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July 7, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2005, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, maybe we just ought to get out of Iraq.
Maybe we just ought to close Gitmal, get out of Iraq, and stop all of this.
How long do you think it's going to be before we start hearing that in earnest?
We have heard it already today.
There are people already saying that.
You know they're out there saying that.
I am seething here today, folks.
I may be angry over a bunch of things.
I can't even tell you all of them, but this is just really.
Anyway, greetings and welcome.
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I certainly hope that the Churchill generation still has some breath in it in the UK and it's not become a Spain or a Madrid.
I hope that the whole concept of toughness and perseverance and victory didn't get buried over there with Churchill.
It doesn't seem to have been in Tony Blair, but we will soon find out.
I was thinking back, folks, to September 11th.
You know, I didn't get back to this microphone until 2.30 that day.
Had only a half hour of the program to do.
I was on my way to Omaha.
I was actually in the air when 9-11 happened, and the air traffic control ordered all aircraft on the ground by an hour and 15 minutes, which was not enough time where I was to turn around and get back to my home.
So we got about within 45 minutes, had to rent a car and drive down there.
And I didn't see any pictures of 9-11 until I got back here to the office at 2.30.
But I'll never forget the first thing that I said when I hit this studio and microphone that afternoon.
And I'm going to say it here again today, that the attack on 9-11 was not an attack on America.
And this attack on London today is not an attack on London.
This is an attack on Western civilization.
And they are going to continue until everybody that's opposed to these kinds of attacks unites and gets together and fights this as it should be fought.
We've got too much dissension in the ranks.
We've got too much political partisanship going on, not just in this country, but around the world.
And there are too many people taking too many actions that encourage the kind of thing that happened in London today and weaken the resolve of those who would prefer to stand against it.
Because make no mistake about this, this was not an attack on London.
And this has nothing to do with the fact that the Brits joined us in Iraq.
It has nothing to do with the Brits have started pulling troops out of Iraq, by the way, and they've announced that.
It may have to do with the G8.
It may have to do with what this kind of thing was happening before 9-11.
This kind of thing was happening before we went to Iraq.
This kind of thing was happening when Bill Clinton was president.
This happened to Americans all over the world.
It happened to us in 1993 at the World Trade Center in an attack that's similar to this in terms of scope.
3,340 people somewhere in that neighborhood.
Okay, 33 confirmed dead, but the bus fatalities are not counted yet.
Over 1,000 injured and 150 seriously.
It's not a dead-on parallel, but it's fairly close to what happened in 1993.
We didn't do diddly squad.
Oh, I take that we did.
We prosecuted.
Terrorism cannot be wished away, folks, and it cannot be ignored and it cannot be prosecuted away in the courts.
We are not going to win the war on terror with federal judges usurping the authority of the commander-in-chief in terms of how he gets information from prisoners, how he fights the war on terror, but that is, in fact, an attempt being made by the left in this country today.
Now, we've tried it that way.
We tried it that way throughout the 90s.
And you prosecute somebody, you find, and you convict them, and all you do is anger the terrorists who demand their release.
And if you don't release the convicted terrorists, then they promise to attack you again.
And that may be an element of what's happening here in Great Britain, too.
But all of these incidental reasons, the G8 summit, the war in Iraq, missed the boat.
This is an attack on Western civilization.
And it is an attack based on the belief of those who commit them that they can get away with it and that they can continue to get away with it.
You got two things you can do with terrorism.
You can surrender to it or you can defeat it.
There are no other options.
You can't appease them.
You can't get along with them.
You can't make treaties with them.
You can't negotiate with them.
You either surrender to it or you defeat it.
President Bush knows this.
And you hold out hope that the Bush haters might get it, but I don't have much hope in that regard.
As I think there's so much seething rage and hatred for Bush out there that the majority of the Bush haters are already gleefully blaming Bush for this and blaming the war in Iraq for this and blaming Afghanistan for this and feeling sorry for Tony Blair that Bush roped him into joining us in Iraq.
That's the kind of thing.
You can expect it to exist in a free country, but it's going to continue to be an impediment as those people represent forces who attempt to weaken our ability to not only take the offensive, but to defend ourselves as well.
But here's the interesting thing for those of you on the left to consider.
The terrorists today not only attacked civilization, they attacked you.
