Contractor many in iraq took action and that actions was a massive 6000. 00 plus protest in front of the u. S. Embassy in iraq a protest that included a small siege on the embassy the Washington Post reported that members of the u. S. Trained Iraqi Security forces stood by as supporters of the cut table hezbollah militia surged into the usually heavily guarded green zone breached the main Embassy Reception area and then set it on fire naturally all this led to a tweet off between u. S. President donald trump who blamed iran for the protests and embassy and the Embassy Siege and iran simply leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called bollocks theory tweeting out that guy has tweeted that we see around responsible for the events in baghdad and we will respond to iran 1st you cant do anything 2nd if you were logical which youre not youd see that your crimes in iraq afghanistan have made nations hate you. Yes my friends it appears that despite our best hopes twitter will still be the diplomatic tool of the 21st century so with tensions once again rising it appears the war and conflict in the middle east may well be washingtons new years resolution as we roar into the roaring 2000 twentys and start watching the hawks. Like you know that i got. This. Welcome everyone watching the hawks i am tyrone been turn joining me today by our Weekly Panel Discussion on the news of the week as the host of the world according to jess the former minnesota governor Jesse Ventura author and editor at large for salon dot com the one and only be walk ins are t. America correspondent Rachel Blevins and archie American Sports correspondent stephen christakis shows and weve got a full show for you we go from war to new years eve shootings to n. B. A. Commissioners weve got a whole lot to get to but 1st lets start with the recent protests and siege of the u. S. Embassy in iraq and i look almost immediately since the start of this the u. S. Spin machine jumped led by President Trump put all of the blame on the protests on iran and iranian backed militias in iraq lets get the big huge monstrous elephant out of the room and i me ask this panel. Are what we seeing happening in iraq right now a harbinger of a potential war with iran using iraq as the battlefield ill start with you jesse. Well of course it is you know you have to look at it the Congress Just appropriated 800. 00. 50000000000. 00 to the department of defense which should be called d the department of off friends and theyve got to have a way to spend all that money now allegedly theyre trying to get us out of afghanistan but were a war culture now so we have to stay at war so they have to develop a new war if theres not going to be one in afghanistan now all get political for a moment defy were president i would welcome back to 850000000000. 00 the department of defense but rather than spending about aircraft carriers and rockets and weapons of mass destruction i would go out you spend 200000000000. 00 on those machines that clean up the ocean then id spend another 50000000000 training the United States navy how to use them and we would start a war on cleaning up the ocean guess what the rest of the world might like of sergei but what are the chances of that no of course were going to go to war again because the military Industrial Complex hastur spend that budget theyve got there spend it or lose it what you guys feel should we be fighting the war on climate or should we be fighting another war with iran do you guys see a war with iran coming down the pipe or 2021 is interesting because there are just a few months ago the top u. S. Officials like my pump a 0 d and then john bolton were all saying hey watch out iran is going to use these smaller militias to go and attack u. S. Troops and they kept warning about that even though iran was saying we dont have any plans to do this and now all of a sudden you have a one tack i sat with this long list of the killed one you know u. S. Servicemen and now all of a sudden theyre going off in our honest saying hey we didnt do this it lines up with that narrative that they have in place and so now theyre able to say oh look at this and of course how dare these protesters come and star in this embassy and speak out in a country where the United States has invaded and has been for several years with no sign of leaving in the forseeable future goes through a sort of clear display of why we need new leadership. And everything its just he said just the whole idea of the military. Industrial complex will what is a new one every year and its been that way since this country began and it doesnt work for the people that doesnt believe what you think about this i mean well we could talk about whether who this militia was and you know where they were on the inner just iraqi people and what whether it was justified to bomb there or not but at the end of the day like rachel said weve been there since 2003 in iraq and unjustly so eventually people are going to rise up and when the bully keeps on punching you down and kicking you are going to punch back in the mouth and i think thats what happened and the u. S. Is being a bully over there and theyre bound to get get what they have coming its interesting too because what you see happening too is remember they didnt know it was thankfully killed in the siege on the embassy was mostly just property destruction they didnt get into the actual part of the embassy where people were i mean you know so one of the interesting things to the jump out at me is the Iraqi Security forces actually let these protesters into the green zone like these are the these are the Security Forces that weve been training for over many years weve been there. And then respond then you also saw that in response to the original u. S. Airstrikes that killed these 25 iraqis they may