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Nov. 23, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 23, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hi, folks, and welcome to our annual Thanksgiving show here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
This, of course, by tradition, the second biggest travel day of the holiday season.
The biggest travel day is Sunday when everybody tries to get home from where they didn't really want to go in the first place.
Now, we'll try to make your travels as easy as possible.
If you haven't heard this, make sure you leave early for the airport.
I can't believe that's what the news is all about today.
Make sure you leave.
It's going to be crowded at the airport as though nobody knows this.
Anyway, here's the phone number.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, rush at EIBnet.com.
I was looking at the weather forecast for our area because, you know, we had a little cold front go through here last night, folks.
It's only, what is it out there?
It's only about 68 degrees.
You know, it wasn't all that long ago.
It was just 20 degrees higher.
To us, this is, you know, start the fire and put on the sweater weather.
It really is.
People laugh when they hear that, but you ought to see people.
They get out their winter clothes down here.
They wear them with pride, big sweaters, turtlenecks, and so forth.
It's almost 70 out there.
At any rate, so I'm looking at the weather forecast, and there's this big exclamation point in the graphic for Palm Beach.
So, oh, that means there's a warning of some kind.
I'm looking at a sky, and it's crystal clear because a cold front went through there.
So I said, What could this possibly be?
Do you know what the warning is for?
It's a low humidity alert.
I get you not, between like 9 o'clock this morning and 6 o'clock this evening, the humidity is only going to be 30%.
This could lead to skin cracking.
This could lead to problems in your sinuses and so forth.
People down here are used to high humidity.
It could also lead to potentially exaggerated fire hazards.
So it's the first time I've seen this.
A warning on low humidity.
At any rate, folks, Terry, we've got a lot of things to do on the program.
As you know, this is the day before Thanksgiving, the second biggest travel day of the year, where many of you are already on your way to places I know you don't want to go to.
I just know it's the case.
But you're putting up the good front and you're acting like you're all happy to be doing what you're doing, and it's cool.
We're going to have annual feature here, and that is the true story of Thanksgiving.
It's from my second bestseller.
See, I told you so, chapter six.
We'll read an excerpt from that chapter as we always do.
Yesterday, as you know, we did a fourth hour and we also did a fifth hour.
And let me explain a couple glitches that happened yesterday.
The fourth hour is for internet subscribers only.
And if they subscribe at rushlimbaugh.com, they get the DittoCam and the audio of the program.
For some reason yesterday, we had a CNN-type computer glitch.
The DittoCam was working for some, but not for others.
And then at 4 o'clock Eastern, when the fourth hour technically came to a conclusion, one of our operators in the Network Operations Center just pulled a plug.
And people got dial-toned.
Did you know this, Brian?
got dial tones so the the uh the the extra 10 minutes we did the extra 15 minutes we did of the fifth hour yesterday we're not we're not heard uh by a lot of yeah just so just just just pull Just pull the switch.
And I'll tell you what, there was hell to pay at the Network Operations Center yesterday afternoon and last night.
We don't put up with these kind of mistakes.
We had two of them in one day.
DittoCam didn't work as it should have.
You had to log back in to get it, which was crazy.
Well, we're trying to figure out how to put an audio X out there, but that was just too difficult.
But anyway, what happened yesterday, the fourth hour is, as always, it's a different animal because there are no commercials.
There's no commercial breaks.
Their pace is slower.
I keep people on the phone longer.
Don't have to worry about upcoming commercial breaks and hurrying people along to get to their point and this sort of thing.
We had a call from a military man, Sergeant Clay, who am I right?
I didn't get to hear everything he said because of my hearing limitations, but he's an adopt a soldier participant, right?
He had gotten his.
Okay, so one of the soldiers had recently been.
By the way, just to remind you, if you're a military person, member of the military anywhere in the world, or if you are a family member of such, we're still building the database of military personnel so we can match donors in the Adopt a Soldier program to you.
So just go to rushlimbaugh.com and you'll find everything there at the top of the page as to what to do to register yourself as an official member of the military and qualify as a member in our database to be matched with a donor in the Adopt a Soldier program.
