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Speaker 1: The following presentation Isabel Marvis Studio's production Welcome Back Truth

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Secrets from around the World. It's time for another edition

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of the fact Hunter podcast. As we record on this Monday,

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June the eighth, twenty twenty six. I hope everybody had

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a great weekend. Please check out our substack. The link

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will be in the show notes. You can check out

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our books and website as well. All of that is

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in the podcast description. Today we're going to jump right

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into things, and today's layer five of the exposing the matrix.

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And of course longtime listeners know this is you know,

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personal to me, the war machine and listen. I think

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it's honorable for anybody to want to defend their country.

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And notice I use that word defend Allah Red Dawn right,

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there's people parachuting into America. However, one thing that we

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can't deny is that we're very easily psychologically manipulated, whether

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it's through the television, the newspaper, the Internet, the education system,

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and you know, like Iran. Iran has been two weeks

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away from a nuclear missile for over thirty years, and

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we could make a thousand different examples, but the way

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that our military has become functioned to work. It is

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a war machine. And today we're going to jump into

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the podcast. And for generations we've been told that war is.

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You know, it's sometimes necessary, it's a necessary evil to

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defend our freedom. And listen, every now and then it's true, okay,

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But if you look beneath the headlines and the speeches,

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I've documented the speech that George W. Bush gave at

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Fort Drum while I was there in October of two

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thousand and two, the flags, the slogans, the patriotism right,

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the hearts and minds, there is certainly something that exists

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that is much larger, and that is a permanent war machine.

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You know we have seen over the last one hundred years.

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You can actually and listen. I know the sub stack

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I wrote today on June eighth was extremely long. People

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always email me saying that they want a deep dive.

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But when you write a deep dive, people right back

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and say that's too long of a substack. I can't

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possibly read that. But that substack I wrote today gives

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you the story from eighteen sixty one to twenty twenty

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in how just one hundred and sixty years this country

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was completely flipped on its head. However, many of the

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things that happened in twenty twenty happened one hundred and

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sixty years ago. None of this is new, right, So

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over that time again your politicians come and go, presidents change. However,

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they're all I say this all the time. You've got

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three hundred and thirty million Americans, or at least were told, right,

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And you've got people from the same family either in

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the presidency or running for presidency. And you think like

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you could if you're a plumber that lives in Iowa

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and you look at your son in the eye and

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tell them that you know, in this country, even you

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can be president of the United States. It's a lie.

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You literally have to bow your knee to the hidden

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hand to be a part of the Satanic Luciferian government. Right,

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whether it's democratic or Republican, the war continues. They create

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the new enemy's isis right that they create all this.

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They give reasons, but that war machine never stops. Now listen,

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for Christians, support for these conflicts are reinforced by a

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prophetic system that teaches certain nations and certain wars play

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a predetermined role in God's plan, and that is just

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a heresy really, And as I wrote in my book

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Exposing Dispensationalism, theological beliefs can shape even yes foreign policy

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as surely as politicians in generals do. So let's pull

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back that layer of the matrix and let's look at

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the war machine and how it works. And we're going

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to start with the business of war. And again they

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present war as just one of these unfortunate necessities. We're

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told that our leaders reluctantly send young men and women

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into harm's way only when every other option has been exhausted.

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Yet if we step back and examine the system itself,

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a different picture begins to emerge. War is not merely

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a foreign policy tool. In modern day America. War has

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become an industry go back. And I've played it before,

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I'm not going to play it today. But Dwight D.

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Eisenhower understood this better than most. And he certainly wasn't

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a peace activist, right. He was a five starred general

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who commanded Allied forces during World War II. Yet in

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his farewell address on January seventeenth, nineteen sixty one, he

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warned the American people what he called the military industrial complex.

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So he whether it was disclosure or a guilty conscience

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on the way out the door. I don't know, but

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he had witnessed the rise of a permanent ownership between

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the Pentagon, defense contractors, politicians, lobbyists, weapon manufacturers. So his

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concern wasn't theoretical. Before World War II, America maintained a

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relatively small military during peacetime. After the war, a vast

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defense establishment emerged that never truly demobilized. The machine and

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repardon me of war became a permanent feature of American life.

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And today that machine is larger than he could have

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ever imagined. You have companies like Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grooman, Boeing,

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General Dynamics. They generate billions upon billions of dollars from

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military contracts. Their products range from missiles, fighter jets, surveillance systems.

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Now what's big now the drones, right, radar equipment, and

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quote unquote nuclear weapons components. Every conflict, every military build up,

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and every new threat can mean additional contracts, increased production,

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and higher revenues. Now, the relationship between Washington and these corporations,

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they're not hidden. You have former Pentagon officials. They move

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directly into executive positions within the defense firms, right, And

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that's the thing. It's really something. Really when you look

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at corporate executives who are appointed to government advisory boards,

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you have retired generals appearing on your MSNBC and Fox

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News as these military analysts while serving on boards connected

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to defense contractors. That's why when you get these retired

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military guys on the mockingbird media, they're up there to

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scare you because every missile we fire, they have to refurbish,

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they have to remake, they have to rebuild, and that's

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money in their pocket. Lobbyists flood to DC to influence

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spending decisions. You have members of Congress whose districts depend

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entirely I'm looking at you, Alabama on military reduction, you know,

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who support weapons programs regardless of whether military planners even

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request them. The result is a self reinforcing cycle in

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which the institutions that benefit from military spending possess enormous

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influence over the political process. Excuse me, so, consider what

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happens whenever tensions rise somewhere in the world. Okay, so

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the first thing that happens is the stock prices for

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defense contractors. They usually climb. Investors recognize that conflict creates demand. Again,

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like I said, every missile fired must be replaced, Equipment

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that is destroyed must be rebuilt, ammunition stockpiles must be replenished,

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and new weapons systems are approved. All of that right now, Again,

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does this mean that every single war is fought solely

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for profit? Of course not. It's got to do with

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control and population control, all of those things. And you know,

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history contains many examples of conflicts that most people would

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classify as necessary. Right. Sure, there's been some necessary wars, right.

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People claim that the attack on Pearl Harbor left the

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United States little choice but to respond militarily, pardon me,

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against imperial Japan. But that in itself is quite the

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conspiracy in itself. They knew for weeks that Japan was

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going to attack. They completely cut off their oil chain,

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their supply chain to get oil. They wanted it to

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happen so they could get into the war, so they

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could bail out the people who are running the war today. Right. So,

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all of these conflicts, right, they involve direct aggression. You

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have to declare enemies, clear objectives, right, And you don't

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see that. You never see it if you say the

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War on Terror, the war on drugs. There's no enemy.

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The Korean War never officially ended. Look at the Vietnam

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War consumed tens of was it fifty eight thousand American lives?

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Millions of Vietnamese lives. And look at the Gulf of

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Tonkin incident. It was used to justify a major escalation

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in Vietnam. It remains one of the most controversial episodes

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in American military history. What a prime example of the

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powers that be? Right, the guy who was the Admiral

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of the USS Maddox, just happened to be the father

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of what would be one of the biggest rock bands

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of the sixties. Right, the Doors just a coincidence. You

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had the wars in Afghanistan in Iraq stretching across decades. Right.

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I said this to someone the other day. There is

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anybody who's been to Fort Hood within the last fifteen

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years knows that on is it old ironsides that road

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where there is the last m RAP. One of the

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commanders while I was there, one of our company commanders,

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he was in that m RAP, the last m RAP

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out of Iraq in twenty twelve. And then if you

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look at the news just the other day, a soldier

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was killed there in a quote unquote training accident in Iraq.

