All Episodes
Previous Next
Nov. 30, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:45
November 30, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #1
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Folks, did I call it or did I call it the Christian peace team, those four hostages that uh been taken by this uh this uh limp sword brigade or whatever they're calling themselves over in Iraq, this new bunch of uh terrorists.
Well, I don't I know it's not the limp sword brigade.
Well, I can't remember what it is.
The sword brigade in it, just a bunch of limps to me.
Anyway, I I said yesterday they're gonna end up blaming us for their having been captured because if we weren't there, they wouldn't have been there, and then they wouldn't have been captured, and they did just that.
They blamed us and they blame the United Kingdom.
They blame Britain.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Rush Limboy here, raring and ready to go, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, already hump day, already the middle of the week here on the fastest uh week in media, fastest three hours in media.
Looking forward to speaking with you people today.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
I want to take this occasion, and one of the reasons I do this at the beginning of the program every day is because this is the hour of the three that uh is broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Network around the world to uniformed military personnel.
Well, and and non-uniformed military personnel, but people stationed all over the world.
I just want to continue to remind you of our adopt a soldier program.
Uh we need those of you in the military to join our database.
And to do that, you simply log on to Rush Limbaugh.com.
It's real simple.
It's right there at the top and uh of the page, and just fill it out, and then we're gonna match you up with a donor uh and give you a complimentary subscription uh not only to the website but to the limball letter for a full year.
The American people eager to show their support, love, and admiration for what you are doing.
There is a there's a I don't know what this poll is.
There's a poll out that the media is citing today that 80% of the American people are somehow down on the Iraq war and want us out of there.
And earlier today on uh on PMSNBC, uh I forget the general's name, but he was uh the the wish I could remember his name, because and I don't even remember the anchorette's name, but the anchorette was asking this general, what about the polls?
Uh what about the uh and this guy wasn't having any of it.
He said, in the first place, it's comments like yours that are harming this effort.
It's comments like yours that are making what we're trying to do in Iraq more difficult, and I don't accept the premise of your question that 80% of the American people are are uh or two-thirds, whatever it was, are opposed to what we're doing in Iraq.
I haven't seen that, and I don't believe it.
And she was left and you can tell she was reading off a script.
She got very defensive.
Well, well, I'm just telling you what it said in the polls.
Uh, I'm uh the reason I bring this up is because the general uh seemed like his name is Wayne or something.
He was right on the money, and those of you listening to this program on Armed Forces Radio, and it'll be heard later today.
Uh they broadcast it at 8 p.m. uh.
local time around the world.
Uh uh don't, if you hear that, don't believe it.
It's just the exact opposite.
We have thousands upon thousands of donors here in the Adopt a Soldier program who want to connect with you and make this program all available, all three hours of it podcasts, the whole website, Limbaugh Letters.
So go to Rush Limbaugh.com and sign up, and it's uh it's very easy.
If you're a family member of a uh military person and you want to sign up for them, you can do that too.
Uh so make haste.
We got the president's speech today, and we uh uh we have Senator Carey's response.
He needed the credibility of Senator Jack Reed uh to dignify his own comments, Carrie did, said some incredible things.
President's speech I thought was uh it was just great.
It was uh a little long.
I thought it went a little long.
It really picked up about uh maybe 15 minutes into this, into the speech, and then it was a grand slam home run uh after that.
But all these people, we want details.
Well, today they got details.
They may have gotten more details than they wanted, but they got details today.
But when you compare can uh contrast and compare the president in any speech he does on the Iraq war to the Democrats' response to it.
It's obvious That the president makes so much more sense in his opponents uh Carrie Today, Jack Reed, I don't know, Harry Reed, Dingy Harry, whoever they trot out there, Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, they appear petty, they appear inconsistent, they appear insincere, and they appear negative.
They do not appear positive.
They continue to frown.
They have this dour expressions on their face.
It is not inspiring to anybody.
Bush, on the other hand, presidential, a statesman, appears thoughtful, uh principled, consistent in explaining the mission.
He's never wavered from it.
He's not changed it.
