Why has nobody in the military leadership of the United States been held accountable
for the 13 American service members killed during Biden's botched Afghanistan
withdrawal or for all the failures of ours in Iraq?
Trillions of dollars spent thousands of lives lost and to what end?
When is the last time America won a real war outright?
And the answer by the way is World War II.
>> Trillions of dollars spent, thousands of lives lost.
Laura Ingraham cares about that money and those lives lost.
Apparently now because they're debating more on this emergency.
Ukraine relief as Russia as we know has invaded Ukraine and they're looking for
more assistance as this continues on and on to more and more months.
Now, Laura Ingraham, you would be surprised to see if she's just peacenik,
she's a tree hugging antiwar peacenik.
She wants some response, some accountability for
the people who are responsible for things, especially Iraq and Afghanistan.
Those debacles.
If only we had a little bit of content that people who were cheerleading and
pushing that war.
Let's go to Laura Ingraham's piece that she wrote in 2003.
Around the time that we went into Iraq.
She was talking about the Dixie Chicks and their anti war stance and
how they're embarrassed the war of George W Bush at the time.
So, Natalie Maines, who is one of the singers of Dixie Chicks.
She's writing, her outburst is simply the latest and loudest of the cattle walls
coming from those who believe they are intellectually and
morally superior to the average American supports this president and
his view of the dangers posed by Saddam.
Again it's 2003.
Most of what we hear from the anti war crowd hasn't been reasoned debate.
It has served only to foment anti American sentiment abroad.
Those like Maines, who go overseas to malign our leaders really help those
who are cheering on the Dubai's of America's global superpower status.
When hit with the charges of anti war Americanism,
these elites invariably respond with the quote, support the troops but not the war.
But why take their word for it?
When the war is over, when Saddam is gone and when the hidden weapons caches
are on display for the world to see and when the Iraqis are living in freedom.
>> [LAUGH] >> We must not
allow anyone to forget the obstacles we had to clear to make it all happen.
The French- >> It's like every bad take humanly
possible.
>> She's not she's not done, the French and their ideological soul mates here in
the US will try to wallpaper over their previous comments and actions.
Who's gonna hold them accountable?
I'm curious, which one of these weak lives and
their wallpapering over all the facts and their previous comments against Iraq.
What are they gonna say, Laura?
Let's watch.
>> I mean I think there is often the the assumption that the media is leftist or
liberal and maybe they are.
But when it comes to war, they are consistently on the side of militarism,
imperialism and more conflict.
Going all the way back to 2003, when nothing about George Bush or Dick Cheney,
but overwhelmingly the New York Times, NBC News were behind the invasion of Iraq.
>> Now, I was one of those who was lured into the naive ideas about Iraq and
even nation building.
I finally saw the light, thank goodness- >> Laura Ingraham finally saw the light
cuz she was into that nation building in the war in Iraq that somebody
duped her into.
As Glenn Greenwald just said that, those lives they're blood thirsty and
they want more wars.
Apparently, Laura Ingraham was a former lib because that's just
where those things work.
Now, one more thing on accountability.
She's looking for accountability and when are we gonna hold people responsible for
what they did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There's this guy who came in after W Bush and he was asked,
what are you gonna do about those war criminals?
This is what he had to say.
>> Will you appoint a special prosecutor ideally Patrick Fitzgerald to
independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush administration,
including torture and warrantless wiretapping?
>> We're still evaluating how we're gonna approach the whole
issue of interrogations, detentions and so forth.
And obviously we're gonna be looking at past practices and
I don't believe that anybody is above the law.
On the other hand,
I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.
My general belief is that when it comes to national security,
what we have to focus on is getting things right in the future as opposed
to looking at what we got wrong in the past.
>> Tonight on Laura Ingraham.
So she's gonna ask Obama,
how come he didn't take care of those war criminals from the Bush administration?
>> No, but that's actually in essence what they're doing now.
And so this is why I tell democrats, never agree with republicans,
they'll always use it against you.
Always hold them accountable,
they'll use it against you if you don't hold them accountable.
