The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Ep. 67: Saddam Hussein's Demise

Mar 17, 2023

01:36:36

Episode guests

David Wurmser

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The aftermath of the Gulf War: Unfinished business in Iraq

01:31

Saddam Hussein's History of Aggression and Threats

01:30

The End of the 90s

04:40

Saddam Hussein's Oil for Food Program

01:42

Introduction

5min

Is America Responsible for the Invasion of Iraq?

3min

The House of Saddam

4min

Saddam Hussein's Thirst for Blood Still Not Declared

6min

Saddam Hussein's Oil for Food Program

2min

America and Iraq in the Run Up to the First Gulf War

2min

Is There a Strategy to Find WMDs in Iraq?

2min

Saddam Hussein's Execution

4min

I Blame Saddam Hussein for Destroying an Organic Social Fabric of Iraqi Society

5min

10.

Saddam Hussein and the Iraq War

3min

11.

The End of the 90s

5min

12.

Saddam Hussein's Nuclear Program and the Nuclear Weapons Convention

3min

13.

Is There a Dual Containment Policy?

2min

14.

The Dual Containment of Iran and Iraq

2min

15.

The Cold War and the Cold War

2min

16.

Is There a Limit to Containment?

4min

17.

Do You Believe That Arabs Should Be Given a Chance to Have a Shot at Freedom?

2min

18.

911

3min

19.

I Was the One Who Started That Quote Rogue Intelligence

5min

20.

Did Saddam Hussein Order the Terrorists?

2min

21.

Al Qaeda

2min

22.

The Politics of the Middle East Had Reached a Point of Dangerousness

3min

23.

Is There a Regime Change?

5min

24.

The Importance of Ahmed Shahrabi in the Middle East

3min

25.

Is There a Need for Intervention in Iraq?

2min

26.

Iraq and Syria and Syria Are Waging War on Us

2min

27.

The Iraq War

2min

28.

What Is She Is in the Iran?

2min

29.

The Big Failure in Iraq

3min

30.

Is the United States a Great Power?

2min

31.

Do You Win, and Then You Go Home?

4min

32.

The Strategic Architecture of American Foreign Policy

3min

In this episode Eli examines the sheer evil of the man who ruled Iraq before the 2003 war. His guest is David Wurmser, a former George W. Bush administration analyst who knows the story of the lead up to the Iraq war from the inside.

Time Stamps:

00:34 Monologue

32:53 Interview with David Wurmser

Questions? Comments? Email is at eli@nebulouspodcasts.com

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The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Ep. 67: Saddam Hussein's Demise

Episode guests

The aftermath of the Gulf War: Unfinished business in Iraq

Saddam Hussein's History of Aggression and Threats

The End of the 90s

Saddam Hussein's Oil for Food Program

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