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Aug. 25, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2005, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, folks, I've been watching this hurricane, uh, well, tropical storm.
I guess it's going to be a hurricane pretty soon.
Tropical storm Katrina Vandenhoov.
And I'm thinking they ought to change the name of this thing, the tropical storm carry, John Kerry, because it's wobbling all over the place.
You can't get a fix on this thing's position or where it's going to go.
Anyway, greetings.
Great to be with you.
The Rush Limbaugh program of the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And we are uh we're wound up here today, folks.
Um stretched as tight as a rubber band, ready to come unfurling at you, unfurled at you.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is uh 800 282-288-2, the email address rush at EIB net.com.
Just a little uh uh programming note, the uh the hurricane or what will soon be a hurricane.
I've been monitoring uh all the things I monitor.
Just saw you guys in there might be interested.
A very tight eye has developed in the last 15 minutes.
A little bit north of the uh projected track.
The projected track had this thing uh just half hour ago uh hitting into Fort Lauderdale.
Now it looks like Boca.
Uh I'm but I'm not a meteorologist.
I'm just I'm just if we were sitting around at home talking about it, it's all I'm don't don't don't quote me on anything.
You know, I'm just I'm just looking at it now, but a very tight eye has formed where there wasn't one, you know, a half hour ago.
And uh but it's a very it's a very small eyewall.
It's a very small one, and and uh can't tell where it's gonna go.
They're still not uh still not sure.
Now here's the plan.
The plan is uh we will have no problem getting through the program today.
Uh there are there are there are uh mandatory evacuation orders.
We're on a barrier island here.
Uh there's a mandatory evacuation on barrier islands much farther south than we are.
It's a voluntary evacuation on the barrier island where we are, and we will volunteer not to leave.
Uh however, there are bridges that take you from the mainland uh that get you to our barrier island, and those bridges just closed at the 12 noon, heading from the mainland to the island.
You can get off, but as of now, you can't get here.
Uh and it depends uh, you know, whether whether whether uh I mean I will not be leaving the island because I, of course, have my residence here, but the staff will have to leave the island.
The program's over if they're not able to get here tomorrow.
Uh then we will have a guest host that'll be Roger Hedgecock and uh Roger's standing by.
You're ready to go.
We may not know till in the morning what the uh status is.
I'm not expecting any technical problems, just you know, whether or not they don't let people on the island, depending on uh the status of the storm.
It has slowed down out there.
This is not a good sign.
It is only moving two miles an hour now as opposed to the six or seven, and the more it slows down that water out there is percolating.
You could you could uh you know, you could boil an egg in it out there.
Well, it's it's 87, 88 degrees out there, and that's the uh uh the fuel of a hurricane, and it slows down, it can intensify, which it is.
It's I mean, just in the last hour, Mr. Snerdley, it's gone from over a thousand millibars down to 990.
So the pressure is uh is dropping.
And well, that's what they feared.
They feared that this thing could get big because of the warm water as it's moving very slowly.
So we uh we're keeping a sharp eye out for it here, but uh just wanted to let you know what the um um prospects are for tomorrow uh on the open line Friday.
But there will be uh it'll either be me or uh or Hedgecock, and I just wanted to get you prepared for that.
All right, let's get into the uh the stack of stuff that we have today.
The uh the American left, the American left, you people on the American left, you want to keep telling us that you support the troops, but you don't support the war, right?
And you want to keep making the case that you support the troops, but you don't support Oh, and by the way, don't let me forget that the left today is unloading everything on John Roberts.
They are unloading everything today, and I've got a stack of it.
It is it is all these people, you remember that Washington Post story that thought, uh, that's a foregone conclusion.
Eh, there's not much it's all a bunch of smoke.
It was all a smoke screen.
These people are gonna be loaded for bear.
This court is is is uh more valuable to them than the uh than the White House.
And uh you got you got groups you never heard of coming out of the woodwork today, seeping through the cracks in the floor uh to register their opposition, all with the intent purpose of inspiring opposition on the uh Democrats of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
But back to this military thing.
The left is love to try to tell us oh, well, you can't don't challenge us on them.
We support the troops, we just don't support the war.
