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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, let me ask all of you. Right now, the
United States and Iran are engaged in a pitched battle
over control of the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian regime
has now said it is their official, state sanctioned policy
to assassinate President Trump and to kill his cabinet. Should
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the President officially end negotiations with Iran and should he
recall vance Rubio, Kushner, and Witkoff who have been sent
to negotiate with the Iranians. Frankly, you know, we've been
talking about nineteen seventy nine quite a bit. What the
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Iranians did to us in nineteen seventy nine was unprecedented
in history. When you infiltrate or invade someone's embassy, it's
the equivalent of invading their country. An embassy is supposed
to be sovereign soil, sovereign territory. When they went in
in nineteen seventy nine and literally took our embassy employees hostage,
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that was It's an invasion of the United States. It
was one of the most criminal acts in world diplomacy.
If they were able to do that, then you don't
think they'd be willing to do it again now hold
Jared Kushner say the president's son in law hostage or
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wit Cough or Rubio or Vance. I know it may
seem far fetched, but believe me, you're dealing with lunatics
who have shown themselves over forty seven years. With them,
anything is possible. So at this point I would say,
you know what, just send the negotiators home. There's nothing
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to negotiate. Six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight agree, disagree. Okay, let's go right back to
Jim in New Hampshire. Jim says, the war has been
a disaster. If you resume the war, it'll lead to
an even greater disaster. Jim, please pick up where you
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left off.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So another thing too, about the day one of this war.
I mean, we did kill other leaders, the guy that's
basically their pope, and to win the little school goes.
If that happened in downtown, you know, Connecticut School, we
would have probably the same reaction. I'm not justifying what
they're saying and what they want, but we got to
put things in perspective. So when they say that, but
there's also there's intent and there's the ability to do it.
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Of course they say death. Well, he what's down with America?
People translate to it down to America. Of course, an
agree with the American but we have to realize that
there's intent now they have they been a threat to us,
and can they do that to us now? They can't
bring down America. They never really could. You can remember
we talked about Night seventy nine. What happened that long ago?
It was called nine to eleven. It was the Soonies,
it was the Saudis. And then are our best friends?
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And oh, by the way, the guy in Syria, the
guy who buddies with out with a head chopping outside
the leader. Okay, so you know the history needs to
line up. And I'm not I don't agree with the
government over there, but again Tavasti going there and just
cause this mess which is gonna give us no win.
And and I'm a Republican. I'm a libertarian Republican. I
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believe I'm a cost as usual good servant. I'm a Christian.
If we follow this road, the Republicans will go the
same road as Biden. We're seeing it now. It's not
popular the Republicans or Trump is gonna lose first, and
then it's gonna Republican party. It just like that happened
to Biden. We're supporting this to the very end, and
it's vicious and another thing that's gonna happen. And I
love the country of Israel. I've been it's a beautiful country.
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It's not gonna be safe, and that we already saw
the Democrats turn on Israel. We'll guess what's gonna happen.
What's gonna happen when this does go sideways if we continue,
The Republicans are gonna point the fingers, and it's gonna
be vicious. We already see it a little in the party,
and it's gonna get worse. I don't see any good
your idea of walking way, I would actually would would.
I think the negotiation is just not working. I didn't
ever send too much hope in it. I think between
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us and them, there's just no good faith on either side.
I'm not gonna point fingers, but either way, I don't
see that working. I mean walking away, having this being
an economic war attrition, with the world stepping in and
US stepping out, maybe that's the best bet. I don't
have the perfect answer, but I definitely don't think full
out war is an answer. When you said blow up
the funeral of these people, I think that's a terrible idea.
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I'm sorry, Jeff, because if you do that, what did
you just cause with a city upon a shining hill
and we just killed a bunch of CI millions who
were supposed to liberate and we care about I mean,
that just goes out the door. You know, if you
want to attack military targets, go at military targets. I
really don't want see ground troops going there because they
know they'll lead to But one thing we cannot do
is you cannot just blow up civilian insrastructure. We cannot
blow up civilians. And we should try to kind of
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get out of this in a way where you know
what we again I said this people will focused on
other things. Give us some wins here at home, because
what's gonna happen and the big I guess thing, like
you said, socialism is gonna rise more. There's gonna be
far more division of this country. People go in this
path in China will get more powerful. United we stand divided,
we fall, and you got China. Those are existential threats.
I'm sorry, I ran as not existential threat to us.
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They might be in Israel, and if that's the case,
I fully support funding them and arming them to do that.
But putting ourself in this one thousand percent like we're doing,
it's not good for our country. It's not good for
the future of the world.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well you know, Jim, I mean, I'm not saying bomb
civilian infrastructure in terms of power plants or the grid
or desalination plants. But oil is the lifeblood of their economy,
and we could take out carg Island just that's it.
Just take it out. Trump says he wants to keep it.
I wouldn't even keep it, just bombit, destroy their key
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oil export hub, and that will bring the molus to
their knees. And without an economy even they can't continue
their reign of terror. And I think that's what brings
the war to an end. Pete in New Hampshire. Thanks
for holding Pete, and welcome.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Cooner.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I've loved you in the morning, I've loved you in
the afternoon. I've even loved you at night in a
non sexual way.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But Pete, I get a feeling you don't love me anymore.
You've lost that loving feeling.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I'm wondering what happened to you. You've turned into a
warmonger on everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Now, what makes you say that, Pete?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Because you want to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran and kill
more innocent people on behalf of our friends, the real
killers of the Middle East. The israel I can't say
the Jay words anyway. We're fighting somebody else's war. This
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is a dumb war to get into. The only way
out is to just leave and say we're sorry, and Israel,
you're on your own. We're coming home. You're messing with.
Your approach is asking for nuclear war. The Jews have
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a bomb too, don't forget that. And we don't control
those people. And we're messing by destroying Iran. We're messing
with China, and they probably have by day. I mean Iran,
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they probably have a bomb already. If not, they can
buy one. Your approach makes no sense, Jeff, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well, Pete, let me ask you this. Say we just leave, okay,
just because that's one of the options Trump is considering.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You have.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now you've got a radicalized regime in Iran. They're more
hardline than ever, they're more anti Israel, anti Semitic than ever,
they're more anti American than ever. They now have an
official policy to assassinate our president and to murder our
entire cabinet, so they've essentially now declared war on us.