They attacked you liberals.
You leftists who may think that you're the ones who have the ability to forge a common understanding.
I wonder if the Brits will do what we did after 9-11.
I wonder if the Brits will convene at their version of the State Department a seminar exploring the question, why do they hate us?
You can do those seminars all day long, and you can even get the answer right, and it isn't going to help you a bit.
The evidence.
The terrorists attacked not only civilization today, but the left, the Hollywood crowd, the music crowd, the kumbaya crowd.
Today was supposed to launch the G8 meeting.
Leaders of the most prosperous nations are being coaxed to show up and for the umpteenth time save Africa.
End hunger.
End global warming.
End poverty.
Whether you buy the solutions that were on the table or not, the goals are certainly high-minded.
You could even say the goals are civilized, end poverty, end hunger, end global warming.
But there's a war against civilized thoughts out there, and the world gets another wake-up call today because here at this big leftist conclave known as the G8 Summit, it's occurring not far from where the blast took place.
And make no mistake, the terrorists have as one of their purposes, besides the death and mayhem, to become the subject matter of the G8 summit.
They want the attention focused on them.
Tony Blair says he's not going to let that happen.
We'll see.
Hope he doesn't let that happen.
But nobody is safe is the point.
You cannot make friends with these people and maintain your culture, your identity, and your way of life.
The healing nature of time, you know, some people forget what happens.
Others, you think that the passage of time will just enable everybody to wish this kind of evil away.
But thank goodness for Bush because he understood it from day one.
Today we get another reminder and another opportunity for even more people to understand it now, who maybe had had it slip from their mind.
Maybe had gotten caught up in the notion it's not going to happen again.
Some people probably say, well, it happened over there.
I'm not worried about you.
You may as well consider this an attack on us, folks.
It's an attack on our way of life.
It's an attack on our civilization.
And there's something, I just watched the briefing here that Michael Cherdoff did.
He's our director of Homeland Security.
And he said something that a lot of people, I think, are going to sniff at.
Oh, yeah, easy for you to say.
But he said, you know, we can't, when it comes to transit, be it public transit, we can't, train stations, subways, airports, those kinds of things, shipping ports.
We don't have the official government personnel to watch everything that happens there.
We need you.
He said, I want you, Americans, go to work today, use the public transit system, just be more vigilant.
And I'm sure some people sniff.
Oh, yeah, easy for you to say.
Be more vigilant.
Well, folks, it's going to require this kind of an effort.
When you get right down to it, we are a people that can take care of ourselves.
We do so in so other, many other walks of life.
But some reason, when it comes to government, we expect government to do everything for us, protect us, defend us, and so forth.
In circumstances like this, you never know who you might see or run into that doesn't look normal, that doesn't look right, look suspicious, and you can report it as somebody who didn't see it.
It is going to take that kind of involvement and that kind of awareness.
And a lot of people just don't want to go there because it's an interruption in a carefree life.
But this is just another wake-up call and another reminder that civilization, Western civilization, is under constant attack.
And make no mistake, it was planned, it was coordinated, and it was timed to coordinate with the G8 meeting.
It was, I think, all these other reasons that people are putting forth today.
Well, the one I would throw out would be the Olympics.
Nobody knew London was going to get the Olympics till this week.
I don't think that has anything to do with it.
I think the large factor is it's just our way of life and the surprise factor.
They continue to succeed in creating these attacks, these events when they are least expected in the places where people feel the safest.
And that should alarm everybody.
I'm a little long in the segment.
Let me take a quick time out.
We will be back and continue.
Have your phone calls in the program today.
And we'll go wherever we end up being led today by the events.
There are a lot of items here in the stack of stuff that have nothing to do with this, and I wouldn't mind getting to them, but we'll see.
We'll just follow this road as it's sort of like the navigation system in my car, which is really helpful.
I'll put in the address.
I'll do all the stuff necessary.
And then the female voice comes up and says, follow the road.
Whoa, okay.
Follow the road.
Which one?
There's a bunch of them out there.
We're going to follow the road today, folks, but I'm driving.
Back after this, stay with us.
Greetings.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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We have audio soundbites here from Tony Blair.
Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, has a nickname.
You may not know this, Ken the Red.
And it is the nickname.
Ken the Red is the nickname that is given for whatever reason you think when you hear that.
