June 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Dan discusses the weighty decision before President Trump on whether or not to involve the United States military in airstrikes on the Iranian regime's nuclear reserves. Israel claims they will need America's help to finish the job. Do you agree?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
How lucky we are to be alive right now. What
a moment.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I mean, this is one of the probably the biggest
moments in world history, certainly in any of our lifetimes,
and we're just living through it together. So lots to
talk about. At four oh six Mountain time three all
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we last got together on Friday, and thank you to
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John Caldera for filling in yesterday when I was all
caught up in my law practice.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And so look.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
At where we are just a few days later. There
can be no doubt there, There's no even gray area
or room for any kind of I think disagreement on this.
President Trump is all in, one hundred percent in on
regime change in Iran, and he's seen so, which means
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that it will happen. It now has to happen because
the President has met everything on it. And so now
it's just a matter of how and when it happens
and whether it is. It's going to be difficult one
way or the other. Right, evil doesn't give up without
a massive fight and without lots of pain and lots
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of carnage. And there's already been horrific death of innocence
as Israel justifiably fights to preserve itself and its very existence.
But innocent people killed in Israel by the horrific regime,
the Ietolas, and innocent people killed in Iran because of
the Iatolas. So we know it's not going to be
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like a book or a movie. It's not going to
be clean. There's going to be a lot more suffering
before we get there. But what degree of suffering is
it going to be a massive level? Is it going
to be less than you would normally have in one
of these world changing military events? I mean, we're going
to find out together three or three seven one three
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five seven seven three nine. And I'd love your take
on what you think is going to happen, what you
think should happen. And while the Left is greatly exaggerating
this right because they live in this fantasy world they
can't win in the real world. You know, it is
causing some disagreement, you know, within the Republican base, the magabase,
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et cetera. So I want to have that conversation as well.
We'll play some sound on both sides of it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Obviously the President now critical publicly of Tucker Carlson is
very critical of the president, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I am.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I'm extremely supportive of the President and the track that
he's taken. But you may think I'm wrong on that
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foundation before we dive in, just I think rock solid
proof for my premise that President Trump is now all
in and which means there will be regime change, even
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if it means some American involvement. And that's I guess
you know, the right lead question this afternoon. Do you
think any level of American involvement is acceptable here?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
If necessary?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Obviously, the Israelis have done just a historically amazing job
militarily given everything they're up against, the size of the country,
et cetera. But it may be I know it's generally
assumed I don't have access to classified information, so I
can't confirm it, but it may well be that's certain
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of these bunkers, you.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Know, these deep, deep, deep deep.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Bunkers where the nuclear materials are I cannot be penetrated
without American munitions, maybe even without American aircraft. See that's
where I don't have the information to know.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Israeli aircraft American.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Made obviously, is it capable of carrying these bunker busters
or would that have to be you know, United States
operated aircraft. Those are the things I just can't know
from the outside. Maybe you know and you'll share it
with us. But if necessary, is some level of US
military involvement justified here? Would you support that? Or would
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it just be an absolutely not? But here are some
of the reason posts from President Trump which go into
the not subtle category.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Why don't we.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Start with this one all caps unconditional surrender exclamation point
that was five hours ago and it says it all right.
He just put the flag in the ground right there,
unconditional surrender, and nothing less than that is going to
be acceptable. And then in case there was any doubt,
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he posted this as well, President Trump, we know exactly
where the so called quote supreme leader is hiding. He
is an easy target, but is safe there. We are
not going to take him out friends kill close friends,
at least not for now. But we don't want missile
shot at civilians or American soldiers. Our patients is wearing thin.
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Thank you for your attention to this matter. Exclamation point.
Another post in the same timeframe, all about the last
five hours we have now, pardon me, we now have
complete and total.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Control of the skies over Iran.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Iran had good skytrackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty
of it, but it doesn't compare to American maid conceived
and manufactured quote stuff close quote. Nobody does it better
than the good ol Usa. And obviously everybody noticed the
We now have complete control over the sky. So yeah,
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he's staked out the territory. There will be the end
of the ilatolas and mulas controlling Iran, which is tremendous
for Iran, Israel in the world. And now the question
is just how quickly and how how painful or not
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We'll get to some of that hot takes sound. There
will be some other topics today, but these kind of
moments don't come often in the world, and so we're
going to spend most of our time on that answers
to get your take, Ryan, you'll have a better feel
for it because you do your award winning show two
to four each day.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
On six point thirty catch at w Denver.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
How much support there is within conservative circles, including MAGA,
for potential US involvement in Iran. Obviously the President is
committed at this point to taking out that regime, and
whether that's going to cause some kind of great division
in the President's base.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I would anticipate Dan that your Texters will follow mine,
and that it was It was pretty evenly divided. There
are people that are more in alignment with Tucker Carlson,
Thomas Massey, maybe even Telsea Gabber that they want to
avoid intervention at all costs. I don't know that there
are many that are going as far as like Senator
Lindsay Graham, who many would consider to be a quote
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unquote chickenhawk, always kind of angling for war. But if
you put on a spectrum this is how I phrased it,
and let's say Tucker's a one and Lindsay Graham's a ten.
I'm where you are. I think like a six or seven.
Certainly I'm about a seven. I think I trust Donald Trump.
I trust our president to make the right call for
the right reasons, and I think on that basis alone,
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we kind of give them benefit of the doubt on
this for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I think that's a good place to start, is with
the trust. And my guess would be and might get
a better feel before the end of the show, but
my guess would be that there's probably ninety percent trust
in the president's base at this point, if not higher.
You may have thirty or forty percent, maybe even higher,
who have some doubts and concerns, but the trust is there.
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My commitment level is higher than yours, I think, Ryan.
