Jamie Rubin

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3,234 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Jamie Rubin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files · Did 9/11 put the US on a permanent war footing? · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

It wasn't that hard, it wasn't that complicated. voice-verified

There wasn't that voice-verified

That much security. voice-verified

The whole world watched voice-verified

Well, arguably, you know, with some short exceptions, uh the United States' soldiers have been at war ever since nine eleven, uh with some mod modest exceptions, but soldiers have been in the line of fire certainly ever since. voice-verified

The question of what drove um voice-verified

Pr President Bush to switch gears from a war that everyone around the world understood and supported, that brought freedom to the people of Afghanistan and brought for the first time some form of representative government and freed women from the oppression they were suffering, is one of the great mysteries to me still. voice-verified

Um I mean, I I kind of know what it is, but it's still one of the great mistakes, the grand errors of American foreign. voice-verified

Policy. voice-verified

I don't believe that it was purposefully lied about, certainly on the part of President Bush and Colin Powell and some of the others. voice-verified

I believe they honestly believed that weapons of mass destruction did exist in Iraq and after the anthrax attacks. voice-verified

And here's the part that people need to understand: the Bush administration didn't pay attention to terrorism in its first voice-verified

Nine months. voice-verified

They had a certain level of complicity in the fact that they ignored the warnings that were given to them by the uh uh uh Clinton administration, by the uh people who worked on terrorism and al-Qaeda in the year 2000 before Bush came into office. voice-verified

They were told this was a great risk and this is what they should focus on. voice-verified

They ignored all that. voice-verified

And they decided to focus on other things like building a Star Wars defense or uh you know, confronting uh uh other problems in the world they call great powers, or uh, you know, the problem of of uh countries like Iraq or Iran or or North Korea or other issues. voice-verified

They thought the de the Democrats under voice-verified

Uh, President Clinton were focused on the small issue of terrorism. voice-verified

And so they knew they had made a terrible mistake. voice-verified

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