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So fourteen years after we pulled out of Iraq, a

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soldier was killed in Iraq. Look at Afghanistan, right, That

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became our country's longest war. Despite repeated promises that victory

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was near, Iraq launched under claims that Saddam Hussein, well

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we've heard the story before, he possessed weapons of mass destruction,

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and people twenty years later fall for the same garbage

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with Iran. These claims that will always collapse under scrutiny,

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but the people involved, they're never held accountable. Time after time,

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decade after decade, the wars proceede, trillions are spent in

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countless lives are altered forever, and the contractors were paid

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regardless of the outcome. A troubling pattern emerges when examining

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these conflicts. Politicians lose elections, generals retire, but the institutions

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that supply the machinery of war continues. And again, the

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one thing we talk about quite often, right, we talk

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about September tenth, two thousand and one, that the Pentagon

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missing trillions of dollars. But if you don't account for

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a few thousand dollars. They're got hammer's going to come

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down on you. This country spends more on defense than

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most of the world. We're talking hundreds of billions of

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dollars flow through the Pentagon every year. Vast sums are

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taking from the federal reserve, which doesn't look out for

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you and I, the ordinary person. These sums are paid

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through taxation, and they're pushed onto where grandchildren's grandchildren. Meanwhile,

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the infrastructure in our country, we have outdated electric we

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have potholes everywhere. Our infrastructure is a hot mess. It truly,

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truly is. You know, this money appears out of thin

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air for military operations abroad, while the needs of the

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people here in the United States are frequently described as

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too expensive. They always have money for missiles, but they

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don't have the money for the people who truly needs it.

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And peace is a problem. And if you're a Christian,

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if you are a follower of Christ, and you don't

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understand that peace presents a problem for systems that are

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built around perpetual readiness and continuous production. Factories producing missiles

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need orders, The contractors need contracts, lobbyists need programs to defend,

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and bureaucracies need missions to justify these budgets. This is

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why Americans should examine every proposed conflict carefully. And it's

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not an issue whether or not the soldiers are brave.

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They certainly are. The issue is whether or not genuine

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threats exist. There are very few out there, and to

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be completely honest with you, the threats don't come from

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outside of this country. They come from inside of this country.

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The people who subvert the media and Hollywood and pornography,

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and the bankers. We owe it to ask, you know,

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we owe it to ourselves and our future generations to

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ask the hard questions and demand accountability before we send

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our sons and their sons and brothers off to war

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and then the funerals start. And for those for those

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of us who have worn the uniform. You know, this

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is a serious discussion that you need to look in

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the mirror. We know the faces behind the statistics. We

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remember the empty seats on Memorial Day. We remember the

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folded flags, the phone calls, the names engraved on memorials. Listen,

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they created these call of duty grand theft auto video

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games to soften up you know, murder and killing or

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is not a video game or a chart or a

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talking point or a chapter in a history book. It

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is measured in broken bodies, grieving families, and people who

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never you are not the same person. When you you're

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never the same person, a little bit of your flame

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is extinguished and you never get it back because you

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see things that you can't believe that another human being

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would do. And in most cases that person doesn't even

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know that person or why they're angry at them. In

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many cases they're angry at them because, say, we invaded

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their country. And I try to tell people, if you

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were out front throwing the football back and forth with

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your son and a bunch of Iraqis in Humvey's came

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thundering down your street with two forty Bravos or two

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forty Chucks, you know, facing in your direction, that you

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would smile and wave and wink and mister, can I

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get an MRI. No, you'd run for your safe and

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get your your freedom seed distributor out. That's exactly what

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you would do. What we as Americans are so terrible

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about putting ourselves in the other shoe, and not just

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as Americans, but especially if you're a Christian. And I

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know there was a lot of times in my life

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that felt uncomfortable and you can't change the past, but

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you certainly can try to change the future. But I

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think the video game aspect of it is a lot

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bigger than most people realize. Just remember that the next

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time that they start ramping up the war drums, right.

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I think something that a lot of Peo people's snooze on.

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Wars are not sold to the public as business opportunities.

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I think in the back of people's mind they say, well,

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you know, if we take out Iraq, or if we

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take out Iran, we get them gas prices down. So

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maybe that's one psychological aspect of it or subconscious aspect

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of it. But they're sold through emotion. Right. We saw

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how they advertised nine to eleven, and I've told you

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all the stories of the recruiters who had lines around

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the block after September eleventh. But there's always a story

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that's told before the bombs ever fall. They have to

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tell a story. The threat must be identified, they have

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to create the villain right, Fear must be cultivated, and

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the public has to be persuaded that military action isn't

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merely an option, but it's a necessity. And you know,

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that process is as old as war itself. Modern governments

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and media organizations have refined it into an art form.

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Now the average person here in the United States doesn't

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have access to intelligence briefings, classified reports, diplomatic negotiations, and

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most people understand that where they I guess they understand

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international events through television, newspaper, well not newspapers anymore, websites.

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You know, government statements, whether it's on Twitter or forty

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five forty seven comes out. That's how grave the situation is.

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And Iran right, whoever controls the narrative, controls public opinion,

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and people still to this day, after twenty twenty, still

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have trust in this government, which is amazing to me.

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And once that fear takes hold, that's when the skepticism

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becomes difficult. Questions are viewed as disloyalty, doubt becomes suspicion,

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and the American people who ask for evidence are accused

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of helping the enemy. We saw that in twenty twenty.

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Don't fall for that garbage again. You know, if you

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are a Christian or just a solid American, you need

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we need to demand that these people be held accountable

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for all of this. But one of their most effective tools,

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and we've talked about it, goes back to Bernez and

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even further storytelling controlling your emotions. Humans respond to stories

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far more readily than statistics and talking about propaganda tomorrow, Well,

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I guess this comes out Tuesday. The sub stack I

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put out today. Look how they normal they made where

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they normalized I should say witchcraft and the occult. Go

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check that out. But a single testimony can outweigh mountains

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of evidence in the minds of the public. Governments and

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media organizations understand this. Rather than presenting complex geopolitical arguments,

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they frequently present emotionally charged narratives designed to produce immediate reactions.

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You've got fear, anger, outrage, and sympathy, and they become

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powerful weapons for shaping public opinion. I have a textbook

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example of this We've described many times. Nineteen ninety, the

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build up to the Gulf War, a young Kuwaiti girl

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identified only as Naira testified before the Congressional Human Rights

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Caucus through tears streaming down her fifteen year old face.

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She claimed Iraqi soldiers had entered a hospital removed babies

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from incubators and left them to die on a floor.

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That story spread like wildfire through the American media. Politicians

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they mocked it. They not mocked it, they repeated it.

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George hw. Bush old poppy, he cited it repeatedly in

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his speeches supporting military action, and the Americans were horrified.

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You know, it was time to get that Saddam Hussein

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and those evil Iraqi people taken care of once and

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for all. Now there was only one problem, and that

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was the story was false. The witness was later revealed

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to be Naiira al Sabah, the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador

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to the United States. Her testimony had been coordinated through

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a public relations campaign connected to the firm Hill and Knowlton.

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Subsequent investigations found no evidence that Iraqi troops had committed

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the incubator atrocity as described. But once again, by the

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time the truth emerged, the story had already served its purpose.

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It was too late. That was late in ninety two.

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Look at the Gulf of Tonkin. August nineteen sixty four,

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the American public was told that North Vietnamese forces had

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attacked US naval vessels in international waters. The incident became

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the foundation for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted

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President LBJ broad authority to escalate military operations of Vietnam.

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For years, Americans were told the attacks justified deeper involvement.

