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Nov. 10, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2005, Thursday, Hour #2
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All right, we're going to keep going with this.
I mentioned earlier in the previous hour that even last night in the media, that the template on this attack, Al-Qaeda attack in Jordan, the template is, it's Bush's fault.
Bush caused this.
Bush is responsible.
So we played connect the dots in the first hour of the program.
Just to review that, when you connect the dots, what do you get?
You have Jordan.
You have three suicide bombers.
You've got 57 people dead so far.
Over 300 people wounded.
You have terrorists.
You have the culture of death, the expressed desire to end Western civilization.
Any normal person, rational person connecting these dots concludes we've got a serious global war on terror and we have to win it or else.
That's what I get when I connect the dots.
But when liberal Democrats and the American left connect the dots, they see a campaign issue.
The very same people who have been demoralizing the U.S. troops, saying, oh, we support the troops, but then undermining the commander-in-chief, undermining the mission, trying to say the mission is unjust, the mission is unnecessary.
All of this is a pure fabrication.
Bush lied.
All of these lies.
And now all of a sudden they care that we're not fighting the war on terror correctly when they can't point to very many instances of themselves actually being for it when they mean it.
So to the media last night, let's go to Hardball with Chris Matthews talking to Michael Scheuer, a former covert CIA officer about the bombings in Jordan.
I was referring to this the other day, too.
Used to never see this.
Ex-CIA officers being allowed to write books.
But I guess you can write books now if you're an ex-CIA covert officer if your books are going to attack the administration.
So Matthews says, well, what's this attack in Jordan?
Tell us about where we stand in the world, the war in Iraq, its relevance to this, et cetera.
By invading Iraq, we've basically signed the death warrant of Jordan and much of the Levant.
It's another example of no one reading what Bin Laden said.
Bin Laden prizes contiguity above all things, an area where he can operate from safe haven into another country.
And he did.
Well, now his safe haven is war-torn Iraq.
Exactly right, sir.
We created his bastion to get to an area he's never been able to work against, which is the Levant, Israel, Egypt.
He now has safe haven to operate from there.
Well, what?
Okay.
So what we have here, Iraq caused the bombing as if there were no bombings anywhere before Iraq.
There were no terrorist actions against Arabs anywhere else, never happened before until we went into Iraq.
This is about we gave Osama a safe haven in Iraq.
I know I'm not the smartest guy in the room, but has anybody ever alluded to the fact that bin Laden is there?
No, now Zarqawi is there, and he's a bin Laden agent, I suppose.
Well, should we then not have gone into Afghanistan and routed him out of there?
You know, bin Laden's M.O. has been to go take over countries that have no governments.
They're basically stateless.
That was what he was doing in Sudan.
That's why he went to Afghanistan.
The best intel now is that he's in the Afghan-Pakistan border or someplace even in Iran.
Some people even think that.
But, I mean, no matter where the guy goes, he's the winner in these people's minds.
No matter where he goes, we forced him there.
And we can't capture him, so he's still running a show.
He's running a safe haven.
We're creating all these problems.
It's Bush's fault.
Another soundbite, same show.
Just brace yourself for this one because this same former CIA agent says that in the final analysis, we'd all be better off.
Jordan would be better off.
Everybody better off if Saddam were still running Iraq.
Question from Matthews.
Just to think outside the box here.
Would we be better off with Saddam Hussein still running tyrannically that country if Iraq right next door to Jordan?
Would Jordan be more secure in that environment?
No doubt about it, sir.
No doubt there'd be many more dead, many fewer dead Americans, and we would have many more resources available to annihilate al-Qaeda, which is what we have to do.
Without a doubt, in the war against al-Qaeda, Saddam Hussein was one of our best allies.
Okay.
So who are we fighting in Iraq?
Well, that's the point.
We're fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq, but we wouldn't have been fighting them there if we hadn't gone there.
We could have fought them wherever they were.
Problem is, they're everywhere.
We now know they're in France.
We now know they're in Australia.
We now know that they're in Jordan.
And they're in Malaysia.
They're in Singapore.
They're in the Philippines.
Militant Islamists are in Chechnya.
They're all over the place.