We have President Bush on tape, and we've got Brian Ross on Good Morning America today with the predictable liberal media spin that al-Qaeda has become much more skilled at urban warfare by training in Iraq.
The unstated implication is that we are responsible for this attack because by engaging the terrorists in Iraq, they have learned urban warfare.
Blah, blah, blah.
We'll get to all that in due course.
Speaking of the media, I've been watching it all morning like everybody else has.
And folks, this is going to be morbid.
It's going to sound morbid to some of you.
Those of you that are in the World War II generation or who have relatives that were will understand this.
But those of you who have no connection to anything beyond, say, 1970 or 1960, you're not going to, and I, like Dick Durbin, I'm going to apologize in advance for hurting your feelings, but I'm not going to apologize to what I'm going to say.
I am not.
I'm watching the media today, and all I'm seeing is doom and gloom.
I'm seeing hand-wringing anchors, talking to hand-wringing terror experts, talking to hand-wringing reporters, talking about, oh, how horrible.
Oh, how terrible.
Oh, this is just unbelievable.
Oh, woe is us.
Oh, what are we going to do?
And frankly, it offended me.
This is not the way to...
What is called for here is a controlled rage.
Not defeatism, and not pessimism, and not doom and gloomism, and not all woe is us.
And we don't need a bunch of people out there broadcasting all the old woe is us negative aspects of this all day long because they're plainly visible.
We dislike it.
We don't need reporters telling us how bad it is.
We can see it.
It's like we don't need reporters standing in five inches of snow in the wintertime to tell us it's snowing.
All we have to do is look out the window.
But if you go back, if you go back to World War II, Britain got far worse than this.
They were bombed daily by the Nazis.
And the only difference is they knew it was coming and they were prepared for it.
But look what happened.
Rebuilt the country.
These are tough people over there, just as we are tough people here.
And here's the morbid part.
And I think will be morbid to some of you.
And I really, I'm going to apologize if this offends you.
You've got how many millions of people running through this transit system in rush hour in the United Kingdom.
And what do we have?
We have 33 dead and 150 seriously wounded.
I wouldn't call this a successful terror attack.
I'd say these guys missed the boat.
If I were the Brits, I'd stand up and say, you think this is going to deter us?
You think this is going to stop us from being who we are?
We've been through worse than this.
We have dealt with worse from this, and we have triumphed over this.
You think this is something?
You think you've done something great today?
You're nothing but a bunch of cowards.
You don't have the guts to put on a uniform and attack us and tell us why.
You have to put suicide bombs on some of your worthless members, send them on board a bus, or hide out in some deep, dark subway tunnel, and then blow up people.
Well, we don't cower from cowards.
Now, that's, I would love seeing somebody say this today.
Instead of, oh, no, oh, no, it happened again.
It happened again.
Oh, no.
Are we next?
What are we going to do?
Mabel, Mabel, what?
Can the Supreme Court stop it?
Is there anything ReynQuest can do?
Now, if this offends you, again, as Dick Durbin, I apologize for hurting your feelings, but I think I'm being pretty consistent in this, folks.
This is not something, it ought not be something you think is unexpected.
Everybody's been talking about the next attack ever since 9-11.
Everybody's been wondering politically who's going to benefit from it, who's going to hurt from it.
Everybody's been saying, we know there's going to be an attack.
It's just last week, I think, wasn't it, Mr. Sterling?
I was here talking about there's going to be another attack.
Last week, exactly.
There's going to be another attack.
You could make book on it.
And that brought about a discussion.
Well, Rush, who do you think will get blamed for it?
And who do you think who will get credit?
And who will be hurt and harmed politically and so forth and so on?
And while those are interesting things to speculate about, and we did last week, it misses the point.
As long as we're continually on the defensive, as long as we are cowering in corners and waiting for the next to happen and hoping it's not too bad, and as long as we are engaged in this war on terror, and as long as we have committed U.S. men and women in uniform to sacrifice their lives to beat this thing, it makes sense to me to motivate them.
It makes sense to me to not undermine them.
It makes sense to me that you don't do things and say things and take action that actually encourage the people that we're fighting.
A question was asked in this program yesterday.
What if we were all united in this country?
Verbally, what if everybody who said anything about the war on terror was saying the same thing?
And that is, proud Americans, we're not going to stand for it.