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Later investigations revealed that at least one of the reported

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attacks likely never occurred. Radar readings, sonar contacts, and confused

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reports had been interpreted as evidence of an assault that

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probably never happened at all. Nevertheless, the resolution passed, the

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war expanded dramatically, and more than fifty eight thousand Americans

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ultimately lost their lives in Vietnam, and that pattern repeated

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decades later in Iraq. The following attacks of September eleventh,

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two thousand and one, you know, we were understandably fearful,

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and we were angry, and we were all, you know,

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fervently calling our loved ones, are you okay. We had

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never seen anything like this in our lifetime. Our country

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had suffered a devastating attack, and the citizens wanted answers.

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And in that environment, the Bush Junior administration began making

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the case that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

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We were warned about chemical weapons, biological weapons. You had

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Dashel and the anthrax, all of these things, and the

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mockingbird media amplified these claims. You had government officials appearing

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on television insisting that evidence existed. Members of Congress cited

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formal intelligence reports, and of course anybody who questioned it

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was marginalized as a trader. And we crossed that burm

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from Kuwait into Iraq in March of two thousand and three.

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There were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Years later,

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many of the claims used to justify the war were discredited,

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challenged or withdrawn. But again, by then the damage had

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been done. You had thousands of American service members that

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had been killed, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were dead,

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Trillions upon trillions of dollars had been spent, Entire regions

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had been destabilized. The architects, or i should say the

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architects of the narrative, moved on and the soldiers and

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their families and their loved ones lived with the consequences.

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A key component of modern war reporting is embedded journalism,

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and during conflicts, which really started a you know, the

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Golf War was the first they say made for TV war,

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But during conflicts reporters are often attached to military units,

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traveling alongside troops and sharing their experiences, and while this

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provides valuable access, it also creates an unavoidable dynamic. Journalists

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who depend on military protection, transportation, and access may become

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less likely to challenge the broader narrative than surrounding the conflict.

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Viewers see dramatic footage of troops in action convoy ops,

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which we did have. It's very funny. We did have

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a photographer with us when I took an ID in

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what was that April or March of two thousand and six,

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and the video is still around somewhere. But these what

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we're trying to say is they're less apt to tell

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the true story, and they understand if they do tell

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the true story, the chances of them ever doing another

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war report or being embedded with the unit are slim

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to none. And that's slim leaving town right now. So

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you know we've touched on this. Patriotism and obedience, listen.

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Genuine patriotism involves loyalty to principles, constitutional government, and truth.

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That is what a patriot is all about. It doesn't

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mean following blind orders. Blind obedience requires none of those

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things listen. A free people should never fear asking questions

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of their leaders. They serve us. And the moment the

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government stops fearing the people, we have problems. In fact,

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self government depends on it. The moment people become afraid

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to ask the question, the safeguards and deception begin to erode.

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So fear is their most powerful tool. Fear convinces people

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to surrender their liberty. Fear justifies censorship, its silences, dissent,

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on and on and on, and Scripture repeatedly warns believers

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against being ruled by fear. The Apostle poll wrote that

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for God hath not given us the spirit of fear,

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but of power and of love, and of a sound mind.

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A sound mind evaluates evidence. A sound mind asks questions

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and refuses to be stamped by panic or manipulated by

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emotional appeals. Now there's the obvious, the human cost. Right.

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You can talk about geopolitics, defense budgets, intelligence reports, weapons contracts,

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on and on and on, but war is ultimately paid

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in human lives. These politicians, we always say, by the way,

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the military men in suits have been killing men in

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uniforms for a millennia. Politicians speak in terms of adjectives

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during generals, pardon me, speak in terms of operations, and

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you know contractors speaking procurement, on and on and on.

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You know the old narrative. But the soldier experiences war differently,

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right for him. Wars not a policy paper. It's a

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memory that never leaves you know, I've told you I

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spent twenty four years in the army. I deployed seven times.

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I spent four and a half years in Iraq. I

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think I'm pretty sure I'm a citizen now. I spend

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enough time. I should be getting those those oil you

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know checks here any day now, and I should get

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a nice little winter home in Baghdad or something. But politicians,

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you know, they create them. Well, they don't. The puppet

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handlers do. But the American public often hears the casualty

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numbers right. Stats are easy to report because it creates

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distance if they use numbers. Numbers don't tell you about

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the wife who gets the knock at two am and

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her world's about to change forever. Numbers don't tell you

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about the child who grows up with photographs and a

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folded flag instead of memories. Numbers don't tell you about

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the parents who spend the rest of their lives staring

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at an empty chair during holidays and family gatherings. And

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I've told you before, those costs of war has names Commansard,

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Major Timothy Bulliard, Captain David Van Camp. They weren't statistics.

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They were husbands, fathers, sons, leaders and friends. They were awesome.

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They laughed, they worked hard, they took care of their soldiers,

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They answered the call when their nation asked, and like

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countless others throughout our history, they paid the highest price.

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And across the cemeteries of America stand row after row

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of markers stretching beyond the horizon. Behind every stone is

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a story, a family, and a dream interrupted from Normandy

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to Korea, to Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan and the ones

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on the horizon now, the dead continue to bear witness

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to the terrible cost of war. Yet too often those

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sacrifices are reduced to political talking points. Right, That's exactly

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what it is. Their families don't go in, sir. If

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they do, they're in a ridiculous position where there's no harm.

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And again I want to say this as well. Supporting

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troops and supporting wars are not the same thing. A

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person can respect the soldier while questioning the politician who

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sent him. A person can honor military service while demanding

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accountability from leaders who commit forces overseas. In fact, one

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could argue that the greatest respect a nation can show

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to its troops is to ensure that they're never placed

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in harms way without a legitimate and clearly defined purpose.

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Those who have never deployed, you know, I think just

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from the interactions, they imagine combat as an intense but

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temporary experience. You can't really describe it. It's not twelve

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months of shooting and bombings. There's days of waiting. Right.

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If you've been in the army, you are a professional waiter,

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you know exactly what I mean, right. But it's really

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especially when we went on leave. So my third tour,

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I was there from three to four for a year,

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five six for a year. But that third tour was

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November two thousand and seven until February of two thousand

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and nine. That's four hundred and fifty five days away

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from my family. But when you come home on that

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block leave, you get fifteen days leave. You literally within

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twenty four hours are whisked out of the battlefield, put

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on a plane and then you're like in Disneyland and

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you want to talk about the ultimate mind screw. You know.

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I remember coming home from my second tour when we

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took up pretty bad ID and we're driving down in

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Colorado Springs. It's not powers it was the Academy maybe

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Academy Boulevard, and there was a big bag of trash

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on the side of the road, and I swerved, and

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I'm always like, what are you doing? That's you think

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it's an ID. It's you train for it, and then

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you see it, then it happens. And then even back home,

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you're three hundred and sixty five days or you know

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the other case, four fifty five. You're programmed. And I

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was in the Middle East every calendar year from two

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thousand and three to twenty fourteen, with the exception of

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twenty twelve. That was the only calendar year I was

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not in the Middle East. And you know, your friends

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and your family like, wow, you're not the same anymore.

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Do you think, Wow, that's surprising. Huh. He's not funny anymore.

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He's so serious about everything. You know, there's a lot

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of things that different soldiers carry. Some carry the memories

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of firefights. Other carry the memory of their brothers and

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sisters who were lost. A lot of people, to a

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certain extent, including myself, struggle with survivor's guilt. Some wake

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up in the middle of the night decades later because

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certain sounds, smells, and images refused to disappear. A lot

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of combat veterans are not fans of fireworks. The term

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PTSD has become familiar in American culture, But I also

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say PTSD isn't just for is not just something that

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belongs to soldiers. If you have experienced something traumatic in

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your life, for some people, it's a car I don't

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want to list all the things to trigger somebody, But

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if you have a traumatic experience in your life and

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it discards you mentally and it causes you distress, that's

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what PTSD. But for many veterans, the trauma isn't a moment.

