What They WON’T Tell You About U.S.’s Ugly History In Iran! w/ Scott Horton
During his first term President Donald Trump adopted a vacillating stance toward Iran—initially issuing threats and then suggesting diplomatic negotiations. In this video guest host Misty Winston and Jimmy talk to antiwar.com’s Scott Horton about the White House’s decision to keep “all options on the table,” calling it irresponsible brinkmanship tantamount to terrorism against a non-threatening nation. The hosts underscore that preemptive war violates international norms and point out that even past U.S. presidents with far greater threats refrained from such actions. Plus segments on Donald Trump belittling Iran's weak missile attack on a U.S. airbase in Qatar and Trump using the same warmongering rhetoric as his predecessor George W. Bush. Also featuring Misty Winston, Stef Zamorano, Mike MacRae and Kurt Metzger. Plus a phone call from Andrew Cuomo!
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Hi, this is the Jimmy Door show, Keaton speaking.
Who's calling, please?
Hello, Keaton.
This is former New York governor and future New York City Mayor, Andrew Cuomo.
How are you today, sir?
Well, I'm doing just fine.
Thanks for asking.
How about you?
You're sounding rather chipper.
Keaton, Chipper is exactly what I am.
It's the perfect word.
I'm Chipper like a little happy bird with a giant pair of fucking balls.
I see.
Well, why this good mood?
Well, Keaton, I will be honest with you.
I started out this mayoral race with such a sizable lead over my challengers that I thought I had this whole thing in the bag.
Well, I readily admit, turns out that was some serious hubris on my part.
Yes, it was.
I seriously underestimated the amount of support an anti-Semite named Zoran Mamdami could possibly draw in the five boroughs.
I honestly did not see that coming.
And that was a mistake on my part.
That's for sure.
Okay, quit agreeing with me when I'm being self-critical.
Thank you.
Things were getting a little too close for comfort in the polls.
My campaign was firing at him with the pro-Israel cannon with both barrels, but he still kept rising.
We honestly, for the first time, thought maybe we could lose this thing.
Uh-huh.
But then today, a miracle happened.
Did you see it, Keaton?
Did you see the miracle?
The New York miracle?
No, I must have missed it.
What happened?
Zoltan, or whatever his name is, was giving a press conference in front of cameras defending his use of the term global intifada and responding to accusations of anti-Semitism from the Holocaust Museum itself.
If those optics weren't bad enough on their own, I guess it was all too much for the young man because he started to cry on camera.
Oh, wow.
He cried on camera in New York City.
While running for mayor of New York City, he cried like a fucking baby, a Middle Eastern anti-Semitic baby.
Oh, that's something.
Yes, Keaton, that is something.
That something is me fucking winning the race now because he's done.
He's over.
It's all over.
Say goodbye.
Whatever goodbye is in Arabic, say it.
You seem pretty confident.
Keaton, this is New York City.
There's no crying in New York politics.
He couldn't handle criticism.
That's what starts the waterworks with this fucking guy.
It just shows no stamina, no backbone.
It's fucking pathetic.
Yeah.
But more importantly, it's a man crying for any reason.
This isn't Portland.
That is not allowed here.
First of all, he can kiss the Latin vote goodbye.
In that culture, he's not a man anymore.
Alienating the Latin vote, probably not a good move for a leftist candidate.
Those people tend to prefer men with fucking cojones.
Right.
Not to mention just women in general, even leftist women.
Keaton, let me tell you something about women.
Okay.
Women say they want a man who's sensitive, who's vulnerable, who's not afraid to express emotion.
But when they actually see a man cry, it gives them the ick.
The ick?
The ick.
A visceral revulsion to that man.
Primal, fundamental.
All that rhetoric goes out the window in a second.
It's evolutionary.
This man is fucking crying right now.
We're all going to get eaten by a saber-toothed tiger because of this crybaby pussy.
So, Voltron Ahmedinijad, or whatever his name is, just gave every woman in New York City the ick.
Every time I cry in front of my girlfriend, she says, you make me sick, and leaves the room, and then I wet my pants.
Okay, Keaton, that's probably more than I needed to know.
But you know what I'm talking about, clearly.
So without the woman vote or the Latin vote, this bozo has no chance.
It's over.
I don't know what I ever did to you.
Well, I think we'll have to wait and see.
Not really.
Not really.
I think we can see now, Keaton.
Taj Mahal, or whatever his name is, said boo-hoo-hoo on the TV, and now his little jihad against me is over.
Lord, could you be more xenophobic or anti-Muslim?
Yes, an unqualified yes.
You have no fucking idea.
But if he drops out now, New York won't have to fully see that side of me.
Just saying.
All right.
Well, thanks once again for calling the Jimmy Dore show to gloat.
My pleasure, Keaton.
And I'll do it again next week when Jimmy is back because he loves to hear me gloat.
And like me, he likes to make fun of men who cry.
I know you're listening, Jimmy, over in Liechtenstein or wherever you are right now.
I'm going to, I'm going to cry if I don't talk to you next week.
Boohoo.
Just kidding.
I'm a fucking bull.
Out of that, she's awesome.
Establishment media sucks All gaslighting, so good luck Bullshit we can't afford Fomenting this Watch and see as this jack-off The median speeds and jumps the medium And hits them head-on It's the Jimmy Door show.
And we actually have our next segment here.
Our next guest has showed up, and I'm very excited to have him because he is really one of the, in my opinion, one of the most important anti-war voices that we have.
And he is a wealth of information and knowledge on the whole situation, the history and all of it.
So we are joined now by Scott Horton.
Scott is the director of the Libertarian Institute.
