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Get ready to vote on today's Daily poll question at smirkconnish.com.
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But first, Michael explains it for you, right here.
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Welcome to the smirkconnish podcast from SiriusXM for independent vines.
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From the note included in today's smirkconnish.com daily newsletter, I begin this way with a quote.
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We're going to win so much you may even get tired of winning.
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He was candidate Donald Trump 2016, Albany, New York, a classic Trump line, a theme that
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he would often repeat.
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And today's poll question reminds of that brag in the context of war.
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That is the Monday poll question at smirkconnish.com.
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How about that Saturday vote?
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$66,220 cast their ballots at the SpurConnish.com Daily Poll Question on Saturday and what drew
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so many votes me asking should opinions on the war in Iran transcend one's view of President
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I got to tell you, I was floored 63.99% I was thrilled with the vote total but I was floored
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by the outcome 63.99% agreed that yes, your view about the war in Iran ought to transcend
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what you think of Trump and I must say I've been going back and forth wondering like did
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people understand this question?
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I mean what went on here when there were about 800 who voted.
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It was running 65% yes and on Saturday I said to myself, well I've yet to begin the CNN
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Maybe when the CNN program begins, people will reverse course, no, they never did it from
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start to finish the 63 to 66% range was a constant and what inspired me to make this the
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poll question of the day was the David Boyz column in the Wall Street Journal, David Boyz,
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a guest on today's POTUS program cannot wait.
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The legendary trial lawyer who's not a fan of President Trump, but he publishes this
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essay in the Wall Street Journal under the headline, partisanship on Iran is dangerous
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It's a must read here just two graphs from what David Boyz wrote, those of us who generally
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oppose Mr. Trump, but who recognize the threat Iran poses need to support the military
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action not because we owe anything to Trump, but because we owe it to ourselves, our country
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If we oppose the war and succeed in pressuring Trump to curtail it before the mission is
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accomplished, we would have the satisfaction of defeating someone we generally oppose,
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which might help ourselves politically, but America would be worse for it.
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I think he's right and I said so here and I said so on television this weekend, however
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we got here and please make no mistake, David Boyz did a better job articulating why
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we need to be in Iran then did the administration.
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They've been inconsistent, they've yet to state the full case, but here we are now.
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And that's why I agree we've got to finish this job.
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It's kind of funny because I was parroting Boyz and yet in some media outlets all of a sudden
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I become the advocate.
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So that's the Saturday, the remarkable Saturday poll question today with a hat tip to my
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buddy Shane Inspector, I'm asking, is the US winning the war?
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Let's go back in time, it's Albany, it's April, it's 2016, let me ask you, April of 2016,
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how many thought Donald Trump was in root to winning the White House?
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I didn't, here's what he said.
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We're going to win so much you may even get tired of winning and you'll say please, please,
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it's too much winning.
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We can't take it anymore, Mr. President, it's too much and I'll say no it isn't, we have
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We have to win more, we're going to win more, we're going to win so much.
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We're going to do it live, we're going to do it live.
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Is the US winning the war?
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Is the US winning the war?
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I mean, militarily, and I've discussed this with David Sanger, militarily it's been with
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the exception of the girl school, big exception, I get it, bad intel, but militarily they're
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hitting all the target, they're hitting so many targets.
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Now I'm going to sound like Trump in April of 2016, they're running out of targets.
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Iran might run out of weapons, but does that mean that we are winning?
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Can you ever win an asymmetrical battle?
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I've been thinking, and I'm going to put this question to Admiral Stavridis today, I've
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been thinking of a parallel, I've been thinking of something similar and I've come up with
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one and it's not from the two distant past.
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I've been thinking of a parallel, I've been thinking of something similar and I've come
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up with one and it's not from the two distant past.
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It's Afghanistan because the Soviets in 79 over ran the Mujahideen, but they never quite
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won that war and they ultimately withdrew from the Washington Post.
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After two weeks of war against Iran, President Donald Trump may soon be ready to declare victory
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but he confronts a challenge.
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Tehran also gets a vote.
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With most of Iran's navy eliminated, much of its missile stockpile destroyed and top
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leaders killed, Trump is nearing the goals his military leaders set at the outset of the
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But the conflict has not achieved the broader aims Trump has sometimes declared.
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A hardened regime in Tehran remains in power.
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It's roiling global oil markets by choking off the vital shipping lane that allows oil
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and gas out of the Persian Gulf.
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The country's leaders may be more eager than ever to race toward a nuclear weapon, diplomats
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and analysts say and Tehran retains control of what the United States and allied nations
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believe is 440 kilograms of highly enriched uranium.
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There's more to the story, but I think you get the picture.
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I have to say that I went and took a peek when roughly 700 had voted, well, I'm not
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Because I was surprised by the result.
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I was surprised by the early result.
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May I say one more thing, Richard Clark, who I consider to be a friend of this program.
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He's advised three United States presidents on matters of national security.
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He's tentatively booked on tomorrow's show, but he wrote an essay that is also in the
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We're kind of calm daily newsletter about his experience with regard to the straight
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of war moves, very, very knowledgeable about that area and one line that I highlighted
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that Richard Clark wrote.
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He said the following, my personal experiences and recent analysis lead me to believe that
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combat in the Gulf is like playing catch with lit torches in a chemistry lab.
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