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00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,440
It doesn't go away when you get off the tarmac

475
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,239
after your deployment and they give you I'm gonna be

476
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,400
honest with you here, they give you the cheesiest classes.

477
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,639
When you come home. We had it's like a decompression

478
00:36:59,679 --> 00:37:01,480
to before you go on your block leave. After you

479
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:06,320
get home, there's this decompression phase, and that for our units,

480
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,639
especially third Brigade, fourth ID out of Fort Carson, Colorado,

481
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,719
that's when we had a lot of our people getting

482
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:19,440
car accidents, people drinking and overdosing, and that's when we

483
00:37:19,519 --> 00:37:23,519
saw most of our fatalities and casual These people came

484
00:37:23,559 --> 00:37:34,320
home and couldn't handle the transition. And the reason I'm

485
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,000
saying all this is because all of that has circumstances.

486
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,480
If we're going to send our fellow Americans into combat,

487
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,760
it better be for a damn good reason. There better

488
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:57,679
be a real existential threat, and there hasn't been. So

489
00:37:58,639 --> 00:38:04,000
you know, we could go on and on, but I'll

490
00:38:04,039 --> 00:38:06,880
just wrap with this what I wrote down here. Every

491
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,159
cross in a military cemetery tells a story of devotion.

492
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:15,599
Every gold Star family bears witness to sacrifice. Every veteran

493
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,920
carrying invisible wound serves as a reminder that war never

494
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,880
truly ends when the shooting stops. As Christians, we are

495
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:28,599
called to truth. That means looking beyond slogans, beyond political speeches,

496
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:33,960
beyond patriotic theater, and beyond carefully crafted narratives. It means

497
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:41,559
remembering that every war ultimately involves mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, friends,

498
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,280
that are all created in the image of God. The

499
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,519
next time a politician appears on television demanding military action,

500
00:38:50,679 --> 00:38:54,840
remember the faces behind the rhetoric, Remember the families, Remember

501
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,599
the funerals and the empty chairs. And remember the true

502
00:38:58,639 --> 00:39:01,519
cost of war that is never paid by those who

503
00:39:01,559 --> 00:39:04,199
profit most from it. Now, I want to close with

504
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,679
this part. You know, I've come out openly and talked

505
00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:13,079
about wreaths across America, how they financially enriched themselves, and

506
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:15,840
there's so much more they can do without money to

507
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:21,800
help veterans. But two or three years ago, it was

508
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,159
shortly after maybe it was twenty two, I went to

509
00:39:24,199 --> 00:39:28,280
the wreaths across America at the Bear, Delaware Veterans Cemetery

510
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,320
and we were I think it was myself, my son

511
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,119
and daughter in law. We were walking and there was

512
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,400
a mother you could tell she was hurting, just the

513
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,760
emotion on her face, and I just walk up. Oh,

514
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,280
I know what it was. She was walking to her

515
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,559
car and it had the gold star on it, and

516
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,360
she looked up to me and I was walking up

517
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,880
to her. She just fell into my arms, crying hysterically,

518
00:39:51,599 --> 00:39:53,639
and then she pulled out this card. She said, you know,

519
00:39:53,679 --> 00:39:56,199
this is my son. He was killed in I have

520
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,719
his card around here somewhere, he was killed in Iraq.

521
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,159
And I looked at it, and sure enough it was

522
00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:04,480
a Tenth Mountain guy. I didn't know him, but I

523
00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:06,239
was like I was in Tenth Mountain my first war

524
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,119
of Iraq. And she just needed that moment, that hug,

525
00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:11,599
that reassurance, and God just led me right up to

526
00:40:11,639 --> 00:40:14,800
her and it was a special moment I'll never forget.

527
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:20,760
And it was that same emotion when I was at

528
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,679
the Oklahoma City Memorial a couple of years ago. It

529
00:40:24,679 --> 00:40:26,519
would have been the twenty ninth anniversary, and you could

530
00:40:26,519 --> 00:40:29,800
see the pan on those folks faces was as real

531
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:36,159
as it was the day it happened. So just remember

532
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,480
that the true cost of war is never ever paid

533
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,400
by those who profit from him. I'm going to touch

534
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:50,000
on the prophecy connection briefly because if you read the

535
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:56,079
author's thoughts in my book Exposing Dispensationalism, you'll understand why

536
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:59,320
that book was so important to write, because you have

537
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,920
a lot of these prevalent preachers who think it's okay

538
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,840
to send our American sons and daughters to die for Israel,

539
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,199
and a lot of people just don't get it. And

540
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,800
for many Americans, support for foreign wars in the Middle

541
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:18,039
East is presented as a matter of national security. You know,

542
00:41:18,159 --> 00:41:23,000
we've talked about all that nonsense. But for millions of Christians,

543
00:41:23,039 --> 00:41:27,639
there's another factor at work, and it's theology. In order

544
00:41:27,679 --> 00:41:30,960
to understand the modern war machine, it is necessary to

545
00:41:31,079 --> 00:41:35,280
understand how certain prophetic teachings have shaped public opinion and

546
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,440
has influenced voting patterns, which really don't make a difference

547
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:44,159
anymore because everything's rigged, but it affects foreign policy decisions

548
00:41:44,199 --> 00:41:47,440
and has so for much more than a century. And

549
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:52,079
the influence didn't emerge from the early Church. The Apostles

550
00:41:52,159 --> 00:41:56,480
didn't teach it. It wasn't taught in the seventeen hundreds,

551
00:41:56,559 --> 00:41:59,880
or it wasn't until the mid to late eighteen hundreds

552
00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:05,559
when this nonsense started. The Reformer certainly didn't teach it.

553
00:42:06,159 --> 00:42:08,360
I mean, go read Martin Luther's book about it. He

554
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:14,280
didn't mince any words. The system commonly known today as dispensationalism,

555
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,960
largely entered the Christian world through the teachings of John

556
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,760
Nelson Darby and again it's late eighteen hundreds. It was

557
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:26,039
popularized by C. I. Schofield, who was not a good man.

558
00:42:26,079 --> 00:42:29,239
And again, right, we're all broken. I'm not saying that

559
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,480
God can't use someone who has had a rough life.

560
00:42:32,519 --> 00:42:35,880
He's done okay with me, Right, I had some struggles

561
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,760
in my life. But this was not a good man

562
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:45,079
and his teachings were heresy. And if you read my book,

563
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,519
the second and third chapters, I believe it was as well,

564
00:42:49,599 --> 00:42:53,920
you'll understand how devastating that reference book has been to

565
00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:00,199
seminaries and has given, especially the generation before me. I'm

566
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:04,800
not going to use the word, but such a misconception

567
00:43:05,199 --> 00:43:08,920
of what this world really is, and that the geopolitical

568
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,840
state of Israel. For the last eighteen hundred and fifty years,

569
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:23,639
nobody looked at Israel and those people like we do today.

570
00:43:23,679 --> 00:43:30,119
But the central claim was quite revolutionary. But rather than

571
00:43:30,199 --> 00:43:34,679
viewing believers in Christ as the contuin continuation pardon me

572
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:40,360
of God's covenant people, dispensationalism divided history into separate programs

573
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,760
and taught that ethnic Israel and the Church were distinct

574
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:49,480
people with distinct prophetic destinies. According to this framework, modern

575
00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:57,079
geopolitical events involving the nation state of Israel became prophetic signposts. Right.

