Trump kills Iranian terrorist general after U.S. Embassy attack — does this mean war？
Summary
Trump's response to Iran's attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, is a measured but strong response. I think it's a good one, and I'll make my case for why it's the right one.
Transcript
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Hello, my rebels. Today I try and make sense of the battle between the U.S. military and
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the Iranian military and their terrorist auxiliaries, Trump's targeted decapitation
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of a senior general over there. I like it. I don't think it's the start of a war. I think
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it's a measured but strong response. I'll make my case for that, and I hope you listen.
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Tonight, Iran attacks a U.S. embassy, so Donald Trump kills an Iranian terrorist general.
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So does that mean we're going to war? It's January 3rd, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Yesterday, we talked with our friend Joel Pollack about the attempt by Iran-backed
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paramilitary groups. That's another word for terrorists, by the way, including Hezbollah.
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It was an attempt by them to smash their way into the massive U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
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I found the footage to be so shocking. It brought back so many awful memories of the Al-Qaeda attack
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on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the ambassador inside was very lightly protected,
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and he asked for help from Hillary Clinton, then the Secretary of State. He asked for help on more
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than 29 occasions, actually, and no help ever came, and he was murdered along with three
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other embassy staff. The place was overrun. It was torched. The ambassador himself was horribly
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tortured before he was murdered. You know, there's a U.S. air base just across the Mediterranean
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called Aviano in northern Italy. It's about a 90-minute flight from Aviano to Benghazi, I'm
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guessing. So they could have sent help. They were ready, but they were never permitted to come.
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How awful for both sides of that, for the Americans trapped in the consulate in Benghazi,
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knowing no help would come, and how awful for the Americans ordered grounded in Aviano,
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Italy, knowing they were not allowed to go help. That's the first thing I thought of. Later,
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I thought of the Iranian raid on the U.S. embassy in Tehran itself in 1979, and the hostage-taking
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incident there. 52 American hostages were kept for more than a year by Iran. It was a low point in
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American self-respect, in American world respect, the epitome of Jimmy Carter's awful foreign policy.
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It was a reason why Ronald Reagan had such a massive victory the following year.
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But the thing is, Iran never really paid the price for that embassy invasion. An embassy,
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legally speaking, is a patch of foreign territory you allow within your own country. It's a reciprocal
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courtesy given to each other's countries, and diplomatic staff are immune. So it would be
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horrendous enough for Iran to have taken hostages of any sort, let alone for 444 days. But diplomats,
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it literally was an act of war. It was legally no different than had Iran invaded and occupied a
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piece of the American mainland. But that's what the world has come to expect from America, certainly
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from Jimmy Carter. Now, Ronald Reagan brought some respect and dignity and strength back to America,
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but even he did not avenge the embassy hostage taking, did he? And soon after George W. Bush was
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elected in 2001, I'm talking about Republicans, you'll notice, China forced a U.S. aircraft with
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sensitive equipment and information to land in Hainan, China, and held the airmen hostage for more than a
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week. What lesson do you think that taught China of what they could get away with? And Democrats, well,
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don't get me started on Barack Obama. I'll just mention the most egregious example. Remember this,
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I even hate to show this footage. U.S. military personnel captured in the Persian Gulf, humiliated on
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camera, no comeuppance. And by the way, that body of water totally dominated by American Navy. They
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weren't allowed to defend themselves. I mean, Obama wanted a deal with Iran no matter what humiliations
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Iran foisted on America. You'll recall Obama literally shipped pallets of cash to Iran to beg
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and bribe them to sign a deal. I won't even call it a peace deal because, of course, it did the opposite.
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It legalized Iran's illegal nuclear program. It lifted the wartime-style sanctions against Iran.
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It was crazy, but it was literally the most important foreign policy goal of Obama's administration
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to turn Iran into a regional power. That was Obama's goal. I don't know if you recall his very first
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speech as president, a foreign affairs speech. He went to Cairo in 2009. He invited the Muslim
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Brotherhood terrorist group to listen to him. He promised never to interfere in Iran, no matter what.
