{"id":11184,"date":"2015-05-15T17:44:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T00:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11184"},"modified":"2015-05-15T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T00:43:10","slug":"learning-from-history-while-some-rewrite-it-bradcast-5152015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11184","title":{"rendered":"Learning From History While Some Rewrite It: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/15\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_MLKEarth_BushWhitehouse_051515.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">With Jeb Bush&#8217;s disastrous week of blunders concerning the Iraq War, the GOP and its 2016 candidates are now desperately trying to rewrite the history of this nation&#8217;s greatest foreign policy debacle by claiming that the &#8220;intelligence was faulty&#8221;. It wasn&#8217;t. Their memory, however, may conveniently be.<\/p>\n<p>On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\">BradCast<\/a>, we set the story straight, again, on what <i>really<\/i> happened when George W. Bush sent the country to war based on <i>known<\/i> lies.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, environmental journalist from <a href=\"http:\/\/ehn.org\">EHN.org<\/a> and CNN&#8217;s former executive producer of their Science and Technology division (until they disbanded the division) Peter Dykstra joins us to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/ensia.com\/voices\/want-to-change-the-future-pay-attention-to-the-past\/\">his new article<\/a> on how environmentalists would be wise to learn from our nation&#8217;s history of civil rights battles. &#8220;Want to change the future?,&#8221; says Dykstra, &#8220;pay attention to the past.&#8221; Good advice all around today.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Boston Marathon bomber sentenced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/16\/us\/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-sentence.html?_r=0\">to death<\/a>; Philadelphia Amtrak disaster underscores <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/05\/13\/amtrak-infrastructure-congress-maddow_n_7280214.html\">U.S. failure<\/a>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/15\/entertainment\/bb-king-dead\/\">passing<\/a> of blues legend B.B. 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