He's the editorial director of anti-war.com, host of the scott horton show and author of such books let me pull up his this is his twitter page here but he's uh author of such books as fool's errand time to end the war in afghanistan uh enough already time to end the war on terrorism and his latest which is called provoked how washington started the new cold war with russia and the catastrophe in ukraine so scott horton thank you so much for joining us my friend i appreciate i know you're there at pork fest so
appreciate you taking some time out of your day to join us here on the Jimmy Dore show.
I'm happy to be here with you guys.
Thank you very much for having me.
Yeah, of course.
And when I, when Jimmy asked me to guest host the show, I immediately thought of you given the situation that we are in currently, because you are a wealth of knowledge on all things foreign policy.
And so I wanted to, let me get that.
There we go.
I wanted to get your take on all of this.
So I wanted to kind of, we're going to kind of break this up into a couple of different segments.
So I want to start with a little bit of what Jimmy was just talking about there.
Wanted to talk about a little bit of the history here, because Jimmy just mentioned that, you know, 1953, we overthrew Mossadegh.
And then that really, to your mind, is that really what kicked off this whole, the modern situation that we're in with Iran?
Yes, ma'am.
Absolutely.
You know, my book, Enough Already basically starts with the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
In other words, the coup in 1953.
And of course, so what happened was America launched Operation Ajax.
And there's a great CIA history of this by a guy named Donald Wilbur that people can read all about how they did it and everything.
And this is when the phrase blowback was coined.
It was coined by Wilbur in that history history and warned about, you know, the potential of blowback coming down the line from operations like this.
And it was 26 years later.
Wait, how much time do we have to tell this story?
I mean, we can let Scott talk for two hours and he would educate us all.
So I'll talk, go into it.
I'll talk fast.
I'll talk fast.
So listen, I like telling this story.
I'll try to make it concise.
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Dick Cheney, I mean, I get him confused.
Richard Nixon had a problem, which was the military industrial complex was mad at him for ending the war.
And so he decided what he would do is he would put pressure on the Shah and to increase weapons purchases from the United States.
It was one of the things that really helped weaken his regime in the 1970s was his sellout to the United States like this in a very poor country.
And now he's got all these fancy F4s and F14s, which is why he has a for they have F4s and F14s to this day is because of that.
And that really helped undermine, you know, support for his regime at that time.
Now he was dying of cancer and revolution was breaking out.
He had already fled the country and was in Latin America.
And Jimmy Carter's government decided that they would not encourage the military to massacre everybody in the street, but would instead essentially allow the revolution to proceed.
And the CIA and the State Department advised the White House that this guy Khomeini is in exile in Paris, France, who had been living in Iraq for a while and then had moved to Paris.
We like him, we know him.
He's a friend of ours from back in 53 when he was a group, part of a group of conservative Shiite clerics who helped agitate against Mossadegh.
So we think we can work with him.
It'll be okay.
So you might have seen Peter Jennings interviewing Ayatollah Khomeini on the plane on the way back to Tehran.
That was what was going on there.
Jimmy Carter told the French to send him home to inherit the revolution.
And most people never understand this.
They never say this, that the original revolution was at the end of 78 and beginning of 79, really culminating in February of 79.
The hostage crisis didn't break out until November.
So for the first 10 months of the revolution, the United States was passing intelligence to the Ayatollah.
The regime had kept their old intelligence agency intact and much of the government intact.
And America was warning them about threats from the Soviet Union and about threats from Saddam Hussein, the new Sunni dictator who had just overthrown his predecessor in a bloody coup d'etat in Iraq that same year.
Then what happened was David Rockefeller convinced Jimmy Carter to let the Shah into the United States for cancer treatment.
And that sent a signal to the people of Iran unintentionally that we meant to nurse him back to health and reinstall him on the throne with force.
And that was what caused the riot.
And I'm not saying it was just student led.
It may very well have been the Revolutionary Guard Corps who led the thing or what, but that was what touched off the riot and the seizing of the hostages, the burning of our flags and the chance of death to America, the great Satan and all the things, which is, are basically the only things that people remember about that revolution when it was blowback from so many blunders from everyone, from Eisenhower through Nixon and Ford and including Jimmy Carter himself in the way that they played that thing.
And then what happened was in reaction for, Oh, and then I need to add, they launched a failed rescue mission called Operation Eagle Claw, where they tried to go rescue the hostages and the whole thing was botched.
And on their way out of there, they were already calling it off, aborting the mission.
And then a helicopter crashed into a plane and a bunch of guys were killed and it was a total disaster.
So Carter was humiliated.
So then in his State of the Union speech in January of 1980, he announced the Carter Doctrine.
the carter doctrine was mostly based around the idea of threatening the soviet union that they better not invade iran even though we just lost control of iran we don't we're still giving them a war guarantee essentially to Keep the USSR out.
Now, what's interesting about that is part of the reason they were so concerned about that was that at the same time, they had helped the same year, 79, they had helped lure the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan.
And it's not really the case that American support for the Mujadeen caused the USSR to invade, but that's what they were trying to do.
And the USSR did invade based on the fact that their sock puppet commie dictator in Kabul was unable to hold on to power there and they needed to replace him.
They took him out back and shot him and replaced him with a new guy as soon as they invaded.
And then, so America was encouraging Soviet expansion into Afghanistan at the same time that they were warning them, don't come to Iran and the Persian Gulf, though.
And part of that is also part of the legacy of Vietnam.
Because after Vietnam, the American people had what was called the Vietnam syndrome.
They didn't want to go do this anymore.
After the horrific war in Korea and in Vietnam, both, they did not want to contain communism at the expense of their sons and all their dollars like this.
And so what happened was a strategist in the Pentagon named Walter Slocum and Zbign Brzezinski came up with the idea that we would deliberately try to encourage the Soviet Union into expanding.