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In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically
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elected Iranian government. Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking
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and violence against U.S. troops and civilians. This history is well known. Rather than remain trapped
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in the past, I've made it clear to Iran's leaders and people that my country is prepared to move forward.
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The question now is not what Iran is against, but rather what future it wants to build.
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I recognize it will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage,
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rectitude, and resolve. There will be many issues to discuss between our two countries,
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and we are willing to move forward without preconditions on the basis of mutual respect.
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Boy, they loved him, didn't they? Obama gave them everything. Cash, legalizing their nukes,
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effectively blessing their dictatorship, undermining Iran's democracy activists,
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abandoning Iran's enemies in the region. It was incredible. It was awful. Trump tried to put the
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toothpaste back in the tube, trying to press countries to put sanctions on Iran again.
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Here's Nikki Haley, a couple years back, who was then Trump's UN ambassador, talking about
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specific sanctions on one Qasem Soleimani, the senior military and terrorist general for Iran,
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the man assassinated yesterday by the Pentagon on Trump's orders. Here's Nikki Haley a couple years ago.
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Iranian general and head of the IRGC Quds Force Soleimani is leading an effort to influence the
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composition of a new Iraqi government. I remind my colleagues that Soleimani was banned from traveling
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outside of Iran by the Security Council in 2007. That ban was reaffirmed in 2015 with the passage of
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Security Council Resolution 2231. Despite this unambiguous travel ban, Soleimani has practically
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taken up residence in Iraq since the May elections. This fact was noted by the Secretary General in the
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most recent 2231 implementation report. And let's be clear what Soleimani is up to in Iraq. He is not
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there to help create a government in Baghdad that is responsive to the Iraqi people. He is there to
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build an Iraqi government that is under the control of the Iranian regime.
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So America tried. Trump tried. He didn't threaten to invade Iran. Sort of the opposite. He's been
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bringing troops back from the Middle East over the objections of his own generals, over the objections
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of his own defense secretary. He brought America out of Syria. It's the reason he lost his last defense
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secretary. You cannot call Trump a warmonger. Sort of the opposite. He pulls American troops out and
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demands that American allies lift their own load. That's what he was criticizing Justin Trudeau about
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Mr. President, Canada does not meet the 2% standard. Should it have a plan to meet the 2% standard?
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Well, we'll put them on a payment plan, you know? We'll put Canada on a payment plan, right? I'm sure the
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prime minister would love that. What are you at? What is your number? The number we talk about is
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70% increase over these past years, including and for the coming years, including significant
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investments in our fighter jets, significant investments in our naval fleets. We are increasing
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significantly our defense spending from previous governments that cut it. Okay. Where are you now
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in terms of your number? We're at 135? 1.3. 1.4. 1.4. 1.4. And continuing to move forward.
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They're getting there. They know it's important to do that. And their economy is doing well.
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They'll get there quickly, I think. Look, it's to their benefit.
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But it was too much, this attack on the Baghdad embassy by Iran's militias in Iraq. It was too much
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like Benghazi. Trump obviously saw that parallel. He wasn't about to let his domestic political
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opponents dunk on him. Look at that tweet, the anti-Benghazi. He immediately dispatched marines
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from Kuwait who came in to reform, excuse me, to reinforce the embassy and secured it without
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any loss of life. But still, the attack was done on the embassy. Iran-backed militias did try to
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storm the embassy. The fact that they failed goes to the damage done, but not to the moral and legal
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and political and military offense. Iran's militias in Iraq tried to storm the U.S. embassy on Donald
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Trump's watch. Yeah, no, no, no, no. They got the wrong guy, don't you think? On New Year's Eve,
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he said Iran would pay. This is not a warning. It is a threat, he said. And 48 hours later, indeed,
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they did pay in a precision airstrike. Qasem Soleimani, the number two man in Iran,
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the head of their military and terrorist forces, was killed. In Iraq, I should say, in Baghdad,
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he was going and coming into Iraq as he pleased because he was colonizing Iraq on behalf of Iran.