The Democrats are uh not not the the the contrast could not be more clear in today's speech.
In terms of the the the attitudes and the uh even the intelligence and the mentality the Democrats been to the br uh bring to this versus the uh versus the president.
We'll get to that uh get started with those sound bites in just a second.
And how about this economic news?
The U.S. economy grew at a 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter.
Commerce Department said uh today in its first revision of gross domestic product estimates, it's the fastest growths uh growth since the first quarter of 2004.
Now, just a month ago, the government agency estimated uh that real inflation adjusted growth in the period July through September was three point eight percent, but they've revised it up now to four point three percent.
The economy grew at a three point three percent pace in the second quarter, now grown faster than three percent for ten straight quarters.
The past four quarters the economy's up three point seven percent.
Try this quote from Ken Malin, the president of ClearView Economics.
He said, the fact that we added a tenth quarter of above average growth amidst the hurricane devastation and the highest energy prices ever recorded is awesome.
Wow.
New York Times, and by the way, I got a new name for the New York Times.
They're not the New York Times on this program anymore.
They are the DNC Times, the Democrat National Committee Times.
The most ridiculous, transparent attempt to take this good economic news and do what Democrats and liberals do with it, turn it into doom and gloom.
Here's the headline.
Upbeat signs hold cautions for future.
I had never the name of this reporter's new to me at the DNC Times.
The uh let's see, Vicus Bajah or Vicus Bajaj.
Regardless, gasoline's cheaper than it was before Hurricane Katrina.
Consumer confidence jumped last month, new home sales hit a record, stock market's been rising, even the nation's beleaguered factories seem headed for a happy holiday season by most measures.
The economy appears to be doing fine.
No, scratch that.
It appears to be booming.
But as always with the U.S. economy, it's not quite that simple.
And then they run around and they get people from places I have never heard of to explain the precipice we are nearing, and how this is all gonna just crash and burn around us unless we do certain things.
For example, for every encouraging sign, there's an explanation.
Consumer confidence is bouncing back from what were arguably some of its worst readings in years.
So gasoline prices, the national average now $2.15, have fallen because higher prices held down demand and Gulf Coast supplies have been slowly restored.
So for every encouraging sign, there's an explanation, as though, okay, yeah, it's up, but there's a reason.
And they try to make the reason sound illegitimate.
When the reasons are purely market economic oriented.
The latest reading on home sales released yesterday contradicts most recent measures of housing activity, which generally indicate a slowdown.
There aren't any measures, there are guesses.
You've got the same economic experts out there talking about this bubble, and they've been predicting a bubble.
A bunch of economists have been trying to create the news that they hope to see so that their predictions are correct.
And it hasn't happened yet.
And so the DNC Times latest reading on home sales released yesterday contradicts most recent measures of housing activity, which generally indicate a slowdown.
And yes, manufacturers' fortunes are on the men, but few besides airplane makers are celebrating.
The average interest rate on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage 6.28% last week.
That's up from a low of 5.5 for uh 3% in June, according to Freddie Mack.
Commerce Department uh said yesterday that new home sales jumped 13% in October.
That's an annual pace of one point four two million.
So try as they might, they they they do their best to come up with a cold shower for this economic news.
And by the way, where is it?
Uh there's a there's a quote from uh all these different people, and I can't yeah.
Joshua Shapiro.
The two major concerns are the extent of slowdown in housing and how that can feed into growth and consumer spending, said Josh Sapiro, chief United States economist at Maria Fiorini Ramirez Incorporated, a research firm in New York.
Now, nothing against Maria Fiorini Ramirez Incorporated, but who the hell are they?
Why how do they get dug out of the dredge up there to find this negative quote?
This is the length to which the New York Times I'm but I well, my only point is that I don't know anybody who sits around and plans their future based on what anybody from Maria Fioreni Ramirez Incorporated says.
There may be a few, but I don't think that they're that widely known, but yet they're being quoted here as experts.
Two major concerns.
Let me tell you what the major concern is for those of you out there who are really, really worried about the U.S. economy.
Yes, it's not quite that simple.
There's one way.