I believe to a certainty that this regime must fall,
that the Iranian regime must fall, because at this point,
there will never be a better opportunity.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You know, there's only one Hitler in the history of
the world, but it's very Hitler ResQue, and if it
does not fall now, you have to assume that it
will acquire either through its own origins or acquiring, you know,
from a third party. It will acquire the means to
commit another holocaust in Israel if it is allowed to
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survive this moment. And so I think it simply must
fall right now. Am I saying at any price? No, No,
not at all. I do not think there should be
American military involvement, any kind of direct involvement, munitions, that
sort of thing. Fine, and I don't think it's necessary,
but I think that regimeust fall now. So let me
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play this Tucker Carlson sound into the break. Then we'll
come back and we'll line up calls and text on this.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my
country's going to be further weakened by this. I think
we're going to see the end of American empire. Obviously,
other nations would like to see that, and this is
a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the
shoals of Iran. But it's also going to end I believe,
Trump's presidency and effectively end it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And so that's why I'm saying, what do you mean
by that's that's coming for you? That's you get Look,
I knew Bush, I knew George W.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Bush with you know, family connection, with so much I
knew Bush personally. I still see Bush sometimes and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
You know, of course.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
He he hates me, and he does because I criticized
him on Iraq and that war is the sum total
from historical perspective of his administration.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
See it's interesting, and when we come back, love your
take on this as well. I don't know why Tuck
is comparing the Iraq War to what's unfolding in Iran,
because I don't think anybody imagines a scenario where we're
going to have hopefully none but any significant number of
American boots on the ground in Iran. And and I
don't think that would be necessary. But we'll come back
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and we'll play that out. I really want to hear
both sides of this in full, and I think it's
good that someone like Tucker Carlson is out there disagreeing,
even though I agree with the President and not with
Tucker Carlson on something of this import You need, you
need the opposition case stated as strongly incredibly as possible.
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Speaker 5 (10:45):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast specific
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Speaker 3 (10:49):
Better than seas fire?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What are you looking for here? The real ends fire?
And there's something I will be.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Promitive giving up entirely if that's okay too? Are you
closer as are you possible?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
If that wasn't?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Why not certainly impossible?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Good point the give up that's possible?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, not a ceasefire, complete and total surrender. And then
the President I think a few minutes after that, then
posted to that effect. So a lot of questions for
you today, love calls or text three h three seven
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militarily if necessary to ensure the end of the regime
and or to ensure the end of the regime's nuclear
weapons program? If you think any level of American military
involvement is justified, what should that be? Where would you
draw the line on that? How do you at this
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point end the Iatola's nuclear weapons program. It's it's interesting.
I want to play some of this after I finish
up that Tucker Carlson President Trump exchange, because I think
there's this assumption, right now that it can be ended
from the air, and maybe it can be. Again I
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don't have access to that classified information. Maybe it can be,
but I think we at least need to consider the
possibility that that certain parts of the nuclear weapons program
cannot be terminated completely from the air and will actually
require regime change to accomplish. So those I think just
some of the considerations here. But I want to replay
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Tucker Carlson's prediction that the Trump presidency will essentially effectively
end if he continues down this path, and that it
may end America as we know it as well, and
then get President Trump's response.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my
country's going to be further weakened by this. I think
we're going to see the end of a mary An empire.
Obviously other nations would like to see that, and this
is a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on
the shoals of Iran. But it's also going to end
I believe, Trump's presidency and effectively end it.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
And so that's why I'm saying, what do you mean
by that? That's that's coming for you?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That you get Look, I knew Bush I knew George W.
Bush with you know, family connection with Smush. I knew
Bush personally. I still see Bush sometimes, and.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You know, of course.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
He he hates me, and he does because I criticized
him on Iraq and that war is the sum total
from historical perspective of his administration.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I'd love to hear more from Tucker on that, because, again,
while I agree with President Trump's approach and I trust
President Trump on this, I'd love to hear Tucker's full
reasoning because it seems as if he's assuming that this
will lead to another Iraq style invasion and boots on
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the ground commitment. I don't see any scenario where that happens.
I mean, I truly hope and pray there's not a
single American boot on the ground in Iran, and I
don't think one's going to be necessary to accomplish what
the US can accomplish here, and hopefully there won't be
any direct US military involvement other than munitions and equipment necessary.
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But what in the world would give Tucker Carlson the
idea that we'd ever see an American presence on the
ground the way we did in Iraq. I don't think
that's even a remote possibility here, But he may have
other views on that, so maybe you could get him
on Ryan.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
See what I can do.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
But quick question, because I know my views have changed
and Tucker's views have changed in light of what happened
in Iraq and the benefit of hindsight being twenty twenty,
how did you feel about our launching of war a
land invasion of Iraq at the time, based on the
information we thought we knew, and how do you feel
about it now?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I thought it was I thought it was necessary at
the time, and I think troops did incredibly well under
the circumstances.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I think that it was it was botched at the.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Administration level, not at the troop level, and I think
that is unfortunate. But what we need to remember is
at the time, you know, for me, the tipping point
was General Powell, right tipping point was General Powell coming
out and saying that this needed to happen. And it's
not that I didn't trust w or anything like that.
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The equation seemed pretty obvious to me. There was every
reason to believe that Saddam Hussein still had weapons of
mass destruction and would use them as he had but yeah,
when General Powell came out and said, based on the intelligence, etc.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
This was necessary, that was good enough for me.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
And again, I just am incredibly grateful always will be
to the troops who sacrifice so much so that we
can live in a world without Saddam Hussein and his sons,
et cetera. But I view this as a much much
different analysis, Ryan, I watch different analysis here. I mean,
there is no doubt about what we're dealing with with
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the Iotolas who keep their own people at this point prisoner,
and their sworn commitment to commit another Holocaust on an
even larger scale, and there's no question they will as
soon as they get that ability, and that because of
the tremendous ingenuity and courage and execution of the Great
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State of Israel at this point, if there's any American
military involvement involved, it would be from the air and
it would be much much more contained. So I just
personally don't see the comparisons here. Here's Trump heading back
at Tucker.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Carlson criticizing you, saying that you're complicit in the war.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him
go get a television network say it so that people
listening and you know that the shot at Tucker really
ties back into why we can be so certain right
now that there will be this regime change in Iraq.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
In Iran. Pardon me, because.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
The president is all in a in Iran that that
didn't happen accidentally. He made that conscious decision. But I
believe that decision also relates to Russia and Ukraine. I
think it relates to domestic politics. I think it relates
to the rest of the world's hotspots, including China and
North Korea, because President Trump knows that a lot of
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his success, and he's had historically great success, has come
from peace through strength, because he is feared, and you've
now had both Putin and Zelensky defy him to varying degrees.