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It was shocking to the world that had gotten used to America being disrespected and treated
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as a doormat for nearly 50 years. Benghazi, even the Tehran embassy in the 1970s. People were just
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used to America taking it. Of course, the attack on the embassy in Baghdad on the 31st was an act of
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war. Just like, of course, seizing U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf was an act of war. No one expected
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America to defend itself, though, because they still needed to learn a little bit more about Donald
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Trump, I guess. He wasn't quite like the others. The deep state, the anti-American media, they were
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all shocked that Trump shot back. They were outraged. But why? Trump wasn't invading Iran,
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certainly not in a ground war, as Bush did in Afghanistan and Iraq. Trump wasn't going to
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spend thousands of American lives doing what? Trying to turn Afghanistan into Switzerland,
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as Joel Pollack joked yesterday. Trump just decapitated a very bad man. Look at the reaction,
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though. Here's Rose McGowan, a political Hollywood type. Look at that. Dear Iran, the USA has
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disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your
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nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not
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kill us. Soleimani. A little bit crazy. I don't blame Rose McGowan. She is messed up. She is one
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of Harvey Weinstein's rape victims. She shaves her head like Sinead O'Connor did. She's unwell,
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I think. But thousands and thousands of normal people repeated and retweeted her insane comments,
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none of whom objected to the Iranian assault on the U.S. Embassy in the first place. They were actually
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sort of cheering for the bad guys, hoping to give Trump up Benghazi. Now, Rose McGowan's a Hollywood
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personality. But here's Chris Murphy, a U.S. Senator, a Democrat, of course. Now, look at the
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two tweets for comparison, just days apart. Here's the first one. After the embassy attack,
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he's chiding Trump, saying, no one fears us. No one listens to us. America has been reduced to
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huddling in safe rooms, hoping the bad guys will go away. And then Trump fights back, and he tweets
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just the opposite. Did America just assassinate the second most powerful person in Iran? Oh,
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they can never be satisfied. Trump is always wrong, no matter what he does. He does nothing
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he's wrong. He does something he's wrong. But look at this glorification of Soleimani in
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the New York Times. Rare personal video of General Soleimani reciting poetry shared by a source in Iran
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about friends departing and him being left behind. Oh, it's so pretty. Look at him.
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Looks like a nice guy. He looks a little bit like George Clooney, doesn't he? I bet he's sort of smoldering
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like that. So they're playing a video of him reciting poetry with background music. They're
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treating a terrorist general like a great man or a celebrity. Of course they are. So was Canada's
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Globe and Mail newspaper. Look at this. Who was Qasem Soleimani? And why was he an icon in Iran? Not
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a terrorist, not a murderer. He's an icon. Well, Trump knew that if he didn't explain things on
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Twitter, the media sure wouldn't explain it for him. This is why Twitter is so important to him.
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60 million plus people can hear from him directly, not the media who love our enemies. So here's
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what Trump said. He said, General Qasem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans
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over an extended period of time and was plotting to kill many more, but got caught. He was directly
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and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number
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of protesters killed in Iran itself. While Iran will never be able to properly admit it, Soleimani
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was both hated and feared within the country. They're not nearly as saddened as the leaders
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will let the outside world believe. He should have been taken out many years ago.
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I think that's largely true. I mean, Soleimani was a terrorist general. How can you not smile when you see
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other terrorist generals of the dictatorship of Iran literally crying today? Look at that guy.
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You'd need a heart of stone not to be pleased to see his tears given how many people Soleimani had
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murdered, including hundreds of Americans, but of course, thousands of Iranians. Soleimani was the
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head of many things in Iran. He was the number two guy for sure. He was in charge of colonizing Syria
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and Iraq. He was in charge of beefing up Hezbollah terrorists around Israel. Israel had wanted to
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take out Soleimani years ago, but Obama stopped them from doing so. Though Soleimani ran something
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called the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, CODs Force. Do you see that? That is on Canada's list
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of banned terrorist groups under Canadian law. That's our list of terrorist groups. They're
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banned. He was the head of that thing. Now, Parliament in Canada wanted to designate
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all of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist group, not just the CODs Force.
