Iraq country
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Claims (8)
United States supplied_arms_to
Iraq host_asserted
“weaponry throughout NATO and everything else. So we're not only just arming Iraq at that point, we're shipping in the 1980s via Iran-Contra missiles and all kinds of technology shit through Israel into Iran. We're literally arming both side…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 49:09
United States supplied_arms_to
Iraq host_asserted
“to the new boogeyman, which is going to be Osama bin Laden and radical Islam. And just like that, overnight, we go to war, we create their scenario, and we're off to the races with a new boogeyman. We never even got a break in the action. T…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 46:54
United States carried_out_attack
Iraq host_asserted
“quote-unquote defensive organization. Well, in 1998, they decided to go on offense, and they could not just start bombing the heck out of people. That's bad for business, and it's also pretty bad PR. The American public probably would not h…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 10; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (2 of 2) @ 39:34
Paul Bremer removed_from_power
Iraq host_asserted
“So then he becomes the chief executive authority in Iraq. Of course, did a splendid job. The coalition provisional authority was considered the most powerful foreign post held by any American since MacArthur in Japan. Basically, he could ru…”
▶ The Shadow State 37 Secret Societies 21; Andover Connections @ 20:54
Paul Bremer funded
Iraq host_asserted
“in the destabilization of iraq and bremer's running point on all this stuff yeah okay it gets even uglier there united nations resolution 1483 gave bremer oversight on iraqi oil revenue and what they did is they repaired all the wellheads a…”
▶ The Shadow State 37 Secret Societies 21; Andover Connections @ 22:53
Paul Bremer pardoned
Iraq host_asserted
“And a lot of people don't think that was a coincidence. Two days before leaving Iraq, Bremer issues an order giving all military and civilian contractors immunity from Iraqi law. And we know the kind of shenanigans that were going on there.…”
▶ The Shadow State 37 Secret Societies 21; Andover Connections @ 23:23
George H.W. Bush supplied_arms_to
Iraq host_asserted
“Going back to the Iran hostage scandal. First of all, second Reagan wins the election. Iran plays nice. We get our hostages back and America's feeling great again. We've got this USA, USA thing. Well, Iran's now the bad guys, the death to A…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 1:12:54
Richard Perle funded
Iraq host_asserted
“one of the most fascinating things in all of the research that i've done was i found the document that richard pearl and frank luntz wrote on behalf of israel that describes a marketing campaign to sell the second war in iraq yeah well you …”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 1:20:11
Mentions (42)
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Well, that's when the Gulf War starts. That's when the Berlin, I'm sorry, the Berlin Wall falls and the Gulf War begins. Correct. 1990 to 94, we're transitioning from the communist boogeyman to the radical Islamist terrorist. And this guy i…
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by the same media apparatus so that people in America don't even get to hear about it. Yep. This is one of the fathers of American propaganda. And the last couple of things, I'm going to hammer that home in this last couple of points. He ha…
▶ 1:12:54
Going back to the Iran hostage scandal. First of all, second Reagan wins the election. Iran plays nice. We get our hostages back and America's feeling great again. We've got this USA, USA thing. Well, Iran's now the bad guys, the death to A…
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At one point in time, we had Iraq, you know, Iraq and Iran fired shots and everything like that. Bush allowed Saddam Hussein, who he had a lot of business contacts with over the years, and his business partners did as well, allowed him to k…
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in the first desert storm operation but that's a huge scandal so you have the entire 1980s of us arming iraq and israel through the back door arming iran europeans are doing both sides as well so there is about a multi-year war like…
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What happened in the lead up to that, the week prior to it, about five days before that, the U.N. or the U.S. ambassador liaison to Iraq tells Saddam Hussein, we understand that you're right. Kuwait has been horizontally drilling into Iraqi…
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Get your oil fields back. So whatever you feel necessary to do, you just go ahead and do that. Know that you have our backing. So Saddam Hussein, within the next week, launches the attack on Kuwait and the Kuwaitis working with Bush are the…
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We've got all kinds of these connections. And his presidency, what did he do? He started another war in Iraq. And obviously he did that by manipulating the intelligence agencies to lie about their intelligence product. There were no weapons…
▶ 45:13
roadkill, ambassador to India, ambassador to the UN over 92 when we invade, over 91 when we invade Iraq, ambassador to Israel, sorry, 85 to 88. And what were we doing in 85 to 88? Israel is trafficking weapons to Angola.…
▶ 45:41
and to Iran for Ronald Reagan, for the Iran Contra. This guy's overseeing that. He oversaw the invasion of Iraq. Oh, and look at this. He's the ambassador in 83 to 85 to El Salvador, where we're setting up death squads and sending people to…
▶ 56:32
Okay, so here's what I found. We got Abigail Spanberger, Democrat from Virginia, eight years as a CIA operations officer. She's in Congress. We got Alyssa Slotkin, Democrat from Michigan. She was a CIA analyst deployed to Iraq three times a…
▶ 57:26
No, go ahead. All right. Patrick Ryan is a Democrat from New York, was an Army intelligence officer. He was the lead intel officer for Infantry Battalion in Iraq, and his role involved analyzing and providing intel to support military ops. …
▶ 16:36
Was it Bremer or Bremer? B-R-E-M-E-R. Yeah. Someone we know and love. So why is he important? Well, he was the administrator for the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq after a 2003 invasion. Interestingly enough, his father was the pre…
▶ 20:19
And they came out with a paper, Making the Nation Safer, the Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism. Which is the massive surveillance effort to control all of us. Yeah. And Bremer's behind that. So he arrives in Iraq in May…
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So then he becomes the chief executive authority in Iraq. Of course, did a splendid job. The coalition provisional authority was considered the most powerful foreign post held by any American since MacArthur in Japan. Basically, he could ru…
▶ 21:27
What were the results of those two things? The total destruction of Iraq. The total void of any kind of order, law or anything. And that's really what we we got, what we got today. Hotbed of all kinds of terrorism simply because Bremer was …
▶ 21:58