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They are going to be left effectively in control of
the Strait of Hormoose, which I don't need to tell you, Pete,
you know better than anybody, is one of the key
choke points in the world economy. Twenty percent of the
world's oil and twenty percent of the world's liquefied natural
gas goes through the Strait of hormose. Thirty percent of
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the world's fertilizer that you need to grow food to
grow crops goes through the Strait of hormuse. This will
have left Iran in a much stronger wealthier position than
when the war began. They get to keep all of
their enriched uranium, all of their nuclear material, which means
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then they have the means and the capacity to eventually
build a nuclear bomb. Now, when you have a country
or a power that is now so radicalized that they're
calling now for the mass murder of your entire leadership
and are bent on getting a nuclear bomb, and you've
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given them effective control over the world's most strategic waterway, Pete,
I got to be honest with you. I don't think
any responsible president can allow that to happen. So I
think this is what I mean. Trump has no choice,
I believe, but to go in there and finish the job. Otherwise,
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what's the alternative. The alternative now is an empowered Iranian
regime that controls the world's flow of oil and that
within a matter of years will have a nuclear bomb.
And if they have a nuclear bomb, they will use
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it against Israel. Israel will fire back. You know that
better than anybody. And we're now staring down the barrel
of a gun of a nuclear holocaust. Whether they can
hit us or not at this point is almost irrelevant.
The fact of the matter is if Iran gets a nuke,
they will use a nuke, and Israel is not going
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to go quietly into the gas ovens. Whatever people think
about Israel and the Jews and everybody likes to blame
them for everything, the fact of the matter is they
had one holocaust. They're never going to endure a second one,
and they shouldn't. So the alternative to me is a
potential nuclear holocaust in the Middle East. That's why Trump
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is stunned because if you look at the terms of
the deal, I've never seen more generous terms in my life.
All Iran has to say is we will not acquire
a bomb, and the Strait of Foremous will be what
it was before the war and the way it's always been,
which is free to international passage. And they'd be swimming
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drowning in money. But they don't want money. They don't
want investment, they don't want prosperity, they don't want to
be part of the region or the world. What they
want is the mother of all jihads. And so in
a way, Pete, they're forcing Trump's hand. They want a war,
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and I think Trump now is going to give them
a war. Final word to you, Pete.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Somebody better check your drinking water, Cooner. You've dray. You've
bought into the charade that this is and always has been.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
We are season, always has been. What has it been, Pete?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
A charade?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Sure, okay, Pete, a charade by.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Who netting Yahoo? His dreams are coming true. We're gonna
destroy Iran for him so he can become the new
murderer and tyrant of the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, I mean, Pete, let me just let me just
say this, even if I accept your premise, and I
don't to be honest, because I know who drove him
into the war, Netna, who had a role. Yeah, that's true,
but he wasn't the only one. There were others who
really pressed Trump hard into this war, and one of
them just passed away over the weekend, Lindsey Graham. But
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even if I accept your premise, and like I said,
I don't, the Iranians had a huge exit ramp. All
they had to do was follow through on the Memorandum
of understanding. Three to four hundred billion dollars in reconstruction money,
one hundred and twenty billion dollars in access to unfrozen assets,
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all sanctions removed, every single one of them. The regime
stays in power, They get ballistic missiles, they get a military,
I mean, they get everything. They can even have a
civilian nuclear program. Nettignan, who was dead set against the
Memorandum of understanding. Net Yahoo and Trump publicly broke over
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the terms that Trump offered to the Iranians. Netania, who
was livid. In fact, he's so livid just so that
you know, he publicly came out and said we must
stop our dependence on the United States. They're billions of
dollars in foreign aid. His words, not mine. We have
to become completely self sufficient and not take a dollar
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a penny an American foreign aid, so we never have
to be dependent upon them again. So he was so angry.
He was basically saying, I want no more money from
the United States, so we'll have true freedom of action
and independence. So Iran had the mother of all deals
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right there on a silver platter. And it wasn't Netanyahu
that ruined it. It was the Mullahs that ruined it.
So what I'm just curious, Pete, is how come you
don't blame the supreme leader the IRGC, the fanatics that
run you wrong. I mean they Trump offered them a
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golden goose and they killed the goose. Final word to you, Pete.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
We murdered their leaders first. We stuck our nose into
a place it had no business being. And our president
is weak and I'm sorry I voted for him three times,
but never again. Get him out of office, is what
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I say. This is something and we should not be
within a thousand miles of They presented no threat to us,
and they it was our own doing on behalf of
be beat net Yahoo a war criminal, a child and
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woman murdering or criminal. The Jewish rule of war is
killed the women and children first, and we want them
as partners. I'm sorry, you're well.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, but Pete, you're absolving Iran of all of their crimes.
I mean, even if I accept your characterization of Babie,
and again I don't. David in Brookline, Thanks for holding David,
and welcome.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
The People's Republic. Jeff, it's a beautiful day. But the
last two callers, two callers ago before I addressed the
last caller who I think he sounds like he's taken
some shots to the head. I'm not sure, but two
callers ago said there's bad faith on both sides. Comparing
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the United States and the seventh century savages in Tehran,
there's no moral equivalency between the two, as you've laid out.
So you know, clearly they've been offered everything, and you
can look back just in the last thirty years they
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you know, you can talk about the Palestinians. They were
offered ninety nine point nine percent of what they wanted
and they walked away from it. Why because they're in
the business of terror. They always blame. As you pointed out,
there are always people like Pete and others. They are
always blaming Israel. Israel is the red herring. Israel is
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on the front lines. There's it's not just Israel, it's
the Western civilization and completely two different ways of looking
at the world. I'm sorry, Pete, but the world runs
on oil and in the Middle East. And he said, well,
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it's if we keep this fight up, it's it's going
to strengthen China. Now, if you walk away and and
and you got your way, Pete, and Israel was gone,
that would strengthen China. But two other points, Jeff, the
last caller, Pete again, he called you a warmonger. I mean,
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I don't need to defend you because you do a
better job than anybody. Calling you a warmonger is like
calling Joe bid Einstein. That's the most absurd that that
in itself shows you where Pete is coming from. I
don't want to say two callers ago. I don't agree
with two callers Ago. But Pete has a tremendous case
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of JDS. You know what JDS is, Jewish arrangement.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Jewish derangement, syndrome, you know, and David, I promise I
won't I won't cut you off. But I just find
it incredible how many people blame Israel for everything, how
many people blame Jews for everything. I know, that's Mamdani,
that's Platner, that's AOC, that's Bernie, that's Selanomar, that's Rashida Talib,
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that's the as they call him, the Hamas wing of
the Democratic Party. It's very popular on the left, it's
starting to get popular with some quarters on the right.
