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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jetty

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Speaker 2: Is Armstrong and Eddy.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to a special week of programming of The Armstrong

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Speaker 3: and Getty Show, which we have dubbed the Operation Mediocre Punditry.

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Speaker 2: I stand ready to serve today.

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Speaker 3: We are toiling out of the title of our show, Jack,

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Speaker 3: who are the Big ten Podcast?

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Speaker 2: We're the Everybody's Welcome radio show. That's why I've prepared

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Speaker 2: two titles that should please everyone. Number one, Trump's wore

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Speaker 2: of choice to stabilize this region. Two is I told

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Speaker 2: you what would happen. I like that. I told you

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Speaker 2: I was gonna drop a bomb on your head. I

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Speaker 2: told you once, I told you twice. Now how you

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Speaker 2: like me? Yeah? My favorite thing is.

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Speaker 3: Trump did an interview with The New York Times overnight

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Speaker 3: which he was asked about who's going to be in charge?

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Speaker 3: Had you identified anybody to be the next leader? And

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Speaker 3: he said, yes, we'd identified several people. They were killed. However, whoops,

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Speaker 3: so they're dead. We killed the ieil and forty of

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Speaker 3: the leadership, which I'm in favor of.

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Speaker 2: By the way personally, so warmonger. With all the various.

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Speaker 3: Serious and non serious comments I'm going to make throughout

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Speaker 3: the day, I'm in favor of this. Not sure. I'm

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Speaker 3: in favor of it being one guy's decision as opposed

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Speaker 2: In fact, I'm sure. I'm not how that should work out.

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Speaker 2: I do not know. But that's an interesting discussion because

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Speaker 2: I think, given the realities of today's Congress, it would

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Speaker 2: render the country completely unable to take any action right.

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Speaker 3: I understand the argument constitutionally, but in reality, I don't

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Speaker 3: think any president would be able to do.

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Speaker 2: Anything right right militarily. This is I never hear this

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Speaker 2: point made, or at least not not often. I think

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Speaker 2: that that conflict. The Congress has the right to declare

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Speaker 2: war according to the Constitution. Everybody knows that is that

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Speaker 2: the declaration of war meant something very, very different when

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Speaker 2: the Constitution was written. You know, we don't really have

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Speaker 2: that we kind of, yeah, say yeah that part. Did

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Speaker 2: nobody share what that means? So we're not gonna worry

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. It's like arguing over the

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Speaker 3: Second Amendment. What a well armed militia means in terms

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Speaker 3: of me getting down a gun. They should get into

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Speaker 3: the what does declaring war means? Since back in the day,

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Speaker 3: you couldn't just you know, hit Paris with a couple

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Speaker 3: an army and went to war.

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Speaker 2: You didn't, right, And yeah, that's a good point right there.

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Speaker 2: And of course Congress, the pre eminent branch of government

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Speaker 2: write laws clarifying all this and or propose amendments to

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Speaker 2: the Constitution. They just don't.

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Speaker 3: As we go to Air Live, we now have four

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Speaker 3: guys that have died. Another died from his wounds from

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Speaker 3: that attack on our base in Kuwait, so we're now

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Speaker 3: at four and we had three jets that the initial

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Speaker 3: Times is now reporting were shot down. So you know,

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Speaker 3: we'll get all the details on that what happened. Everybody's

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Speaker 3: safe in that they managed to God, I can't imagine

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Speaker 3: a jet hitting another jet and then you're amazingly discombobulated,

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Speaker 2: Good God, can you imagine how crazy that would be? Oh? Yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: My understanding was they were accidentally shot down by the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I I Well, even if you had a solid

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Speaker 3: this point in war, since we've covered several of these,

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Speaker 3: remember what was the name of that woman Jessica something

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Speaker 3: and it turned out to be completely untrue on any level.

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Speaker 2: What's right? Right? Right? My gosh, I'd forgotten about that one.

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Speaker 3: But and for good reason this stuff. There are no

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Speaker 2: Oh, certainly not. And on that topic, if you live

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Speaker 2: well between us and the Israelis, I imagined the level

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Speaker 2: And the reason it was go time in the middle

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Speaker 3: He and forty of the top brass were going to

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Speaker 3: get a better chance than this, right, and.

