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Nov. 30, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 30, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The Democrats are backpedaling faster than Deion Sanders in his prime.
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President went to Annapolis today, the Naval Academy made a speech, and it's this speech that is causing a Democrats to backpedal, particularly Senator Kerry, who went out and did the Democrat response.
We've let you hear some of both.
Let's now resume.
This is the president tearing up at a point toward the conclusion of the speech.
We honor their memory of every fallen soldier, sailor, airman, coast guard men, and marine.
One of those fallen heroes is a Marine Corporal named Jeff Starr, who was killed fighting the terrorists in Ramadi earlier this year.
After he died, a letter was found on his laptop computer.
Here's what he wrote.
He said, if you're reading this, then I've died in Iraq.
I don't regret going.
Everybody dies, but a few get to do it for something as important as freedom.
It may seem confusing why we're in Iraq.
It's not to me.
I'm here helping these people so they can live the way we live.
Not to have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators.
Others have died for my freedom.
Now this is my mark.
There's only one way to honor the sacrifice of Corporal Starr and his follow comrades, and that is to take up their mantle, carry on the fight, and complete their mission.
And there was an eruption of applause at that moment, too.
We've cut the applause out in the uh interests of time here, but it was raucous.
Now, the president has never wavered on any of this.
Uh the Democrats, of course, the last three weeks have been uh trying to get everybody oriented toward we were losing.
We got to get out of there.
We can't win this fight.
Again, the quotes, Barber Boxer, what's happening in Iraq is not working.
It's a disaster.
John Mertha, I'm absolutely convinced that we're making no progress at all.
We've become the enemy.
80% of the people in Iraq want us out of there.
Russ Feingold, the front page of his website.
I proposed a target time frame for the completion of the military mission in Iraq and suggested December 31st, 2006 is the target date for the completion of that withdrawal of American troops in Iraq.
That's the front page of his website.
John Kerry goes out there today, so we haven't ever talked about a timetable withdrawal.
We've only talked about a timetable for success.
Which is admitting that they think we're losing, and they know that we that that that uh that this is the position they've taken.
The last three weeks has been all about getting us out of there, but they're having to backpedal and regroup, folks, because this speech was a grand slam home run today.
Uh I have a little I want to play.
Let's go to audio soundbite 16.
Let's throw John Kerry in the mix.
We have a montage of a few of Kerry's positions on Iraq over the last year in 2004.
Uh we put this together originally to be used during the uh presidential campaign last year.
Does he not remember he, you know, he lost doing this a year ago.
He's rerunning his own campaign.
The Democrats are rerunning the Kerry campaign.
The past three weeks is what they've been rerunning a losing campaign.
It was only a year ago that he lost the presidency.
Does he not remember that?
These people think they're the smartest guys around, the smartest people in the room.
They're the elites.
They know better than all the rest of us.
Oh listen to the sound bite first, and I have some more comments about these clowns.
This is Carrie's montage.
Left to his own devices.
Saddam Hussein will provoke, misjudge, or stumble into a future, more dangerous confrontation with the civilized world.
Yes, I would have voted for the authority.
It's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein.
We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.
Those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture don't have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president of the United States.
If you had been elected to president in 2000, November of 2000, would we be in Iraq now?
No.
He's all over the place, says saying whatever he has to say to whoever he wants to hear it.
Same thing Bill Clinton does.
This comment about we've traded a dictator for I'm sorry, those who believe today that we're not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be president.
Howard Dean had gone out and said during the Democratic primaries that uh I don't we're no better off with captured Saddam.
That's no big deal to me, and Kerry had to take after him.
But here you hear Kerry saying it's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And yet, in his response to the president today, he kept talking about we've only been oriented towards success, we Democrats.
That's all we've ever talked about.
We've never demanded a timetable for withdrawal.
It's all an absolute crock, folks.
Uh here's one more soundbite from Senator Kerry.
This is the beginning of his response to the president's speech today.
We saw the full power of the presidency to have the entire United States Naval Academy serve as a platform, as a front drop and a backdrop for a presidential speech reinforced with a very large sign, front and back that says plan for victory.
