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Jiang says the Kurds do not trust the Americans or Israelis because of repeated betrayals, especially after the 1991 Gulf War uprising against Saddam Hussein.
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Saddam
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...George H. W. Bush encouraged the Kurds to rise up against Saddam Hussein."
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"...George H. W. Bush encouraged the Kurds to rise up against Saddam Hussein."
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"...would piss off the Turks who are NATO allies. So then Saddam Hussein launched a brutal crackdown and killed hundreds of thousands of Kurds...."
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"...here of what happened with Iraq, where we were assured that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. That's true. And we went to..."
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"...bomb, they're going to incinerate us all. Well, similar to Iraq, Saddam Hussein is a terrible person. And if he gets weapons of mass..."
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"...government and then access to all of the intelligence files of Saddam Hussein. And Saddam Hussein and his people were actually convinced that the..."
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"...-Khal, the MEK, which was the opposition group which sided with Saddam Hussein, you know, the Iranians think you're with an enemy against the..."
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"...communities. When we were in the UK, we were so against Saddam, we would have said anything. And I think that maybe the Iranians..."
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"...2003 the war against Iraq was not a real war because Saddam Hussein didn't have any air defense. He basically gave up even before..."
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"Because Iraq was a balance to Iran. So Saddam Hussein miscalculated. So the problem with the American military machine is that it's run by..."
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"...et cetera, in the fight against ISIS and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, et cetera. Well, it's interesting you mentioned Saddam Hussein because he..."
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"...that, actually, Piers. I think that that's an accurate description. When Saddam Hussein forgave everybody in Iraq at one point, except my father, and..."
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"...two weeks, time was able to steamroll the Iraqis and overthrow Saddam Hussein. But people forget that by 2003, Iraq was a depleted, degraded..."
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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