The episode reflects on the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq in 2026, tracing the war’s origins to the post-9/11 era and the Bush administration’s false claims about weapons of mass destruction, while drawing parallels to Trump’s current military actions in Iran, which risk repeating pa
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