There is one way that this economy could be stymied.
And not once is it mentioned in this New York Times piece.
Not once.
All the all of the fear, all of the loathing, all of the doom and gloom that's mentioned in the New York Times, the real potential culprit doesn't even get mentioned.
You know what it is?
Tax increases.
Damn straight.
If the Democrats get their way start increasing taxes, or if we don't make tax cuts permanent, then you can maybe see some negative reaction in the U.S. economy.
That's the only thing on the horizon that could slow all this down.
Quick time out, we'll be back with the president's speech and much more in just a second.
You're listening to Rush Limbaugh on the excellence in podcasting network.
Little Manheim steamroller.
As the Christmas season is upon us.
I didn't see it.
Somebody just told me, Cookie just sent me a note.
You know, there's this big rally at the Supreme Court today.
The uh the uh forces of pro-life.
Well, no, wait, apparently the the family research people literally pushed Kim Gandhi away from the podium and microphone as she was trying to get up there and make a speech.
I don't know the context of it, but it was funny as it could be from what I'm being told.
I don't know if if if Gandhi was in the process of speaking and then they pushed her away, or if she was trying to get to the microphone to debate them, and they pushed her away.
But Kim Gandhi, who is the president of the NAGs, uh got muscled out of the way of the microphone, pushed away from the microphone by the uh the docile and peace-loving uh family uh research people, family whatever I forget the name of the group.
All right, let's go to the president's speech.
Ladies and gentlemen, he was speaking today to the uh Naval Academy at Annapolis, delivered remarks on the war on terror and the national strategy for victory in Iraq.
Uh he started by reiterating that we are fighting the same ideology that struck us on 9-11.
The terrorists in Iraq share the same ideology as the terrorists who struck the United States on September the 11th.
This is an enemy without conscience.
And they cannot be appeased.
If we're not fighting and destroying this enemy in Iraq, they would not be idle.
They would be plotting and killing Americans across the world and within our own borders.
By fighting these terrorists in Iraq, Americans in uniform are defeating a direct threat to the American people.
Against this adversary, there is only one effective response.
We will never back down.
We will never give in, and we will never accept anything less than complete victory.
Right on, right on, I don't know.
Now we have eliminated the applause here in the interests uh of time, but there was a lot of raucous Applause.
I want to jump forward about 20 minutes into the speech.
I think it's 15 or 20 minutes, because I think that this is where the speech really began.
I mean, the content was fabulous.
The whole I think however he prepares for these speeches, he ought to keep doing it.
Because this speech was a home run from beginning to end.
But and and it was it was it was uh uh well, it was filled with detail, and it took a while to get the detail out.
People have been saying, Well, we want to know the details, what are your plans?
Well, they they got their answer today.
It took a while for the president to detail it all, but this I think is where he really, really got going.
Senator Lieberman is right.
Setting an artificial deadline to withdraw would send the message across the world that America is weak and an unreliable ally.
Setting an artificial deadline to withdraw would send a signal to our enemies that if they wait long enough, America will cut and run and abandon its friends.
And setting an artificial deadline to withdraw would vindicate the terrorist tactics of beheadings and suicide bombings and mass murder and invite new attacks on America.
To all who wear the uniform.
I make you this pledge.
America will not run in the face of car bombers and assassins so long as I am your commander in chief.
They went nuts.
They went nuts at the Naval Academy when the President said I wish you could have heard the applause if you didn't uh you didn't hear the speech live, because they just erupted, and that sort of what caught my attention because I was working with my I was listening to this speech, not watching it all, and I was watching and facing my computer when when he made that line, I heard that line I heard it, and then that applause erupted.
That's what forced me to turn around.
From that point on, I I watched the rest of the speech, and I thought it was just a home run.
Now let me ask all of you a question.
You heard the president refer twice in this bite to setting an artificial deadline to withdraw.
Uh why did he say that?
Is that not what the Democrats have been demanding?
The Democrats have been demanding a withdrawal, and they've been demanding a timetable, have they not?
Isn't that what there was a vote on in the House?
There was no specific date of the vote, but the whole premise was voted on, was it not?