And you know, no one mentions I'm not going to
get into that Israel is the only democracy in the region.
I'm not going to get into what you pointed out.
Israel not once, not twice, but three times offered the
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Palestinians their own independent state West Bank Gaza, and in fact,
under a hud barak, they offered them even East Jerusalem
ninety nine point of what they wanted. And they didn't
just say no, they wouldn't even give a counter offer.
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So I mean, it's like, well, there's nothing to talk
about here. We don't want peace. We want to wipe
you off the face of the earth, period full stop. Now,
as for Iran, This is the part that I don't get.
Everyone goes on about Bibi and all BB's fighting Hamas,
BB's fighting has Belah in southern Lebanon. Well, why is
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he fighting Hamas? No one ever asked that question. Why
is Israel fighting has Belah?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
What?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
For the hell of it?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
What?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Because they think southern Lebanon is a beautiful piece of
territory and say, hey, let's just grab it for ourselves. No,
who's behind Hamas? Who's behind has Belah? Who's behind a who?
Thi's it's Iran. You know, Iran wants to be a
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Shia power, a Shia empire in the Middle East. All
this stuff about American imperialism and American interventionism, and oh,
we're sticking our in Iran's business. Iran is spick sticking
its nose in Palestinian business, in Israeli business, in Lebanese business,
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in Syrian business, in Iraqi business. For forty seven years,
all they do is meddle in other countries affairs. Because
they're not a normal country or a normal power. They're
a revolutionary Islamist power. From the beginning of nineteen seventy nine,
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they've been a very different kind of country. They're sort
of like what the Soviy Union was when they were
created in nineteen seventeen. They're there to export a revolution,
not a communist revolution, but a radical Shia Islamic revolution.
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And that's why they attacked Iraq and had an eight
year war with Iraq. And that's why they've been They've
destroyed Lebanon, they've controlled and tried to colonize and destroyed Lebanon.
Did oh for Syria, diddo for Gaza, didto for Yemen?
I could go country after country after country. So this
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idea that somehow if we just left poor litle Iran alone,
and if you know, Israel would just stop defending itself,
that suddenly the Mullahs, you know, Allahhahabad, that all these
you know, fundamentalist, crazy Mullahs who by the way, we're
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chanting death to America, death to the Jews, death to
Israel since nineteen seventy nine, since the second they came
into power. That's suddenly what they're going to be Persia.
They're just going to be a nice, friendly neighbor that
wants to get along with everybody. And let me just
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end by saying this, David, everybody goes on about Israel.
You know who hates them just as much as Israel,
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar. Even Oman
can't stand them, and they're a Sunni power, and even
they can't stand them. So every neighbor in the entire
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region hate them. I mean they hate their guts, not
just Israel. Israel is not the only one afraid of Iran.
The whole region is. So there's got to be a
point where all these pro Iran people, whether they be
on the left or on the right. Okay, whether it
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be on the radical Mamdani left or the radical Tucker
Carlson right, it doesn't matter. Take your pick. Either the
world is crazy or Iran is crazy. And I don't
think the world is crazy. Now, let me just say
one last thing, David, I promised I'm going to go
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back to you, because this story has been forgotten. We
all go back to nineteen seventy nine, and we should
because it's a pivotal moment. But what people often forget.
You can look it up. Please don't take my word
for it. When the Ayatolas came to power chanting death
to Israel, death to America, They also were big supporters
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of the Mujahadeen and their war against the Soviet Union.
They hated the Soviets, the Mullahs did because they were
an official communist atheist power. So they also stormed the
Russian embassy. They didn't just storm the American embassy. And
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they took Russians hostage, not as many, because the Russians
had a skeleton staff. They sensed that the Mulas were
going to come to power, so they almost evacuated everybody,
but still they had a few people behind. It wasn't
nowhere near as many as we did. The point being
they took Russian embassy employees hostage, and they were demanding
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billions and billions of dollars from the Russians. And so
in Moscow, Iran had an embassy and they sent one
of their top embassy officials to the Russian government, then
the Soviet government to deliver this message, We've got your
people and you want them back. It's going to cost
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you about ooh a billion dollars an employee, and then
a billion was worth a hell of a lot more
than a billion today. You know what the Russians did
in a classic Russian way. They killed the Iranian emissary
forgive me, it's a you know, it's a family show.
They cut off his his private part, okay, between his legs,
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they cut it off, and they stuffed it down his throat,
and they sent them back in a coffin, and they said,
if you don't give us every single one of our
Russian employees back, this is how we're gonna kill every
single one of your members in the embassy in Moscow.
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We're gonna torture him, We're gonna kill them, and then
we're gonna cut off their family jewels and we're gonna
stuff it down their throat. Within twenty four hours, the
Iranians sent back every Russian that they had under hostage,
that they were holding hostage. So you see, it's vicious,
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it's brutal, it's frankly Russian. But it got results. They
got results. It worked. They weren't held for four hundred
and forty four days. They didn't see the great superpower,
you know in agony, as Jimmy Carter was, how do
I get them out? What do I do? Let's try
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to negotiate, And the only reason why they let those
four hundred and forty four out was Reagan through back channels,
told them, you don't send our embassy people home. I
am going to nuke you. Do you understand the nukes
are going to start to fall on Iran the day
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Reagan was inaugurated, all of them were released. That's the
only language these primitive savages understand. So you can negotiate,
you can talk, you can try to do deals with them.
You have to be civilized to do a deal. They're
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not interested in a deal. David, final word to you.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Couple points. As your friend Michael Savage once said, you
don't put twenty first century weapons in the hands of
seventh century barbarians. Number two, your your rhetorical question. Hating
Israel is just low hanging fruit. That's why it's easy.