Forget containment.
We'll bait them into expanding their commitments in Latin America, in Africa, and especially into Afghanistan.
We didn't want them to invade West Berlin, but we want them, but the Afghans, they're expendable.
By the way, a million Afghans died in the Soviets' horrific war there in the 1980s.
And this is where America began backing the Mujahideen, not just in Afghanistan, but the Arab Afghan army, the international Islamist brigades that were built up by the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Britain and Pakistan to fight against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
We've all seen Rambo III, where they make it look more indigenous, but it was CIA support for all of that.
Now, this all ties together, so bear with me.
As part of the Carter doctrine, Jimmy Carter starts expanding all of his bases into the Middle East, first of all.
And he also gives Saddam Hussein, the new dictator of Iraq, who, as I said, had just taken power in a bloody coup, gave him the green light to invade Iran.
Now, Saddam Hussein had an important reason to invade Iran.
Okay.
Saddam Hussein was a Sunni representing a 20% minority, essentially fascist dictatorship, the Baathist Party dictatorship of the country, lording it over the 60% supermajority Kurdish, pardon me, the 60% supermajority Shiite Arab population and the 20% Kurdish population who live in the north.
Now, the Kurds are Sunnis, but not Arabs.
And the Shiite Arabs are Arabs, but not Sunnis, right?
You with me?
So Saddam is afraid that his supermajority Shiite population in the south and east of the country are going to now side with the Iranian fundamentalist Shiite revolution and that they're going to choose their religious sect over their national sect as Iraqis or their ethnic sect as Arabs.
And they're going to side with the revolution and maybe take it to Baghdad.
So Saddam Hussein is afraid of this.
This is his motive to invade.
He's going to take that Shiite supermajority population and conscript them and force them to fight against Iran for him.
That way to neutralize their threat to him and Iran's threat to using them against him.
This is a horrific war, which is like a Ukraine-Russia style trench warfare, absolute brutal World War I-style catastrophe for Iran and Iraq through the 1980s, where America supports Saddam Hussein, including helping him buy chemical weapons from the Germans and develop his capacity to make his own,
and including giving him satellite targeting information to use to target Iranian forces, which, yes, included child soldiers, but also included the civilian population centers in Iran with not just mustard gas, but sarin and tabin nerve gas and all of this horrific stuff.
It was an absolutely horrific war.
And by the way, the Ayatollah's regime was very shaky until Saddam invaded.
As Randolph Bourne thought, war is the help of the state.
Just like when America started bombing Yemen, they said, we're all Houthis now, even though they weren't.
But just the way Americans supported Bush after we were attacked.
That's kind of the way that goes.
And so that was what helped solidify the Ayatollah's hold on power rather than overthrowing him.
Now, at the end of that war, Saddam Hussein was broke and he owed a bunch of money to UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
Pardon me, UAE, Saudi, and Kuwait.
And they were all calling in their war debts and they were being real jerks about it, especially the Kuwaitis.
And long story short, the State Department essentially gave Saddam Hussein permission to invade Kuwait to take the northern oil fields, to move the border another few tens of miles south as punishment for Kuwait's overproduction of their shared oil wells and even sland drilling into the Kuwait, the Iraqi side.
And this was James Baker, the Secretary of State's permission to Iraq.
Go ahead, break their knees, see if I care.
But Hussein got too big for his britches and he went all the way to the coast.
Now, originally, America was going to let him get away with that.
And Colin Powell announced, he was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the head of the National Security Council meeting at the time.
And they said, as long as he doesn't move on Saudi Arabia, it's fine.
But then Margaret Thatcher came to town, the prime minister of Great Britain, and she said, don't you go wobbly on me now, Bush.
In other words, calling out his manhood as compared to hers.
And that was when he said this will not stand.
Now, the British had big investments in Kuwait and Kuwait had big investments in British debt, but that didn't have anything to do with us.
But, oh, well, Americans are just suckers for this kind of stuff.
So playing like they're the Israelis or whatever, maybe the Israelis are imitating the British now.
This is how they did it.
And it helped get us into Iraq War I. And by the way, they could have negotiated our way out of that war numerous times.
Hussein was willing to give in and trying to be our friend.
So anyway, they launched Iraq War I, which everyone says was just great.
It was Operation Yellow Ribbon.
As Bush Sr. said, we beat Vietnam syndrome.
The American people love war again.
Now we can do war whenever we want again.
This is just great.
And the war lasted just a few weeks of air war and 100 hours of ground war.
And everybody thought it was fine.
But fewer people noticed that in the aftermath of that war, the Bush administration, Bush Sr. this is, 1991, encouraged the Shiite supermajority and the Kurdish minority in the North to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein.
And they did.
They thought they were going to have American support.
They dropped leaflets and made radio announcements.
I'm going somewhere with this, I swear to God.
And then, so the Shiites did rise up, but then Bush and his government changed their mind.
Why?
They changed their mind.
Because remember when I said Saddam Hussein was afraid that the Iraqi Shiites were going to side with the Iranians in 1980, and that was why he launched the Iran-Iraq war?
Well, some Iraqis had sided with Iran and had fled to Iran and had even fought on Iran's side in the war.
Well, now they were coming across the border to lead the revolution, namely the Badr Brigade of the Supreme Islamic Council.
And so when the Bush administration realized this, they said, wait a minute, we just spent a decade supporting Saddam Hussein to contain the Iranian revolution.
Now we are importing it into Iraq.
And that was why they changed their mind and stabbed those Shiites in the back like a giant bay of pigs and let Saddam Hussein massacre 100,000 people to put down that revolt.
