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Danny and Derek are joined by Spencer Ackerman, journalist and founder of Forever Wars, to take a look back at America in the early days of the Iraq invasion. They discuss Spencer’s time as a lonely anti-war voice at a liberal hawk publication (cough thenewrepublic cough), how the failure of the war shook up the consensus at such establishments, Dem…