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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 Git Mall, get out of Iraq, and and stop all of this.
How long 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 I can't I am seething here today, folks.
I I'm I may be angry over a bunch of things.
I can't even tell you all of them, but I this is just really.
Anyway, greetings and welcome.
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I certainly hope that the uh Churchill generation still has some uh some breath in it in the uh in the UK and it's not become a Spain uh or a Madrid.
I I hope that uh the uh whole concept of uh toughness and perseverance and victory didn't uh get buried over there with Churchill.
Uh doesn't seem to have been uh in uh in Tony Blair, but we will uh we will soon find out.
I I was thinking back, folks, to September 11th.
You know, I didn't get back to this microphone till 2.30 that day.
Had only a half hour to 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 uh on the ground by an hour and 15 minutes, which was not enough time where I was to turn around and get back to uh my home.
So we got about within 45 minutes, had to rent a car and drive down there.
I didn't see any pictures of 9-11 until uh till I got back here to the office at uh at 2 30.
But I'll never forget the first thing that I said uh when I hit this uh studio and microphone that afternoon, and I'm gonna say it here again today that uh the attack on 9-11 was not an attack on America, and this attack on uh London today is not an attack on London.
This is an attack on Western civilization.
Uh and they are going to continue until uh everybody that's opposed to these kinds of attacks unites and gets together and fights this as it should be fought.
Uh we've got too much dissension in the ranks, we've got too much political partisanship going on, not just in this country, but uh 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 uh would uh prefer to stand against it.
Is make no mistake about this.
This this was not an attack on London, and this has nothing to do with the fact that the that the that the Brits joined us in Iraq.
Uh it has nothing to do with the because the Brits have started pulling troops out of Iraq, by the way, and they've announced that.
It may have to do with the G-8, it may have to do with what it it it this kind of thing was happening before 9-11.
This kind of thing was happening before we went to Iraq.
Uh 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.
Forty people, what 3340 people somewhere in that neighborhood.
Okay, 33 confirmed debit.
The bus fatalities are not uh not counted yet.
Uh over a thousand injured and 150 seriously.
Uh it it's uh it's a not a dead-on parallel, but it's fairly close to what happened in 1993.
We didn't do Diddley Squad.
Oh, I take that we did.
We prosecuted.
Uh 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 G eight summit, the war in Iraq.
Miss the boat.
This is an attack on Western civilization.
And is it 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 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 uh you know, 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.
Uh 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 uh 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 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 gonna help you a bit.
The evidence, the terrorist attack, not only civilization today, but the left, the Hollywood crowd, the music crowd, the kumbaya crowd.
Today we're 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 uh were on the table or not, the goals are certainly high-minded.
You could even say the goals are civilized, end poverty, and hunger, and 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 in Mayhem, to become the subject matter of the G eight 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 uh your way of life.
The uh the healing nature of time, you know, some people um you forget what happens, uh, others you think that the passage of time will just enable everybody to wish this kind of evil away.
Uh but thank goodness for Bush, uh, 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 it 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 here.
It's an attack on our civilization.
And there's something, I just I just watched the briefing here that Michael Chertoff 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.
It happens there.
We need you.
He said, I want you Americans, go to work today, use the public trans transit system, just be more vigilant.
And I'm sure some people sniff.
Oh, yeah, easy for you to say, be more vis- Well, folks, it's gonna require this kind of an effort.
When you get right down to it, uh we are a people that can take care of ourselves.
We do so and 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, uh you never know who you might see or run into that doesn't look normal, that doesn't look uh right, look suspicious, and you can report it as somebody who didn't see it.
It is gonna 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 a um and another reminder that uh civilization, Western civilization, is under constant attack.
And uh, you know, make no mistake, it was planned, it was coordinated, and it was timed uh to uh coordinate with the G8 meeting.
Uh it was I 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 gonna get the Olympics till this week.
Uh I don't think that has anything to do with it.
Uh I think the large factor is it's just our way of life.
And the uh and the surprise factor.
They continue to succeed in uh creating these attacks, these events uh when they are least expected in the places where people feel the safest.
And that should uh 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.
Uh, and we'll go wherever we uh end up being led today by the events.
Uh 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 uh as a sort of like my 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 on and says, follow the road.
Well, okay.
Follow the road.
Which one?
There's a bunch of them out there.
We're gonna 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 sound bites here from uh Tony Blair.
Uh Ken Livingstone, the uh the mayor of London uh has a nickname.
You may not know this, Ken the Red.
Uh and it is the nickname, Ken the Red is the nickname that is given for what the reason you think uh when you hear that.
We have um we have President Bush on tape, and uh we've got we've got Brian Ross on Good Morning America today, uh, with with the predictable liberal media spin, that uh Al Qaeda has become much more skilled at urban warfare by training in Iraq.
