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#1115 Mike Shelby | This Interview Will Scare You

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Sons of Iraq Was Meant to Stabilize Iraq

The United States had 52 deck playing cards with faces of Iraqis on it, which, you know, tells you exactly what the mission was. But yeah, I mean, it didn't that guy on your playing cards. And at the same time, Maliki was trying to sidelight Sunni Sunnis in the Iraq army. We see the same thing in Afghanistan. Oh, you go help this tribe. Well, guess what? This tribe's been an enemy of this other tribe for a thousand years. And now this other tribe thinks you're against them. And so they're going to start attacking you now.

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