Iraq and Libya Imploding - Another 'Successful' US Intervention!
First Afghanistan imploded and now it appears Iraq and Libya are about to follow suit. Syria simmers. The fruits of US interventionism are everywhere the same: chaos and death, not the promised "triumph of peace and democracy." Also today: Facebook exec admits FBI pushed the company to censor "the laptop from hell."
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Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel Wick Adams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing fine.
Good.
Ready to go?
Yes, lots happening today.
Yes.
Usually we have a slow Monday, but it's not slow.
And, you know, I thought maybe things were calming down.
Nobody blew up the world yet.
So, but there's still a few hot spots.
And you know what?
It almost looks like there's new ones.
One settles down a little bit, another one pops up.
But I don't think that's the case.
I think there are hot spots that are smoldering, and all of a sudden somebody throws a few more logs on and stimulates it.
Because, look, I think we've been involved when we blamed everything on 9-11 on Iraq.
Of course, a few people in Afghanistan.
They had a little trouble figuring out what was going on.
But that was World's War going on 20 years.
And yet there's still trouble there.
I think that's where we built the biggest embassy ever.
And there's probably thousands of people in there.
But it looks like chaos has come back there.
And there's religious chaos there.
Sardr is involved in it.
He has a lot of followers in there.
And sorting all that out, it's going to be religious and political power or United States interests.
We have to protect our interests.
We just can't turn it over to the Iraqis.
We have to concede that we do have interests there.
So this looks like it sort of just in the last day or two just sort of exploded.
And a palace chaos, too, and Capitol buildings.
Yeah, yeah.
I guess we'll be keeping an eye on Iraq along with the other spots going on.
And we'll even mention a couple other spots before the program's over.
Well, we don't often do breaking news here because we're not really equipped to deal with breaking news, but it is.
In fact, it's just this last hour or so that we've noticed a lot happening.
And let's start with that substitute first picture.
Now, this is not an image that Washington, D.C. would like you to see.
Reports of U.S. Embassy being evacuated as Baghdad's green zone is breached.
This is from Zero Head.
There you have the proverbial helicopter on top of a building that we all remember from the fall of Saigon.
Now, it can be confirmed that this is accurate, that this is actually a U.S. government helicopter on the top of the U.S. Embassy.
Nevertheless, there have been helicopters evacuating people.
We saw a motorcade at high speed that they said was either U.N. or U.S. personnel out of the green zone.
Let's do the next clip.
This is just a regular first clip.
This is from Hedge what we watched this morning.
Go back one, please.
You can just do that first one.
Reports of U.S. Embassy being evacuated as Baghdad's green zone breached.
That goes along with this.
Well, here's how it started, and this does remind you of what happened in Sri Lanka and elsewhere, Dr. Paul.
If we do this next one.
So the supporters of Al-Sadr have broken into the presidential palace.
They took a swim in the presidential pool, and they are having a good time, but there's not a lot of other good time because if you look at the next one, NBC News, the chaos is increasing.
Iraq orders curfew as followers of Shia cleric Storm Palace after he retires.
So a little bit of background, because we don't really want to get into the weeds too thickly, is that Sardr's political party, the political party oriented with him, did win the last parliamentary elections.
However, they haven't been able to form a majority.
Sauter kept arguing for new elections, for new elections, and this has been months that they've been absolutely politically stalemated.
Somehow, the tinderbox has exploded now as we speak.
Literally, nobody knows what happens.
I've seen video of the Otter Brigades now arming up and going into the green zone.
This is Sauter's personal army after he resigned from politics in protest this morning over this.
So, this is a breaking thing, but we can say one thing definitively: is that after 20 years in Iraq, as you said before we started, just after 20 years in Afghanistan, the interventions have not worked.
Yes, and you know, this is something that people have a hard time understanding how bad this is.
We start off by talking about concentrating on Iraq, because there's something special going on.
But in a way, it has to be seen in the bigger picture, too, because it's a reflection of the policy, the foreign policy.
