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I kind of think that Israel is just 10 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:39,240 looking for a loaner, like a loaner B two bomber 11 00:00:40,359 --> 00:00:44,439 and maybe a bunker buster bomb, one of the big boys, 12 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,880 one of the massive bombs. They're just gonna need to 13 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,119 borrow it for like a day or two max, and 14 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,079 they'll return it, no scratches, no dents, no nothing. We 15 00:00:55,119 --> 00:00:57,920 can have them sign something. I think I feel like 16 00:00:58,039 --> 00:01:02,079 that's where we are at all, right, So let's talk 17 00:01:02,079 --> 00:01:06,959 a little bit about the the Iran situation. I have 18 00:01:07,079 --> 00:01:12,719 said ever since October seventh, twenty twenty three, Israel is 19 00:01:12,719 --> 00:01:15,400 going to do what it's going to do, and this 20 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,640 is their war. They're prosecuting it. As they are prosecuting it. 21 00:01:20,079 --> 00:01:25,040 War is hell it is a complete breakdown of law, 22 00:01:25,519 --> 00:01:30,680 right and society. It's awful. People die. Innocent people die, 23 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:37,000 children die, women die, soldiers die. It is to be avoided. 24 00:01:37,519 --> 00:01:43,319 That's why you try to avoid war. However, sometimes there 25 00:01:43,359 --> 00:01:47,560 are some people that are hell bent on warring. They 26 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,840 really really want war. They want to exterminate you. And 27 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,840 when presented with that option, it's either kill or be killed. 28 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,159 Israel has decided we will do the killing. We will 29 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,120 not be killed. That's why they set up the entire 30 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,000 state of Israel in the first place. They could not 31 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,240 count on other countries to protect them when they are 32 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:13,719 minority populations in every country. So the latest now, after 33 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,120 the first wave of attacks that Israel launched into Iran. 34 00:02:17,159 --> 00:02:20,360 By the way, I've heard that people are like that 35 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,479 Israel is the aggressor, They're the ones that invaded Iraq 36 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,199 or Iran, They're the ones that are doing this preemptive strike. 37 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,319 It's not actually a preemptive strike. It is a retaliatory 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,039 strike because remember, not even a year ago, Israel or 39 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:45,599 Iran rather launched hundreds of missiles into Israel. I feel 40 00:02:45,599 --> 00:02:47,840 like that's a declaration of war. What do you think 41 00:02:48,599 --> 00:02:54,039 if Canada or actually more believably, the cartels in Mexico 42 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:58,719 started launching a bunch of bombs into Texas. What do 43 00:02:58,759 --> 00:03:01,280 you think our response would Do you think that we 44 00:03:01,319 --> 00:03:03,520 would not bomb them back? Do you think we would 45 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,120 not try to find out who did it, who killed 46 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,520 our people? I think we would. I think any nation 47 00:03:09,719 --> 00:03:14,800 state would. Right. This is you know, the current state 48 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,879 of geopolitics where you have nation states. We have them, 49 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:24,400 and they are designed for the you know, protection of 50 00:03:24,439 --> 00:03:29,800 the people. That's the first order responsibility of the government. 51 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,960 Any government is to provide an umbrella of security for 52 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:38,319 the residents in that nation. Well, the good countries, I 53 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:40,560 mean yes, you can have like dictatorships and such that 54 00:03:41,479 --> 00:03:45,879 they get set up to enrich the leadership, like Iran 55 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:50,719 for example. So you had the decapitation strikes that occurred. 56 00:03:50,719 --> 00:03:54,120 First they took out all of the nuclear scientists, they 57 00:03:54,199 --> 00:03:57,919 took out all of the almost all of the leadership 58 00:03:57,919 --> 00:04:04,800 in the military, the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Today, the IDF 59 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:09,400 announced that it had killed Ali Shadmani. This guy had 60 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,319 replaced Major General Golam Ali Rashid, who was killed on Friday. 61 00:04:13,479 --> 00:04:16,439 So this guy got the appointment to be the Iranian 62 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:19,879 Chief of staff and top military commander, the closest one 63 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:27,160 to the Ayatola Komani, and they just took him out today. 64 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:35,639 I also saw Donald Trump posted up onto social media 65 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:42,399 two things. One he said unconditional surrender all caps. That 66 00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:47,639 was it. And he also put out a post that says, 67 00:04:47,759 --> 00:04:51,439 we know exactly where the so called Supreme Leader is hiding. 68 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:54,920 He is an easy target, but is safe there. We 69 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,639 are not going to take him out parentheses, kill, exclamation point, 70 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,519 going to take him out kill at least not for now. 71 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,399 But we don't want missiles shot at civilians or American soldiers. 