Then that became the excuse for America to stay in Saudi Arabia in order to enforce the no-fly zones over Iraq and the blockade against Iraq in order to, first of all, supposedly protect the Shiites, even though the insurrection was over.
He wasn't just going to kill them all.
And to enforce the blockade, which was meant, as the Bush administration said, Bush Sr. himself and Robert Gates, who worked for him, and the Clinton administration later reaffirmed the sanctions stay, the total global economic embargo stays until Saddam Hussein falls from power.
This, my friends, then is what caused Al-Qaeda, America's sock puppet, mercenary, suicide bomber, head shopper, Salafi terrorists that they used in Afghanistan and then that Bill Clinton used in Bosnia and in Kosovo and in Chechnya.
And that is with various degrees of support.
I'm not saying as some people leap to conclusions that the CIA just controlled these people's every behavior.
What they did was they encouraged especially the Saudis to support them and encourage them.
And hell, the British had more operational control over a lot of these Mujahideen than the Americans did.
But as I show in my book, 10 of the 19 September 11th hijackers had fought in Bosnia and or Chechnya on America's side before they hit the United States.
Now, I know a lot of people watching this are truthers and they're just going to be mad at me for not being one, but I don't care because the deal is this.
The real truth is what Ron Paul said, just like always.
And that is it's blowback.
Because just even though Bill Clinton and his government were supporting these Mujahideen, did not mean that they controlled everything about them.
And Al-Qaeda's war against the United States had clear motives and a clear strategy.
And the clear motives were first and foremost and first and second most, I guess, the occupation of the Holy Arabian Peninsula, where the birthplace of Muhammad and the birthplace of the religion of Islam at Mecca and Medina in order to continuously bomb Iraq for the entire decade after Iraq War I and enforce that blockade, which was starving people to death by the hundreds of thousands, even though those numbers were embellished.
You know, the UN embellished them up to 500,000, which was not true, but it was still like 300,000, which is already absolutely horrific war crime anyway.
Bin Laden himself would embellish it up to 600,000 or sometimes even a million and say a million children have died in the blockade and whatever.
And this became enforced from Saudi Arabia, which, you know, Tom Cruise could have done it from a carrier in the Gulf.
Did it have to be the Air Force too, you know?
And by the way, and people forget this, Al-Qaeda attacked, they killed Rabbi Kahane in 1990.
They attacked the Radisson Hotel and killed Americans in Yemen in 1992.
They did the First World Trade Center bombing in 93.
Ask me a follow-up about that later if you want, but it was not an inside job.
The FBI could have stopped it, but failed to.
But that was al-Qaeda that did that.
It was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's nephew, Ramzi Youssef, cooked that bomb.
Okay, then they killed Americans training the Saudi National Guard in 95.
And they also got busted for the Bojinka plot.
Ramzi Youssef, who did the First World Trade Center bombing, his buddies got busted in the Philippines and their laptop contained a plan to kill Bill Clinton, kill the Pope, to time bomb 12 planes over the Pacific and the planes operation to hijack 10 planes and crash them into landmarks on America's coasts.
And then Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would get on the microphone and demand an end to the Israeli occupation.
That happened.
Then in 1996, it was bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed bombed the Khobar Towers.
What was that?
They killed 19 American airmen, American airmen who were stationed there to bomb Iraq.
And that's who died.
And what did Bill Clinton and Louis Free and the Saudis do?
They blamed it on Iranian-backed Saudi Hezbollah, right?
Iran did it for no reason at all from across the Gulf when they're trying to suck up to us at that time.
And so that was a lie.
It was the al-Qaeda that did that.
And then they did the Africa embassy attack in 98, and they attempted to sink to attack one of our cruisers, the USS, the Sullivans, except the dinghy sank.
But then they succeeded in their attack on the USS Cole in the year 2000.
That wasn't The CIA that did all of that, folks.
That was al-Qaeda that was trying to bait the United States into war.
In fact, I skipped one.
It was bin Laden's men who helped do Blackhawk down in 1993 and kill the Americans in Mogadishu.
And bin Laden later complained.
He was trying to provoke Bill Clinton into invading Somalia so he could fight a war of attrition against the United States there.
The same Afghan strategy that we had helped them do to the Soviets that they would later do to us in Afghanistan.
And so their motives were American occupation of Saudi and bombing Iraqis.
It was support for Israel and their brutal occupation of their helpless Palestinian captives, as well as the people of southern Lebanon.
And it was also support for the dictatorships in the region and pressure on them to rig the oil price in our favor to subsidize our economy at their expense.
And supposedly ignoring a blind eye to Russia and China's violence against them, which was ridiculous.
We're supporting them against both.
America's support of the Uyghurs against the Chinese during this time as well.
Don't let me leave that out.
But so this was their motive and their strategy was they were trying to get America to invade Afghanistan to break America's empire the same way we had helped them do to the Soviet Union.
And that's why they hit us on September 11th.
And quite frankly, the truth is obscure the reality of all that.
That what honestly, this is the story, okay, is that Mohamed Atta and Ramzi bin al-Sheib, they were engineering students, Egyptian engineering students studying in Hamburg, Germany.
And after Israel invaded Lebanon in 1996, it was actually Naftali Bennett, who was the artillery officer who called in a strike on a UN shelter and killed 106 women and children.
And when bin Laden put out his first declaration of war against the United States in 1996, it was called Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places.
And in the very beginning of it, he goes on and on about the Khanna massacre during Operation Grapes of Wrath.
And it was when Ramzi bin al-Sheib and Mohammed Atta read that that they said they wanted to go and join al-Qaeda.
And their first stop was to try to go to Chechnya.
They later went to Afghanistan and then having Western passports, they were the obvious guys to use for the planes operation in the United States.