And I think the President knows that his ability to
continue to be a great peacemaker depends upon people fearing
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him and believing that if he can't get peace through strength,
he has to get peace through war and hopefully smart, contained,
precise surgical war. But war is always right. I mean,
even those of us like me, you haven't fought it
can tell just by observing that it's fallacious. But I
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think President Trump clearly understands that his ability to shape
world events for the better, which he's done so masterfully
based on peace through strength, requires acting when he is
defied by the bad actors.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And that's why I think he's all.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
In on a run right now, and I think he'll
succeed with that strategy. Three or three someone three eight
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Speaker 2 (18:45):
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
What steps into the vacuum if the regime falls?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, I think what will happen?
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Is there any mp well, no freedom for the first
time since nineteen seventy nine. You know, people probably asked
that about Hitler in the thirties, What would happen in
Germany if we took him out in the mid thirties. Well,
I wish we had, because we know what happened when
they let him stay in power.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, and we also know the almost unimaginable cost of
taking Hitler out. And thank God, and I thank god
that there were so many brave men and women who
were willing to pay that price so the world could
be freed from Hitler and there's only one Hitler, right,
but certainly the Iyahtola and asmill As they are hitler
esque and Nazisque. And if this regime does not fall now,
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it will come back even stronger. Maybe not in six months,
but before long, right, because they will have survived this.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, that's that street cred in Hell? Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And Ryan, can you trademark that street cred in Hell?
Because I've never heard that phrase said before. I think
that may be a first in human history. I like
it street cred in Hell. But that's what it will be.
That's what it will be if if this evil regime
somehow survives this.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And they should not be allowed.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Our great Ali Israel deserves to survive and thrive, and
Lord knows they've done their part, and other people of
Iran deserve to be free and to taste freedom again.
How long has it been like forty five years, We're
going on fifty years that they've been captive bye by
this lunatic regime. Yeah, and I I just love thinking
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of a world of a free Iran, a world with
a free Iran, and how much that can change so quickly,
how much it can change the world for the better.
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would you draw the line Dan, I mean, would you
just say whatever it takes from the US military to
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free Iran? No, of course not.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I certainly would not.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Was always one of my big objections to what was
going on in Ukraine. Clearly Putin is satan and should
not be rewarded for raping and pillaging this sovereign nation,
and the people of Ukraine have fought so courageously. I'm
not saying that Zelensky or any of their leaders are perfect.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
That's not the point.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
There's a clear aggressor, there's clear evil, there's clear good
being victimized, and so I absolutely supported stopping Putin. The
problem was Biden's approach, And first it was Biden's weakness
that enabled Putin to command.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But that aside.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Biden's approach, which was an unlimited checkbook, unlimited everything short
of American boots on the ground without any actual plan
to win, never made any sense. Right Yet, Biden would
not commit to do the sort of things that might
have backed Putin off because he was afraid it might
trigger nuclear war. And the other reality with Ukraine and
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I'll get to how it ties in in my view
to Iran. The other reality with Ukraine was that there
was never a chance of stopping Putin.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And everybody knew it. Everybody knew it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Never a chance of stopping Putin unless Europe proved that
it was willing to put boots on the ground to
stop Putin. And Europe was never willing to do that,
and Putin knew it. And evil feasts on weakness, so
should never be an American boot on the ground in Ukraine.
But Europe was unwilling to do that, and Putin took
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full advantage of it. In Iran, an entirely different scenario, Ryan,
you may be aware of one. I'm always open minded
to things I haven't heard or seen discussed, but I'm
not aware of any scenario where anybody's talking about any
kind of large scale ground invasion in order to overthrow
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this regime. And then the nuclear weapons program, and there's
a fair question as to whether the nuclear weapons program
can be ended with out regime change. Maybe it can
be ended from the air with certain bunker busters, etc.
Which is what's been discussed publicly right now. But without
access to classified information, I can't know that, but yeah,
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I don't think. I don't think that scenario is envisioned
by anybody. Certainly, I would not support for a second
any kind of American boots on the ground invasion of Iran.
And I hope it's not necessary to put a single
American pilot over Iran.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I hope that's not necessary.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But have you heard anybody Ryan talk about some major
land invasion.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
No land invasion whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
We have redirected some aircraft carriers I believe, from the
South China Sea that are en route to the Middle East.
Pete Hugstath's Secretary of Defense, has confirmed that Jennifer Griffin
is reporting that for Fox News.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
She's pretty well sourced.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And I would say the extent of our involvement, if
there is any, directly, would be our air forces delivering
bunker busting bombs that can go to two thousand feet
under the ground.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah. No, And I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
That's kind of where the popular analysis is settling in
right now. I think we can be pretty sure, right
just based on history and logic, that there's going to
be some surprise, there's going to be some variation of
that that none of us see coming. And maybe it
is that element that then you know, it breaks the
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camels back and causes all of this to tumble in
the regime to fall.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
But yeah, large scale boots and.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Then I don't think anybody's envisioning that, and I don't
think it would be necessary here. What I do think
is going to happen, and I pray it doesn't. I
think we just have to be realistic, is that there's
a very high high probability that there's going to be
some extreme pain inflicted on good by evil before evil succumbs.
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I think that's just the reality, and it's what we've
seen throughout history. I mean, we sit back right now
and marvel at what America and other brave allies, but
without America, the world's thrust into darkness in the forties
and Hitler and his progeny ruled the world.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Still today, we.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Sit here and we marvel at what they accomplished, but
we're so far removed we can't even begin to feel
the massive pain that was inflicted by evil as that
form of evil died its death, and it is highly
likely to come as this form of evil dies its death.
It may very well come in our soil. I mean,
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can you even imagine how many Iranian agents came in
through Joe Biden's wide open southern border. So I don't
think anybody would be surprised. Pray it doesn't happen, but
I don't think anybody it'd be surprised if there was
a large scale terror attack in this nation launched by
that regime and its dying hours and days, or anywhere
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in the world for that matter. I mean, we've seen
Iranian attacks on our soil before, against individual citizens. Yeah,
so this is not going to be clean. It's not
going to be easy. I just think it's going to
happen because it has to happen. And Ryan, this is
probably the most trivial of comparisons. I apologize in advance
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for it, but I cannot help myself on a very
trivial level. It's like right before Super Bowl thirty two,
first Super Bowl, the Broncos won, and I was honored
to be included in a Denver Post section on predictions
Who's going to win and why? And my prediction published
in the post you can go look it up, was
that the Broncos would win thirty one to twenty seven
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or thirty to twenty seven and when asked why, my
answer was because they have to. And they did because
they had to. At that point in the Broncos history,
losing really was not an option anymore, and so they did.
