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Between Iraq and a Hard Place

submitted by Deano

1 decade 6 years 10 months 4 weeks ago

Duration 49 minutes 22 seconds.

A very interesting episode of Bremner, Bird and Fortune from 2003 examining the history of Iraq from it's creation to the present day shenanigans.

5 Comments

amazingly well done

Structure says...

I like how it quickly and clearly states each point. And each point mentioned is an extremely important one. Iraq was a bunch of tribes squished together and bombed heavily by the British empire and even dictators assigned to it barely held it together. Saddam was given weapons by the US even though he was a brutal dictator killing his own people already. The major Bush administration members are heavily linked with oil and various financial crimes like Enron.

Tags changed from "satire, iraq, history,bush,condie" to "satire, iraq, history, bush, condi" by gold star member calvados.

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Adding video to channels (Waronterror) - requested by raven.

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