Lawrence Wilkerson: I Helped Sell the False Choice of War with Iraq; It’s Happening Again with Iran

democracynow.org - Fifteen years ago this week, Secretary of State General Colin Powell gave a speech to the United Nations arguing for war with Iraq, saying the evidence was clear: Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. It was a speech Powell would later call a blot on his career. Is President Trump doing the same thing now with Iran? We speak to Powell’s former chief of staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. He recently wrote a piece titled “I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again.”
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[@theteach7314]

That was BIZARRE. Haley made a terribly unconvincing argument. Don't you think 18 years of war is enough? BRING OUR PEOPLE HOME.

[@warriorrises469]

Thank you, COL Wilkerson. As a brother vet, I've been waiting for an honorable man to stand and deliver on his collaboration with the war machine over Iraq. Thank you very much, sir.

[@p.a.andrews7772]

You sir are lying with what the Military Officers have done to the working class and even the enlisted personnel whose lives were destroyed with fascism from 1978 on!

[@davelester1985]

Why doesn't she show the missiles made by the US used by the Saudis?

[@RachelDerGolem]

Why do we talk about Arabs killing each other as a BAD thing?

[@darrak4851]

Or even missiles used by israel!

[@TheHarbinger82]

Haley a classic example of American propaganda

[@orthodoxchristianprayers]

Democracy Now should have Col Wilkerson on to talk about the Russia / Ukraine conflict

[@ijvo1951]

Thank you, Col. Wilkerson, and thank you Democracy Now for having him on. Now I would like to hear from Prof. Stephen F Cohen would be excellent.

[@ongoinglife]

America has been at war for 222 years out of the last 239... The Majority of US Foreign Wars are actually based on LIES, False Flag and Propaganda. "War is a Racket !" - USMC general Smedley Butler

[@andrewlambert7246]

I always find out what I need to know.

[@rickbishop5987]

Thanks for the great report with Lawrence Wilkerson.

[@rd264]

im a fan of Col wilkerson becasue hes speaking truth to power now. I just wish he'd done so to Powell re WMD.

[@greysilverback3924]

Will the American people actually go along with another war like Iraq?

[@hundejahre]

Grey Silverback Enough will. Volunteer military, and they’ll just con more stupid kids into “doing their duty”. And the corporate media will play along again.

[@zauberschatzkiste]

Thank you for your exemplary integrity, Larry Wilkerson, Sir.

[@upliftspirits]

Thanks Ms Amy and Mr. Juan along with all of Democracy Now employees for your service!!💯🔑💡✅☕️👀🛎

[@dabay200]

An honest ex-military & ex-government person such a rare thing to see.

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

Nikki's got caught at exactly 01:22. She knows she's talking baloney and prefers to get out of there fast. Stumbling and fumbling along until she reaches something she knows, "Dallas Airport" and after. That was easy to pronounce and could be divulged in a smooth way because that did not contain a lie. As a European, I am baffled by the way these people think they can get away with anything. Recently, the American ambassador to The Netherlands was dumbfounded to discover nobody believed a word he said and people tended to take him up for it. How come Americans believe people like this? Maybe they have no choice? I find it mesmerizingly interesting as day by day in the Greatest Live Show on Earth, featuring King Donald T in a cameo role, unfolds in front of our eyes. Wow, what a treat.

[@bajankurt]

I hope we’re not going down that rabbit hole again!

[@donnagaffney6467]

of course we are!!

[@hundejahre]

Washing Post report, we’re sending Marines and their equipment to Southeast Asia to deter the Chinese... but it shouldn’t be seen as a military force! goddamnit these people won’t be happy til they get us all killed

[@donnagaffney6467]

TRUE!!

[@Antman4656]

We never came out of it. We've been in it so long it just appears normal now.

[@donnagaffney6467]

true!!

[@williamolsen20]

I respect Lawrence Wilkerson, and I know he knows what he is talking about, but I think his warnings will not be heeded and largely ignored. The American public are going to believe this insanity.