And by the way, I think that prediction was within
a few points I don't remember now. But when it
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comes to something much more serious, right like Iran, that
regime will fall right now because it has to, because
it has to. Israel has accomplished too much and it
cannot go back to living under the constant threat of
annihilation from an insane radical Islamic regime.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It just can't. And now that President Trump is all in.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And when we come back from this break, take some
text and calls, and I'll also read to you the
president's latest posts. President Trump is so all in now,
so publicly committed to complete surrender by the regime. It
has to happen. And that's why I'm very confident it
will happen. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That our Ranian regime is straight out of hell and
it's going to end soon.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I mean, President Trump now completely all in. Israel has
conducted this military mission, Master Flea. I think now it's
just a matter of how it ends and how quickly
it ends. And as I've said before, and I won't
go into the details again, obviously it is highly likely
there's highly likely to be a lot more pain inflicted
on innocence.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Before it ends, not by Israel.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
All of that bloodshed's on the Iatolas. But evil doesn't
go down without a fight. To just look at history,
and this evil will die, but it will take plenty
of people with it. Dan, In the fifteen minutes I've
been listening to you, you went from no boots on
the ground to no large scale boots on the ground
and that's before any action being taken yet.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Texter respectfully disagree. My reference to no large scale boots
on the ground was simply that I don't think any
informed commentator out there is right now anticipating any large
scale invasion of Iran by Israel or anybody else. I
do not support putting American boots on the ground in Iran.
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I don't support putting a single American on the ground
in Iran. My guess is there already is, probably through
special forces, probably has been for some time in very
covert roles. But no, I don't want American boots on
the ground in Iran, and I hope it doesn't come
to American pilots over Iran.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Uh, but it might it.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, just my three or three someone three, eight, two, five,
five the number.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Let's start there with Lewis and Denver, Colorado. You're on
the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Welcome, Hi Dan, thank you. Now, what if President Trump
gets this unconditional surrender before we have to drop this
momb That means you could just send international inspectors in
to inspect and to dismantle this place, all right, and
we wouldn't have Does that sound possible? Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It does to me because Israel has been so masterful
and now Trump is giving Israel this cover, right, because
there's no way anybody in the world can read posts
like this one today from President Trump unconditional surrender exclamation
point without believing that the President is now committed to
ensuring that Israel prevails and there's total regime change.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So between Israel's mastery and President Trump now implicitly backing
Israel militarily through these posts, Yeah, I think that scenario
could definitely unfurl.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Well, then our then our United States Air Force wouldn't
have to involve some of our personal equipment and to
do it personally.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Uh we we.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Wouldn't need to drop a bomb at all.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah, I'm with you, my friend, Thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I sure hope that's the scenario.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I sure hope that's the scenario, and that would that
would be the ferred scenario for a lot of reasons. Listen,
not that the men and women in our military would
hesitate for a second. They would probably be in the
warriors they are. They probably crave the opportunity to be
part of ending one of the most evil regimes in
modern world history. The point though, is that hopefully that
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will not be necessary, and if it's not necessary, there
would be good in that as well, because I think
there would be tremendous good in this evil regime being
ended by Israel. I mean just a tremendous message in
that good, just thoroughly conquering evil, which will happen if
America is actively involved as well. But it'd be so
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nice if Israel could finish the job on its own.
If it can be finished on its own, I'm sure
Israel will, But this strong backing from the President right
now is certainly going to help in lots of ways,
including within Iran, right because I mean, you look at
what Masad has developed, and there's so much tremendous intelligence
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if you're inside Iran right now, and I have to
believe this is a big part of why the President
has today gone all in on regime change. Is to
help promote is to help promote this internal revolution and
overthrow of the regime by the people of Iran. Because
if you're sitting there thinking, okay, like you know, the
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American Revolution, do I now risk my life and publicly
take on this regime and the Republican Guard, et cetera.
The fact that the United States of America, the President,
the commander in chief, is now publicly and thoroughly committed
to regime change, that's I think going to encourage you,
if you're inside Iron to join a revolution. And I'm
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sure that was part of the President's thinking. Philip and
Canyon City, you're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Welcome, Hi Dan, A long time since I talked to you.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Thanks.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
I've said a couple of comments. I think we're already
probably a little involved as far as air tankers. They
don't have very many, and in order to keep that
kind of aircraft the number that they have flight, they
would have had to borrow a couple of our people,
a couple of our tankers to get that done. So
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I think we're already supporting it, which is fine. I
don't have a problem with that. I guess my big
concern if we're to the point where we have their
supremacy and we're to the point where the Molos are
on the run, I think it's time, you know, to
take out the capability of nuclear power and weapons, because
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they're just going to hide it, you know, they diggin
holes and they'll hide it and they'll just come back later.
So I think this is our one opportunity, you know,
get rid of that power structure hopefully. I mean, I
don't think we're in a place to appoint somebody. I
think we should stay out of that, let their people
take care of that and get the nuclear possibilities out
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of their hands because it will come across the border eventually.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
AM amen to that. So yeah, that's all great man, Hey,
great call. Really do appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
And to Phillip's point, a post from President Trump today
we now have.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
We there's a lot of significance in that. Right.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We now have complete and total control of the skis
over Iran. Iran had good skytrackers and other defensive equipment
and plenty of it, but it doesn't compare to American made,
conceived and manufactured quote stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Nobody does it better than the good old us A.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So yeah, and let's face it right now, the regime
has to fall because if it is allowed to survive this,
it comes back even stronger. Steven Colorado Springs, you're on
the dan Kapla, she'll welcome.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
I just like to offer another point of view.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Good.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
It all started when thousands of punt thout Palestinian boys
were arrested indefinitely the throwing rocks. I'm able to breathe
ten years before in rocks basically, which naturally resulted in
an October seventh which Israel was waiting with baited breathports
annihilate and which they've done. And now assassination is being
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advertised in league with the United States. Now Greater Tunberg
is being prohibited from voice and Europe.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Can you join us on the other side and let
me ask you one quick question before we go to break,
and then I want you to join us on the
other side. Obviously we disagree completely. Do you think October
seven attacks were justified?
