Subjects/subject
Iraq War
2016-08-30, 1 mention2016-11-01, 1 mention2017-01-31, 1 mention2017-02-07, 1 mention2017-04-11, 1 mention2017-10-08, 1 mention2017-10-30, 1 mention2017-12-18, 1 mention2018-01-23, 2 mentions2019-02-23, 1 mention2019-09-22, 1 mention2019-10-06, 1 mention2019-10-20, 1 mention2020-09-27, 1 mention2021-04-04, 1 mention2021-10-24, 1 mention2022-05-25, 1 mention2023-05-02, 1 mention2023-05-28, 1 mention2023-09-09, 1 mention2023-09-30, 1 mention2023-12-01, 1 mention2024-09-14, 1 mention2024-10-26, 1 mention2025-02-15, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He is upfront that he personally bought the sell — as a teenager he was excited about the war, drank Starbucks in a mall after 9/11 while cheering it on, and jokes he was a coked-up "lunatic Republican" screaming about honoring commitments to Iraq 1:01:42 50:40. Looking back he calls that support a mistake he feels genuinely bad about, made on no real information and a belief that democratizing the Middle East made sense 0:18 25:41.
The bigger position is that the war was built on a lie — he singles out Colin Powell's UN speech on WMDs as the moment that sold it — and treats the whole episode as proof the same institutions (media, government, tech) keep getting trusted after failing badly 0:18 15:30 46:04. He also uses it as the reference point for later skepticism, from 9/11 truth doubts to noticing the same neocons who pushed Iraq resurfacing as Ukraine hawks 1:41:30 17:29 59:20.]?
Every Reference (26)
"the flip side of that radio and what we touched on the web the mass destruction I didn't find them now in the lead-up they had doctored evidence to get us into the war"
"political system, and I mean, our body politic wanted us out of the Iraq War. It didn't want to bail out. There's a number of things that"
Bohemian Grove and Closing Question: Luciferian Cult? — Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant)+48s into the segment"in check cashing places. People are like, oh, Iraq, we lost all trillions of dollars and there's some chaos. We lost. Like, no, no."
"if you'll be well, I kind of had my nervous breakdown with the Iraq war where I Knew this was bullshit right and I used I used to work"
Is Twitter Activism an Addiction, and the Iraq War Origin Story — Torching Bridges (with David Angelo)+88s into the segment"neo-cons, I'm saying there's two things. It's us going to Iraq kind of regime change that we do, but it's also the Mujahideen in the 80s"
"different presidential elections, coming up in the era of the Iraq war and being wrong, being a Bush supporter, being wrong, thinking"
How They Became Conspiracy-Literate: From Bush Supporter to Trump Era — Mandalay Ray+19s into the segment"just kind of like... Well, it's also like here, look, when the Iraq war happened, we kind of... It seemed shady, but we're like, well,"
"like, yeah, they're not facing the idea of not just like the Iraq war and what we've done recently, like jump, I mean slavery, I mean"
Torture, Complicity, and the Catholic Church's Wealth vs Action — Matt Lauer of The Vatican+174s into the segment"The second one was half of you, the second one. Which movie? Iraq War II. The first one they definitely wouldn't remember. We have"
Russ Baker's Origin Story: Iraq, Kerry, and Dan Rather — Live From The NY Comedy Festival (with Russ Baker)+130s into the segment"and a lot of these people have gotten rich off, you know, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan. They've gotten rich. And then Syria. There"
Lost Trillions, Optimism, and Closing on Weiner — Live From The NY Comedy Festival (with Russ Baker)+68s into the segment"him and we go into a lot of different areas. We talk about the Iraq War."
John Kiriakou's Torture Whistleblowing Backstory — Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou)+232s into the segment"big lunatic Republican you doing coke and yelling about how the Iraq Wars the best thing and that we need to honor our commits they were"
Growing Up Church of Christ: First Drinks and Guilt-Ridden Masturbation — #166 - You're A Disgrace | The Tim Dillon Show+430s into the segment"like all of these garbage things that made us think that the Iraq war was like a good idea all these movies that made us think that"
TGIF, 24, and Explaining 9/11 and the Iraq War to Kids — #168 - The Funniest Guy I Ever Met | The Tim Dillon Show+162s into the segment"there's also but I feel like by 2002 or four and we're seeing the Iraq war we know something's crooked like yeah they probably killed Kennedy"
9/11 Museum Mall and Doubts About the Official Story — #170 - Eat The Rich; They're Keto Part 1| The Tim Dillon Show+333s into the segment"never talk about those as conspiracies. They never talk about the Iraq war where the New York Times, Judy Miller, wrote an article about"
Media Hit Pieces and 'Trafficking in Conspiracy Theories' — #219 - The Gates Of Hell | The Tim Dillon Show+77s into the segment"get it and then it's usually the same people that told us the iraq war was a great idea which i believed but i was on cocaine at the"
Censorship for 'Discouraging' Vaccine Uptake — #246 - I Love The CIA (with Whitney Webb) | The Tim Dillon Show+257s into the segment"i had the uh the iraq war and the iraq war was uh this war where similar to afghanistan um that was going to fix all the problems it was going to put pressure on iran"
Colin Powell's Death and the Iraq War Lie — #274 - Tourettes Gang | The Tim Dillon Show+80s into the segment"fact checking this is all fake this is more egregious than the iraq war like uh misinformation and and more damaging yeah but no it's"
"Crystal hates Donald Trump all of these guys that supported the Iraq War hate Donald Trump they are now all a power chicks for Biden's"
Nuclear War Risk and the Neocon Turn of the Democratic Party — Bonus Episode: Tim Talks To Gen Z+122s into the segment"he's getting fatter and he's enthusiastically supporting the Iraq War um but he's our he's our Beacon of Hope we love him he's hope"
Kids as Hope vs. Gen X Toughness — Tom Segura & Christina P. | The Tim Dillon Show #348+50s into the segment"spent eight trillion dollars on Wars on regime change Wars it was Iraq war and then all these spillover wars in Yemen Libya Syria Pakistan"
Recapping the Blackout and Reintroducing the Ukraine War Discussion — Bobby & Cheryl | The Tim Dillon Show #360+204s into the segment"humanitarians overnight why why were the people that pushed the Iraq War really into pushing the Ukraine war not to say that the Ukraine"
Why Rich Liberals Suddenly Love Ukraine — The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363+181s into the segment"they're not good for Americans you know a lot of I didn't think the Iraq War was great for Americans right I mean all of these things that"
The 2010 Gaza Flotilla Massacre and Media Propaganda Playbook — Bonus Episode: Abby Martin+98s into the segment"coffee in a mall after 911 and being happy and enthusiastic about the war in Iraq because I I was very excited about the war in Iraq I"
Wishing Kamala Would Just Say "Remember 9/11" — The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats | The Tim Dillon Show #409+163s into the segment"mean I was 18 years old what the hell did I know I supported the Iraq War when I was 18 years old too I I feel bad about that yeah I like"
Project 2025, Deportation as 'One Bite at a Time,' and Chinese Hacking — Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414+156s into the segment"the Pentagon you know I mean I remember back to the days of the Iraq War when the Pentagon had lost billions of dollars trillions of dollars"
USAID as a CIA Slush Fund — Kanye, Elon, & The End Of DEI | The Tim Dillon Show #431+104s into the segment