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    The Road to the Iraq War | 1. The Exile

    The Road to the Iraq War | 1. The Exile

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    The Road to the Iraq War | 1. The Exile

    FromSlow Burn

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    Length:
    54 minutes
    Released:
    Apr 21, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Eighteen years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq. It’s a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed America’s credibility on the world stage. How much can that war be traced to one Iraqi exile’s longstanding quest to return to Baghdad?
    Season 5 of Slow Burn is produced by Noreen Malone, Jayson De Leon, and Sophie Summergrad. Mixing by Merritt Jacob.
    Production help from Margaret Kelley.
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    Released:
    Apr 21, 2021
    Format:
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    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the governorship—was an existential crisis for the state and the nation. The fourth season of Slate’s Slow Burn will explore how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message. It will also examine how activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens confronted Duke’s candidacy, and what it took to stop him.