Speaker 7 (35:35):
I think was going on a post treachery and trickery.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Okay, so Steve's not going to answer that directly. I
wonder why
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
How lucky we are to be alive right now. What
a moment.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I mean, this is one of the probably the biggest
moments in world history, certainly in any of our lifetimes,
and we're just living through it together. So lots to
talk about. At four oh six Mountain time three all
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we last got together on Friday, and thank you to
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John Caldera for filling in yesterday when I was all
caught up in my law practice.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And so look.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
At where we are just a few days later. There
can be no doubt there, There's no even gray area
or room for any kind of I think disagreement on this.
President Trump is all in, one hundred percent in on
regime change in Iran, and he's seen so, which means
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that it will happen. It now has to happen because
the President has met everything on it. And so now
it's just a matter of how and when it happens
and whether it is. It's going to be difficult one
way or the other. Right, evil doesn't give up without
a massive fight and without lots of pain and lots
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of carnage. And there's already been horrific death of innocence
as Israel justifiably fights to preserve itself and its very existence.
But innocent people killed in Israel by the horrific regime,
the Ietolas, and innocent people killed in Iran because of
the Iatolas. So we know it's not going to be
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like a book or a movie. It's not going to
be clean. There's going to be a lot more suffering
before we get there. But what degree of suffering is
it going to be a massive level? Is it going
to be less than you would normally have in one
of these world changing military events? I mean, we're going
to find out together three or three seven one three
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five seven seven three nine. And I'd love your take
on what you think is going to happen, what you
think should happen. And while the Left is greatly exaggerating
this right because they live in this fantasy world they
can't win in the real world. You know, it is
causing some disagreement, you know, within the Republican base, the magabase,
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et cetera. So I want to have that conversation as well.
We'll play some sound on both sides of it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Obviously the President now critical publicly of Tucker Carlson is
very critical of the president, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I am.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I'm extremely supportive of the President and the track that
he's taken. But you may think I'm wrong on that
three or three someone three eight two five five text
d an five seven seven three nine. But as a
foundation before we dive in, just I think rock solid
proof for my premise that President Trump is now all
in and which means there will be regime change, even
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if it means some American involvement. And that's I guess
you know, the right lead question this afternoon. Do you
think any level of American involvement is acceptable here?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
If necessary?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Obviously, the Israelis have done just a historically amazing job
militarily given everything they're up against, the size of the country,
et cetera. But it may be I know it's generally
assumed I don't have access to classified information, so I
can't confirm it, but it may well be that's certain
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of these bunkers, you.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Know, these deep, deep, deep deep.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Bunkers where the nuclear materials are I cannot be penetrated
without American munitions, maybe even without American aircraft. See that's
where I don't have the information to know.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Israeli aircraft American.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Made obviously, is it capable of carrying these bunker busters
or would that have to be you know, United States
operated aircraft. Those are the things I just can't know
from the outside. Maybe you know and you'll share it
with us. But if necessary, is some level of US
military involvement justified here? Would you support that? Or would
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it just be an absolutely not? But here are some
of the reason posts from President Trump which go into
the not subtle category.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Why don't we.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Start with this one all caps unconditional surrender exclamation point
that was five hours ago and it says it all right.
He just put the flag in the ground right there,
unconditional surrender, and nothing less than that is going to
be acceptable. And then in case there was any doubt,
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he posted this as well, President Trump, we know exactly
where the so called quote supreme leader is hiding. He
is an easy target, but is safe there. We are
not going to take him out friends kill close friends,
at least not for now. But we don't want missile
shot at civilians or American soldiers. Our patients is wearing thin.
(05:17):
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Exclamation point.
Another post in the same timeframe, all about the last
five hours we have now, pardon me, we now have
complete and total.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Control of the skies over Iran.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Iran had good skytrackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty
of it, but it doesn't compare to American maid conceived
and manufactured quote stuff close quote. Nobody does it better
than the good ol Usa. And obviously everybody noticed the
We now have complete control over the sky. So yeah,
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he's staked out the territory. There will be the end
of the ilatolas and mulas controlling Iran, which is tremendous
for Iran, Israel in the world. And now the question
is just how quickly and how how painful or not
that comes love your thoughts three or three someone three eight,
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We'll get to some of that hot takes sound. There
will be some other topics today, but these kind of
moments don't come often in the world, and so we're
going to spend most of our time on that answers
to get your take, Ryan, you'll have a better feel
for it because you do your award winning show two
to four each day.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
On six point thirty catch at w Denver.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
How much support there is within conservative circles, including MAGA,
for potential US involvement in Iran. Obviously the President is
committed at this point to taking out that regime, and
whether that's going to cause some kind of great division
in the President's base.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I would anticipate Dan that your Texters will follow mine,
and that it was It was pretty evenly divided. There
are people that are more in alignment with Tucker Carlson,
Thomas Massey, maybe even Telsea Gabber that they want to
avoid intervention at all costs. I don't know that there
are many that are going as far as like Senator
Lindsay Graham, who many would consider to be a quote
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unquote chickenhawk, always kind of angling for war. But if
you put on a spectrum this is how I phrased it,
and let's say Tucker's a one and Lindsay Graham's a ten.
I'm where you are. I think like a six or seven.
Certainly I'm about a seven. I think I trust Donald Trump.
I trust our president to make the right call for
the right reasons, and I think on that basis alone,
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we kind of give them benefit of the doubt on
this for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I think that's a good place to start, is with
the trust. And my guess would be and might get
a better feel before the end of the show, but
my guess would be that there's probably ninety percent trust
in the president's base at this point, if not higher.
You may have thirty or forty percent, maybe even higher,
who have some doubts and concerns, but the trust is there.
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My commitment level is higher than yours, I think, Ryan.