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It's an easy thing to point at. And I point
out to Pete in Israel a tiny little place. You've
got Jewish people, and by the way, I don't have
any any you know, ridiculous love for Israel. It's a
you know, the Two Callers ago, he said he loved it.
It's a beautiful place. I've been there a few times.
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It's not a beautiful place. It's a tiny little place
where Jews, Christians and Muslims can all live together and
they're not persecuted, unlike that sect of Islam that exports
and thrives on terror and barbarism. And you know, I
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don't know what else to say to it, other than
as you've pointed out last week, those people perceive negotiation
as weakness. It's it's you cannot deal with people that
are irrational, and to blame Israel or whatever the case
may be, is also equally irrational.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
David, thank you very much for that call. I really
appreciate it. Six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. Brian in Rockland, Thanks for holding Brian, and welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Looks Hi can he me?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I can hear you, Brian, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
So my view about it is, so this is what
I think. Bomb bomb bomb, bom bomb, my lan bomb
bomb bomb, bom bomb, my man, bom bom bom bom
bomb my man bomb.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Okay, you can't deal with these people. My view is
that what you have to do is you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Have to get the get cuffs.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Off of Yahoo kind of just go say.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I tried it my way, it's not working.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You now release the dogs of war. Okay, kill them
all Okay, send.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Them aside in do whatever you have to.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
We will bomb them into submission and we'll put them
in one place and then kill them all.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Okay, you cannot. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. They don't
care if their country is destroyed.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Bombing them is.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Not going to work. The only way to do it
is just like rabbit dogs, you have to put them down, Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I mean, the thing is that.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
We have to realize that we're not talking about people
who are in the twentieth century. We're talking about barbarians
at the gate. They are not going to stop until
they destroy it is in destroy America period and destroy
Dealing with those kind of people, the only way they
understand it is is death and distruction, because that's what
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they are.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Oh, I agree, Brian. Look, I think this war has
really shown that. And their behavior during the ceasefire. I'll
be honest. I mean, I knew they were primitive, and
I knew they were savages, and I knew they were fanatical.
But I mean, look, Brian, to turn down that kind
of a peace offer that Trump offered, there's something wrong
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in their head. It really is. I've never seen anything
like that. Look he gave them the most generous terms
you could ever give a country. Personally. Look, I'm gonna
be on you know my position. I think he offered
way too much, way too much. Okay, but that's me.
But it doesn't matter. You could offer them the moon,
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they won't take it. Like that's what Trump is now realizing,
Like if you know, in a way sort of like
I've been wasting my time. I thought these people are
at some level, maybe a couple levels lower, but at
least semi reasonable, semi rational, Like we're gonna make a
deal and you're gonna make out like a bandit, and
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I'm asking for the bare minimum. And it's not just Israel.
The entire region doesn't want them to have the bomb,
the entire region.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
The world here.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Look, everyone talks about China over the weekend. Another big story.
China told Iran, we don't want you controlling the Strait
of Hormuse. Do you understand why, because only twenty or
thirty ships are getting through. We need one hundred and
thirty to one hundred and forty ships getting through every
day like it used to be, because that's our oil, dude,
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it's you know, Yes, they buy from Iran. But they
also buy from Kuwait, from Saudi Arabia, from United Arab Emirates,
from Qatar. I mean they buy from all the Persians. Sooni,
you know, Gulf States. Iran told them to mind their
own business. That's what they told the communist Chinese. They
slapped them in the face. So now China is getting
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upset with Iran. So I'm telling you this is what's happened.
They took punishment from Israel and the United States, and
to their credit. Oh, look, you have to give the
devil his due. It was thirteen fourteen thousand strikes. Okay,
we hit them, and we hit them hard, and they survived, barely,
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but they survived. And then they managed to block at
least partially the Strait of Hormuz, and that was a
strategic victory for them. Their heads have gotten so big,
their heads have now gotten so swollen. They are full
of arrogance, hubris, over confidence. They think they've won the war,
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and they think now that they're almost that they're unbeatable.
Well they're going to learn very quickly that they're not unbeatable.
And you know, and the other thing, I would just say,
you're right, I agree with you. It's time to unleash
the dogs of war. But I wouldn't just have it
be Israel, and I'll tell you why, because then it's
easy to caricature all Israel wants the Iranians out, No,
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team them up with Saudi Arabia. Team them up. By
the way, Kuwait is already launching air strikes on their
own Kuwait. So team up with Kuwait. Team up with
Saudi Arabia, team up with all those Persian Gulf countries,
including the United States. Exp have this coalition, bring in
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NATO if Trump can, and expand this coalition to be
as broad and wide as possible, because you want to
deliver the message though world is against you, and even
get China to at least diplomatically say we don't oppose it.
I'm telling you, she will say it. He's sick of
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them because he wants to straight open like everybody else
wants to straight open. So China will come out and say, look,
we're not going to give you warships or give you
fighter jets to bomb yourn, but we don't oppose this now.
So if I were Trump, that's how I would use
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JD and Marco Rubio Is to build an international coalition
not to frankly waste their time negotiating with these savages.
Who I am being serious, who knows that they may
kidnap them and cut their throats and chop their heads off,
because according to them, the cabinet now has to be
slaughtered along with the president. Like really, I'm in fear
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for our negotiators. They may do to them what they
did to the embassy employees in Set Night teen seventy nine.
So that's why I said what happened this weekend in
an Iran is the biggest story in the world. Now
things are going to die down with Lindsey Graham's you know, funeral,
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and but this reality is not going anywhere, and that
the Trump administration has officially admitted senior official saying we
think it's impossible now. We don't think we can get
a negotiated settlement. That means not just the ceasefire is over,
it means there can be and there will be no negotiations.
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And I don't see Trump just walking away. He can,
it's an option, but I don't see him doing that.
So the question then is is this is going to
continue to be tit for tat one round and another
round and another round inconclusive. Or is Trump going to
say enough, I'm cutting their throat. And I think, knowing Trump,
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he's gonna say, you know what, now we're all in.
We're gonna cut their throat, and their jugular is carg Island.
That's their oil export hub.
