35 Burst results for "Saddam"
AP News Radio
Blinken warns rival Sudanese generals to respect latest truce or face possible sanctions
"Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns Saddam's rival generals to abide by the latest ceasefire or face possible sanctions. Blinken's call comes as resident support sporadic fighting between the warring sides in the capital of Khartoum and a northern city in a video message posted by the U.S. embassy on social media, the Secretary of State says the fighting has been tragic, senseless and devastating, adding the truce is meant to allow the delivery of humanitarian assistance and restore essential services and infrastructure destroyed in the clashes. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
UN envoy says Sudan's warring sides agree to negotiate
"The United Nations says a ceasefire process for Sudan is under discussion. The UN's top official in Saddam fuller's tells The Associated Press. The troubled nations war in generals have agreed to negotiations potentially in Saudi Arabia, even as they clash in the capital despite another three day extension of a fragile city adds if the talks come together, they would initially focus on establishing a stable and reliable ceasefire monitored by national and international observers, but he warns they were still challenges in holding the negotiations a string of temporary truces over the past week have eased fighting only in some areas, and in others fierce battles are continuing. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Eric Metaxas Show
From Isolationism to the War on Terror: America's Tumultuous Path
"Were just taking us through this is the history of American going from American isolationism into interventionism and then taking us up into the Iraq War. So keep going. So if you start with the fall of Berlin Wall, follow the Soviet Union. The U.S. now has a strange new role in the world. Here we are. We're the sole hegemon. We're the global power. How do we use that force? They went back and forth. So failed in Rwanda to intervene on time, then we're pressured to intervene places like the Balkans and Kosovo and elsewhere. This back and forth is tension. How should we what should we do? Where's our role? Well, with 9 11 came clarity in the minds of U.S. leadership. George W. Bush and the administration at the time decided, no, no, we have to respond with vigor with force. Launch the war on terror is launched with that came the 20 year old war in Afghanistan. And we have to be clear. I don't know if I've ever said it on the program. But I was always troubled by the concept of the war on terror. It just struck me as, I don't know, since I lack a better adjective, it struck me as utterly stupid, like a war on terror is like a war on poverty. What could be vaguer? And there's something offensive when you're putting American lives on the line. And you say a war on terror. What is terror? What defines when we win the war on? You know, it's one thing to fight against Hitler. But a war on terror, it was, I just feel cynically labeled so vaguely that it would be a never ending war on terror. Anyway, that's effectively what's happened, but keep going. Well, you're right to be cynical now in retrospect, and maybe we all should have been more cynical at the time. I wasn't cynical at the time. I mean, I had flags or I had questions, but I ought to have been more forceful in actually more openly cynical about it. But I was not. I was not. Those who were cynical were the Europeans, the French the Germans who had seen the same intelligence reports who had seen the same information and came to a radically different conclusion that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction was not planning to eminently annihilate the world like a global villain. But instead, the U.S. pressed to head by themselves. We
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
"Unpredictability Puts Question Marks in the Heads of Bad Guys"
"Today, 14 months later, is still using the phrase special military operation, not war. He's doing that exactly because of that speech by Biden, et cetera. Well, we'll probably won't do anything if it's just a limited incursion. This is for me is proof of ranking competence. There wouldn't be no war in Ukraine where it not for surrender of Afghanistan. And this is analogous for me to 1990 when our ambassador in Iraq told Saddam Hussein when it came up in conversation. Oh, the Kuwait problem. We deem that to be a domestic issue. A domestic issue which he took as a green light to invade another country. There is a connection is there. And Kim Il sung did the same when dean rusk. Yes. An assistant Secretary of State for East Asia to fairs said the same thing. And the next thing we know, Larry Truman is looking at a massive invasion coming across that parallel. I don't know if you get this all the time. I do, people always ask me, what would president Trump do now if he were in office? And I laugh. I talked, I say, there wouldn't be a war. For me to do anything. Absolutely. And that, that is the proper predicate. President Trump had, it was interesting watching him. And I say this with all respect. I've said this to him. You and I have spent a lifetime in one world. We were in the world that we were born in khaki diapers. And we've studied this. We've studied the people who have made the difference not only in foreign affairs, but in military affairs. He hasn't done that. He's a real estate businessman. But he instinctively knew a couple of things. One strength begets retreat on the other side. And unpredictability puts question marks in the heads of bad guys.
AP News Radio
Sudanese army, rival forces agree to 24-hour cease-fire
"Blinken says a diplomatic convoy has come under fire in Saddam. Blinken says no one was hurt in the attack the assailants appear to be linked to the paramilitary rapid support forces, the group battling Sudan's army. The country's armed forces and the powerful rival have been baffling for control since the weekend blinken has called for an immediate 24 hour ceasefire denouncing indiscriminate military operations that convoy attack signals
AP News Radio
Senate votes to keep 2001 authorization for war on terror
"The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to continue congressional authorization for the use of military force in the global fight against terror and Ben Thomas with the latest. Senators voted 86 to 89 to reject the effort by Kentucky Republican Rand Paul to repeal the 2001 measure. It gave president George W. Bush brought authority for the invasion of Afghanistan in the fight against terrorism. It came up in a debate over a separate repeal of two authorizations of military force in Iraq. There is brought bipartisan support to withdraw the congressional approval granted in 1991 and 2002 for military strikes against Saddam Hussein's regime. Those authorizations are rarely used and focused just on Iraq. Ben Thomas, Washington
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
US on Track to Add $19 Trillion to National Debt
"On track to add 19 trillion, 19 trillion of the T in debt over the next ten years. That's in The New York Times. We already have 31 trillion. That means 50 trillion in debt. All right, just assume it's 3%. 3% interest. And it's not. It's much more than that. Go figure how much interest and we're not paying down the principle. We have to change direction. The CBL warns of possible default between July and September. All right, if it's really out there, and it's July, look, it's February. You got to March April May, June. You got four months for Joe Biden to Saddam with Kevin McCarthy and work something out. But the president isn't interested in that. Nikki
