welcome to currently speaking i'm andrew feldman with my co host unison ilia fishman how you guys doing glad to hear it live here so let's go to the headlines so over this past week there is a very sad story so a very sad story you have two teenagers eighteen and nineteen years old all seniors in high school going off to college guys first thoughts on the story always tragic when something like this happens and we have know if anyone knows these people they have counselors going counselors all week at needham high school for support but it's just been a very tragic week for needham high school last year i know they had a suicide in need of my school so it's been of tough year for so it may help some to talk to talk to fans to deal with their family and times of crisis and to other students it may help to organize awareness groups for for junk driving and help to correct the problem i just hope teach the school and i hope it's there to teach the people who are coping not to not to drunk driving not to go in at a reasonably high speeds and that's that's the best way there are the two boys memories live on in this hope that people will remember them and not abuse in all the roadways like these two on fortunately did not pull up a picture of them there we have a picture on a of them let's take a look at that and there are two kids you know very sad eighteen and nineteen years old about to graduate from high school just all i have thoughts and prayers are with the families i  in any final words on this issue it's always tragic when something of this happens but we need to learn from it and try to move on i agree with tom completely it was a tragedy it's sad to see  last week about how you know people who are mostly unstable in schools want to make sure everyone is ok coping well in the society so make sure you seek out help with moving on to another issue john kerry makes headlines again in the news this week john kerry was education if you make the most of it you study hard you do your homework and make an effort to be smart you can do well if you don't you'll be stuck in iraq very controversial statement by john kerry has sent you know numerous operators right now in throw out all the united states all republicans are bashing him what are you guys when you heard about this story what you guys have to say i think it's ridiculous i mean the  but the social i think i'm a picture laughing at kerry because i agree with you the republicans did run with it and they are good strategist politically speaking in kerry's clearly known because he should have conveyed his i think it was a i think it was a stab at bush  is you know supposedly intellectual intellection into intellect but he didn't do it eloquently enough and he ended up losing the very it was a very poor judgment by john kerry i mean i support the man but you know go up this is not just an issue because you are so this is criticized this comment end up criticizing the soldiers of the united states to talk i mean without the soldier the united states we'd be in a lot of trouble a bit defend us and you know this he really lost what he was supposed to say he meant to say if you don't study hard you don't you're not you don't make an effort then all of us then if you don't if you don't then we'll get all of us then all of us will get stuck in iraq for a bash saying that the that the president bush is on ed of people i mean you don't have everyone in the you know some soldiers are offended because that they feel that you showed is showing making john kerry say ok you think we're stupid well look like it's kind of like feeding on what john kerry said that  of the soldiers not to george bush he said he would not apologize for good bush and i know i buried him yet i praise him for that that's what this country is for we have freedom of speech we can say what we want but just be careful because you know if it wasn't for the servicemen we have been a lot of trouble i just think that the general tendency of making bush is dumb jokes should end because at this point in life it's a joke the dumb people and we need to let it go because there's no purpose but you know it's not funny really is oh come on he really is like there's if you look as approval ratings right now you know he really has to learn that he continues to make mistakes i mean it is not that it's not false it i don't know i'm not going to go is what are we doing in iraq well he should have thought it out better well yes although you know hopefully this gets over with hopefully do you think this could affect the way next week's elections could form out some of the governor just the congress races intentional you know fall all right so moving staying with the topic of the government of the all the elections happening on this tuesday november seventh remember to go out and vote we heard this past before the show started that our cameraman calm was not going to vote very important vote that's one of our rights in this country it's necessary to do if you don't do it you might as well not be able to so you guys remember to go out and vote but let's get back to the  gubernatorial race you have the final debate last night the four candidates we remember let's remind everyone deval patrick for democrat kerry healey republican christie my news is the independent running and of course grace ross who we had on the show is the green flash rainbow party guys feelings on this who's going to win i think it's always it's always bad to call an election right before an election as deval patrick is clearly the and he is you know he's he's sitting there writing notes to support it to remember to go out and vote and your point is that it is very important to go out and vote and the party and this will be seen a lot of they should vote not for the party for the principle of democracy and i i believe that we cannot have a democratic governor governor in massachusetts because we have we believe we really are a really blue state and most of our legislature democratic and we need somebody to counterbalance that proves that democracy and i feel that people are just voting as if they were rooting for a football team and they need to be in this in this election i don't think people of voting for priority i think people are that he was accomplished because we have seen again with this administration that it has again what that exactly mitt romney did not do what people wanted to do he did not he was not very fair role in this commonwealth and lieutenant governor kerry h has been a part of that for the past four years so why would people want to vote her in if they didn't like what they've seen them in administration so it's i think it's good for a change we need to you know we have not had it you guys might think that the state is very democratic which  democratic right which it is but we have not had a democrat in the get governor spot for a long time and i would use a reason for that but what has what has come out of the state since we have not tonight that we're losing population and things are not going well for the state of massachusetts see that's that's the problem i'm afraid that after all with the midterm elections everybody going to say well the republican the republicans as a party did nothing good some who might say that and then just because of that they will vote for all democrats which are will produce results and they voting against someone that they know well it's very strong point well let me just jump there they're not voting i don't even know if they're voting for a fresh face they're voting for change people of the united states and math just have not change there's nothing that's happened you have so what about who you have in the race republican democratic it's a war you know you need change that's what i think people should know that was true then they would vote for the two parties two of the huge parties they would vote for some of the other candidates which by the way we have well i mean that is a faulty in a fall campaign strategy in our political process to you know government however i don't think democrat versus republican has anything to do with as it plays such a major role as you say in this campaign i think it all to me christie all the way baby i love christie and you know he he's just really easy to talk to he's hilarious you know i think he would be do a great job running the state but you know he's going to come on people change your mind independent we want independent running that's you