Our buddies at the CyberCast News Service, or Cyber News Service, report that the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, which is the current home of hundreds of wounded veterans from the war in Iraq, has been the target of weekly anti-war demonstrations since March.
The protesters hold signs that read, maimed for lies and enlist here and die for Halliburton.
The anti-war demonstrators who obtain their protest permits from the D.C. Police Department positioned themselves directly in front of the main entrance to the Army Medical Center at Walter Reed, which is located in northwest Washington, about five miles from the White House.
Among the props used by the protesters are mock caskets lined up on the sidewalk to represent the death toll in Iraq.
Code Pink Women for Peace, one of the groups backing anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's vigil, organizes the protest at Walter Reed as well.
Some conservative supporters of the war call the protests, which have been ignored by the establishment media, shameless.
They've taken to conducting counter-demonstrations at Walter Reed.
Anti-war protesters ought not be demonstrating at a hospital.
Hospital's not a suitable location for an anti-war demonstration, said Bill Floyd of the D.C. chapter of the Freepers.
The Freepers out there standing across the street from the anti-war demonstrators.
This is back on August 19th.
Now, according to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, nearly 4,000 individuals involved in the Iraq War were treated at the facility as of March of this year, a thousand fifty of whom were wounded in battle.
One anti-war protester who would only identify himself as Luke told the Cybercast News Service that the price of George Bush's foreign policy can be seen right here at Walter Reed.
Young men who returned from Iraq with their bodies shattered after George Bush sent them to war for a lie.
Luke accused the president of exploiting American soldiers while oppressing the other nations of Earth.
The president has killed far too many people.
On August 19th, as the anti-war protesters chanted slogans such as George Bush kills American soldiers, the Cybercast News Service observed several wounded war vets entering and departing the gates of Walter Reed, some with prosthetic limbs.
Most of the demonstrations have been held on Friday nights.
The popular time for the family members of wounded soldiers to visit the hospital.
That the anti-war activists were unapologetic when asked whether they considered such signs as maimed for lies offensive.
I'm more offended by the fact that they were maimed for life.
I'm more offended by the fact that they wounded veterans have been kept out of the news, said Kevin McCarran, a member of the anti-war group Veterans for Peace.
Kevin Pennell, or panel, who was recently treated at Walter Reed and had both legs amputated after an ambush grenade attack in Baghdad in 2004, considers the presence of the anti-war protesters in front of the hospital to be distasteful.
When he was a patient at the hospital, he said he initially tried to ignore the anti-war activists camped out front until witnessing something that enraged him.
We went by there one day and I drove by, and the anti-war protesters had a bunch of flag-draped coffins laid out on the sidewalk.
That I thought was probably the most distasteful thing I've ever seen, ever, said Pannel, a member of the Army's first cavalry division.
You know that 95% of the guys in the hospital bed, lost guys, whenever they got hurt in survivors and survivors' guilt is the worst thing you can deal with, Panel said.
We don't like them.
We don't like the fact that they can hang their signs and stuff on the fence at Walter Reed.
The wounded veterans are there to recuperate, and once they get out in the real world, then they can start seeing that stuff and anti-war protests.
I mean, Walter Reed's a sheltered environment.
It needs to stay that way.
The story goes on and on and on.
It's on the Drudge Report page if you uh if you want to access it.
I've only shared with you about half of the data, but you get the drift here.
So don't tell me that you support the troops, but you don't support the war.
The troops don't want to see you there.
The troops don't want any part of you at Walter Reed, and yet you flock there.
Uh it's just another indication of the total crack up that's happening on the left.
And uh another bit of evidence, uh, folks, that no matter.
And don't buy by the way, there's some polls out.
Um the media just having an orgasm today.
ABC has a poll, a headline, Iraq war sees Bush approval rating plummet.
And there's another uh another headline, Bush more unpopular than ever.
And in a recent poll, 57% of Americans say they feel less safe.
How can that be?
We've not had a single homeland attack in four years.
And a poll says Americans feel less safe.
You have to ask yourself the people stupid on this or the poll questions out of order.
Do the pollsters ask useful questions to get useful answers?
There's there's a there's uh an acronym, Gigo.
Garbage in, garbage out.
The way you have to just react to these polls, garbage in, garbage out, and you know that the garbage in, uh form uh letter, poll question, whatever it is, is gonna equal the garbage out.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue here in just a moment.