I believe to a certainty that this regime must fall,
that the Iranian regime must fall, because at this point,
there will never be a better opportunity.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You know, there's only one Hitler in the history of
the world, but it's very Hitler ResQue, and if it
does not fall now, you have to assume that it
will acquire either through its own origins or acquiring, you know,
from a third party. It will acquire the means to
commit another holocaust in Israel if it is allowed to
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survive this moment. And so I think it simply must
fall right now. Am I saying at any price? No, No,
not at all. I do not think there should be
American military involvement, any kind of direct involvement, munitions, that
sort of thing. Fine, and I don't think it's necessary,
but I think that regimeust fall now. So let me
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play this Tucker Carlson sound into the break. Then we'll
come back and we'll line up calls and text on this.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my
country's going to be further weakened by this. I think
we're going to see the end of American empire. Obviously,
other nations would like to see that, and this is
a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on the
shoals of Iran. But it's also going to end I believe,
Trump's presidency and effectively end it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And so that's why I'm saying, what do you mean
by that's that's coming for you? That's you get Look,
I knew Bush, I knew George W.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Bush with you know, family connection, with so much I
knew Bush personally. I still see Bush sometimes and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
You know, of course.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
He he hates me, and he does because I criticized
him on Iraq and that war is the sum total
from historical perspective of his administration.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
See it's interesting, and when we come back, love your
take on this as well. I don't know why Tuck
is comparing the Iraq War to what's unfolding in Iran,
because I don't think anybody imagines a scenario where we're
going to have hopefully none but any significant number of
American boots on the ground in Iran. And and I
don't think that would be necessary. But we'll come back
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and we'll play that out. I really want to hear
both sides of this in full, and I think it's
good that someone like Tucker Carlson is out there disagreeing,
even though I agree with the President and not with
Tucker Carlson on something of this import You need, you
need the opposition case stated as strongly incredibly as possible.
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Speaker 5 (10:45):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast specific
way as.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Better than seas fire?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What are you looking for here? The real ends fire?
And there's something I will be.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Promitive giving up entirely if that's okay too? Are you
closer as are you possible?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
If that wasn't?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Why not certainly impossible?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Good point the give up that's possible?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, not a ceasefire, complete and total surrender. And then
the President I think a few minutes after that, then
posted to that effect. So a lot of questions for
you today, love calls or text three h three seven
one three A two five five text d an five
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militarily if necessary to ensure the end of the regime
and or to ensure the end of the regime's nuclear
weapons program? If you think any level of American military
involvement is justified, what should that be? Where would you
draw the line on that? How do you at this
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point end the Iatola's nuclear weapons program. It's it's interesting.
I want to play some of this after I finish
up that Tucker Carlson President Trump exchange, because I think
there's this assumption, right now that it can be ended
from the air, and maybe it can be. Again I
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don't have access to that classified information. Maybe it can be,
but I think we at least need to consider the
possibility that that certain parts of the nuclear weapons program
cannot be terminated completely from the air and will actually
require regime change to accomplish. So those I think just
some of the considerations here. But I want to replay
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Tucker Carlson's prediction that the Trump presidency will essentially effectively
end if he continues down this path, and that it
may end America as we know it as well, and
then get President Trump's response.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I am saying this because I'm really afraid that my
country's going to be further weakened by this. I think
we're going to see the end of a mary An empire.
Obviously other nations would like to see that, and this
is a perfect way to scuttle the USS America on
the shoals of Iran. But it's also going to end
I believe, Trump's presidency and effectively end it.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
And so that's why I'm saying, what do you mean
by that? That's that's coming for you?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That you get Look, I knew Bush I knew George W.
Bush with you know, family connection with Smush. I knew
Bush personally. I still see Bush sometimes, and.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You know, of course.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
He he hates me, and he does because I criticized
him on Iraq and that war is the sum total
from historical perspective of his administration.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I'd love to hear more from Tucker on that, because, again,
while I agree with President Trump's approach and I trust
President Trump on this, I'd love to hear Tucker's full
reasoning because it seems as if he's assuming that this
will lead to another Iraq style invasion and boots on
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the ground commitment. I don't see any scenario where that happens.
I mean, I truly hope and pray there's not a
single American boot on the ground in Iran, and I
don't think one's going to be necessary to accomplish what
the US can accomplish here, and hopefully there won't be
any direct US military involvement other than munitions and equipment necessary.
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But what in the world would give Tucker Carlson the
idea that we'd ever see an American presence on the
ground the way we did in Iraq. I don't think
that's even a remote possibility here, But he may have
other views on that, so maybe you could get him
on Ryan.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
See what I can do.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
But quick question, because I know my views have changed
and Tucker's views have changed in light of what happened
in Iraq and the benefit of hindsight being twenty twenty,
how did you feel about our launching of war a
land invasion of Iraq at the time, based on the
information we thought we knew, and how do you feel
about it now?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I thought it was I thought it was necessary at
the time, and I think troops did incredibly well under
the circumstances.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I think that it was it was botched at the.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Administration level, not at the troop level, and I think
that is unfortunate. But what we need to remember is
at the time, you know, for me, the tipping point
was General Powell, right tipping point was General Powell coming
out and saying that this needed to happen. And it's
not that I didn't trust w or anything like that.
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The equation seemed pretty obvious to me. There was every
reason to believe that Saddam Hussein still had weapons of
mass destruction and would use them as he had but yeah,
when General Powell came out and said, based on the intelligence, etc.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
This was necessary, that was good enough for me.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
And again, I just am incredibly grateful always will be
to the troops who sacrifice so much so that we
can live in a world without Saddam Hussein and his sons,
et cetera. But I view this as a much much
different analysis, Ryan, I watch different analysis here. I mean,
there is no doubt about what we're dealing with with
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the Iotolas who keep their own people at this point prisoner,
and their sworn commitment to commit another Holocaust on an
even larger scale, and there's no question they will as
soon as they get that ability, and that because of
the tremendous ingenuity and courage and execution of the Great
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State of Israel at this point, if there's any American
military involvement involved, it would be from the air and
it would be much much more contained. So I just
personally don't see the comparisons here. Here's Trump heading back
at Tucker.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Carlson criticizing you, saying that you're complicit in the war.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him
go get a television network say it so that people
listening and you know that the shot at Tucker really
ties back into why we can be so certain right
now that there will be this regime change in Iraq.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
In Iran. Pardon me, because.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
The president is all in a in Iran that that
didn't happen accidentally. He made that conscious decision. But I
believe that decision also relates to Russia and Ukraine. I
think it relates to domestic politics. I think it relates
to the rest of the world's hotspots, including China and
North Korea, because President Trump knows that a lot of
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his success, and he's had historically great success, has come
from peace through strength, because he is feared, and you've
now had both Putin and Zelensky defy him to varying degrees.
And I think the President knows that his ability to
continue to be a great peacemaker depends upon people fearing
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him and believing that if he can't get peace through strength,
he has to get peace through war and hopefully smart, contained,
precise surgical war. But war is always right. I mean,
even those of us like me, you haven't fought it
can tell just by observing that it's fallacious. But I
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think President Trump clearly understands that his ability to shape
world events for the better, which he's done so masterfully
based on peace through strength, requires acting when he is
defied by the bad actors.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And that's why I think he's all.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
In on a run right now, and I think he'll
succeed with that strategy. Three or three someone three eight
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Speaker 2 (18:45):
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
What steps into the vacuum if the regime falls?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, I think what will happen?