know it would be great because so right now we've got to like get even if it's for the smallest thing even if your vote does not count even if your vote you don't think is going to make a difference it does count you know that's what democracy does that's why you should take advantage of it because it might not always be here so you need to take advantage of that so long here to our major discussion topic of the day which is iraq iraq has continued to struggle we are still have one hundred thirty plus thousand troops in iraq right now this past month of october was the deadliest month this year in iraq over a hundred over one hundred american soldiers have were killed this past month and it was the fourth deadliest month in the whole since the war began that is an amazing statistic that haven't started off good in the month of november five or six people died yesterday guys when is it when will iraq be enough enough is enough so i think  a democracy not getting any more stable as you see and we have no exit strategy things think the court there is no course what course is there we've been there the whole country is in civil war no i don't think we have  gotten any sort of course let's say in iraq let's take a look at the map of iraq we're going to see where where you know where we're actually fighting and what is iraq around iraq because that's an important issue where iraq is located so that map would be there it is there's a map of iraq see you if you look in the upper left hand corner and you see syria and the upper right hand corner you see iran those are two very dangerous countries right there you know the poor into iraq you have the shia population and now if you have the shiites and sunni and kurds all fighting in iraq it's very dangerous thing situation what you guys think about all this is an interesting point and you know bush believes in the down more than a domino effect in the middle east that if we create a democracy in iraq that the other countries like syria and iran will follow with that with the invasions of a democracy however we know i don't think any nation on the face of the planet can claim to know how to build a democracy a democracy in a foreign country or how just how to build a country and what trying impossible i agree with the poor brother you're on in that first of all they're not ready for democracy to build any sort of cohesive regime a sort of evolution has to happen as it did in our country right we were under the british and we had the whole process in europe it happened for longer and i don't think it's possible just rain democracy one down to one to a group of people who can all accept i mean now we have right now are us in their foreign occupiers in iraq right now is so dangerous i mean if you we have people pouring in people are using it as pretty much a battleground they don't care if you know they reckon building or two it's just it's very dangerous when it what's what's the solution right now for  i believe that the course for iraq should be to try to split up within those nations and have those nations create their own government i mean the courage already have kurds it has kurds have been trying growing station for terrorism right now yeah al qaeda there you have all different types of groups and shiites who hate americans and hate sunni muslims are there they're common and like i said from iran and syria it's very dangerous is there a civil war in acrimony between and have been forever saddam actually kept civil war from from spring up artificially he basically gassed anybody who would oppose him and he didn't have order in this country nobody was blowing up any mosques and now with the with no order in the country they are doing that when we have to look at and be really careful about this is a quagmire and inevitably if we do leave or when we leave because we can't stay there forever it will it's a question of geopolitics when we leave iran and syria are very likely to support the shiites and when iraq right or and it will become another irani type government which will not be favorable to the united states or i believe the western world at all that's a good point just scary thought if you're george bush in this situation and george bush right now i'm putting you in george bush's shoes your first move president the united states i have i don't know if those are some big shoes to fill what i do think is tired of this less and less people support the war and he was ninety percent recently some economists said it was ninety percent of the people who supported the war which is nothing it does a tiny minority so that's what i think eighty four percent of voters support to support the war voted by the boss and if you also if you look at this and say you know george bush is scared of change right now and that's what i think the country needs change but we can't just we can't just run out of iraq right now we still have to you know maybe instead of increasing troop we should be decreasing decreasing group troops but you can't just run out right now well i mean i really i just a complete mess georg let's bring up another issue that has been affecting our country because of the occupation in iraq is money we are in billions of dollars in debt right now we're spending billions of dollars every week on iraq where we could be spending them on you know education and making people in the country smarter rather than spending spending money for killing people well that's true and we do need we do need to   think if they do form we need we need some sort of centralized government in iraq that we can deal with we cannot solve this problem militarily i'm going to tell you that right now what  job our country has done with this i think it's just been is a complete wreck right now i don't even have a positive solution that i could think of right now that we pull out of iraq completely right now trying to go in complete turmoil now so someone else will take over and of all the whole process of getting them that of why we got in there first place to get rid of a bad dictator will start all over again well i don't even know what to do i think we should just pull the plug i think we should do i think we should split up into shiites and keep diplomatic ties with iraq and say the troops are let's let's take a look here's another question for you comparing a couple different issues who is a bigger threat to the united states what's a bigger threat to the united states north korea or the the turmoil in iraq that could be could iran could fit into that i think the middle east because i believe that  money because every time north korea needs some kind of aid it waves a nuclear missile around and it does it does a test and nobody has even proven the senses yes actually they did come out and prove that the government to come out and say this was a nuclear test well i still buy still looking for a hard guys let's bring up another issue in the middle east that has occurred you know in this past few days israel is back in the news they're jumping back into the gaza strip you know they've gone through you know they shot they killed six palestinian soldiers it was pretty much through you know military military combat but do you what do you think do you think that this situation in iraq could have felt effect israel at all what do you think i  believe israel is its own case is they have been wars in that part of the world says the beginning of civilization but you want you don't want to have wars there forever  israel they can keep saying that israel needs to help them and should help them because they don't have any any infrastructure there is nothing to build an economy upon you completely i mean just in the middle east a very scary topic right now so many different issues the whole world is in a bit of turmoil this election coming up in the next couple days on tuesday will be a very important election for i think shaping this country if congress changes and hopefully will see some changes overseas just right now in the middle east  ego i hope you guys stand strong realize that your friends are with you and reach out reach out to people don't get stuck inside yourselves reach out so and we also want to give a shout out to our director of programming here at the belmont media caitlin she got married this past week congratulations to her and her new family so is that we just want to again recognize that all of the opinions here on the show today are our own they do not reflect upon the