Iraq, every mention
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Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
- ▶ 18:52 Rahm Emanuel They know they're reliant on America, but they're not going to be so dependent that they're vulnerable because of the lack of the leadership in two wars, Iran and Iraq.
- ▶ 1:06:43 Rahm Emanuel We fought Iraq and Afghanistan with two tax cuts.
China Outbuilds America 230-to-1. Saronic Has a Plan
- ▶ 26:54 Dino Mavrucas On the one side of the Persian Gulf, you have, you know, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Oman.
Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?!
- ▶ 58:36 Nate Silver Iraq.
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 1:18:01 David Sacks We send half a million to Iraq, and Iran is three times bigger as a country, and it's a mountain fortress. 2 times in the scene
John Fetterman: 'I'm the Only Democrat in Congress Saying This'
- ▶ 16:16 unnamed speaker And that uncertainty, I think, is what has a lot of folks saying, I don't know if this is going to become another Iraq war or Afghanistan type situation.
Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
- ▶ 7:32 Brad Gerstner So my suspicion is that these impacts are shorter duration, but right now the market's having a little bit of post-traumatic stress, flashbacks to Afghanistan and Iraq, and wondering if we might be wandering into a quagmire.
- ▶ 26:19 David Sacks I mean, these are people who never wanted to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, would still be there after 20 years if they had their choice.
“This is Bibi’s War” - Harvard’s Graham Allison on the Influences and Endgame of the Iran War
- ▶ 3:55 Graham Allison Building a new regime, regime change, is something that we know historically doesn't work very well, at least in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- ▶ 12:40 Graham Allison I remember, ah, in Iraq, after Bush failed to find nuclear weapons, which was the initial, I would say, somewhat cucked up rationale for our going into Iraq, Gandhi Rice, who was the secretary, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:41 David Friedberg You know, if we think back to Iraq, Iran is twice as many people, a hundred million versus fifty million, four times the land area, a much better equipped military, and arguably the military system, the regime, is embedded in every aspect… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:17 Graham Allison The Israelis have had a different idea, and this goes back to the original attack on Iraq, Osirak. 2 times in the scene
War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 5:31 Emil Michael In terms of boots on the ground, there's no scenario where we have some protracted boots on the ground, Afghanistan, Iraq too, like scenario.
- ▶ 17:08 Emil Michael Crazy policies that are written into military departments, and that's why when Secretary Hegseth talks about, um, this kind of thing and what was happening with him when he was in Afghanistan, if you ever read his book in Iraq, he's like,…
- ▶ 18:43 Emil Michael And then the Iraq, uh, sorry, the Russia, uh, Ukraine war happened where it's like drone on drone.
- ▶ 34:50 Chamath Palihapitiya Just to build on your point, Jason, the thing that Emil said before, which I think is important as well, is we have an enormous amount of learnings about what happened in Iraq. 2 times in the scene
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 27:48 David Sacks That was the mistake of Afghanistan and Iraq. 2 times in the scene
Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She’s Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies
- ▶ 12:10 Tulsi Gabbard James Clapper was an intelligence community leader during the time, uh, the, before our country went to war with Iraq. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:35 Tulsi Gabbard I served in a medical unit in Iraq, uh, back, and I was there for, um, all of 2005, and was in a position where every day was confronted with the high cost of war, and ultimately that's, uh, what drove me to eventually run for Congress, to…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Why the West is Destroying Itself, Data Empire, Skeptics, How to Win
- ▶ 38:08 David Sacks Was it a good idea to occupy Afghanistan, Iraq?
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 24:34 David Sacks Backfired in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and on and on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:54 Jason Calacanis And Freeburg, the major part of this paradigm shift that we're seeing here comes from an investment in energy in the United States since the Iraq war, since the Afghanistan war.