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"That's your birthday. I didn't know that you're awful young, man. No, different year. I get different years. But the same day. And they smuggled and somebody, the other thing too, right? That was a little bit of controversy. Somebody smuggled footage of him being hung out. There wasn't supposed to be any cameras inside there, but somebody was able to covertly bring a camera in and capture that. It didn't look like a very professional job. I saw the I saw it, and it couldn't happen to a meaner guy though, you know? Well, look, considering the things that he did, coup d'etat did to the soccer team, you know how they killed people and stuff. Yeah, so you had a guy who couldn't understand how to tie a knot correctly and he had to hang there an extra couple of minutes. I got to tell you, I just don't feel any sympathy. It's not there. I got a buddy that's was a DoJ attorney. He was a jag and the army and he was one of the people selected to go in and watch the execution. I mean, hell, that's a memorable event for somebody like Saddam Hussein, this is just a mass mass murderer, you know, as bad ass as bad as if not worse than Pablo Escobar. And so his name's Mike. Sims Mike, so what'd you do afterwards? He showed me pictures of things there and he said, you know what? We all went out and we enjoyed cigars. We celebrated. I was gonna say he probably applauded and, you know, walked out. Proper way, take care of him. Hey, so the stuff that you brought out of the spider hole, what all money weapons, anything of other evidentiary value down in it, it was anybody who was able to use. Really, I mean, he had cigars. He had money Cristo or cristal, cristales, cigars, a Cuban cigars. He had some Romeo and Juliet. He had, I think it was like $750,000 in cash in a K in a little trunk, a little green trunk. I just handed it up. And I guess they hand that off to the fourth ID guys and what was funny is I remember our start major looked at like the fourth ID kernel and he goes how you just captured Saddam Hussein. And the guy was like, yeah. You know, I could see that. You've just captured Saddam Hussein. What are you going to do? We're all going to Disney. So that was December 13th. Now, how much longer are you in country before you rotate it back? We were there, another probably two or three weeks. So we were still hitting targets and, you know, we were going after the rest more in the deck of cards. Yeah. That was one of the best things I think they ever did was that deck of cards. By the way, it was real interesting to one of our previous episodes. Somebody Steve introduces to a guy named Jeff sandy. Was an IRS agent at the time. They brought him over. He ended up interviewing Tariq Aziz. And ended up breaking down all the oil for food scam where the money was that was part of what he did. And that was, you know, another guy that was on the deck of cards, you know, Tariq. So all good stuff, what was the mission going on when you took that round? Oh, so we were our job was Uzbekistan mercenaries. We're coming across the border, basically being paid by Al-Qaeda to kill American soldiers.
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"So, but that took you quite a while to get from that point, right? I mean, so how long from the time you guys started taking your own initiative till you got to that point with that guy in the cell? How long of a time was that? Once we kind of, I guess, through the BS flag on the shoe baking guy, probably it probably we wasted time with that guy for probably a month. And then so you figure November time frame. We really started doing our own thing and not worrying about the assets. We were being given. And. About a month, I think, and then now you start seeing some stuff, you start seeing some stuff connecting the dots. And our Intel guy was just a great guy, a guy from Georgia, super smart. And he was just, he was on it. And he basically he's the reason that we got this guy. You know, people go, man, you use on us. I'm like, yeah, but I was just one of the guys there. It wasn't about me. As all humble people say, but I mean, but you were there though. But speaking of that, so let's get into the last 24 to 48 hours before Saddam's captured. What kind of operational tempo is going on at this time? Are you guys just constantly hitting things doing things or what's the lead up to this? We're all over the country. We're two to three targets a night is what we're doing. And we're basically bringing them in. We work all night, sleep all day, back out all night, sleep all day. And then we ended up with a scenario I just told you we captured the guy's son two days later, capture him, and then they woke us up. During the day, after the night we captured him and said, hey, we're going to take. So we basically woke up. I'm like, what? We don't ever get up during the day. And basically loaded all our stuff into our armored vehicles. We drove around and the 6 wheel panders is what they're called. And loaded up, drove to daytime. Which is normally what we don't do. Yeah, that's pretty dangerous. Yeah, I mean, as IEDs everywhere, whatever. So ended up getting a ticker.
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"What? What? And so one of the guys who had this guy basically had been talking to this guy, he's like, okay, well, so they take an undercover kind of vehicle and go check it out. And it is like barricaded up looking, you know? So they're like, all right, well, the stakes quadrant and roll up there, will they take fire en route to getting into the house, you know? So it ended up being them. So, I mean, it can be something as simple as that as far as an informant or whatever. And usually those are the ones that, you know, hey, just out of the blue, you know what I mean, this guy that you've been paying for years and years and oh, that's had nothing's ever come to fruition. You know, we learned that those aren't the guys. If they're not producing, you know, you give them a shot if they don't produce, you don't go back. Well, the reason the guy strung you around for a month is that was that was his income. That's how he was making money. The shoe baking guys, what we got on it. Yeah, but that's interesting though too. The fact that a lot of the stuff that you can do. So you start so when does uday and kusa happen in relation to when Saddam is captured? So that happened during the summer. That was on a, you know, probably June, June, July of O three, I mean, I'm not sure of that date, but I mean, I know what happened that summer before the Saddam was captured. And you were not, but that's the other thing too, is that was not your rotation at that time because you didn't come back until October. Well, we came back September to help that same squadron that killed those guys. But it was to go capture Saddam, but they were already dead, by the time we went over. And then we came back over in October. Okay. All right, so now you're back in October. So now you're walking through, you're starting to do your own thing. You're collecting your own intelligence. And so that kind of get to the point. At what point from October on, when is it that you finally start feeling like you've got to handle like you're really starting to close in on Saddam that you've got a good feeling that you don't know exactly where he is, but he's we're feel really confident he's got to be like here here or here.