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Speaker 2: They all died.

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Speaker 3: According to the Defense Minister of Israe yesterday, within the

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Speaker 3: first minute of the war, the Iatola was dead. So

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Speaker 3: when Trump is warning you, Maduro Ayatolia, I don't know

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Speaker 3: if there's anybody less. Maybe the guy had running Cuba

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Speaker 3: when Trump is warning you, look, you gotta negotiator. We're

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Speaker 2: M hm. You might want to take that seriously. You're

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Speaker 3: I didn't understand it last week Friday morning, and these

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Speaker 3: these were the last hours of the Iatola's life. Friday,

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Speaker 3: when we were talking about this, I was like, why

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Speaker 3: gonna end up dead, I mean, what's the point. And

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Speaker 2: They obviously had a serious mis calculation about Trump's intentions

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Speaker 2: and willingness to do what he did. I mean, like

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Speaker 3: That'll be written about, talked about for years. Also the

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Speaker 3: crazy idea Iran had, I know what we'll do to

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Speaker 3: turn the tide. We'll attack nine of our neighbors, right

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Speaker 3: to show them nobody misses with us. We'll tack the

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Speaker 2: What find every hornet's nest in the neighborhood and kick it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: good idea. Wow, Hitler invading Russia is saying, wow, I

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Speaker 3: Wow, incredible, And now you say you've got Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 3: we're gonna We're gonna go to war with Irantu. We're

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Speaker 3: but we're not gonna let this continue, right Iran tacked

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Speaker 2: Absolutely unbelievable, and plenty of civilian targets. Saudi Arabia, by

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Speaker 2: the contrast between domestic foreign policy, or domestic policy rather

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Speaker 2: the days leading up to the attack, they were making

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration, now, now would be a great time,

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Speaker 2: perfect time. I mean, go ahead if you want.

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Speaker 3: I know we have listeners who are probably against this.

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Speaker 3: I have talked to several Trump supporters or at least

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Speaker 2: There knee jerk, yeah, honest or not.

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Speaker 3: My favorite thing to retweet over the weekend was videos

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Speaker 3: the Trump dance, saying we love you Trump. A banner

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Speaker 3: and then saying, hey, Democrats, you might want to send

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Speaker 3: with you, you know, apparently they haven't tuned into MSNBC

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Speaker 3: and realize they should be unhappy about this. Why are

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Speaker 3: who seem to think this is a good idea. Did

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Speaker 3: you not listen to Senator Chris Murphy. This is awful.

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Speaker 3: You should be unhappy about this.

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Speaker 2: I will absolutely concede, and we will discuss that there

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Speaker 2: is uncertainty in the road ahead. We've unleashed the dogs

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Speaker 2: in around There are a number of terrible options for

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Speaker 2: what their leadership might become you know, we just don't know.

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Speaker 2: That's absolutely true. But as I said, speaking of the

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Speaker 2: perfect tweet from Kurt Schlichter. It will never not be hilarious.

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Speaker 2: And excuse the use of the R word here, it

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Speaker 2: That is pretty freaking good. Yeah, no kidding. Everything you

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Speaker 3: And then to your disclaimer, and then we've got to

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Speaker 3: What are you gonna do with no discussion whatsoever of

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Speaker 3: the fact, what else were we gonna do?

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Speaker 2: Let them get a nuclear weapon and continue down the

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Speaker 2: path they are. I agree, we don't know how this

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Speaker 2: to mention, rebuild their proxies and unleash more decades of

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Speaker 3: Anyway, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Army Strung.

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Speaker 3: He's Joe Getty on this. It is a Monday, March second.

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Speaker 3: Rent is due, the rent. It's too damn damn right,

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Speaker 3: it is the here twenty twenty six were Armstrong and Getty.

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Speaker 4: This is not a so called regime change war, but

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Speaker 4: the regime sure did change and the world is better

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Speaker 4: off for it.

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Speaker 2: He'd exact the Secretary of War with a did he

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Speaker 2: take questions, Hanson? Was that a press conference or just

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Speaker 3: He just came out and made a couple of statements

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Speaker 3: some of our favorite military analysts. We've got lots of

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Speaker 3: information we've collected over the weekend. Love to hear from

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Speaker 3: you on the text line four one KFTC. We got

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Speaker 3: Katie's headlines on the way.