Okay, let me ask all of you. Right now, the
United States and Iran are engaged in a pitched battle
over control of the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian regime
has now said it is their official, state sanctioned policy
to assassinate President Trump and to kill his cabinet. Should
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the President officially end negotiations with Iran and should he
recall vance Rubio, Kushner, and Witkoff who have been sent
to negotiate with the Iranians. Frankly, you know, we've been
talking about nineteen seventy nine quite a bit. What the
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Iranians did to us in nineteen seventy nine was unprecedented
in history. When you infiltrate or invade someone's embassy, it's
the equivalent of invading their country. An embassy is supposed
to be sovereign soil, sovereign territory. When they went in
in nineteen seventy nine and literally took our embassy employees hostage,
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that was It's an invasion of the United States. It
was one of the most criminal acts in world diplomacy.
If they were able to do that, then you don't
think they'd be willing to do it again now hold
Jared Kushner say the president's son in law hostage or
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wit Cough or Rubio or Vance. I know it may
seem far fetched, but believe me, you're dealing with lunatics
who have shown themselves over forty seven years. With them,
anything is possible. So at this point I would say,
you know what, just send the negotiators home. There's nothing
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to negotiate. Six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight agree, disagree. Okay, let's go right back to
Jim in New Hampshire. Jim says, the war has been
a disaster. If you resume the war, it'll lead to
an even greater disaster. Jim, please pick up where you
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left off.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So another thing too, about the day one of this war.
I mean, we did kill other leaders, the guy that's
basically their pope, and to win the little school goes.
If that happened in downtown, you know, Connecticut School, we
would have probably the same reaction. I'm not justifying what
they're saying and what they want, but we got to
put things in perspective. So when they say that, but
there's also there's intent and there's the ability to do it.
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Of course they say death. Well, he what's down with America?
People translate to it down to America. Of course, an
agree with the American but we have to realize that
there's intent now they have they been a threat to us,
and can they do that to us now? They can't
bring down America. They never really could. You can remember
we talked about Night seventy nine. What happened that long ago?
It was called nine to eleven. It was the Soonies,
it was the Saudis. And then are our best friends?
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And oh, by the way, the guy in Syria, the
guy who buddies with out with a head chopping outside
the leader. Okay, so you know the history needs to
line up. And I'm not I don't agree with the
government over there, but again Tavasti going there and just
cause this mess which is gonna give us no win.
And and I'm a Republican. I'm a libertarian Republican. I
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believe I'm a cost as usual good servant. I'm a Christian.
If we follow this road, the Republicans will go the
same road as Biden. We're seeing it now. It's not
popular the Republicans or Trump is gonna lose first, and
then it's gonna Republican party. It just like that happened
to Biden. We're supporting this to the very end, and
it's vicious and another thing that's gonna happen. And I
love the country of Israel. I've been it's a beautiful country.
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It's not gonna be safe, and that we already saw
the Democrats turn on Israel. We'll guess what's gonna happen.
What's gonna happen when this does go sideways if we continue,
The Republicans are gonna point the fingers, and it's gonna
be vicious. We already see it a little in the party,
and it's gonna get worse. I don't see any good
your idea of walking way, I would actually would would.
I think the negotiation is just not working. I didn't
ever send too much hope in it. I think between
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us and them, there's just no good faith on either side.
I'm not gonna point fingers, but either way, I don't
see that working. I mean walking away, having this being
an economic war attrition, with the world stepping in and
US stepping out, maybe that's the best bet. I don't
have the perfect answer, but I definitely don't think full
out war is an answer. When you said blow up
the funeral of these people, I think that's a terrible idea.
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I'm sorry, Jeff, because if you do that, what did
you just cause with a city upon a shining hill
and we just killed a bunch of CI millions who
were supposed to liberate and we care about I mean,
that just goes out the door. You know, if you
want to attack military targets, go at military targets. I
really don't want see ground troops going there because they
know they'll lead to But one thing we cannot do
is you cannot just blow up civilian insrastructure. We cannot
blow up civilians. And we should try to kind of
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get out of this in a way where you know
what we again I said this people will focused on
other things. Give us some wins here at home, because
what's gonna happen and the big I guess thing, like
you said, socialism is gonna rise more. There's gonna be
far more division of this country. People go in this
path in China will get more powerful. United we stand divided,
we fall, and you got China. Those are existential threats.
I'm sorry, I ran as not existential threat to us.
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They might be in Israel, and if that's the case,
I fully support funding them and arming them to do that.
But putting ourself in this one thousand percent like we're doing,
it's not good for our country. It's not good for
the future of the world.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well you know, Jim, I mean, I'm not saying bomb
civilian infrastructure in terms of power plants or the grid
or desalination plants. But oil is the lifeblood of their economy,
and we could take out carg Island just that's it.
Just take it out. Trump says he wants to keep it.
I wouldn't even keep it, just bombit, destroy their key
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oil export hub, and that will bring the molus to
their knees. And without an economy even they can't continue
their reign of terror. And I think that's what brings
the war to an end. Pete in New Hampshire. Thanks
for holding Pete, and welcome.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Cooner.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I've loved you in the morning, I've loved you in
the afternoon. I've even loved you at night in a
non sexual way.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But Pete, I get a feeling you don't love me anymore.
You've lost that loving feeling.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I'm wondering what happened to you. You've turned into a
warmonger on everybody.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Now, what makes you say that, Pete?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Because you want to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran and kill
more innocent people on behalf of our friends, the real
killers of the Middle East. The israel I can't say
the Jay words anyway. We're fighting somebody else's war. This
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is a dumb war to get into. The only way
out is to just leave and say we're sorry, and Israel,
you're on your own. We're coming home. You're messing with.
Your approach is asking for nuclear war. The Jews have
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a bomb too, don't forget that. And we don't control
those people. And we're messing by destroying Iran. We're messing
with China, and they probably have by day. I mean Iran,
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they probably have a bomb already. If not, they can
buy one. Your approach makes no sense, Jeff, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well, Pete, let me ask you this. Say we just leave, okay,
just because that's one of the options Trump is considering.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You have.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now you've got a radicalized regime in Iran. They're more
hardline than ever, they're more anti Israel, anti Semitic than ever,
they're more anti American than ever. They now have an
official policy to assassinate our president and to murder our
entire cabinet, so they've essentially now declared war on us.