And so here are Egyptian engineering students studying in Hamburg, Germany, volunteer for a Saudi sheik hiding in Afghanistan to kill Americans as revenge for our support for what Israel's doing in Lebanon.
And that, Jimmy Door, is why they told you they hate you because you're free.
Because they didn't want to tell you it was all of that instead.
And then what happened?
We all know.
They went to Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Iraq again, Yemen.
And now, with all of their continued support for the horrific war against the poor, helpless Palestinians locked in the Gaza Strip.
And now with this supposedly preemptive preventative war against a civilian nuclear program in Iran that was no threat to Israel or the United States of America.
And I will show up here because I'm sure y'all probably want to ask me something about all that.
But you asked me what from 79 led to all this?
And that's the answer right there.
That's the story.
That's why I brought you, Scott Harton.
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Breaking.
Iran launched the ballistic missiles against the Al-Ud.
Is that how you say it?
Airbase in Qatar.
Or do you say Qatar?
You didn't.
Is that how you say it?
Al-Ud?
Oh, L-U-Did?
Airbase in Qatar or Qatar or Qatar, Qatar.
Can take money from Qatar or no?
I don't think so.
So I don't even need to show you.
So there's missiles.
Okay.
I don't want to risk us getting demonetized to show you just a bunch of stupid missiles flying.
So this is from NPR.
Iran state-raw news agency, Tasnim, which tastes great on chicken.
Tasnim, it's pronounced Tasnim.
Oh, Tasnim.
Yeah.
I like the Tasnim chicken masala.
Said Monday that Tehran launched missile attacks on U.S. bases in Qatar or Qatar or Qatar and Iraq or Iraq.
Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar or Qatar or Qatar, reported spotting missiles in the skies over the Gulf Emirate, which is home to, guess what?
A U.S. airbase.
That's right.
What?
Yeah, you.
I thought that they're our enemy that pays money to people to turn out there.
Turns out we have one of our biggest military bases in Qatar or Qatar.
Does it take money from Qatar?
It's weird.
I wonder.
That Carter thing.
So that's like they're not cool with LGBTQ.
That's the weird thing, right?
A U.S. defense official who was not authorized to speak publicly about sensitive military matters and definitely was not Tulzi Gabbard told reporters in an email, I can confirm that the Al-Ud airbase was attacked by short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles originated from Iran today.
At this time, there are no reports of U.S. Casualties.
We are monitoring the situation closely and we'll provide more information as it becomes available.
Why are they not authorized to speak about that publicly?
A senior White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Again, another of why is this all secret?
Why is this all secret?
Isn't this weird?
Said the White House and Department of Defense were closely monitoring potential threats to LUD Airbase.
Reuters, or do you say Reuters, and the Associated Press, or do you say garbage, reported the sound of explosions had been heard in Qatar with no immediate report of Tarjays or damage.
I'm sorry, targets.
The attack came hours after Qatar closed its airspace and the U.S. Embassy called on American nationals to shelter in place.
Oh, Mark Levin, I bet he feels so much safer.
All the people say, oh, he can sleep at night now.
This is from Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson, Majid El-Ansari, which, by the way, I loved him on what was that?
Oh, community.
Community.
That's it.
That's right.
Aziz.
He says, Aziz Al-Azari, that's right.
Aziz Al-Alzari, who, by the way, had the most bogus hashtag MeToo I've heard since Anna Kasparians says, we express the state of Qatar's strong condemnation of the attack on Al-Yudid air base by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Really?
And consider it a flagrant violation of the state of Qatar's sovereignty and airspace, as well as international law.
Those damned Iranians.
It's a flagrant with Andrew Schultz.
That's his show.
Okay, so hold on a second.
We have an update coming.
It says, we affirm that the state of Qatar reserves the right to respond directly in a manner proportion to the nature and scale of this blatant aggression.
This is like comedy.
Oh, welcome back, Cotter.
I say.
Yeah, welcome back, Cotter.
Oh, funny, funny.
Fuck, why didn't I think of that?
Welcome back.
He said the base had been evacuated to the attack.
It's kind of like when you die, you evacuate.
Welcome back.
Well, we bomb them a lot because we got them on the spot.
Welcome back.
We bomb them a lot because we just bombed Iraq.
Welcome back.
United Arab Emirates closed their airspace.
Sirens are going off in Bahrain.
Qatar is intercepting missiles.
And U.S. bases have been bombed in Iraq because Trump chose to do Netanyahu's dirty work.
His fans could never say that Trump never started new wars.
He's a warmonger.
That's from Mukhtar.
Wow.
Well, one thing nobody can accuse Trump of is audience capture since he doesn't do shit.
People wanted him to do it.
He's not.
Isn't it amazing that there are certain people who are loyal to Trump, not loyal to what he ran on, not loyal to policies, not loyal to an anti-war idea, but are loyal to Donald Trump, have twisted themselves into pretzels to say you have to support Donald Trump and not.
Yeah, they're called bots.
They're called bots, even if they're people.
Even if they're people.
The use of six missiles by it's kind of like how it's kind of like how you thought people like Ben Shapiro and who's the guy from Canada?
Peterson?
Yeah, Jordan Peterson and those types were and my good friend Dave Rubin were all New York comedian, beloved New York comedian Dave Rubin.
I was at 20 years, never seen him nowhere.
I see a tape of him at a Gotham Bringer.
Does that count?
How they all said that they were for free speech and that you had to be exposed to ideas that made you uncomfortable.
You don't get to have a safe space on college.
You know, it's like how all those people immediately flipped.
You're like, oh, you're not what you said you were.
It's the same thing with the people who supported Trump during the campaign, and now they support the opposite of what he campaigned on, just because it's him.
