of course not. it didn t happen, but yet these guys for some reason and paul wolf wits, who we saw in the clip, foremost among them, kept saying before 9/11, al qaeda s not the problem. it s really iraq, it s saddam hussein. and he s the one, if there is an al qaeda problem you know when he first said that, sitting in the meeting room, camp david, right after the attack. he started pushing iraq right away. in the first weeks of the bush administration, they were saying al qaeda you pointed out to me just a minute ago that paul wolf wits is working for the mild-mannered jeb bush. more fear mongering today from ted cruz saying the deal could lead to tens of millions of americans dead. when did he just arrive? he was back in the last war that killed so many people. let s watch. if iran gets a nuclear weapon, the single greatest risk they would take that nuclear
that, sitting in the meeting room, camp david, right after the attack. he started pushing iraq right away. in the first weeks of the bush administration, they were saying al qaeda you pointed out to me just a minute ago that paul wolf wits is working for the mild-mannered jeb bush. more fear mongering today from ted cruz saying the deal could lead to tens of millions of americans dead. when did he just arrive? he was back in the last war that killed so many people. let s watch. if iran gets a nuclear weapon, the single greatest risk they would take that nuclear weapon, they would put it on a ship anywhere in the atlantic and they would fire it up straight into the air, into the atmosphere. they would set off what s called an emp, an electromagnetic pulse, taking down the electrical grid on the entire eastern seaboard and kill tens of millions of americans. we can stop that.
more than iran. by lopping off the sunni secular regime and handing the country over the shi ites whose neighbor and bestest friend is iran. so we have a great country fighting our war for us between us and iran. it s called iraq. it s sunni-led, bathist, it s not religious, it s just a good secular dictatorship that is willing to fight iran for you. so let s get rid of that, so there s an open run, and they can come racing toward us and of course there was no connection between iran and al qaeda. of course not. it didn t happen, but yet these guys for some reason and paul wolf wits, who we saw in the clip, foremost among them, kept saying before 9/11, al qaeda s not the problem. it s really iraq, it s saddam hussein. and he s the one, if there is an al qaeda problem you know when he first said
we get first dibs? we got nothing of the kind. let s start with the lives. 190,000 dead people. if you remember famously general eric shinseki said we would need more troops to do this and he was dismissed. remember, paul wolf wits did actually make the claim that iraqi oil revenues would be able to pay for this conflict. and not only would the selling the war point and the costs of the war, you know, in your last segment you made this great point about the media. it s even you can go even further than that. the media was complicit. the media took an active role in selling this war. they met with wolfowitz. there was one famous meeting where you had these top columnists and pundits meeting with wolfowitz trying to figure out the best way to sell this thing. it s not a shock the facts we were getting weren t accurate either. what do you mean by the media? do you mean opinion columnists on the right or mainstream reporters. mainstream reporters to opinion columnists. there s a fa
disheartening. who needs to be held accountable? i think the architects of the war. addiction cheney, paul wolf wits, none of those gentlemen served in their generations in vietnam. but they were really quick to send my generation into a religious civil war that had nothing to do with 9/11 and had no weapons of mass destruction. i want to bring you into this. their families, when they hear about today s news, but yet this other side where it is almost untalked about in the beltway. why have most forgotten? i think there s a tendency for people to avoid the subject. it then raises the question, if it was a police take to go into iraq and i believe that it was, in retrospect given the absence of weapons of mass destruction, then it begets the question, did those 4,500 or so die in vain?