Those non-violent protests shook them so bad they wanted to charge non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism.

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    I was just recently informed of a podcast called “blowback” the other day on Lemmy and their first season actually goes into Iraq and the lead up to it. It’s a very good podcast for anyone interested in the topic of American intervention in other countries. Very well produced for the subject matter.

    Long story short there was nothing that was going to stop us from going after Iraq. “We” wanted that for a long time and it’s not just a simple “cuz oil” thing.

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      Listened to the first season a while back, I genuinely had one (1) note/dispute, for a series spanning nearly 11 hours on the Iraq invasion. They brought receipts, sources, archived media snippets, and a lot of context that mainstream media still glosses over with 9/11 remembrance justifications.

      Very listenable, add it to your queue if you remotely enjoy geopolitics

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      They need to make it easier to find their podcast on their website, instead of dumping everyone into the Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts pipeline…

      https://blowback.show/BLOWBACK

      There’s a playlist of the episodes near the bottom of this page.

      Reminds me of the graphic novel “The Bush Junta.”

      Episode Zero with H. Jon Benjamin as Saddam Hussein is pretty gold.

      I think their assessment that the history of the Iraq War is important to understand our current place in history is absolutely correct. Especially not prosecuting war criminals and how that lead to not prosecuting Trump.