
S1 Episode 8 - "Electioneering"
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The End of the Iraq War
Ahmad Cholabi had American military and political leaders thinking the Iraq war would be a cakewalk. He was accused of tipping the Iranians off to US intelligence secrets, effectively banned from the US embassy in Baghdad. As Rosson says, voters treated him like he didn't even exist. Our efforts to get Ahmad Cholabi himself to comment for this story were not successful.
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