I just found out, folks, uh uh I had to get the page numbers.
We have actual pictures of freepers and other protesters at Walter Reed in Club Gitmo Gear at Rush Limbaugh.com, pages 15 and 16.
If you go to Rush Limbaugh.com and just uh access pages 15 and 16, you'll see some of the protesters uh uh well, some of the counter protests, some of the good guys outside Walter Reed, uh wearing club gitmo gear.
All right, yesterday the uh the the the president uh in fact let me go back.
I I want to just put something here in chronological order.
Because the president was in Nampa, Idaho yesterday, and he took a uh uh uh what would you say?
I took a direct shot at the uh squatters down in Crawford by singling out uh a uh uh uh a war mom who is very supportive of what's going on.
Yesterday, uh uh actually a couple days on this program.
This is a point that I made over and over again on this program.
Over eighteen hundred brave men and women have lost their lives in Iraq.
The nation knows the name of only one of the parents, Cindy Sheehan.
I ask you what kind of reporting is that.
Over 1800 brave men and women have lost their lives, and the people of the United States know the name of one parent, Cindy Sheehan.
Well, now they know the name of another parent.
The president in Nampa, Idaho, yesterday uh uh talked about and introduced Tammy Pruitt of Pocatella, Idaho.
Tammy has four sons serving in Iraq right now with the Idaho National Guard.
Eric, Evan, Greg, and Jeff.
Last year, her husband Leon and another son Aaron returned from Iraq, where they helped train Iraqi firefighters in Mosul.
Tammy says this, and I want you to hear this.
I know that if something happens to one of the boys, they would leave this world doing what they believe, what they think is right for our country.
And I guess you couldn't ask for a better way of life than giving it for something that you believe in.
America lives in freedom because the families like to prove it.
Huge stamping oh.
I mean, it was like listen to it.
It went on and on and on.
Uh the reports are that the president was greeted like a rock star when he arrived out there.
Now you could figure, here we've got two we got two mothers.
We've got Cindy Sheehan, and we see the sympathetic treatment that she is getting.
Here is Tammy Pruitt, and she was on CNN last night with Paula Zon.
And uh, you know, i i i it's it's uh you just listen.
Here Paul is on's question first off here.
There's so many things that must keep you awake at night.
What is your chief concern as your son's service continues over there?
My greatest concern is that we stand firm, that we stand behind the president, that we continue this um battle until it's done, and we bring all of our boys in and women home safely, but not until it's ready.
Uh, also with her was her uh her husband, Captain Leon Pruitt, and Paul Azan said, Leon, at the time that your wife is making that call, of course, you have Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, trying to convince the president to pull the troops out immediately.
There's got to be a part of you, in spite of your service in Iraq.
Got to be a part of you that has to have some doubts, some doubts about what the American military personnel face in Iraq today.
You know, Paul, I guess uh Cindy and and the other folks that have lost Uh loved ones over there.
You know, we grieve with them and and we're sorry for their losses and and empathize with them and their families and what they're going through.
Um we don't have anything against anybody that wants to protest or do anything like that.
That's wonderful.
Isn't it right?
Isn't that wonderful that we have that right in this country to be able to do that?
And then uh Paul Lazan says, Tammy, do you think Cindy's dishonoring the service of those that are currently in Iraq fighting?
Yeah, that's a really tricky question.
Personally, as a mother, I feel her pain.
I obviously I can't feel it to the extent that she does, but I totally empathize um with her feelings.
It wouldn't be the way that I would choose to honor one of my sons if it happened to our family.
All right, a polar can't take this.
This is not what Paula wanted to hear.
Paula was trying to turn these people into pro-shee-han types.
She wanted, she wanted, or the producers, I don't know who in this somebody that put this all together, wanted to be able to turn the Pruits.
Uh and I know what the purpose of they wanted to try to expose the what they I'm no doubt think happened.
That Bush planned all this, that there was a script that he personally chose these two people, or somebody at the White House did to go out there and counter in this day, the Libs just can't believe this is real.
They can't believe this is sincere.
They can't believe that a mother with four sons in Iraq could possibly feel this way.
She has to have been put up to it.
Don't you know that folks?