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"So we went back over, probably September of O three, and then stayed for a couple of weeks, came back, and we redeployed in October for our rotation, our normal rotation. Well, let's set the context a little bit for this too because he was doing a lot of things at one time. He was like part of his plan, right? He would stay in a different palace every night, or he'd go to different locations. I mean, he did none of that was true. Yeah, and that's what I'm getting at too. I mean, they talk about, if you listen to the news, it's like, oh, he had food tasters, he would go someplace every night. He had all of this. He had all these different things. What's the reality? He was in a small camp up along the Syrian border. The whole time. And so we ended up, we would take a picture from one of his palaces or whatever had his whole family and had all his basically generals and whatever. And we take that on target and we get intelligence. There were some of those people were. So we went in on a target one night, ended up this guy come running at me. I hid him instead of shooting. And basically knocked him down. We captured him. And he ended up being he was the guy that was in one of those pictures. And our Intel guy asked him, hey, he didn't want to know where Saddam was. He did, but the guy wasn't going to tell him. You know, he goes, hey, who in this picture can tell us where he's at. He picked out a guy in that picture that said, if you capture this man, you will find Saddam. And so our whole mission was to capture that guy, the whole rotation. And how long was a rotation? Three months. And so that was October. We captured Saddam and December. So yeah, so that's okay, we fast forwarded to the end. Let's roll back. So October. And then we left. Pretty much. Well, but going back to that, what was it like on a daily basis? In other words, you were probably, look, there had to be agency assets over there. You had NSA. I mean, you had you guys were getting a full complement of Intel from probably a variety of places, but what was the most valuable thing to you on your daily operations? I'll tell you. It was honestly driven unit driven. We were given a lot of intelligence from other agencies that was absolutely bogus. And even we followed a guy with a Beacon in his shoe for a month going and hitting targets and hitting targets and hitting targets and following this guy and his head and everything. And he was a paid asset. And he was absolutely stringing the whole task force along that whole time. And so
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"The one we want to circle in on now involves somebody who is room temperature and should be. But we want to talk about the mission finding locating capturing Saddam Hussein. Okay. How did that come about? So, and I really, I mean, I wouldn't really be able to talk about this, but I was asked a couple of years ago to actually tell this story by the unit. And so the only reason I'm going to even mention kind of about it is because I was asked to talk about it. So now, before you start, let's because a lot of stuff was always covered by non disclosures. Did you have to get any kind of an official waiver to talk about things that had previously been classified? I did. I mean, and I'm actually because I ask for the thing when I was asked to actually tell this story with another film group, really. I mean, I was supposed to be working with a writer, and I was asked to tell the story because they wanted the real story to be told. And so the first thing I was like, prank call, prank call. And they're like, no, no. We're serious, you know? We want you to tell this story. And I'm like, well, I need something right. You know, that says, I'm not going to get P and G or for sonic on grata for this deal. Or arrested for disclosing classified information. 'cause I've never publicly talked about, I mean, last, I vesemir's day presentation. Last November, and I did say something about it, but this was way after I was given permission. So anyway, so yeah, so the whole Saddam thing. After the invasion, we ended up invade Iraq, 18th of March O three. And we did a desert mobility mission across western Iraq all the way to ticker it. It was, I think, supposedly the longest desert mobility mission since World War II. It was 1500 miles. And we were hitting targets all along that way. Looking for weapons of mass destruction and basically confirming or denying whatever was in the reports that the intelligence was getting. So we ended up finishing that mission. It was about 38 days and then we came back home. And then we got on a rotation, and then once that mission was complete, the mission was to kill or capture Saddam. That was our mission. And let's stop there for a second because we had this discussion beforehand because there's a reason now that you've got the legal authority to go after sodom Hussein because executive order, this is inside baseball for that vote, but it was part of the national security act in 1947 and part of executive order one two triple three. The United States is not allowed to engage in political assassination. But Saddam Hussein had been basically declared a military target, right? Yeah. But I mean, he still had to be a threat. I'll put it that way. Yeah. So yeah, so yeah, so we were tasked with killing or capturing Saddam Hussein. I mean, that was our number one goal, and I mean, we were once a squadron, took our place. Then another squadron took their place, then we were blown out to go back over to help them because they thought they'd found him. And they supposedly Intel had it that he had hundreds of bodyguards and 8 80s some help.
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"I mean, because it was so quick, you know? And then it was like, okay, even the marines weren't doing anything at that point. And so DA is direct action direct action missions. So it would have evolved into that if the war would have continued, but it just didn't. And so now we're there. And so we're just finding trying to find jobs. And so that's what we did. And whether it was once the sniper missions dried up, we would halt Kurds and trucks to help them move and ethane because the way that Peshmerga treated us, we wanted to help them. Because the Peshmerga are Kurds. Yeah. I like the way you said, just like you're unemployed. Hey, we need a job. So I mean, you guys are just right. If you don't stay busy, they pull you back, right? Yeah, I mean, well, we were there with the marines that were from our ship. And so basically, we just needed you just don't want to sit around. It's like, okay, so whatever we could do to help we did. And so that's basically what happened. Is it during this time when everybody's looking for Saddam? No, this is ten years before that. Yeah, he gets a second chance at this shit. The next time I'm in the army. Yeah, which is the proper branch to be in, by the way, hua. So we'll talk about that. But now, they said you were a sniper, so I know you go through some advanced training later because you went a couple of awards for doing that. But was everybody trained as a sniper or did you when you went through your STT? Did you get additional training as a sniper? No, so when I say, hey, do you guys have some snipers? Well, we had one actually school trained sniper, and he was a former marine who went through Quantico sniper school. And he's still a good friend of mine. And so, but him and I, I mean, I grew up shooting in this new thing and I had my M 14, with ironsides, and he had a Remington 700 7.62 gun. So we would shoot. And I could pretty much out to 200 shoot with him. You know what I'm saying? With ironsides. And so when they asked for snipers, you know, my buddies like, hey, he goes, he can shoot as good as I can out to 200 and how far are the targets, you know? And they're like, wow, sometimes we're 50 yards, you know? And so he recommended that I be one of the snipers, you know, he's like, hey, you know, this guy's a good shot, let him do it. And so as soon as I got back from that deployment, they sent me to sniper school. Can you explain when you say iron sights? Explain for listeners what you're talking about right there. So you don't have any magnification. There's no scope. You're basically you're shooting with sites. Yeah, you're lining up the rear in front sight. And letting it fly. And all the other fancy stuff man, it's like you line up the rear kind of bracket of sight with the front blade, you know, and it's like, get that sight picture and then let loose. That's pretty much it.
