With Jeb Bush’s disastrous week of blunders concerning the Iraq War, the GOP and its 2016 candidates are now desperately trying to rewrite the history of this nation’s greatest foreign policy debacle by claiming that the “intelligence was faulty”. It wasn’t. Their memory, however, may conveniently be.
On today’s BradCast, we set the story straight, again, on what really happened when George W. Bush sent the country to war based on known lies.
Plus, environmental journalist from EHN.org and CNN’s former executive producer of their Science and Technology division (until they disbanded the division) Peter Dykstra joins us to discuss his new article on how environmentalists would be wise to learn from our nation’s history of civil rights battles. “Want to change the future?,” says Dykstra, “pay attention to the past.” Good advice all around today.
Also, Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to death; Philadelphia Amtrak disaster underscores U.S. failure; the passing of blues legend B.B. King and more on today’s BradCast…
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I must have supernatural powers. There wasn’t any doubt in my mind that we were being rushed to war like a “ONE DAY ONLY” sale at the store. Andy Card even said they were rolling out a new product.
Robert Greenwald knew what was happening. It just defies logic to think the entire congress didn’t know what was happening. They’re all standing there with out any clothes on, and have been for over a decade. What a sad spectacle this is.
If people recall the democrats wanted to wait until after the election to vote on the war resolution. No, the republicans wanted to vote in Oct before the election. Not many wanted to look weak so they voted for the war although there was enough questions. Wonder what the vote would have been if they had waited until after the election?