She has to have been put up to it.
She can't possibly really feel that why nobody would feel this way.
So, you know, Paula just goes for the gof goes for broke here.
Says, Leon, I know you say that you want American troops to stay in Iraq until they get the job done, and and yet we've now heard the latest timetable may leave a thousand hundred thousand troops or so in Iraq for another four years.
Do you think Iraq could become another Vietnam?
Oh, absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
Uh when I came home, I even made a statement uh publicly that, you know, I felt that we would probably be there at least five years after the time that I came home, and so that's pretty close to what the timetable is that they're saying now.
And that's just because we've got to get the stability though over there and get get everything in their government set up and and let them take their country back over and and be prepared to do uh a hundred percent of it.
That's Leon and Tammy Pruitt.
Uh and you know, our hearts go out to them, and the uh it's they they bore up well under all this, and it's uh quite courageous of them to come forward this way.
You might think it's an honor to be so recognized, and I'm sure that it is, but knowing full well what awaits you if you are Tammy or Leon Pruitt, uh with uh with a with a hostile press corps, which will be eager to discredit you and tear you down.
Oh, ever so subtly.
Uh this is guts and courageous to go out there.
Listen to this from ABC's World News tonight.
Charlie Gibson, the anchor, uh, is talking to Dan Harris, uh reporter.
And here we have ABC Nightly News uh openly advising the left.
Charlie Gibson says, uh, though the president White House officials have been asked repeatedly in recent days about the anti-war protests.
It's difficult to measure with any precision just how strong the anti-war movement actually is.
People may tell the polsters they oppose the war, but are they part of any real anti-war movement?
We asked ABC's Dan Harris take a reality check on the depth of sediment against the war.
For months, Americans have been telling polsters that going to war was a mistake.
But that does not necessarily add up to a major anti-war movement.
While Cindy Sheehan gets a lot of media attention, only thirteen percent of Americans, according to the latest ABC News poll, want an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops, which may be why the public protests thus far have been relatively small.
It's unclear at this point who Sheehan has galvanized more.
Those who are against the war or those who are for it.
Former Senator Gary Hart, who was at the center of the anti-war protest during Vietnam, says the only way for a bona fide movement to come about now would be for a prominent politician to publicly and repeatedly say something like this.
Stop the tape.
Stop the this is what I mean.
This is ABC advising the left on if you really want an anti-war movement here, you need a name politician to come out and say something.
This is an open call to Hillary to John Kerry, anybody high up in the Democratic Party to join Cindy Sheehan.
Here's the rest of the bite.
...sled by the president.
The country was misled by the president.
The reasons we are in Iraq today are not the reasons that I voted for.
And here's a plan for the speedy withdrawal of American military forces.
Because while pop songs might reflect the public mood, it may take a politician with a real plan to truly mobilize people.
Now that statement by Gary Hart, that's what get that was Gary Hart advising other Democrats.
This is what some Democrat needs to come out and say.
Joan Baez, I'm sorry, but they just dissed you here.
Is that you can sing all the pop songs down there you want and do whatever you want to do, but it ain't gonna work.
They desperately want an elected Democrat to get down there and join Cindy Sheehan.
They just think because folks, exactly confirmation of what I've been telling you.
This is not panning out nearly the way they are leading you to believe it is panning out.
And why won't a Democrat get anywhere near it?
Why just answer the question yourself?
They all have their own poles, they all have their internal poles.
Hillary wants no part of it.
She's on Bush's side, hoping this thing ends up as a victory, folks, because that's the position that she's taken.
Be right back.
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The prestigious Attila Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
How about this?
This is the height of absurdity.
Jennifer Loven, Associated Press of all gas consumers, Bush may be the most wasteful.
Getting President Bush from here to there consumes an enormous amount of fuel, whether he's aboard Air Force One riding in a helicopter or on the ground in a heavily armored limo.
The bill gets steeper every day as the White House is rocked by the same energy prices as regular drivers and taxpayers.
Foot the bill.
But Bush is one of the nation's most traveled presidents.
You know, did we ever see stories like this about Bill Clinton?
Did we ever see stories a most wasteful president of all time?
Bill Clinton set the record, folks, for the most traveled president.
And that there's uh a couple of other things.
