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Radio War Nerd EP 372 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 3: The Forever Warmongers

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The Rise of Al-Qaeda

I remember my talk with you then when that happened and you said that because the US military, the soldiers there got scared. Got scared and shot a bunch of people and killed a bunch. And you said, this is crazy. This is going to lead to guerrilla warfare here. But that's where it started. Fallujah, I mean, that did do it. Well, for one thing, you shouldn't have sent troops into Fallujah without knowing a little about its history Because those were nobody'd mess with. With predictable results, there were a few developments. The attacks in Fallujah soon. And then for most people, the black water contractors strung up as charred corpses on a

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