Sergeant Clay called from, he was in the United Kingdom.
And that call runs about nine minutes.
So we're going to replay the whole call, a call in its entirety, at our first segment after the bottom of the hour break, about 12.33 Eastern time today.
We'll play it.
And it just brought us to near tears here for a whole bunch of reasons.
And I want you all to be able to hear that call because it was a fourth hour call.
And that means only the subscribers at rushlimbaugh.com were able to hear it.
We heard from them.
I mean, the people emailed the left and right.
It was a very touching moment.
It went on for, I was surprised when I looked at the back timing of it that it went nine minutes.
But I mean, that's how fast it flew by for me as host.
We have other items in the news today as well.
And I want to touch on as many of those as we can.
Plus, get your phone calls at 800-282-2882.
Now, do you know that they're back down in Crawford, Texas protesting?
The Cindy Sheehan mob is back down at Crawford, Texas.
But there's a twist.
Cindy's not there.
Cindy has a stand-in.
Now, you people remember, I have told you, and I've warned you about this.
The people at the State Department, the careerists at the State Department, you might be surprised to learn, are not all pro-American in the sense that they agree with the Bush administration policy.
Here we have the elected president and vice president have been accused by a former State Department official, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, Larry Wilkerson, of hijacking foreign policy.
Imagine that.
The elected leaders of the country hijack foreign policy.
It's the attitude that exists in the State Department.
The elected leaders are in charge of it.
The elected leaders, the commander-in-chief, and the vice president.
There's no hijacking of foreign policy possible.
But if you're in the State Department, that's your bailiwick and anything.
You know, these presidents come and go, but you are the career diplomat and you know what's best.
And many of those people are career libs in that place, and it would stun you.
It would shock you to learn just how much fervent opposition to the Bush administration exists in there and why they're not happy with Condoleezza Rice being there.
So with that, as the setup, a little story here from the Associated Press: more than a dozen war protests, a dozen, 12 bedraggled, dope-smoking FM types show up at the president's ranch and it makes the news.
12 people, folks.
12 people is embarrassing.
It's not a protest turnout.
12 people is an absolute embarrassment.
It makes big news.
The Associated People.
More than a dozen war protesters returned to a roadside near President Bush's ranch before dawn today, defying two new local bans on roadside camping and parking.
About an hour after the group pitched tents and huddled in sleeping bags and blankets, a McLennan County Sheriff's deputy arrived and warned the group to leave or face arrest.
Protester and former U.S. diplomat Mary Ann Wright told the deputy that most of the group would stay because they believe the bans restrict their free speech rights.
Deputy said that the group would have two more warnings before he started making arrests.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan wasn't among the protesters Wednesday because of a family emergency in California.
But she planned to arrive at the camp later in the week.
Has a lot of family emergencies, Mr. Snerdley, keep her from showing up on the front lines lately.
Anyway, I know she's got to go make the turkey.
It wasn't going to make the feminists happy, but turkey comes before the protest march at Crawford.
At any rate, you hear the protester and former U.S. diplomat Mary Ann Wright.
Former U.S. diplomat?
There's a former U.S. diplomat that's joined the Cindy Sheehan mob?
In fact, standing in for Cindy Sheehan, Mother Sheehan, a former diplomat, Mary Ann Wright, who is this?
Well, I will tell you who she is after the break, but I'll give you a little hint.
She was in the State Department up until very recently and resigned.
And now she is leading the anti-war protests of the Cindy Sheehan left, former State Department diplomat.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
You're listening to Rush Limbaugh on the Excellence in Podcasting Network.
All right, we have an update on the anti-war protests at Crawford, Texas.
These dozen war protesters have now been arrested for setting up camp near President Bush's ranch in defiance of new local bans on roadside camping and parking.
Happened about four hours after the group pitched six tents and huddled in sleeping bags and blankets.
The sheriff's deputies arrested them for criminal trespassing.
Another dozen or so demonstrators left the public right-of-way after deputies warned them that they'd be arrested.
This is a sorry, sorry, sorry bunch of protesters.
Real war protesters that get arrested.
Real war protesters that hang around and try to set fire to the cop cars.
