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Glenn Beck (0:00)
Hey, on today's podcast, we're course going to talk about Israel. We're going to talk about President Trump. What did he know, when did he know it? And is that deception or is this just unbelievable negotiation? I mean, he said you have 60 days and you don't want to see what happens the day after 60 if you don't negotiate. Well, they didn't negotiate. And lo and behold, it was just after midnight, day 61, that Israel went in and took care of business. Everybody's upset about it. We give you the real scoop, how we were involved and what it all means. Plus the military parade and masterpiece theater for the unbelievable acting prowess of Senator Warren and Padilla and Cory Booker. All that and more on today's podcast. Someday when you finally get your life back from all that pain you've been living with, we got a lot for you to do. There's a country that needs defending. There's a family that needs you present and a world that needs good men and women who can stand up, literally stand up and fight for what is right. And maybe you've been saying, saying someday I'll get back to that. Someday I'll feel like myself again. Well, why not make that someday today? Why wait? Relief Factor is a hundred percent drug free solution. It's designed to tackle the root causes of pain and that's inflammation from aging, exercise, or just living life too hard for too long. I take Relief Factor every day because it works for me. I want to be there for my family and because I still have a lot of work to do and so do you, quite frankly. So if you're living with pain, see how Relief Factor can help you feel and live better every single day. Give their three week quick start a try for only 1995. In a few weeks, even a few days, feel the difference Relief Factor can make. Visit relieffactor.com or call 800 for relief 800, the number four relief.
Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus (1:57)
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Glenn Beck (2:03)
Let me just say this because I have quite a monologue. I spent about three hours on about one o' clock in the morning. I started it. And I will tell you, maybe some anger therapy might have been better, but I took it all out on a monologue and I'm going to unleash that onto all of the, onto some people that I actually still refer to as friends. I just don't know what the hell people are thinking. But let's, let's start with why this war is not Iraq and yet why it terrifies Me, first of all, I hate war. I used to be, you know, in my youth, a little more war happy, you know, because I wasn't going to fight it. And yeah, we should do that and we should go and we got to police the world. No, we don't have to do any of that. We shouldn't do any of that. And I have learned from, you know, my first 30, 40 years of my life that what I was for was absolutely wrong. The State Department was wrong, the neocons were wrong, all of them wrong. For one, it's not only wrong for America, but it is also. I've seen too many people come home broken or not come home at all. And those who do come home, nobody seems to care about them. And I just think it is absolutely abhorrent the way we treat our soldiers. And I've watched our country send generation after generation off to foreign battles with no clear ending. Many times no clear enemy. Tell me who our enemy was. Besides Osama bin Laden for 20 years, who was our enemy? Well, it's the ideology of. What is that ideology? You can't even say it. And then we were told that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. You know, we were told we can't afford to wait. And so we went. And in the end, whether you believe the cause or not, it became another drawn out conflict, another wound in our national spirit. And far too many American families were touched by it. And once again, the world is holding its breath. Israel yesterday struck Iran hard, precisely and quietly. And before the screaming starts from the headlines, the chambers of the un, the cable news panels, let's stop and ask ourselves a few hard questions, shall we? First of all, is this America's war? The answer is no. Should we be there fighting it? Answer no. Has Israel asked us to fight their war? Answer no. Is this another Iraq or is it something entirely different? Well, let me tell you what makes this moment unlike anything else we have faced before. First, this was not a call to war. This was not a land invasion. This, this, this is not a campaign to topple a regime and then sit around for 20 years trying to rebuild a culture that doesn't want what we have. Even though Iran, the Iranian people are good people, the Persians are great people and they do want a life like ours. But this was targeted. This was surgical. This was preemptive. Not against an idea, not against a guess, against the very real, very stated intentions of a regime run by men who do not think like we think. Okay? They do not want what we want. We choose life. They literally choose death. That is as clear as it is. Do you choose life or do you choose death? That is a culture of death. So I want to start with the clerics of Iran, the ayatollahs, the supreme leader, the mullahs, the puppet masters of the so called Islamic Republic and their Sharia law. I have said this for years and years and years. If you don't understand this, you don't understand Iran. These are Twelvers. They are followers of a branch of Shiite Islam that believes not just in the return of the mess messianic figure called the Mahadi, but also that his return can and must be, in their words, hastened or accelerated. And the only way to do that is to quote, using their words, wash the world in blood. Okay, I think I'm out at that. You know, that's my first stop on the train. And I'm like, I'm gonna get off here. Please. Let me say this again. The highest religious leader who actually is in charge of the entire country, the one who commands the Revolutionary Guard, who fund the terror groups by Hezbollah and Hamas, the ones who train children to chant Death to America in the streets, believe the world must be engulfed in destruction and flames to usher in the end times. And they mean that the same way we mean that, and that this is the regime trying to build a nuclear bomb. Now, I have a problem with this because I've been talking about this since 2000, maybe 2002. Oh, they're very close to a bomb. They're very close to a bomb. You know, I stopped listening to John Bolton a long time ago. It was a kind of cute little oldie thing that he was, you know, you bring up once in a while. But I don't know if they were close to the bomb. I don't know if anybody knows they were close to the bomb. Maybe I will tell you what Benjamin Netanyahu told me in like 2010. I had a meeting with him, and I'm like, are they close to a bomb? He said, I don't know. But when we believe that they are truly close to a bomb, it doesn't matter what the world will say. We will go in and do it ourself if we have to. They cannot have a nuclear weapon, okay? So they want a nuclear bomb because they want to wash the world in blood. Now contrast that with the doctrine of