have been in the supposedly has been iranian backed militia theres still 25 iraqis that we killed iraqis iraqs Prime MinisterAdel Abdul Mahdi stated we have previously confirmed our rejection of any unilateral action by the Coalition Forces or any other Coalition Forces or any other forces inside iraq and we consider it as a violation of iraqi sovereignty and a dangerous escalation that threatens the security of iraq in the region are we seeing in real time the United States kind of lose its control over the country that it toppled its government like we said back in 2000 to 2003 are we are they losing control of this country. Jesse tyrrell im still waiting for the day dick cheney told us we would be greeted in the streets like a liberator a Im Still Holding my breath lets get dick cheney out here and explain to us why its nearly 20 years later and were still not being looked at by the liberators you know when your country goes out and they wage war simply for regime change is this is the blowback you went up with so everything thats happening now is the result of the misguided lobbying war of the iraq war was and thats all they do now is lied to get us into war now weve learned afghanistans been a big wide from start to finish one of the people going to wake up to these lies and finally say no to the wars i dont think dick cheney has ever been greeted anyway every. Detainee has the greed in his own country let alone somebody elses of it kind of makes us so big. And i know weve removed the easy on the Bush Administration you know trouble comes in this is goofy and out of control and we kind of for get like those years if you want to talk about him and how much damage was wrought they want him out in being a citizen in iraq you know how the United States come in way to this war and all this and it starts coming out that this weapons of mass destruction claim was all a big lie and yet theyre still there theres no accountability for any United States basically says hey guess what were camping out here and if you try to do anything about it and were just going on launch more airstrikes in this country where we arent even supposed to be in the 1st place i mean that has got to be incredibly frustrating point then i think you know we use the narrative as that isis is our biggest threat and there are these big scary boogie men over there but i would if i heard correctly this militia was fighting leading the fight against isis as well and were bombing the militia that is leading the fight against our biggest threat thats a very i dont know if they actually were they were what i will be doing. Ok lets throw in there too there would be are you serious if we hadnt invaded iraq in the 1st place did not exist until we invaded iraq there are the leftover of saddams regime that we didnt pay or keep on the payroll when we got there they went up north reformed themselves so our use of suits our frankenstein it always has but its very interesting to like in response to the protests and the burning of the guard stand at the embassy President Trump and all of his glory treated iran will be held responsible for lives lost or damage incurred as any of our pows sylvies they will pay a very big price this is not a warning it is a threat happy new year should the year. Literally under the tree would have prevented this. So the us president or any other elected representative or official from the United States is very serious be threatening nations or nations people or anyone whatsoever on social media savvy allowed at this point know why a lot of i know is in the zone and it. Was the element of surprise when my point 2 years old come on a man like you is out of control i think that you know enough and is i think the president should be kicked off its what it. Thats im so largely because you know we live in a day and age where what trampolines becomes Headline News as a result of the Mainstream Media takes that they carry this narrative right all this and they say well the president claims that iran was behind these attacks so now we have to go forward and spread that claim and spread that claimants one of those things where honestly they werent behind them so if its a lie that spread enough times and eventually becomes the truth and regular americans sitting at home or watching this on fox news or c. N. N. And theyre like well they said iran is after us and theyre killing our soldiers so now we have to go after them good point good point just going to say oh but he. Just is joe but i am. Lets rip. Member this is the twitter of a draft dodging power when it was time for theres a guy there serve what did he do he paid big money and got out of that thats why hes a tough guy because he himself never would ever fight himself he told your colt and let you fight who tough guy on twitter but not in real life its not exactly what i say just a example of a bully who should not be a leader in any way shape or form like at all because like i said earlier when you if you eventually are big bad bill youre going to get hit back in the mouth and he its just a bunch of empty threats it is that and that 3 is the danger i see in that kind of thing its like look i dont i have im fine with you want to talk policy on twitter you want to tweet out what your ideas are for the country want to have that communication with your base directly and not have to go through the media fine you can do all that but we dont need to turn twitter into like a 16 year old war that i see in high school between countries i mean see and then they all run as leader fire back at Donald Donald but i get that im tired of it i dont want to see it anymore and i honestly just dont like a lot of people who go to the social media his tweets manner yeah i dont know i dont think were going to do that matinee have this viral and implication and until