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"Dang. The British are going, that's one crazy mate. He's hanging out. He's hanging out the helicopter. He's hanging out the choppa. No, they were cleaning their drawers just like the power pilots were because it was just like, I mean, it was so, because they're probably looking left and right, looking for stuff and they really weren't paying attention in front of them and the Brits were doing the same thing. And I mean, at the last second, everybody just happened to bank the correct way. So we didn't hit each other head on. You guys were flying lights out, right? Oh yeah, it's a totally Black Death. Yeah. And then so we're doing these missions like that. And in another night, it was coming back from one of the missions, and I see this incredible place like lit up on the side of this mountain. I mean, it looks like something like search lots from Hollywood, you know, and it's like, what is that? And they're like, well, that's Saddam's northern palace. So I'm just like, wow, I said, hey, hey, let's get closer to that thing. And I go, yeah, every time we get close, they shoot at us, you know? And I'm like, well, that's cool. I'll shoot back. So we get close to the thing, you know? And I hadn't took any fire, hadn't took any fire yet, and then I'm like, that's a huge swimming pool. It was in front of this house, you know? So I'm like, hey, get me over that swimming pool. And I said, you sure this is Saddam's palace? And they're like, yeah, it's a Saddam's palace and I said, get me over that swimming pool. So I take an M 67 grenade and fire it into that swimming pool. And I'm like, okay, fried out. So they're like, and bank off, and we take off. And it just explodes at swimming pool, you know, just bust it, and then water is running down this mountain. We're looking back, you know?
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"How long were you were you out there? Was it one where you deployed once twice? So really, I mean, desert storm was pretty short. So the whole marg deployment was about 8 months just because of desert storm. You know, it kind of extended a little bit. They're normally 6 months, but ours was 8 months. And during that time, you were doing the recon missions, did you ever have enemy contact? Yeah, well, I kind of, I guess, is a super stupid deal. I was point for the platoon, you know? That means I walked up front. I navigated, I looked for booby traps. I did all this other sneaky stuff, you know? So my platoon commander was like, hey, we're on one of those reconnaissance missions. And there was we were watching a camp, and it was a white light, almost like a wall tent, but it wasn't a wall ten. It was their version of a wall tent. And they were carrying and putting stuff in this tent all day, you know, just all of a sudden and he goes, I'd love to know what's in that tent. He goes, do you think he could get over there and see what's in it, you know? And I was just like, I mean, there's a couple clicks away. He's like four clicks, you know, to this tent. And pretty rough terrain in between. It's just down the road, Kevin. It's just right down the road. I mean, it's just like out west, where we were at in northern Iraq. I mean, you can Montana, you can look at something and go, oh, that's just right there. Well then a day later, you get pushed up and so I'm like, yeah, I think so, you know, and he goes, well, who do you think could go with you? You won't compromise. And I was just kind of like, I don't know. I mean, it's kind of sketchy, you know, because I get down to socks and, you know, I had my pistol because you're not going to do much with a rifle anyway out by yourself. And so I took a pistol, a couple of grenades, a wheelie peak, grenade, so I could mark my position to put fire on it if I did get compromised. And took off. With a one 12 radio, which is an emergency radio, we didn't even have columns, like inner squad comms. So if I got in a bind, I'd have to come over this thing that everybody and their brother talking to jets and everything else is going to hear me. So anyway, so I take off and it's like right at dusk in the evening. So I take off, I got a couple canteens of water, and I make my way over there, and
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"Hope it's sterile water. And not that stuff that came out of the pit. What did you call it? The demo pit. The demo pit. Oh my gosh, that's how you know you're going to survive because you get inoculated. You can get inoculated against everything, but that devil pitch going to make you a bulletproof. If you can survive that, nothing's going to kill you. Absolutely. All right, so you get through all of this. Now let's talk about some deployments that you had. So when's the first time you actually get to go do something? So we did a pre deployment workup in my platoon. I was in bravo platoon at SEAL Team 8. And we actually went and did a climbing trip in the dolomite mountains of Italy. And it was a month long. It's really a pretty fun school. And during that time, Iraq invaded Kuwait. So desert shield happened. And then our deployment was right after that. So we deployed and went overseas and then we ended up going with the marines up into turkey, northern turkey, and then writing edge. And then we'd start doing missions into Iraq doing reconnaissance. So was this training that they took you on? Was that because, you know, I remember the lead up to it. I mean, there was a lot of intelligence or belief that Saddam Hussein was going to do that. But was your training based on the fact that that was going to happen or did you just happen to be training and doing that work when this happened? Well, it was just a normal platoon workup. We were doing our normal stuff. And then somehow our platoon leader, he had arranged for us to go do this climbing trip. Because it's part of our medal. Basically, to be able to do certain things, you know, and so he had that set up for us. And it wasn't a specific for that. But that's why we were there doing that. All right, so Saddam Hussein invades. What do you guys do? Yeah, so we actually, I mean, we came back home, finished up our workup. And then ended up deploying on a Mark deployment, which is a Mediterranean cruise, basically, you know, you're with the fleet. Heading over into the Mediterranean Sea, we were on the USS alston. I think it's an LPD, is the name of the ship.
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"To the swift system. In mister Murphy knows what that is. If you have access to that, you can follow money over the world. And because we had access to that Morgan, we were able to trace the money. For example, traced $2 million to Russia to the national fisheries bank. Two embassy members for the Iraq and the Russian embassy went to the bank after Saddam was captured and made a withdrawal in needless to say they're not with us today. They paid the ultimate price for taking it 2 million bucks. But we traced monies, you name it United States, Canada, Philippines, South America. All over the world, it was we had the key. And we used the key well. Yeah, like swift is basically an messaging system right. So you can track everything and that's why I don't remember when president Bush came out and they talked about swift. A lot of people had no idea what that really was. A lot of people don't realize how the financial transactions move around the world. Where is the most, I guess there would be no life. Where's the most shocking place you found money being taken, you know, or transferred to, but clearly, I mean, you've got Russia is they were friends of Saddam. I mean, there's no, it's very clear that they were friends of theirs. What about Iran? What about some other nations we would consider state sponsors the terrorism? Definitely not Iran. Why not because they got into the fight, but my question was that that would be shocking if any money. You know, showed up and Iran. Right. A lot of the money went to Syria, Morgan, a lot of the money went there. But one of the things which and we kind of hit upon this when I, when you were going to show the flow chart, but one of the things that is so important, Iraq had unbelievable ability to set up front companies. And they set up front companies throughout the world. And one of the letters which we obtained during the barzan search warrant, I found a letter in his file that he wrote to Saddam, and he talked about the setting up of Mike accounts in front companies and also placing monies in individuals that had no idea that the money was ever in their name.