And I don't think we can say that this is the Biden foreign policy caused all these troubles.
No.
Because it's much bigger than that, and it's pervasive, and it has a lot of people behind the scenes, like the deep state and the profiteers.
It's all involved.
And so, and we're scattered around the world.
And I think probably the most significant thing coming from this is a reflection of maybe a crack, a major crack in the empire, our foreign policy, our prestige around the world, and how long, you know, the fake dollars that we can convince the people you need.
If you don't need them, we're going to cancel you.
All of a sudden, that is up for grabs, too.
People talking about other currencies.
So, in the big picture, this is another step, but once again, it's one that, you know, in the last week we didn't read too many predictions.
I think, in general, our viewpoint can predict problems to come.
It's sort of like in economics, we can predict that when you spend too much money in print money, there has to be a correction.
Well, this is the correction in foreign policy.
You have a foreign policy driven by fake news and for accumulating wealth and spending and raising money for the military-industrial conflict, expect a correction.
And sometimes it takes a long time.
It's been smoldering over there now for more than 20 years.
And that to me, if there's such a thing, but there's bubbles in economics.
The longer you inflate, the worse the correction.
The longer we inflate our military presence around the world, the bigger the problem will be when there is a demand for a correction.
And I don't think it looks like we're strong.
But you know what?
The hawks in this country would say, Ron, you're right, you're right.
But what is their answer?
You know, build up, more, build up.
We've allowed ourselves to be defenseless.
And so they would agree.
I've just postulated.
Yeah, yeah.
They would agree that, yeah, we are in trouble and we are looking weak.
We are foreign policy.
That means, and you've heard them.
And Republicans and Democrats are saying we need a much tougher foreign policy.
See, that's such a great point that you make because this is exactly how it will go.
This, well, Biden lost Afghanistan, then Biden lost Iraq, then Biden lost Libya.
No, this is, as you say, a bipartisan foreign policy.
And that's such a great line.
A correction is coming.
And this is the correction that we're seeing.
And the correction is happening on the streets.
And here's a couple of video clips out of Iraq this morning that I didn't think that I would see, to be honest with you.
There's some short ones, but this shows the violence, live bullets in the street, live ammunition, fatalities, supposedly.
Let's have a listen to this.
How do we full screen that?
Yeah, let's do that next one, too.
And this is happening almost literally as we speak.
Let's go ahead and full screen that.
And this is basically in your face to the government.
They're taking over.
This is what a real insurgency looks like, right?
Not a guy with buffalo horns.
And by the way, that NBC news clip that I put on earlier, that photo, and I forgot to mention it, that's also iconic because those are people standing up on the wall of the green zone, that NBC News one, breaking down that wall.
Again, iconic images of walls being blown up, broken down, of helicopters evacuating U.S. Embassy personnel.
I mean, you say history repeats itself.
It appears that that's what's happening.
You know, we're going to go back a step.
We're talking about who gets the blame.
Biden is going to get the blame or the Republican get the blame.
But I think in many ways, all that blame back and forth by the establishment is just a lot of noise because basically they're all working together.
And everybody knows without saying it's all Trump's fault.
And we need to put him in prison and never let him run for office again because they're terrified of him.
That'll solve all our problems.
Yeah.
But you know, here's the thing.
This is why we wanted to lead with this because I was thinking earlier over the weekend watching the news that, well, Libya is blowing up.
We maybe should talk about that.
And let's put on this next clip because there have been violent clashes in Libya.
I think the prime minister in Tripoli has left, has evacuated.
If we can put up that next Al Jazeera, there we go.
32 killed in Libya's Tripoli as fears grow of a wider war.
There are different factions.
One is backed by the UN, one is backed by another group, and then the South.
There are other groups that are running things.
They're all clashing in Libya now, violence in the street.
In fact, if we can do those two more video clips just to get them out of the way, this would just give you a taste of what's now happening in Libya.
I mean, Dr. Paul, it may look like Chicago, but it's actually Libya, right?
But let's do that.
Let's do the next one too.