Go ahead. Let me just say this. It's definitely by design because by keeping Iraq in a constant state of turmoil, they were able to try to do regime change in Syria. They were able to destabilize Iran. They were able to destabilize all of t…
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in the destabilization of iraq and bremer's running point on all this stuff yeah okay it gets even uglier there united nations resolution 1483 gave bremer oversight on iraqi oil revenue and what they did is they repaired all the wellheads a…
▶ 23:23
And a lot of people don't think that was a coincidence. Two days before leaving Iraq, Bremer issues an order giving all military and civilian contractors immunity from Iraqi law. And we know the kind of shenanigans that were going on there.…
▶ 23:58
And most of his staff leaves with him. So you can't audit anything because they took their records with them. So everything that happened in Iraq, we don't even know the half of it. Right. And you had all of the torture places, Abu Ghraib, …
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Oh, next three names that went to high school here are George H.W. Bush, his son George W. Bush, and of course Jeb Bush all went to this private high school. Wow. Same school that, wait, Paul Bremer went to? Bush gets into Iraq and Bremer c…
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Born in 1970, co-authored While America Sleeps, Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today. That was in the year 2000. And Frederick's out there warning in 2000 about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This is the orig…
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All right, what else has Frederick done? Okay, he authors what's called the Real Iraq Study Group. He did this report for AEI, and the name of the paper was Choosing Victory, a Plan for Success in Iraq. Remember 2007, the surge? Mm-hmm. Tha…
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quote, influenced Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and we got 30,000 additional troops sent to Afghanistan. He then gets hired by Army General David Petraeus, who would become the head of the CIA later on. They're allegedly to fight corru…
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as General Stanley McChrystal's strategic assessment team. Keeping it in the family, right? She was Petraeus' assistant when she got top secret clearance. Let's see. The ISW is described as hawkish. Yeah, they're neocons. They very much sup…
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So that's coming over the next 10 years. It's going up like tenfold. All right, a little bit more about the ISW. Just as an example, they've been proponents for military action in the following places, and they got every single one of these…
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He actually did some good. Crystal was a huge advocate for the invasion of Iraq. And he sits on boards, I've got that one wrong, of Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Foreign Policy Initiative, and…
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was famous for saying some really stupid things. People questioned his IQ. All right, Crystal in 1998, with Robert Kagan, he wrote a New York Times piece where he said, bombing Iraq isn't enough. This is in 98. They're calling for an invasi…
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a war profiteer off the Iraq war. And it just so happens the original CEO of Dress Around the Dress is the guy that, well, basically he's the godfather of H. George H. W. Bush, one of his best friends. Got that in a mallet. So a little bit …
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Well, what we found out, and I know this is true just from personal experience and working in the Department of Defense, how this whole contracting process works is who writes the requirements. And what we found in the Iraq war, when we got…
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stay-behind units in southern Iran as part of the prep for the coup of Mossadegh, and he would have been the liaison working to get the MAG, the military advisory group, into southern Iraq to set up the stay-behind units with the tribes dow…
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in bear share certificates moved through UPS in Lichtenstein nominee trust proceeds from the Saudi AWACS kickbacks in the cell of F-14 parts to Iran, which would have been during the Iran-Contra or Iran-Iraq war where we were actually fundi…
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They think there was only one. There were two major missile shipments into Iran, along with the F-14 parts, because we had actually provided them with F-14s. There were two major shipments, a whole bunch of others, but two major missile shi…
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Skrull and Key came from the Wright family. He's now a U.S. ambassador to Jordan. And that's a very important ambassadorship at the time because we got the rising Iraqi tensions. And he's the guy observing the buildup of Saddam's army. He c…
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quote-unquote defensive organization. Well, in 1998, they decided to go on offense, and they could not just start bombing the heck out of people. That's bad for business, and it's also pretty bad PR. The American public probably would not h…
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buys a large equity share in all of the military-industrial complex right before what happens? The Iraq War. Interesting business model. A little inside information going on there at all? Yeah. So now we're making a connection to BCCI throu…
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Third world countries, borrowers from the US, from the United States, IMF, World Bank. And they were a way for third world countries to finance themselves with the auspices of US backing. This replaced the Baker plan with middling success. …
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Literally everything that went on, all of the dictators had accounts there, all of the Iraq illegal weapons. And as I mentioned, the triggers that the entire Pakistani government's defense department was supplied through money coming out of…
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and closing his banks in the United States. One of the best examples occurred in 91, when the Justice Department should have been racing to build its case against the bank. That year, the U.S. was amassing an army in the Gulf, preparing to …
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to the new boogeyman, which is going to be Osama bin Laden and radical Islam. And just like that, overnight, we go to war, we create their scenario, and we're off to the races with a new boogeyman. We never even got a break in the action. T…
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CIA miscreation well first of all let's back up after World War II we set up a king in Iraq they didn't have a king they got a king now then the CIA overthrew the king and installed Saddam Hussein when Saddam Hussein…
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So you have a CIA installed dictator by the name of Saddam Hussein, who, as you said, in the 70s, we're arming and we're also arming Iran via Israel. So then in the 80s, we basically enticed both Iraq and Iran to go to war with each other u…