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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

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You should subscribe to the show notes. It's the very first link you get back, but also follow me around social media. I want to begin in a different way today, but obviously talking about Iran out of the gate. I want to play for you some audio. This is from Senator Chris Murphy. I don't want to play the whole thing. Chris Murphy,

the senator from Connecticut, those of you up on WIC, WIC, WIC, I'm sorry this is your senator. But let's

listen to this for just a moment from the floor of the Senate yesterday. Six Americans have

already died for an illegal war that no one in this country wants. 900 to 1,000 people in the region have died.

U.S. embassies all over the region are under attack.

Thousands of Shia Muslims in Pakistan right now are protesting.

A Shia insurgency targeting the United States in the works.

Iranian missile and drone attacks have hit targets as far away as Cyprus.

Oil prices up by 9%. Gasoline prices, their largest one-day increase in 20 years.

Natural gas prices up 45%. The region is in chaos. American consumers are paying the price.

And for what? We still don't even know the reason for this war.

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