Let's do that next one, too, and just get them out of the way because this is what's happening here in Libya over the weekend.
I think there's another video.
Here we go.
Yeah, we can take that down.
This is the show.
Great for the bullet industry.
Yeah, for the bullet industry.
But, you know, the underlying, we can actually cut that off.
I think there's a sound is still on.
I think, you know, obviously the conclusion and our conclusion is this is U.S. interventionism laid bare.
Everything they claimed it would do all of these years, the war on terror, everything, we're going to democratize the Middle East.
We're going to make Libya a model democracy.
It's done nothing but promote death, chaos, misery, destruction.
Well, I have a solution for this, making use of good people who have had some experience with Libya, say.
Because I remember when, see, Eisenhower was president for eight years, and then that would be Kennedy, and Kennedy was having an international problem going on.
Maybe it was Cuba or whatnot.
And it was serious, but the president gets on the air.
And it was a reassurance type of thing.
And actually, I didn't find it offensive back then.
I wasn't looking in between lines.
But it was the fact that he had a little meeting today and explained the situation to former President Eisenhower and a general.
And he had been president.
And I thought, well, that sounds like a reasonable thing to do.
But do you think that's going to happen now?
Are they going to call up Hillary on Namibia?
And say, hey, Hillary, how do you handle this thing?
What are we going to do with the weapons?
I almost put that clip up with her saying, we came, we saw he died.
She was so thrilled.
Giggled.
Yeah, she thought it was so funny that Gaddafi, now, Gaddafi, for all of his faults, and I'm sure there were plenty like every leader around the world, but we didn't have this going on before we decided to democratize the country.
Just like with Saddam, yes, not the kind of guy you may want to live next door to you, right?
But nevertheless, you didn't have 20 years of misery and a million dead people.
So we're going to keep an eye on this, Dr. Paul, and see what happens.
The way things are going, you know, I mean, here's, I wrote myself a little note while we were before we started.
I mean, my prediction, I'm not a predictor, but I think when the smoke clears over after what's happening in Iraq this morning, we're going to see that Iran has come out on top.
And I don't like the zero-sum game of Iran wins or whatever, but Iran affiliated forces, as probably is natural to a degree, will come out on top unless the U.S. decides to start bombing Iraq again.
And if that happens, if Biden opens that can of worms, I can't imagine that happening, but then all bets are off.
The Republicans have made a lot of mistakes with Iran.
But also, Biden has made things much worse.
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He has driven the Russians and the Chinese together.
And they're our two arch enemies, you know.
We have to be prepared to fight both of them at once.
But Iran is still around there, and I guess we know who they'll align themselves with.
And that's a big, big deal there.
And yet we continue to do it.
And I just wonder what goes through their minds when they do these policies.
Not that I think Biden is lying awake at night wondering about it.
But his advisors, he has to have people telling him what the policies ought to be doing.
And then you say, why are they doing it?
And of course, there's all kinds of justification.
Answering the why is difficult, but because maybe it is a conspiracy on their part to set the stage because some of them may, they may even have Marxist secret Marxist feelings and beliefs that they want to see the chaos, and they're doing a pretty good job on that.
Yeah, or there's a little bit of that, I think, and a little bit of them just being dumb.
Or evil and dumb, maybe.
Well, that's what I call it.
Let's move away from foreign policy.
Well, in a way, away from foreign policy, because this next clip, our good friend Jonathan Turley, I think, did a good job summarizing this other news over the weekend.
Zuckerberg, who, of course, as we know, was a founder and CEO of Facebook.
Zuckerberg reveals that the FBI told his company to be wary of, quote, Russian disinformation.
And this is amazing because it was right at the time, Dr. Paul, that Hunter Biden's laptop, which we now know is true, is in fact accurately his laptop, was coming out.
The FBI gets in, you know, he went on Roger.
Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan's show over the weekend and revealed this.
Let's put on that next clip.
This is from Turley's article about it.
And I think, frankly, it's astonishing.
