YOU GUYS REMEMBER THIS GUY?
HE LED TO INSURGENCIES AGAINST
THE UNITED STATES.
GUESS WHAT?
HE JUST WON THE ELECTIONS IN IRAQ.
TA-DA!
HOW IS THAT FOR A MAGIC TRICK?
LET ME GO TO REUTERS TO EXPLAIN.
I AM NOT OVERLY SURPRISED.
I WILL TELL YOU WHY.
BECAUSE HE IS A POPULIST.
I HAVE MORE DETAILS ON THAT IN A SECOND.
WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU?
WHETHER IT IS BREXIT ñ
IF YOU RUN AS A POPULIST YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO WIN.
IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.
BUT HERE IN AMERICA DEMOCRATS INSISTS DON'T RUN AS A POPULIST.
BRILLIANT ELECTORAL STRATEGY, IT NEVER WORKS ANYWHERE.
WHAT ARE THE RAMIFICATIONS FOR IRAQ?
REUTERS EXPLAINS.
Y DID
THE CURRENT PRIME MINISTER LOSE?
SO SUTTER WENT WITH THE IRAQ
FRONT STRATEGY.
MEANWHILE THE CRIMPER MINISTER WHO IS BEHOLDEN TO IRANIAN
CORRUPTION AND US CORRUPTION SURVIVED.
AND PEOPLE IN IRAQ WERE LIKE YOU ARE GOING DOWN TO THIRD.
ONCE AGAIN ALL THE MEDIA AND EVERYONE ELSE IS SHOCKED.
THE GUY WHO WAS A POPULIST WOUND UP WINNING THE SURPRISING
VICTORY.
IF YOU WATCH THE YOUNG TURKS YOU ARE THINKING OF COURSE.
EVERYONE ELSE'S LIKE WHAT IS GOING ON?
WHY ARE WE NOT HAPPY
ABOUT THIS?
WE ARE ONE FOR ONE THERE.
IRAQ HAS ALWAYS BEENLARGELY SHIITE, IT IS ABOUT 60% SHIITE.
THE ROCKET SCIENTIST NEOCONSERVATIVES IN THIS
COUNTRY THOUGHT WE WILL TOPPLE THEM.
EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE LARGELY SHIITE THEY WILL NOT LINE WITH
IRAN, BUT THEY DID AND THEY HAVE FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE IS SOME SURPRISING GOOD
NEWS OUT OF THIS.
MUQTADA IS NOT A GOOD GUY.
I WILL SHARE SOME STUFF ABOUT HIM IN A SECOND.
THEY SAY WE ARE ON OWN COUNTRY AND WE DON'T WANT TO BE
BEHOLDEN TO THE AND WE DON'T WANT TO BE RULED BY THEM.
THAT IS GOOD NEWS.
IRAN IS NO HIGHLIGHT OF OURS, THEY ARE RUN BY THE AYATOLLAH.
THE FACT THAT THEY ARE INDEPENDENT FROM IRAN IF ALL
THIS COMES TO FRUITION IS GOOD NEWS.
THE OTHER GOOD NEWS IS TO BE FAIR THAT LOOKS LIKE A
DEMOCRACY.
IF WE HAD RIGGED IT WE WOULD NOT HAVE PUT MUQTADA OR SADR IN
CHARGE.
IN OUR CASE IN AMERICA ARE OLIGARCHS CHOOSE WHO THEY
WILL GIVE THE MOST MONEY TOO.
THOSE PEOPLE NINE OUT OF 10 TIMES WHEN THE PRIMARY AND WHEN
THE RACE OVERALL BECAUSE THE PRESS SAYS WHOEVER HAS THE
MOST MONEY MUST BE THE MOST LEGITIMATE.
OUR ELECTIONS ARE NOT AS HONEST AS THIS APPARENTLY WHICH IS
SHOCKING.
I AM ACTUALLY GIVING CREDIT HERE.
I AM NOT SURE I WOULD'VE EXPECTED IRAQ TO HAVE
DEMOCRACY IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM.
I AM SURPRISED BY THAT.
THE FACT THAT WE HAD SOME SORT OF REAL ELECTION IN
IRAQ- OKAY,
THEN THE ADVISOR TO AYATOLLAH IN IRAN HAD THIS QUOTE TO SAY ABOUT
SADR.
WHETHER YOU HAVE ALLOWED IT OR NOT HE SEEMS TO HAVE WON
THE ELECTION.
NOW THAT MUQTADA HAS ONE THEY ARE LIKE LIBERAL.
IN OTHER WAYS HE IS NOT A LIBERAL OR COMMUNIST.
THE COMMUNIST PARTY SUPPORTED HIM BECAUSE THEY SAID WHILE ALL
THE OTHER CHOICES ARE SO HORRIFIC, HE IS LESS OF
THOSE EVILS APPARENTLY.
HE GOT THE MOST VOTES.
IN THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM HE HAS TO RUN FOR A PARTICULAR
SEAT.
HE DID NOT.
IF HIS PARTY FORMS A MAJORITY COALITION HE WOULD GET TO PICK
THE PRIME MINISTER, HE WOULD NOT BE PRIME MINISTER HIMSELF.
