1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:16,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:16,435 --> 00:00:20,555 Speaker 1: is a Countdown bulletin podcast. I'm Keith Olderman. While you 3 00:00:20,675 --> 00:00:26,555 Speaker 1: were sleeping, Trump illegally and unconstitutionally declared war on Iran. 4 00:00:27,115 --> 00:00:31,035 Speaker 1: He began to bomb its cities, including Tehran, and its 5 00:00:31,075 --> 00:00:35,435 Speaker 1: parliament and its security Council, and its military targets at 6 00:00:35,515 --> 00:00:40,995 Speaker 1: its schools and its ordinary civilians and its militia. Allies 7 00:00:41,115 --> 00:00:46,155 Speaker 1: in neighboring Iraq. Israel has joined in this assault. To 8 00:00:46,235 --> 00:00:49,155 Speaker 1: quote Martin Sheen as the president in the dead zone, 9 00:00:49,395 --> 00:00:53,835 Speaker 1: the missiles are flying. Hallelujah, hallelujah. To quote Trump to 10 00:00:53,915 --> 00:00:59,595 Speaker 1: President Zelenski, you are playing with World War three. Trump 11 00:00:59,635 --> 00:01:04,115 Speaker 1: has called it a war, use the term war repeatedly 12 00:01:04,515 --> 00:01:10,115 Speaker 1: and inanely, told Iranians to stay inside their homes, which 13 00:01:10,195 --> 00:01:13,995 Speaker 1: this country is bombing. It is war. He is calling 14 00:01:14,035 --> 00:01:17,195 Speaker 1: it war, and yet he has sought no congressional approval. 15 00:01:17,435 --> 00:01:21,675 Speaker 1: And Trump is thus now acting as a dictator, a 16 00:01:21,795 --> 00:01:26,235 Speaker 1: military dictator of the United States. At this moment, we 17 00:01:26,515 --> 00:01:30,715 Speaker 1: are not at war. Trump is at war against Iran 18 00:01:31,315 --> 00:01:37,675 Speaker 1: because apparently that FIFA Peace Prize just doesn't mean anything anymore. 19 00:01:37,875 --> 00:01:41,155 Speaker 2: The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and 20 00:01:41,195 --> 00:01:46,075 Speaker 2: we may have casualties that often happens in war, but 21 00:01:46,155 --> 00:01:49,115 Speaker 2: we're doing this not for now. We're doing this for 22 00:01:49,235 --> 00:01:53,355 Speaker 2: the future, and it is a noble mission. We pray 23 00:01:53,435 --> 00:01:57,155 Speaker 2: for every service member as they selflessly risk their lives 24 00:01:57,155 --> 00:02:00,835 Speaker 2: to ensure that Americans and our children will never be 25 00:02:00,995 --> 00:02:03,155 Speaker 2: threatened by a nuclear armed Iran. 26 00:02:04,755 --> 00:02:07,195 Speaker 1: I will add, if it was not clear to you there, 27 00:02:07,635 --> 00:02:12,475 Speaker 1: he sounds like shit in realizing the decades old wet 28 00:02:12,595 --> 00:02:16,955 Speaker 1: dream of the neocons, and Donald Trump now is officially 29 00:02:17,355 --> 00:02:21,475 Speaker 1: the most neocon of all the neocons we have ever had. 30 00:02:22,075 --> 00:02:25,755 Speaker 1: In realizing the decades old wet dream of the neocons 31 00:02:25,795 --> 00:02:28,355 Speaker 1: who have wanted to blow up around since at least 32 00:02:28,475 --> 00:02:32,275 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, if not since the January before that, when 33 00:02:32,355 --> 00:02:35,995 Speaker 1: the Shah we put there in the fifties was chased out. 34 00:02:36,355 --> 00:02:41,515 Speaker 1: Trump also fulfilled yet another neocon fantasy by the custom 35 00:02:41,675 --> 00:02:45,075 Speaker 1: of decades of presidents acting just a little bit more 36 00:02:45,195 --> 00:02:49,355 Speaker 1: like medieval kings than the previous president did. Congress has 37 00:02:49,435 --> 00:02:54,955 Speaker 1: let its exclusive right to enact war lapse, even though 38 00:02:54,995 --> 00:02:58,995 Speaker 1: Congress still insists it still has the exclusive right to 39 00:02:59,515 --> 00:03:05,115 Speaker 1: call it a war. Now this too is gone. The 40 00:03:05,395 --> 00:03:09,355 Speaker 1: Israeli military says dozens of