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Even some liberals like this Jewish Trudeau MP from Toronto named Michael Levitt. Look at this tweet
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from June of last year. Michael Levitt says, Earlier today, I sent the following letter to Ralph
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Godale asking him to initiate the process for listing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
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as a terrorist entity in Canada, further to the House motion on Iran adopted on Tuesday.
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He has confirmed that the process has been initiated. That was in June of 2018, and the process has not
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yet concluded. Isn't that amazing? Yeah. But Trudeau just doesn't believe that Iranians are terrorists
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because Trudeau is actually pro-Iran in terrifying ways. In recent weeks, credible news reports have
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alleged that one of Trudeau's own MPs, Majid Jahari, is an Iranian asset working with Iran. Now,
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he denies it. We sent our own David Menzies to Johari's house to ask him, but he wouldn't even come
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out the door to answer. There are other strange things, like the fact that liberal MP Miriam
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Monsef is permitted by Iran to travel freely back and forth to that country. Extremely unusual.
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And of course, you know, she lied. She claimed to be born in Afghanistan when, in fact, she was born
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in Iran. Look at this lie. So you were born in Afghanistan, correct? I believe I was.
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So whose side is she on? Whose side is Johari on? Whose side is Trudeau on? Well, Trudeau's brother,
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Alexandre Trudeau, literally made a film in cooperation with the Iranian government,
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a pro-Iran, anti-U.S. film called The New Great Game. And as you'll recall, Justin Trudeau appointed
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Alexandre Trudeau to be his chief foreign policy advisor during his leadership campaign. So we're in
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trouble deep. So where's Justin Trudeau now? Well, he's still in Costa Rica. Here's his schedule for
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today. He's now into his third week of vacation there. Seriously, who takes a three-week vacation?
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World leader, at least, in the middle of a crisis, one of many crises. Well, Trudeau does, of course.
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Our media couldn't care less. They don't dare to ask about his absence. They'll lose their bailout money
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if they do. We have to rely on people on the streets of Costa Rica to tweet pictures of a
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haggard-looking Trudeau buying booze or whatever he was doing there. Who knows? Marijuana? Maybe. I
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don't know. We know he loved the stuff. He still hasn't poked his head up, even though the world is
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on the verge of what? War, maybe? I don't know. Hundreds of Canadian soldiers are in Iraq right now.
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But he did send out his foreign minister with a statement. This guy. Trudeau couldn't be bothered
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to shave and put on a suit. He's probably stoned. I'm not even being mean. We know he's a lifelong
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marijuana user, and he's deep into a three-week vacation. But here's the statement that his foreign
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minister named Francois-Philippe Champagne put out. But here's the key sentence.
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We call on all sides to exercise restraint and pursue de-escalation. Really. So on the one side,
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you have the United States, our democratic friend and ally, that killed an Iranian terrorist leader
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in Iraq, by the way, after an attack on the U.S. embassy while planning more attacks. That's the
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one side. And on the other side, you have a pro-terrorist dictatorship, a Muslim theocracy that
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sponsors violence around the world that has surely killed Canadians too. And Trudeau's foreign minister
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says, both sides have to cool it. They're both morally equal. Both are to blame, I suppose.
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Both have to simmer down. Both have to restrain themselves. That's what the statement says. Both
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sides. A democracy has to restrain itself as much as a terrorist group does. That's Canada's position.
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That's Trudeau's position, at least. Well, we already know that's Trudeau because he has
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had two Canadian hostages in China for more than a year. And he doesn't really give a damn about them.
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He's just shocked that any other world leader might actually care about their own citizens and
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Well, maybe you've heard the name Andy Ngo. He's a Vietnamese American from Portland. Portland's
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such a lovely city, beautiful, but politically a very sick city. It's a hotbed of Antifa extremism.