I mean, there are 70 countries that there are al-Qaeda cells working and operating out of 70 different countries.
That's what we were told back in 2001.
Now, all of a sudden, they're all in Iraq, and this is somehow a bad move.
Saddam Hussein was our best ally, one of our best allies in the war against Al-Qaeda.
This is the major spin going on.
Now let's go to C-SPAN this morning.
Washington Journal, Susan Swain is the host.
She's talking to David Cole.
David Cole's a Georgetown University Law School professor.
Caller calls in.
Caller says over 50% of the people in that region, according to ABC, CBS, NBC polls, over 50% of the people in that region believe that bin Laden's a good man, over 50%.
They support him in what he's doing.
Those are huge numbers.
Those statistics have gone up significantly since September 12, 2001.
People didn't support Osama bin Laden when he attacked us.
People have supported us when he attacked us.
But because of the way that we've responded, our numbers have plummeted downward, and his numbers have plummeted upward.
That's the point.
These kind of tactics only undermine our security by strengthening their side.
What a terrorist wants more than anything else is to goad the country that it attacks into acting in ways that undermine that country's image and undermine its strength in the world.
And that's exactly what we've done.
We have played into their hands.
This is unbelievable.
The rewriting of history here taking place is just amazing, being done by professors, media people, people who have a responsibility to get things right, to impart information to other people in a factual manner.
And so now, bin Laden was, we were loved when we didn't do anything about it.
We were loved when we sat there and took it.
We were loved when 3,000 Americans were killed.
And we were loved when we just sat around and didn't do anything about it for three weeks.
But then when we attacked them, we defended ourselves.
All of a sudden, they started hating us.
Well, what kind of silly ass logic is this?
Does that mean to be loved, we're supposed to sit around and just continue to be attacked every now and then and not do anything about it?
We're not supposed to be able to defend ourselves.
We defend ourselves and, oh, that's going to gin up world hate.
Does this not sound like the Democratic campaign of 2004?
Does this not sound like exactly what Rockefeller and Kennedy et al. have been saying for the last three years?
It's our fault.
We did this.
Had we come up with a different way of responding, what would that be?
Go to the UN and ask for a resolution?
What other way of responding would there be after all of this?
But there you have it, my friends, the liberal take on this.
I have a vague memory, and this is why I can't claim this to be factual, but I've got a vague memory.
I think Zarqawi is Jordanian.
Well, I know that.
Zarqawi is Jordanian, but I think that he once tried to attack that country and failed.
Okay, he, okay, then my memory is factual.
He did.
This could just be an attempt to do what he failed to do the first time.
But he knows these guys are not idiots.
Know that their enemy is going to get blamed for this.
I think these guys, wherever they are in their caves or in their mosques, have to just be sitting back and laughing themselves to death every time Kennedy or some elitist professor from Georgetown like this guy or David Rockefeller opens his mouth.
Here, these guys attacked.
They blow up innocent people, and they know that the American left is going to blame America.
They know that their enemy is going to get blamed for this in the worldwide media.
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I got to hear this CIA guy again, folks, because some things have popped into my head.
This is from Hardball last night with Chris Matthews, and he asks, the guy's name is Michael Shore Scheier Scheuer.
It's S-C-H-E-U-E-R.
The question is, what's this tell us about where we stand in the world, the war in Iraq, its relevance to this, et cetera?
This guy's a former covert CIA agent.
Keep in mind, as you listen to all this, who's now writing books and going on television talking about U.S. foreign policy?
By invading Iraq, we basically signed the death warrant of Jordan and much of the Levant.
Stop right there.
Because my memory is true.
Zarkawi is Jordan.
In fact, Debbie Schlussel tells me that Zarkawi is Jordanian Palestinian.
He Jordanian Palestinian.
One of the 70% of the population that Rockefeller is so concerned about.
So one of the 70% blew up his own country, so to speak.
But if he did try to attack Jordan back in the 90s, that's long before we had done anything to Saddam Hussein.
Well, we left him in power.
Saddam was still in power and running his country.
So the idea that linking this to what we did in Iraq is just absolute BS.
Now, let's go to the next bite because it gets even better.
Question from Matthews, just to think outside the box, would we be better off with Saddam Hussein still running that country right next door to Jordan?