72 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,800 Our patients is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention 73 00:05:09,879 --> 00:05:20,800 to this matter. I don't know. Yeah, anyway, Will Chamberlain 74 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,720 not the basketball player. This is will William Chamberlain. We've 75 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,279 interviewed him on the program here before. He's an Article 76 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,720 three project General counsel guy. He says, I feel like 77 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:34,079 there are a lot of people who are ego invested 78 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,800 in the general restraint theory with regards to Iran, that 79 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,959 Iran is a formidable military power, that military intervention could 80 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,319 never work against it, and that they are struggling to 81 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,399 deal with the new facts on the ground because those 82 00:05:48,439 --> 00:05:53,839 facts make their prior predictions and analysis look foolish. This 83 00:05:53,879 --> 00:05:59,600 is an interesting point. Ego invested people who have been saying, 84 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,879 we can't touch iron, we can't do anything with iron. 85 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:04,439 We have to negotiate with them on their quest for 86 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,399 a nuclear bomb. And look, Iran wants nuclear weapons. There 87 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,959 is no reason for them to have enriched uranium to 88 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,439 the levels they did. There is no reason that they 89 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,639 built all of those facilities so deep under ground that 90 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,439 now Israel is, you know, needing a bunker busting bomb 91 00:06:20,519 --> 00:06:23,800 and some B two bombers to drop them. Right, There 92 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,240 isn't any reason that you build those facilities except to 93 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:30,000 build a bomb. They already got to the three percent 94 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,839 level for your Richmond enrichment of uranium. That would be 95 00:06:33,879 --> 00:06:36,600 for civilian purposes, and that was their cover story. But 96 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,279 nobody believes their cover story. Now, if you want Iran 97 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,800 to have a nuke, you want to let them pursue 98 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,839 that because you think that's the only way they can 99 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,199 stop from being invaded by US or Israel or some 100 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:55,480 other country. Fine, but you cannot. You cannot be blind 101 00:06:55,519 --> 00:06:58,360 to the fact that they are pursuing a nuclear weapon. 102 00:06:58,759 --> 00:07:01,759 They have built up their stock piles of ballistic missiles, 103 00:07:03,879 --> 00:07:09,800 and in the supreme leader in this structure and the 104 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,519 particular branch of Islam that they follow in Iran, that 105 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:20,199 the iotola and the leadership follow. They believe that the 106 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,519 second Coming or the you know, the ushering in of 107 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:30,120 the of the utopian nirvana, it only comes when every 108 00:07:30,199 --> 00:07:34,240 Jew is removed from Israel. That's why they want the nuke. 109 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:38,319 They say this, this is not new, They've been saying 110 00:07:38,399 --> 00:07:42,639 it for fifty years. They want to exterminate all of 111 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,519 the Jews. The problem that they had was that they're 112 00:07:45,519 --> 00:07:48,879 about twenty five hundred kilometers away. They're pretty far. They've 113 00:07:48,879 --> 00:07:50,600 got to go over a couple of countries who, by 114 00:07:50,639 --> 00:07:54,160 the way, Israel is flying over So all of these 115 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,079 countries that supposedly were, you know, working with Iran, like Syria, 116 00:07:58,199 --> 00:08:01,160 for example, now that Bashar Assada is gone, hold up 117 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:06,879 somewhere in Moscow. Siria's letting Israel fly overhead. They're not 118 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:12,759 doing anything. Russia. Bloomberg just reported today that Russia's like, yeah, 119 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,519 you're on your own Iran, which really stinks because like 120 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,879 Iran had just signed some deal with Russia like a 121 00:08:17,959 --> 00:08:20,639 mutual aid thing, and Russia tried to put in a 122 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:23,879 good word with Donald Trump, and Trump was like, yeah, no, 123 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:30,439 Iran cannot have nukes. I have been critical of Donald 124 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,360 Trump for his flip flopping on various issues and things 125 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:40,200 over the years. This that's like tariffs. You could disagree 126 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,639 with his position on it, but just like the tariff issue, 127 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:47,200 Trump has actually been remarkably consistent on this one issue. 