They'd do anything pie, they'd go to jail and they'd claim they're doing it for peace.
These people would just turn tail and split the scene.
Anyway, I've got to tell you about this former diplomat, Mary Ann Wright.
She heckled Secretary of State Conda Leeza Rice at Senate hearings, shouting, stop the killing, stop the war, hold this woman accountable.
She had a large hand in running Camp Casey for Cindy Sheehan.
All of this is in website interviews that Mr. Snirdley found today.
She spent 16 years as a State Department diplomat, animated, amused by her foibles, articulate and thoughtful.
She's just the sort of person you'd want to defend and then represent your country.
What is this stupid website?
TomDispatch.com.
A regular antidote to the mainstream.
You ever heard of this guy?
Anyway, last August, she had a large hand in running Camp Casey for Cindy Sheehan at the president's doorstep in Crawford, Texas.
On March 19, 2003, the day before the first cruise missiles were launched against Baghdad, Mary Ann, what's her name, Wright, resigned from the Foreign Service in an open letter, which copy of which we have from the U.S. Embassy in Mongolia, where she was then Deputy Chief of Mission.
This letter of resignation sent to Colin Powell.
In it, she wrote in part, this is the only time in my many years serving America I have felt I cannot represent the policies of an administration of the U.S.
I disagree with this administration's policies in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, North Korea, and curtailment of civil liberties in the U.S.
The more you read what this woman says, it sounds just like Democrat talking points.
It's just exactly what Democrat talking points are.
So this was a she claimed she wasn't a heckler at the Condoleezza Rice hearings so much she was as a protester.
She said, I went as much as a protest against the senators as against Condoleezza Rice because they were not holding our Secretary of State responsible.
I looked at the Washington Post that morning.
I noticed that Condoleezza was going to testify on Iraq.
I thought, well, I'm free until noon.
When I walked in, I was not planning on doing anything.
But I sat there for two hours.
Senators were saying, we've heard the administration is discussing a military option in Syria, perhaps Iran, blah, So I stood up.
I was back in the peanut gallery.
I've never done anything like it before in my whole life.
I took a deep breath and I went, stop the killing, stop the war, hold this woman accountable.
You, the Senate, were bamboozled by the administration on Iraq, and you cannot be bamboozled again.
Stop this woman from killing.
Former State Department official, former State Department official.
She said, I was always humble to go into those rooms as a government employee.
I always found it interesting when people in the audience say something.
You know, I learned later that most protesters do it in the first 10 minutes because that's when the cameras and all the reporters are sure to be there.
So it goes on and on.
She says there are all kinds of people in the State Department that are just fed up.
They're just beside themselves.
There are a lot of people still in government service speaking out, but you've got to read between the lines.
We're up a creek on this one, guys, and you, the American people, are going to have to help us out.
I'm sure these are some of the people that are leaking out of the State Department as well.
She goes on to talk about how so many people want to resign from the State Department, but they can't because they all have mortgages and they all have kids in school.
So they have to all sit there and they have to eat their excrement sandwich every day while watching this administration destroy the world and blow us all up and kill our children and make sure that nobody has humanity rights and Abu Grab and Klub Gitmo and they can't leave because they all have to pay bills.
It's just not fair.
It's not fair.
That's who this woman is that's running the Cindy Sheehan protest.
I don't know if she's one of those arrested or not today, but 12 of them have been.
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Rob, you're up first today.
Welcome to the program, and it's great to have you with us.
Happy Thanksgiving, Rush.
Thank you.
Same to you.
Thank you.
I'm a new member to 24-7.
And what a gift I had yesterday with your extra hour and a half.
It's like buying a snowblower before a big blizzard.
I don't know.
That's an interesting way to put it.
I was watching, and I was watching the video on my PC, and I noticed that the longer you went uninterrupted, the more energized and just spot on you were.
You were like a steamroller.
The longer you went, the better it was.
And I was curious if during your normal broadcast hours, you felt interrupted by the obscene profit breaks that you have to take.
Yeah, of course.
Of course.
I mean, anytime you have to stop when you're in the middle of being brilliant, it's frustrating.