Would Jordan be more secure in that environment?
No doubt about it, sir.
No doubt there'd be many more dead, many fewer dead Americans, and we would have many more resources available to annihilate al-Qaeda, which is what we have to do.
Without a doubt, in the war against Al-Qaeda, Saddam Hussein was one of our best allies.
Okay, who is this guy, folks?
He's a CIA agent, former covert CIA agent.
So he just got through saying that by invading Iraq, we signed the death warrant of Jordan and much of Levant.
And sounds to me like he was opposed to invading Iraq.
Doesn't this tell us what's going on at the CIA?
This guy's a former covert agent.
He's out now.
Starting to put some more dots together here, connect some more dots.
This kind of also tells us how out of it the CIA was, does it not?
If this guy is representing CIA thought and think on this, does it not indicate just how off the mark the CIA has been on all this from the get-go?
He's better off with Saddam in power.
He was one of our allies against Al-Qaeda.
This is a former CIA covert agent saying this.
The guy should have stayed undercover because he's lifting the veil of secrecy on the kind of thinking going on.
I don't know if he worked with Valerie Plame or not.
She had a desk.
Speaking of which, speaking of which, thanks to the church committee, we have no more human intel.
We can't go out and hire reprobates and human debris to infiltrate other groups of human debris.
We replace those people with Valerie Plame.
We replace those people with desk jockeys.
Thank you, Frank Church.
And now we bring the whole U.S. government to a stop because Valerie Plame's name's out.
Yet here's a former covert agent out there writing books about the CIA's operations and thoughts.
And he's celebrated as a big-time hero because he's obviously anti-Bush.
Debbie Schlussel just sent me a note.
This soundbite we played from George, I'm sorry, David Cole, the Georgetown University law professor, in which he said, basically, it's the way we responded to 9-11 that made the world hate us.
Debbie Schlussel tells me that this man was once Sammy Al-Aryan's attorney.
The name of Sammy Al-Aryan ring a bell.
They just had closing arguments in his trial yesterday in Tampa.
This was a computer professor at a Florida university who was undercover working as a fundraiser and leader in this country of the Islamic Jihad.
So it's interesting when you start connecting these dots, what you actually get.
And how does it differ from those in the mainstream press of the Democratic Party?
Julie, in Winnetka, California, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Mega Dido's.
My father will be so jealous to hear that I'm speaking to you today.
Thank you for calling.
I would like to know, what is the proper way or the best way to oppose a war without demeaning your president or your country?
That's an interesting question.
Let me ask you, are you one who opposes the war?
No, not at all.
You're not?
I'm a Republican.
I voted for Bush, and I'm a big supporter of him.
He's my president, and I'm proud to say that.
Okay, so that's fine.
I don't disbelieve you.
I'm just, what is your question rooted in then?
You must know people, or you're just interested in this as a thought piece.
Well, I'm just interested.
The only one I've ever been through, I'm 32.
I went through the Gulf War, the first one, which is, you know, obviously very quick.
And I'm just wondering how you go about protesting something you don't agree with without making your country look really bad, which I know is what the Democrats are doing.
And what is the best way to do it?
So if they do want to get their voices heard, if they actually are opposing the war and not just Bush, how can they do that without demeaning him?
Well, you know, that's a real toughie because in this instance, in this instance, the anti-war left actually seeks defeat.
In this instance, the anti-war left wants the defeat of the United States and the U.S. military.
They have a different set of values.
They believe that the U.S. is responsible for most of the evil in the world because of our superpower status.
They believe that our environmental policies and usurping 25% of the world's resources while only being 2% of the population is unfair.
They think that it's our wealth and prosperity that's responsible for the misery and suffering in the third world.
They think that we create a lot of the inequalities that exist, political and economic, in the world.
And so they want us punished.
And they want us cut down to size.
They want us to lose.
I mean, there's no other way to look at that.
That's the purpose.
Cindy Sheehan, look at what she says.
Look what her gang of marauders says.
Pull out, get out, lose.
There's only one thing getting out this way means.
It means give up.
It means surrender.
So I frankly, you know, to think about what could an anti-war protester do to not impugn the war effort is something I've never really thought about because I'm not anti-war.
