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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Well, because that's what I wasn't talking to you.
	I was I was telling Brian to turn on the ditto cam.
	Can I can I start the show now?
	All right, greetings, uh ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome.
	Great to have you with us, the one and only, the envied.
	A absolutely drives them crazy.
	Rush Limbaugh program on a one and only EIB network, and it is Friday.
	Let's hit it.
	Oh yes, my friends.
	So happy to have you along here as we wrap up another busy broadcast week from the prestigious Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	This is the fastest week in media, and here we are already at Friday.
	Now, just explain the rules to you.
	Monday through Thursday, we only talk about those things that uh interest me.
	But on Friday, I take what has become known as the greatest career risk in modern major media.
	I turn over the all-important content of this program or a large portion of it to you.
	Lovable and well-intentioned, but nevertheless, rank amateurs.
	And I do it with excitement.
	I do it with eager anticipation because I I enjoy hearing from you.
	The telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800-282-2882.
	The email address is rush at eibnet.com.
	The ditto cam is up and running.
	It'll be up for the entire broadcast today.
	Uh, ladies and gentlemen, as we once again are in sconced, the EIB Southern Command.
	And again, this reminder, this hour of the program is broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Network around the world.
	And at uh uh well shortly after the bottom of the hour break, we are going to be replaying by popular demand, uh, my highly acclaimed spontaneously delivered uh monologue from this past Monday.
	We got a we're going to be playing the phone call that inspired it, by the way.
	We got a uh phone call from uh from a liberal in San Diego named John right before the bottom of the hour break on Monday.
	This was in the uh second hour on Monday, and that's why we're playing it at a different hour today.
	Now, this highly acclaimed monologue, which uh uh uh people have uh responded to uh uh I guess it may be one of the most uh uh overwhelmingly respond to well-received uh segments of this program in uh as long as I can remember, and then there have been a lot of those moments, and this one stands out.
	We put it on the free side at RushLimbaugh.com.
	We put the transcript and the audio and also the ditto cam version of the monologue, and it's been there all week, and even at that there are people begging, demanding to hear this again, uh particularly in light of events this week uh since it aired on Monday.
	So we happily will do that.
	That call from John from San Diego be repeated right before the bottom of the hour, but we're gonna repeat it as it happened in in actual exact time uh with a few seconds uh on either side to explain what's happening.
	Uh but again in this hour, because this hour is broadcast nationwide, worldwide on the Armed Forces Radio Network.
	In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, it is a solemn day.
	There's uh uh a sad, sad loss out there.
	And when we when when when we hear of a tragic war loss, uh our hearts grow heavy and our throats get lumpy.
	And most of us, when we hear of a sad loss in war, most of us obviously think of our troops in the field of battle.
	And yet to some Americans, to some Americans yesterday, a loss far, far away from the field of battle was more heartbreaking than any loss on the field of battle.
	A loss not to a single family, ladies and gentlemen.
	This was a I'm getting choked up even talking about this.
	I'm getting a lump in my throat.
	This was a law.
	Come on, Rush, tough it up.
	You can do This.
	This was a tragic loss yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, to the uh mainstream media.
	Cindy Sheehan's mother suffered a stroke.
	And as such, Cindy Sheehan left Crawford, Texas.
	Cindy Sheehan abandoned the camera.
	Cindy Sheehan abandoned the microphone.
	Cindy Sheehan abandoned Moveon.org and the George Soros wackos.
	Cindy Sheehan simply left the field of battle in Crawford.
	It's a huge loss.
	It leaves the media with a weekend of no news.
	What will the mainstream media do?
	Dawn would just stop laughing in there.
	This is a solemn moment, folks.
	This is a terrible moment.
	Loss on the on the field of battle out there in Crawford, Texas.
	What will the mainstream media do?
	Repeats, highlights, retrospective.
	I mean, seriously, what are they going to do?
	The media has an axe to grind.
	They have an anti-war, anti-bush axe to grind.
	The persona that they chose to rally around is MIA.
	Maybe AWOL.
	Well, no, she left with permission.
	But she's nevertheless missing in action.
	If only for a while she vows, ladies and gentlemen, to return to the battlefield.
