It's like the Iraq War But Stupider
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots, LLC
4.5 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning news shows that you don't have to. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Katie Halper. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Mary Mate. |
| 0:07.0 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:08.3 | Great to start the week with you and some of the most evil people on corporate TV. |
| 0:13.2 | Our website is useful idiots, podcast.com. |
| 0:16.2 | Go there to support the show and get bonus content. |
| 0:19.8 | If you are watching this live with this right now, there are two options. |
| 0:23.7 | There's like the normal option and then there's also the mobile option. |
| 0:27.0 | If you happen to be on the mobile option, you want to be in the normal option. |
| 0:30.0 | The link should be right there at the top of the description. |
| 0:32.1 | Go to the normal one. |
| 0:34.2 | But this is not a normal week because you're in the midst of Trump and Netanyahu's regime change war on Iran, which is bringing terror to people across the region in ways that are not normal for Israel. |
| 0:48.0 | Usually Israel just normalizes the people of the West Bank, the people of Gaza, people of Lebanon. |
| 0:54.0 | Now, of course, people of Iran are feeling the brunt as well. |
| 0:58.2 | Some of Israel and the U.S.'s recent attacks include a water desalination plant, |
| 1:04.0 | oil infrastructure, which sent toxic clouds over Tehran, seriously threatening people's health. |
| 1:11.6 | Of course, there was a school massacre which kicked off this regime change war, which we're going to talk more about. |
| 1:19.6 | Which apparently is not a war. |
| 1:21.6 | And many other targets, civilian infrastructure targets that the U.S. and Israel have hit. And also Lebanon |
| 1:30.8 | and Gulf nations are involved. And for reasons that the media seems to be missing. But that's |
| 1:37.4 | another story. But yes, there is more havoc than usual. And it's all the result of the actions of Israel and the United |
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