Scott Horton

Yeah, that is a danger.

yeah well it worked on w bush so to go back to then what happened was if you'll remember that donald rumsfeld said we should get out of iraq james baker's right let's cut and run and bush said you're fired and brought in robert gates and decided to increase the war instead and send the extra 30 000 troops to the war and this was the so-called surge he put david petraeus in charge and so there were two big narratives at the time one was that everything wrong in

Iraq is Iran's fault, even though we've been fighting for the Shiites against the Sunni insurgency all this time.

So that's kind of odd, but okay.

And based on that claim, they went to war against Muqtada al-Sadr, who was the least Iranian-tied of the three major pillars of the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance.

Dawa and Skiri had been living in Iran for 20 years.

Sadr had stayed.

At this time, they attacked him and actually ended up chasing him into Iran, making him closer to Iran.

And then where he went to school and got a higher religious rank, a little bit of blowback for you there.

But again, the whole war was being fought for him and for this United Iraqi Alliance who had written the constitution and won the elections and all that.

But so as part of this, they were building the narrative.

So long as they're attacking the Shiites in Sadr City in East Baghdad and down in Najaf and they're fighting back, then they say that every time a Shiite sets off a bomb, it's an Iranian bomb.

It's not just an IED, improvised explosive device.

It's an EFP, explosively formed penetrator.

And you're just supposed to believe.

that they all come from Iran.

Now it's not true.

And as I show in enough already, I have, I guess it's like seven or eight different sources from American media where they were there in Iraq and found, you know, embedded with us troops and found these machine shops in Iraq where these bombs were being made in Iraq by Iraqis happened over and over and over again.

And they were going to do a big press conference and prove that they were coming from Iran.

And then the reporters started gathering around the pile of material.