Zuckerberg stated on the Joe Rogan experience that, quote, the FBI, I think, basically came to us, some folks on our team, and was like, hey, just so you know, like you should be on high alert.
We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election.
We have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of a dump that's similar to that, so just be vigilant.
Just before the news of the laptop came out, the FBI comes and said something big is going to happen, but wink, wink, it's Russian disinformation.
And then there's little bits in there showing that Zuckerberg's coming across as a more reasonable person, you know, and negotiating all.
But, you know, when I was reading this little story, the thought that crossed my mind was that the Zucklebergers of the world and all the business people, and they work together, and we've talked about the special economic benefits from them.
But to me, it was like when the FBI comes, to me, it's almost, I thought, are they the spokesman for the mob?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, because you want protection.
And that's what our government has turned into.
And there hasn't been too many years ago, probably undeserved.
The FBI did, you know, there was a little bit more respect from them.
But I don't know how it could ever be very respectful if people know how Jay Hoover ran it.
He initiated it.
He created it.
And matter of fact, he'd be aghast at how far advanced it got on becoming the mob police.
You know, that's a great two points.
The first of all is the partnership between the social media and the government.
But the second of all, in a way, I mean, although, yes, Zuckerberg caved to this, and he did admit, yeah, we did.
We didn't nuke it like Twitter did, but we kind of used our algorithms to push it down so nobody saw it.
But at the same time, in his defense, you're sitting there, you've got your team, your company sitting there.
The FBI comes in and says, hey, there's some Russian propaganda that's about to be dropped.
Wink, wink, you don't want to let that go out.
So what is they going to hiss?
He's going to go up against the FBI with this company, like you said.
And they didn't even announce the problem.
They never talked about buying anything else.
But we have to look for something positive.
But more and more people are waking up to this.
And I think that is good.
But it tells you where we are with the FBI on the searching of Donald Trump's household, his home.
And that, to me, is really over the top.
And then they go through the legal process.
Oh, well, we can get to see that.
You know, some days I think, why should Trump pretend that they will treat him in a half, not a half decent, a 10% decent fashion?
Because that doesn't happen.
They just go and do whatever they want.
But he does, he goes through the process and the information and they argue what you can release and what you can't release and all those details.
And they say, it's like it's either our way and Trump is guilty and it's the end of the world.
If we don't find him guilty.
But then he wins on, we want to get this information out.
We want to read this.
Why did you do this?
What authority you have to search my house and go through my wife's clothing.
So what do they do?
They go in and they march in, they do what they have to do, and it's just horrible.
So he gets it, we get to see the papers.
We're going to find out exactly what they justified it.
And if there's anything more annoying to me, but they do a good job on some of the conservatives, they put, here they are, here are the papers.
And you can't find any type words.
Everything is struck out.
I wonder what percent has been redacted.
It looks to me like about 90% of it.
What a joke.
You would think just mocking them, as this is part of justice, after you've had FBI agents already confess to the dirty tricks that they play and how they get the search warrants.
And it is a strong breakdown of law and order back to the mob psychology.
Yeah, it's corruption, plain and simple.
The problem is the Republican reaction, I think a lot of it's going to be, well, just as soon as we get in power, we're going to use that for our own ends, you know, instead of we need to wipe out the power, throw the ring into the fire.
But you know, a lot of people will say, well, you know what, it's no biggie.
The FBI is just doing its job.
It's alerting some of these companies.
There might be somebody coming down.
Well, this next clip, and this is written by Paul Sperry for the Epoch Times.
This is why it's a big deal, Dr. Paul.
This came out over the weekend.
Eight in ten Americans think that Hunter Biden laptop cover-up changed the election outcome, poll finds.
So they did a poll.
They found 79% of Americans believe that hiding the truth about that laptop changed the elections by calling it Russian disinformation, as all those 20 or 30 former intelligence officials assured us, and they lied, they flat out lied.
But if they had known what it was, it could have changed the outcome.
So if you want to talk about election interference, about throwing elections, about cheating, about fake elections, this is the epitome of a fake election, and it falls right in the lap of the FBI and the deep state.