	And once again resume her mission.
	Maybe the mainstream press can interview each other.
	Maybe NBC reporters can interview ABC reporters about the hardship of covering the president without Cindy Sheehan there.
	Maybe they can do stories on how damn hot it is in Crawford, Texas, and maybe they can do stories and interviews about how much more fun it was when Bill Clinton was taking vacations on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard.
	But now they're stuck in Crawford and they're stuck without their field general.
	They're stuck without their field marshal.
	Tragic loss, Cindy Sheehan has split the scene.
	However, I see that the mainstream press has rallied because I have audio sound bites, and we will share these sound bites with you as the program unfolds today.
	They have found substitute Cindy's to take up the slack and to lead the battle while Cindy is MIA in Los Angeles.
	And I must tell you, these people cannot hold a candle, the Cindy Sheehan.
	It's obviously a tragic loss.
	They've been running a number of substitutes to the mainstream media microphones, but it just doesn't have the same appeal.
	It just doesn't have the same kick.
	And by the way, uh ladies and gentlemen, I've coined a new phrase here that I want I want to share with you.
	You know the the uh the tortured and fractured and kooky and wacky left in this country has for the longest time been attempting to suggest that they believe this statement.
	I support the troops, but I don't support the war.
	And they have tried to get along with us.
	Now, well, we've we've cut them some slack on this uh at first.
	Well, maybe they do support the troops, but they don't, because you can't support the troops if you don't support the mission.
	And of course, these people are just off the deep end.
	They're acting like every soldier is a child, that every soldier has been kidnapped, every soldier has been stolen from his or her parents and transplanted into a rock.
	It's an amazing sight to behold.
	But you know how we love to illustrate absurdity uh by being absurd here.
	So if if the left wants to try to continue to say, I support the troops, but not the war, uh, then I have a new phrase that I would like to offer for your consideration today regarding Cindy Sheehan.
	I support her loss, but not her thoughts.
	I support her loss, but not her thoughts.
	Just dish it back at them.
	Also, we have been we've been told the mainstream media eagerly, breathlessly, telling us that this, what is going on with these squatters down in the ditch in Crawford is a tipping point in the anti-war mood of America.
	Have you been wondering where are the polls that indicate this?
	Why?
	We live in a day of insta-polls.
	You can take a poll this morning and have the results in the afternoon.
	Have you seen any polls on just how big a tipping point that is?
	Uh have you seen, for example, any approval disapproval numbers for Cindy Sheehan?
	Well, I have.
	I have, ladies and gentlemen.
	I've got some polling data.
	Her disapproval numbers are higher than her approval numbers.
	Both are under 50%.
	I'll have a details coming up after this.
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	All right, are you surprised there has not been a poll before on this uh on this whole uh this this this battlefield down there in uh in uh in uh Crawford, Texas?
	I mean, just today or yesterday, I guess it was uh Senator Chuck Hagel from Nebraska.
	We love Senator Hagel here.
	Uh Senator Hagel was asked if he thought this was a tipping point uh in the anti-war movement that could make it more and more like Vietnam.
	Well, I don't know about that, but uh if it keeps up, it could well be.
	There's some similarities, not a whole lot, but there could be blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Well, um, I've been surprised there hasn't been a poll.
	You know, and and and actually, uh, I haven't been surprised because you know darn well that if the polling data was overwhelmingly in favor of this being a tipping point, that we would have been soaking in it ever since the poll had been taken.
	Well, the Rasmussen group went out there and they um they did a the poll.
	And here are the results.
	Cindy Sheehan, a grieving mother who maintained, and again, we support her loss, but not her thoughts.
	The grieving mother who uh maintained an anti-war protest outside of President Bush ranch, viewed favorably by 35% of the American people, unfavorably by 38% of the people.
	She's viewed favorably by 34% of men, 35% of women, 42% of men, and 34% of women have an unfavorable uh view.
	And in fact, according to the Rasmussen reports polling data, people see in Sheehan what they want to see.
	Opinion about her is largely based on views of the war rather than views about her.
	And of course, there that doesn't surprise me because uh nobody's focusing on anything she says.