until we get a president who doesnt own a cell phone or doesnt is not on social media i dont think were going to see that end anytime soon all right weve got to move on as we go to break card watchers dont forget to let us know when i think of the topics weve covered on our social media be sure to check out watch dogs the podcast which is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you listen to your favorite not so paper podcast coming up the panel thats discuss the violent start to the 2020 here in the United States and then finally we journey into the land of basketball and look into the legacy of n. B. A. Commissioner david stern and stay tuned to watch in the fall. This idea as you point out the anecdotally cheney fired all the cia agents in the field because they were too sympathetic to the locals and he felt that was a liability in the major media spheres of washington d. C. They dont want those reporters those stars to rub elbows in the great ottawa show the flyover states because they may become sympathetic to the working class they may become sympathetic to the to the disenfranchised of america. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military and the decision. Every song came to a complete. The day that i was right. To hold a shot to kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me this berthing area if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing have happened but ive never seen trauma like ive seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma is more likely to get the victim punished to be a friend and almost 10 year career which shows very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an hour in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or woman. On january 1st of all most of us were waking up with a hangover and some. Memories of what was a glitter champagne or beer in peace some of us were not so lucky some of us waking up with a loved one in the hospital or even worse the morgue thanks to a friend stranger a loved one who misused or on purpose used a gun to inflict hurt in fact the New York Times reported that in just the city of st louis by new years morning the police were investigating 10 shootings including 5 deaths across that city the times went on to highlight that during the 48 hours of new years celebrations a man in cleveland firing off a gun to celebrate accidently killed his girlfriend in florida 2 men were killed in a shooting inside a nightclub and in baltimore which closed 2019 with the citys 2nd highest number of homicides on record the police were investigating 2 killings that happened a few hours before midnight and these were just a few examples of multiple shootings and killings that took place across the country just in time to welcome a new year so as we start this new decade with what appears to be no end in sight to gun related violence i asked this panel what would you like to see over the next decade take place when it comes to curbing gun violence start with the panel that rachel. What i think is one of those things that is going to take a cultural shift in you know we look at places where theyve theres some cities where theyve tried to enact gun control and theyve tried to enact different simply how that works you know specifically when you look at chicago and there are other places where its just a cultural thing and theres going to be a number of ways than answers that work for different cities and i think that whenever you look at these places you have to look at how well the police are dealing with this whether theyre even dealing with it all whether theyre just looking at it and letting it go by and not really whether theyre spending more time you know sending their swat teams to these huge marijuana bust and they are looking at these different homicides and i think thats something that were. Going to tackle in the next decade most of all and most of it i just see what do you see what can actually curb gun violence in your mind as im not i know youre a big 2nd amendment advocate. Well heres the deal look at it you know lets take a look at mexico for a moment mexico practices strict gun control theres big signs at the border you cant bring in a weapon you cant even carry ammunition or you go straight to mexican prison you dont even get 200 bucks for crash and go but the point being is that the point being is that they practice strict gun control its the old cliches the good people dont have them the bad people do because how many people died of gun violence in mexico now clearly we need to do better background checks people that are on Drugs Pharmaceutical drugs and mental drug should not have access to weapons and guns we need there would be a better job of that but it could start with our own government our own government setting the stage for us we are the larger seller of weapons throughout the world today whats the difference between a gun death or a rocket death somewhere else both of them kill women and children in the end and our government should take the example by getting off their high horse of being the largest arms dealer in the world then come and talk to be about my gun. Dealer you for. Some more phone. This has been one of the most daily is the is closing with 348 is. You know understand every argument for the 2nd amendment i get it says hasnt been working even when you tried tough gun laws to Police Officers out playing guns on people that didnt have them thats got a lot going to people who are actually shooting people so its almost like weve gotten to a place where we need to put a policy on the 2nd amendment and we think that its out me of im in south florida. Doesnt feel good. Ive been ive really hear stories about how old because this person had a gun they saved this family 2 over because this person had a good there wasnt this mass shooting l