But they're part of the business.
I mean, the key to that is trying to establish a flow despite the interruptions.
There's no way around the interruptions.
They happen.
And they are as, and let me tell those interruptions are important too.
One of the things when I we always have regular meetings with our sponsors and advertisers, and one of the things I tell them, because the response they get, they're always, even though they know that they're going to have great success in the program, they're always stunned at the response they get.
And I tell them this: I said, the reason you get this kind of response is because my audience is more sophisticated in understanding your role, meaning the advertiser's role, in the success of this program than I think probably any other audience.
They know full well that you, as sponsors, as I'm talking to them, are the ones that keep the program on the air, along with them by listening.
And so they're eager to show you that they're loyal to you too.
And so they're very integral part of it.
And it's something that it gets frustrating just as it probably is as a listener.
It gets frustrating to have to stop.
Sometimes that's why when I blow the programming format and only give myself a minute and a half or two minute segment, that's when I really get mad.
But I get mad at myself because that's simply mismanaging the program clock.
It was something to watch you yesterday.
It was, you know, you were like an animal.
I mean, just the longer you went, you got excited and just energized.
And I kind of wish that your whole show was that you could watch you for three hours uninterrupted that way because you can only imagine what kind of energy you would have.
Well, see, that's what if you ever, if you ever have a chance to go to one of these rush to excellence type shows, I do at least two hours uninterrupted on those.
And people have the same reaction.
But that fourth hour yesterday and all of them, I have to tell you, after three hours of this, I am emotionally and mentally spent.
I can imagine.
And sometimes it takes, there is a natural slowdown in pace simply because of that.
Also, knowing that there's no end.
I can go as long as I want or as little time as I want.
There's really no time pressure to it or consequence.
And so the pace naturally is going to slow down because of those two things.
But you're very astute to notice that as a listener, I must tell you.
Well, I got to watch it in video.
I mean, and anybody that's not on 24-7 should be because it's a whole different aspect to your show.
I've been listening for 10 years, but it's a whole different aspect when you can watch you do what you do.
Well, God bless you, sir.
Pardon me, yes?
Your show is a gift, and I want to thank you for it.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Look, you know, I say this every Thanksgiving, but it's true.
I just am totally humbled by all of the thanks that come my way because it's really, I mean, the truth is, no matter what this program has meant to you over the course of the years, it can't even compare.
That can't compare to what you're all having been out there all these years means to me and has meant to my family.
So the thanks, believe me, is reciprocated.
It goes both ways.
Now, I got to take a break coming up, but after this break, we're going to replay the call from Sergeant Clay from the UK that came in the fourth hour yesterday.
And I was able to let him go on because there's no time constraints.
It's a nine-minute phone call.
And I just, I want you to hear it because they had us nearly in tears here.
We'll be back with that in just a second.
It's our annual Thanksgiving show, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, America's anchor man, firmly ensconced here behind the golden EIB microphone.
Without any further delay, here's a repeat of yesterday's fourth-hour phone call from Sergeant Clay calling us from the United Kingdom.
This is Sergeant Clay calling from the UK, the United Kingdom.
Welcome, Sergeant, to the program.
It's an honor to have you with us.
Oh, my gosh.
Hey, Rush.
Professor Limbaugh, Mega, Mega, Mega, did us if there were such a thing there could be.
We owe it all to you, brother.
I just wanted to call and to let you know I've been listening to you since 1989, and I've been a ditto head since then.
And we just much appreciate all that you do for us in the military and for this great nation.
You know, I'm speechless every time somebody like you calls and tells me this because I'll tell you a little story.
National Review Magazine had their 50th anniversary bash in Washington three weeks ago, three or four weeks ago.
And I went to it as Mr. Buckley's guest, and they had a bunch of wounded soldiers from Walter Reed as their guests.
And a bunch of these guys came up to me and started saying thank you to me for what I, and I, you know, I put my hands up and I said, you know, I appreciate it, but you guys are sort of embarrassing me because look, one guy had lost an eye, and he was not wearing an eye patch, and it had stitches over half of his mouth.
These guys had been really severely wounded.