Isn't that what Congressman Mertha got started with his comments?
The whole notion we need to get out.
They can cover this up and they can try to camouflage it all they want.
But let's be truth, the Democrats did try to make this a whole why why have we been saying they're invested in defeat?
They are invested in defeat because they are demanding a pull out.
They wanted they want to withdraw.
They want to set up a timetable, and the president is saying, nope, I'm not gonna do that because that's gonna send the wrong message.
Well, John Kerry, who is still running for president when you listen to this speech, was uh part of the two-man duo that came out and did the response.
And Senator Kerry had this to say, among other things.
What it did on the Democratic side seek to do was set an estimated timetable for success, which will permit the withdrawal of our troops.
Everything that we have presented has been presented on the basis of how you succeed.
The president today in his speech said, I quote, America will not run in the face of car bombers and assassins so long as I am commander-in-chief.
Well, so long as Jack Reed is a United States Senator and John Kerry is a senator and the rest of us are senators.
None of us, no one has ever suggested or believes that we should run in the face of car bombers or assassins.
That's absolute BS, Senator Kerry.
That is an absolute lie, just like you were famous for doing throughout the 2004 presidential campaign.
What is it?
He says the Democrats don't want a timetable for withdrawal.
They want a timetable for success.
What entar nation's name is this man even doing commenting on this?
Most he's still a D student.
Most people get smarter and we mature as we get older.
Kerry is getting dumber.
We don't want a deadline for withdrawal.
We want a timetable for Success.
They know that they have swerved into an untenable position.
They know that they have swerved with this demand for withdrawal, a demand for a timetable.
Now they come out there and demand and deny that this is what this has all been about the past three weeks.
This is the first time I've heard him mention success or victory.
And it didn't sound believable.
It sounded forced.
Doesn't sound like success and victory are part of Carrie's natural lexicon or vocabulary.
But to come out and try to deny what's been going on the past three weeks that was started by Congressman Mertha.
We don't, we're not, no, no, we're not out of withdrawal and hen, and how about this?
He has to echo Bush.
As long as I'm in the Senate, as long as Jack Reed's in the Senate, we're not going to run from the face of car bombers and the staff.
Why does he have to go and deny that?
Because that's what people think they want to do.
They want to pull out.
They want to withdraw.
It's the car bombers that got them all upset.
The car bombers that are calling the death, causing the deaths of the soldiers.
These people are trying to rewrite history in the midst of it, and they're not going to get away with it, folks.
Not here.
America's anchorman executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Let's go to uh line 11, or I'm sorry, line five, real quickly.
Uh, Mike in Slidell Louisiana.
I forgot to mention this at the top of the program.
We are back on the air in New Orleans at WWL.
They're back into their downtown studios, I'm told, and everything's back up and running as normal.
And Mike, we're glad to have you back there, and and uh I'm glad you called to say hi.
Yeah, Russia Clay, I just wanted to let you know it was great to hear your voice again.
We haven't had you on the air down here since the hurricane here at the end of August.
Yeah, no, and I've been getting emails from people who um uh have been missing the program and and uh the the people at WWL uh you had an ongoing emergency there, and they they uh they made the decision to stick with that, which everybody understands.
We're glad to be back today.
It's uh it's uh it's a great sign that things are beginning to return to normal.
We're happy to be part of that.
Well, we're certainly happy to have you back on the air here, and things are starting to return to normal down here.
It's gonna take a long time, but but we'll get it done.
Well, hang in there, pal.
It'll time's gonna run a lot faster for you now that you have this program on, the fastest three hours in media.
So uh your your your definition of uh normalcy here is gonna speed up dramatically.
I want to go back to Senator Carey in this and this sound bite, because there's so much here.
We'll start stop this uh uh do a start-stop this time.
By the way, pardon my stuttering today.
I've tried to say way too much too soon.
I've got my my brain cannot contain today all that I want to say.
My skull can barely contain the brain.
Uh it's swelling with so much information that needs to be imparted.
So I've told myself to slow down, take a breathe and just take a breathe now and then and uh uh get this done as I envision it.