Uh that the the unstated uh implication is that we are responsible for this attack because by engaging the terrorists in Iraq, they have learned urban warfare.
Uh blah, blah, blah.
We'll get to all that in due course.
Speaking of the media, you know, I've been watching it all morning like everybody else has.
And now, folks, this is gonna be morbid.
It's gonna sound morbid to some of you.
Those 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, or you're not gonna, and I uh like Dick Durbin, I'm gonna apologize in advance for hurting your feelings, but I'm not gonna apologize for what I'm gonna say.
I am not, I'm I'm 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 gonna do?
And frankly, it offended me.
Uh this is not the way to what 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 all 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'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 uh World War II, Britain got far worse than this.
They were bombed daily by the Nazis.
And they the only difference is they knew it was coming, and they were prepared for it, but they look what happened.
Rebuilt the country.
These are tough people over there, just as we are tough people here.
And you here's here's the morbid part.
And I think we'll be morbid to some of you, and I really I I I'm gonna apologize this offends you.
You've got how many millions of people running through this transit system in rush hour in uh 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 wouldn't call I I'd say these guys missed the boat.
If I were the Brits, I'd stand up and say, you think this is gonna deter us?
You think this is gonna 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 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 gonna do?
Mabel!
Mabel, what if can the Supreme Court stop it?
Is there anything Reinquist can do?
Now, if this offends you again, as Dick Durbin, I apologize for hurting your feelings, but uh I I've I think I'm being pretty consistent in this, folks.
Uh this is uh uh 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 gonna benefit from it, who's gonna hurt from it.
Everybody's been saying we know there's gonna be an attack.
This is last week, I think, wasn't it, Mr. Sturdley?
I was here talking about there's gonna be another attack.
Last week exactly, there's gonna be another attack.
You could make book on it.
And that that uh that that brought about a discussion.
Well, Rush, who do you think will get blame for it?
And who do you think will uh who will get the 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 it misses the point.
Um 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 uh sacrifice their lives to beat this thing, uh 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 were 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 uh on the enemy?
This cowering in the corners and slinking away and going, oh no, uh, 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 Rush Limbaugh program at the uh Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
So Senator Schumer, uh, we heard yesterday, Senator Chuck Schumer from New York decided that this this Supreme Court battle is war.
And Democrats are gonna declare war on the Supreme Court uh 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 and coming days, the left-wing kooks that have become the mainstream of the Democratic Party are gonna gin up and are gonna come out with uh their own explanations for this attack in London.
Here is just a sample.
It was a plot conceived by Carl Rove.
The plot was uh 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.
Some that you're gonna hear, and probably wackier things than this, uh uh in uh in the coming days.
Uh uh well, somebody will accuse Blair of knowing in advance and getting out of town uh you know, he made sure he's at the G eight summit uh while London was attacked, he was out of town.
Uh just like what was that that poet laureate in New Jersey, Amiri Barmu Bamu Bar uh w Baraki, I think is his last name, Barak, whatever his name was, uh you know called up Sheila Jackson Lee, they talked about it and and they uh they they convinced themselves that the Israelis are behind 9-11 because all the Jews got out of the World Trade Center uh before the attack.
So here's Blair getting out of London before these things happen up to the G. You can just imagine uh the kind of things that are going.
And the reason the reason for this is because if you 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, uh does it hurt Bush?
No, it's not gonna 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, uh 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 uh and uh some sort of silly little personal vendetta that Bush has whatever excuse they came up with.
Uh the Dick Durbins of the world who are bound there and out there wailing and moaning about Gitmo and Abu Ghrab and so forth, uh uh they're the ones that uh are gonna have to face cameras and explain themselves.
Uh President Bush isn't.
They grab a couple phone calls here before we go to the audio soundbite roster.
This is Gabe and Dayton, Ohio.
Gabe, I'm glad you called and welcome to the program.
Sir, it is an honor to speak to you.
I've uh listened to you since well, since I grew up with my dad, so it's great to speak with you there.
Thank you, sir.
Well, I wanted to make the point that uh you know, maybe you know, this is a horrible thing what happened in London, but you know, 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 that they didn't, you know, that I didn't wake up this morning and hear about attacking a Washington, D.C. or something.
Uh you know I I I look I I admire the attempt here to um uh uh look at this positively as you're trying to do, but I don't I'm I I would disagree.
I'm not gonna draw that conclusion.
I think there's there are there are reasons why London was hit, not among them surprise.
I I have to I'm I'm really gonna be on the edge here today, folks.
But I'm watching everybody, we're gonna raise the threat levels here.
We're gonna raise the threat levels there, we're gonna 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.
There's not going to be anything happened today here.
Uh and if if uh if there is, then our increase 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 I don't doubt that that's true.