You attack us again.
You're dead, blah, blah, blah.
What effect would that have on our military in terms of motivating them?
And what effect would it have on the enemy?
This cowering in the corners and slinking away and going, oh, no, is only encouraging them.
Quick timeout.
We will be back and continue in just a moment.
Welcome back, folks.
A pleasure and an honor to be with you today on the Russian Limbaugh program at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
So Senator Schumer, we heard yesterday Senator Chuck Schumer from New York decided that this Supreme Court battle is war.
And Democrats are going to declare war on the Supreme Court nomination.
Senator, might I ask you to consider something else?
You might just want to think about joining us in declaring war on Islamic terrorism first.
And then you can play your silly little ideological games however you wish, and you can lose again and again and again later.
But there's something that does take precedence.
Now, I know it may not happen today, but I know in ensuing days, in coming days, the left-wing kooks that have become the mainstream of the Democratic Party are going to gin up and are going to come out with their own explanations for this attack in London.
Here is just a sample.
It was a plot conceived by Karl Rove.
The plot was designed to lift the president's poll numbers as he went into the G8 summit and the Supreme Court vacancy.
Not to mention a trick to make everybody bend over and willingly accept the new Patriot Act or whatever judicial appointment Bush wants or whatever defense budget increase he wants.
You're going to hear and probably wackier things than this in the coming days.
Well, somebody will accuse Blair of knowing in advance and getting out of town.
He made sure he's at the G8 summit while London was attacked.
He was out of town.
Just like, what was that poet laureate in New Jersey, Amiri Amamub Baraki, I think is his last name, Barak, whatever his name was, you know, called up Sheila Jackson-Lee.
They talked about it and they convinced themselves that the Israelis are behind 9-11 because all the Jews got out of the World Trade Center before the attack.
So here's Blair getting out of London before these things happen up to the G8.
You can just imagine the kind of things that are going.
And the reason for this is because if I may get political for just a brief moment, I told you, you've been asking me since 9-11, Rush, if it happens again, does it hurt Bush?
No, it's not going to hurt the one guy that's out there trying to do something about it.
The people that are trying to pretend it didn't happen, I can name you any Democrat senator, any number of the American media trying to pretend 9-11 didn't happen, trying to make you think that all of these efforts to stop another attack are just a waste of money and some sort of silly little personal vendetta that Bush has, whatever excuse they came up with.
The Dick Durbans of the world who are out there wailing and moaning about Gitmo and Abu Grab and so forth.
They're the ones that are going to have to face cameras and explain themselves.
President Bush isn't.
Let me grab a couple phone calls here before we go to the audio soundbite roster.
This is Gabe in Dayton, Ohio.
Gabe, I'm glad you called and welcome to the program.
Sir, it is an honor to speak to you.
I've listened to you since I grew up with my dad, so it's great to speak with you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Well, I wanted to make the point that maybe this is a horrible thing what happened in London, but maybe it's more of a tribute to our guys.
I mean, Al-Qaeda definitely would love to hit us if they could, and maybe we're doing the right thing, you know, here in the States, but they didn't, you know, that I didn't wake up this morning and hear about attacking a Washington, D.C. or something.
Look, I admire the attempt here to look at this positively as you're trying to do.
But I don't, I would disagree.
I'm not going to draw that conclusion.
I think there are reasons why London was hit, among them surprise.
I have to.
I'm really going to be on the edge here today, folks, but I'm watching everybody.
We're going to raise the threat levels here.
We're going to raise the threat levels there.
We're going to do this.
Be more vigilant.
I would bet everything I have there's not going to be an attack in the United States today.
We're prepared for it today.
There's no surprise factor today.
Well, there's not going to be anything happened today here.
And if there is, then our increased level will catch it.
But that's not been the modus operandi of these people.
There are definite reasons why they hit London.
And one of them may be that it was easier than it is to hit us today.
I don't doubt that that's true.
And I think it is probably a little bit more difficult for these people to mount a surprise attack here since 9-11.
But nevertheless, the G8 summit, you can't erase that from the slate of reasons.
Didn't this attack occur at the same time of day as the first attack on 9-11 happened here?
8.57 in the morning.
And of course, the date today has nothing to do with 9-11.
It's not 9 or it's not 11.
There's no combination of those numbers in the dates.
