Scott Horton

He remains a powerful kingmaker in that country this day.

He's part of the United Iraqi Alliance.

And in fact, as long as we're taking a long form here,

He was the least Iran-tied of the three major factions in the United Iraqi Alliance in Iraq War II.

The other two major factions were Dawah and the Supreme Islamic Council, and they had been living in Iran for the last 20 years.

They're the ones who came and took over Baghdad.

Muqtada al-Sadr was a Shiite and close to Iran, but he's also an Iraqi nationalist.

And at times he allied with the Sunnis and tried to limit American and Iranian influence in the country.

Was more of an Arab and an Iraqi nationalist.

And the Americans decided they hated him the most, not because he was the most Iran-tied, but because he was willing to tell us and them to...

to get the hell out.

And America was betting that if we backed the same parties that Iran backed in Iraq War II, that they would eventually end up needing our money and guns more than they would need their Iranian friends and co-religionists and sponsors next door, which of course did not work out.

And America's had minimal influence in supermajority Shiite Iraq ever since the end of Iraq War II.

And we can get back later in the show to how Israel helped lie us into that horrific war as well.

But the fact of the matter is,

It was not Iranians setting off those bombs and it was not even Iranians making those bombs.

And I show in my book enough already.

I have a solid dozen sources.

Enough already.

Thank you.