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They are going to be left effectively in control of
the Strait of Hormoose, which I don't need to tell you, Pete,
you know better than anybody, is one of the key
choke points in the world economy. Twenty percent of the
world's oil and twenty percent of the world's liquefied natural
gas goes through the Strait of hormose. Thirty percent of
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the world's fertilizer that you need to grow food to
grow crops goes through the Strait of hormuse. This will
have left Iran in a much stronger wealthier position than
when the war began. They get to keep all of
their enriched uranium, all of their nuclear material, which means
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then they have the means and the capacity to eventually
build a nuclear bomb. Now, when you have a country
or a power that is now so radicalized that they're
calling now for the mass murder of your entire leadership
and are bent on getting a nuclear bomb, and you've
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given them effective control over the world's most strategic waterway, Pete,
I got to be honest with you. I don't think
any responsible president can allow that to happen. So I
think this is what I mean. Trump has no choice,
I believe, but to go in there and finish the job. Otherwise,
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what's the alternative. The alternative now is an empowered Iranian
regime that controls the world's flow of oil and that
within a matter of years will have a nuclear bomb.
And if they have a nuclear bomb, they will use
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it against Israel. Israel will fire back. You know that
better than anybody. And we're now staring down the barrel
of a gun of a nuclear holocaust. Whether they can
hit us or not at this point is almost irrelevant.
The fact of the matter is if Iran gets a nuke,
they will use a nuke, and Israel is not going
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to go quietly into the gas ovens. Whatever people think
about Israel and the Jews and everybody likes to blame
them for everything, the fact of the matter is they
had one holocaust. They're never going to endure a second one,
and they shouldn't. So the alternative to me is a
potential nuclear holocaust in the Middle East. That's why Trump
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is stunned because if you look at the terms of
the deal, I've never seen more generous terms in my life.
All Iran has to say is we will not acquire
a bomb, and the Strait of Foremous will be what
it was before the war and the way it's always been,
which is free to international passage. And they'd be swimming
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drowning in money. But they don't want money. They don't
want investment, they don't want prosperity, they don't want to
be part of the region or the world. What they
want is the mother of all jihads. And so in
a way, Pete, they're forcing Trump's hand. They want a war,
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and I think Trump now is going to give them
a war. Final word to you, Pete.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Somebody better check your drinking water, Cooner. You've dray. You've
bought into the charade that this is and always has been.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
We are season, always has been. What has it been, Pete?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
A charade?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Sure, okay, Pete, a charade by.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Who netting Yahoo? His dreams are coming true. We're gonna
destroy Iran for him so he can become the new
murderer and tyrant of the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, I mean, Pete, let me just let me just
say this, even if I accept your premise, and I
don't to be honest, because I know who drove him
into the war, Netna, who had a role. Yeah, that's true,
but he wasn't the only one. There were others who
really pressed Trump hard into this war, and one of
them just passed away over the weekend, Lindsey Graham. But
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even if I accept your premise, and like I said,
I don't, the Iranians had a huge exit ramp. All
they had to do was follow through on the Memorandum
of understanding. Three to four hundred billion dollars in reconstruction money,
one hundred and twenty billion dollars in access to unfrozen assets,
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all sanctions removed, every single one of them. The regime
stays in power, They get ballistic missiles, they get a military,
I mean, they get everything. They can even have a
civilian nuclear program. Nettignan, who was dead set against the
Memorandum of understanding. Net Yahoo and Trump publicly broke over
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the terms that Trump offered to the Iranians. Netania, who
was livid. In fact, he's so livid just so that
you know, he publicly came out and said we must
stop our dependence on the United States. They're billions of
dollars in foreign aid. His words, not mine. We have
to become completely self sufficient and not take a dollar
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a penny an American foreign aid, so we never have
to be dependent upon them again. So he was so angry.
He was basically saying, I want no more money from
the United States, so we'll have true freedom of action
and independence. So Iran had the mother of all deals
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right there on a silver platter. And it wasn't Netanyahu
that ruined it. It was the Mullahs that ruined it.
So what I'm just curious, Pete, is how come you
don't blame the supreme leader the IRGC, the fanatics that
run you wrong. I mean they Trump offered them a
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golden goose and they killed the goose. Final word to you, Pete.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
We murdered their leaders first. We stuck our nose into
a place it had no business being. And our president
is weak and I'm sorry I voted for him three times,
but never again. Get him out of office, is what
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I say. This is something and we should not be
within a thousand miles of They presented no threat to us,
and they it was our own doing on behalf of
be beat net Yahoo a war criminal, a child and
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woman murdering or criminal. The Jewish rule of war is
killed the women and children first, and we want them
as partners. I'm sorry, you're well.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, but Pete, you're absolving Iran of all of their crimes.
I mean, even if I accept your characterization of Babie,
and again I don't. David in Brookline, Thanks for holding David,
and welcome.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
The People's Republic. Jeff, it's a beautiful day. But the
last two callers, two callers ago before I addressed the
last caller who I think he sounds like he's taken
some shots to the head. I'm not sure, but two
callers ago said there's bad faith on both sides. Comparing
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the United States and the seventh century savages in Tehran,
there's no moral equivalency between the two, as you've laid out.
So you know, clearly they've been offered everything, and you
can look back just in the last thirty years they
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you know, you can talk about the Palestinians. They were
offered ninety nine point nine percent of what they wanted
and they walked away from it. Why because they're in
the business of terror. They always blame. As you pointed out,
there are always people like Pete and others. They are
always blaming Israel. Israel is the red herring. Israel is
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on the front lines. There's it's not just Israel, it's
the Western civilization and completely two different ways of looking
at the world. I'm sorry, Pete, but the world runs
on oil and in the Middle East. And he said, well,
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it's if we keep this fight up, it's it's going
to strengthen China. Now, if you walk away and and
and you got your way, Pete, and Israel was gone,
that would strengthen China. But two other points, Jeff, the
last caller, Pete again, he called you a warmonger. I mean,
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I don't need to defend you because you do a
better job than anybody. Calling you a warmonger is like
calling Joe bid Einstein. That's the most absurd that that
in itself shows you where Pete is coming from. I
don't want to say two callers ago. I don't agree
with two callers Ago. But Pete has a tremendous case
(18:44):
of JDS. You know what JDS is, Jewish arrangement.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Jewish derangement, syndrome, you know, and David, I promise I
won't I won't cut you off. But I just find
it incredible how many people blame Israel for everything, how
many people blame Jews for everything. I know, that's Mamdani,
that's Platner, that's AOC, that's Bernie, that's Selanomar, that's Rashida Talib,
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that's the as they call him, the Hamas wing of
the Democratic Party. It's very popular on the left, it's
starting to get popular with some quarters on the right.