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Speaker 2: Stay here.

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Speaker 1: With me.

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Speaker 3: I'm watching in London of news and Iranians dancing in

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Speaker 5: Who go to bed at the same time. Report happier marriages.

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Speaker 1: Irans formerly Supreme Leader Ayotola am A is dead.

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Speaker 2: This wretched and vile man had.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that reminds me.

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Speaker 3: They've been living their lives for decades where children, women

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Speaker 3: Trump launched Saturday morning's campaign after weeks long lobbying effort,

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Speaker 3: And then this angle which I was talking to my

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Speaker 3: What would the total number of his own people that

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Speaker 3: Post's obituary, this is a bit narrow. He also had

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Speaker 3: an avuncular predilection for mass killing, suppression of women in

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Speaker 3: the torture of dissonance. Might want to throw that in there,

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Speaker 3: Well said, yeah, so, Pete Hegzeth talked a little bit ago.

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Speaker 3: We haven't heard everything he said because it happened right

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Speaker 3: before we went on the air.

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Speaker 2: Do we have a clip of that? The Secretary of

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Speaker 2: War Michael.

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Speaker 4: For forty seven long years, the expansionist and Islamist regime

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Speaker 4: in Tehran has waiged a savage, one sided war against America.

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Speaker 4: They didn't always declare it openly, except for their constant

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Speaker 4: chance of death to America.

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Speaker 2: They did it through the blood of our people.

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Speaker 4: Car bombs in Beirut, rocket attacks on our ships, murders

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Speaker 4: at our embassy's, roadside bombs in Iraq, in Afghanistan, funded

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Speaker 4: and armed by Iranian the Koud's Force and IRGC killers.

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Speaker 4: My generation of veterans carried the names of brothers who

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Speaker 4: never came home, brothers butchered by Iranian backed roadside bombs

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Speaker 4: and well armed militias thousands of our own We didn't

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Speaker 4: start this, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of people understand how when

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Speaker 3: we were in Iraq fighting We were practically fighting Iran

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Speaker 3: at the time in Iraq. But one of the reasons

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Speaker 3: we don't know that is that the Bush administration didn't

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Speaker 3: want to talk about that because it made it look

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Speaker 3: like it was even more of a mistake to go

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Speaker 3: into Iraq that we ended up fighting Iran. I remember

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Speaker 3: talking about it after I started. I read the book

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Speaker 3: called The Devil, you know, by Bill bhar he was

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Speaker 3: a former CIA guy, saying Iran is the whole is

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Speaker 3: our enemy. That's who we should be worried about. There,

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Speaker 3: who's behind this whole thing? And that was before we

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Speaker 3: even found that out. But yeah, those roadside bombs and

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Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff that killed our soldiers and

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Speaker 3: blew off their legs and all those things, that was

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Speaker 3: Iran behind a lot of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fond of saying there's some problems you can't solve,

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Speaker 2: You just have to manage them in life and in

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Speaker 2: foreign relations. But the counter argument I would make to

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Speaker 2: anybody saying that this was so war of choice, and

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Speaker 2: you know it didn't have to. We should have negotiated.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. We've been trying to quote unquote manage

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Speaker 2: the regime in Iran for now, you know, three generations,

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Speaker 2: and it wasn't working, and their malign influenced their quest

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Speaker 2: for a nuclear program. It just continued and continued and continued,

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Speaker 2: and now it's changed course significantly, and you know it.

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Speaker 3: May not end well soon. But the old course just

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Speaker 3: wasn't working. Since you brought that up, there's hardly a

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Speaker 3: pundit at the highest levels who hates Trump more than

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Speaker 3: conservative George will of the Washington Post. But his headline today,

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Speaker 3: at last, the credibility of US deterrence is being restored.

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Speaker 3: He couldn't like this more. The perhaps thirty thousand protesters

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Speaker 3: who perished in Iran streets in early January did not

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Speaker 3: die in vain. I like this opening paragraph. The Hamas paragliders,

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Speaker 3: who are tentacles of Iran, began today's war in October seventh,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, igniting one of history's most spectacular backfires.

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Speaker 2: That's true over time.