	What she says, we're supposed to ignore because she has moral authority.
	So whatever she says, you can't hold whatever she says against her rush.
	You can't, hey, how could you be so cruel?
	What could you be so cold-hearted?
	How could you be so mean?
	So nobody is supposed to listen to what she says, and so no, and so what she says is really not getting a whole lot of play, because what she says is highly contradictory.
	So um uh it she really just embodies the whole war uh attitude, pro and con the country, and is has I guess what it really means is that she's failed to personalize this.
	Uh, much as the supporters on the left of hers wish that she would have been able to do.
	And also found this.
	There's a uh a liberal blogger, uh, Democratic blogger who has had enough, and the shit Cindy Sheehan episodes actually now turned him into a Republican.
	Let me read a portion of it.
	The guy's name is Scott Randolph.
	Uh he says, I actually felt myself become a Republican today.
	This is from uh I think the 17th that he wrote this, 17th or 18th.
	It was around 10 a.m.
	And I read the latest update of the Cindy Sheehan tragedy at CNN.com, and I then shot over to read some blogs about it and perused the comments in some of them, which was nothing but a long series of petty, albeit entertaining, partisan bickering.
	Then it happened.
	The good little Democrat and me tied the little noose around his neck and jumped off the stool.
	Just couldn't take it anymore.
	Take what?
	The whining, the constant whining by the extreme left about the reasons for war, the incompetence of this administration, how we've all been lied to, how we should pull out of a rock immediately because gulp our soldiers were in danger.
	Well, guess what, folks?
	They signed up to join the army, not the Boy Scouts.
	Anytime your orientation to a new job involves an automatic weapon, you ought to be smart enough to figure out that there's danger involved.
	I actually read some people's comments about many of the soldiers over there being naive.
	They weren't expecting to go to war, so they should be allowed to go home now.
	Wow.
	Soldiers know when they enlist that it's entirely possible they'll be shipped out and never come home.
	Part of the job.
	The fact that people still walk into recruiters' offices and sign that piece of paper makes them heroes.
	To imply that they're simple kids who didn't know what they were getting into, or even worse, that they died for no reason or any immoral reason does a horrible thing.
	It strips their sacrifice of the honor that It deserves, even though those folks sitting out there in the Texas fields claim to honor and support the soldiers, they obviously have been blinded by their own selfishness as to the real way to support them.
	Because long story short, we can't end this war now.
	That would send the message that those bastardly little terrorists have won.
	Doesn't matter if the administration told us the desert sand was made of gold and that we're going to go over there to collect it in little buckets to bring home.
	The concrete fact that we are at war doesn't change.
	We are there.
	We have a job to finish.
	We've toppled a regime that was dangerous, not only to its own people, but also to the rest of the world.
	And now we're there fighting the same terrorists we're fighting in Afghanistan.
	We've given liberty to millions.
	We're trying to help create a government in an area that's very volatile, that'll be a bastion of freedom and hope for an entire race of people.
	I hate the fact that our boys are getting killed over there, and I wish it didn't have to happen, but it is, and nothing we can do about it except for doing everything we can to offer support and hope to the folks fighting over there, arguing and whining about the reasons we're there and they need to come home.
	Not only kills morale, but it is a complete waste of time.
	So anyway, he goes on.
	There are other aspects to this.
	Now, this, ladies and gentlemen, hit home especially with me because many of the things that I have said over the course of the many years of this program about our military and specifically about this conflict are right in this former Democrats blog.
	And I think I think the real point of this is, and what what what is really happening out there that of course you're never gonna see reported anywhere, is that these I I don't I've run out of ways to describe them.
	These little sad sacks that are that are just mindless twits that that make up the kooky extreme hate-filled left are starting now to turn off mainstream Democrats.
	They're starting you don't see any politicians down there, do you?
	You don't see you don't see any Democratic presidential candidates heading down to Crawford to get in on this action down there, do you?
	The only thing you see, and I've got some sound bites, you've got some former Democrats, former elected Democrats, starting to pick up some of the lingo uh about our children have been sent to die.
	Why doesn't Bush send his?
	Uh but you don't see any of them actually making the trek down there.
