Drops the ball on giving a nuanced take of the war
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“I cannot recommend this podcast.
The show shines in its early episodes when it examines the absolutely gross manipulation of intelligence by the Bush White House and describes the abject failure of the CPA. However, the hosts have a weird fascination with re-litigating the Iraq War in light of present day politics, spending a chunk of time in the last episode to go after Hillary Clinton for issues that have seemingly nothing to do with the war.
Furthermore, there are two significant factual inaccuracies I noticed:
1. A Donald Trump interview featured in ep. 4 during the build up to the war is edited in a way to make him appear much more strongly against the war at the outset than he actually was. The actual exchange is not him deriding Bush for wanting war, but instead criticizing him for trying to build an international coalition instead of just invading Iraq on his own. The removed section of audio reads: “You know, whatever happened to the days of Douglas MacArthur? He'd go and attack, he wouldn't talk.
2. The hosts strangely downplay Abu Musab al-Zawqari’s connections to Al Qaeda and likely responsibility for the 2006 Al-Askari shrine bombing. It’s right to criticize the Bush team of building him up as a bogeyman behind every bad thing in Iraq but not at the expense of obfuscating his actions.”Read full review »
ScOrCh-11* via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/16/20
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“As the Iraq War goes from recent history to just history this stands out as a comprehensive account.”
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07/25/20
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03/17/20
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“It’s a shame to have a great podcast tarnished with constant and very distracting sound-clips as a crutch to tell the narrative.”
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United States of America ·
06/22/20
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