128 00:08:47,639 --> 00:08:52,960 Iran does not get nuclear weapons. That's it. You do 129 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,320 not get them. And Israel is now taking out their facilities. 130 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:02,519 Why because they deemed Iran to be an imminent threat 131 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:07,159 now and they took out all of their proxies, right, 132 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,919 They took out Hezbollah leadership, they knocked out Hamas's command structure, right, 133 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,759 they got them buried in tunnels. And this was what 134 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:20,000 the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Solomani, this was his plan. 135 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,000 Trump took out Solomoni and everybody in the what's called 136 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:26,720 the woke right now. I guess they were all like, oh, 137 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,600 this is going to cause World War three and it didn't. 138 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:31,759 Solomoni was the one who said, hey, we're going to 139 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,600 have a ring of fire around Israel because they're twenty 140 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,000 five hundred kilometers away. So they had to set up proxies, 141 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,559 and they immediately began doing this after the revolution in 142 00:09:41,639 --> 00:09:45,600 seventy nine. They blew up the barracks of our US 143 00:09:45,759 --> 00:09:49,919 marines in Beirut in nineteen eighty three, murdering two hundred 144 00:09:49,919 --> 00:09:51,919 and forty one marines. That was Hezbollah, that was a 145 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:57,399 proxy for Iran. This has been their goal from day one. 146 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:03,080 You don't have to agree that we should be involved 147 00:10:03,159 --> 00:10:06,559 or do anything like that, but you cannot disagree that 148 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:11,519 Iran wants nuclear weapons. They do. That's what they've been doing. 149 00:10:11,519 --> 00:10:13,600 Oh but what about Tulci Gabbard, She came out with 150 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,080 that presentation the other day. Yeah, it's an interesting thing 151 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,799 about that clip too. I've got the audio here. There's 152 00:10:21,879 --> 00:10:24,440 one clip of about eighteen seconds that it's been shared 153 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,320 with Tulsi Gabbard, But then the next eighteen seconds gets 154 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,799 cut out. Wait till you hear the second part of 155 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,879 the clip. 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He says he feels like a lot of 175 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:47,600 people are ego invested in their restraint approach against Deran 176 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:51,519 because they're struggling to deal with new facts on the ground, 177 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,600 because those facts on the ground make their prior predictions 178 00:11:54,639 --> 00:11:59,039 and analysis look foolish. It's the mirror image of the 179 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,919 neo cons who were ego invested in the success of Araq. 180 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:07,080 The restrainers are less destructive, to be fair, but it's 181 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,480 the same dynamic at play. He says, Guys, it's okay 182 00:12:10,519 --> 00:12:12,879 to be wrong about foreign policy. It happens to the 183 00:12:12,919 --> 00:12:15,559 best of us. But when the facts change, you need 184 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,279 to have the ability to change your mind. So here's 185 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:26,080 Telsey Gabbert, Director of National Intelligence, and the first eighteen seconds. 186 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,480 I'm going to pause it after this eight first eighteen 187 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:30,840 seconds because this is the clip that is being shared 188 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,840 about Iran's nuclear capabilities. 189 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 2: The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building 190 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,360 a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Kamini has not authorized 191 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:44,240 the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in two thousand 192 00:12:44,279 --> 00:12:48,360 and three. The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran 193 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,440 decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. 194 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: Right, that's the clip that's being shared. See, so the 195 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:58,519 Intelligence Committee says they don't have a bomb. Okay, first off, 196 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,519 you only know it after the fact, right, That's the 197 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,879 intelligence that you gather would only be would only be 198 00:13:06,919 --> 00:13:11,279 available after they have done it, right, unless you're somehow 199 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:13,919 embedded in their nuclear program. In which case, then just 200 00:13:13,919 --> 00:13:17,000 take it out. Here's the second part of what she 201 00:13:17,039 --> 00:13:18,240 said that doesn't get shared. 202 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:20,879 Speaker 2: In the past year, we've seen an erosion of a 203 00:13:20,919 --> 00:13:24,639 decade's long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public, 204 00:13:25,399 --> 00:13:30,120 likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran's decision making apparatus. 