And you know, no one mentions I'm not going to
get into that Israel is the only democracy in the region.
I'm not going to get into what you pointed out.
Israel not once, not twice, but three times offered the
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Palestinians their own independent state West Bank Gaza, and in fact,
under a hud barak, they offered them even East Jerusalem
ninety nine point of what they wanted. And they didn't
just say no, they wouldn't even give a counter offer.
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So I mean, it's like, well, there's nothing to talk
about here. We don't want peace. We want to wipe
you off the face of the earth, period full stop. Now,
as for Iran, This is the part that I don't get.
Everyone goes on about Bibi and all BB's fighting Hamas,
BB's fighting has Belah in southern Lebanon. Well, why is
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he fighting Hamas? No one ever asked that question. Why
is Israel fighting has Belah?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
What?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
For the hell of it?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
What?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Because they think southern Lebanon is a beautiful piece of
territory and say, hey, let's just grab it for ourselves. No,
who's behind Hamas? Who's behind has Belah? Who's behind a who?
Thi's it's Iran. You know, Iran wants to be a
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Shia power, a Shia empire in the Middle East. All
this stuff about American imperialism and American interventionism, and oh,
we're sticking our in Iran's business. Iran is spick sticking
its nose in Palestinian business, in Israeli business, in Lebanese business,
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in Syrian business, in Iraqi business. For forty seven years,
all they do is meddle in other countries affairs. Because
they're not a normal country or a normal power. They're
a revolutionary Islamist power. From the beginning of nineteen seventy nine,
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they've been a very different kind of country. They're sort
of like what the Soviy Union was when they were
created in nineteen seventeen. They're there to export a revolution,
not a communist revolution, but a radical Shia Islamic revolution.
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And that's why they attacked Iraq and had an eight
year war with Iraq. And that's why they've been They've
destroyed Lebanon, they've controlled and tried to colonize and destroyed Lebanon.
Did oh for Syria, diddo for Gaza, didto for Yemen?
I could go country after country after country. So this
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idea that somehow if we just left poor litle Iran alone,
and if you know, Israel would just stop defending itself,
that suddenly the Mullahs, you know, Allahhahabad, that all these
you know, fundamentalist, crazy Mullahs who by the way, we're
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chanting death to America, death to the Jews, death to
Israel since nineteen seventy nine, since the second they came
into power. That's suddenly what they're going to be Persia.
They're just going to be a nice, friendly neighbor that
wants to get along with everybody. And let me just
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end by saying this, David, everybody goes on about Israel.
You know who hates them just as much as Israel,
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar. Even Oman
can't stand them, and they're a Sunni power, and even
they can't stand them. So every neighbor in the entire
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region hate them. I mean they hate their guts, not
just Israel. Israel is not the only one afraid of Iran.
The whole region is. So there's got to be a
point where all these pro Iran people, whether they be
on the left or on the right. Okay, whether it
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be on the radical Mamdani left or the radical Tucker
Carlson right, it doesn't matter. Take your pick. Either the
world is crazy or Iran is crazy. And I don't
think the world is crazy. Now, let me just say
one last thing, David, I promised I'm going to go
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back to you, because this story has been forgotten. We
all go back to nineteen seventy nine, and we should
because it's a pivotal moment. But what people often forget.
You can look it up. Please don't take my word
for it. When the Ayatolas came to power chanting death
to Israel, death to America, They also were big supporters
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of the Mujahadeen and their war against the Soviet Union.
They hated the Soviets, the Mullahs did because they were
an official communist atheist power. So they also stormed the
Russian embassy. They didn't just storm the American embassy. And
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they took Russians hostage, not as many, because the Russians
had a skeleton staff. They sensed that the Mulas were
going to come to power, so they almost evacuated everybody,
but still they had a few people behind. It wasn't
nowhere near as many as we did. The point being
they took Russian embassy employees hostage, and they were demanding
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billions and billions of dollars from the Russians. And so
in Moscow, Iran had an embassy and they sent one
of their top embassy officials to the Russian government, then
the Soviet government to deliver this message, We've got your
people and you want them back. It's going to cost
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you about ooh a billion dollars an employee, and then
a billion was worth a hell of a lot more
than a billion today. You know what the Russians did
in a classic Russian way. They killed the Iranian emissary
forgive me, it's a you know, it's a family show.
They cut off his his private part, okay, between his legs,
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they cut it off, and they stuffed it down his throat,
and they sent them back in a coffin, and they said,
if you don't give us every single one of our
Russian employees back, this is how we're gonna kill every
single one of your members in the embassy in Moscow.
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We're gonna torture him, We're gonna kill them, and then
we're gonna cut off their family jewels and we're gonna
stuff it down their throat. Within twenty four hours, the
Iranians sent back every Russian that they had under hostage,
that they were holding hostage. So you see, it's vicious,
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it's brutal, it's frankly Russian. But it got results. They
got results. It worked. They weren't held for four hundred
and forty four days. They didn't see the great superpower,
you know in agony, as Jimmy Carter was, how do
I get them out? What do I do? Let's try
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to negotiate, And the only reason why they let those
four hundred and forty four out was Reagan through back channels,
told them, you don't send our embassy people home. I
am going to nuke you. Do you understand the nukes
are going to start to fall on Iran the day
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Reagan was inaugurated, all of them were released. That's the
only language these primitive savages understand. So you can negotiate,
you can talk, you can try to do deals with them.
You have to be civilized to do a deal. They're
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not interested in a deal. David, final word to you.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Couple points. As your friend Michael Savage once said, you
don't put twenty first century weapons in the hands of
seventh century barbarians. Number two, your your rhetorical question. Hating
Israel is just low hanging fruit. That's why it's easy.