But the news is shifting.
If you just look at the news, the mainstream media, actually there's a sentiment out there, and I'm sure it introduces a sense of loss of confidence for the Republicans who thought, oh, this is a cakewalk, you know.
But the news is starting to show that even with all this stuff, but that poll actually revealed what really is going on.
But if that is true, which probably most of it is, if the Republicans can't use it, if they can't use, you know, the riots of the Black Lives Matter, you know, how much killing was going on, how many windows were broken, how many people were released.
Do you know that Dukakis lost a whole election over one criminal being left out early?
And I always thought, you know, maybe they made a mistake in granting leniency on this one person.
But the Republicans used that to the hilt, and that made all that made him soft on crime.
But what, I mean, people don't want to be soft on crime.
They're begging not to be soft on crime.
And yet, this poll showed, the Democratic poll showed, oh, the people are shifting.
They could never put up with Trump, anybody but Trump.
So, well, maybe Biden has a brother.
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Maybe he has a son that could run.
That'd be great.
It would be great.
Banana Republic City.
Well, McConnell, the sentiment minority leader, hates Trump more than he loves winning the Senate.
I think that's going to be a problem.
Maybe he's ready to retire.
Well, let's hope so.
The next story is a little one that we want to point out.
And our friends over at the Libertarian Institute wrote this, and this is via Zero Hedge.
But this is about our trade with Russia since the invasion.
America has imported over $6 billion in goods from Russia since the Ukraine invasion, Dr. Paul.
$6 billion imported from Russia.
You know, that involves some oil, which is ironic.
But it's a lot of other products that we bought from them.
You know, see, trade is good, even in the midst of chaos when we're trying to figure out how we're going to bomb them.
But the trade is good.
But people don't, maybe they do recall that the statistic a month ago was how much profit the Russians made just in selling oil, not to Americans, but around the world.
So they've compensated rather well on getting their oil out.
Who knows how the best way?
Probably through China.
Maybe the Iranians would like to help them out.
Maybe the Indians wouldn't help them out.
But anyway, the oil has gotten out, and they've made a lot of profits on selling of oil in the midst of all this.
Yeah, it is amazing.
And you were kind of joking before the show when we were talking in your office that, you know, the Russians must really have a top-notch spy in the U.S. government because everything that they do is just kind of going their way.
We put on sanctions.
They start making more money.
And, you know, the Europeans are in a heck of a bind.
I mean, they are in panic mode because they thought they could go green overnight and stick it to the Russians.
And now they're desperately, they're actually meeting in the Czech Republic, I think, in a little bit to talk about what are we going to do this winter because we don't have any gas.
So their idea is they're going to give subsidies to people to pay for their higher energy bills, which is also hilarious because those subsidies are going to go directly to Putin, right, to pay the higher prices.
They say traditionally, and this is probably true, that Germany and Russia have always been at odds.
And after the Cold War ended, they had pipelines being built and they were getting along a little bit better.
But some people want to put that knife in there again, and it has this to do with the big pipeline.
So what the Europeans are starting to wake up is what they're doing is stupid, too.
I mean, why should they listen to our foreign policy experts?
And we claim it's all for national security, our national security.
And then why are we doing so poorly then?
You know, if it's for our national security, and yet they do this, and I think people would like to see or try to prevent.
And of course, when they interfere with the pipeline, that means the Europeans aren't going to be as dependent.
But I think what they're saying is, why are we doing this?
Did you see the picture the other day?
I think it was in Poland, that people were lined up by the thousand to get a bucket of coal to help keep warm in a way.
And this is modern day advancement, you know.
And it's all preventable.
It's hard to treat once you get the cancer and it's spread.
But it's so easy to prevent, and it's prevented by just a different attitude in foreign policy and economic policy where the masses of people, the majority, do better.
You know, there's a lot more prosperity and certainly a lot more peace, and yet we still do that.
And then they say, oh, we can't go back to free markets.
That's a big job.