	You don't hear any of them verbally publicly supporting uh any of this movement that's going on down there.
	And the real truth is that they are causing the backlash, not only among Republicans and conservatives, but also folks in the Democratic Party.
	There's some Democrats that simply can't abide this, and they're worried to death that all Democrats are going to be thought of like the kook fringe that is coming to be the Democrat base.
	And you're right.
	Uh those of you mainstream Democrats who have that fear, you are exactly right.
	All right, to continue along this theme, let's go ahead and uh play the call from John that occurred on uh Monday afternoon uh in the second hour that got the now highly acclaimed monologue coming up right after the break at the bottom of the hour.
	Here is that call.
	John in San Diego, you're next.
	Welcome to the uh program.
	Nice to have you with us.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Yeah.
	I believe that uh Cindy Sheehan is bringing up one important point, though.
	What's that?
	If this is a valiant and noble cause, why don't we have any senators' sons or House of Representatives' sons volunteering to go over there?
	Why isn't the president's daughters doing something for the war effort?
	If this is such a valiant effort.
	And that's the primary purpose that she has made this protest for the fact that the average person is being used as cannon father, basically, for this effort, and it's not a noble cause.
	Uh John, you disappoint me, but you don't surprise me.
	Uh no war is noble as far as you all are concerned.
	The U.S. is guilty.
	This this argument is is tiresome, boring, and specious.
	Why aren't the president's daughters?
	It's a volunteer force.
	The president didn't send Cindy Sheehan's son over there, he volunteered.
	If she's doing anything, she is sullying his memory.
	She is making his life worthless.
	She is making what he volunteered to do worthless.
	And you guys, you don't see this.
	There are sons, there are family members of elected officials in Washington who have been and are in Iraq.
	It's not a great number, but they are there.
	But it's not a draft, and the president can't choose who goes.
	It's a volunteer Army, and everything that you said is doing a disservice to those who have volunteered to represent this country and serve this country and their families.
	And if I were you, I would be ashamed and try to grow up and get a little maturity.
	All right.
	Ended the half hour, and during the break that followed, I continue to think about it.
	And I got more and more enraged and more and more angry.
	And I said, I'm going to continue talking about this after the break.
	And I did.
	And uh, what's that monologue about ten minutes, Mike?
	Is it something like that?
	Ten minutes is how long it goes, and uh I wanted to replay it again today in the first hour so that it will be part of the broadcast heard around the world on the Armed Forces Radio Network.
	I'm just gonna go straight to it right after the break here.
	It'll be on tape.
	We'll get back to that right after this.
	Don't go away, my friend.
	Stand by to be dazzled.
	My friends, there's another reason why the Sheehan thing is gonna derail, why this train's gonna derail, and that's because look at who her public relations outfit is.
	It's the mainstream press.
	They don't have universal respect anymore.
	They are they are they don't even have any concept of how they are harming her cause by championing it.
	And so but I want to talk about something larger here with you uh liberals.
	And I know there are a lot of you here in the audience.
	We hear from you now and then.
	Um, I I think you you and it may be a waste of my time, but I'm gonna try it anyway.
	But I think you you all need to look at things a little bit differently than you do.
	You need to take your focus off of government.
	You know how absurd it is for us to hear that a war is ignoble because the president's kids aren't there or because Congressman's kids aren't there.
	Do you know how irrelevant that is?
	Do you know who makes this country work?
	Can I ask you people on the left if you have the slightest idea who makes this country work?
	Because I'll tell you it's not the president, I don't care who he is, and it's not Congress, and I don't care who they are.
	The people who make this country work are the people.
	And they're people you've never heard of.
	They are people unlike Cindy Sheehan who are not seeking publicity.
	They're not seeking fame.
	They take life seriously, they try to mix their work and pleasure into a proper balance, they try to raise their kids the right way, they're doing everything they can to follow the straight and narrow, but they sometimes slip off.
	But the people who make this country work, the fabled average American, that's who you liberals condemn, whether you know it or not, that's who you impugn.
	It's always been the case.
	World War II was not won by Eisenhower, World War II was not won by FDR, World War II was not won by any particular leader, World War I was not, or two was not won by Patton.