Let's go back to Carrie again, because some of this is is just it's just choice.
Now remember, too, to set this up.
The last three weeks, the Democrats have been on a roll thinking that they have turned the corner in convincing everybody we need to get out of a rock and we need to get out now.
It has been the thing that has energized them.
That's why I've been saying that they have invested in defeat.
Defeat for America means success for them in their warped minds.
Now, all of you who have been paying attention to this know this without my having to tell you.
The last three weeks since Jack Mertha's speech on has all been all about we got to get out of a rock, we've got to get out of a rock.
Never once have they talked about winning, never once have they talked about success, never once have they talked about victory.
They have only talked about how we're losing.
We're not making any any headway.
Or we're getting soldiers killed for nothing.
There's nothing worth dying for over there.
You all know what's been said.
So Bush goes out today and delivers this stem winder and has put the Democrats back on their heels.
And I'm gonna tell you the next thing it's gonna put the Democrats back on their heels is when the next set of approval numbers come out, and they go up as economy numbers goes up with 4.3 revised uh third quarter GDP, and now we've got uh the Rasmussen poll saying that Bush is back up to 46% in his poll.
He's been hovering around 44, 43 is climbing back.
The the next set of approval polls are probably gonna show Bush coming back, and that's gonna set the Democrats back on their heels even more.
Because you have to understand, they think Howard Dean's out there already got a made a speech or issued a statement that they've already won the House and the Senate in 06 and 08.
It's done.
So they really think that they pulled Jack Murpha, pulled a greatest stunt, put Bush back on his heels by, oh, we've changed the whole debate.
Why, we're going to get out of a rock where we're going to get out, we're going to admit that we didn't have any business going there.
Bush blew it.
Bush lied.
Blah, blah, blah.
Bush makes one speech today, and John Kerry goes out and tries to deny what the Democrats have been doing the past three weeks.
Let's listen to it again.
What it did on the Democratic side seek to do was set an estimated timetable for success, which will permit the withdrawal of our troops.
Stop the tape.
That, my friends, is the first time in the past three weeks I can remember a prominent elected Democrat mentioning the word success.
What Kerry is saying here is that Democrats don't want a timetable for withdrawal.
We've never said we want a timetable for withdrawal.
We want a we want a timetable for success that will permit the withdrawal of our troops.
There's no difference.
It's just that today they have to add, oh, by the way, we want to win before we pull them out.
He feels the need because of the president's speech today.
Oh, by the way, we don't want to pull out before we win.
We want a timetable for success.
Well, there's not a general in the world in any war who could ever tell you when we're going to win and we're going to be leaving by this date.
It is impossible.
And John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, knows this.
I also think this statement, we don't want deadline for withdrawal.
We want a timetable for success.
I think if you parse that, you have to conclude that Kerry thinks we are losing.
If he wants a timetable for success, it means we're not having success now.
Right?
If he wants a timetable for success, he's obviously saying we're not successful now.
So we're losing.
So Kerry is admitting we're losing while saying he never wanted us to lose.
And by the way, all we've ever talked about is success when he mentions that for the first time today.
So I I these guys are so full of it, but what this speech put them back on their heels.
They had to send Kerry out there, and Kerry was preceded by Jack Reed.
Some of you may not know he's from Rhode Island.
He's the other senator from Rhode Island.
He's a Democrat.
And he has credibility because nobody knows who he is.
So he goes out there, and his purpose is to give dignity and credibility to Kerry's speech, which is nothing more than a campaign speech, by the way, for the next presidential primary coming up for 2008.
Here's the next segment of the Carrie Bite.
Everything that we have presented has been presented on the basis of how you succeed.
Stop the tape.
Uh-uh-uh uh somebody go find that for me then.
Find for me in the past three weeks where any elected Democrat who's been speaking on this has used the word success or victory.
You know damn well they haven't been oriented towards success.
Victory is the worst thing that could happen to them, particularly after what they've done and how they've positioned themselves the past three weeks.
The past three weeks they have invested in defeat.
They have already have us losing.
