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The Road to the Iraq War | 1. The Exile

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'Sadam's a Killer'

I was in the directorate of operations. That's bob baer. And that means essentially, your sent overseas to recruit sources with access to clandestine information or general secrets of a foreign government. You're basically hired as a thief. When the golf war was over, bear went on a mission to curtistan. It's a semi auton region north of bagdad. The kurds land is divided up among arock, aron, syria and turkey. No one wants to give up their piece of kurtistan because it's got oil. So the kurds are ethnic minorities in four different nations. And in sedam zara, they were targeted, brutally

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