	Everybody played a role.
	But without the sons and daughters of the American people, this country wouldn't amount to anything.
	It is the people who make this country work.
	And the ease with which those of you on the left disparage the people in this country while you seek to focus all attention on government is a sight to behold.
	And it is why you are losing elections, it is why you are losing favor, it is why you were becoming more fringe and extreme and kooky.
	Because you've lost touch, you've lost contact, you've lost all ability to understand who it is that comprises the heart and soul of this country.
	You have no clue who the backbone of this country is, but I will tell you this it's not Cindy Sheehan, and it's not one member of her entourage in a ditch in Crawford, Texas.
	Those people are a bunch of squatters.
	Those people right now are contributing nothing to the greatness or future of this country.
	Neither are the members of the media who are down there trying to elevate all those people in the ditch to be superheroes.
	There's not one of them that comes anywhere near rating the title of hero.
	They are nothing but a bunch of squatters who are miserable and unhappy for who knows whatever reasons and deciding to take it out on people who they think have control over their lives.
	In this case, with a bunch of liberals, it's government.
	You want government to have control over your life.
	You want government to be able to do this and that to your friends and neighbors and help you.
	But the simple truth of this country is that it's the people who make this country work.
	It is the people who comprise the economy.
	It is the people who comprise the morality.
	It is the people of this country who determine the ethics.
	It is the people of this country, and that's what you're upset about because you're in the minority.
	The people of this country, the people who make this country work differ from you in tremendous ways.
	They are religious.
	They are God-fearing.
	They respect values and morality.
	They know what's right and they know what's wrong and they do their best to abide.
	You are offended by all that, claiming they don't have the right to make such decisions while you sit around and make no decisions whatsoever because you're willing to totally put your life in the hands of some liberal politician, and that'll take you off the hook for having to make any decision about your life or anybody else's.
	Well, that's not how the country works.
	This country works on the basis of an educated and informed public seeking excellence in their own lives to whatever degree they wish it.
	People pursuing life the best they can, using freedom, God-given freedom, and for you to call here and to come up with something as as irrelevant as to say this war is not worth it because the president's kids aren't there, or because nobody from Washington's kids are there.
	Doesn't say a thing about the war effort, doesn't say one thing about it, doesn't make it noble, doesn't make it ignoble, doesn't make it anything.
	Because the war is taking place.
	Whether you agree with the fact that it's going on or not, we all have come to the decision that it's it's best that we win it.
	You haven't even joined us on that.
	You hope we lose it.
	You want to lose it because you want to embarrass the leaders of the country?
	What must your lives be like?
	Are your lives so endless, baseless, and void of substance, that the only pleasure you get from life is through watching the misery of others and trying to cause misery for others?
	Are you so incapable of enjoying the God-given gift of life that you've got that you can only do so when other people are suffering, hopefully as a result of actions you've taken?
	What must it be like to be you people?
	What must it be like to get up every day?
	And to have to go to your calendar and write, destroy somebody today, destroy something today, destroy America today.
	What must that be like?
	When you look out across the country and you see a burgeoning economy, you see the lone world superpower, and it's not because of any president, and it's not because of any weapon, and it's not because of any military, it's because of the people of this country and our values and our constitution.
	We're no different than any other people, other than we have freedom.
	And you don't even like that.
	You only want freedom for yourselves, defined as you define it.
	So people can't say things that offend you, they can't do things that offend you.
	We can't have stupid names for sports teams.
	The absurdity of this whole political correctness movement.
	We can't have some team called the Redskins.
	We can't have some team called the Seminoles.
	Don't you understand these team names do it?
	It's an it's an honor.
	Do you think a school calls itself the Seminoles to make fun of the Seminoles?
	Are they trying to build themselves up?
	Is it it's a matter of pride?
	But you people are so miserably unhappy that you have to find ways to constantly make everybody else around you unhappy.
	And so you go hang around with a woman who's crazed out of her mind in a ditch in Crawford, Texas, and then you have the audacity to call here and tell us that you are the great ones, that you're the ones that care, that you're the ones that have this country's best interest at heart.
	If it were up to you people, we wouldn't exist as a country today.