Iranian targets have been hit. 41 00:03:10,075 --> 00:03:13,235 Speaker 1: This was all well before sunrise on the American East Coast, 42 00:03:13,635 --> 00:03:16,235 Speaker 1: thus making it not just that the war began in 43 00:03:16,275 --> 00:03:21,675 Speaker 1: the ultimate possible news dump window overnight Friday in the US. 44 00:03:22,355 --> 00:03:25,035 Speaker 1: Saturday morning, on the other hand, is the beginning of 45 00:03:25,075 --> 00:03:29,275 Speaker 1: the work week in Iran, good morning. That this could 46 00:03:29,395 --> 00:03:33,995 Speaker 1: explode into another multiple country carnage in the Middle East, 47 00:03:34,035 --> 00:03:37,195 Speaker 1: just as the last multiple country carnage in the Middle 48 00:03:37,195 --> 00:03:41,315 Speaker 1: East was beginning to wind down. That was underscored when 49 00:03:41,355 --> 00:03:44,715 Speaker 1: staff at the US embassies in Jordan and the United 50 00:03:44,795 --> 00:03:50,035 Speaker 1: Arab Emirates were notified overnight and instructed to shelter in place. 51 00:03:50,755 --> 00:03:53,115 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, all the civilians in those 52 00:03:53,155 --> 00:03:57,595 Speaker 1: countries were also so instructed. Better add Iraq to that list, 53 00:03:57,635 --> 00:04:01,115 Speaker 1: and soon enough Israel explosions have already been heard in 54 00:04:01,155 --> 00:04:05,835 Speaker 1: Abu Dhabi. You will recall last July, Trump claimed to 55 00:04:05,915 --> 00:04:11,195 Speaker 1: have obliterated Iran's capacity to stage nuclear and ballistic conflicts, 56 00:04:11,315 --> 00:04:14,235 Speaker 1: with the same certainty expressed when he explained that he 57 00:04:14,275 --> 00:04:18,475 Speaker 1: had been vindicated and exonerated in the Epstein files. Trump 58 00:04:18,595 --> 00:04:23,355 Speaker 1: previously promised to defend the protesters seeking freedom in Iran, 59 00:04:23,675 --> 00:04:27,355 Speaker 1: and when the Iranian dictatorship slaughtered thousands of them on 60 00:04:27,435 --> 00:04:31,715 Speaker 1: the streets, he did nothing. Now American lives will be 61 00:04:31,795 --> 00:04:36,315 Speaker 1: lost alongside theirs, as he said in the SoundBite that 62 00:04:36,395 --> 00:04:40,435 Speaker 1: you heard, not his life, not the lives of anybody 63 00:04:40,515 --> 00:04:44,435 Speaker 1: he knows, just ordinary American servicemen and women who were 64 00:04:44,475 --> 00:04:48,955 Speaker 1: sent there because there is no force willing to even 65 00:04:49,115 --> 00:04:54,875 Speaker 1: protest loudly. This greatest of all the constitutional violations by 66 00:04:54,915 --> 00:04:59,955 Speaker 1: any president in our history. Remember at all times that 67 00:05:00,075 --> 00:05:03,915 Speaker 1: even if Trump was telling the truth about Iran last summer, 68 00:05:04,155 --> 00:05:07,275 Speaker 1: there is there's no strategic value to this move that 69 00:05:07,435 --> 00:05:11,275 Speaker 1: is worth the risk of wider escalation of war in 70 00:05:11,315 --> 00:05:15,035 Speaker 1: the Middle East. Never forget that this war was begun 71 00:05:15,155 --> 00:05:21,755 Speaker 1: because thirty five percent Trump approval, because Epstein files, because 72 00:05:22,155 --> 00:05:28,075 Speaker 1: economic collapse, because mid terms. Never for a moment forget 73 00:05:28,275 --> 00:05:33,075 Speaker 1: Trump has done this to keep a diseased, delusional criminal 74 00:05:33,195 --> 00:05:39,115 Speaker 1: in power himself. I do not feel I have to, 75 00:05:39,515 --> 00:05:43,275 Speaker 1: like last time with Bush in Iraq, have to lead 76 00:05:43,555 --> 00:05:47,475 Speaker 1: any of the protests against Trump's insanity. Here I have 77 00:05:47,595 --> 00:05:51,075 Speaker 1: the words of others to quote, others who have warned 78 00:05:51,115 --> 00:05:55,035 Speaker 1: for years what war in Iran would mean to quote, 79 00:05:55,475 --> 00:05:57,875 Speaker 1: and I have had them at