James O’Brien gives his thoughts on the Iran-Israel conflict, drawing parallels to the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003. With US President Donald Trump invoking nuclear threats and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushing a ‘regime change’, James questions if we’ve learned anything.
00:00 | ‘European allies… adopting completely different approaches.’
00:56 | ‘It would feel very much like Iraq.’
01:45 | ‘He’s got it wrong on countless occasions in the past.’
03:28 | ‘This is about destruction… not the removal of a mooted nuclear threat.’
04:50 | ‘You’re blowing up your neighbour’s house because he might get a gun one day.’
06:17 | ‘Thank you for your attention to this matter… on a bloody tweet!’
07:55 | ‘Unless there is no bomb, in which case there’s no justification for these attacks.’
09:13 | ‘If you’ve got ten murderous despots and one bullet, what are you going to do?’
11:48 | ‘You soften the public up for war by positing an epic threat.’
13:58 | ‘The echoes of Saddam Hussein in 2003 become loudest.’
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