BUT HE MIGHT NOT EVEN GET THAT OPPORTUNITY.
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SECOND AND THIRD PLACE CAN FORM A COALITION
WITHOUT HIM SO WE WILL HAVE TO SEE HOW THE GOVERNMENT COMES
TOGETHER AND IRAN MIGHT STILL HAVE THE LAST WORD BECAUSE THE
GUYS WHO CAME IN SECOND AND THIRD DO OWE ALLEGIANCE TO IRAN.
SO THEY MIGHT FIND A WAY TO BLOCK THEM BUT THEY COULD NOT
FIND A WAY TO DEFEAT HIM AT THE POLLS.
WHY ARE WE NOT HAPPY ABOUT HIM WINNING?
FIRST OF THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION.
I DON'T WANT OUR EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD CLOSE BUT I UNDERSTAND
WHY HE IS MAKING THAT STATEMENT.
HE IS A POPULIST I THINK A LOT OF COUNTRIES, IRELAND, BELGIUM,
SOUTH AFRICA, THEY AGREE THE DECISION TO RECOGNIZE JERUSALEM
AS ISRAEL'S CAPITAL WAS A DISASTROUS ONE.
DON'T MISTAKE MUQTADA FOR ANY GUY THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL
TO THE WEST, OR WESTERN IDEAS, OR SECULARISM.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT THE ARMY LOOKS LIKE ñ
HERE ARE PICTURES FROM THE BAD OLD DAYS.
THEY LAUNCHED TO INSURGENCIES AGAINST US TROOPS AND KILLED A
LOT OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS.
IT WAS SO BAD IT WAS PART OF THE REASON WHY WE COULDN'T HAVE OUR
PUPPET GOVERNMENT RUN IN IRAQ.
THE INSURGENCY WAS TOO EFFECTIVE HONESTLY.
I WANT A SECULAR GOVERNMENT ALL ACROSS THE WORLD.
SO THIS KIND OF ARMY THAT IS MORE FUNDAMENTALIST AND A POST
TO THE UNITED STATES IS NO FRIEND OF OURS.
BUT THAT IS NOT HOW YOU GET ELECTED IN IRAQ, BUT BEING
A FRIEND OF THE US.
IT DID NOT WORK.
BY THE WAY, I GAVE CREDIT EARLIER HERE TO THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION BECAUSE I DID NOT THINK THERE WOULD BE A REAL
DEMOCRACY IRAQ.
ANOTHER THING THAT THEY WERE PREPOSTEROUSLY WRONG ABOUT.
SO WHY DID SADR WIN?
REUTERS EXPLAINS.
I'M TELLING YOU POLITICS IS NOT DIFFICULT.
IF YOU SAY YOU ARE GOING TO REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF
THE COUNTRY YOU MIGHT GET THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY TO
VOTE FOR YOU.
THERE ARE A LOT OF POOR PEOPLE IN IRAQ.
IF YOU TELL THEM I AM GOING TO LOOK OUT FOR YOU, THEY ARE
MORE LIKELY TO VOTE FOR YOU.
HERE IN AMERICA THE MEDIA IS SO WARPED AND PART OF THE
ELITES THAT THEY CANNOT SEE STRAIGHT.
THAT IS A TERRIBLE ELECTORAL STRATEGY.
THEY WILL TRY TO DO IT AGAIN IN 2020, HOPEFULLY SOME OF US.
THEM.
THE OTHER PART OF IT IS IT IS THE CORRUPTION STUPID.
HERE IN AMERICA OUR PRODUCTIVITY IS SKYHIGH.
THEY SEE THE WEALTH, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE THE WEALTH.
WHY?
BECAUSE THEY GOT ROBBED BY THE ELITES WHO ARE THE DONORS
TO THE POLITICIANS.
THERE IS A LOT OF WEALTH IN IRAQ BUT THEY DON'T HAVE IT.
THE AVERAGE MAN IN A RACK DOESN'T HAVE IT.
IN THIS CASE WHEN A BAD GUY COMES ALONG AND SAYS I WILL
REPRESENT THE POOR AND CORRUPTION, COMPLETELY
UNSURPRISINGLY HE WINS.
IMAGINE IF THERE WAS ACTUALLY A GOOD GUY WHO WAS A POPULIST TO
ACTUALLY MEANT THAT THEY WOULD REPRESENT THE POOR AND THE
MIDDLE CLASS AND WHO ACTUALLY MEANT THAT THEY WOULD END
THE CORRUPTION.
WOULD THAT BE AMAZING?
HERE WE ARE AGAIN IN IRAQ, THE SAME RESULT IS ALL OVER THE
WORLD.
IS A POPULIST AND AGAINST CORRUPTION AND YOU CAN
NEARLY GUARANTEE THE ORE.
MUQTADA AS BAD A GUY AS HE MIGHT BE, AS MUCH AS HE WOULD LIKE TO
ATTACK US, THAT IS WHY HE IS BACK IN NOW PERHAPS IN CHARGE OF
IRAQ.
HEY NEOCONS, DID YOU THINK YOU WOULD BE HOW IRAQ TO
MUQTADA AND HIS ARMY?
NO YOU DIDN'T DID YOU?
BUCKLE UP AND BRACE FOR IMPACT.