576
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,719
That's why all those things had to happen. They had

577
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,880
to allow Japan to kill three thousand of our men

578
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:10,800
so we could help create the country that brought down

579
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:15,440
the Twin Towers on September eleventh, two thousand and one. Wars, treaties, borders,

580
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,920
and military conflicts were no longer viewed merely as political events.

581
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They became pieces of an unfolding prophetic puzzle, and the

582
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,880
consequences of this teaching have been enormous. For generations. Millions

583
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,079
of Christians have been taught that virtually any military action

584
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:37,039
involving the modern state of Israel deserves unquestioning support because

585
00:44:37,079 --> 00:44:42,639
opposing Israeli policy might place a person in opposition of

586
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:46,480
God's prophetic plan. You go into any Baptist church, and

587
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:50,360
not every sorry, if you go into many Southern Baptist

588
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,519
churches in this country and you speak bad of Israel,

589
00:44:53,599 --> 00:44:59,199
you'll be shown the door. And politicians know this. The

590
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,199
religious leader repeat it from the pulpits those you're John

591
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:08,360
Hagges and doctor. My buddy sent me a message today.

592
00:45:08,599 --> 00:45:11,719
I can never remember his name. Hang on a second,

593
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:24,159
here here, it comes. His name was doctor David Jeremiah.

594
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,559
And I'm not saying doctor Jeremiah doesn't have a good heart.

595
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,039
He has a good heart and he loves the Lord,

596
00:45:32,079 --> 00:45:42,000
but he is so misdirected with his Christian Zionism. And

597
00:45:42,079 --> 00:45:46,639
again the result is that many believers stopped evaluating conflicts

598
00:45:46,679 --> 00:45:50,840
according to the Bible and now evaluate them through these

599
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,639
prophetic assumptions from the pulpit. And I said the other

600
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,639
day I was a guest on a podcast. I hope

601
00:45:55,639 --> 00:45:59,840
it comes out soon. I want to. I'll definitely put

602
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:01,639
it in a show. Note see you walk and listen

603
00:46:01,679 --> 00:46:06,760
to it. But people have learned to take their pastor's

604
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:12,480
words as the gospel instead of reading the Gospel for themselves.

605
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,639
And I firmly believe that now. One of the most

606
00:46:16,679 --> 00:46:20,039
common phrases heard in Christian circle is you know, God

607
00:46:20,119 --> 00:46:23,199
said I will bless them that bless thee and curse

608
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,559
him that curse thee. Right. You hear that all the

609
00:46:25,599 --> 00:46:31,559
time from the Huckebees and the cruises. Pardon me, And

610
00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:34,920
that comes from Genesis twelve three. Yet an important question

611
00:46:36,559 --> 00:46:40,599
is often ignored. Who does that promise point to the

612
00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:44,000
New Testament, the New covenant that's been around for two

613
00:46:44,039 --> 00:46:50,360
thousand years repeatedly teaches that the promises given to Abraham

614
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:56,320
find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul writes

615
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,880
that the promises were made to Abraham and his sea,

616
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,199
which is Christ. Through faith in Christ, believers become errors

617
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:09,280
according to the promise, and the focus shifts from ethnicity

618
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:14,599
to faith, from bloodline to covenant, from genealogy to Jesus

619
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:20,000
Christ himself. And then of course there's John fourteen six.

620
00:47:20,039 --> 00:47:22,920
There's no asterisk at the end of that. But countless

621
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:29,320
Christians have been taught that Genesis twelve three requires unconditional

622
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:36,119
support for a modern geopolitical state, regardless of its actions, policies,

623
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:43,320
or leadership. And you know, this becomes particularly troubling when

624
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:50,159
military intervention is justified using our Bible. And if your

625
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,039
pastor is doing that, you give him my phone number

626
00:47:53,039 --> 00:47:54,559
and we need to have a talk. And I'm not

627
00:47:54,559 --> 00:47:57,119
saying that lightly have my phone now. I posted it

628
00:47:57,119 --> 00:47:59,960
in the show notes before. How many Christians have support

629
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:05,119
wars not because they carefully examined the evidence in scripture,

630
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,679
but they just believed what their pastor said. And you know,

631
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:12,840
the conflict in the Middle East must occur to fill prophecy.

632
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:20,719
How many have viewed escalating tensions as exciting developments rather

633
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:26,880
than human tragedies. How many have interpreted every military operation,

634
00:48:27,079 --> 00:48:32,239
regional conflict, in every diplomatic crisis through their prophecy charts

635
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:37,400
instead of scripture itself. And that's a big problem when

636
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:46,519
theology shapes opinion. Big problem again. Jesus said he provided

637
00:48:46,559 --> 00:48:52,239
the foundation that should guide every single Christian's understanding of salvation.

638
00:48:53,559 --> 00:48:57,719
John fourteen six. He declared plainly, I am the Way,

639
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,360
the Truth, and the Life. And no man, no man

640
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:09,199
cometh unto the Father, but by me. Not through ethnicity,

641
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:14,079
not through national identity, not through mailing zip code, not

642
00:49:14,159 --> 00:49:21,400
through genealogy, not through citizenship in a particular nation. Through

643
00:49:21,559 --> 00:49:25,960
Jesus Christ alone, you are saved by His grace through faith.

644
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:31,880
That statement creates a serious challenge for modern systems that

645
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:37,400
imply some type of alternative covenant relationship that exists apart

646
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,559
from faith in Christ. If no one comes to the

647
00:49:41,639 --> 00:49:46,800
Father except through the Son, then every single person requires

648
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:50,159
the same savior. And later this week, I'm going to

649
00:49:50,199 --> 00:49:58,239
see that movie, the new Spielberg movie. Right Disclosure Day

650
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:01,199
or something like that, and that's at work movie. I'm

651
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,639
going to write it off that nine dollars and fifty

652
00:50:03,679 --> 00:50:07,800
cents and that thirty six dollars bucket of popcorn, right,

653
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,039
because what they're trying They did an interview with Spielberg

654
00:50:12,079 --> 00:50:16,480
and he said, well, if there are you know, alien beings,

655
00:50:17,039 --> 00:50:20,599
then you have to question your God. Right is Jesus

656
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,039
Christ their savior as well? So what they're trying to

657
00:50:24,079 --> 00:50:26,760
do and I've been saying it all along my other podcast,

658
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,880
the very first episode, why the lie? They want you

659
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:37,039
to believe in a false god? Right. They want you

660
00:50:37,119 --> 00:50:38,719
to believe that you live on a rock that is

661
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:42,000
fourteen billion years old instead of sixty five hundred years old,

662
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:46,360
that you evolved from a fish from a frog, you know,

663
00:50:46,559 --> 00:50:52,480
in a big bang. It's all a lie, And we

664
00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:56,280
got to put on those glasses. Jew and gentile alike

665
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,840
stand in need of Christ. There's no set. The Book

666
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:05,800
of Revelation contains passages that many Christians rarely here discussed

667
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,960
in modern prophecy conferences. How about Revelation two nine where

668
00:51:10,039 --> 00:51:13,679
Jesus declares, I know the blasphemy of them which say

669
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,960
they are Jews and are not but are the Synagogue

670
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,760
of Satan. Number one. If you type that on Twitter

671
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,360
or ex whatever it's called, now you get booted. A

672
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,840
Bible verse on most social media platforms, if you put

673
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,840
that Synagogue of Satan, you will get booted or at

674
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:38,239
least a warning. Why are they not allowing Bible verses? Hmm?

