Major Danny Sjursen comes back on the show to talk about the many errors of the various American wars in Iraq. Sjursen has written a new article discussing a recently leaked report that was commissioned during and about Iraq War 2, but was deliberately stymied and kept from the American people.

Discussed on the show:

• “The Army Stymied Its Own Study of the Iraq War” (Wall Street Journal)
• “Will Iraq Become Another ‘Lesson Lost’ Like Vietnam?” (The American Conservative)
• Pentagon Papers
• Raymond T. Odierno
• Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
• Sean MacFarland
• Muqtada al-Sadr
• “Collateral Murder” (Wikileaks)
• The Good Soldiers
• Badr Organization

Danny Sjursen is a major in the U.S. army and former history instructor at West Point. He writes regularly for TomDispatch.com and he’s the author of “Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge.” Follow him on Twitter @SkepticalVet.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Kesslyn Runs, by Charles Featherstone; NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; Zen Cash; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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