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Gordon Carrera

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

And he says, you know, if anyone's got anything, any little bits of leftover stuff, destroy it, give it up.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

We don't want them to find something themselves.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

Yeah.

The Rest Is Classified
158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

And he says, like, right, we've got to declare everything.

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The Rest Is Classified
158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

And so they're going to do this declaration, which is going to come in December, which is part of the UN resolution.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

Jafar, this nuclear scientist who I met, is one of the people working on this declaration.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

And he is trying to own up to everything.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

And they're going to send it to the UN.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

And of course, London and Washington go, well, there's nothing new in this.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

They're not admitting to anything.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

Yeah, they're not admitting to anything.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

It's so funny because Jafar is kind of tearing his hair out because he's like, we keep trying to tell people.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

He's actually been to New York, Jafar, in April 2002 to meet-

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

Hans Blix, Mohamed El Baradai.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

And he has to be calmed down by the other aides because he's so angry that they won't believe him when he's saying we've got nothing.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

Although I also think part of the reason Jafar is so angry is that he's getting pitched at every stage along the way.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

by CIA officers on the plane out of, you know, out of the Middle East heading towards New York.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

An American comes and sits next to him in the seat and is like, Mr. Jafar, would you like to tell us about the WMD?

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

And he's like, no, I'm going to the UN to tell them we don't have anything.

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158. The Road to Iraq:  George Bush's Unstoppable War (Ep 6)

And then at the airport, he gets detained and he gets, you know, questioned again.