675
00:51:39,079 --> 00:51:41,360
And you know the other thing is Jesus doesn't say

676
00:51:41,519 --> 00:51:45,519
I'm not trying to be anti Semitic, I'm not trying

677
00:51:45,559 --> 00:51:49,480
to be hateful. He simply states, I know the blasphemy

678
00:51:49,519 --> 00:51:52,360
of them which say they are Jews and are not,

679
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,039
but are the Synagogue of Satan. And again in Revelation

680
00:51:56,159 --> 00:51:59,480
three nine, behold I will make them of the Synagogue

681
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,280
of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not,

682
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:08,719
but douly. Ninety eight point six percent of the people

683
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:12,679
who live within the borders of Israel are either atheists

684
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:17,920
or muslim. This is a fact. Research it for yourself,

685
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,519
don't take George's word for it. There are hundreds of

686
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:28,840
thousands of more Christians in Iran than in Israel. Look

687
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:36,199
at how many Christian churches are in Iran. We're bombing Iran.

688
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:40,280
Look at the churches that have been destroyed in Iran,

689
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:46,599
not so much the mosque. Look at the churches, regardless,

690
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:51,639
everybody interprets you know, eschatology different, but they demonstrate that

691
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:56,159
Scripture doesn't teach blind acceptance of every claim made in

692
00:52:56,239 --> 00:53:01,599
the name of Jewish identity. And these principles are applied

693
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:07,679
far beyond revelation. Throughout Scripture, God's people are repeatedly commanded

694
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,119
to test, examine, and prove what they're taught. Always go

695
00:53:11,199 --> 00:53:14,199
back to the Bahans, right. They were praised because they

696
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:18,639
searched the scriptures daily to determine whether Paul's teachings were true.

697
00:53:19,079 --> 00:53:22,199
They didn't simply accept the claims because they came from

698
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,320
a respected teacher. How many times, and I'm guilty of

699
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,400
this too. Have you heard a great sermon? Do you

700
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,119
go home? Do you take notes to investigate what your

701
00:53:31,159 --> 00:53:33,480
pastor said? Do you go back the next week and

702
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:37,079
say what about this? What about that? Or do we

703
00:53:37,119 --> 00:53:41,159
take his word small H as gospel? Or do we

704
00:53:41,199 --> 00:53:49,599
take his word capital H as gospel. The tragedy is

705
00:53:49,639 --> 00:53:53,119
that many sincere believers and I'm not trying to bash people,

706
00:53:53,559 --> 00:53:57,639
I'm not questioning people's hearts, but they've never been encouraged

707
00:53:57,679 --> 00:54:01,960
to conduct that examination for themselves. Instead, they inherit a

708
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:05,280
framework that automatically interprets world events through the lens of

709
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:10,639
dispensational assumptions. Please read my book. Once that framework is accepted,

710
00:54:11,159 --> 00:54:16,159
every Middle Eastern conflict appears to confirm it. Yet the

711
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,280
Christian's ultimate allegiance is not to a nation state, or

712
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,360
a political movement or a prophecy chart. It is to

713
00:54:22,519 --> 00:54:29,760
Jesus Christ. That is why Christians cannot afford to accept

714
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:34,519
any teaching simply because it's popular, traditional, or emotionally compelling.

715
00:54:35,119 --> 00:54:44,800
The standard must always be the scripture, not Schofield, not

716
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:50,960
the television preachers, not politicians Sola. Scripture a scripture alone,

717
00:54:51,159 --> 00:54:54,440
and scripture points to one savior, one gospel, when covenant

718
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,320
fulfilled in Christ, and there's only one path to the Father,

719
00:54:57,559 --> 00:55:03,119
Jesus Christ, our Lord's. The final segment is endless war

720
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,760
and endless debt. I'm just going to touch on this,

721
00:55:08,159 --> 00:55:14,039
and every war carries a price tag. And in America,

722
00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:16,719
when you have a military the size of ours, even

723
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:22,519
in peacetime, it's very expensive to maintain. Right, citizens are

724
00:55:22,599 --> 00:55:25,039
encouraged to focus on the enemy, the battlefield, and the

725
00:55:25,039 --> 00:55:29,360
political rhetoric surrounding conflict. Much less attention is given to

726
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:33,480
how wars are financed and who profits in How many

727
00:55:33,519 --> 00:55:38,960
military conflicts reshaped the relationship between Americans and the government. Listen,

728
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:45,119
when Congress authorizes military operations, the money doesn't exist, the

729
00:55:45,199 --> 00:55:50,519
government borrows it. The national debt grows and interest payments grow,

730
00:55:50,639 --> 00:55:57,679
so future taxpayers inherit obligations they never approved. Wars that

731
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:02,280
would have once required immediate sack refe are now financed

732
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:07,480
through debt instruments, treasury secretaries, and monetary policies that most

733
00:56:07,519 --> 00:56:11,719
Americans never see or fully understand. At the center of

734
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:15,440
the system sits the Federal Reserve. While many Americans assume

735
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,760
that wars are funded through existing government resources, the reality

736
00:56:20,039 --> 00:56:24,920
is far more complicated. The federal government borrows enormous sums

737
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,920
to finance military operations, and those debts become part of

738
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:33,840
an expanding system that transfers wealth through interest payments, inflation,

739
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:39,840
and monetary expansion. The average citizen experiences the consequences. The

740
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,719
declining purchasing power. We're seeing all that right now that

741
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:50,079
often disappears disconnected from military spending, even though they're related

742
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:55,119
and the numbers are staggering. Just the wars in Afghanistan

743
00:56:55,159 --> 00:57:01,320
and Iraq alone consumed trillions of contray. And then again,

744
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,719
when they're in times of emergency, they have the no

745
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:12,239
bid contracts, so their buddies get the money, and if

746
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:15,440
there's no bid, they can write a contract for whatever

747
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:20,280
amount of money they want. That's the most controversial part

748
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:26,960
of the nine to eleven era. It's something so again. Meanwhile,

749
00:57:27,039 --> 00:57:30,039
the average American is told that the nation can't afford

750
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:35,119
many domestic priorities, while hundreds of billions remain available from

751
00:57:35,119 --> 00:57:38,239
military commitments around the world. And that's a shame. And

752
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,480
I'm sure I'm not the only person who drives around

753
00:57:40,519 --> 00:57:44,400
town and sees the devastation and the told that this

754
00:57:44,519 --> 00:57:49,239
economy and this world has taken on the American person,

755
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,119
the average American. We were at a fundraiser for the

756
00:57:52,199 --> 00:57:55,079
local fire company Friday night. It was all you can

757
00:57:55,119 --> 00:58:01,760
eat shrimp and pork. Man, it was good, but gentlemen

758
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:05,679
sitting next to me, we started talking about all the

759
00:58:05,679 --> 00:58:08,920
people was Pride Month and how in the seventies if

760
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,239
you saw a man wearing a dress, they usually got

761
00:58:11,239 --> 00:58:15,239
recommended for a psychiatric referral. Now they're held up as heroes.

762
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,440
And then he started saying. They started, it's funny because

763
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,400
we've talked about this before. They said, what happened to

764
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,159
all the mental institutions? And I told them very upfront,

765
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:27,599
I said, because there's no money in that, but there's

766
00:58:27,639 --> 00:58:32,760
a huge profit in the prison industry. So the people

767
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:36,480
who used to go to these mental facilities, there's some

768
00:58:36,519 --> 00:58:39,559
out there, very few. Some are part of hospital wings now,

769
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,079
but they're a burden to the hospital industry that would

770
00:58:42,159 --> 00:58:47,920
rather put them in the prison industry. And because those

771
00:58:48,079 --> 00:58:52,480
especially in Texas, with those contracts, my goodness, gracious, but

772
00:58:52,519 --> 00:58:57,840
people are starting to ask those questions. Don't forget. War

773
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:04,800
has a remarkable tendency to expand government power, right and again.