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"In so they went to the area in the could not find Saddam in that farmer called and he cast our people out and left. And so he said, you walked right over the pit, where he's at. So they go back the next day. And they, and they find Saddam, they rested on. In I had the opportunity to interview the farmer. And I said, sir, I said, you had the highest ranking Iraq official Saddam Hussein on your property. Wasn't that an honor for you for him to trust you to keep it there? Because I own money. It's all about money. He goes, I heard that they were offering hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars for his capture, and when he would pay me the $1000 a week to stay in the cell, he goes, I could see in the stainless steel case, he was running out of money. So it's all about money, mister Sam. He let him dry and then he ratted him out. That's exactly right. My kind of customer. How much was Saddam worth? I can not tell you, because the monies that I met, how much was he worth for the reward? You know, I knew that. I'm thinking it was like $50,000. It was what it was. Well, hell, you had a higher bounty than that, Murph. Look at you, you're 5 times the worth of a Saddam Hussein. I'm sure you can find out on the Internet maybe that's what Steve's doing, but it was more money that wolves left in this case. Oh, man gets $30 million for Saddam's sons tip. Yeah. You can. For his sons, that's uday. Some farmers live in 5 million? Yeah. I do not remember guys. Sorry. But you get a finder's fee or anything?
Game of Crimes
"saddam" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"What was Saddam going to do with those missile casings? That was, according to mister Aziz, that would be the what it was, it was the caseins that you would that would be the propellant you would put the propellant in for the missiles. So that's what those were for. But what you're saying is that we were a year too soon, but it was obviously Saddam's ultimate goal to obtain some kind of WMD, right? That was what tariqa said. But again, we were way too early way too early in regard to that. But he was using these money laundering schemes and everything else to finance the acquisition of these WMDs, right? So you might say we're too early or the question is, were we at the right time and prevented him from getting that? Right. Is your cup half full or half empty? Yes. Because there is just like Kim Jong-un, you know, and guys like that, you know, the I told us in Iran, I wouldn't trust them with any kind of WMDs, you know? So go through. Here's interesting because, you know, if folks go back and watch some of the clips and for those of you players who rolled enough, you saw it Tariq Aziz on TV. He was articulate. He was well spoken. Knew how to communicate effectively. And for you to have the to do that relationship with him in three days. I mean, that's amazing because this guy could have played you for the entire time you're there and you never could have got anything. Right. It was so interesting when after I typed up my report and that's something to say and I'm sure Steve when he was working his cases now in Columbia. You're every day is your work. You live it. Thank you. You eat, you sleep a little bit, but you work. And so when I typed up my report on this, I was called in to the particular governmental agencies office. And I'll never forget this. They said, what interrogation technique did you use to obtain us information? And I looked at this guy straight face and I said, I interviewed him. College football. I interviewed him. And they said, what did you promise him? What did you do or whatever? And I said, I just interviewed him. I said, that's what I've done for decades. I interview people. And they thought that was strange that grapes, Cuban cigars, and a football game, Steve. Whatever it takes. I mean, and that's the sign of a good interviewer is you've got much as you hate to sometimes. You've got to come across a common ground there. And if you want to gain ground, you've got to show them respect. Sometimes you got to take one for the team when you interview people like interviewing rape suspects, sexual assault suspects. You know, you just, you know, you can't, if you let your personal, the thing is, you could have gone over there and let your personal bias get in the way, and that would have ruined the entire interview. You could have said, your scum. I mean, how many, look, let's kind of book in this here too. How many people do we think Saddam Hussein was probably responsible for killing? Oh, especially the other person I interviewed the ambassador to Switzerland, barzan in also then he became when he screwed up and Switzerland, he became the chief of police for Iraq, I mean, he killed more Kurds than we'll ever know.
WGN Radio
"saddam" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Man we were rough on Saddam Hussein Oh my God Our prejudice has showed through So there have to be all kinds of projects attached to 9 11 rather than telling kids You know what kiddos We were attacked then by people espousing radical notice I said radical Islam and guess what There's still significant numbers out there practicing that that we have to be aware of worldwide terrorism still it's not over even though it seems to have been in hiatus a bit it's still there Are they going to be taught that No they're going to be taught tolerance and diversity quote so they can grow up without the prejudices that arose in many Americans 20 years ago If you lived through that Americans by and large were angry without a doubt unified on this and knew that we have to take action against those who did this Now you could argue Afghanistan was that war you can argue it certainly was not prosecuted correctly all the difficulties that we know But the idea I want to go back to that we were bigoted prejudice and this provoked it versus I think we reacted pretty well as a country in toto given the provocation 3000 dead the destruction across the country and the fear God knows what was going to happen next Yeah I think you might get a little bit worked up over that All right 8 6 6 5 zero 5 46 26 DOM Giordano in for Jim bohannon I'm getting vaccinated.
AP News Radio
Senators erase early deficit, beat Bruins 3-2
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The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Biden Wants Regime Change in Russia... Or Does He?