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 50:30 Tucker Carlson I remember when I decided the Iraq war was a bad idea. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:21 Jason Calacanis Partial evacuation of the Iraqi embassy. 3 times in the scene
Antonio Gracias: DOGE updates, Voter fraud, Finding 'Big Balls' | All-In Live from Miami
- ▶ 18:10 Antonio Gracias He, um, went to prison for shooting somebody, shot some guy's hand off, has charged, if I remember correctly, a 160, there's 60 or 70,000 dollars of benefits through Medicaid, and his, we think, is now in Iraq because he's active on his… 2 times in the scene
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 16:31 Chamath Palihapitiya You may not like the fact that it's happened, but they've, they've given a plane as a gift to the leader of Iraq, to the then sitting leader of Turkey, to the then sitting leader, I believe of Yemen.
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 39:48 David Sacks I mean, you look at the forever wars in the Middle East, we had interventions and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria. 2 times in the scene
The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- ▶ 52:27 Ezra Klein I think a lot about an article Mark Danner wrote in the New York Review of Books many years ago about the Iraq War. 3 times in the scene
Deep State, Hegemony & U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer vs. Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit
- ▶ 11:09 John Mearsheimer Think Iraq, Afghanistan, so forth and so on.
- ▶ 18:45 Jeffrey Sachs So they say, that's a game Iraq, which was obviously a game before we went in.
Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- ▶ 1:31:52 David Sacks To Iraq.
Kamala surges, Trump at NABJ, recession fears, Middle East escalation, Ackman postpones IPO
- ▶ 57:33 David Sacks But then we went into Iraq. 2 times in the scene
Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- ▶ 42:33 David Sacks Vance was in high school when the Twin Towers came down, and then we invaded Iraq, and he was gung-ho to serve and to go exact retribution and justice on America's enemies. 4 times in the scene
E170: Tech's Vibe Shift, TikTok ban debate, Vertical AI boom, Florida bans lab-grown meat & more
- ▶ 1:09:00 David Sacks This is how we got into the Iraq war, basically almost unanimous.
E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- ▶ 1:18:10 David Sacks They want them out of Iraq. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:19 David Sacks They're attacking us because we're occupying Syria and Iraq. 5 times in the scene
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 22:53 David Sacks Continued attacks on US military bases in Iraq and Syria.
- ▶ 27:00 David Sacks You've got US bases in Syria and Iraq coming under attack, and now we have the US striking Yemen.
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 16:32 David Sacks Moreover, uh, this is, I think, very underreported, but there have been almost 80 attacks on US bases in Syria and Iraq by Shia militias, again, sponsored by Iran, over the last couple of months.
Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
- ▶ 26:12 Tucker Carlson So, for example, in 2002, I hosted a show on CNN, and it was the run-up to the war in Iraq. 4 times in the scene
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 28:20 Jared Kushner So then you go to 1991, which is a very, very important, uh, time for the Palestinians, mostly because, uh, Saddam Hussein in Iraq invades Kuwait.
E151: WW3 risk, War with Iran?, 4.9% GDP, startup failures growing, new Speaker & more
- ▶ 8:15 David Sacks Even if you go back to 2003, the beginning of the Iraq war, there was serious conversation about whether Iraq was the right country to invade. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:13 David Sacks And Iran is much stronger than Iraq. 2 times in the scene
E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps
- ▶ 9:42 Jason Calacanis And then, you know, what, what was the last decade about being in Afghanistan? 2 times in the scene
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 10:51 Chamath Palihapitiya Some people say it was a trade-off for China's support for the Iraq war.
In conversation with Chris Christie
- ▶ 14:08 David Sacks I want to go back to the Bush era forever wars, the Iraq war. 6 times in the scene
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 31:06 David Sacks We tried to turn countries like Afghanistan and Iraq into Madisonian democracies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:21 Vivek Ramaswamy I was deeply skeptical of the Iraq war at the time.
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 26:27 Brad Gerstner If we look at the wars the U.S. has engaged in since September, it's estimated three to four million people have died in Iraq, Pakistan,
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 40:33 David Sacks We did that in Iraq.