But I don't look.
Let me grant you a little bit of a point, Gabe, but I don't think they didn't hit us because they can't.
I think they hit us, didn't hit us because it's harder to do.
And London had a more focused existence today and this week because of the G8 summit and a number of other things, plus the surprise factor.
Here's Zach in Woolworth, Wisconsin.
You're next, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Do you think that the attacks in the UK today will unite us with the Allies?
Or, you know, when Bush is blamed, will it serve as more of a divider?
I think in terms of the British in the United States, it'll only cause us to align even more.
What about the EU?
I mean, we contribute so much money to NATO every year that, you know, can they stand by anymore, really, and let it go?
Can NATO stand?
I don't understand what you're saying.
No, no, I know.
But can NATO stand by and let it go?
What do you mean?
Well, I mean the EU.
A lot of those.
Well, I think, look, it's tough to tell about this.
Talk about the French and some of these other Western socialist nations that were.
That's why I asked the question at the beginning of the program.
Are anybody in this country, any Americans, standing up and cheering?
Remember when 9-11 happened, a whole bunch of Europeans stood up and cheered, including in Great Britain, including in Ireland, including in France.
A lot of them were standing up and cheering because a lot of people thought, okay, big superpower, U.S. got what it deserved.
That's why I asked, is anybody in this country standing up and cheering over what happened to Great Britain?
No, there isn't.
It's not what we do.
I can't begin to predict the French or the Germans.
Based on recent experience, my best guess would be that they're going to try to do everything they can to blame Bush and Blair for this and blame Iraq for this and blame the whole war on terror.
Look, appeasers are appeasers.
Madrid got hit, and look what they did.
They cut and run.
They didn't join us.
They say, oh, you know what?
We now know what it feels like.
And we're with you, U.S.
They elected some guy to get them out of Iraq, and they had another attack after that anyway.
So the French are probably trying to find ways to pay off every al-Qaeda group they can so they don't get hit.
The Germans probably think they're too far north for al-Qaeda to be comfortable there.
I don't, I, I, I just appeasers are appeasers.
Leftists are leftists.
And if you're a leftist, every single problem in the planet is the fault of the United States.
Our bigness, our president, our power.
And I don't know why this attack on London is going to cause countries that didn't help us out in Iraq in the war on terror in the first place all of a sudden join us.
I hope I'm wrong.
I would love to be wrong, but I think I know liberals pretty well, folks.
And I know how they act.
And I know basically they're appeasers.
And the first thing they'll try to do is send a signal to Zarkawi or whoever bin Laden.
Hey, hey, hey, we had nothing to do with this.
Remember, we didn't go to Iraq.
Don't hit us.
Don't hit us.
That's how they act.
And we're not torturing your prisoners.
Don't blame us.
We've spoken out against that.
You know, and the terrorists will sit back and laugh and say, do you believe these chumps?
And they'll bide their time and they'll hit them at some point.
I think the question that you're asking, if the attack were on France today, would France have a change of opinion?
Well, that would be interesting to discuss.
But I think with the attack being on Great Britain, that's just a U.S. ally.
There's still room for the leftists around the world to draw a line of demarcation and say, hey, we're not part of that.
They got hit because of what they're doing.
And we don't want to anger these terrorists any more than they already are.
So we're not going to join them.
I think it's going to take a little bit more than this to wake up some of the leftists around the world, particularly in the EU.
Quick time out.
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We go to Newport, Oregon.
Hi, Rick.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Mr. Lindbergh.
Thanks very much for having me on.
And I'd just first like to say my sympathies go out to everybody that's been injured and just been hurt in these dreadful bombings in London.
Hello?
Yes, sir.
Did you hear that?
Yeah, I heard that.
There was a real crack on the line, sound like went down.
I just heard what you were saying about you being morbid and stuff.
You're not morbid at all.
If you get a chance, go to the BBC website, best radio station in the world, I'm afraid, and find the quote from the mayor of London, Ken Livingston, who basically said what you said.
They can come here, they can kill as many people, but what they won't take away is the freedom of London.
The thing that makes them fascists and the people of London not is that people of London don't tell people how to behave.
They tell people how to live.
They won't bomb them out.
London's been bombed before from Irish terrorism, the Nazis before that.
Amazingly proud of the people seeing it on the television, just how well it stood up and how quickly London's got back together again.