I happen to be a student of history, and I know that it's, you know, doctors and nurses and clean water do not bring peace.
And I know that wars generally are not fought over peace anyway.
That's a word that's bandied about.
I know what the purpose of armies is, is to kill people and break things.
It's not a social experiment.
It's not meals on wheels like the Clinton administration turned it into.
It's deadly serious.
They're highly trained and very professional, and they've got a specific mission and has been watered down and diluted by much of the political correctness that's infiltrated our system.
I guess you could go out and say that an anti-war person said, would you get this over quick?
Would you go win this quick and bring our boys home?
We don't like all this death and suffering.
Go and win the war quick.
If an anti-war protester was just interested in victory, then I'd be a lot less concerned about them.
But I don't ever hear anti-war people talking about winning anything.
I don't hear anti-war people talking about triumph.
I don't hear anti-war people talk about goodness.
All I hear from them is blame and hatred for their own country.
I think they've got a tremendous self-loathing problem.
I think, you know, anti-war people tell us more about them than they do about the war effort or us or our country.
But they're trying to say that they have the moral high ground here and that wars in general is ignoble and unjust, and no war should ever be fought.
And with that belief, then if no war should ever be fought, then whoever gets involved in one ought to lose it.
And they look at us as having started this war, by the way.
I mean, I think their argument is just Swiss cheese.
And it's easily pierceable because of that.
And I think they know it because they come up with the defense mechanism.
Well, you know, Duke, we support the troops.
We just don't support the mission.
Well, you can't split it that way.
You can't split the baby.
The troops and the mission are intertwined.
We have troops because of the missions.
And well, we support the troops.
We'll bring the troops home.
There's nothing they do that indicates support of the troops.
Not when they're trying to undermine the whole effort.
Not when they're trying to impugn the commander-in-chief.
If you look at this latest round of a group of war protesters and think that you're seeing people who want a U.S. victory, then I'll be glad to change my mind, but you can't find it.
I don't think anybody can.
You can't convince me that Cindy Sheehan or any of these people anti-war are for our victory.
It's just the opposite.
And listen to what they say.
They're not just anti-war.
They're anti-Bush.
They're anti-tax cut.
They're anti-this.
They're libs.
The anti-war movement is just an extreme bunch of libs.
It's become the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
And clearly, the mainstream of the Democratic Party is not interested in victory anywhere here, because victory anywhere here would redound to a victory for Bush.
They don't want that.
This is all about defeat, defeat for Bush, defeat of the United States.
That's why it's so enraging.
And this is why, you know, the word patriotism gets bandied about.
Don't challenge my patriotism.
Well, the usual rejoinder to that is, we're not challenging your patriotism.
We're challenging your judgment.
But that's getting close to where their patriotism is going to be a matter of question.
But to them, they think they are patriotic.
American defeat, that's the patriotic thing to them.
They've got a whole different definition of these things.
Patriotism is criticizing the president to them.
And that, by the way, is Hillary's new definition.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
And to Destin, Florida.
Eric, you're next on the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Big wall dittos, Rush.
Thank you.
I just wanted to say that now that the media polls are showing that the American public or the majority of the American public does not support the war, according to the questions that they're asking.
Yes, it's an NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
It's all over the place, too.
The Dems, but now the Dems have dropped that qualifier on their statements of we support the troops, but to me, that just means it was a pretense to begin with.
And now that they don't have to say it because their polls tell them that they don't have to say it, they're not going to do it anymore.
You don't hear Rockefeller or Kennedy make any type of statement like that anymore.
No, excuse me.
And I'll tell you, not only that, this is what they've been aiming for.
Ever since the Iraq War started, One of the express purposes has been to gin up enough anti-war support to imperil the president of the Republican Party.
It's just a replay of Vietnam, as I've said over and over again, just a replay of Vietnam, replay of Watergate, trying to relive their old glory days.
And I think it's a tragedy.
I think it's a genuine tragedy that this became a political policy the moment the war at Iraq started.
To me, it just illustrates, you know, we got obstacles around the world.
We got obstacles in this country.
We always have had.
But when the primary opposition party becomes one of the primary obstacles to American victory, it's a problem.