774
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,880
During times of conflict, we're asked to surrender freedoms in

775
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:15,199
exchange for security. And remember the person who supports military intervention,

776
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,559
he does so because he believes it will remain limited

777
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:24,000
and he discovers that the consequences reached far beyond the battlefield.

778
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:28,639
The war expands, the debt expands, so does the bureaucracy

779
00:59:28,679 --> 00:59:32,920
and surveillance. Who benefits, who pays, who gains freedom, who

780
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:36,760
loses power? Those are the questions that we have to

781
00:59:37,079 --> 00:59:39,000
you know, if you're listening to the podcast, you've been

782
00:59:39,039 --> 00:59:41,679
asking that question for a long time. The key is

783
00:59:43,039 --> 00:59:47,360
getting that information to you one person. Just like disciple

784
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,239
making right. You get it to the next person, build

785
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,159
them up, educate them. Then they go out and do

786
00:59:53,239 --> 00:59:56,039
the same, and eventually you have enough people awake to

787
00:59:56,039 --> 01:00:03,199
make a difference. But people are hypnotized by the world

788
01:00:03,199 --> 01:00:06,440
that we live in. It's not real. The money's not real.

789
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:15,400
Follow the money and you will discover why the conflicts

790
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:20,480
continue long after their original objectives. Follow the money and

791
01:00:20,519 --> 01:00:26,079
you'll discover why peace can be surprisingly unpopular among those

792
01:00:26,119 --> 01:00:31,599
whose fortunes depend on it. The war machine feeds on fear,

793
01:00:32,039 --> 01:00:35,519
but it runs on money. And as long as people

794
01:00:35,599 --> 01:00:41,119
focus only on the battlefield while ignoring the machinery behind it,

795
01:00:41,199 --> 01:00:44,800
the cycle of war, the debt, and the expanding government power,

796
01:00:46,239 --> 01:00:51,599
all of this will continue long into the future. So

797
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:58,000
as we close this episode on the war Machine, you know,

798
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:02,559
I find myself returning to the same question that has

799
01:01:02,599 --> 01:01:05,000
haunted me since I first put on the uniform? Right,

800
01:01:05,039 --> 01:01:08,639
who truly benefits from all of this? Now, when I

801
01:01:08,679 --> 01:01:11,639
first put on the uniform, I'm like everybody else standing

802
01:01:11,679 --> 01:01:14,840
in front of the mirror surreal, I'd stop to get

803
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:17,920
gas in my uniform, kind of shake my head. Look

804
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:22,159
at me, right, I'm Rambo Junior, one hundred and forty pounds.

805
01:01:24,519 --> 01:01:27,639
But the longer you stay in and you understand, you

806
01:01:27,679 --> 01:01:31,079
get older and wiser and more mature. You understand that

807
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:34,880
war is a business. Where As Smentley Butler said, war

808
01:01:35,119 --> 01:01:42,440
is a racket, right, who benefits from it? It's certainly

809
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:46,639
not the young soldier who's standing guard in the middle

810
01:01:46,679 --> 01:01:48,519
of a desert at three o'clock in the morning. And

811
01:01:48,559 --> 01:01:50,760
it's not the wife trying to hold a family together

812
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:54,519
for a year at a time. You know, it's not

813
01:01:54,679 --> 01:01:59,280
like the families of men like Tim Bulliard and David

814
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,760
Van Camp who paid the ultimate price while serving a

815
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:07,239
nation they love. Yet despite this enormous human cost, the

816
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:09,440
wars continue. We saw boots on the ground in all

817
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,559
these countries they promised to get us out of. The

818
01:02:12,599 --> 01:02:18,360
budget grows, the deck grows, and the rich become richer,

819
01:02:18,639 --> 01:02:22,360
and we become more insignificant day after day. And history

820
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:26,119
is filled with contradictions that should cause any thinking person

821
01:02:26,199 --> 01:02:29,719
to pause. Americans were told Vietnam was necessary to stop

822
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:32,400
the spread of communism. What a farce that was right.

823
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:36,639
Decades later, all the questions are out there about the

824
01:02:36,639 --> 01:02:40,960
Gulf of Tonkin incident that helped justify the escalation. You

825
01:02:41,039 --> 01:02:44,760
had Admiral George Stephen Morrison, the father of Jim Morrison

826
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:48,400
from the Doors, who was connected to the naval operations

827
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:53,440
surrounding those events that were claimed fifty eight thousand Americans,

828
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:59,719
countless Vietnamese. Yet today even many historians disagree about the

829
01:02:59,719 --> 01:03:04,079
prem that led the nation into that conflict. And a

830
01:03:04,159 --> 01:03:09,199
generation later, you know, we supported Saddam Hussein in the

831
01:03:09,239 --> 01:03:12,639
eighties during the Iran Iraq War, then all of a

832
01:03:12,639 --> 01:03:15,639
sudden he became the dictator that had to be removed.

833
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:19,239
Two years later the ally became the enemy. Just another

834
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:24,280
cycle of war. And the same pattern appears through modern politics.

835
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:27,119
Right in a nation of more than three hundred and

836
01:03:27,199 --> 01:03:30,639
thirty million people, why do the same names rise to

837
01:03:30,719 --> 01:03:36,119
the top. The Bush family produced a CIA director, a

838
01:03:36,199 --> 01:03:41,679
vice president, a president, another president, a presidential candidate. Right,

839
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:48,199
the Kennedys, the Clintons. What are we doing? What are

840
01:03:48,199 --> 01:03:51,639
we doing here? Is it that we're working too hard

841
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,480
that we can't take the time to clean up the

842
01:03:54,480 --> 01:04:01,199
country for our generations to come or is simply the matrix.

843
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,039
I'd really like to fix this, but I'm pretty sure

844
01:04:05,039 --> 01:04:09,760
i'd lose my paycheck. That is quite the boundary, isn't it.

845
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,639
And that's why I said at the beginning of the

846
01:04:11,719 --> 01:04:17,119
series all of these things were exposing. Once they get

847
01:04:17,159 --> 01:04:23,800
in place and embedded, they're extremely difficult to overcome. And again,

848
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,119
it's not a call for arms. You can simply walk away,

849
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:29,760
but it takes enough of us to do so. But

850
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,360
we have to have that same moral conviction. And it's

851
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:37,719
got to start in the good book. All these families

852
01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:43,119
and connected institutions and intelligence agencies and defense contractors, and

853
01:04:43,199 --> 01:04:45,440
just like they said, and they live. Look, man, there's

854
01:04:45,559 --> 01:04:50,519
no individual governments anymore, Are you serious? They're all connected

855
01:04:50,559 --> 01:04:59,000
at the top. You had a few presidents that warned

856
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:01,599
about the concentration of power. Harry Truman said it on

857
01:05:01,639 --> 01:05:04,440
his last day of office, and jeffk said it and

858
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:11,760
he got killed. Right that the truth is peace is

859
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:18,159
expensive and a threat to the elite, conflict is profitable, right,

860
01:05:18,239 --> 01:05:30,119
Lockheed Martin raytheon NORTHP. Grumman Boeing General Dynamics, the relationship

861
01:05:30,159 --> 01:05:34,079
between Washington and Israel. Right, That presents a huge for

862
01:05:34,159 --> 01:05:36,519
the last thirty five years. That's what it's been all about.

