Bob Amsterdam

All we try to do is sanction and condemn.

It is a horrible, horrible part of our policy that we sanction the hell out of everybody.

We are responsible for the consolidation of power in Moscow under Putin.

If we were not sanctioning the hell out of all these people who had moved to Europe, who knows whether Putin would still be in power.

Exactly.

And let me tell you, I'm working in Iraq now.

against Iranian interests.

We have a woman, Sarah Saleem, who is an American citizen, bravely, incredibly bravely, defending her interests and those of the Kurdish in the north.

And you know, the Kurds are going to have an election soon.

She's defending their interests against a wildly corrupt chief justice named Zaidan, who is actually an instrument of Iran.

And there have been a complete reversal of her fortunes before the courts because of corruption against a group called the Hanna Brothers.

And when we've gone to the U.S.

Embassy for help, this is an American citizen who, by the way, was kidnapped and tortured 10 years ago and has been fighting for her redemption and for compensation against al-Maliki and Zidane and others.

Our embassy pledges neutrality, does not help this brave American citizen.

How can they not help an American?

Listen, we cannot understand it, especially in a moment where the future of Iraq, which is massively important to the United States, is at risk.

I mean, there's an election coming up in Iraq as well.

and the oil wealth of that country is is almost unimaginable and the issue is whether the iraqi militia will disarm whether in fact the government uh that we we not only have spent billions to support but we lost almost 5 000 lives whether that government will be a government somewhat free of the corruption

and control of Iran yeah and and and our government's been impotent there's there's a few people in Congress who have spoken out and bless them for doing that but very few people have paid Iraq any thought at all and yet we over concentrate on Ukraine

To the exclusion of almost everything else.