"In the kind of one step forward, one step back man or that is now come to characterize if not defined. The Biden administration, Biden says that he wants regime change in Russia and then The White House clarifies that he doesn't. So this all started when Biden was giving a talk to some of the troops. And he says that Putin quote can not remain in power. So the implication could not have been more clear, that it's going to be part of U.S. policy to get Putin out. Now let's remember that this is actually consistent with things that, for example, Lindsey Graham said several weeks ago when Graham and effects said, listen, why isn't there somebody who's going to sort of rise up and now in Graham's case he was talking about somebody in Russia by Biden's implication was somehow that it would be a strategy of the United States to be working, perhaps with other generals, other figures in Russia to oust Putin from power. Now, needless to say, this is a very dangerous and provocative thing to be saying from the leader of America to a nuclear tipped adversary. If Putin were to think that his own existence in power and is probably his own life or somehow jeopardized by what the U.S. is plotting against him, think about how he might react to that. So the United States, I think it's completely one thing to say, all right, we're going to try to have regime change in Iraq. We're going to get rid of Saddam Hussein and of course under Bush. We did, or that we're going to have regime change in Libya as we did under Obama and we're going to get rid of qaddafi and that did happen, but it's a whole different matter to say this about the Soviet
Mark Levin
Recalling New York Spanish Radio Debate With BLM Leaders and Retired Officers
"But a few days ago and I put this on my social media at rich Felder with an S a few days ago There's a big Spanish station in New York City Music station You know Saddam and Angie reggaeton that type of thing I listened to that to keep my mind right you know Because it consumed so much political talk And I was listening And you know I listen again for the songs and the humor and the jokes It's always a good show And they're talking about coming up next we've got the leader of BLM and two retired NYPD detectives And they're having this spanglish bilingual Spanish debate between Beale and I was Florida Some of the best radio I've heard in years Yes the board op did not know where the dump button was And so nothing was bleeped F bombs everywhere I mean the FCC must have had a field day if they were awake that day But I'll tell you this great programming they probably played one song per segment and really allowed this thing to go in and they went in And you know of course you know they kind of started with hey look we're talking about the murder of these officers who happen to be Hispanic and it's a Spanish station So it was a big deal And BLM hawk who was a hawk with his name hawk Newsom He starts with well let's talk about what the police are doing And I'm thinking hold on a second sir How about we talk about what just happened Because you're here to talk about the issues not necessarily blame the cops right It wasn't the cops that decided to go there and kill this guy He was the guy that decided to kill the cops when they were just doing their jobs And I'm not going to belabor this point But I found it interesting that it seemed like the majority of the callers that were calling in and the social media comments that all of the Hispanics that were tuned into this they were pro police They weren't like the pro crime DA that you have in New York
The Eric Metaxas Show
The National Review Was Wrong About Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandmann
"I was talking about how national reviews at the Kyle rittenhouse story wrong. They also got Nick Sandman wrong. Oh yeah. For their top editors, we're sniping at and denouncing Nicklaus salmon within minutes based on a few garbled minutes of CNN footage, which we're as propaganda. I again was one of the few people speaking out within minutes of in defending Nick salmon's right to constitutional free speech at a political rally, which is what the march for life was. Turns out he didn't even speak. He didn't even do anything. He just stood there. Standing while white, while pro life. But David French again was attacking Kyle rittenhouse as basically irresponsible and reckless, you know, young man with a gun had no place being there. And it struck me. David French was fine with 17 year old Americans handling rifles as long as they were in Iraq. As long as they were protecting a foreign country in a misguided war based on lies and propaganda that George W. Bush sold us. David French was all up for that. In fact, even when served as a military attorney in the green zone of Baghdad, which, of course, was safer for an American than living in Baltimore or any other blue city. But David French got his veterans credentials for political purposes by serving as an attorney in the safe little enclave of the green zone. But actual soldiers were taking actual risk with their lives in that war for no reason. Son of mosaic had nothing to do with 9 11. There were no weapons of mass distraction. Antifa has done far more to harm America than Saddam Hussein ever
AP News Radio
Sudan military leaders reinstate deposed prime minister
"Saddam's military and civilian leaders have reached a deal to reinstate the country's prime minister who was deposed in a queue last month according to the deal which has now been signed government officials and politicians arrested since the October Q. will now be released the company's top general Abdel Fattah Burhan announced that the reinstated prime minister I've done the home dog will need an independent cabinets until elections can be held it remains unclear how much power the government would hold it would still remain on the tights minutes here oversights the queue has drawn international criticism for storing what many hoped would be a chance at democracy after the fall of long time autocrat Ahmad Bashir two years ago I'm
AP News Radio
Tense quiet after Sudan coup, protesters block some roads
"Pro democracy protesters continue their resistance in Sudan's Khartoum protest is a block some roads in the capital with makeshift barricades and burning tires a day off to the ministry seize power in the swift coup widely denounced by the international community the protesters according for a mass March on Saturday to press demands for a return to civilian rule meanwhile Saddam's prime minister and other senior officials in the transitional government who were arrested Monday by the ministry continued to be held at a military camp outside the capital I'm Charles de Ledesma
AP News Radio
In South Sudan, flooding called 'worst thing in my lifetime'
"South Sudan is suffering from a third straight year of extreme flooding as the world meteorological organization warned of an increase in such climate shocks to come across much of Africa the United Nations says flooding has affected almost a whole million people across south Sudan since may I suggest your posse from the international red cross says on top of the flooding many south Sudanese are suffering from auto issues those people we are so affected by drought and many with a crisis so this is very critical emitted in house dressing in southern Saddam faced enough from U. N. H. C. R. says the issue is a human made ones also that has been very prone to cyclical droughts and floods sometimes happening the same time in in in a year and this is nothing but just the effects of a changing climate time Karen Thomas
AP News Radio
Blinken praises Colin Powell as 'beloved' at State Department
"Colin Powell earned adoration as a history making military officer but his reputation later took a big hit Powell retired in nineteen ninety three as the first black joint chiefs of staff chairman I have never wanted to be anything but a soldier a decade later as America's top diplomat Saddam Hussein and his regime will stop at nothing until something stops him Powell's state department was dubious of military and intelligence claims that Saddam had what was developing weapons of mass destruction but he went before the U. N. security council to make the case for war against Iraq citing faulty information it was seen as a low point in Powell's legendary career in eighteen months later he acknowledged no stash was found the intelligence community
AP News Radio
Colin Powell dies at 84 due to complications from COVID-19
"Retired general Colin Powell has died from cold with nineteen complications Powell was the first African American to serve as joint chiefs chairman under George H. W. bush and secretary of state under George W. bush who calls Powell highly respected at home and abroad his reputation though was stained in two thousand three when he went before the U. N. security council to make the U. S. case for war against Iraq citing faulty information that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction Powell's family says he was fully vaccinated against Kobe nineteen before dying of complications at age eighty four Sager
AP News Radio
Early results show record low turnout in Iraq's election
"The turnout in Iraq's weekend elections with little more than forty percent according to preliminary results announced the turn ons a record low in the post Saddam Hussein Iraq signaling widespread distrust of the country's rulers the independent high electoral commission says early results show turn out from the Sunday vote at forty one percent that's down from forty four percent in the twenty eighteen elections which itself was an all time low the voters being mauled by widespread apathy and the bloody close by many young activists who thronged the streets of Baghdad and Iraq's southern provinces in late twenty nineteen calling