And here's this guy thanking me, and I said, you know, what I do is nothing.
I sit by the microphone and I talk.
Rush, Rush, if I may.
But he admonished me, and he said, look, we all have our role to play here, man.
That's right, as he should have done.
Well, he did, but I still, look, I'm not trying to reflect or deflect your thanks.
I'm just it sort of humbles me is what I'm telling you, and I appreciate it.
Well, Rush, if I may continue then, in that measure of humility that you're experiencing, you know, I think probably William F. Buckley said the same thing to you, or you said the same thing to him that I'm about to say to you.
And that is, I don't think ever that you should underestimate the measure of influence that you have on this nation's providers of the faith of freedom and democracy, sir.
You have to realize, and I know you do, that Winston Churchill was a great orator, as was my hero, which is Ronald Reagan.
I was 18 years old when he came into office and inspired me to do that beyond which I thought I could ever do.
And that is simply this, that a nation without hope, a people without hope, are just the living dead, the walking dead.
And, sir, with all of my heart, I have to extend the gratitude of my fellow warriors.
I served in Afghanistan.
I served in Uzbekistan.
And when I saw that you came to visit us, I was overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude and hope.
And hope, Rush, is what extends freedom and democracy across the globe.
You can kill us with bombs and bullets, but what our enemy fails to understand is that this nation, by virtue of people such as yourself, what you provide for us is hope.
And you cannot kill hope with bombs and bullets and terrorist activity.
You cannot kill hope, period.
And I think that Winston Churchill understood us.
The greatest nation, I should say the greatest generation, I'm sorry, that ever lived, they understood that.
And you provide that hope, Rush.
And I pray to God with all of my heart that you'll never underestimate what you do for us because what you do for us, that is us in the military, extends to what you do for this nation.
And that is that you provide us with hope.
You give us a compass by which we travel.
You just do so much for us, Rush.
And you've done it for my family and I, in fact, my daughter's husband, she's 23.
And her husband, after 9-11, joined the Air Force, and he's stationed over here.
He's presently deployed on a forward mission.
But your inspiration even touched him.
And I just don't ever want you to lose sight of what you mean to us, what you mean to this nation, and the providers of the faith of freedom and democracy.
Sir, my hat is off to you, and we will continue to fight beyond the circumference of the politics and the politicians and all the garbage that they spew out.
We don't watch them, Rush.
We do listen to you.
I can remember I was in the Army in 1996 after Cobar Towers, my team was sent over to Southwest Asia, and I used to tune my Syngar's radio in to the satellite so I could hear you and get you and get that little shot of hope.
And thank you, Rush, so much for what you do, sir.
Look, thank you.
It's felt the same way.
Not just for me, but the people in this country who avidly support you, and it's far more than don't, as I'm sure you know, have a deep understanding and appreciation for what you do because you volunteer and you do something.
You volunteer to do something that 99.5% of the population would never volunteer to do.
That's what I was born to do, Rush.
You were born to broadcast.
I was born to listen.
Carry on the page.
Well, but I'm just telling you, the appreciation is as much back your way as you have expressed here.
Probably as much, if not more so.
And the older I get, and I told the guys in Afghanistan this, I'm 54, and the older I get, the more in awe I am of what people like you have volunteered to do.
Because I told them I had a chance.
Vietnam was raging when I was 18 and 19.
I had a chance to I didn't.
And I mean, I can't change it.
I mean, I don't regret it.
I'm just in awe of people who did it and who do it to this day because it's something that most people, I really, really am in awe.
I mean, I think from basic training on up, what you're subjecting yourselves to.
And I know why you do it.
I've talked to a number of you.
You're doing it because you love your country and this is the best thing you can do for freedom and your families.
That's one of the things that you've all decided.
I just want you to know that there's every bit as much reciprocal appreciation and love, appreciation for what you all are doing by the vast majority of people in this country.
And I'm glad that all these detracting comments from people trying to politicize this have not worn you down.
They cannot even begin, Rush.
I'm telling you right now.
Sir, I'll let you go.
I know you've got things to do.
But, Rush, a while back when I returned from Afghanistan, I produced a music video that I sent to you.
