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Lying Us Into War
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report, How We Can Stop the Coming War with Russia. | |
| 20 years ago this spring, the U.S. government was finally successful in lying us into war with Iraq. | |
| Administration after administration had sanctioned and bombed and even invaded the country. | |
| But finally, 20 years ago next month, the Bush administration unleashed shock and awe to flatten a 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 WMDs by proclaiming that the war promoters were heroes in error. | |
| They got the regime changed, 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 Kucinich 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. | |
| Suddenly, as we face the once unimaginable prospect of a direct military conflict with nuclear-armed Russia over Ukraine, as well as my good friend and fellow libertarian Judge Andrew Lapolitano and so many more speakers from a broad political spectrum. | |
| Many of us have watched with alarm as the Biden administration, with the enthusiastic backing of many congressional Republicans, has continuously escalated involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and now sits dangerously close to a direct hot war with the largest nuclear superpower on earth. | |
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Join Us Still Matter
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| How did we get here? | |
| Where are the same voices and cooler heads? | |
| Just when it seemed they were nowhere to be found, here we are. | |
| I hope as many people as possible will join us and continue to come together for this important cause. | |
| We must join together while we still can. | |