	You would have given in to the Soviets long ago.
	You would have appeased the Soviet communists, you would appease Iran right now.
	You probably wouldn't have cared about the war on terror or the or the bombing on the uh on 9-11.
	You would have sought out bin Laden and try to make a deal with him.
	And this country exists today only because we have been able to prevent you from gaining power to do that kind of thing.
	We've had our run-ins with Neville Chamberlain types, and you're the modern incarnation.
	To sit here to actually have the gall to call this program and advance with something you think is an intellectual argument, that Cindy Sheehan's cause is noble, because the president's daughters aren't in rock, or congressmen's sons and daughters aren't in Iraq.
	Have you no shame?
	Do you realize who sons and daughters are?
	Do you understand it's voluntary?
	Do you understand these are people who are offering their lives and sacrifice for things they believe in?
	And what do you do?
	You come along and you try to disabuse them of their belief by telling them that they're wrong and that their country sucks.
	Well, to the extent that they think their country sucks, it's because of you and your efforts to constantly undermine this country's best interests and our desires and efforts to protect the people of this country and to bring freedom to as many others in this world as possible.
	You people on the left used to be the ones that were all for civil rights around the world.
	For all you were all for human rights.
	Now all of a sudden, you couldn't care less about the status of Iraqis.
	You couldn't care.
	It's gotten so absurd now that Howard Dean said on TV that if this new constitution is written as is enacted as written, that the women of Iraq are going to be worse off than they were under Saddam Hussein.
	Do you realize?
	Do you realize how patently absurd and bordering on insane that comment is?
	No, you don't.
	Because you think so little of your own country.
	You think so little of this president.
	You have such little faith in the ideals that have combined to make this a great country that you assume it's worse here than anywhere else, and the places that it is bad is because of us.
	Either through environmental pollution or whatever cockamamy, asinine, stupid, ignoramous idea you can come up with.
	It's gotten to the point now where it is common to go on Democrat websites and read about the pleasure it would bring if the president were assassinated.
	It is now common to read letters to the editors in newspapers which say it would be fun if bin Laden actually came over here and slit Bush's throat, which is what a supporter of Sheehan wrote to a letter of the editor in one of the newspapers in this country.
	Yes.
	It would have been better if bin Laden would have just come here and slit Bush's throat.
	Do you people have any idea how you're perceived?
	Do you have the slightest idea how the decent people who make this country work perceive you?
	It is not with any respect.
	It is with contempt and is with sorrow.
	But it's also with this realization.
	This country, if it is to survive, cannot be turned over to you people to lead and to run.
	Because we will cease to exist as the United States the day that happens.
	And mark my word, it ain't gonna happen.
	Open line Friday, Rushland bought talent on lawn from God to Washington, D.C. Let's go grab some phone calls now.
	Bruce is nice to have you on the program, sir.
	Welcome.
	How are you doing, Rush?
	I just got a comment to elaborate on everything you've already said.
	Uh I just wanted to say that uh one thing the man said about the military that really uh bothered me was that uh they're cannon fodder, and the last time I checked, all our infantry and U.S. Marine Corps, some of the most highly trained, well-armed individuals in the world that are just begging for a fight.
	They're not canon fodder.
	That just illustrates uh how unpatriotic these people are and underscores everything you've already said.
	I don't know that it illustrates how unpatriotic, it just illustrates how stupid they are.
	I mean really to start analyzing what these people say is a waste of intellectual energy uh and and time.
	I mean, the military is just cannon fodder.
	These people it's like Richard Dreyfus the other day saying, I'm not gonna have my kids be taken out of my house and sit over there without my having some say about well, your kid can go get an abortion without you knowing about it, you idiot.
	And your kid can go join the army too once he's eighteen years old, but nobody's stealing your kid to send them over there to be cannon fodder for anything.
	I mean, th that it it it it it really is a waste of time to even analyze these people intellectually because they're not they're not none of their brain is is responsible for what they're saying.
	This is all their emotions and their desire to get publicity and their desire to matter and be taken seriously and so forth, because they know they're lightweights.
	And they know they're in the majority, and they're know they're losing, and they and then and they're just like they're just like children, and it's it's like anybody else that's in the uh in the throes of defeat.