hand all this time 80 00:05:58,555 --> 00:06:03,115 Speaker 1: to quote, and I will now quote them quote. The 81 00:06:03,235 --> 00:06:07,315 Speaker 1: United States has spent eight trillion dollars fighting and policing 82 00:06:07,395 --> 00:06:10,435 Speaker 1: in the Middle East. Thousands of our great soldiers have 83 00:06:10,595 --> 00:06:14,115 Speaker 1: died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died 84 00:06:14,195 --> 00:06:17,235 Speaker 1: on the other side. Going into the Middle East is 85 00:06:17,275 --> 00:06:23,195 Speaker 1: the worst decision ever made. Unquote said by Donald Trump, 86 00:06:23,755 --> 00:06:30,915 Speaker 1: President Donald Trump, October ninth, twenty nineteen. Also quote to 87 00:06:31,035 --> 00:06:35,075 Speaker 1: anyone still gullible enough to fall for scummy media hoaxes, 88 00:06:35,435 --> 00:06:39,475 Speaker 1: Trump said, warmongering neocons loves sending your kids to die 89 00:06:39,555 --> 00:06:43,795 Speaker 1: for wars they would never fight themselves. Liz Cheney is 90 00:06:43,915 --> 00:06:48,075 Speaker 1: Kamala's top advisor. Liz wants to invade the whole Middle East. 91 00:06:48,475 --> 00:06:54,235 Speaker 1: Kamala equals World War III. Trump equals peace. Quote the 92 00:06:54,315 --> 00:07:00,675 Speaker 1: Pocket Nosferatu, Stephen Miller, November one, twenty twenty four, four 93 00:07:01,435 --> 00:07:07,075 Speaker 1: months ago. A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote 94 00:07:07,115 --> 00:07:09,835 Speaker 1: for Dick Cheney and a vote for war, war, and 95 00:07:10,035 --> 00:07:12,955 Speaker 1: more war. A vote for Donald Trump is a vote 96 00:07:12,995 --> 00:07:15,675 Speaker 1: to end wars, not start them. We are at a 97 00:07:15,875 --> 00:07:19,955 Speaker 1: historic crossroads. Our God given rights are under attack. Now 98 00:07:20,075 --> 00:07:22,475 Speaker 1: is the time for us to stand together for love 99 00:07:22,515 --> 00:07:25,675 Speaker 1: of country and for Donald Trump to get us back 100 00:07:25,755 --> 00:07:30,475 Speaker 1: on the path to peace, freedom, and prosperity. Unquote that 101 00:07:30,715 --> 00:07:35,595 Speaker 1: from the Einstein of ballot box Seizures, Tulsea Gabbard, October 102 00:07:35,675 --> 00:07:41,675 Speaker 1: twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. And then this whitman's sampler 103 00:07:41,795 --> 00:07:46,715 Speaker 1: of warnings against our newly christened war in Iran. Quote 104 00:07:47,155 --> 00:07:50,275 Speaker 1: don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to 105 00:07:50,315 --> 00:07:54,035 Speaker 1: start a war in order to get elected. Be careful Republicans, 106 00:07:54,675 --> 00:07:59,515 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, October twenty two, twenty twelve. Remember that I 107 00:07:59,555 --> 00:08:02,635 Speaker 1: predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack 108 00:08:02,675 --> 00:08:06,955 Speaker 1: Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly, not skilled, 109 00:08:07,795 --> 00:08:13,395 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, November tenth, twenty thirteen. In order to get elected, 110 00:08:13,515 --> 00:08:17,555 Speaker 1: Barack Obama will start a war with Iran. Donald Trump, 111 00:08:17,635 --> 00:08:21,955 Speaker 1: November twenty ninth, twenty eleven. Remember what I previously said, 112 00:08:22,035 --> 00:08:25,515 Speaker 1: Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how 113 00:08:25,555 --> 00:08:30,475 Speaker 1: tough he is, Donald Trump, September twenty fifth, twenty thirteen. 114 00:08:32,075 --> 00:08:36,835 Speaker 1: And one more inarguable argument against what Donald Trump has 115 00:08:36,915 --> 00:08:41,915 Speaker 1: done while you were sleeping from twenty eleven. You may 116 00:08:41,995 --> 00:08:44,195 Speaker 1: recognize the voice of the speaker. 