Shawn Ryan

fighting to try and take over and quell and dominate an entire population, we cannot be joined at the hip with the Israelis, just due to the different strategic goals, but then also just a different value system.

It seems one and the same to me.

I don't believe so, but we're paying for the Israelis.

We're paying for everything that they're doing.

And so we are the dominant one in this relationship.

We need to assert ourselves as such.

I honestly, and I know I've gotten a lot of crap and people have said, oh, you're anti-Semitic, whatever.

I've got no issue with the Israelis.

They're pursuing their objectives.

I have an issue with our reaction to the Israelis.

Like, our government should not be... Our action should not be directed by a foreign government.

That's my biggest issue.

So I think the war in Syria wouldn't have happened if the Iraq war wouldn't have happened.

So the Iraq war was driven obviously by the neoconservative movement here in America, military industrial complex, but a big part of that was also the Israeli lobby.

Benjamin Netanyahu at the time, who had just gotten done being the Israeli prime minister, I think he was still in government, he was like the finance minister,

He came and he aggressively lobbied and testified in the House and in the Senate that Saddam was developing weapons of mass destruction.

So he helped launder that narrative that Saddam was developing weapons of mass destruction in conjunction with the military industrial complex and neoconservatives to say that we had to go in and we had to take away the nuclear weapons.

You also had others in like the think tank realm, the same thing, the media echo chamber who was saying that Saddam was linked to Al Qaeda and to 9-11 potentially.

So they laundered those talking points as well.

Now, Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party really wanted us to go in and take out Saddam so that they could have basically a launching pad for operations into Iraq and then also Iraq.