Other than Vietnam, it really hasn't happened in my lifetime.
And Vietnam's not even that similar a circumstance.
It took the Vietnam War years and years and years for the anti-war movement to gin up.
It was Democrats started that war.
Essentially, it was John Kennedy, and LBJ is the guy who ballooned that war to the size that it was.
And it was after JFK left and Nixon got in, all hell broke loose.
It started to break loose during the last couple of years of the Johnson administration.
That's why he didn't seek reelection 68.
But after all, this thing started in the 50s.
It took a while to get there.
This started this way.
This started as a political opportunity.
I will never forget this story.
We struggled to try to figure this out.
A story came out that said battlefield fatalities were at an all-time low in American war history.
We were losing more soldiers or losing fewer soldiers on the battlefield than ever before.
And the story was a Reuters story, and they had people in there who were saying, this is bad news.
And we were looking at this.
I could not figure this out.
Bad news.
How can this be bad news?
They were talking about, well, the only reason this is happening is because doctors who are needed elsewhere are on the front lines and they're saving lives that really ought not to be saved because these people are losing arms and legs and who wants to live that way.
I kid you not about this story.
They were all concerned about it.
We said, what in the world?
I mean, this is so foreign to us.
Good news is bad news.
How in the world is this figure?
And then it all came to us.
They were worried about this.
They were trying to gin up anti-war support.
They wanted more battlefield deaths.
Look at this sickening body count of our troops that the media has been engaged in ever since we were just below 1,000.
Now we've been counting up to 2,000.
And it's some sort of a milestone.
And every time we hit a new thousand delineator, the nightline people replay this show where they do the pictures of each soldier dead.
The New York Times does this full page or two-page spread on it.
There's only one reason for this.
They want us to believe they're honoring these people, but I don't think that's it.
I think they're trying to gin up anti-war support.
Now we have an attack in Amman, Jordan.
Senators Rockefeller and Kelly Kennedy hit the TV screen, the cameras, and make it clean as day that they think this is Bush's fault, that we don't have the intelligence, that we don't have the military.
We're not accomplishing anything.
Rockefeller said it last night, Kennedy today.
These are the people who have been standing in the way all along.
These are the people that want to treat terrorists as U.S. citizens, give them access to the U.S. court system.
And that's another thing.
I would like to know for the Democrats just how the hell you're going to find bin Laden when all you wanted to do was treat it as a legal case.
I want to remind you, Democrats, that we had two, maybe three chances to have bin Laden in prison in this country when your boy, Bill Clinton, was president.
But your boy, Bill Clinton, had no desire to put his hands on that hot potato because he was all concerned about his approval numbers.
I didn't think that we had the legal mechanism to hold him.
I said, we don't want him, so send him away.
So he left Sudan, and that's how he ends up in Afghanistan, folks.
Bill Clinton, the Sudanese offered these bin Laden twice.
Twice?
These are the people their party turned him down, didn't want to deal with it.
Now we can't find him.
Well, what was their way of dealing with it all along?
The war on terror was a legal matter.
They were fighting it in the U.S. court system.
Bill Clinton never engaged these terrorists at all, ever.
He was never serious about it after attacks on this country or anywhere else.
I know Scheuer at the CIA ran the bin Laden unit between 98 and 99.
What does that tell you?
96 through 99.
So what does that tell you?
This guy Scheuer, this former covert agent, now out there writing all these books and appearing on television about how we don't know what we're doing.
We're screwing everything up.
Bin Laden's, he ran the bin Laden desk.
He ran the bin Laden desk at the CIA, the unit from 96 to 99.
I'll tell you, it's to me, what this all boils down to is Bush has been too effective.
Bush has been too effective in trying to clean out the CIA, too effective in trying to clean out the State Department and all these bureaucracies.
Make no mistake, there are ideological enemies of this administration throughout this government, ideological enemies.
And they will do whatever they can to protect their turf, even if it means taking out a U.S. president in any way they can, while making it look like it's just a series of political events that are taking place.
Speaking of that, I can't let this day go by without mentioning this.
The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence told Senate leaders yesterday that Congress should hold off on a probe of the disclosure of classified information on secret prisons to the Washington Post until the Justice Department completes its inquiry.