Reminds you of an aircraft carrier and mission accomplished.
It's interesting that whenever the president or the vice president or other officials speak about Iraq or the war on terror, they do so mostly in front of troops.
Stop the tape for just a second.
So what?
The what's noticeable about your party, Senator Kerry, is that you never speak before the troops.
When's the last time a Democrat went out and spoke before the troops and said something the troops wanted to hear positively about them?
No, you'll run around and you'll go speak or meet with the Cindy Sheehan or these clowns that want to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance.
You will align yourself with some of the most oddball, strange lunatics in this country.
But you don't go speak in front of the troops.
Who else is he supposed to speak in front of?
He's talking to the Naval Academy.
This is a big week for them.
They've got the Army Navy game, they've got their exams coming up.
This is one of the biggest weeks for the cadets at the Naval Academy and, by the way, at West Point, and their minds are worn to a frazzle.
What have they done, Senator Kerry?
They have strived, they've worked hard to get into these academies, particularly Naval Academy in West Point.
They won military careers.
Why shouldn't the commander-in-chief go speak to him?
What in the world is so suspicious about that, to Senator Carey?
I suspect it's not suspicion, it's jealousy.
And the mission was accomplished, Senator Kerry.
Combat operations are over.
This is what the critics cannot get through their heads.
Combat operations are over.
What we're fighting now to do is win the peace.
But the invasion of Iraq was a success.
We got rid of Saddam Hussein quickly and his henchmen.
We run the country.
We are in control of it.
The democratic process is unfolding before our very eyes.
The mission was accomplished, Senator Kerry.
You can't even admit that.
You don't even want that to be decided and thought of by the American people.
Let me let me share with you.
this is how convoluted these people are, and this is why I'm not worried about them, and I'm not worried about the way the press amplifies them.
Vietnam was an unpopular war.
There's no question it was.
And yet, what happened...
The Vietnam War devastated the Democratic Party.
They think their anti-war alliances with the kook fringe in their party is going to rebuild them to majority party status.
Not only are these not the smartest people in the room, they are the most arrogant and condescending.
and are the most ignorant when it comes to history.
The Vietnam War devastated the Democratic Party.
George McGovern, anybody remember him?
His "Come Home America" plea was a millstone around the neck of Democrats for decades to come.
In fact, it's George McGovern and the Vietnam War which has stayed with the Democrats up to this very moment.
And it has stayed with them in this context.
They are perceived as anti-war, anti-America, anti-superpower status of America.
They do not portray themselves as trustworthy to defend and protect the country.
They side with the enemy.
The enemy is always right, and in those in this case it's no different.
They have blamed Bush for lying.
They have blame Bush for creating terrorists.
They have blamed Bush for creating a terrorist war where none existed.
It's always America's fault.
Where do you think the phrase blame America first comes from?
It comes from the 60s generation, of which John Kerry is a proud card carrying member, by the way.
And the Vietnam War was the period in time where the Democratic you think FDR had the same kind of image as a Democrat, the current Democrats today have.
He did not.
The Democrats today wouldn't recognize FDR.
If the Democrats of today were honest and intellectually so, they would have to condemn FDR for his brutality.
And the way he fought World War II and what he did to in turn the Japanese.
In California during World War II.
There's no similarity whatsoever to former war presidents from the Democratic Party and this current crop of Democrats that's been around since the 1960s.
And they are sealing their fate and doom with their position on this war.
Because in their in their in their perverted minds, they think this is the road back to victory.
In their perverted minds, they think most Americans agree with their fringe kook left leftists now who believe that America's always guilty, that America is always wrong, that America is the enemy, as John Mertha said.
I don't know how they think this is going to get them back to majority status, but they obviously do.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing.
They wouldn't have been for the past two years, Bush lied, Bush lied, trying to change their votes.
They wouldn't have been plotting a strategy to capitalize on our failure in Iraq if they were not eager for that to happen.
So we know they've been eager for us to fail in Iraq because that means Bush will fail.