Dave Bornway doesn't feel safe, Jimmy.
Now, come on.
I like he's yelling at a guy named Kurt on his show.
Yeah, Kurt.
He's like, every time I see it, I get that.
Yeah.
I love when he said, yeah, you bald-headed F. I know.
And then the guy.
And then that guy says, oh, I'll never recover from that, Dave.
That was so funny.
Oh, yeah, it really.
It was funny.
Less than an hour ago, I said, this is that congressman who said we should nuke Iran or Gaza.
I can't remember.
I think Gaza.
Randy Foyne.
Randy Fine.
Boy, can I tell you, he is the new Chris Christie of politics.
I don't know if you've seen him.
The guy, boy, he's never seen a Krispy Kreme he didn't like.
No Ozempic for that guy, huh?
No Zempic.
He's doing it the old-fashioned way.
He said that less than a half hour ago on the floor, I said, when our enemies say they want to kill us, we should believe them.
And now, just moments later, Iran is launching missiles at our base in Qatar.
Muslim terror is not rhetoric.
It is reality.
That is not terrorism when they attack a military base.
Terrorism is when they attack me.
That's right.
Terrorism is when they attack civilians for political ends.
And this is called a retaliatory strike.
This isn't called terrorism or any of that stuff.
Glenn Greenwald says the use of six missiles by Iran against the U.S. air base in Qatar shows how terroristic and bloodthirsty Iran is.
The U.S. did nothing, just minding its own business, not bothering Iran.
Went out of nowhere.
The Mullahs launched a vicious terror attack.
Yeah.
Typical.
Pulleys of the Middle East, Iran.
Iran coordinated the attacks on the American airbase in Qatar with Qatari officials.
So this is all theater.
Yeah.
So this is all.
As usual, except for the dead people that we killed.
So this is all.
So it seems to, so I'll read the rest of this.
They gave advance notice that the attacks were coming to minimize casualties, according to three Iranian officials familiar with the plans.
The officials said Iran symbolically needed to strike back at the U.S., but at the same time carried out in a way that allowed all sides to exit an exit ramp.
They described it as a similar strategy to 2020 when Iran gave Iraq a heads up before firing ballistic missiles on American base in Iraq following the assassination of its top general.
I think that was the Soleimani.
So Ahmed Baba, or do you say Baba?
So Iran's attack was telegraphed in advance to Qatar.
Most missiles were intercepted.
So far, no casualties or major damage.
This appears to be a symbolic proportional response, perhaps seeking to de-escalate, unless it's a misdirection.
We'll see.
We'll see how Trump responds will be key.
So Steph, could you hold that up?
Apparently, just breaking news as I'm talking about this, there has been a complete and total ceasefire between Israel and Iran to start in the coming hours.
That's it from the Trump White House.
And I went ahead and sent the Guardian article to you and Malcolm, just so you know.
Oh, really?
I just sent it right now.
Okay.
Just in case you wanted just to show it and go through it.
Okay.
If they have a ceasefire, Bibi goes to jail.
I don't think they can have that for long.
So that's the thing.
If there isn't a war, Bibi will go to jail, just so you know.
Craig Murray, our friend over from the UK, says, if you see the videos, Iran tossed a few older, low-level, slow missiles at the U.S. base in Qatar.
Bound to be intercepted.
Having traveled, they were coming, having signaled that they were coming.
It's a token retaliation designed not to escalate.
Here's what this is.
This is all kind of funny.
Every sentence that I'm reading is kind of funny.
It's already kind of funny.
Because it's like Soviet Union time, so you got to read between the lines of every goddamn thing they say.
I feel like Yakov Smirnov now.
In America, you watch TV and Russia, TV watches you.
Newspaper, read you.
Iran has officially responded to us.
This is Trump speaking, has officially responded to our obliteration of their nuclear facilities.
Great, great job.
With a very weak response, which we expected and have very effectively countered.
There have been 14 missiles fired.
13 were knocked out and one was set free because it was headed in a non-threatening direction.
I am pleased to report that no Americans were harmed and hardly any damage was done.
Most importantly, they've gotten it all out of their system.
Oh, my God.
And there will hopefully be no further hate.
Wow.
So when we bomb them, it's self-defense.
When we preemptively unilaterally initiate an attack, a war was what Trump did on Iran.
That's just good old self-defense.
But when they respond, that's hate.
So Trump's really getting out in this hate speech shit.
He's really, he is not, he's really grabbing onto that woke lingo.
Well, maybe it's Jimmy.
He just has a secret, good plan that they're doing.
Fuck them anyway if they're all doing a secret plan.
Why is it always, I got to discern this out of their shit?
Why?
So I want, he says, Trump says, I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost and nobody to be injured.
Perhaps Iran can now proceed to peace and harmony in the region.
And I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
He just called it a weak response, and he's thanking them for you.
Thank you for the weak response.
Thank you.
It's very nice.
Thanks, pussies.
I really respect what pussies you want.
That's what he's saying.
I'd like to thank the highly respected emir of Qatar for all that he has done in seeking peace for the region regarding the attack today at the American base in Qatar.
I am pleased to report that in addition to no Americans being killed or wounded, very importantly, there have also been no Qataris killed or wounded.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So we can take money from Qatar.
That's okay.
It sounds like they're good friends.
I like how he speaks like it's an inner office memo.
Thank you for your attention.
That's how he likes to.
Jason Hickel says the best way Qatar can respond to Iran's retaliatory strikes on the U.S. base is to close it down and expel all U.S. military personnel stationed there.
Yeah, not happening, Jason.
That's the best way.
But thanks for thanks for the thanks for the, I appreciate it.
I agree with Jason.
Not happening.
How would that be the best way?
What if Iran strikes Barstool Sports next?