WGN Radio
"saddam" Discussed on WGN Radio
"You know Yeah You're going to guess on the Saddam question Yeah that's what I want to do Yeah Try to guess it I may have the wrong answer but who knows Go say he was the dictator Well he might have been a dictator but he was the deal is he was consulting with 7 different individuals who all offered the same service So what were these people What service did they offer Oh Terrorists Terrorists Don't know He wasn't consulting with terrorists I'm sure he was but that's not the answer I'm looking for Okay All right I give up But I will say congratulations to James He finally got one Yes absolutely And hopefully next time it'll be you Call me again Okay Thanks Okay Good deal You too All right so 8 8 8 8 7 6 5 5 9 three will take us to chuck and Kentucky Welcome back to WGN radio What's up chuck Good morning ma'am Welcome to material case for you Loud and clear Okay I've been having a little bit trouble with my phone I just want to make sure I'm going to guess if I can too about the Saddam Hussein that he was consulting with people who had something to do with his body double I know I know that during that time they said he was involved with all kinds of stuff And that was one thing that he was putting money into was finding body double Well that is an interesting answer It's not right but it's fascinating Well I appreciate just having a chance to try to be able to win So call me again I appreciate the call I will man All right good deal Yeah All right yeah the body double thing I remember hearing about that I don't know But that's not what I'm after Ken in Chicago Welcome back to WGN radio How's it going Ken Well how you doing All right tell me all about it You got requests for me Yeah I want to try to try to trivia and I got two requests All right All right to trivia he was consulting with somebody to build his bunker and his palace Oh that's interesting That's not right either Actually did he had the Germans the Germans I don't doubt it but I'm not after that I don't know if I don't know if he tried 7 Germans or not but no that's not it Okay Well 7 different countries Okay I got two record requests And they would be Blue magic sideshow Great record Great record And this one I don't know the group but I'm not sure that the title mister dying Lee said Oh sure the critters Yeah Luby your eyes on your hair Yeah that's unusual song Yeah so the critters and the Han dells both did the same record and then the critters came out with mister dying Lee said I always like that record actually I did too I thought it was unusual Yeah I don't know how unusual it was unusual for them to an extent But yeah that was that was a fine little record Yeah and that's for Laura And display Oh it is huh Okay All right All right Good deal Thanks for calling Bye bye All right yeah mister dying Lee said Little be your eyes blond your hair What came after I think You realize beyond all care life's a hurry but you got no worry You're so mystifying me glad I'm mister dying sad Okay what do I win I know I'd think I bet if I tried hard enough Yeah we've got it Trucker rich is back on WGN radio all right Well he's gone All right well be that doesn't make We've got another 15 minutes of trivia And we have a question And we'll have another bumper stump or two So our question is toward the end of his range Saddam Hussein consulted with 7 individuals and they all offered the same service he thought he needed this service And it wasn't that unusual for Saddam according to his chief adviser but toward the end he just kind of got fixated on it and had to find 7 of them 7 what 8 8 8 8 7 6 5 5 9 three is 88 88 rally on WGN radio.
Sky News Daily
"saddam" Discussed on Sky News Daily
"Something that i will always reflect with next positively as i get older and become reeducated studied physics at the university of texas in learned software programming. It's certainly a more subjective happiness in object. It's just a few weeks. Since american forces withdrew from urban areas are stressful memories. They will always be with me. But at the same time the other things that you've covered as a journalist as a war correspondent desta with me to go on and on but i mean what hasn't changed is politics is still using warfare and that means in a way that journalist we.
Sky News Daily
"saddam" Discussed on Sky News Daily
"Nobody really knew what to expect. And then as it's again two shifts through excitement reporters skynews particular began to speak with different people on interviews. What should i make good to see you. And so we were told to stay on top into watch for snipers on rooftops windows and to wash for any keeble within the crowd who were behaving or acting sort of suspicious. In the context of the behavior of the other people see tanks taken up position At the very core of the bank they troops deploying to the side. Keep coming the gums at the had. Weapons of mission was still looking around expecting any movements. Be of it. So there are a few rounds still going off. We have to be careful. But as you can see the marines taking up tactical position here on the eastern bank of the tigris. This young they would differentiate been through experience just to get to where they were rooms. Where what's your name. You're going out to american started seventy five. That's morning for letting good see to one guy. Join this real high was talking q. And he was kneeling down in establishing a firing position sky news right now. How's it being coming in. It's been pretty good coming in here as a matter of fact this it. Yeah this is just about you. Nothing else really take himself. He couldn't believe in actually reached central back. Mrs was each. I think not sum up the me. Shoot at us drop. The wife is run. They take off their uniforms and then they go back to their lives. So it's hanks in the amtrak's and the other mechanized. Infantry were all circled around the large tower of saddam standing succeeding in the center and it was a very palpable very hypertension. You could feel the electricity just emanating off of this crowd. We just making some technical adjustments here so bear with me. You've seen the local string shoes at the statue. Offset on hussein in the center of the square here very much assign. People started throwing their their sandals. Shoes at the tower which stand in the middle east is a sign of great disrespect. People serves around its base smashing. Its marble plinth with sledgehammers. Really knew then that we were right there at the cuss of global historic event that we were witnessing it in participating. I think you can see. That's an american marine right at the top. They're putting a flag in american stars and stripes over the face of the iraqi strongman. The iraq dictator. Whose statue's about to be toppled by the us marines. And the within short order within one or two minutes in iraqi flag flag was wrapped around the hand of saddam and people were cheering and shouting celebrating in the i think some sort of engineering battalion. Something came in bloomberg marines and they decided to get some help to the crowds. The engineers on this tank on tank toe tank they drug chain and they begin anchor in that chain around the neck of the tower this dench by that lost the the symbol all dictatorship saddam hussein himself. The most ubiquitous sight tear. You see him everywhere he stays out to do from street corners. He waves Above you every statute every square. Well here's one. We're going to see full as they began to own this vehicle. Way the snapping of the metal twisting and folding the rebar holding that ronstadt you in that whole towers came right now. The house was surge forward. I'm trying to trample him. Take anything they can kick him and attack him in any way they can extraordinary side. I understood this keeps symbolic gesture of the coward. All represented much more than statue fall. It was the end of a regime was a turning point and the time line in the history of people's lives the country all this Feeling surging out was electrifying feeling of freedom after so many weeks of warfare and so many years and decades of repression. There was no plan b. in the washington u. k. Plans will they did off to the fall of saddam hussein at some stage. It was thought you know. Maybe they'd never find it but of course they did put him on trial and they hanged him. Senior political sources are saying that justice hasn't lost been done disaster for the people of iraq. The and back that came up civil war. It may have been a while with the people that know only too well. When they're under siege it was share anneke and the sixty percent of the population of shia. Who their allegiance. Tune it wrong that was bound to open up wounds wins that never been healed and outside in the real world. Iraq's worst day in a long long time is unfolding is no coherent system of iraqi government. It was able to take the strain in any way. This was the foreign ministry after a huge truck bomb exploded. It's the american victory. She achieved came just minutes after a similar bombing outside the financing still it's a source of instability great instability great suffering the iraqi population. Imagine the impact of this in any other city a series of attacks. This no nineteen. I thought we were bringing the freedom. And the democracy this as i envisioned it as a nineteen year old and so it was a sense of pride. There's also a huge accomplishment. Because i have my entire life ramps of being part of the ring core inexperience that very few people would ever be able to empathize with understand.