Jimmy Carter, how about nobody ever wants to go back and talk about when fuel prices, as related to everything else in the economy, were through the roof and truly punitive, and that was during the melees of the Carter years.
It is an unrelentless, unabashed, not even disguised or hidden anymore attack on uh on George W. Bush.
And it's just, it ought not surprise anybody.
It is just, it's it's as though Bush is still running for office.
That's the one thing about this that uh uh is curious to him.
Now, I know that the press and the left are trying to have an impact on the O6 presidential elections.
They're trying to make Republicans nervous.
They're trying to split Republicans off from Bush.
But if there's nothing that can be done about these high gas prices, I've told when we're not gonna drill anywhere, when we're not gonna develop any more oil supplies in our own country, when we're not gonna build any more refineries, we got an emerging uh country like China that's fighting all over the world for its own supply of oil because their economy is modernizing.
You can talk about conservation all day long.
You people go out there and get your hybrids all day long.
I want to repeat something that I was told by a major American automotive company executive.
He said, if we were required to make everybody in America drive a hybrid tomorrow.
If this somehow happened, that tomorrow everybody was required to be in a hybrid, we would be right back where we are in a mere six years in terms of the amount of fuel we use.
Now you can sit out there and you can talk about conservation all you want, but when the world is a constantly expanding economy and we lead that global economy and that global expansion, conservation is not the only element of any sort of a plan.
So we did some research today, folks, and we found out that uh in addition to uh Bill Clinton traveling a lot.
Here's Al Gore.
And this is a drudge report flash from December 7th of 1997.
The most voting well, the bottom line of this, Gore burned 439,500 pounds of fuel to attend a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan.
And here's what he said getting there.
So the most vulnerable part of the Earth's environment is the very thin layer of air clinging near to the surface of the planet that we are now so carelessly filling with gaseous wastes that we're actually altering the relationship between the Earth and the Sun by trapping more solar radiation under this growing blanket of pollution that envelops the entire world.
He spent 439,500 pounds jet fuel to get there.
The calculation goes down like he's burning uh something uh like sixty-five thousand six hundred gallons of jet fuel to get there and back at a cost of more than a hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars on the sixteen thousand mile day trip.
He made this trip to deliver a one-day warning to the Kyoto conference in Japan.
Air Force Two, the Global Warming Express, features an itinerary that takes the vice president from Washington to Florida to Washington to Alaska to Japan and back in 72 hours.
And during this, he uh uses 65,600 gallons, and nobody said a word about it at the time except Drudge.
Nobody was interested in it at all.
Now you want to talk about hypocrisy.
What is the reason for laying into Bush?
Oh, high gas prices, and you know what?
You can't turn on a cable network without talking about high gas prices.
You just can't do it.
It's it but what are we gonna do?
People are paying the high gas prices.
There are some people upset about it, as they are always upset when the price of anything goes up.
It's fact of life.
Everything today is is uh on it.
Well, not everything.
There's some things that go down in price, the new products that are invented always uh more expensive when they're rolled out the marketplace, and as they uh gain acceptance, the price always comes down.
She can't say everything's more expensive today than it was five years ago, but on balance, uh inflation alone makes sure that that that happens.
The U.S. Senate Republican policy committee back in 1998 put out a press release, Clinton set to double presidential travel record.
He's already set records for trips, days, and pace of overseas travel.
He's uh you know, Bush may be one of the most traveled, but he certainly is uh not outdoing anything that Bill Clinton ever did, and yet there was never one reference to any of this.
I don't think Clinton was praised for all the good works that he's doing while he travels.
So the uh the uh relentless assault to uh to discredit Bush on on basically the fact that he's alive.
Uh Bush's greatest sin is he's alive, his second greatest sin that is he's a president.
And uh by God, they're gonna get this man one way or the other.
If they can't get him out of office, they're gonna destroy his reputation, and they're not going to stop until they think they've pulled it off.
Mary in Jacksonville, Florida, nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Hello.
Hello?
Yes, ma'am.
Is this Rush?
It is.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I just wanted to voice my opinion.
I had three sons and my husband over in Iraq last year, and um it was worrisome, but at the same time I couldn't have been more prouder.
