March 19 - Insight into Our Imperial Hubris; One of 33 Who Presciently Warned Against the Iraq War; Repeating the Iraq Folly with Iran

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Part 1	Today, on this tenth anniversary of the “shock and awe” beginning of the war with Iraq, we look into a number of stories and issues in the news. We begin with one of the most insightful chroniclers of the Bush/Cheney regime, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ron Suskind, the author of “The One Percent Doctrine”, and discuss the selling of the Iraq war, the utter failure of our political opposition to stand up to the campaign of lies and propaganda, and the dismal performance of the Press who became the cheer squad of the Bush Administration.
Part 2	Then we speak with John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of “Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics”. He was one of 33 American scholars of international relations who signed a letter published in the New York Times six month before the Iraq war began, warning that a U.S. invasion of Iraq with no exit strategy will lead to occupation, urban combat, a victory for Al Qaeda and increased anti-Americanism around the globe.
Part 3	Then finally, we examine a contemporary parallel of the rush to war with Iraq in the face of conflicting intelligence, a situation that is currently being repeated as the Press parrots lies and distortions about Iran, while failing to look at the actual intelligence data on Iran that the Director of National Intelligence presented to the Senate last Tuesday. Dr Trita Parsi, the co-founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and author of “A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran” joins us. We discuss his article at The Huffington Post “3 Facts to Note in 2013 Worldwide Threat Assessment Report”.