I hope that you got it.
After your visit, I sent it to you straight away.
It's called The Wings of Freedom.
And when I came home from Afghanistan for my family, I wrote a song and produced it, a music video for you called These Are the Ones.
And after your visit, I sent it to your New York address.
I don't know that you ever got it, sir.
And I know with your hearing that new things don't particularly appeal to you because you can't really hear for what they are.
But I hope someday you'll get to see the video.
I put Donald Rumsfeld in it.
In fact, I spoke with Donald Rumsfeld after the production and gave it to him.
And it's now on the Pentagon channel and goes worldwide.
But it's all because of what you and people like you do.
You inspire us, sir, and you give us hope.
And I thank you so much, Russ.
I'll find it.
Now, let me ask you before you go.
Yes, sir.
When I was in Afghanistan, were you at one of the places I got to visit?
I'm sorry to say I was not.
I used to look at the 130s gunships that would come in.
I was in Mazari Sharif at the beginning of the war.
And we would see the gunships, and I had always hoped and talked with my commander at the time, I better not say his name.
But at any rate, he's retired now, but we always hoped that somebody like you would come along on our U.S.O tour because you did provide for us that hope.
And again, as I said, you can't kill hope with bombs and bullets.
That's of the spirit, and you cannot kill the spirit.
Can you provide us with that, sir?
Well, thank you again very much.
I'm speechless at that.
All I can do is thank you.
We will find that video.
We were supposed to go to Mushar.
I called it Omar Sharif because I couldn't pronounce the first part of it.
But weather socked us in.
We couldn't get out of Kabul that day.
So we made alternative plans in Kabul itself.
And we never got to Bagram because we had C-130 mechanical problem.
But we did get to Kandahar and a number of other places.
Okay, that's sobering stuff.
But that was Sergeant Clay calling from the United Kingdom.
And he says on the computer screen here that he is an adoptee of the Adopt a Soldier program at 24-7.
So, see, it spreads around that way.
And he signed up last week.
Today's his first day on the program.
He's calling from somewhere in the UK.
We found the video, by the way, and we have, it's something actually has to be seen.
We can play the audio for you.
It runs about four and a half minutes.
But what we're going to do is put the link to the video that he was referring to that he produced because it is moving.
The video, you really need to see it to get the full effect of it.
So we're going to link that at rushlimbaugh.com.
Thanks again to Sergeant Clay.
And a reminder again to all of you in the armed forces around the world or family members, still plenty of time to go on rushlimbaugh.com and register and become part of the database.
We can match you up with an Adopt a Soldier donor.
And that way you'll have the ability to listen to this program in its entirety, wherever you are, at whatever time is convenient to you with the podcast downloads that we feature.
El Freeball, I might add.
Quick timeout now.
We'll be back and continue.
Have you heard that the Asians, a bunch of Asians, do not think we can win a war with the Chinese?
You heard that?
Yeah, I'll give you details when we come back.
Stay with us.
Hey, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
I just found out that we have already linked at the top of the homepage to Sergeant Smith's Clay Smith's video.
We are the ones.
These are the ones.
And so if you'd like to see what it was that he sent us, it's at rushlimbaugh.com as we speak.
Here's the headline, and this is Insight Magazine.
East Asia allies doubt the U.S. could win war with China.
The overwhelming assessment by Asian officials and diplomats and analysts is that the U.S. military simply cannot defeat China.
It's been an assessment related to U.S. government officials over the past few months by countries like Australia, Japan, and South Korea.
It comes as President Bush wraps up a visit to Asia in which he sought to strengthen U.S. ties with key allies in the region.
Most of these Asian officials have expressed their views privately, but the Tokyo governor, Shintaro Ishihara, has gone public, warning that the U.S. would lose any war with China.
In any case, if tension between the U.S. and China heightens, if each side pulls the trigger, though it may not be stretched to nuclear weapons, and the wider hostilities expand, I believe America cannot win as it has a civic society that must adhere to the value of respecting lives, Mr. Ishihara said in an address to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Mr. Ishihara said U.S. ground forces, with the exception of the Marines, are extremely incompetent and would be unable to stem a Chinese conventional attack.