205 00:13:30,759 --> 00:13:34,639 Uran's enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and 206 00:13:34,799 --> 00:13:37,960 is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons. 207 00:13:39,519 --> 00:13:42,799 Speaker 1: It's unprecedented for a state without like why do you 208 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:48,080 have uranium enriched to sixty percent? The next step is 209 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:52,399 ninety and then you got your weapons grade. There's no 210 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,879 reason to have it if it's for civilian purposes. And 211 00:13:54,919 --> 00:13:59,879 they've made like they've made such progress they were imminently 212 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,559 ready to achieve weapons great status. And then they've got 213 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,559 all of the ballistic missiles they can strap the payloads 214 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:16,600 to and deliver them as dirty bombs. Right, I don't again, 215 00:14:16,639 --> 00:14:20,639 this is everybody has known that Iran wants a nuclear weapon. 216 00:14:22,279 --> 00:14:25,919 Let me read this, because there's you know, people are like, 217 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,320 oh my gosh, you know, boots on the ground, and oh, 218 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,320 we're going to get involved in this war no more 219 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,759 forever wars. Trump is selling out America first, and all 220 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:36,519 of this, I don't believe that. I don't believe that 221 00:14:36,519 --> 00:14:38,759 to be the case. I could be wrong. I don't 222 00:14:38,759 --> 00:14:41,799 believe that to be the case. And this guy sums 223 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:45,320 it up very well. Everything that makes Iran a problem 224 00:14:45,879 --> 00:14:49,639 comes from a factory, and those factories can be vaporized 225 00:14:49,799 --> 00:14:53,399 from the year. Most US casualties in Iraq were caused 226 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,759 by sophisticated off route EFP minds that were mass produced 227 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,399 by Iran. The rockets fire at Israel and such massive 228 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,159 quantities that it threatened to deplete the Israeli iron dome 229 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,559 interceptor stocks and overwhelm their systems, mass produced by Iran. 230 00:15:10,159 --> 00:15:13,279 The drones and missiles that the huties used to close 231 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,639 the bob El Mandab Strait and thus the Suez Canal, 232 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:19,639 one of the most economically vital sea lines of communication 233 00:15:19,759 --> 00:15:24,320 and existence, mass produced by Iran. The srbms being fired 234 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,559 at Ukraine by Russia, mass produced and delivered to them 235 00:15:27,639 --> 00:15:33,039 by Iran. The massive heavy MRBM Arsenal they've been attempting 236 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:35,600 to mass murder Israeli civilians with, and have used to 237 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,440 threaten and coerce everybody else in the region, reaching as 238 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:43,000 far as Southern Europe and Italy mass produced by Iran. 239 00:15:44,159 --> 00:15:47,960 None of this happens without Iranian mass weapon production, many 240 00:15:48,039 --> 00:15:52,080 millions of dollars in fiscal support, and Iranian military advisors, leadership, 241 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,559 and intel support. You don't get the kind of problems 242 00:15:55,559 --> 00:15:59,799 in that region from six clowns making homemade grenades out 243 00:15:59,799 --> 00:16:04,600 of soda bottles, bathtub explosives and rusty nails. Anti ship 244 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:09,679 ballistic missiles aren't cobbled together by Jihad Kletus in his garage. 245 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,480 Blow up the Iranian military industrial complex, take out their 246 00:16:13,559 --> 00:16:18,279 nuclear program, and these problems go away forever. And if 247 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,919 they try to build them again, you blow them up again. 248 00:16:22,039 --> 00:16:24,279 This isn't to hold deep enough for them, or there 249 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,720 isn't to hold deep enough for them to climb in. 250 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,000 We built a massive thirty thousand pound bunker busting bomb 251 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,519 to make doubly sure of that. There is never, at 252 00:16:34,559 --> 00:16:38,240 any possible point in time, any reason whatsoever to put 253 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,519 a single boot on the ground in Iran. Every single 254 00:16:43,039 --> 00:16:46,480 forever war in the Middle East is caused and perpetuated 255 00:16:46,559 --> 00:16:50,960 by Iran, and the only consequences for US ending it 256 00:16:51,039 --> 00:16:56,000 would be a three percent bump in Lockheed Martin stock, Yeah, 257 00:16:56,519 --> 00:16:59,679 David Arsani wrote at The Washington Examiner, Iran is nothing 258 00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:03,120 like the war, and people have to understand these are 259 00:17:03,159 --> 00:17:08,519 different situations. It's been twenty something years. There is a difference. 260 00:17:08,759 --> 00:17:12,079 They are different peoples, they are different societies, these are 261 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:15,880 different operations, and Israel has done most of the hard 262 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,960 work already. 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Do you know who Reza Pahlavi? 