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It's an easy thing to point at. And I point
out to Pete in Israel a tiny little place. You've
got Jewish people, and by the way, I don't have
any any you know, ridiculous love for Israel. It's a
you know, the Two Callers ago, he said he loved it.
It's a beautiful place. I've been there a few times.
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It's not a beautiful place. It's a tiny little place
where Jews, Christians and Muslims can all live together and
they're not persecuted, unlike that sect of Islam that exports
and thrives on terror and barbarism. And you know, I
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don't know what else to say to it, other than
as you've pointed out last week, those people perceive negotiation
as weakness. It's it's you cannot deal with people that
are irrational, and to blame Israel or whatever the case
may be, is also equally irrational.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
David, thank you very much for that call. I really
appreciate it. Six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight. Brian in Rockland, Thanks for holding Brian, and welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Looks Hi can he me?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I can hear you, Brian, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
So my view about it is, so this is what
I think. Bomb bomb bomb, bom bomb, my lan bomb
bomb bomb, bom bomb, my man, bom bom bom bom
bomb my man bomb.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Okay, you can't deal with these people. My view is
that what you have to do is you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Have to get the get cuffs.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Off of Yahoo kind of just go say.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I tried it my way, it's not working.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You now release the dogs of war. Okay, kill them
all Okay, send.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Them aside in do whatever you have to.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
We will bomb them into submission and we'll put them
in one place and then kill them all.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Okay, you cannot. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. They don't
care if their country is destroyed.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Bombing them is.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Not going to work. The only way to do it
is just like rabbit dogs, you have to put them down, Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I mean, the thing is that.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
We have to realize that we're not talking about people
who are in the twentieth century. We're talking about barbarians
at the gate. They are not going to stop until
they destroy it is in destroy America period and destroy
Dealing with those kind of people, the only way they
understand it is is death and distruction, because that's what
(31:09):
they are.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Oh, I agree, Brian. Look, I think this war has
really shown that. And their behavior during the ceasefire. I'll
be honest. I mean, I knew they were primitive, and
I knew they were savages, and I knew they were fanatical.
But I mean, look, Brian, to turn down that kind
of a peace offer that Trump offered, there's something wrong
(31:31):
in their head. It really is. I've never seen anything
like that. Look he gave them the most generous terms
you could ever give a country. Personally. Look, I'm gonna
be on you know my position. I think he offered
way too much, way too much. Okay, but that's me.
But it doesn't matter. You could offer them the moon,
(31:52):
they won't take it. Like that's what Trump is now realizing,
Like if you know, in a way sort of like
I've been wasting my time. I thought these people are
at some level, maybe a couple levels lower, but at
least semi reasonable, semi rational, Like we're gonna make a
deal and you're gonna make out like a bandit, and
(32:14):
I'm asking for the bare minimum. And it's not just Israel.
The entire region doesn't want them to have the bomb,
the entire region.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
The world here.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Look, everyone talks about China over the weekend. Another big story.
China told Iran, we don't want you controlling the Strait
of Hormuse. Do you understand why, because only twenty or
thirty ships are getting through. We need one hundred and
thirty to one hundred and forty ships getting through every
day like it used to be, because that's our oil, dude,
(32:48):
it's you know, Yes, they buy from Iran. But they
also buy from Kuwait, from Saudi Arabia, from United Arab Emirates,
from Qatar. I mean they buy from all the Persians. Sooni,
you know, Gulf States. Iran told them to mind their
own business. That's what they told the communist Chinese. They
slapped them in the face. So now China is getting
(33:13):
upset with Iran. So I'm telling you this is what's happened.
They took punishment from Israel and the United States, and
to their credit. Oh, look, you have to give the
devil his due. It was thirteen fourteen thousand strikes. Okay,
we hit them, and we hit them hard, and they survived, barely,
(33:36):
but they survived. And then they managed to block at
least partially the Strait of Hormuz, and that was a
strategic victory for them. Their heads have gotten so big,
their heads have now gotten so swollen. They are full
of arrogance, hubris, over confidence. They think they've won the war,
(34:03):
and they think now that they're almost that they're unbeatable.
Well they're going to learn very quickly that they're not unbeatable.
And you know, and the other thing, I would just say,
you're right, I agree with you. It's time to unleash
the dogs of war. But I wouldn't just have it
be Israel, and I'll tell you why, because then it's
easy to caricature all Israel wants the Iranians out, No,
(34:27):
team them up with Saudi Arabia. Team them up. By
the way, Kuwait is already launching air strikes on their
own Kuwait. So team up with Kuwait. Team up with
Saudi Arabia, team up with all those Persian Gulf countries,
including the United States. Exp have this coalition, bring in
(34:49):
NATO if Trump can, and expand this coalition to be
as broad and wide as possible, because you want to
deliver the message though world is against you, and even
get China to at least diplomatically say we don't oppose it.
I'm telling you, she will say it. He's sick of
(35:10):
them because he wants to straight open like everybody else
wants to straight open. So China will come out and say, look,
we're not going to give you warships or give you
fighter jets to bomb yourn, but we don't oppose this now.
So if I were Trump, that's how I would use
(35:30):
JD and Marco Rubio Is to build an international coalition
not to frankly waste their time negotiating with these savages.
Who I am being serious, who knows that they may
kidnap them and cut their throats and chop their heads off,
because according to them, the cabinet now has to be
slaughtered along with the president. Like really, I'm in fear
(35:52):
for our negotiators. They may do to them what they
did to the embassy employees in Set Night teen seventy nine.
So that's why I said what happened this weekend in
an Iran is the biggest story in the world. Now
things are going to die down with Lindsey Graham's you know, funeral,
(36:15):
and but this reality is not going anywhere, and that
the Trump administration has officially admitted senior official saying we
think it's impossible now. We don't think we can get
a negotiated settlement. That means not just the ceasefire is over,
it means there can be and there will be no negotiations.
(36:40):
And I don't see Trump just walking away. He can,
it's an option, but I don't see him doing that.
So the question then is is this is going to
continue to be tit for tat one round and another
round and another round inconclusive. Or is Trump going to
say enough, I'm cutting their throat. And I think, knowing Trump,
(37:04):
he's gonna say, you know what, now we're all in.
We're gonna cut their throat, and their jugular is carg Island.
That's their oil export hub.
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