863
01:05:37,239 --> 01:05:40,239
Even Kennedy, which you know, I think most people are

864
01:05:40,239 --> 01:05:42,840
starting to agree that Israel played a large part in it.

865
01:05:43,599 --> 01:05:48,039
He pushed aggressively for inspections of Israel's Demona facility and

866
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:52,239
maintained a far more contentious relationship. But it was more

867
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:57,000
than that. It was Apak and others as well. He

868
01:05:57,119 --> 01:06:00,679
had a problem with it. But in modern politics, support

869
01:06:00,719 --> 01:06:03,159
for Israel appears to be one of the few issues

870
01:06:03,599 --> 01:06:08,000
that receives nearly unanimous backing from both parties. That should

871
01:06:08,119 --> 01:06:13,880
raise a question in itself. Right at the same time,

872
01:06:14,639 --> 01:06:18,880
warnings regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions have been repeated since the

873
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:26,159
early nineties. Right for Christians, this conversation extends beyond politics

874
01:06:26,239 --> 01:06:29,880
and enters the realm of theology. As I mentioned in

875
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:34,719
exposing dispensationalism, millions of Believers have been taught to interpret

876
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:38,280
Middle Eastern conflicts through a particular prophetic framework, and as

877
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:42,320
a result, geopolitical events are often viewed not merely as

878
01:06:42,559 --> 01:06:47,920
foreign policy decisions, but its developments within an unexpected prophetic timeline.

879
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:51,639
And again, whether one agrees with that interpretation or not,

880
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:56,159
there is no denying that theology influences public opinion, which

881
01:06:56,239 --> 01:07:06,800
influences elections, which influences foreign policy. So you know, after

882
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:10,239
all those years in the military end ten years to reflect,

883
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:14,800
I've come to a conclusion that most people, and they

884
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:17,079
look at me and they hear about my stories, and

885
01:07:17,119 --> 01:07:19,880
they look at or I should say they hear my

886
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:23,239
stance today they feel uncomfortable. Whether I'm having a meal

887
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:27,079
with somebody or I'm having a chat, when I tell

888
01:07:27,119 --> 01:07:30,000
them my stance, they get weirded out a little bit.

889
01:07:31,159 --> 01:07:34,519
But the fact is, Look, the people who pay the

890
01:07:34,599 --> 01:07:39,119
highest price for war are never the decision makers. Right.

891
01:07:39,159 --> 01:07:42,320
The politicians stay in office safely in Washington, d c.

892
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:47,840
The contractors receive their payments, The lobbyists secure their influence

893
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:51,679
and their big paychecks. Right, And that's where these nonprofits

894
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:54,360
come into play. It's another major problem that we don't

895
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:58,480
get talked about enough. The television personalities move on to

896
01:07:58,519 --> 01:08:03,719
the next story, but the graves, the memories, the physical wounds,

897
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:11,079
the invisible wounds, they all remain. That's why we have

898
01:08:11,159 --> 01:08:15,119
to be willing to ask the difficult questions, not because

899
01:08:15,199 --> 01:08:18,920
we hate our country, but because we love it, not

900
01:08:19,039 --> 01:08:22,279
because we oppose the troops, we respect them in their lives,

901
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,079
not because they're cynical, but because history has shown that

902
01:08:26,119 --> 01:08:31,079
our government, these intelligence agencies and these corporations who stole

903
01:08:31,119 --> 01:08:34,680
power from us in twenty twenty and beyond, who got

904
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:37,319
belt out in two thousand and eight when we're just

905
01:08:37,359 --> 01:08:39,920
told to fire, you know, chapter seven or chapter eleven

906
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:44,359
or thirteen or whatever, and these powerful institutions are capable

907
01:08:44,359 --> 01:08:47,880
of pursuing interests that don't always align with the interests

908
01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:51,479
of ordinary people. In the end, every listener must decide

909
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:55,479
what he believes. But after examining the records of the

910
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:59,760
last century, there's one fact that becomes awful difficult to

911
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:03,680
a nor the wars. They come and go, the administrations

912
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:07,479
rise and fall, the enemies change, and the slogans and

913
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:14,720
the justifications, but the machinery remains remarkably consistent. The faces differ,

914
01:09:15,239 --> 01:09:17,680
but that war machine, the engine, and the war machine

915
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:23,800
keeps on running. The question every American should ask is

916
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:29,279
whether that's merely a coincidence or something much larger that

917
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:35,039
has been operating in plain sight all along. God bless you.

918
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:39,039
Our email is the fact Hunter atmail dot com. All

919
01:09:39,079 --> 01:09:42,359
the links to the books and the websites, and everything

920
01:09:42,399 --> 01:09:45,039
will be in the show notes. God bless you all.

921
01:09:45,159 --> 01:09:47,479
Keep your head on a swivel, in Christ in your heart.

922
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:51,000
And until we meet again, my friends, we will see you.

923
01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:59,399
Speaker 2: I know it's been struggled. I don't know if you've

924
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:07,680
had some. I don't you feel tired? Hell down by

925
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:08,760
all the way?

926
01:10:10,319 --> 01:10:10,520
Speaker 3: Yeah?

927
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:13,520
Speaker 1: Don't you feel.

928
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:20,960
Speaker 2: You smile? Ain't the same? That's all you way go from.

929
01:10:21,399 --> 01:10:29,520
You feel like you've lost your way. Don't give up, No,

930
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:34,279
don't give in, and never is home. Don't let call

931
01:10:34,560 --> 01:10:39,079
the primis. It ain't done yet. He's got up planning.

932
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:41,119
Why it's a right time?

933
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:42,399
Speaker 3: Got up?

934
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:43,640
Speaker 2: Let me come?

935
01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:50,359
Speaker 3: Why afraid? Got up?

936
01:10:51,199 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 2: Y calling? I can see the streets side you childs

937
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:10,479
are putting up the five. Oh, you're stronger than any thing. You. Yeah,

938
01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:16,520
you're gonna be all right. You're accepting a bad found

939
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:19,000
you beautiful.

940
01:11:19,199 --> 01:11:20,680
Speaker 1: You're shoving ride.

941
01:11:22,239 --> 01:11:27,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're live and breathing. Move you can hold your

942
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:34,880
head a pie. Don't give up. No, don't give in.

943
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:39,600
You never lose home. Don't let go on the primise

944
01:11:40,239 --> 01:11:43,039
and ain't done yet? This god up? Lad?

945
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:48,600
Speaker 3: Want some way tell the God of me because don't

946
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:53,880
give up, no, don't give in, never lose home, don't.

947
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:57,720
Speaker 2: Let go on the promise. And it ain't God of life,

948
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:01,479
it's worse than men. Why it's a lay down the

949
01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:11,680
god e? Why's a play down? The god the baby cor?

950
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:19,680
Oh yeah, what's a play down? The god of baby cor?

951
01:12:22,279 --> 01:12:37,560
Oh yeah, the god of TV car Oh, don't give up, no,

952
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:43,680
don't give in? Never? So do they go of the primis?

953
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:50,239
I mean andys got up playing wait a kind of

954
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:57,199
in a coat? Don't give no dog e never hol

955
01:12:57,479 --> 01:13:02,800
do they go of the crimes? Inting done lovers? What living?

956
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:15,199
Whats God of any cos all? The God of need

957
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cos wits God of.

958
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Speaker 1: Any You're listening to the Fact Hunter Radio Network.

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Speaker 2: Just the facts, ma'am.