284 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:33,200 Do you know who? Reza Pahlavi is? The crown Prince 285 00:18:33,319 --> 00:18:40,000 of Iran. He is the eldest son of Mohammed Reza Paalavi, 286 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:46,640 who was the last Shaw of Iran. He is in exile. 287 00:18:47,799 --> 00:18:54,200 He's living in exile. He just put out a video 288 00:18:54,279 --> 00:19:00,000 to his Iranian countryman and he says the Islamic Republic 289 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,519 has come to its end and is collapsing. What has 290 00:19:03,559 --> 00:19:07,039 begun is irreversible. The future is bright and together we 291 00:19:07,079 --> 00:19:09,440 will turn the page of history. Now is the time 292 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,960 to stand up, the time to reclaim Iran. May I 293 00:19:13,079 --> 00:19:19,839 be with you soon again. Like I'm not saying we help, 294 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:25,039 I'm not saying we do anything, but that's a good development. 295 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:30,680 It's better than the Mulla's right, I think. Right, Look, 296 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:38,039 I've never known a world without the molocracy, the kleptocracy, 297 00:19:38,079 --> 00:19:43,519 that has controlled Iran. The Shaw was overthrown when I 298 00:19:43,599 --> 00:19:48,240 was a child, and I never knew it before then. 299 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,839 I've never known flights to go between Tehran and Israel. 300 00:19:55,319 --> 00:20:00,559 But apparently that was happening before the Shaw fell, before 301 00:20:00,599 --> 00:20:10,559 the Islamic Revolution. And I understand the criticisms, the concerns, 302 00:20:10,599 --> 00:20:14,680 and the worry, the anxiety about forever wars and another 303 00:20:14,759 --> 00:20:19,799 Afghanistan and other Iraq I don't see this as the 304 00:20:19,839 --> 00:20:24,319 same at all. I see this as Israel has finally 305 00:20:24,599 --> 00:20:30,519 gone after the purveyors of the equipment and the training 306 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:34,440 and the terrorism that they have been subjected to for 307 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,680 the last fifty years through the Iranian state. Because again, 308 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,440 the Iranian State, the Mullahs that control it, that branch 309 00:20:42,599 --> 00:20:50,519 of Shia fundamentalism, believes in the annihilation of Jews in 310 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,799 Israel in order to usher in the end of the world. 311 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,640 That's when Prophet Muhammad comes back. And that's when you 312 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,200 know they live in utopia with all of the virgins 313 00:21:03,279 --> 00:21:05,920 or whatever it is that they think. And if you 314 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,880 have a neighbor that is saying, we want to murder 315 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,480 every single one of the people in your home. Oh 316 00:21:11,519 --> 00:21:13,599 and by the way, I'm building a nuclear weapon to 317 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:21,799 do that, Like, I don't see any other option for 318 00:21:21,839 --> 00:21:23,880 the Israelis. And as long as they're doing it themselves, 319 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:29,160 they seem quite adept to doing it. So yeah, they 320 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:34,440 control the air space, they have complete air dominance, and 321 00:21:34,839 --> 00:21:39,839 Iran is the land of Persia. These are Persians, right, 322 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:45,240 These were you know, civilized, you know, modern people in 323 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:48,519 a modern society prior to nineteen seventy nine when the 324 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:53,680 Shaw fell and then the Mullas take over, and you know, 325 00:21:53,759 --> 00:21:56,759 they start imposing Sharia law and they murder and beat 326 00:21:56,799 --> 00:21:59,359 up women who don't cover up all head to toe 327 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:04,519 and stuff. It's it's a brutal terrorist regime. I have 328 00:22:04,599 --> 00:22:07,200 clarity on that. I thought most people do. In fact, 329 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,359 actually most people do. It's like I just saw poll, 330 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,640 like eighty four percent of people say yes, stop around 331 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,240 from getting nukes. So like this is another like eighty 332 00:22:16,319 --> 00:22:18,240 five to fifteen issue. 333 00:22:17,839 --> 00:22:18,079 Speaker 3: So. 334 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,839 Speaker 1: I'm with the eighty five on it. David Arsani at 335 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,839 The Washington Examiner. He said, less than a week before 336 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,240 Israel launched its attack on Iran, Tucker Carlson, or as 337 00:22:29,279 --> 00:22:32,599 Donald Trump called him today, Kookie Tucker Carlson and other 338 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,400 cheerleaders for the Islamic state warned that the conflict could 339 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,880 easily lead to a world war in which Russia and 340 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,279 China would come to the aid of the Islamic clerics 341 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,960 and thousands of Americans would die for the Jewish state. 342 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,799 The war, now five days old, and Deran, with its 343 00:22:45,839 --> 00:22:50,160 top military brass joining Cassem Solomani in a fiery afterlife, 344 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,240 is already urgently signaling via Arab intermediaries that it wants 345 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,799 a ceasefire, which, in the Islamic world, a ceasefire means 346 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:06,440 stop attacking us long enough for US to resupply not 347 00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:10,400 one American as paris for Israel. Here. That hasn't stopped 348 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,759 isolationists joining progressive Democrats from engaging in scare mongering about 349 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:18,880 an imaginary neo conservative push for a large scale American 350 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,839 invasion and occupation of Iran that will put troops in danger. 