The war is not worth fighting for.
We've lost 2,025 soldiers, 30,000 Iraqi civilians.
It isn't worth it.
We need to bring them home.
We need a timetable to bring them home.
Now all of a sudden, oh no, now we got to start talking about success.
The Democrats, not one thing have they offered in the past three weeks has been presented on the basis of how you succeed.
Now, in their warped thinking, I'll give them this.
If Kerry's talking about success, he's talking about Democratic Party success.
Now, Democratic Party success is far different in this issue than United States of America success.
The worst thing that could happen to Kerry and Hillary and the rest of the Democrats is what's going to happen.
We're going to stay at Iraq.
We're going to win.
It is going to come to pass.
It may take a while, But we cannot lose.
We will not lose.
We are the United States of America.
We've got brave, young men and women wearing the uniform of the United States of America, and they do not lose unless people like John Kerry become their commander-in-chief, as LBJ was back during the Vietnam War.
They do not lose.
Their generals do not lose.
We are the United States of America, and we're not going to lose.
And yet the Democrats tied themselves to defeat.
The U.S., the U.S. of America, defeat.
That's what the last three weeks have all been about.
They rolled the dice.
They figured that the time had come.
They looked at the polls.
They figured the president's approval numbers were low enough that they could now go for broke and finally claim be who they are.
They are anti-war, they're anti-American success, they're anti-American superpower status, and they figured the time was right now.
The Rockefeller memo, they've been waiting for the right moment to spring this plan.
And so they sprung the plan and they misread it just like they've been misreading everything else they've been doing since 2001.
They remained discombobulated.
They planned on success.
If Kerry wants to say that everything they had in mind was oriented towards success, he means success of the Democratic Party, which at the same time means the defeat of the United States in Iraq, because that's the position they've put themselves in.
If we have victory in Iraq, how are they going to go erase these past three weeks?
So they can say they voted for it, but they've been saying the president lied.
They've been saying this whole thing was worthless.
Barbara Boxer, what's happening in Iraq is not working.
It's a disaster.
Senator Kerry, you should have talked to her before you went out and made these stupid remarks today.
Congressman Mertha explaining his call to withdrawal.
I'm absolutely convinced that we're making no progress at all.
We have become the enemy.
Eighty percent of the people in Iraq want us out of there.
Does that sound like somebody who's demanding success, Senator Kerry?
So the guy who got this all started three weeks ago, the guy who sent you guys down the path that you now are running and jumping and trying to get off of.
I am absolutely convinced we're making no progress at all.
We have become the enemy.
That doesn't sound like success to me is in his vocabulary when it comes to this issue, Senator Kerry.
I don't hear the word success.
I don't hear the attitude of success.
I don't hear a desire for victory in anything.
A Democrat, elected Democrat speaking about this war has been saying the past three weeks.
Barbara Boxer, Harry Reed, they all say this speech today, well, it's nothing more than the same old rhetoric.
I didn't hear anything new.
We need to set a timetable for success.
Whatever the blah blah blah blah.
What's happening in Iraq is not working.
It's a disaster.
And here's Kerry out there trying to say that all the Democrats want is success.
You can't find a Democrat the past three weeks.
Well, you can't find a Democrat since uh probably 2004 who has talked about success in Iraq.
You probably cannot find it.
Not as it means success to the United States.
Here's the rest of Kerry's bite.
The President today in his speech said, I quote, America will not run in the face of car bombers and assassins so long as I am commander in chief.
Well, so long as Jack Reed is a United States Senator and John Kerry is a senator and the rest of us are senators.
None of us, no one has ever suggested or believes that we should run in the face of car bombers or assassins.
That's just a flat out lie.
Not only have you said it, you have implied it.
You have wanted that impression.
Senator Kerry, you and members of your party have based your desire to withdraw on the fact that we cannot defeat car bombers and assassins.
The car bombers and assassins are the ones wreaking all the havoc that's upsetting you so much that's leading you to demand a timetable for withdrawal that leads Barbara Boxer to say what's happening in Iraq is not working.
It's a disaster.