Senator Pat Roberts, a Republican of Kansas, said that he will respectfully request that Majority Leader Bill Frist back off a strongly worded request that a bicameral investigation into the disclosure be convened immediately.
By the way, a little sidestep here about that.
Remember I read that letter from Frist and Hastert to you?
This whole policy, this request for a bicameral investigation itself was leaked.
Somebody in the Senate leaked that before Hastert and Frist had even signed the letter and sent it out to anyone.
Frist and Haster did not want to go through with this at the time.
They had just prepared the letter as a contingency, but somebody leaked it, and it shows up on the media starting at 11.30.
I guess this was Tuesday morning.
Shows up at 11.30 Tuesday morning by afternoon, 12.10, 12.30.
It's all over the place.
And there were people then that were urging Hastert and Frist to go ahead and sign it and be done with it since it was already out there.
That itself was leaked.
So somebody in the U.S. Senate's trying to undermine the U.S. Senate.
And now Senator Roberts wants to hold off on this investigation.
Now, here we go with the stall tactics.
Has anything ever stopped these people from holding hearings before?
We had ABU grab hearings out the wazoo while an investigation was pending.
The Army, the military, the Pentagon was investigating that, but that didn't stop them from investigating that.
Same thing with Enron.
We had hearings and investigations on Enron while the Justice Department was engaged at that.
That didn't stop them.
They're holding hearings on Jack Abramoff, despite a criminal investigation going on there.
And of course, we bring the baseball players in, and we have hearings on steroids.
Well, we got time to do all that.
But now all of a sudden, we get the stall tactics when the leaker may be a senator or a staffer.
No, we need to put on the brakes.
We need to be more responsible about this.
We need to wait for the Justice Department to figure its referral and figure out what it's going to do.
This looks to me like a good old-fashioned cover-up going on in the U.S. Senate.
Somebody in the Senate leaks news, especially today, of these prison sites, private secret prison sites, where we're housing al-Qaeda-type terrorists, trying to get intel on them.
We have the explosion in Amman, Jordan.
We have Kennedy and Rockefeller head out the TV talking about how we can't do anything right.
Our intel's rotten.
Who is it that wants to let all the prisoners out of jail?
Who is it that wants to impugn the people run above grab and Club Gitmo?
Who is it that wants to give these people representation under the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. court system?
And now somebody in the Senate has leaked the existence of these prisons.
And then these guys dare go on television two days later and say, we can't fight the war because our president's doing it wrong.
We have lousy intelligence.
And who is it that's leaking all this?
Who is it that actually, whether they know it or not, is undermining this whole effort?
And so now we've got this leak from the Senate on this black operation with these secret prison sites.
Oh, no, We're going to slow this down.
We've got to stop this investigation.
We've got to wait for the Justice Department to finish off.
Circling the wagons, this is what I said yesterday, circling the wagons around themselves.
If one of themselves is implicated, doesn't matter what party.
Got to hold off here.
They investigate steroids.
They investigate language on the radio.
They investigate the placement of cereal and grocery shelves for Crying Outlike.
They have actors and actresses testify about nothing.
They have actresses who play farm wives come up and testify about agriculture problems in the U.S.
They investigate oil companies this week.
They investigate everything and anything.
But now, because one of them or one of their staffers might have leaked secret classified information and harmed our ability to detain and interrogate the enemy, they get reluctant.
They get reluctant.
I mean, who are these?
What's Lott doing?
Lot's out there basically undermining this in the first place by saying that this is a Senate leak and then says, hey, we got all kinds of information passing through us up here.
We'd have to be doing other investigations all day if it did this.
And I like Pat Roberts.
I have always liked Pat Roberts.
But it seems to me the Republicans in the Senate will only investigate what Harry Reid tells them to.
Harry Reid wants an investigation.
My God would bend over, grab the ankles, and we do it.
I wish Senator Roberts would get control over this and his committee with Rockefeller running wild and trying to stop it.
I wish I don't care who did this.
I don't care who leaked this.
It's time to find out who it is.
I mean, this is a possible Senate scandal, the likes of which we haven't seen in years.
Frist and Hastert are dead on right about this.