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Now, I don't like to call Antifa by that name. It stands for anti-fascism. But of course,
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like most perverse things, its name is opposite of what it is. Like the Human Rights Commission
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is against human rights. Antifa are actually fascists themselves. And the reason I mention
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this is because when Andy Ngo went to cover an Antifa protest in his home city of Portland,
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he was brutally and physically attacked. You can see him being swarmed by fascists, punched
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kick. That's him right there. He was actually wounded. And they wouldn't let up. They filmed
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their own attack. You can see they're dressed in black with face masks. That is a tactic called
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Black Block to make them hard to identify, as is the masks. Well, Andy Ngo would not be silenced. In
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fact, it became a bit of a springboard for him to talk about what he had learned in his home city of
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Portland. He did the media circuit on the growing threat of these street gangs in America that are
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really the street gangs, the paramilitary wing of the U.S. Democratic Party. Well, we have some
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Antifa violence in Canada, too. Thankfully, it's not to the same extent as seems to be permitted in
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the United States, but it's worth discussing. And so at the University of British Columbia,
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which is not far from Portland, Andy Ngo was invited to speak about the threat. In fact,
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the title of his discussion was Understanding Antifa Violence. And he was invited by the aptly named
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Free Speech Club at UBC. The whole discussion is set to happen on January 29th, just a few weeks from
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now, until the University of British Columbia decided they were going to cancel the discussion
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about Antifa violence because of the threat of Antifa violence. Here to explain it is Andy Ngo's
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lawyer who is telling the CBC, you'd better go ahead with the talk or else you know the lawyer. He's one
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of the few free speech lawyers left in Canada. His name is John Carpe and he's the boss of the Justice
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Center for Constitutional Freedoms. John, great to see you again. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you,
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Ezra, and to all of the viewers of The Rebel. Well, thank you very much. Did I accurately summarize who
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Andy Ngo is and what the nature of his planned January 29th talk at UBC is?
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Yes, absolutely. He's scheduled to come in on January the 29th and speak. We hope the event will be
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reinstated. UBC gave a green light to the Free Speech Club back in November to hold this event.
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And then suddenly, just before Christmas, December the 20th, the UBC said, no, we're cancelling the
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event. They cite safety and security. I call it the SS. I've been dealing with the SS for a long time.
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It's safety and security is always used as a pretext for trampling on free speech. And I've seen
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it at the University of Calgary, at the University of Alberta, and throughout all across Canada. You get
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the SS that is trampling on free speech, safety and security. UBC was not specific about,
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you know, was this Antifa? Or did they feel that people might be emotionally triggered by
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having, you know, possibly hearing what Andy Ngo had to say? Not clear. Just safety and security is
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all that was mentioned. Well, you know what? It sounds like they, it sounds like one of two
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things. Either they are ideologically opposed to Andy Ngo, and I haven't met the lad, but I've
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talked to him on the phone, and I've had some correspondence with him. He seems very mild-mannered.
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He couldn't possibly be offensive. His style is very, very calm.
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Yeah, very calm, very academic, very philosophical.
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Yeah, and I mean, not that it matters, but he happens to be a Vietnamese American, and he
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happens to be gay, and neither of those are relevant other than, like, he's not a big, brutish,
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you know, skinhead, I'm a white surprised, like, he's, like, he presents no challenge to the
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woke culture other than he's calling out Antifa. So there's nothing endemic to who he is that's
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offensive in any way. In fact, he checks all the boxes for, you know, today's academic left,
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other than he's calling out the violence of it. So it could be an antipathy towards Andy Ngo, but I
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don't see that. So I think they're just caving in to a threat of violence, and I don't know how big
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UBC's security personnel is. Like, it's a pretty big university. It's one in Canada's biggest.
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They probably have more than 100 security guards on that campus. They probably have very close
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working relationships with the RCMP, with Vancouver, or Richmond, or Burnaby. I don't know,
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sorry, I'm sorry, I don't know which police force would be. But there's no way they could not handle
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a challenge of some protesters. And even if some protesters brought masks and clubs, as we saw in
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Portland, there is absolutely no way UBC security, or RCMP, or city police can't handle it. I think
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they're just taking the easy way out, the coward's way out, and they're joining the mob themselves.