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Is there any mp well, no freedom for the first
time since nineteen seventy nine. You know, people probably asked
that about Hitler in the thirties, What would happen in
Germany if we took him out in the mid thirties. Well,
I wish we had, because we know what happened when
they let him stay in power.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, and we also know the almost unimaginable cost of
taking Hitler out. And thank God, and I thank god
that there were so many brave men and women who
were willing to pay that price so the world could
be freed from Hitler and there's only one Hitler, right,
but certainly the Iyahtola and asmill As they are hitler
esque and Nazisque. And if this regime does not fall now,
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it will come back even stronger. Maybe not in six months,
but before long, right, because they will have survived this.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, that's that street cred in Hell? Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And Ryan, can you trademark that street cred in Hell?
Because I've never heard that phrase said before. I think
that may be a first in human history. I like
it street cred in Hell. But that's what it will be.
That's what it will be if if this evil regime
somehow survives this.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And they should not be allowed.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Our great Ali Israel deserves to survive and thrive, and
Lord knows they've done their part, and other people of
Iran deserve to be free and to taste freedom again.
How long has it been like forty five years, We're
going on fifty years that they've been captive bye by
this lunatic regime. Yeah, and I I just love thinking
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of a world of a free Iran, a world with
a free Iran, and how much that can change so quickly,
how much it can change the world for the better.
Three or three, someone three eight two five five, texts
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would you draw the line Dan, I mean, would you
just say whatever it takes from the US military to
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free Iran? No, of course not.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I certainly would not.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Was always one of my big objections to what was
going on in Ukraine. Clearly Putin is satan and should
not be rewarded for raping and pillaging this sovereign nation,
and the people of Ukraine have fought so courageously. I'm
not saying that Zelensky or any of their leaders are perfect.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
That's not the point.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
There's a clear aggressor, there's clear evil, there's clear good
being victimized, and so I absolutely supported stopping Putin. The
problem was Biden's approach, And first it was Biden's weakness
that enabled Putin to command.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But that aside.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Biden's approach, which was an unlimited checkbook, unlimited everything short
of American boots on the ground without any actual plan
to win, never made any sense. Right Yet, Biden would
not commit to do the sort of things that might
have backed Putin off because he was afraid it might
trigger nuclear war. And the other reality with Ukraine and
(21:58):
I'll get to how it ties in in my view
to Iran. The other reality with Ukraine was that there
was never a chance of stopping Putin.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And everybody knew it. Everybody knew it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Never a chance of stopping Putin unless Europe proved that
it was willing to put boots on the ground to
stop Putin. And Europe was never willing to do that,
and Putin knew it. And evil feasts on weakness, so
should never be an American boot on the ground in Ukraine.
But Europe was unwilling to do that, and Putin took
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full advantage of it. In Iran, an entirely different scenario, Ryan,
you may be aware of one. I'm always open minded
to things I haven't heard or seen discussed, but I'm
not aware of any scenario where anybody's talking about any
kind of large scale ground invasion in order to overthrow
(22:53):
this regime. And then the nuclear weapons program, and there's
a fair question as to whether the nuclear weapons program
can be ended with out regime change. Maybe it can
be ended from the air with certain bunker busters, etc.
Which is what's been discussed publicly right now. But without
access to classified information, I can't know that, but yeah,
(23:14):
I don't think. I don't think that scenario is envisioned
by anybody. Certainly, I would not support for a second
any kind of American boots on the ground invasion of Iran.
And I hope it's not necessary to put a single
American pilot over Iran.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I hope that's not necessary.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But have you heard anybody Ryan talk about some major
land invasion.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
No land invasion whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
We have redirected some aircraft carriers I believe, from the
South China Sea that are en route to the Middle East.
Pete Hugstath's Secretary of Defense, has confirmed that Jennifer Griffin
is reporting that for Fox News.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
She's pretty well sourced.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
And I would say the extent of our involvement, if
there is any, directly, would be our air forces delivering
bunker busting bombs that can go to two thousand feet
under the ground.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah. No, And I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
That's kind of where the popular analysis is settling in
right now. I think we can be pretty sure, right
just based on history and logic, that there's going to
be some surprise, there's going to be some variation of
that that none of us see coming. And maybe it
is that element that then you know, it breaks the
(24:23):
camels back and causes all of this to tumble in
the regime to fall.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
But yeah, large scale boots and.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Then I don't think anybody's envisioning that, and I don't
think it would be necessary here. What I do think
is going to happen, and I pray it doesn't. I
think we just have to be realistic, is that there's
a very high high probability that there's going to be
some extreme pain inflicted on good by evil before evil succumbs.
(24:51):
I think that's just the reality, and it's what we've
seen throughout history. I mean, we sit back right now
and marvel at what America and other brave allies, but
without America, the world's thrust into darkness in the forties
and Hitler and his progeny ruled the world.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Still today, we.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Sit here and we marvel at what they accomplished, but
we're so far removed we can't even begin to feel
the massive pain that was inflicted by evil as that
form of evil died its death, and it is highly
likely to come as this form of evil dies its death.
It may very well come in our soil. I mean,
(25:30):
can you even imagine how many Iranian agents came in
through Joe Biden's wide open southern border. So I don't
think anybody would be surprised. Pray it doesn't happen, but
I don't think anybody it'd be surprised if there was
a large scale terror attack in this nation launched by
that regime and its dying hours and days, or anywhere
(25:53):
in the world for that matter. I mean, we've seen
Iranian attacks on our soil before, against individual citizens. Yeah,
so this is not going to be clean. It's not
going to be easy. I just think it's going to
happen because it has to happen. And Ryan, this is
probably the most trivial of comparisons. I apologize in advance
(26:14):
for it, but I cannot help myself on a very
trivial level. It's like right before Super Bowl thirty two,
first Super Bowl, the Broncos won, and I was honored
to be included in a Denver Post section on predictions
Who's going to win and why? And my prediction published
in the post you can go look it up, was
that the Broncos would win thirty one to twenty seven
(26:37):
or thirty to twenty seven and when asked why, my
answer was because they have to. And they did because
they had to. At that point in the Broncos history,
losing really was not an option anymore, and so they did.