And just one other quick point.
Not all leftists, I'm a leftist, so is Ken Livingston, so is Tony Blair.
Not all leftists are against this, you know.
Well, you know, I wish that were true.
If it's true in your case, I will believe you.
And I certainly hope you're right about it.
I don't see a whole lot of evidence of it in France, and I don't see a whole lot of evidence of it in Spain.
I don't see a whole lot of evidence of it in this country, to tell you the truth.
I don't see a whole lot of leftists in this country who really understand the threat that we face.
I don't see a whole lot of leftists in this country who are willing to do what's truly necessary because they won't even admit that the admit the truth of what we face.
And so, yeah, it worries me.
It does concern me.
We're definitely not unified in this country in this war.
And that's because too many leftists in this country are trying to impose the Vietnam template, that America is ignoble, unjust, and doesn't deserve to win wars, that America causes misery and suffering around the world, and it's about time America found out what it's like to experience it.
And frankly, a lot of us are fed up and fit to be tied with that kind of attitude about our own country.
And it's rampant in this country.
I happen to have Ken Livingston on tape.
And you're right.
He did say good things today.
We have them.
I think we have two bites here.
And let's just play them back to back here in order.
It's a great statement.
And he's talking directly to the terrorists.
But now make one caveat here.
You know, the British have an immigration problem over there.
And we've talked about this.
That country's borders are wide open.
And Islamics have been immigrating in the UK for years.
And some of those Islamists are Islamo-fascists and militant Islamists, terrorists.
And it's a large population over there now.
And you will not hear Tony Blair use the term Islamic terrorism.
I didn't hear Livingston use the term Islamic terrorism.
And the official word is, we don't know who did it, but there is a group that's taking credit for it on a website.
And they claim that they're associated with bin Laden and Zarqawi.
So with that in mind, here are the comments from Ken Livingston, the mayor of London, today.
I wish to speak through you, directly, to those who came to London today to take life.
I know that you personally do not fear to give your own life in exchange for taking others.
It is why you are so dangerous.
But I know you do fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society.
And I can show you why you will fail in the days that follow.
Look at our airports, look at our seaports, and look at our railway stations.
And even after your cowardly attack, you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world, will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfill their dreams and achieve their potential.
They choose to come to London, as so many have come before, because they come to be free.
They come to live the life they choose.
They come to be able to be themselves.
They flee you because you tell them how they should live.
They don't want that.
And nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our cities where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another.
Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.
That's the mayor of London, Ken Livingston.
Very powerful, excellent.
And it was such a great contrast to what we were seeing in our own media this morning with the hand-wringing I was speaking about and the old wall was us.
And oh, what do we do to cause this?
And oh, does this mean we're going to get hit?
It's like I said, 40 people dead, 150 seriously wounded, 1,000 wounded out of over a million people in that transit tube.
It's not a successful terrorist attack, folks.
They didn't succeed in doing anything.
And that's what you just heard the mayor say.
You don't scare us.
You didn't accomplish diddley squat.
We've been through this before, much worse than this.
And look at us.
We're in the 20th century.
You're still back in the 14th century.
Blah, blah, blah.
This attitude is welcome.
I'm heartened to hear this kind of thing.
And I'm happy to be able to pass it on to you.
Quick time out.
We'll be back after this and continue.
Hi, we're back here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Rush Limblaugh with talent on loan from God.
Mark in Big Sandy, Texas.
I have about a minute here, but I wanted to get to you, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Megha Dittos from East Texas, and it is a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Sir, I just let me preface with the fact that I'm a Citadel graduate, and there are thousands of Citadel graduates in the military.
And my wife has a son on the New York City Police Force, and we had a son in Iraq who was shot up.
So our perspective on this comes from front line, so to speak.
And I want to say to you, Rush, that I think you are a national asset, a national security asset.
Maybe the most important asset we have because day after day after day, no matter what's going on, you constantly remind us that we're at war with these guys.
And they don't strike every day.
No war is a fight every day.
If you read history, it's usually boredom with minutes of excitement.
And that's exactly what this is.
But you keep us on track, and you keep us focused.
And if you look at Vietnam, which was America's longest war, if there had been Rush Limbaugh, we would have won that war.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your saying that.
And your timing was impeccable, too.
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