351 00:23:22,319 --> 00:23:27,119 Iran is nothing like Iraq first off, despite popular rhetoric, 352 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,920 David Arsani says, we won the Iraq War the quote war. 353 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,640 We annihilated the Iraqi army within weeks. The US could 354 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,920 atomize Iran as well if it pleases the decade long 355 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,279 disaster that costs thousands of lives and trillions of dollars 356 00:23:44,319 --> 00:23:47,359 in Iraq was not a war but a misguided and 357 00:23:47,519 --> 00:23:51,880 mishandled social engineering project that was meant to install democracy 358 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:56,200 in an Islamic majority state, and no one has proposed 359 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,680 anything of the sort in Iran. Notwithstanding the Isola latianist's 360 00:24:00,759 --> 00:24:04,160 habit of accusing anybody who believes in wielding American power 361 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,920 against our enemies of being a neocon, there is no 362 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,920 appetite for nation building within either party, and that's good news. 363 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,359 When the news of the Israeli strike first broke, the 364 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,079 isolationists began accusing Israeli Prime Manager Benjamin and Yahoo of 365 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:23,000 embarrassing Trump, undercutting peacemaking efforts, and ignoring the president. As 366 00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:26,599 it turned out, Trump, after being shown intelligence revealing Iran's 367 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,079 nuclear weapons program was perilously close to the point in overturn, 368 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:35,519 Trump not only endorsed the operation, but participated in the 369 00:24:35,559 --> 00:24:40,920 misdirection and deception that allowed our ally to catch Tehran 370 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:48,039 by surprise. It should be noted that Israel's Operation Rising Lion, 371 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,960 unlike the US's Iraq invasion, wasn't even preemptive. Iran launched 372 00:24:53,039 --> 00:24:57,640 the largest ballistic missile attack in history against Israel in October. 373 00:24:58,039 --> 00:25:01,079 For decades, it is armed a three front proxy war 374 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:05,000 that costs thousands of Israeli lives. Iran has threatened Israel 375 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:10,160 with nuclear annihilation. It was one Cassas Belly after the next. 376 00:25:10,599 --> 00:25:14,359 Cassas Belly is the legitimate cause for war like this 377 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:19,400 is our legitimate justification for attacking you. No responsible nation 378 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:24,240 on Earth would continue to exist under these conditions. Iran, 379 00:25:24,279 --> 00:25:25,799 of course, has been an enemy of the US for 380 00:25:25,839 --> 00:25:29,559 over four decades as well. They take American hostages. They 381 00:25:29,559 --> 00:25:34,200 tried to assassinate our president. Here's a great idea. How 382 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,359 about making an escape to a really special and secluded 383 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,200 getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up 384 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,359 the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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All right, Walt, 404 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:49,160 Welcome to the program. 405 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 3: Hello, Walt, Hey, how you doing. Brett? 406 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,079 Speaker 1: Hey, it's it's Pete. But that's okay. Brett's on in 407 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,839 about ten minutes. That's all right. I just want to 408 00:26:57,839 --> 00:26:59,519 make sure you did you dial the right number? 409 00:27:00,839 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. There's so many breaths that work here. 410 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,319 I guess you guys confused. 411 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: No, that's fair. That's a very fair point. That is fair. 412 00:27:11,519 --> 00:27:15,799 Speaker 3: Point in a question your thoughts. I was in the 413 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,279 army in nineteen seventy nine and Carter dropped the ball. 414 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,160 We were ready to go. He could have took care 415 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,119 of this whole mess. We would have never been where 416 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:31,720 we're at right now. And the question is I follow 417 00:27:32,079 --> 00:27:37,119 the shaw of Iran's son on X and I asked 418 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,279 him the other day, a couple of days ago, would 419 00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:43,880 he be willing to step in as interim president for 420 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,400 Iran after this whole mess is over. I didn't get 421 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,720 an answer. He's probably pretty busy right now. 422 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: And so my question is it sounds like he said, yes, 423 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:55,559 he just put out that video. 