What happens?
How will we respond?
All right, Jimmy, I really do want you to answer this question, okay?
This is from a new viewer, and I think this might help some people out there.
I'm confused why it's totally okay for Hamas to do what they did on October 7th, but Israel isn't allowed to defend itself and try to once and for all rid itself of the US.
That's not a real question.
Because Bibi paid for it, and he demands his services.
I would like you to respond to that.
Well, Kurt just kind of just responded.
He said, well, because Benjamin Netanyahu basically engineered the October 7th attack, he paid for it.
He funded it.
He made sure the PLL wasn't a viable, they're a secular organization.
And so it was Bibi who propped up Hamas and made sure that happened and made sure they didn't have a response for hours and hours So they could use that as a pretext to go in and flatten Gaza and steal more of their land even.
And the reason why Hamas is allowed to attack on October 7th under international law is because they're being occupied.
And according to international law, you're allowed to use force to fight against the people who are occupying you.
That would be the reason.
And then, so this is all Benjamin Netanyahu is doing.
It's like he's creating a false flag.
So he can then use that false flag.
It's like how they use 9-11 to go into Iraq, even though it had nothing to do with it.
How they use 9-11 to go into Libya, how they use it to go into Yemen, Syria, ramp up the drain, you know, all that stuff.
Well, by the way, when we did our little false flag 9-11 thing, let's say he was right and it was all Hamas and not the Hannibal directive that killed most of the people.
Let's say it's that story.
You're still not allowed to starve their kids to death.
There's a law about going to war against bad terrorists.
Why didn't we do that in Afghanistan?
Starve all of them to death until they hand over the Taliban.
We're going to starve your, we'll never forgive you for forcing us to kill your kids.
Yeah.
That's a quote from Goldo Myir.
That's right.
You don't see a problem with that?
Who is this?
Michael Rappaport?
So that would be, yeah, right?
Is Michael Rappaport in the chat?
It sounds like it.
Or Jerry Seinfeld.
Could be Jerry Seinfeld also, Kurt.
You don't know.
I think it's the guy from Portnoy.
It's probably Dave Portnoy.
Or maybe it's Dave Portnoy.
I think it's Dave Portnoy myself because he does the most.
I mean, that guy is terrified.
But I actually think that question is what our neighbors would ask and friends of ours would ask.
That would be how they would pose it.
People who don't know anything about anything.
That watch MSNBC.
That watch MSNBC and CNN or Fox, and that would be the question that they would have.
Or mainstream media live.
My question and response is, why are you illiterate?
Why do you know about anything going on at all?
But you have the balls to say that stupid shit you just said.
What do you think about sports all day?
All right, I'm going to go with that.
Yeah.
No, I appreciate that question for giving me an opportunity to knock it down because that is a question that a lot of people would ask because most people don't know anything.
Just like that's why people were on board for going to war with Iraq.
That's why people were on board for 20 years of Afghanistan.
That's why people were on board for Ukraine because they don't know anything about the Ukraine war.
They just know what's being told to them by the establishment media, which as Noam Chomsky taught us, is there to manufacture consent for those wars.
They're not there to actually tell you the truth about the wars because if they told you the truth about the wars, then you wouldn't be on board for the war.
We're not on board now and they're lying.
By the way, a Jimmy Door viewer who's paying for a super chat doesn't know anything about it.
I find that a little difficult to believe.
That's me too.
Why is he watching Jimmy Door show if he didn't know nothing about that?
Well, my response would be: maybe it's a new viewer.
Maybe it's a new viewer, Kurt.
We have to know that sometimes we might very well be getting some new viewers, folks.
We had 27,000 new subscribers just last month alone, Kurt.
So maybe it's a new person.
That's why your audience captured.
Now I see.
Oh, very, very, you could see our audience.
Okay, so now I have one more question for you.
And this is, I was, I read Anya Parrampal's recent tweet about the ceasefire, and she's suggesting that she hasn't read anything from Iran.
Iran has said they have not received anything about a ceasefire.
So I would like to know what your observation of this game would be.
No, Trump gave the message to his Israel people to pass it along.
I'm sure they got it.
We'll see.
First, I mean, it's not smart of Trump to call them pussies and then thank them for not for giving us a heads up on your, it's just like the whole point of allowing them to attack.
The whole point of allowing Iran to attack one of our military bases in Qatar is so that they could save face.
And then Trump immediately doesn't allow them to save face by calling them basically calling them pussies.
Yeah.
And by the way, what a worthless setup of government we have all over the world that that's the situation you would have to work out where you fake attack each other and call each other ahead of time and wonder what a piece of shit Western civilization is, isn't it?
So, well, that's actually Middle East civilization.
But okay, so it's all the same.
So let's just remember what Donald Trump said.
This is what got him elected the first time.
This is when everything changed and when people started to refer to Donald Trump as a peace candidate.
And here we go.
They lied.
They said there were weapons of mass destruction.
There were none.
And they knew there were none.
There were no weapons of mass.
Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake.
All right.
Now, you can take it any way you want.
And it took Jeb Bush.
If you remember at the beginning of his announcement when he announced for president, took him five days.
He went back.
It was a mistake.
It wasn't a mistake.
It took him five days before his people told him what to say.
And he ultimately said it was a mistake.
The war in Iraq, we spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives.
We don't even have it.
Iran is taking over Iraq with the second largest oil reserves in the world.
Obviously, it was a mistake.
So George Bush made a mistake.
We can make mistakes, but that one was a beauty.
We should have never been in Iraq.
We have destabilized the Middle East.
So you still think he should be in peace?
I think it's my turn.
You do whatever you want.
You call it whatever you want.
I want to tell you, they lied.