And by the way, I think that prediction was within
a few points I don't remember now. But when it
(26:59):
comes to something much more serious, right like Iran, that
regime will fall right now because it has to, because
it has to. Israel has accomplished too much and it
cannot go back to living under the constant threat of
annihilation from an insane radical Islamic regime.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It just can't. And now that President Trump is all in.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And when we come back from this break, take some
text and calls, and I'll also read to you the
president's latest posts. President Trump is so all in now,
so publicly committed to complete surrender by the regime. It
has to happen. And that's why I'm very confident it
will happen. You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
That our Ranian regime is straight out of hell and
it's going to end soon.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I mean, President Trump now completely all in. Israel has
conducted this military mission, Master Flea. I think now it's
just a matter of how it ends and how quickly
it ends. And as I've said before, and I won't
go into the details again, obviously it is highly likely
there's highly likely to be a lot more pain inflicted
on innocence.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Before it ends, not by Israel.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
All of that bloodshed's on the Iatolas. But evil doesn't
go down without a fight. To just look at history,
and this evil will die, but it will take plenty
of people with it. Dan, In the fifteen minutes I've
been listening to you, you went from no boots on
the ground to no large scale boots on the ground
and that's before any action being taken yet.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Texter respectfully disagree. My reference to no large scale boots
on the ground was simply that I don't think any
informed commentator out there is right now anticipating any large
scale invasion of Iran by Israel or anybody else. I
do not support putting American boots on the ground in Iran.
(28:58):
I don't support putting a single American on the ground
in Iran. My guess is there already is, probably through
special forces, probably has been for some time in very
covert roles. But no, I don't want American boots on
the ground in Iran, and I hope it doesn't come
to American pilots over Iran.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Uh, but it might it.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, just my three or three someone three, eight, two, five,
five the number.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Let's start there with Lewis and Denver, Colorado. You're on
the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Welcome, Hi Dan, thank you. Now, what if President Trump
gets this unconditional surrender before we have to drop this
momb That means you could just send international inspectors in
to inspect and to dismantle this place, all right, and
we wouldn't have Does that sound possible? Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It does to me because Israel has been so masterful
and now Trump is giving Israel this cover, right, because
there's no way anybody in the world can read posts
like this one today from President Trump unconditional surrender exclamation
point without believing that the President is now committed to
ensuring that Israel prevails and there's total regime change.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So between Israel's mastery and President Trump now implicitly backing
Israel militarily through these posts, Yeah, I think that scenario
could definitely unfurl.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Well, then our then our United States Air Force wouldn't
have to involve some of our personal equipment and to
do it personally.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Uh we we.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Wouldn't need to drop a bomb at all.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah, I'm with you, my friend, Thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I sure hope that's the scenario.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I sure hope that's the scenario, and that would that
would be the ferred scenario for a lot of reasons. Listen,
not that the men and women in our military would
hesitate for a second. They would probably be in the
warriors they are. They probably crave the opportunity to be
part of ending one of the most evil regimes in
modern world history. The point though, is that hopefully that
(31:13):
will not be necessary, and if it's not necessary, there
would be good in that as well, because I think
there would be tremendous good in this evil regime being
ended by Israel. I mean just a tremendous message in
that good, just thoroughly conquering evil, which will happen if
America is actively involved as well. But it'd be so
(31:35):
nice if Israel could finish the job on its own.
If it can be finished on its own, I'm sure
Israel will, But this strong backing from the President right
now is certainly going to help in lots of ways,
including within Iran, right because I mean, you look at
what Masad has developed, and there's so much tremendous intelligence
(31:55):
if you're inside Iran right now, and I have to
believe this is a big part of why the President
has today gone all in on regime change. Is to
help promote is to help promote this internal revolution and
overthrow of the regime by the people of Iran. Because
if you're sitting there thinking, okay, like you know, the
(32:16):
American Revolution, do I now risk my life and publicly
take on this regime and the Republican Guard, et cetera.
The fact that the United States of America, the President,
the commander in chief, is now publicly and thoroughly committed
to regime change, that's I think going to encourage you,
if you're inside Iron to join a revolution. And I'm
(32:36):
sure that was part of the President's thinking. Philip and
Canyon City, you're on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Welcome, Hi Dan, A long time since I talked to you.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Thanks.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
I've said a couple of comments. I think we're already
probably a little involved as far as air tankers. They
don't have very many, and in order to keep that
kind of aircraft the number that they have flight, they
would have had to borrow a couple of our people,
a couple of our tankers to get that done. So
(33:07):
I think we're already supporting it, which is fine. I
don't have a problem with that. I guess my big
concern if we're to the point where we have their
supremacy and we're to the point where the Molos are
on the run, I think it's time, you know, to
take out the capability of nuclear power and weapons, because
(33:29):
they're just going to hide it, you know, they diggin
holes and they'll hide it and they'll just come back later.
So I think this is our one opportunity, you know,
get rid of that power structure hopefully. I mean, I
don't think we're in a place to appoint somebody. I
think we should stay out of that, let their people
take care of that and get the nuclear possibilities out
(33:53):
of their hands because it will come across the border eventually.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
AM amen to that. So yeah, that's all great man, Hey,
great call. Really do appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
And to Phillip's point, a post from President Trump today
we now have.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
We there's a lot of significance in that. Right.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We now have complete and total control of the skis
over Iran. Iran had good skytrackers and other defensive equipment
and plenty of it, but it doesn't compare to American made,
conceived and manufactured quote stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Nobody does it better than the good old us A.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So yeah, and let's face it right now, the regime
has to fall because if it is allowed to survive this,
it comes back even stronger. Steven Colorado Springs, you're on
the dan Kapla, she'll welcome.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
I just like to offer another point of view.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Good.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
It all started when thousands of punt thout Palestinian boys
were arrested indefinitely the throwing rocks. I'm able to breathe
ten years before in rocks basically, which naturally resulted in
an October seventh which Israel was waiting with baited breathports
annihilate and which they've done. And now assassination is being
(35:14):
advertised in league with the United States. Now Greater Tunberg
is being prohibited from voice and Europe.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Can you join us on the other side and let
me ask you one quick question before we go to break,
and then I want you to join us on the
other side. Obviously we disagree completely. Do you think October
seven attacks were justified?
Speaker 7 (35:35):
I think was going on a post treachery and trickery.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Okay, so Steve's not going to answer that directly. I
wonder why
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