Indeed, he asserted, now listen to this, He asserted that China would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons against Asian and American cities, even at the risk of a massive U.S. retaliation.
The governor said the U.S. military could not counter a wave of millions of Chinese soldiers prepared to die in any onslaught against U.S. forces.
After 2,000 casualties, he said, the U.S. military would be forced to withdraw.
Whoa!
Oh, don't you love that?
After 2,000 casualties, that's the image that we are creating for ourselves out there.
First it was Mogadishu, now it's Iraq.
2,000 casualties, and we'd have to flee.
There is one exception to this, and that is if such a war began with a Democrat president, those casualty figures wouldn't mean anything.
There'd be an entirely different coverage of the war.
If there were a Democrat president, and there would be an anti-war movement, I guarantee you, that the anti-war movement would be lampooned or ignored by the mainstream press.
The mainstream press is in the business of propping up and solidifying the power of the Democratic Party.
So if a Democrat president were ever in charge when we went to war with China, casualties wouldn't matter.
None of the things that are being talked about now would matter, just like in Bosnia.
There was nothing ever critical about Bosnia in the mainstream press.
It was Bill Clinton's war.
And of course, they were all for him because he's this draft dodger and he had to go out and prove that he was, you know, big guy, capable of ordering the military around, doing more than just calling out the Arkansas National Guard, which is what he said qualified him to be president of the United States.
Now, this business is about the Chinese not fearing a nuclear retaliation.
I happen to believe that.
I really do.
They're communists.
The respect for life in communist countries, this is what the Japanese minister is talking about, the governor.
We have a respect for the sanctity of life.
Communists don't.
And for all the modernization taking place in China, there's still communist leadership over there.
And believe me, what's the population of that country?
And it's over a billion people.
I'll guarantee you the Chinese leadership thinks they got a half billion they could lose without any problem because it's tough to feed that many people.
It's tough to provide energy for that many people.
It's tough to provide all kinds of things to that many people.
So those are things to consider.
Let's go to Trisha, Trisha, and Trumbull, Connecticut.
Trisha, nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Well, thank you, Rush.
In addition to the privilege of talking to you and listening to you, it's a treat to hear your side-splittingly clever commercials while you're on hold waiting to talk to you.
Sometime you should run a segment of those.
I guess you do maybe periodically.
Well, you know what those are?
Those are all oldies.
Those are all things that have been played on the air during the time that those news events were.
Well, they hold up well.
Anyway, my question is, when we hear this sorry old song continually about how it was a mistake to go into Iraq and it created more terrorism, does anyone interviewing these crocodile feeding appeasers ever ask if we had not gone into Iraq or whenever we get out, would then the Islamo-fascist terrorists have stopped hating and attacking us?
Well, of course they're not going to be asked that question by the media.
They're not going to be put on the spot by the media.
But your question is a valid one.
And, of course, I think what the left, you have to look at this in the two contexts.
In the first place, this is a pure political move they've made.
That's why I say they are now invested in defeat.
Now, one caveat to this, and I tried to make this point yesterday.
All of this talk about a pullout of troops from Iraq, you know, there was this story about the Iraqi leadership saying, okay, it's time for us to get out starting next year.
And I said, you know, this sounds very strange, strangely familiar to me.
like the Bush policy.
The Bush policy has always been to start pulling troops out when the Iraqis are capable of carrying more and more of their own burden.
So what some people theorize now is that the Democrats know it's going well.
The Democrats know a troop reduction is imminent.
And so they are making this big demand for it now so that when it begins next year, right before the elections in 06, they can claim credit for it.
See, we made this happen.
The president finally saw it our way.
Let them try, my friends.
There's a new media around.
It's not going to let them get away with this kind of thing.
And so many of these brilliant stratagems that they have come up with in the past like this have blown up in their face anyway.
They open the door right into their own nose.
They will do so again.
But I do believe they think we could go back to a pre-9-11 existence with terrorism being something that happens way over there that doesn't affect us.
The U.S. auto industry, at least Ford, asking for subsidies.
Ladies and gentlemen, yeah, I totally believe it.
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