaking before United States House represented as its
congress and I told the world
that your case for the war was up pack
have lives I told the world that iraq
contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction
I told the world contrary to your claims
that Iraq had no connection to al Qaeda
I told the world contrary to your claims
that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11
2001 I told the world contrary to your claims
that the iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion
of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of
the end
but merely the end up the beginning senator
in everything I said about iraq
I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong
and a hundred thousand people have paid with their lives
1600 have them american soldiers sent to their deaths
on a pack %uh lives fifteen thousand of them wounded
many of them disabled for Eva on a pack
love lives if the world had listened to coffee on on
whose dismissal you demand it if the world had listened
to president chirac who you want to paint a some kind of corrupt
traitor if the world had listened to me
and the anti-war movement in Britain we would not be
in the disaster that we are in today
and so you know that said better really raises a question the first are we
ask you know what a how should we react to the passage today a Fred Phelps we
had Fred Sun
Nate on talking about that I in this hour I'd like to ask how should we react
to the 11th anniversary of george bush declaring an illegal war
an illegal war a paraphilia wars really I believe Afghanistan was an illegal war
to
that have led to the death I've almost 6,000 I believe
US soldiers in more than that include contractors
and and displaced at least 5 million
Iraqis and Afghans and killed hundreds of thousands of them
and in that context
I was very heartened to see the president United States
President Barack Obama today say I no we're not going to use
any kind of military option with regard to
crimea ukraine take the last thing the United States needs is another
ward in a place where we have no business and no
and and
we've said no to war in Syria we said no to war in Iraq I think these are
good think tunnel near panzer free Keene
out you're listening to but Tom Hartman program
call 866 987 thon
but what kinda response to the illegal invasion of Iraq
eleven years ago today could we be doing that might highlight
our Anna its level