A Public Affair has been a steady voice in WORT’s talk programming for over 30 years. As the station celebrates its 50th year on the air, we wanted to pause and harken back to some conversations our team has brought you. So on today’s show, we reflect on a past that may feel all too familiar, as host Margo Robb discusses the US’s bombing of Iraq in 1998 with Matt Rothschild and Erik Gustafson. 
Margo Robb is a former News Director at WORT, Erik Gustafson is a Gulf War veteran who works for the Enabling Peace in Iraq Center, and Matt Rothschild was an editor at the Progressive Magazine at the time. They discuss war propaganda, the University of Wisconsin’s investment in weapons manufacturers, and the harms that economic sanctions cause for Iraqi civilians. Gustafson calls for the delinking of economic sanctions from military intervention and the delinking of Sadam Hussein from the people of Iraq. Rothschild says “we need to get over the psyche of empire.” 
We want to give a big thanks to the WORT Archiving Team for digitizing this show.
Featured image: of a bomb damage assessment from December 21, 1998.
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