That's exactly what Laura Ingraham is doing.
Guys, two things here.
One is the sleight of hand.
Laura Igraham says, the war is awesome, we should definitely go to war,
anyone who's against the war is terrible.
She wrote a whole book about how the Chixie Dicks.
>> [LAUGH] >> That was funny, [LAUGH] Dixie Chicks,
okay, should shut up and sing, that was the title of the book.
Shut up and sing, forget freedom of speech, how dare you oppose the war?
Now, she says, goddamit!
Why isn't anybody being held accountable for being wrong about Iraq?
That is unbelievable.
But that's because of the second factor here.
Which is that Laura Ingraham crossed in all the right wing and
certainly Donald Trump, everyone on the right has realized, our viewers and
our voters don't mind lying at all and they never look anything up.
So I'll just pretend I was against the war, who cares?
And I'll be like, goddamn!
Why wasn't, you know what?
When Obama said we look forward, we don't look backward, that was already a debacle.
That means we're not gonna hold any of the criminals accountable cuz all the crimes
are by definition in the past.
If you only look forward, you miss them, okay.
And what do we always tell you guys?
When the Democrats make the mistake of agreeing with Republicans,
the Republicans will punish them and now they are.
Now turning around going, Carl why didn't Obama hold people again?
Why is anybody holding anybody accountable?
Unreal.
>> My biggest beef with this is, you hear you hear these
Republicans like Laura Ingraham complain about Afghanistan.
It's telling that these people look at the 13 people who died in Afghanistan who,
of course that was a tragic event.
But they look at these 13 people who died in Afghanistan,
the same way that they look at those four deaths in Benghazi and
they framed them as the most catastrophic events in US history.
Second to none.
And yet in the same breath, while Trump was overseeing 400,000 deaths from COVID,
a 911s worth of deaths every single day and pretending it wasn't real and
saying it would go away with the heat and prescribing bleach to cure it.
They were cheering him on like the guy was Churchill.
>> [LAUGH] >> Yeah, 100%.
In fact, here I'm gonna go to one of our members here,
we do the show with our members, at tyt.com/join to become one audience.
Now let's hear what Maximus says.
And who Laura Ingraham negotiated a deal with Afghanistan and the Taliban for
withdrawal?
Donald trump.
Okay, everything's sleight of hand.
Okay, Trump didn't, now we're blaming Biden, right?
And Biden is indisputably right.
If you're upset about 13 Americans who died, how about 400,000 that died,
that didn't need to die because you told him that they shouldn't take the vaccines.
And then COVID was no big deal etc.
And then one more thing for me, Glenn Greenwald.
So he goes on there and
he says, can you believe the liberals at the new York Times lied you into that war?
Okay, by the way, that is true and fair, New York Times was terrible on that.
And we were on the air, we were one of only two national shows saying,
don't go to Iraq, don't, it's a terrible idea, right?
And of course we're called traitors and all those things, right?
And the New York Times was awful.
You know who was worse, by far, by a lot?
Fox news.
And they're on Fox News, the one media network that is
most responsible for the Iraq war by a lot.
They made the New York Times look like child's play,
everyday, propaganda 24 hours a day and that affect CNN, MSNBC.
In fact, MSNBC internal memos show that they fired Phil Donahue cuz they were
worried that Fox News looked more patriotic than they did.
Fox news is like war, war, war, war, war war.
And now Glenn Greenwald comes and goes, my God,
this beautiful Fox News is against war.
I mean they're so innocent on the goddamn New York Times.
That's another slight of hand.
It's tiring.
[LAUGH] >> You know that liberal company
Halliburton benefited, so how can you really blame him?
>> Yeah.
So Halliburton of course Dick Cheney's former company, Dick Cheney got a $34
million golden parachute and then all of a sudden Iraq war started.
Halliburton Burton made billions of dollars.
Well known liberals in Halliburton and all the mercenaries and
all the defense contractors.
No, it was the right wing and the corporations that made all
of the money from the Iraq war and Fox News and Laura Ingraham loved it and
they're lying to you in the most disingenuous ways today.