And I I had a number of people ask me if anything happens to your sons now that you have all of them over there, will you feel the same about this war?
And I said, absolutely.
I said, I feel very, very strongly that we are doing the best thing we can do for our kids in the future.
And uh at three of my and three of my sons are Marines, one is my husband is a former Marine, they were all over there last year.
Let me ask you a question, uh, Mary.
Uh did anybody from the White House uh send a recruiter to your home and demand that your sons uh join up?
No, seriously.
Seriously, I want to know did that happen?
No, sir.
Did you or your husband insist that because your husband was a marine, is a marine, that his sons follow in his footsteps.
Did they make you did you did you make your sons do this?
No, in fact, my husband had a career military um uh his his whole career was military, and yet he never mentioned it.
He never brought it up.
But my well, then why wouldn't you be proud?
What is you know what strikes me here is that it it it it's it I'm glad you called.
Don't misunderstand us.
I'm not this is not even really about you, but we've had a number of people like You, uh, mothers of sons and daughters in Iraq, call here and tell us how proud they are, as though this is odd.
I mean, the way this has all been stacked up, we think every parent is a Cindy Sheehan.
So the president goes out and finds Tammy Pruitt.
Ooh, that's odd.
Somebody actually supports this.
We had a woman yesterday and the day before, now you today, calling up and basically saying the same thing.
I love you for doing it.
Don't misunderstand, but I th I find it amazing that you even feel compelled to call and say that you're proud.
That's to me what would be normal.
The abnormal would be somebody's not proud, somebody's embarrassed, somebody's ashamed that their son's in Iraq.
And yet the way this has been structured, people call here, and I understand why you're doing it.
You want to get the word out, and you want people to understand it.
The very idea that it i it it is even remotely necessary in people's minds for parents to express pride in what their sons have decided to do on their own is sort of shocking to me.
You understand what I mean?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir, I sure do.
Um not only am I very proud of them, Rush, I have to tell you, we still stay in touch with a lot of the Iraqi people that my husband uh worked with while he was over there, and he was fortunate to work with one son that was only about a block away from him.
But so many of these stories that came back here, you wouldn't believe how long my email list got, because I would forward all the the good things that were happening in Iraq to friends, and I would go to church every day, and people would say, Mary, I can't I I can't thank you enough for sending this.
We're not getting this on the news.
No, no kidding.
No good.
That's that's exactly what I mean.
That's why you feel compelled to call here, and I love you for doing it.
Please don't misunderstand.
Uh but the the idea that, hey, you know, I better speak up and say that, you know, I'm I'm proud that my sons are in Iraq, as though that's unusual.
Uh, just knows to show you how out of phase all of this is.
Well, the fact is it's not.
The only thing that makes it unusual is the perception that's being created with all the attention to the to the sheehan mob uh and some of the uh the small percentage of Americans that are sort of this uh movement of what so-called anti-war movement.
Uh Mary, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I found this from the uh Cleveland Plain Dealer last Saturday.
Now, this, and I you people don't know this, but I'm a I'm a softie for animals.
I mean, one of the reasons I am not leaving this hurricane is to stay with my little cat.
My little cat doesn't travel well.
A little cat in a car or on an airplane just freaks out at the noise.
Tried it once.
I don't want to kill the cat when frighter panics.
I am staying here with my little cat.
So I'm I'm a softie for these little animals.
I love them.
I mean, I I try to rescue lizards that my little cat's trying to kill.
Little cat doesn't know any different.
I mean, it's it's just nature.
If it moves, the cat's gonna get it and bring it to me and want a reward.
The mother of Corporal Jeffrey Boscovich, killed in Iraq on August 1st, wants to honor her son's wishes and adopt a fellow Marine from his company, a scruffy dog named Beans.
Kathy Wright of North Royalton cherishes a picture of her son holding the mixed breed puppy that the weapons company Marines bought from some Iraqi villagers.
They paid three jelly beans and a quarter for the dog, and that's how beans got her name, she said.
In July, my son emailed me saying he was trying to figure out a way to bring beans home with him when his time was up.
But her son never got the chance at age twenty-five.
On August 1st, he was one of six Marine snipers killed by insurgent small arms fire outside Hadith, Iraq.
We're trying to bring beans home, said Boscovich's mother.
