On this episode of the War Room, host Stephen K. B. Bannon reflects on the end of World War I, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of Soviet control in the streets of Tiananmen Square.
00:01:18.820In fact, what happened in those trenches was the end of the Victorian era, end of kind of the Victorian sensibilities, Victorian values.
00:01:28.160It kicked off what I call the short 20th century from August 1914 to November of 1989, June to November of Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall coming down.
00:01:42.980Within that century, the short 20th century, it's like a new dark age.
00:01:51.700I don't know, 200, 250 million people slaughtered either through the Chinese Communist Party starvation programs, through the Holocaust, what the Nazis did to the Jews, a tournament of, you know, gay folks, Catholic priests.
00:02:07.800The battlefield deaths of World War I and World War II, a slaughterhouse.
00:02:30.080We don't want a million casualties in the Ukraine.
00:02:32.100We don't want to kill a bunch of Russians who are our allies, the Russian people, not Stalin in that crowd.
00:02:37.460Ask yourself, how many of the elites in Europe and NATO, they hear every day, NATO, NATO, NATO, how many of them were with us in World War II?
00:02:48.880The Brits, obviously, fought side by side, but you could argue not just for their own freedom, and they were taken in coming, but was to preserve their empire, which they were very focused on in India and Egypt and throughout the world, Singapore.
00:04:33.960Our service itself was that it was we were thanked by being allowed to serve.
00:04:38.880Virtually every veteran will tell you it was the greatest time of their life, the most important time of their life.
00:04:45.160Now, there's a lot of bitterness now, as there should be, from Iraq and Afghanistan, these places that American lives are just tossed away for the elites to use them like so many pawns on a chessboard.
00:05:01.600Patrick K. O'Donnell is our best combat historian.
00:05:04.200And you've just come back from your 20th, a battle that's not that well known.
00:05:09.080It's one of the toughest Marine Corps battles, I think, since Terawa and Iwo Jima and Peleliu.
00:05:18.700You've got the Battle of Wei, and you've got many in Vietnam, I'm talking about a big battle, the Battle of Wei City during the Tet Offensive, and you've got Fallujah.
00:05:28.820Two of the hardest battles in the history of the Marine Corps.
00:06:19.460It's something that even Hollywood couldn't replicate.
00:06:23.360But what I really saw was how young Americans did the impossible over and over and went to one house.
00:06:33.120At the reunion, I ran into Sergeant Aaron Kent, who is the first time I've seen him in 20 years.
00:06:42.740And he was an example of what many of the men in Lima Company and also Kilo in India had done.
00:06:50.540He was severely wounded with multiple shrapnel wounds all over his body.
00:06:56.860But he wasn't going to let his brothers down.
00:07:00.100And he literally went AWOL from the aid station and procured a weapon, literally stole a weapon that was from a KIA Marine who I actually witnessed his death only a day earlier.
00:07:38.140I wrote a book called We Were One, Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah.
00:07:43.200It's on the commandant's reading list.
00:07:45.160It's there are multiple commandants, which was required reading for the Marine Corps.
00:07:49.660But it's a relic of the battle in the sense that I gathered the oral histories as the combat was going on and then shortly afterwards.
00:07:56.900And it's a book that could not be written today because these are the feelings and emotions that are very raw of what happened in those days in Fallujah, which was really one of the most extraordinary battles in Marine Corps history, in American history.
00:08:15.440Second Fallujah, I did a film with Michael Pack, the great Michael Pack, that eventually became head of VOA in Trump's first term for, I don't know, six months or so because Mitch McConnell held it out.
00:08:27.880We did a film called The Last 600 Meters.
00:08:41.720And all the bad guys from first Fallujah, the Chechens, everybody, it was the Star Wars bar of bad element that came to that city.
00:08:51.820And the Marines went door to door, door to door.
00:08:56.040This is why so many Marines have PTSD, right, because you've got little kids running around, you've got people running around.
00:09:00.400They went door to door to clear that city.
00:09:02.260One of the most heroic, you know, Michael Pack went out.
00:09:07.520We went out to the Marine Force Recon out on the West Coast to show the film, premiere the film.
00:09:13.840And these guys are still left over, Patrick, as you know, you've done so much to keep the memory of World War II alive with oral histories.
00:09:20.580And these are the guys, the Force Recon of Peleliu and Terawatt.
00:18:54.260Patrick K. O'Donnell, you've seen it up front.
00:18:56.240Now your books go back to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War II, World War I, the Korean War, the one of the Korean War, Chosun Reservoir.
00:19:13.240Tell me, I know you're jammed for time here.
00:19:16.100The crisis of the veterans that you know, I mean, when you sit there and have served with these guys and live with these guys as a war correspondent and a battlefield historian, you're telling me, hey, the unit had 40 KIAs killed in actions.
00:19:30.420And now today you have totaled more suicides than KIAs.
00:19:53.540Why are we not taking care of their disabilities when they're legless and have no face have been burned in their kids and their children's children?
00:20:04.280What did Lincoln say that we're going to sustain sustenance for the for the widow and for the orphan?
00:20:11.460What about that in seven trillion dollars?
00:20:13.580We can't carve out a little bit for that.
00:22:32.900It's part of his awakening to see the young families going there.
00:22:36.600In 2003 and 2004 and 2005 and 2006 and 2007 and being buried there, the young families coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, dead, the war dead.
00:22:48.440But remember, today is about we the living.
00:23:34.440Now, you've got to pick up the tab, and I mean all the tab, the best, the best treatment, the best medical, the best psychological, job training, best home, top.
00:23:44.960They cut out some of this other crap, like particularly people are not citizens of this country flooding in here and getting put up in hotels, getting the cash cards for the food, all of it.
00:25:20.000And as you said, Steve, they deserve respect.
00:25:23.300And they deserve the United States government to honor their service.
00:25:28.100And what I've seen is that often economics is intertwined directly with these suicides.
00:25:35.140So when the economy is not doing well and these men can't get jobs or have the training that they need to get jobs, it impacts their lives very negatively.
00:25:45.020So we need to, we definitely need to do something about that.
00:25:49.300They need to be the priority because of their service.
00:25:52.520Patrick, where do people go to get your writings?
00:25:59.040You're the, particularly on Veterans Day, you want to, you want to celebrate Veterans Day, get one of Patrick's book and read it.
00:26:05.600Read it, read it, read it about the fighting men and women of this country.
00:31:00.420CNN and MSNBC and Lawrence Tribe and all of it, we control the Supreme Court.
00:31:04.820And now, since we're going to block all the judges because you waited too long, you had all four years, you had time to do it, but you thought you were going to run the tables on us.
00:31:18.320The reason they forced Merrick Garland through in 16 is they wanted a more progressive judge, and they thought they were going to run the tables on us.
00:31:25.480And this is why Ginsburg stuck around.
00:33:54.140African-American men, the Hispanic community, the Muslim community, the folks out there in Minneapolis, Somalian community, white working class, Asian working class.
00:47:08.100Mike Lindell, talk to me about Veterans Day.
00:47:11.800What do you got for us on Veterans Day, sir?
00:47:13.080Well, you know, Steve, our veterans are fought for the great American dream that I've lived to the full extent.
00:47:19.860And what we're doing, we've got for the War Room Posse, all of our, you know, Statue of Liberty, our flag pillow, our Mount Rushmore, the freedom pillow.
00:47:31.200All these are two for $25 today we're going to do in celebration of Veterans Day and the American dream that we've been fighting for.
00:50:13.000We'll have their back, but that's on them.
00:50:15.020For the United States of America, in the vital national security interest of the United States of America, it is an out-of-control, exploding debt and deficits.
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