Trump's Military Industrial Complex Warning, 9/11, and the Iraq War w/Bryan Callen | Joe Rogan

That is something that politicians do. They utilize this moment to try to use it to leverage their own causes, their own pet causes, things that they think are also important. There are a group of people that did that with the invasion of Iraq. When 9-11 came along, they said, look, Iraq is harboring Al-Qaeda terrorists. They probably are getting weapons into the hands of people like Al-Qaeda. There was a whole story that was woven up, and that was a way of essentially crippling the fourth largest army in the world, which was Iraq, and making our allies. Did you ever hear of the Bill Hicks bit? He goes, they said, Bill, Iraq is the fourth largest army. He goes, yeah, but after the first three, there's a real big drop off. He's like, the fifth largest is a Salvation Army. That's so true. They had a whole great bit about the size of armies. Well, we were in Afghanistan for, how long was it, guys? 18 years. He goes, hey, Bill, they say, Bill, it's a war when there's two armies fighting. Yeah. He goes, but Bill, Iraq is the fourth largest army in the world. Doesn't mean we won't stay there. He had some great bits, man, some great points about shit. Yeah. Thought outside the box. That's what I'm always amazed at is how these things can carry on. Somebody did a really cool, funny thing about how every general in the Iraq, in the Afghanistan theater, every single year would say, we are at a turning point where the Taliban will be under our control. Every time they would make a case for the Iraq war, more money, I'm sorry, for the Afghan war, more money, more logistics, all those things that required more troops, the generals would say, we are, it was always the same wording, we're at a turning point and we just need a little more. Well, that's what they have to say. But what's interesting is if they really did accomplish that, they'd actually cut off the honey pot. Of course. They wouldn't have the money coming. That's right. That's the darkest conspiracy ever that war is prolonged in order to prop up the military industrial complex. What's really crazy about the military industrial complex is when there was Eisenhower talking about it on TV, which was really terrifying. That was when the first people were introduced to this concept. But Trump was talking about it recently. Trump's doing this thing. He's like, well, there's a military industrial complex and these guys want to go to war. He's just saying it casually. Like, hey, man, who are you talking about? Who are these fucking people? There's a lot of money in it. Oh my God. And not only that, there are other people, non-governmental organizations too that get raided by their burn rate. So we're going to build a dam here. Well, we don't need a dam here, but we're going to build it anyway because we're a lot of that money. There's a lot of that goes on. So that's why with conspiracy theories, I'm way more apt to believe that the government is way more incompetent than it is competent. It's just a massive bloated bureaucracy that doesn't run well. And I know, I know guys, I know there's a group of people controlling everything the fuck out of here. There's a little bit of that. There's definitely a lot of incompetence, but there's also a lot of collusion. There's also a lot of people doing things specifically because they know it's profitable. You can make money. Yes.