# War Deja Vu - Read by Eunice Wong

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Podcast: [The Chris Hedges Report Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680)
Published: 2025-06-27T23:53:34+00:00
Episode link: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/war-deja-vu-read-by-eunice-wong
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## Resource

This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published June 19, 2025 Full text: There are few differences between the lies told to ignite the war with Iraq and the lies told to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of our intelligence agencies and international bodies are, as they were during the calls to invade Iraq, airily dismissed for hallucinations. All the old tropes have been resurrected to entice us into another military fiasco. A country that poses no threat to us, or to its neighbors, is on the verge of acquiring a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) that imperils our existence. The country and its leaders embody pure evil. Freedom and democracy are at stake. If we do not act now the next smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud. Our military superiority assures victory. We are the saviors of the world. Massive bombing, an updated version of Shock and Awe , will bring peace and harmony. We heard these canards leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Twenty-two years later they have been resurrected. Anyone who advocates for negotiations, for diplomacy and peace, is a stooge for terrorists. Did we learn any lessons from the fiascos in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, not to mention Ukraine? All the ghouls who sold us these past wars on false pretenses, such as conservative talk show host Mark Levin , Max Boot — who writes , “that strategic imperative argues for bombing Fordow,” where Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is buried underground — David Frum , John Bolton , Gen. Jack Keane , Newt Gingrich , Sean Hannity and Thomas Friedman , have returned to…

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