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Speaker 3: But I want to get down this to this just said,

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Speaker 3: Sue brought it up some say that US involvement in

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Speaker 3: Iran constitutes a war of choice. That too casually bandied

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Speaker 3: phrase rarely fits untidy reality. America's Civil War was a

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Speaker 3: war of choice, and hekes friends Lincoln's choices. Donald Trump's

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Speaker 3: administration has chosen not to wager US safety on Iran's

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Speaker 3: abandoning its multi decade pursuit of nuclear weapons or on

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Speaker 3: Iran's acquiring them, but not really meaning death to America.

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Speaker 3: And he takes the re establishing the deterrence US deterrence

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Speaker 3: around the world all the way back to nineteen seventy

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Speaker 3: five when we got out of Vietnam, and that since

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Speaker 3: then our level of deterrence around the world has been diminishing,

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Speaker 3: diminishing little by little. He uses a whole bunch of exams,

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Speaker 3: particularly Barack Obama and Joe Biden in a number of

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Speaker 3: things that they did. But now for a while, anyway,

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Speaker 3: as long as Donald Trump's in office, various players are

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Speaker 3: going to take it very seriously.

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Speaker 2: Right, I would agree, Vietnam and then the Iraq situation

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Speaker 2: was American deterrens, but it was bungled so horribly. I

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Speaker 2: think the lesson we took as country was we better

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Speaker 2: not to do much, because we'll screw it up. If

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Speaker 2: I can give the final word to Pete Hagsath Michael,

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Speaker 2: can we do clip seventy one place? It took the.

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Speaker 4: Forty seventh president, a fighter who always puts America first,

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Speaker 4: to finally draw the line after forty seven years of

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Speaker 4: Iranian belligerents. He reminded the world, as he has time

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Speaker 4: and time again, being an American means something unbreakable. If

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Speaker 4: you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth,

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Speaker 4: we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation,

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Speaker 4: and we will kill you.

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Speaker 3: I know some of you out there think this is

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Speaker 3: not America first, this is Israel first. I think you

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Speaker 3: are wrong. I think this does make the world safer

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Speaker 3: and makes the United States safer. You can't let a

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Speaker 3: country that has been chanting death to America for half

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Speaker 3: a century get a nuclear weapon and see how much

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Speaker 3: they mean it.

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Speaker 2: To paraphrase George Will, Yeah, we need to talk more

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Speaker 2: So we got a lot more to get to.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna talk to my clients, are one of our

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Speaker 2: I look forward to that.

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Speaker 3: We do have four guys that have been killed so

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Speaker 3: far in the war, as Trump has said multiple times

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Speaker 3: since Saturday night, likely to be more. This is expected

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Speaker 3: according to what I think he told one of the

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Speaker 3: news outlets overnight, like four to six weeks minimum, So

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Speaker 3: this is going to be going on for a while.

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Speaker 3: Israel and the United States have hit two thousand targets already,

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Speaker 3: two thousand. I guess that's why Pete HEGGSF called it

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Speaker 3: the most sophisticated, biggest area assault in world history. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if that's true or not, but it's something.

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Speaker 3: We got mail bag on the way. Stay here. We

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Speaker 3: left out the biggest thing, Pete Hagsz said a few

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Speaker 3: minutes ago. He did not rule out boots on the ground.

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Speaker 3: We'll go as far as we need to go. And

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Speaker 3: for quite a few years now, everybody's been ruling out

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Speaker 3: boots on the ground if they ever have the opportunity.

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Speaker 3: But he did not rule that out. So more on

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Speaker 3: that later.

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Speaker 2: Here's your freedom love Me quote of the day. Excuse me,

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Speaker 2: who my Allergy is beginning a series on war. We'll

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Speaker 2: start with George S. Patten's famous quote, the object of

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Speaker 2: war is not to die for your country, but to

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Speaker 2: make the other bastard die for his good one. It's

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Speaker 2: a good one. Mailbag, A lot to get to. Let's

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Speaker 2: start with Jim from Harmony, Pennsylvania. Hey, guys and Katie,

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Speaker 2: much love and appreciation from Harmony. Been listening to us

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Speaker 2: for over half of his adult life. He says, your

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Speaker 2: shows my rocks. I can only to my parents. It's

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Speaker 2: very kind of you, Jim, Thank you. Wow. With that

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Speaker 2: being said, something's been weighing heavy on my mind today.