mutually assured destruction that has kept peace between nuclear superpowers for over a half century. The Soviets, they didn't want to die, okay? The Chinese Communist Party, they don't even Want to die. Even North Korea, as crazy as that fat dude is, he doesn't want to lose power and his life. But Iran, they're not afraid of death because they got all those virgins coming their way. They see martyrdom as a promotion. They don't want to win a war. They want to ignite the good old end of days. So ask yourself what happens when those beliefs collide with the power of a nuclear warhead? And by the way, you should answer this now, because we're gonna have to answer this when France topples to the same kind of radicals, and when England topples to the same kind of radicals, uh, do we go in and get their weapons? Because you do not want these regimes with nuclear weapons. Now, with all that said, I don't want my son going off to war. I don't want America again to play the policeman or be dragged into another theater of blood and sand. Enough is enough. It doesn't work. But I also do not want to be the father who has to tell his children, yeah, we saw it coming. You know, I knew what they believed. We saw what they were building, but we didn't do anything, you know, because. Well, I mean, who are we to say when the only country most affected by this did something last night surgically? They are the. They're the tip of the spear. They're the ones that are going to get speared first, vaporized first, and they're the ones that are like, you know what? I don't care what the rest of you guys say. I'm taking care of this. And they did something surgical. Holy cow. I've never seen anything like it. War is changing. I have to tell you, what Israel did matters now. I got on the social media spheres last night and I just gave a few opinions, and none of them were bloodthirsty by any. But, boy, I gotta tell you, I am a warmonger and a Jew lover. I found out from a lot of people. I've listened to you for years, and I've always known you were a Jew lover. Holy cow. You haven't listened to me for years then. Okay? Or you've just been closeted in your hatred. But what Israel did matters. Because they didn't wait for the mushroom cloud. They struck not to conquer, but to prevent. Tell me the last time our country even that. You can say I used to say this all the time. Look, we have never been in it for land or oil or anything else, and I don't know if I believe that anymore. We've done a Lot of really bad things. Okay, a lot of really bad things. Every country does. But are you telling me that our government, we haven't done a war or two here recently where we haven't had greedy eyes on the wealth of another nation? Where's the greedy eyes on Israel? What did they do? They killed their top scientist and they killed the leaders of their military and then they took out the installation that was making the bomb. Boy, that's wow. In that horrible. Let me be really, really clear, that is really good. But it doesn't mean that it's, you know, the Middle east isn't going to spiral out of control and it doesn't mean our streets in Europe or in America are going to get more peaceful. Okay, it may spiral out of control, and I hope not. But let me quote Thomas Jefferson, poorly, but after he stopped the, our first foreign war with the Barbary pirates, which was Islam, who just were coming on the seas and taking everybody's ship and their stuff and then they were enslaving or killing any infidel because you know, you're not a Muslim and if you won't submit, I can either kill you or use you as, you know, a sex slave or some other kind of slave. And he really didn't understand that. And you know, everybody's like, we got to get out of that war. And so we did. But he said at the end, you know, I just gotta warn you, it's our first foreign war. But if we don't understand the ideology that these people have, it will be our last war as well. And I think we are going to find, I mean look at what's happening in Europe, look what's happening in our own streets with the Palestinian crap. Where do you think that all comes from? If you don't think we're going to eventually have a war with Islam, you are mistaken. And I don't want one. Cuz I think it is gonn to be ugly. But just look at the state of Europe now. I don't want to rush into it. I don't want it. I pray that it never happens. But not every preemptive strike is an Iraq. Not every enemy is rational and not every country has people in it that don't want what we. They don't think like you know, we think, the Persians think like we think. And they have spent two decades slow walking this game, smuggling uranium, building enrichment centrifuges. They have, they have funding proxies. They are slaughtering protesters in their own streets. The difference is now Israel felt The clock was up. And Israel knew if they waited, there'd be no second chance. So the world can criticize all they want, they can lecture all they want, they can threaten resolutions. Israel stood alone. And they didn't do it out of vengeance, but because the alternative was unthinkable. Again, let me say it for the third time. I hate war. I do not want us to get involved in another war. I love peace, but peace doesn't come from pretending evil doesn't exist. You know, you're not being asked to rush the gates. You're being asked, can you just stop holding the gates open for these people? And that's exactly what is happening on our streets, in our universities, in our business, in our government. We are holding the door open every time somebody else comes across our border. Every time you say, I don't want to get rid of those people. We have 8,000 people that we know of, that are here, that are Islamists, that are also on the terrorist watch list. 8,000 people here. You remember what 19 did. If you don't think that we're going to be fighting this at some point because we can't seem to get serious, nobody will even say. I can't tell you how much trouble I'm gonna be in for saying Islamists are evil. It's evil. I'm sorry. You're 45. She's nine. Nope. I'm not gonna condone that. That's. We cannot present, we cannot pretend that evil doesn't exist. And, you know, what happens is, you know, you have to stop it coming. You know, you have to stop it before it gets a bomb. And I hope Israel can do that. And I pray for the people of Israel. I pray for the people in Iran. My gosh, they're on our side. They want these monsters gone. And I was so happy to see how surgical this strike was. I mean, I've never seen anything like it. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Real estate agents I Trust, if you've noticed how every real estate agent says the exact same thing. Trust me, I'm the best. No, I'll fight for you. Okay, maybe. Maybe, you know, just like every guy on every dating app says, you know, he loves dogs and hiking. Talk is cheap. But, you know, what matters is what are you actually doing? Real Estate Agents I Trust is not just a clever name. It is a company that I created years ago with my brother. And the name came out of what I said our mission was. 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