And I know some other people in the area want to adopt her, but I need to adopt her.
I need the dog who was with my son to live her life out here with me in his house.
She said that uh she and supporters are trying to locate the dog and believe they know where he is.
The problem's getting the dog transported here, she said.
We've got the money, but we need a civilian to agree to take her back.
Somebody like a journalist or a medic who is coming home.
Ha, like a journalist would help.
She said the military indicated it would not transport a pet from Iraq to the uh to the United States.
Jeffrey Boscovich, uh member of the weapons company in Akron was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment based in Brook Park.
Wright said between 2600 and 3,000 was needed to bring beans to Ohio, and a fund called the Beans Foundation's been set up at Key Bank.
Uh, money has long since been raised.
Extra funds will go to the battalion.
Uh She thinks the dog will be happy with her family, which has two other dogs, so she wants the dog.
That her son wanted to bring home.
I'd say you got a lump in my throat reading this last night.
I got a lump in my throat telling you about it now.
We'll be back in just a second.
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San Diego up next.
Hello, George.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Well, Rush, I thought you'd like to talk to somebody that does not support the war, and I do not support the troops.
Why did you think I would wait why why do you think I'd want to talk to you?
Well, because you were mentioning earlier that you found it uh, you know, hard to believe that people that uh could support the war could not support the war and at the same time support the troops.
Well, that's just what most people on the left say.
They say they support the troops, but they don't support the war, but I've never thought those two were really compatible.
And they're not.
And you're exactly right.
Um there was a song from the 60s uh by Donovan.
It was called The Universal Soldier, and a line in it said, Without the universal soldier, Hitler would have stood alone.
And and I believe that the principles of the Nuremberg trials require that the soldiers today refuse illegal orders.
And I support the troops that are applying for conscientious objector status, that are uh going AWOL and going to Canada.
Those are the troops that I support.
I support the there aren't any.
Oh, well, you're dazed and confused then.
No, that that was back during the time of a draft.
There may I've heard of one wacko that went to Canada and they refused to take him after the f after a full hearing.
But I've there's no not a whole bunch of A-Wall in Canada, and there certainly aren't any COs because there's no draft.
This is not the 60s.
And by the way would you explain another contradiction to me?
You said, were it not for the universal soldier that Hitler would have stood alone.
Sounds to me like that's supportive of soldiers.
Well, I don't understand.
Oh, you're talking about German soldiers who followed orders.
Well uh, okay, let's I I get I get it now.
I get it now.
I understand.
If it weren't for the fact that German soldiers followed Hitler's orders, Hitler would have been alone and he wouldn't have been able to do anything.
Well, you know, if is for children.
And I must tell you, I don't believe in if.
When I was a kid, I believed in if, but I don't believe in if anymore.
The correct way to look at this, George, and I appreciate your honesty by calling here and telling us that you hate the troops and you don't support them and you don't support the war.
It's very nice of you to be honest about it, and uh also by saying the same thing about your colleagues or your associates or your comrades, whatever you call them.
But the fact is that there were soldiers that were carrying out Hitler's orders.
And if it weren't for the fact that there were other soldiers, United States, British, then Hitler would be standing alone today.
That's what we don't understand.
You can't get through your head.
But it's okay.
As long as you don't win elections, as long as you don't end up as Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense, we're cool.
Back after this.
For those of you uh libs out there, I I I want to try to make you understand that I I know that George doesn't speak for all of you libs.
George admitted that he supports nothing.
He doesn't support the troops, doesn't support the war.
But I know the mantra from the left is hey, don't challenge us.
We support the troops, we just don't support the war.
To tell you, to give you an idea of how that sounds to us.
What if I were to say to you, pretend that I'm a liberal?
But pretend I'm anybody.
And what if I were to say to you, you know what?
I support the war.
I support every aspect of the war, but I don't support the troops.
You're saying to yourself, well, you can't say that.
How can you what do you mean you support the war, but you don't support the troops?
How can it Uh-huh?
That's exactly how we hear you, Nimrods, when you're out there talking about how you support the troops, but you don't support the war.
Besides, we know it's just a game, just it's just a slogan to try to take some heat off of you.
Give yourself some status, but it's not gonna fly here.
Quick time out.
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