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Speaker 2: Is a minority homosexual I am quote allowed to mock

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Speaker 2: the insanity of the LGHDTV, HGTV plus community HDDV. I'm

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Speaker 2: still in that one, Jim, as I've been doing since

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Speaker 2: I was in high school. At any rate, he has

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Speaker 2: hired Katie to speak for him the following statement. Katie

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Speaker 2: plays in your obnoxious up talk voice.

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Speaker 5: I don't know who needs to hear this, but I

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Speaker 5: RAN's next Ayatola should be a trans black, indigenous gender queer,

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Speaker 5: fat positive, color blind, bilateral above the knee amputee brand's

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Speaker 5: female of color. Anyone who thinks otherwise as a beget

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Speaker 5: hateful misogynist and needs to educate they.

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Speaker 2: Themselves hashtag be brave, hashtags so brave and needs to

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Speaker 2: educate they themselves. Entirely crafted by the brilliant Jim from

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Speaker 2: Harmony Pencil. That's pretty funny. Well done, Jim. A couple

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Speaker 2: of memes of the day for you. It's a big

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Speaker 2: American flag. Suddenly the entire world knows that the US

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Speaker 2: military is no longer run by men in dresses. And

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Speaker 2: this from John thinking in similar fashion. Please, gentle radio hosts,

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Speaker 2: the proper term is iotolics is directed. Oh gosh, Aaron Rice, Guys,

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Speaker 2: intelligence sources indicate that Minneapolis is weeks, if not days,

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Speaker 2: away from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Now, we're not going

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Speaker 2: to attack Minneapolis, Aaron. Please let's see this from Gary

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Speaker 2: and Portland. Orders of Palestine and Portland are angry that

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Speaker 2: Iran is being attacked now. Funding and supplies from the

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Speaker 2: river to the sea seemed to be a thing of

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Speaker 2: the past. And he has a link to Oregon Live.

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Speaker 2: I will grab that to see. Well, they're just Neil

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Speaker 2: Marxis just want to tear down Western civilization in the

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Speaker 2: United States. So they've got to be against everything the

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Speaker 2: US does and in favor of whatever is foreign, even

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Speaker 2: if it is one hundred and eighty degrees against what

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Speaker 2: they claim on other days to be for. It's ridiculous,

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Speaker 2: and I thought this was interesting. Adam from a beautiful Lincoln, California.

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Speaker 2: He said, this war started a day before my family

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Speaker 2: and I were to travel back to the States. All

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Speaker 2: flights to Cutter were canceled and air space closed. Now

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Speaker 2: we're stuck in Nairobi and airfare tickets have jumped to

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Speaker 2: three thousand dollars per ticket. Wow, I've never been this

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Speaker 2: close to a war zone. I can feel the frustration

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Speaker 2: and worry from people around me. I'm extremely unhappy that

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Speaker 2: my trip has turned to hell, but I'm not mad

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Speaker 2: about why it turned. Pray for our troops and my wallet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen a bunch of reports on Americans who

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Speaker 3: are stuck in a Dubai or wherever, and you can't

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Speaker 3: go anywhere, and there's a chance I RAN's going to

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Speaker 3: try to hit you know, they hit the Devisi. I

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Speaker 3: didn't realize that Deb's got the world's biggest airport, but

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Speaker 3: Iran hit that and hotels, and so there's no place

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Speaker 3: completely safe. I don't know how long Iran's going to

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Speaker 3: have the capability to lash out like that. I think

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Speaker 3: we in Israel are working really hard to take that

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Speaker 3: out as fast as we can.

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Speaker 2: I certainly think the airlines will air to the side

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Speaker 2: of caution, though sure it could be many days till

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Speaker 2: he can travel again. Yeah, enjoy Nairobi.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a lot more to bring up to

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Speaker 3: speed on details we have gathered. If you missed a

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Speaker 3: segment or now, you can get the podcast Armstrong and

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Speaker 3: Getty on demand. Again, this is operation mediocre punditry, and

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Speaker 3: we're going to do our best all week long to

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Speaker 2: That's what we do, Armstrong and get eight