Robert Pape
speaker
2,835 appearances
10 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Robert Pape’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We gave them money.
We gave the Sunni tribes money, not AQI.
But when we gave the Sunni tribes money, this was a big risk because maybe they would turn their guns on us.
And I knew this up close and personal because in February 2007, even though I was a critic of the war here and I was saying we're doing so much wrong, I was invited to go to the 3rd Infantry Division in February 2007, speak to all 150 of their officers two weeks before they deployed to Baghdad.
Two weeks before they deployed.
Wow.
It was a two-hour briefing.
And they wanted to know, no kidding, how could they calm this thing down?
No politics were in the room there.
This was a no kidding.
And their lives were on the line, Patrick.
You think about that honor.
When we talk about the honors that I have had, this is just one of the many.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
But let me go back to this because how you defeat terrorists here is all part of a mix here.
So when I went in, I was asking the – because I was brought into this big meeting –
with the intel officers who were bringing me in.
And I said, well, will you tell me a little bit about your orders that you're going to have when you go into Baghdad?
And they said, well, of course, sir, you understand it's all classified.
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