Sky News Daily
"saddam" Discussed on Sky News Daily
"In march two thousand three less than two years. After the nine eleven attacks the us led military coalition set about toppling then iraqi dictator saddam hussein. Long seen is a destabilising influence in the middle east. Saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait in nineteen ninety brought about the first gulf war with a us led coalition this time. He stood accused of amassing weapons of mass destruction and having ties with islamic terror group al qaeda among those involved in the ground invasion was an idealistic. Us marine who would soon find himself at the center of one of the century's most iconic moments this is taking down saddam while you were earlier at the palestine hotel. Can you hear me david. Can you tell us the name of the rouser. My name is david chater was just asking you to tell us the name of the roundabout where you are on the ninth of april two thousand. Three's i was. The sky correspondent embedded in. Baghdad is the roundabout holiday. Just show you around a bit toward being going on something like twenty one days. When coalition forces crossed the borders into iraq coming from both the north and the south the front line is squeezing around us and the service sense of danger. But war came about because tony blair the british prime minister george bush. The american president times had decided that saddam hussein the dictator overall had built up an awesome of weapons of mass destruction. He is without any question still trying to develop that chemical biological potentially nuclear capability and to allow them to do so without any letter entrance just to say we can carry on and do it. I think would be responsible. But i would never came to power in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine. It was a destabilising influence. The iraqi dictator in central part of the middle east there was no real indications were large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. But i think the momentum military buildup was such that the attempt to oust saddam. Hussein was not going to be prevented in any way this is. The hotel was hit by the tank. Shell if you go carry on this way and follow me. Seen the eight ten busters extort me playing growls comes in scottish machine gunshots. That's how that we could expect the marines at any moment. My name is miles hill from oklahoma small town. All sally served with the united states marine corps as an infantry machine gunner. I was riding on the back. Armored troop transport there were thirteen of us packed inside this thing pushing from the border of kuwait iraq to baghdad. I felt called to join the military. I had great grandparents who had fought in world war. Two great grandparents that had fought in korea in there was the lineage military history. There was nothing that i could see the greater honor to myself than joining that organization in participating with such historic unit as a nineteen year old. I wish i could tell you that. I have a better understanding of the gop structure. But what. I knew then was a dictator and oppressed his people for more than three decades in through violent russian. Our orders were very general and they were to push forward into the city against all resistance and secure. The entire city exchanged letters to our families that we gave to our friends in case we were to die that day. Our responsibility was to send those letters off a final final letter. They had prepped. Us and told us this would be the bloodiest urban bowel of ring or history and they were trying to get us ready for what they expected to be. Extremely heavy resistance upon entering the city so death was definitely something on. Everyone's mind they just trying to work out the geography. Exactly where you are. You say you've moved position from where you were earlier via palestine. Ost if i wanted. Drop my pen head out of the country. I said no coming and going but most of the other college of been working with sky took up the offer and so essentially always. They're very much on my own in this mosque. Where we saw some fedayeen. Taking up position with Kalashnikovs rocket-propelled grenades from equal the night. Thirsty we all notice was. There was nobody there gone. We single-minded was no longer with us and then was exhilarating at the same time. Very frightening just down there pasta statue of president. Saddam hussein is where the marines with any lack of pushing forward towards but That's all i know. Amtrak's went as fast as they could go. We were moving in really quick speed. I was sitting on the top with machine gun. It was kind of cool out so the heat from the engine was bubbling up through the court. Were standing out of. Were super high. Alert your heart's jumping in as we began to enter into actually crossed the threshold from the uncivilized part of baghdad into structural art. Amac yet there were skirmishes along the way standing looking out without quickening wondering which grade they come in which direction the crust around about some new started hearing then a line swept him since around as the stature present saddam hussein and that the american troops rolling in past it that is a real within sight. Maybe twenty thirty minutes of just pushing hard to the city all of a sudden. They're looking at the tower of saddam children beginning to move into the streets alone with journalists. The residents don't quite know what to think yet. They haven't started coming out but those tanks now popped in the reporters started coming out of baghdad hotel and the civilian aqueous warmed in the square became pats this just wrong with people..
The Eric Metaxas Show
American Could Only Have Controlled Afghanistan if We Installed a Dictator
"If you wanted to retain control of afghanistan. Eric it's like retaining control of rikers island. You'd need a thought. We would have had to appoint a military dictator there who would have enforced rule harshly the way the president of egypt had to do when he overthrew the muslim brotherhood. We would have had to put an a dictator who was willing to crack. Heads shoot people and it would have embarrassed america and certainly not something by would have done. There is no humane way to rule a place like afghanistan. You will either have an islamist dictatorship like taliban or you will have a secular dictatorship along the lines of qaddafi or saddam hussein or assad in syria so thick that the option of a multi cultural pro transgender jemma critic feminist regime in the middle east is not on the table. It never what okay. What about british style colonialism. Another words they were not Pro transgender they were not flying rainbow flags over the embassies. Wh- because there's a fourth option right. You just mentioned we can have a strong man a pinochet Some pig right. But how's that but we can't pull that off now. We can't even control. Our southern border. America is not strong enough to control a country like afghanistan. We can't enforce order in the streets of baltimore maryland. It'd be like britain trying to have an empire right