[@craigrobb8197]

the good col. is on the right. in saying that, he proudly comes on shows like DN! and the real news network because he knows the left actually gives a fuck. now, in saying that, they don't care what the good col. says, they will try to discredit anyone fucking up their war propaganda to disparage the american people against their demonisation of the iranians tostart up that war that the neo-cons and israelis hold so dear

[@nikncip4806]

William Olsen It makes for good propaganda but it will never happen. Israel and Western imperialism is in the business of destroying secular Arab societies, not Persian or Arab theocracies.

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

William Olsen : Considering the attitude of the Corporate Media, it’s: Surreal what they Believe !!

[@ongoinglife]

America has been at war for 222 years out of the last 239... The Majority of US Foreign Wars are actually based on LIES, False Flag and Propaganda. "War is a Racket !" - USMC general Smedley Butler

[@sky.the.infinite]

The American public has ZERO influence over government policies and decisions in regards to war, especially.

[@TiagoMorbusSa]

Very elucidating interview, thank you so much!

[@00BillyTorontoBill]

another great speech by Wilkerson... to the Veterans for Peace dinner kzbin.info/www/bejne/gouYdomMZcaomc0

[@irahoppe3632]

As the American Indians say - "White man speak with forked tongue." True then and true today.

[@judahcochrane8518]

It was nice knowing y’all

[@hardeepjessy]

Mdm randhawa( nikki) , you were born a Sikh. Please remember our tenets namely, violence as a last resort, and even then by way of defence of another, of actual( and not perceived) violence

[@hundejahre]

Hardeep Jessy Sorry my friend, you’ve lost her to the temptations of power and money.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

Just imagine if it had been launched at a school for the blind, mosques, a Doctors Without Borders hospital, or a water sanitation plant. Oh wait, that's what Saudi Arabia has been targeting in Yemen with the US's help.

[@jimmihotdog3469]

Col Wilkerson an American like they should be. imo,au.

[@rogeliogonzalez5293]

Haley and Trump....they are all SOOOOO FOS.

[@dgh469]

Powell and Wilkerson, et al, should be charged with War Crimes !!!

[@seviguryel1716]

Thank you like this

[@alaskavaper2490]

Outstanding video, Amy. This is of extreme importance considering the buffoon we have as 'Commander-In-Chief'.

[@Stoneshakre]

More of Laurence Wilkerson, please! We all need him.

[@markgigiel2722]

Colin Powell should be in prison as a war criminal along with Bush and Cheney. He says a blot on his career. WTF

[@BL-db6xt]

I'm flabbergasted. All of your leaders from President, VP, congressmen/women, senators & down to the county level elected democratically. Look at what you had threw at us: Nixon, Bush (twice), Trump now, & you may make him great again. I don't add Obama & some others to make a long list. I seems to me the last time the American made a good choice was Teddy Roosevelt.

[@richieroma]

Haley is redefining the term war mongerer

[@gregorybuford3891]

HERO PATRIOT COL. L. WILLKERSON!!! THANK U 4 YOUR SERVICE SIR!!! A SLEEPING GIANT SHOULD AWAKE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!! WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION AND prez tRUmp!!!!!!

[@seanspawn7805]

Great interview. Very scarey.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Scratching the surface

[@jennylee9278]

Nickie Haley and her scrap metal collection.

[@nikncip4806]

Jenny Lee lol #sad

[@Yor_gamma_ix_bae]

strange how bad “the fall” can look. too bad between rapid climate change and nuclear weapons there’s little chance of a recovery for the many current species.

[@ronhat-nx6yq]

America, this is the most incredible bunch of bull shit that can be. People when you see this, first try to imagine the astonishing number of missiles Saudi Arabia has fired into Yemen. Into civilian areas and everywhere else, You name it. And who makes most of these missiles? YOU DO! And yet, if the Houthis manage to fire one missile in response, they are the ultimate bad guys. How dare they defend themselves.

[@jacquijespersen9712]

One more tidbit.... off topic I wish the opening of "war and peace report" was different. Although I am used to it now I i'm curious when they started using it? And why?