They said there were weapons of mass destruction.
There were none.
And they knew there were none.
There were no weapons of mass.
And now Trump is lying to you that Iran has a nuclear bomb or a nuclear pro or are weeks away from getting a nuclear bomb.
Tulsi Gabbard gave testimony just a few weeks ago or a month ago in Congress saying, no, the assessment of our intelligence community is that they're not seeking a bomb.
They don't have a bomb.
They don't.
And so again, there's no international inspections.
All this stuff that Iran had agreed to under the Obama nuclear deal.
And even so, anyway, here we are.
So that's what Trump used to say.
That's what Trump used to say.
You know, an earthquake hit Iran, by the way, right?
No, they had the earthquake machine unleashed on Iran, did they?
Maybe it was our bunker busters are really strong.
Oh, they coincidentally had an earthquake on the day of the attack.
You know my buddy Eric that was talking about that thing they got?
Yeah, the guy from the...
They don't matter if they have nukes.
So again, this is just like Benjamin Netanyahu and George Bush and Dick Cheney pretended that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and that's why we were going in.
That had nothing to do with it.
As Jeffrey Sachs already proved, that had nothing to do with it.
They were trying to find a reason that the American people could get behind for us going to war with Iraq.
We weren't attacked by Iraq.
Iraq wasn't attacking us.
In fact, Iraq was our client state for years.
Iraq was, and then, but we did that at the behest of Israel.
That's what, just like we're doing Iran at the behest of Israel, just like Syria, just like Libya.
This is just like Yemen.
This is the Greater Israel Project.
Here it is.
They're trying to say it was a nuclear-inducted quake, probably from their nuclear weapons or something.
It is unbelievable, dude.
Well, get ready for that earthquake thing.
Remember when Iran said that we used weather stuff on them to cause a drought?
Yes.
Yeah, do you think we didn't?
Do you think we didn't do that?
They're just making it up.
So here, I just want to play this for you real quick, just to remind you.
So what is actually happening is this.
This is a plan put in place long before, and then they just find reasons that people will get behind in the United States to make it okay.
So we don't have a revolution here.
Remember what, here's Wesley Clark.
About 10 days after 9-11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz.
I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the joint staff who used to work for me.
And one of the generals called me and he said, sir, you got to come in.
You got to come in and talk to me a second.
I said, well, you're too busy.
He said, no, no.
He says, we've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq.
This was on or about the 20th of September.
I said, we're going to war with Iraq.
Why?
He said, I don't know.
He said, I guess they don't know what else to do.
So I said, well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?
He said, no, no.
He says, there's nothing new that way.
They Just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.
He said, I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments.
And he said, I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?
And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper.
He said, I just, he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meaning the Secretary of Defense office today.
And he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
And here we are.
So that's what's really happening.
Just so you know, this was a plan they had in place all along, and they were just waiting for the right time.
And now that they, now that they got rid of Assad and Syria, that figured into the timing of this.
And immediately Israel went after Iran.
And here we are, an unconditional surrender to Israel.
That's what we're doing.
Well, really, to England at the end of the day, because that's who their puppet is.
But when I went to go see Top Gun Maverick in the theater, because we were going to be making a joke about it, I would never go watch Top Gun.
I always thought it was absolutely stupid.
But I went and saw it.
About 10 days after.
Go ahead.
DeLack DeLack, if you recall when that came out, because it got an Oscar nomination, Top Gun Maverick.
And they took all the great homo volleyball parts out.
So I didn't understand that, right?
There was so nothing woke in it.
This is at the height of everybody's complaining about the movies are woke.
And Top Gun Maverick had nothing woke in it.
And it was so suspicious to not see anything woke in it that I was like, it gave me the grossest feeling watching that movie because I didn't know who they were talking about.
They go, oh, we have an enemy and an indeterminate Middle Eastern ally.
We need to blow up some nukes.
And the mountain, all my friends thought it was Russia.
No, that's Iran.
The mountains.
Yes.
It's in this tough place to go in the mountains.
And so I just want to remind you of this.
We covered this before, and I'll play it for you again.
Watch this.
This is a compilation of Benjamin Netanyahu warmongering.
If you take away the Soviet Union and its chief proxy, the PLO, international terrorism would collapse.
If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region.
Obviously, we'd like to see a regime change, at least I would, in Iran, just as I would like to see in Iraq.
The question now is a practical question.
It's not a question of whether Iraq's regime should be taken out, but when should it be taken out?
It's not a question of whether you'd like to see a regime change in Iran, but how do it change?
The answer is categorically yes, is Iraq and Iran.
But a third nation, by the way, is Libya as well.
Libya is trying very rapidly to build an atomic bomb capability.
So you have here now three names.
All stand together to stop Iran's march of conquest, subjugation, and terror.
Know that no matter on which side of the aisle you sit, you stand with Israel.
By the way, that's a command.
That's an order he was giving to Congress.
That wasn't him making an assessment.
He was telling them, you stand with Israel.
And then guess what they did?
They all stood.
Wow.
And just reminding you of what Tulsi Gabbard said in January 3rd, 2020.
She said, we do not seek regime change, Trump declares as he escalates his regime change war in Iran.
Neocons like Graham Bolton are cheering to all who voted for Trump because of his anti-war rhetoric.
It's time to realize he lied to you.
Stand with me against Trump's Iran war.
She was saying that in 2020, January 3rd, 2020.
She was saying that.
Stand with me against Trump's Iran war.
It's time to realize Trump lied to you.
Wait.
That's what she said in January 2020.
Before Biden went in?
Yeah.
She's part of the whole thing.
She's part of the whole thing.
So we're going to get to that.
Oh my God.
It's such an easy trick they do on everybody.
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