We can't depend on you, Senator Kerry.
That's the bottom line.
We can't depend on you and we can't depend on your party, because you will cut and run from car bombers.
You will cut and run from assassins.
You wanted to the past three weeks.
That's what your whole plan was about.
Now they try to deny it.
By acting like, oop, hey, don't miss, don't get confused, folks.
We Democrats are still on the winning side here.
Still on the winning team.
And I have to quote President Bush.
And then say, we agree.
That, if you parse that, further evidence that they have to go out and make sure people understand now where they are.
They didn't say that themselves.
It's not in the Democrat modus operanda.
It's not in the Democratic Party's soul right now, folks, to say America will not run in the face of carbimers and assassins so long as I am commander in chief.
Democrats don't think that way.
The Democrats blame us for all these assassins.
The Democrats blame their own country.
They blame Bush for these car bombers.
Bush has created all this terrorism.
We're not going to forget the words the Democrats have uttered the past two years or the past three weeks.
So in a shameless, almost cowardly speech response, Kerry has to go out and quote the President of the United States and say we agree.
And he has to quote the president because there's not one Democrat who has said what the President has said that he can quote.
We'll be back after this.
Stay with us.
And a special message to all of you on hold out there.
We'll get to your phone calls in the next hour.
I've still got a couple of sound bites I want to get through here.
So uh sit tight.
Here's Russ Feingel, by the way.
I have proposed a target time frame for the completion of the military mission in Iraq and suggested December 31, 2006 as the target date for the completion of the withdrawal of American troops in Iraq.
That's on his website front page, Senator Kerry.
You know, when are you people going to realize we are here?
When are you Democrats going to realize you cannot get away with lying to the American people and changing your position every day, every hour, and have that new position amplified as though you never said anything contrary to it by your pals in the mainstream media.
And we're and and we're going to pull up Senator Kerry.
I got Kathleen doing it now.
We got Kerry's own words wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.
Senator Kerry hasn't even talked about success in Vietnam.
Iraq.
And in well, works works to war Vietnam.
All right, here is President Bush telling the troops to ignore the criticism in Washington.
As the future officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, you're preparing to join this fight.
You do so at a time.
When there is a vigorous debate about the war in Iraq.
I know that for a men and women in uniform, this debate can be unsettling.
When you're risking your life to accomplish a mission, the last thing you want to hear is that mission being questioned in our nation's capital.
I want you to know that while there may be a lot of heated rhetoric in Washington, D.C., one thing is not in dispute.
The American people stand behind you.
And we should not fear the debate in Washington.
It's one of the great strengths of our democracy that we can discuss our differences openly and honestly, even at times of war.
Your service makes that freedom possible.
And today, because of the men and women in our military, people are expressing their opinions freely in the streets of Baghdad as well.
Now listen to this in Senator Carey's response.
Every troop that I've met, when I've been to Iraq several times, and I think Jack has had the same experience, comes up to me and says, Thanks for speaking out on this, or thanks for fighting for us to get the armor we need.
Thanks for making sure our Humvees are getting up armored.
Thanks for making sure that the missions that we're doing are the ones that are going to achieve the goal here.
Every troop that he has met, every one of them when he's been to Iraq several times, comes up to him and says, Thanks for speaking out on this.
Uh they're not saying that when Senator Lieberman's over there.
It seems to me these troops that say this only say this to Senator Kerry or Senator Biden.
When they come back, they all say the troops are all saying the same thing.
Every troop he talks to.
Everyone.
Rich Lowry makes the point.
What if Dan Rather were to say, hey, you know, a lot of people come up to me and nobody's ever told me I'm biased?
Would that mean he's not biased?
It would mean also that not nearly everybody that watches Dan Ratder goes up and talks to him.
So this is just more self-serving mumbo jumbo.
Anecdotal, worthless stories to try to but the very people that Senator Carey is seeking to harm, he uses to try to build himself up America's military.
Back in just a second.
Okay, that wraps the first hour in the can.
Hermetically sealed in an armored courier on its way over to the secret warehouse housing all the artifacts for the future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
▲
Export Selection