424 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:57,039 Speaker 3: Oh he did. 425 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, he just put out a video saying he like 426 00:28:00,519 --> 00:28:03,960 that the regime is crumbling, it's a new day, bright future. 427 00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:05,279 He's ready to return. 428 00:28:06,279 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw a news SoundBite, but I didn't. I've 429 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,599 been flying today. I just got back from Colorado. Welcome 430 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:18,160 back anyway, Oh, thank you. What I'm concerned about, though, 431 00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:22,759 is if he actually is put into power, seeing how 432 00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:26,680 he's part of a monarchy. You know, he's the son 433 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,480 of a very powerful man, would he be willing to 434 00:28:30,519 --> 00:28:34,160 step down after they had elections. 435 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,799 Speaker 1: What I'm saying, Yeah, that's a fair question. But this 436 00:28:37,839 --> 00:28:40,720 is the thing that I think would be a lesson 437 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:45,960 from Iraq and Afghanistan, which is, we're not going to 438 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:51,480 uh impose a form of government on the people of Persia. 439 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,559 That's their call, right. If they want to restore a 440 00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:57,880 monarchy or they don't want a monarchy, that's that's going 441 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,839 to be up to them to figure out out. And 442 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,319 I don't think there's a role for the United States 443 00:29:04,359 --> 00:29:08,079 to be trying to impose anything on them. 444 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I get I get all that. But my 445 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,039 problem is is that they need to move past monarchies. 446 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:17,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's but that's the but that's the thing 447 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,160 that that region of the world, they're all monarchs over there, 448 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,480 it's all kingdoms and so and so. Don't don't project 449 00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:29,400 onto them a form of government. This is what's called 450 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,160 like Western conceit, this idea of like that we've got 451 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,000 the great system, you should use our system, you. 452 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,559 Speaker 3: Know, Okay, Yeah, I understand. 453 00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I mean it's a fair question, and I 454 00:29:40,559 --> 00:29:42,400 think he I think he would do well to do 455 00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:44,759 exactly what you just said, to say, I will come 456 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:48,839 in and I will be just a transitional figure to 457 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,000 get us through this chaos and then we move to, 458 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,079 you know, some democratic reforms, we do some elections or whatever, 459 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,440 and move away from a monarchist system. But that's going 460 00:29:59,480 --> 00:29:59,960 to be their call. 461 00:30:01,079 --> 00:30:03,599 Speaker 3: So let me ask you a questions. Don't you think 462 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,759 that he would be perfect for the role, seeing how 463 00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:10,880 he's got all of the connections, he's been keeping this 464 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,799 whole network thing going for all these years. He would 465 00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:17,039 be in my point of view, he would be perfect 466 00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:21,160 for the role. And then he just needs to step 467 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,759 back and let the next person have at it. 468 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,759 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he might be. I don't know anything about 469 00:30:27,799 --> 00:30:29,880 the guy. He's been out of the country for forty 470 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,279 six years, so you know, they may not want him, 471 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:34,960 but I don't know. I think that's going to be 472 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,920 a decision if it comes to that, you know, and 473 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,680 it hasn't come to that. The regime hasn't fallen technically yet, 474 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:43,079 so Walt, I do appreciate the call. It's a good question. 475 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,000 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 476 00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:50,079 so much for listening. I could not do the show 477 00:30:50,079 --> 00:30:52,599 without your support and the support of the businesses that 478 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,799 advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like Please support 479 00:30:55,799 --> 00:30:57,480 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 480 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:00,200 can also become a patron at my patreon page or 481 00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:03,839 go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 482 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,039 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.