117 00:08:44,595 --> 00:08:48,235 Speaker 3: Our president will start a war with Iran because he 118 00:08:48,315 --> 00:08:53,355 Speaker 3: has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. 119 00:08:53,715 --> 00:08:55,995 Speaker 3: So the only way he figures that he's going to 120 00:08:56,035 --> 00:08:59,315 Speaker 3: get reelected and as sure as you're sitting there, is 121 00:08:59,395 --> 00:09:00,835 Speaker 3: to start a war with Iran. 122 00:09:01,195 --> 00:09:04,595 Speaker 1: And I'll correct the timing on the Stephen Miller Quote'll 123 00:09:04,995 --> 00:09:08,195 Speaker 1: feels like two months ago, It was in fact fourteen. 124 00:09:09,435 --> 00:09:13,475 Speaker 1: In conclusion, I will say this much on behalf of 125 00:09:14,715 --> 00:09:19,795 Speaker 1: George W. Bush. We all knew the moment he took 126 00:09:19,835 --> 00:09:24,435 Speaker 1: the oath that he was going to pointlessly, recklessly, senselessly 127 00:09:24,555 --> 00:09:27,755 Speaker 1: start bombing the Middle East and would have no way 128 00:09:27,835 --> 00:09:31,555 Speaker 1: out and we would be there a decade. It was 129 00:09:31,635 --> 00:09:35,835 Speaker 1: the family business. Daddy had already done it. It was 130 00:09:35,915 --> 00:09:39,315 Speaker 1: the plan. It was so much the Bush family plan 131 00:09:39,595 --> 00:09:42,515 Speaker 1: that a world turning event like nine to eleven was 132 00:09:42,595 --> 00:09:47,835 Speaker 1: simply retrofitted into the plan and made secondary to the plan. 133 00:09:49,195 --> 00:09:54,075 Speaker 1: Trump he just did this. He just lied to save 134 00:09:54,395 --> 00:09:59,675 Speaker 1: his fat ass. We are invading Iran because it turned 135 00:09:59,675 --> 00:10:03,595 Speaker 1: out invading Minnesota was insufficient to keep Trump in power. 136 00:10:03,955 --> 00:10:06,915 Speaker 1: We are invading Iran because we have always been at 137 00:10:06,955 --> 00:10:11,555 Speaker 1: war with East Asia Iran. We are invading Iran because 138 00:10:11,675 --> 00:10:14,795 Speaker 1: Pete Hegset has spent thirteen months as the secretary of 139 00:10:14,875 --> 00:10:18,235 Speaker 1: Brill Cream and he finally came up with a name 140 00:10:18,395 --> 00:10:25,035 Speaker 1: for it, Operation Epic Fury. And as the next days 141 00:10:25,075 --> 00:10:29,875 Speaker 1: and weeks or months or years or decades unfold, weeks 142 00:10:29,915 --> 00:10:33,755 Speaker 1: of forced patriotism and Lindsey Graham coming close to an 143 00:10:33,795 --> 00:10:38,195 Speaker 1: aneurysm but not quite close enough. Weeks or more in 144 00:10:38,235 --> 00:10:42,555 Speaker 1: which we might even see cadet bone spurs in a big, round, 145 00:10:42,795 --> 00:10:46,755 Speaker 1: hard military hat like the North Koreans wear, or at 146 00:10:46,835 --> 00:10:51,795 Speaker 1: least new khaki colored baseball caps, or maybe khaki colored 147 00:10:51,835 --> 00:10:54,875 Speaker 1: makeup for his hands to cover up whatever it is 148 00:10:54,915 --> 00:10:59,675 Speaker 1: he's dying of this time, a final final thought, you 149 00:10:59,755 --> 00:11:03,795 Speaker 1: know what would be right and just just now we 150 00:11:03,875 --> 00:11:08,315 Speaker 1: should have of our new war in Iran, christened overnight, 151 00:11:09,035 --> 00:11:16,435 Speaker 1: fought by our newest patriotic triumphant flag waving unbeatable brave 152 00:11:16,715 --> 00:11:22,195 Speaker 1: American heroes who so inspired us in the week past 153 00:11:22,795 --> 00:11:28,195 Speaker 1: at the State of the Union, the Olympic winning US 154 00:11:28,475 --> 00:11:38,675 Speaker 1: hockey team. Over to you, General Kachuk. This has been 155 00:11:38,755 --> 00:11:43,595 Speaker 1: a countdown Bulletin podcast I'm Keith Olreman. Countdown with Keith 156 00:11:43,595 --> 00:11:48,675 Speaker 1: Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 157 00:11:48,835 --> 00:11:52,835 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 158 00:11:52,875 --> 00:11:53,795 Speaker 1: your podcasts.