Iran War Continues On

0:00How appropriate on this National Hugga GI day we have a fabulous veteran that I've known since he was a little boy because I've been friends with his dad and mom for as long as I've known them, which is a long time. He is Captain Michael Bouchard, Army Peretrooper, Bronze Star recipient. He happens to also be running for Congress in the 10th district and he is an all-round good guy and on the other end of our line, Captain, if I could, I would hug you today because it's Hugga GI day. Paul, I'm going to be told I didn't know that holiday existed. I'm glad to know it does. Look forward to giving you a hug down the road and thanks for having me on. Well, we'll hug again because we've hugged before and I do find some of the strangest holidays. That sounds worth noting and an important one. Let me first, since you're the only guy I've talked to since this war began or this

1:04incursion or whatever anybody wants to call it, since we attacked, like we should have, Iran, give me your thoughts on this, your overall thoughts on what's happening in Iran and what's happening in the United States. I'd love to hear it. Yeah, you know, it's interesting because when the 12-day war kicked off about eight months ago, I was in Iraq and I fought through the 12-day war, which was a definitely interesting experience, but it kind of formulated a lot of my views on it now since I was there last time. But I know for it's a fact that Iran has killed thousands of U.S. killed and injured thousands of U.S. servicemen and women. Diatola has blood on his hands. The now deceased diatola has blood on his hands and he wanted to keep hurting Americans on the road. So the fact that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon now shows that American leadership is back and we're going to keep defending this country. We're going to keep bringing this country first. I appreciate that view. As a soldier, you have the right to have a view.

2:05You were there and you're just back and you served brilliantly, Bronstar and all the other accolades and awards that you got, Captain Michael Bouchard. Now tell me, when you're overseas, are you at all aware of the discord or anything that's going on or do you get the feeling when you're not being supported by certain politicians over here or do you wipe all of that out of your minds or does it bother you? I would say it's situational, sometimes you are aware that politicians aren't backing you and I've seen it affect my soldiers and their families. When I was in Iraq for the 12-day war, I wasn't really paying attention to any of the outside noise. I knew that this administration supports our military and to be honest, we were pulling 18-hour days just folks on tracking the missiles and drones originally up Iran and trying to defend other service members there that our main focus was just on fighting the fight. And I know that's where the service members who are currently in Iraq and Syria and Jordan

3:10and Saudi Arabia across the entire Middle East are just folks on defending their brothers and sisters right now and it's our job as Americans to support them. I mean, this shouldn't be a political issue. If you want to talk after the fact about war powers, whatever, go have that conversation. But the fact that there's Americans in combat right now, we need to support them. Oh my, that's exactly how I feel and that's exactly what I've said on the air. You can argue about all this other stuff, but not when our boys and girls are in active duty in the field being shot at that this is the time all Americans, including the knuckleheads in Washington, should be without any hesitation supporting those kids. Yeah, all the fact that they want to force a vote on the War Powers Act this week instead of just focusing on fighting the fight. Let's fight this fight. Let's bring our service men and women home safe and let's win. Let's defangir on and then you can have the conversation about War Powers Act in fact. Them fight to fight right now.

4:10I just, it's astonishing to me the hypocrisy captain and the hypocrisy of some of the Democrat women who stand up for women as well. They should and women's rights and understand that this I atola and the one before him stripped women of all of their rights. And now there's a chance that they're going to get those rights back again. You should be hearing from these people shouting in the streets how much they support this. This shouldn't be a political issue. These are mass murdering thugs who want to have a nuclear bomb. They want to oppress women in their own country. They have people walking around with sticks beating women for not wearing hijabs. So if you truly are a woman's right supporter, then you should support this. If you support defending America and not having having weapons of mass destruction brought to our shores, Iran chance death to America every day when someone tells you who they are believe them. That's absolutely right. Now, should you be fortunate enough to become a congressman in the 10th district?

5:11How would you look at the threat of terror attacks on our soil? So the government's job, their number one job is to keep their people safe. I have the experience because I've seen it abroad. I've seen what happens when we don't defend American lives. I don't want that to come to our country. We need people who have the experience and day one to stop it. And unfortunately, nobody else in this race does. I don't want to make this a political issue. The only thing we should be focusing on is defending our country. And that is what I'm going to bring to the district on day one. Captain, where do people find out more about you and your campaign and what you stand for? What to website do we go to? Yeah. I have an awesome team in the website. It's Bouchard for Congress. All right. The more people, the better. Okay. Bouchard for Congress dot com Bouchard B O U C H A R D Bouchard for Congress dot com. Captain Michael Bouchard, Army paratrooper, broad star recipient running for Congress in the 10th district.

6:15We wish you good luck, my friend. Thanks, boss. Not gonna be on with you. Oh, it's our honor to have you, sir. As we continue in focus with Paul W Smith, I'm W J R.