- ▶ 49:03 David Sacks Then they use that same one to go into Iraq.
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 27:57 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is we spent eight trillion dollars in the war in Iraq. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Uh oh, you know, what, if the CIA looks, the way that the CIA looks at the war in Iraq is it was a success because we accomplished our mission of deposing Saddam Hussein.
E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
- ▶ 1:05:18 David Sacks So the, with Bush Senior, Bush actually, this is in 1991, he won the Iraq war. 2 times in the scene
E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
- ▶ 1:15:32 Chamath Palihapitiya We saw that play out in Iraq as well, where at first it was the war machine, and then it was the reconstruction machine, and together it was trillions and trillions of dollars.
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 46:23 David Friedberg Uh, we, um, uh, you know, we obviously entered, um, entered Iraq.
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 29:34 David Sacks Iraq war.
- ▶ 42:20 David Sacks We never talk about Iraq anymore.
- ▶ 45:46 David Friedberg What did the United States do to Iraq? 2 times in the scene
#AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 19:02 David Sacks One was these, you know, foreign wars, these interventions that we've had in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, that were disasters.
#AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 0:58 David Sacks Um, many of you probably are not old enough to remember when the U S got into Iraq or Afghanistan.
- ▶ 1:59 Antonio Garcia Martinez Uh, thanks for skewing the moderation from, like, literally the first second comparing it to Iraq as I came up here to say it's not about Iraq at all. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:26 Glenn Greenwald For example, if in 2003 you wanted to go before the war in Iraq, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Glenn Greenwald This is exactly what has repeated itself every time we've gone to war in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya, in Syria. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:05 Glenn Greenwald Why is it that the United States, that still has people in Guantanamo for 20 years with no trial, that destroyed the country of Iraq, a 20, a country of twenty-five million people, that is the, created the worst humanitarian crisis in…
- ▶ 31:19 Glenn Greenwald We're going to Iraq because we love democracy, and we're going to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein.
E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- ▶ 31:00 David Sacks It's what got us into Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya.
E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 1:18:45 Brad Gerstner Bush wanted regime change in Iraq, and we executed it through the Powell doctrine of overwhelming military force.
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 4:59 David Sacks You got David from, you know, all that predicting mission accomplished, just like the Iraq war.
- ▶ 59:56 David Sacks Iraq.
- ▶ 1:07:44 David Sacks Obama beat Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination because he was against the Iraq war, and she was for it.
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 16:40 David Friedberg Meaning, like, are we setting ourselves up for another Iraq, Afghanistan situation where we rush into a war and we don't have an exit strategy?
- ▶ 50:08 David Sacks Cringe, because regime change was the justification for the Iraq war, for Afghanistan, for Libya, for Syria, and every single one of those things has been a disaster.
- ▶ 1:31:40 David Sacks Bush was doing the right thing going into Iraq 20 years ago.
E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 1:35:47 David Sacks Yeah, Iraq,
E65: VC markup dynamics, Russia/US tensions over Ukraine, Altos Labs raises $3B, Stripe mafia & more
- ▶ 31:47 David Friedberg And as a result, cause a lot of harm and a lot of damage like we've done in Afghanistan, like we've done in Iraq.
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 1:27:51 David Sacks They got on board WMD in Iraq before realizing it was a total farce and a hoax.
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 37:43 David Sacks Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 1:12:47 David Sacks They lied us into Vietnam and Iraq.
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 24:48 David Sacks They did Belt and Road while we did nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan, right?
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 24:43 David Sacks We were engaged in this exercise of nation building, which by the way, we spent six trillion dollars on nation building exercises in the Middle East between Afghanistan and Iraq.
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 53:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, I want to go to war with Iraq, I need to basically get China to vote.
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 22:28 Chamath Palihapitiya Guys, I think I think there's one big thing you're forgetting in 2001, which is, I think that Bush actually traded away access to the WTO so that they could guarantee China's vote when he wanted to go to war with Iraq, which happened in… 2 times in the scene