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Well, we can't let Antifa or anybody else dictate who is allowed to speak and who is not allowed to
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speak. And you know, it's interesting, you mentioned earlier, you know, their name,
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anti-fascist. But it was fascists in Europe in the 1920s and 30s. And not just in Germany and Italy,
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but in most European countries had fascist movements. And these people rejected debate,
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they rejected intellectual inquiry. And their attitude was, if we don't like what you're saying,
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we're going to shut you up. We're going to shut down your events. And we're going to be a bunch
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of thugs. And we're going to interrupt and obstruct, you know, and, and really, the free society and
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free expression are actually, in a way, they're quite fragile, because all it takes is, you know,
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one person to get up in a, you know, if there's a conference, for example, or there's a speaker,
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there's a debate, all it takes is one person to stand up and start shouting. And that can, you know,
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shut down the debate or delay it, you know, you have to have the person removed. So I mean,
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if we care about the free society, we need UBC to step up to the plate. And it's not just UBC. I mean,
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the University of Alberta in Edmonton has condoned mob censorship of pro-life display. In a case that's
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before the courts, we're still waiting for a decision. But UBC cannot pander to this kind of
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mob censorship, where somebody takes it upon themselves to declare that somebody else is not
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allowed to be heard. You know, and the more that you pander to this stuff, the more that you cave
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into it, the stronger that it grows and becomes. Last question, I know you got to run. You have
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been retained, the JCCF, and I'm very glad of it. What is, I don't want you to give away all your
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legal strategy, because I know, you know, some of that may be privileged. But what is your legal
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grounds? Or what is your rationale that you're saying, hey, UBC, you're breaking this rule,
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or you're breaking this contract? What is your grounds for sending a demand letter to the UBC?
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Well, there's administrative law, there's a duty of fairness that UBC owes, that all large bodies owe
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to other people. So to have approved an event, and have the Free Speech Club, you know, book the flights
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for Andy Ngo to come to Vancouver, to incur these expenses, and then suddenly, without any specific
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reason, without warning, suddenly pull the rug out from under, you know, they were selling tickets on
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on Eventbrite for the event. So there's administrative law, and there's contract law. UBC has a legal
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obligation towards its students and towards the students clubs, to honour its own statements about
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freedom of expression being a forum where all views can be presented and debated. And so UBC and all
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universities have a legal obligation in contract law to facilitate free expression on campus. So legal
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grounds are that UBC has violated the contract that it has with its own student, with the Free Speech
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Club, as well as administrative law has violated its duty to, of fairness. Well, John, we wish you good
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luck. We'll let it go there, and we will be sending a reporter to cover the event on the 29th,
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God willing, if it proceeds, and I hope it does. John, keep fighting for freedom, my friend.
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Thanks, Ezra. All right, there you have it. John Carpe, he's the boss of the Justice Center for
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Constitutional Freedom. You can find their website at jccf.ca. Stay with us. More ahead on The Rebel.
00:31:32.020
Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about CBC's coverage of an illegal pipeline protest.
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Devin writes, liberals have created a country where one protester can bring down the economy.
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Yeah, that's not too far from the truth. 20 out of 20 Indian bands along that pipeline wanted to go,
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but it's been delayed years because a handful of American-funded troublemakers. Mark writes,
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the liberal propaganda from CBC is a big reason why Confederation is falling apart. Defund the CBC.
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Well, on the oil and gas issue, I kid you not, David Suzuki, who was their star for decades,
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ran a registered lobby group against the oil sands. The CBC used their mighty resources and their
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platform to follow his personal agenda, his lobbying agenda. It's a devastating effect.
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On my interview with Joel Pollack, Richard writes, attacking the American embassy was the last straw.
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Yeah, but I don't think Donald Trump's going to invade. I mean, as Joel pointed out, it's not like
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America has 100,000 troops in the theater and no one wants a ground invasion of Iran. Probably not
00:32:40.180
necessary. This was a surgical strike that knocked out the number two guy. Bit of a shock and awe move.
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But, you know, I saw that Jagmeet Singh did a tweet. Oh, we American actions in Iran. American
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knew anything in Iran. That's part of the craziness here. This Iranian general was in Iraq
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Iraq. Illegally, by the way. So yeah, crazy. Well, that's our show for today. That brings our week to a
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close. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,