[@juanf666highboson5]

Jacqui Jespersen I thought it was "war on peace report "

[@haroldwhite5761]

Instead of 'the war and peace report', the tagline used to be 'Democracy Now, the exception to the rulers'. I had assumed (and maybe so did Amy Goodman) that it was a temporary tagline change in 2001 when the U.S. attacked Afghanistan in response to the 9-11 attacks. But that war never ended. Then we invaded Iraq. Then Syria happened. Then Yemen too. Now the war-mongering propaganda about North Korea and Iran. I'm beginning to wonder if there will ever be a time again when this country is not at war. I wonder if it is the U.S. that will start World War III.

[@jacquijespersen9712]

Harold White interesting...what a dumb question for me to ask.... Honestly the reality of it makes me nauseous I have been only watching for about three years.

[@imagrandpa]

I like Trump, but we’ve been down this road before! Is this sort of rhetoric any better than GWB?

[@christinet6336]

Wow

[@fortruth8538]

Nikki Haley, what do they have on you and your family?

[@januaryblack2021]

look at what they teach in school, no wonder we don't know anything

[@Quinceps]

Lol it's always former criminals who now have no power or influence. Can't someone more powerful show remorse and change everything? Cause it's always so late!

[@mns8732]

Why does DN! give this guy air time?

[@disco1974ever]

The single stupidest thing Trump has ever said is telling other countries to respect the Sovereignty of other countries.

[@imagrandpa]

Is this Cheney’s daughter? She really has sugar plumb dreams of being POTUS? Ain’t no way, no how!

[@evoddubb]

I would like to hear the colonels opinion on how would the u.s.-Iran relationship be today if the carter administration had turned the shah over instead of giving him safe haven here.

[@TheMeWatch]

We all gonna die! Why!

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Nikki could better serve her country by staying home to work on her murgh makhni recipe.

[@patches_kitty]

Was she trying to say Dallas? Dullus

[@mrp9498]

Dulles International Airport. Google it.

[@patches_kitty]

Mrs. Pelosi ah i see now

[@kulturfreund6631]

Col. Wilkerson´s voice reminds me of Johnny Cash's.

[@RicoJazz]

9:34 Something happened there

[@Antman4656]

Thanks democracy Now if only the more centrist news shows like TYT had the bravery that you have to have this guy on and talk about this subject.

[@Punande]

Look into building 7 .

[@shawnm5860]

That missle sounds like the Saudis Problem...

[@rajkobjelica4905]

Shame on you.

[@bobroberts7643]

All the evil

[@Robert44607]

War dealership!!!

[@itsme-nt2lj]

9/11 28 pages

[@Larkinchance]

For the clip, go through DuckDuck on Firefox kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6jcdZmQidSiZ6c

[@genghisrex]

Speaking of escalating and speculation in order to let the path for another war for the benefit of her patrons and handlers.

[@95percentair]

Oh I'm sure the Houthis in Yemen launched that missile, in between bouts of cholera.

[@marneebeckman4881]

Very informative! Good for him for speaking out!!

[@disco1974ever]

What about man portable anti aircraft rockets USA has put in the hands of HTS (Al Qaeda Syria)?? Imagine dozens of those being launched at Airports in Paris, London, LA, Houston......

[@disco1974ever]

HEY!!!!!! That's my water heater! She stole it from my lawn.

[@workwillfreeyou]

I remember about 45 years ago as a young child my uncle explaining to me what he was dying from Agent Orange! His job, transport it by the millions of tons to be dumped on Vietnam and Cambodia. I'll quote my uncle " everyone on the boat is dead or dying from the same cancer.

[@hundejahre]

My dad was drafted, but the day he was to deploy he was pulled off the truck. He'd spent several years as a boy in the Philippines and had malaria, and so the risk of flare ups made him worthless in a jungle war. Instead they made him a Drill Instructor, and his job was to train boys to go over and try not to die. And also to remove the body bags from planes coming home. That broke him. He lived a lot longer than many of the people sent to Vietnam, but not well and with no peace. He finally drank himself to death almost 20 years ago, 53 years old.

[@donnaross5105]

@@hundejahre Sad. Sorry for your loss. The neocons and MBS are beating the drums of war..AGAIN! We must STOP it this time!

[@hundejahre]

@@donnaross5105 Thank you.

[@xyzsame4081]

8:44 Wilkerson recalls the persons who worked eagerly on preparing the narrative for Iraq war in 2003

[@NellieKAdaba]

Wow