Folks, if a U.S. Senator or a Senate staffer leaked this information to the media, what happened?
It undermined our war on terrorism.
They need to be exposed.
They may be removed from office and punished.
They're undermining the war on terrorism.
And the very day, we have Rockefeller and Kennedy coming out and piling on.
I mean, these are the people, the Democrats, primarily some senators, these are the people that are doing everything they can the last three years to undermine our effort, constantly criticizing it.
The president's a liar.
He can't be trusted.
None of this is legitimate.
It's all unjust.
Undermine the effort?
Can't win?
We're not competent.
We're not qualified.
Who is it that's giving that impression?
It's the American left and the Senate Democrats.
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The plot thickens.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is uh, from the Washington Prowler.
This is from the blog at the American Spectator.
I'm just going to read to you what it says.
Somebody needs to check on senator Trent Lott's medication, or perhaps he's spending too much time hurting all those cats that he wrote about.
Either way, his comments regarding the black site scandal leaks that a Republican senator was the source because the GOP Senate Caucus had discussed the prisons during their weekly closed-door lunch are just goofy.
First of all, senator Mccain says no such discussion took place.
Well, now this thickens the plot.
The Republican Caucus has its weekly closed-door lunch Lot says they talked about this black site business.
The next day it shows up in the Washington POST.
Now Mccain says they didn't discuss it.
Second point from the American Spectator blog.
The luncheon was on a tuesday.
The Washington POST story ran the next day.
No slight to Dana Priest, but given that she's the writer, but given the content and context of the story she reported, there was no way she turned it around on an eight-hour deadline.
Dana Priest had clearly been working and coordinating efforts with Human Rights Watch for some time and digging up the story.
If a Republican did do the leaking after all this, so what?
Regardless of party, whomever leaked deserves to take the heat.
It's about our nation's safety and security.
I'm glad somebody else agrees with me.
I don't care who it is.
If somebody leaked, and if it's a Republican, best we find out about it.
But the plot now thickens.
Here's Mccain saying, no, we didn't even discuss this.
Lot says we did discuss it and that's probably where the leak came from.
I mean, if you ask me, this just is more evidence that we need an investigation.
Something about this just doesn't pass the smell test.
Uh, let me go to Sugargrove, Illinois.
Dan, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
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Thank you, sir.
Um, I wanted to ask you about Judith Miller, what you thought of uh, her exiting the NEW YORK Times.
You know I I, I have to tell you I frankly couldn't care less.
To be quite honest with you.
I mean, I have some thoughts on it.
I, I remember when this was about to happen uh, Drudge sent me a little, uh little email.
Judy Miller's negotiating her.
I'm posting this here pretty soon, Judy Miller's leaving her post.
So what, who cares?
Papers losing subscription circulation, who?
I, I just, I think this whole sordid tale, I mean you, you could have a number of things you could say.
Well uh, so much for standing behind the reporters.
Uh I, I don't know.
This is the, the comings and goings of these places really in with everything else going out there.
And i'm not trying to minimize, if you care about it, that's fine.
I'm not trying to suggest nobody should care about it, I just don't.
So she was there 28 years, so she's gone.
I'm more interested in the fact her husband went ahead and went on this great Mediterranean cruise with a bunch of elitist, upscale Libs while she sat rotting in jail.
I'm more interested in a cat fight going on between her and Maureen Down.
I'd like to see him on the WWE one night.
But as for what it means, I mean, they walked her out of there.
She looked like she was going to prison when she was walking out of the place.
I did see some video of that.
But I just think the New York Times is, I mean, it's Jason Blair.
It's Frank Rich.
It's these guys that don't know what they're saying half the time.
To me, they're just a poster child for don't trust what you read in the newspaper.
And the fact that she's on her way out, I have no doubt that the reason is that she supported the Bush administration and embarrassed liberals.
Plus, there's internal stuff like there isn't any office.
She was somebody's pet.
She used to date Pinch way back in the old days, back in the 80s.
She and Pinch have a little bit of a history.
And so there was some favoritism that was thought to go around.
Basically a big media soap opera.
Yep, If I'm out of touch on this, that's fine.
I'll choose to be back after this.
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