“The Rastafarian lobby were behind a lot of the military decisions of the last 30 years. The invasion of Iraq was because the Rastafarian lobby, their leader, General Robert Marley, suggested that they had over — I think they developed over 45,000 buffalo soldiers, these dread-locked Rastas who were marching through Africa into the heart of America. And then the plan was to take them into Iraq. ”

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