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Scott Horton

Antiwar radio host and author who has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and the origins of the Iraq War.

Circuit updated July 3, 2026

Notable quotes

“If David Wormser had known his history at all, he would know that no, putting a Hashemite in Baghdad is not going to be a magic spell over the Shiite population there.”
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“Ahmed Chalabi assures us that this is how it works, right? And so, well, what the hell, we're spending the time on it. This was the idiot Rube Goldberg scheme.”
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“He comes back a couple of weeks later and the same guy says, 'Hey, there's this memo.' And it says that they want to hit seven countries in five years.”
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“This was a plan that they wrote for Netanyahu in 1996. This is when he's incoming to be prime minister of Israel for the first time.”
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Scott Horton says the Iraq War was planned in 1992 by the same neocons who wrote a plan for Netanyahu in 1996

The antiwar author lays out the paper trail connecting Paul Wolfowitz's 1992 global dominance memo to a literal strategy document his colleagues wrote for the Israeli prime minister four years later.

Jul 3, 2026