Yeah, well, it's a lot better than pursuing what we're doing.
You know, that's what's worth.
But the most important message that we never seem to learn is how do you prevent it?
You know, how do we do it?
Like Vietnam was supposed to teach us a lesson.
Oh, the useless killing and the money and all that's going on.
But we better take a different attitude.
We did for about six months.
And then we knew that even that six months, they were just planning their next strategy.
Yeah, we mentioned it.
We didn't talk about it today, but we mentioned it before the show.
I mean, maybe when the smoke clears on this one, it's going to turn it.
Maybe in 50 years, it'll turn out that this whole Russia-Ukraine war was basically just a U.S. covert op to prevent the Nord Stream 2 from opening.
Remember, we were on the verge of that opening, and the last thing the U.S. wants is to see Germany and Russia get along, because that means the U.S. is irrelevant in Europe.
Can't do that.
That might cause us to close some bases.
So I wouldn't be surprised.
It'd be the conspiracy theory of all conspiracy theories.
But we undermine NATO.
Do you want to undermine NATO?
No, only bad people do that.
You might be censored.
That's right.
Well, I'm going to close.
Excuse me, my Monday reminder.
We are in the home stretch.
Put up the last clip, the last paper, picture, please.
Anatomy of a police state.
Everything is set in stone.
We are printing the programs today.
It's going to be a great event.
I think we have nine speakers, Dr. Paul.
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I'll be here with you, but then I'm going to be on the road driving to D.C. Keep your cell phone on.
I might have a question for you.
We'll do, Roger.
Well, you know, we have America's imported $6 billion from Russia under these conditions.
How much I wonder how, I wonder if under those same years we're not antagonistic quite as much as with Russia right now.
But boy, there's a lot of people who just have to stomp on China and interrupt the trade.
The saving grace is trade.
That was the whole principle.
Some people say, well, some people benefit at the expense of others, which is a bunch of malarkey.
It was a false economic premise.
That both sides, both countries, both people, everybody benefits, not just the person who sold something.
So they said that, well, you can't do that, but that is exactly what we need to trade.
Even in the midst of this, well, you know, I see all our time.
I'll tell a real short story.
When I was in the military, we were traveling as a flight surgeon, and I was in Pakistan, and we went up to the Khyber Pass.
Afghanistan was across the border, and the Afghans were not on our side.
Not at that time.
Later on, we were on their side when the Russians were in there.
But anyway, we went up to that.
It was a border, and the Khyber Pass is, you know, a lot of history in there.
And I learned a lot on that trip just looking at that.
But the whole thing is, is the reason we drove up there, because we were at Peshawar, and it was an hour drive of an old rickety truck.
But the locals were taking us, and all the military people who knew the inside track.
So we piled in that truck and we drove up these mountain trails and had a lot of talk about British history and all.
So we get up there, and then they say, well, we're going shopping.
And this is just a mountainous region.
I said, where are you going shopping?
And they said, oh, there's a cave up here.
And it's a cave that ties east with west.
The Russians over there, the Americans over here.
And they all go into the cave.
And it's like a big store.
And the Russians wanted something.
American Americans wanted some of that.
So there was all this trade and activity.
And this was under this mountain.
And all I could think about, you know, above us, they're shooting at each other.
The insanity of it.
The trade goes on, you know, and it does serve a purpose.
But I wish they would do more trading and be more honest about it to prevent the stupid wars that we get involved in.
So much for a story.
Great story.
Fantastic story.
Well, we're all done at that time.
All right, very good.
I want to thank our viewers for tuning in today.
And hopefully we see a lot of you at the conference.
But it will be a good time to talk about the police state.
And just to make sure you know where we're coming from.
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We do not like the police state.
And the police state is a result of all these bad things that we allow our government to do, and then they become a policeman.
And unfortunately, a lot of people think, oh, they're the police, they're the government, and they'll take care of us, and they'll protect us.
That's not true.
So we're not going to be defending the police state in any way whatsoever.
So please come to our conference if you can.
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