Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- We Should Listen To The Iraqi Parliament
Aired: 2018-03-05
Duration: 03:56


=== U.S. Media's Role in Iraq War Propaganda (03:10) ===

[00:00:05]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.
[00:00:09]  We should listen to the Iraqi parliament.
[00:00:13]  This month marks the 15th anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq.
[00:00:18]  The shock and awe attack was launched based on stovepiped intelligence fed from the CIA and Pentagon through an uncritical and compliant U.S. mainstream media.
[00:00:30]  The U.S. media was a willing accomplice to this crime of aggression committed by the George W. Bush administration.
[00:00:38]  Despite the lies we were constantly bombarded with, Iraq never presented a threat to the United States.
[00:00:44]  Iraq never had the weapons of mass destruction that the neocons used to frighten Americans into supporting the war.
[00:00:54]  How many of them knew all along that there were no WMDs?
[00:00:59]  We'll never know.
[00:01:00]  Attacking Iraq and overthrowing its leader was long a plan in the neocon playbook, and they used the 9-11 attack on the U.S. as an excuse to pull the plan off the shelf and put it into action.
[00:01:14]  The U.S. regime change war on Iraq has directly resulted in the death of at least a quarter of a million civilians, and indirectly perhaps a million Iraqis have been killed.
[00:01:24]  The Iraqi infrastructure was destroyed and the country was set back many decades in development.
[00:01:31]  Far from the democratization we were promised, Iraq has been turned into a hell on earth.
[00:01:37]  Due to the U.S. use of depleted uranium and other chemical weapons like white phosphorus, Iraq will continue to suffer from the birth defects and other related illnesses for generations.
[00:01:51]  How did we get there?
[00:01:53]  War propaganda was essential in paving the way for the Iraq war.
[00:01:58]  Americans are generally skeptical about launching new wars, so it takes a steady media bombardment about the alleged depravities of any targeted regime before public opinion begins to shift in favor of war.
[00:02:13]  Because the neocons who helped launch the war have never had to face the consequences of their actions, they continue to promote war with impunity.
[00:02:23]  Just this past week, Senator Landsey Graham, Republican South Carolina, was pushing for a U.S. attack on North Korea in which millions may be killed.
[00:02:34]  He said this weekend, all the damage that would come from a war would be worth it in terms of long-term stability and national security.
[00:02:43]  That's just what they said before the U.S. attacked Iraq.
[00:02:47]  And how did that turn out?
[00:02:49]  I find it disgusting that the media continues to give airtime almost exclusively to those who promote more U.S. disasters like Iraq.
[00:02:59]  The Iraqi parliament did something extraordinary last week.
[00:03:02]  A majority of elected Iraqi representatives voted to demand that their prime minister draw up a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country.

=== U.S. Disasters In Iraq (00:40) ===

[00:03:15]  President Obama had withdrawn U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 after a status of forces agreement could not be reached with the Iraqi government.
[00:03:25]  But he returned the U.S. military to Iraq under the auspices of fighting ISIS.
[00:03:32]  We had no business going into Iraq in the first place, and we have no business remaining in Iraq.
[00:03:38]  Al-Qaeda and ISIS emerged in Iraq because our attack and occupation of the country 15 years ago created fertile fields for extremism.
[00:03:49]  Nothing will be achieved if we remain.
[00:03:52]  Let's listen to the Iraqis and just come home.