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I dont think we had any other choice - GOP Rep. Tim Burchett on Iran war · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: For more. Now, we are joined by Republican congressman from
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Representative
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  Speaker 1: timber Chet. Thank you so much for your time tonight. Congressman.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen escalations on both sides in the war with Iran,
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  Speaker 1: resulting in more US service members being killed. What does
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  Speaker 1: this mean for the chances of a permanent peace deal?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's tragic that three Americans lost their life, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: I would hope it would drive us more towards getting
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  Speaker 2: a peaceful resolve to this thing. I was hoping in
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  Speaker 2: the beginning that we could handle it all through economic measures.
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  Speaker 2: We've had great success with that in the past, and
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the President's strongest points. But when it
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  Speaker 2: was revealed that their capabilities reached way outside of the
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  Speaker 2: area with their nuclear capability, I don't think we had
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  Speaker 2: any other choice.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, President Trump campaigned on no more forever wars,
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  Speaker 1: but we are now more than four months into the
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  Speaker 1: war with Iran. At what point does this become another
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  Speaker 1: forever war? And what do you to say to those
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  Speaker 1: critics who say I voted for him so that we
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't get involve in any other wars.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually, I would probably correct them because, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: the war began in nineteen seventy nine when they took
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  Speaker 2: seventy seven American hostages at the embassy. They've continued to
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  Speaker 2: export terrorism throughout the world. I think they do about
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred million dollars annually supporting CAMAS and other terrorist groups.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a continue ition of what's been going on,
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  Speaker 2: and it's been advanced.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, you opposed US intervention in Iran and you
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  Speaker 1: said that quote, you don't see American boys and girls
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  Speaker 1: going to a far away land that many of us
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even find on a map. You later changed your
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  Speaker 1: mind and supported the president's strikes. At this point in
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  Speaker 1: the conflict, where do you stand? Should American troops still
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  Speaker 1: be fighting this war?
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  Speaker 2: I think we need to put it to an end, Maam,
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  Speaker 2: as quick as possible. Look, they're leaders, they honestly that
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  Speaker 2: last about as long as a as a as a
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  Speaker 2: play to smothered hash browns at a waffle house.
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  Speaker 3: That would be the worst.
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  Speaker 2: Job in the world to have right now, to be
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  Speaker 2: a leader in Iran, because you know we've got your number.
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  Speaker 2: I think what you're going to see is eventually we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get down to a leader over there who
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  Speaker 2: understands the situation, is tired of seeing their people die needlessly,
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  Speaker 2: and it is going to yield to the ninety percent
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  Speaker 2: of the people who agree with American policies, not with
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  Speaker 2: this far out Islamic belief system. So I think eventually
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get there. It's just sometimes go a
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  Speaker 2: little slower, you get there a little faster, And unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those cases. And it's horrific that
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  Speaker 2: Americans are losing their life.
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  Speaker 1: The price of oil, as you know, gone back up
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  Speaker 1: because of the recent escalations. If this war doesn't end soon,
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  Speaker 1: agains prices don't come back down. How concerned are you
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  Speaker 1: that Republicans might face major losses in the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: There's only two ways to run an election, man, I'm scared,
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  Speaker 2: none opposed.
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  Speaker 3: I've said that for years.
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  Speaker 2: I think more of the price of oil has to
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  Speaker 2: do with the greed of with the big oil companies.
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  Speaker 2: We don't buy any oil from Iran, and currently we're
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  Speaker 2: an export now excuse me, we're an export nation. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure we buy all through there and through other sources.
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  Speaker 2: But the reality is is the oil companies are greedy,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll have them here for some hearings and then
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  Speaker 2: you know, they'll make it rain with the contributions, and
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  Speaker 2: then both parties will back off like they always do.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how I keep making these statements, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why I never get any money from Big Old But frankly,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want it.
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  Speaker 3: It's blood money.
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  Speaker 2: If you ask me, they've got us literally over a barrel.
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  Speaker 2: You need to ask these oil companies buy. The price
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  Speaker 2: of oil at a hardware store doesn't go up. Yet
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  Speaker 2: the gas and those pumps goes up when a conflict starts,
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  Speaker 2: and that gas in those pumps, just like that oil
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  Speaker 2: at the hardware store, has already been paid for.
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  Speaker 1: The stated goal, as you know, for the war with Iran,
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  Speaker 1: was to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The
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  Speaker 1: President called it an imminent threat. If the war were
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  Speaker 1: to end tomorrow, will the US have achieved that goal.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so, ma'am. I think we've got to
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  Speaker 3: make sure.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is the nuclear material, as I understand it
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  Speaker 2: is still in the ground, and we hit them at
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  Speaker 2: a particular time where it would be sealed up. And
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  Speaker 2: of course you have to worry about the if it
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  Speaker 2: would have been on top of the ground, it could
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  Speaker 2: have it could have gone into other nations, It could
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  Speaker 2: have get into the water table other things of surrounding
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  Speaker 2: nations that are peaceful. There was a whole lot of
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  Speaker 2: mechanism there, and it was really American greatness when we bombed.
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  Speaker 2: I ran the first time and sealed those sealed the
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  Speaker 2: nuclear material in those in those caves because it was.
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  Speaker 3: A perfect timing. They dropped a bomb from.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty thousand feet and literally it was the size of
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  Speaker 2: a refrigerator door that it had to go into, and
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  Speaker 2: it did.
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  Speaker 3: That is American excellence.
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  Speaker 2: But we still have to make sure that they can't
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  Speaker 2: get to it, and that's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: That's what bothers me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to have troops on the ground, or
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  Speaker 2: as i've heard, engineers on the ground to get to
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  Speaker 2: get the nuclear material out. I think as long as
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  Speaker 2: we can use satellite maintenance of that or maintaining it
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  Speaker 2: or viewing it, and we can make sure that them
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  Speaker 2: or the Chinese or any one else of our adversaries
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  Speaker 2: is not assisting them.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Burchette, always appreciate your time. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you ma'am, your class act