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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kunner Report

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Speaker 2: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight

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Speaker 2: is the number. Okay, President Trump now weighing a potential

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Speaker 2: serious escalation, in fact, a massive escalation in the war.

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Speaker 2: Five thousand Marines have now arrived in the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: They are likely likely, it's not for certain, but according

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Speaker 2: to planners, they believe they are going to be sent

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Speaker 2: to carg Island along with three thousand paratroopers from the

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Speaker 2: eighty second Airborne. That is gonna be a key island

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Speaker 2: that they believe they can use to force the regime

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Speaker 2: in Iran to finally sign a peace agreement. However, to

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Speaker 2: clear the Strait of Hormuz, they're gonna need more than

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Speaker 2: just Navy ships. They're gonna need boots on the ground

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Speaker 2: as well. And now the military the Pentagon is telling

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Speaker 2: President Trump he is going to need to deploy another

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Speaker 2: ten thousand ground troops on top of the eight thousand.

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Speaker 2: My question to you, do you support sending in ground

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Speaker 2: forces to win the war in Iran or do you

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Speaker 2: fear that now this is going to become another Iraq

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Speaker 2: or another Vietnam quicksand where we send more and more

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Speaker 2: and more and then the body bags start to come back.

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Speaker 2: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight

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Speaker 2: lines are blazing. Lou in Rhode Island. Thanks for holding

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Speaker 2: Lou and welcome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Hi, good morning, Jeff Hilch. A couple of things

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Speaker 3: are still on my mind about this whole thing. Uh.

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Speaker 3: First of all, it looks like the IRGCS are in

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Speaker 3: control of everything. So I think even before we send

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Speaker 3: in any any any troops at all ground troops, I

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Speaker 3: think we really need to start working on taking out

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Speaker 3: the command and control structure of the I r GC.

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Speaker 3: They have to keep on working on that. Maybe in

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Speaker 3: the background, trying to take it out destroy their ability

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Speaker 3: to communicate with each other, that would be an And

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Speaker 3: they're get rid of their supply lines where they're getting

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Speaker 3: these supplies, where they're where they have these drones, where

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Speaker 3: they have these missiles. That all has to be taken out.

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Speaker 3: They've got to get take away their ability to strike.

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Speaker 3: And I think they got to get rid of their

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Speaker 3: command and control. It seems like, you know, even if

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Speaker 3: you don't have a a Mullah in there, you're going

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Speaker 3: to have some kind of like pretty radicalized generals or

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Speaker 3: whoever's running the i r g C. So they still

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Speaker 3: have to go in there and get rid of the

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Speaker 3: command and control of the I r g c UH

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Speaker 3: and we can we can their structure before we can

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Speaker 3: maybe even do anything. The second thing is I've been

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Speaker 3: reading about that Iran has been sending out all these

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Speaker 3: like shadow tankers, you know, in order to sell their oil.

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Speaker 3: We'd have to maybe even start seizing some of the

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Speaker 3: shadow tankers that they have coming out of Iran, and

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Speaker 3: maybe even some of the Chinese tankers if we have to,

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Speaker 3: just to cut off their their their ability to make

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Speaker 3: any kind of money at all. And also on top

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Speaker 3: of that, what we did with the original Iranian regime

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Speaker 3: is that freeze assets, don't let them have any assets

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Speaker 3: in order to be able to purchase anything. Now I

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Speaker 3: don't know if China supplying them with anything or not,

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Speaker 3: or Freshest supplying them with anything or not. That we

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Speaker 3: have to stop as well. Before we can even think

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Speaker 3: about sending in troops. We've got to like really disrupt

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Speaker 3: their ability to strike. And that has to be at

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Speaker 3: cutting off the head of the IRGC wherever it is now.

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Speaker 3: They also the IRGC also has almost total control of

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Speaker 3: the civilian population. They're they're they're controlling the via terror

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Speaker 3: because the population is not able, hasn't risen up or

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Speaker 3: has not for some reason been able to fight back

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Speaker 3: against the IRGC, And just like Hamas, they're high themselves

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Speaker 3: throughout the various cities in Iran and still maintaining their

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Speaker 3: still killing people. So there's there's a number of things

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Speaker 3: I think maybe we could do within the next week

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Speaker 3: or so before we need to even do the ground

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Speaker 3: troop things, just to soften them up as much as

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Speaker 3: we possibly can, and to take out this this structure

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Speaker 3: that's actually still running the show. Just break down the

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Speaker 3: continued structure that still running the show. The second thing

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Speaker 3: is is that you know, I am really disappointed in

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Speaker 3: our allies. I mean, You've got these these populations like Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia.

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Speaker 3: You know, when they want our help for Ukraine, they

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Speaker 3: demand our help for Ukraine. But when we demand their

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Speaker 3: help here there nowhere to be found. And I think

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Speaker 3: it's because they still fear and they still help out

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Speaker 3: because they have They're an example what the Democrats would

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Speaker 3: do here. They have a woke government. They have woke

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Speaker 3: governments that keep catering to the radical Islamists. And I

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Speaker 3: think there's they're going. They're still catering to Iran as well,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's a problem throughout the world. Now.

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Speaker 3: The one thing I can say about Trump and this

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Speaker 3: war that might be a positive thing is that there

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Speaker 3: is a big war going on between the giant structure

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Speaker 3: of radical Islam combined with the communists in China UH

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Speaker 3: to basically UH spread their influence and take over the

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Speaker 3: world and UH and and and that's and that's something

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Speaker 3: that if we defeat Iran, if we do manage to

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Speaker 3: defeat Iran, that whole kind of thing will be broken.

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Speaker 3: That that will be broken, and a lot of people

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Speaker 3: in different countries will rise up and get rid of

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Speaker 3: their woke governments because they'll see the main influence of

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Speaker 3: spreading Islamic terrorism and UH and the califight throughout the world.

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Speaker 3: Iran has been has been defeated. But I think first

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Speaker 3: we need to really do soften up the IRGC, take

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Speaker 3: out as much as we can and try to destroy

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Speaker 3: any kind of missiles or anything they have. And if

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Speaker 3: China is bringing in missiles to them or sending them

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Speaker 3: secret missiles, or Russia too, we've got to be able

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Speaker 3: to stop that as well.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, you mentioned you've put a lot on

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Speaker 2: the plate there, Lou. Look just I'm part of my

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Speaker 2: show prep every single day is I read the Israeli

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Speaker 2: media because frankly, a lot of their reporting is better

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Speaker 2: than ours, and Israeli politicians are actually more honest than

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Speaker 2: our politicians. And so what Israeli intelligence is saying, what

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Speaker 2: the Israeli leadership is saying, is that increasingly now net

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Speaker 2: Nyahu and Trump are giving up on regime change. Initially

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Speaker 2: they thought within a week or ten days the regime

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Speaker 2: would fall, people would rise, and they would be an

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Speaker 2: alternative government. They're starting the hopes for regime change are

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Speaker 2: starting to fade, and so there's a sense now that

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Speaker 2: the regime is going to survive somehow, some way, intact,

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Speaker 2: or the remnants of the regime are going to survive.

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Speaker 2: So they have to deal now with that. The other

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Speaker 2: issue that they're now dealing with is they have been

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Speaker 2: taken aback by how effective this blockade of the Strait

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Speaker 2: of for Moose has been and the impact it's having

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Speaker 2: on our allies, especially in the Gulf States, the Persian Gulf,

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Speaker 2: and the Havoc It's reeking on the economy.

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