	That's when you start kicking your legs, you're about to drown, you do everything.
	You start trying to save yourself when you're in quicksand.
	They tell you, don't move.
	Be as still as you can.
	But these people are in quicksand, desperately trying to grab the tree limb that's not there, and they're sinking just further and further into the quicksand.
	And the great thing about it is they think they're getting out.
	Here's John and Davy, Florida.
	John, welcome to the EIB network.
	Nice to have you.
	Yes, good afternoon, Rush.
	Uh good afternoon, John.
	Uh Just so you know where I'm coming from.
	I'm a Franklin Roosevelt Democrat and a Pat Buchanan Republican.
	That helps.
	Needless to say, I'm a very complex person.
	Yes.
	I think it would be a big mistake for Israel to demolish the structures in Gaza because it doesn't serve any purpose whatsoever.
	And would uh why tar tarnish uh uh jet the uh generous act of withdrawal uh by uh doing something spiteful.
	I think it would be a propaganda coup for Israel.
	Uh uh and uh it would be seen by the world as a magnanimous gesture of goodwill.
	Uh uh I think it be behooves uh Israel to leave everything intact.
	You mean the buildings that they were living in that they're vacating there, you you you fear that they're excavating them or tearing them down?
	Well, they're supposed to bulldoze them.
	Yeah.
	What are your thoughts on that?
	Well, I uh frankly, this is the uh this is the first I I had uh had heard of it.
	I you know, I can understand the uh the spite and the uh and the anger uh, but frankly, uh uh I I just think that the Israelis are doing what the Palestinians will do anyway when they leave.
	They'll tear these things down.
	They don't they don't want to share the space.
	It's this is a this is a toughie.
	I I'm I'm I'm I've got so many so many negative thoughts about this, and some of them I, you know, you hold out hope.
	But I just I just don't see the evidence that this move is going to bring about the peace that uh we've been told similar moves in the past were gonna bring about.
	I'm just I'm just gonna wait and see what happens here.
	And I don't think that whether they're bulldozing their buildings or not is really going to be a uh uh a factor uh in the long term and whether this works out or not.
	I don't think this is about public relations uh uh because if it were about public relations, the Israelis would have won this long time ago.
	Mike in uh in colony, New York.
	Next up you are.
	Welcome to the program, sir.
	Hey, Russ, a quick point I hope you address substantially without throwing a bunch of insults at liberals, is that uh if England had tried to occupy us while we were heads of civil war, I think all guns, both north and south, would have turned on England.
	This is an occupation, it's not a war.
	But my larger point is uh that Cindy Seehan's doing the country a service because 60% of us are anti-war right now.
	Sixty percent of us believe that it was based on lies, it's not a noble war.
	When I signed up to join the Marines, I signed up to defend my country.
	I didn't sign up to go on elective wars.
	And that final thing is your whole rant, last uh last last segment was nothing but dividing America in a time war.
	All it was was a bunch of ad hominem insults.
	You know what?
	Ninety percent of the liberals you talk about aren't these far left-wing liberals uh working for answering communists.
	Okay, stuff like that.
	I'll grant you that.
	I'll grant you, it's it's 95%.
	I agree with that.
	I under I under shot.
	You know, I really I uh you're you're you're you're right about that, but you're dreaming if you think you represent sixty percent of the country in your anti-war protest.
	And you're dreaming about this being an occupation.
	You're dreaming about everything.
	You are voicing what you wish to be the case, but you're just proven my point.
	You're just illustrating, and I'm glad you called.
	You hate this country.
	You hate this current government, you hate George W. Bush, you hate the U.S. military, you despise what it's doing, and you will do anything you can to discredit it, including lie.
	And that's all the time you get to lie because I have no patience for you or your lies or any of this diatribe anymore.
	Otherwise, I'm gonna lose intelligence, and this audience can't afford for that to happen to me.
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	We all know this.
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	And some of the best proof yet is in a Washington Post story that attempts to destroy John Roberts as a Neanderthal caveman who wants to drag women back into the cave by the hair and do a berth of butts on them.
	It is just hilarious.
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