Uh but uh and I I think it is probably uh uh a little bit more difficult for these people to uh mount a surprise attack here uh since 9-11.
Uh but nevertheless there's the G eight summit, you can't you can't erase that from the slate of uh of reasons.
Didn't this attack occur at the same time of day as the first attack on 9-11 happened here?
Uh eight 8 57 in the morning.
So uh uh and and of course the date today has nothing to do with uh 9-11.
It's not nine or it's not eleven.
There's no no combination of those numbers in the dates.
But uh I don't I don't look let me give let me grant you a little bit of a point, Gabe, but I 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 in London uh had a more uh uh focused existence today and this week because of the G 8 summit uh uh and uh number of other things plus the surprise factor.
Uh 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.
Uh do you think that the attacks in the UK today uh will unite us with the Allies, or you know, when Bush is blamed, will it will it serve as more of a divider?
Uh I think in terms of the uh of the British in the United States, it'll only cause us to align even more.
What about the uh the EU?
I mean, we we contribute so much money to NATO every year that uh you know, can they stand by anymore really and let it go?
Can't uh can NATO stand I don't understand what you're saying.
Uh well we uh no no I know but what what but can NATO what do you stand by and let it go?
What do you what do you mean?
Um I mean the EU.
Yeah, well, the the the the um the I I I think look it's tough to tell about this.
Uh the the the the 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 programmer, 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?
No, there isn't.
Uh it's it's not what we do.
Uh I I can't begin to predict uh the French.
My or the Germans, my based on recent experience, my uh my best guess would be that they're gonna 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.
Uh Madrid got hit, and look what they did.
They cut and run.
Uh they they they didn't they didn't join us, say, oh, you know what?
We now know what it feels like, and we're with you, U.S. They cut they elected some guy to got them out of Iraq, and they had another attack after that anyway.
So I, you know, the French uh 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 uh appeasers are appeasers, leftists are leftists.
Uh and if you're a leftist, every s every single problem in the planet is the res is the fault of uh the United States.
Uh our bigness, our president, our power.
Uh and I don't know why this attack on London is gonna cause countries that didn't help us out in Iraq and the war on terror in the first place, all of a sudden join us.
Uh 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 we had nothing to do with this.
Remember, we 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 buy their time and they'll hit them at some point.
I think the question that you're asking, if if the attack were on France today, would France have a change of opinion?
Well, that would be interesting to discuss.
But I think the uh with the attack being on Great Britain, that's just a U.S. ally.
There's still room for the uh 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 gonna join them.
I think it's gonna take a little bit more than this to wake up some of the uh leftists uh uh around the world, particularly in the EU.
Quick time out, we'll be back after this.
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We go to Newport, Oregon.
Hi, Rick.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Mr. Lindbergh.
Um, 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 sorry?
Did you hear that?
Yeah, I heard that.
I appreciate it.
There was a real crack on the line, sounded like went down.
I just like just like so I just heard what you were saying about you 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 uh the mayor of London, Ken Livingston, who basically said what you said.
You 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 bomb them out.
It's London's been bombed before from Irish terrorism, the Nazis before that.
Amazingly proud of the people on seeing it on the television of 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's Tony Blair.
Not all leftists are against this, you know.
Uh well, you know, I wish that were true.
If it's it if it's true in your case, I will believe you.
Uh uh and I I I certainly hope you're right about it.
I just uh 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, and 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 uh uh admit the truth of what we face.
Uh and so it, yeah, it worries me.
It does concern me.
We're we're definitely not unified in this country in this war.
Uh, and that's because too many leftists in this country are trying to impose the Vietnam template.
Uh 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.
Uh so and it's rampant in this country.
I happen to have uh Ken Livingston on tape, and you're right, he did say good things today.
Uh we have them uh I think we have two bites here, and let's uh 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 one caveat here.
You know, the British have an immigration problem over there, and we've talked about this.
Uh the the the uh that country's borders are wide open and and uh is Islamics have been have been in immigrating uh in the UK for years, and some of those uh 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.
You didn't 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 Zurkawi.
So with that in mind, here are the uh comments from Kim 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, 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 followed, 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 harm in with one another.
Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.
That's uh the mayor of London, Ken Livingston.
Very powerful, excellent.
Uh and 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 oh wall was us, and oh, what do we do to cause this?
And oh, does this mean we're gonna 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 diddly 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 uh 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 Limbaugh with talent on loan from uh God.
Mark in Big Sandy, Texas.
I have about a minute here, but I wanted to get to you, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Megadinos from East Texas, and it is a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Um Sir, I just 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 is 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 a rush limb, we would have won that war.
Thank you, sir, very much.
You vi I can't tell you how much I appreciate your saying that.
And your timing was impeccable too.
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