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Rationalization: Iraqi Freedom

Season 8 • 07/24/2003

The White House uses ghost stories to justify invading Iraq.

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07:19

Dick Morris
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Dick Morris, former advisor to President Clinton, talks about what he perceives as missed opportunities to disrupt Al Qaeda operations.
07/23/2003
02:26

Headlines - Ixnay on Uday & Qusay
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Ending someone's career is one of the less often talked about side effects of ending someone's life.
07/23/2003
01:39

Headlines - The Smothered Brothers
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The U.S. military killed Uday and Qusay Hussein in Mosul, Iraq, with missiles and machine gun fire.
07/23/2003
02:27

Saddam's Sons Dead
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The Hussein family respectfully asks that, in lieu of flowers or donations, you please stop trying to kill them.
07/23/2003
01:31

Dead Husseins
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Jon Stewart is stunned that images of Saddam Hussein's dead sons were released in America until he realizes they were just the "before" pictures.
07/24/2003
00:10

Moment of Zen - Bush on Child
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President Bush remembers how interestingly Julia Child made meals.
07/24/2003
02:54

Headlines - Gray Matters
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California announces they will be holding a recall election for governor, and candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger is shaking hands and signing boobs.
07/24/2003
07:04

Joseph Wilson Pt. 1
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Former ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson wonders how the Niger uranium documents passed the muster of the State of the Union but not Italian tabloids.
07/24/2003
03:06

Minority Report
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Stephen Colbert defends the rights of the fraction of the minority that reversed the California gubernatorial election.
07/24/2003
03:21

Joseph Wilson Pt. 2
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Joseph Wilson feels that the White House has sufficiently retracted the infamous 16 words from the State of the Union address.
07/24/2003
02:08

Rationalization: Iraqi Freedom
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The White House attempts to provide more evidence for invading Iraq after the fact, including a special videotaped ghost story.
07/24/2003
05:21

Paul Teutul, Jr. and Paul Teutul, Sr.
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Paul Teutul, Jr. and Paul Teutul, Sr. at American Chopper can make up to three bikes a week.
07/28/2003
04:04

Nonport Report
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The far more likely explanation for 28 pages of blacked out findings in the 9/11 report is that the Bush administration is giving us contemporary conceptual art.
07/28/2003
02:13

Blame!
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The attacks of 9/11 could have been prevented if the right combination of skill, cooperation, creativity and some good luck had been brought to the test.
07/28/2003
04:20

Saddam's Sons Dead?
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As much as the Iraqis appreciate the way Americans are flooding their airwaves with pictures of the Hussein brothers' dead bodies, there does remain a hint of skepticism.
07/28/2003
03:09

CD-Rob
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In the file sharing world, Napster is the "slightly older brother who was cool until he got busted for file sharing."
07/28/2003
00:08

Moment of Zen - Purple Bear
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A purple bear in the zoo.
07/28/2003
02:48

Headlines - Unguarded Bodyguard
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Saddam Hussein's top bodyguard is captured, leaving the world to wonder who would throw hats and wine bottles at Americans.
07/29/2003
01:49

Intro - Bob Hope
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Bob Hope is dead at 100 and he gets an obituary from renowned dead critic Vincent Canby.
07/29/2003
00:10

Moment of Zen - Government Fight
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Government officials of an undisclosed country duke it out on the floor.
07/29/2003
01:35

Mess O'Potamia - Economic Unrest
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Iraq's hippies want a higher minimum wage, which will be tough considering every economy Bush touches turns to sh*t.
07/29/2003
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