Expert Audits the True Cost of the Iran War and What the Pentagon Is Hiding From You

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  Stephen Selmer, thank you very much for coming on.

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  The reason I'm so excited to talk to you is because it's hard to find anyone who pays attention to the numbers.

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  It's easy to find people with opinions

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  and sweeping theories about this, that or the other, the rise and fall of nations.

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  But to find someone who actually keeps track of what we're spending on this or that or what people

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  think about this or that as recorded in public opinion polling, pretty hard, actually.

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  And you are probably the most famous person who keeps track.

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  So thank you very much for doing this.

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  So let me just ask you, let's start with the Iran war.

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  It's popularity.

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  So, like, democracy kind of demands if you're going to do big things

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  that you've got public buy-in because you're doing it on behalf of the public, purportedly.

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  How is this war viewed by the public in the United States?

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  It's the most unpopular war since polling began.

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  Really?

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah.

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  Wow.

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  The first poll, according to this joint poll that's been conducted

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  on a near weekly basis since the start of the war through the present by The Economist and YouGov.

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