Well, we're not going to fail in Iraq because the United States doesn't lose, other than when people like John Kerry and the Democrats are in charge of the United States military.
Even though the Vietnam War was unpopular, folks, Democrats showed that they are not serious when it comes to national security and defense matters.
And that's the most important job description for a president of the United States.
And John Kerry doesn't bring any gravitas to that.
Neither does Joe Biden.
In fact, Kerry, if he really wanted to be honest, he should not even be responding to the president today.
He ought to be debating media president John McCain because media president John McCain has been out there demanding more troops.
McCain says we don't have enough troops in Iraq.
We got to send more.
That's who Kerry ought to be debating.
I'd love to see that.
But the point is, neither of them are commander-in-chief except in their dreams.
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I can't, I can't do this without going back and playing Senator Kerry of a soundbite that we played in the first hour.
We got to play Cut Seven again, because it's the soundbite around which I have based primarily all of my reaction today.
And because we've dug up some other things that Senator Kerry said in a speech to Georgetown University just this fall, back in October.
But about that last soundbite, he goes out there and he starts complaining about Bush's audience.
How petty.
He's trying to make people think Bush is a coward.
He can't go anywhere without the U.S. military being there.
The truth of the matter is Kerry couldn't get ten members of the U.S. military to show up front of his speeches.
His life depended on it.
But anyway, as you know, the past three weeks, the Democrats have been oriented toward getting us out of Iraq because that to them is victory.
That's their success.
Their success is our defeat.
They are invested in our defeat.
And they are interested in their success, and they think our defeat will launch them back to power, just like they thought the Vietnam debacle would launch them back to power.
And it didn't.
They have learned no history.
They keep going back to the same old playbook.
Kerry in this bite Denies that any Democrat has ever set a timetable for withdrawal.
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.
Stop the tape.
Democrats don't want a timetable for withdrawal.
They want a timetable for success.
It means they admit we're losing.
If they want to see some timetable for success, that means we got to stop this losing.
We're going to cut and run.
We're not going to cut and run whatever they say they're going to do.
Everything we have presented has been presented on the basis of how you succeed.
I'll quote Mertha again.
I'm absolutely convinced we're making no progress at all.
We have become the enemy.
Russ Feingold, I proposed a target time frame for the completion of the military mission in Iraq and suggested December 31st, 2006 as the target date for the completion of withdrawal of American troops.
He thinks he can get away with his bold face lying.
He's out there saying everything that we have said is oriented towards success, basis of how you succeed.
They have not sought a timetable for withdrawal for the troops.
Here's Carey himself, Georgetown University, on October 26th of this year.
The completion of the December elections.
At the completion of the December elections, we can start the process of reducing our forces by withdrawing 20,000 troops over the course of the holidays.
It'll be hard for this administration, but it is essential to acknowledge that the insurgency will not be defeated unless our troop levels are drawn down, starting immediately after successful elections in December.
That timetable must be real and strict.
The goal should be to withdraw the bulk of American combat forces by the end of next year.
If this administration does its work correctly, that is achievable.
And yet today he says everything we've presented has been presented on the basis of how you succeed.
The Democrats did not present a timetable for withdrawal.
They want a timetable for success, he says.
He's contradicting his own words of less than two months ago, barely over one month ago.
He wants 20,000 troops brought out next month after the elections.
Here's the problem for the war critics, aside from the fact that they can't tell the truth.
They appear opportunist because they are.
The public does not like their efforts at politicizing the war.
We have that poll from the Washington Post.
Not a Washington Post poll.
It was a TR group poll or a TL group.
I forget the name of the group.
But 70% of the American people think that all this negative talk about Iraq is demoralizing the troops.
Even 55% of Democrats do.
In addition, the war critics cannot even agree on a united position.
It's either withdraw quickly, withdraw gradually, increase troop levels, other forms of redeployment.
I've heard that word bandied about.
And when they say that they were lied to about pre-war intelligence, they come off as petulant, whining, incompetent boobs, calling into question their own political legitimacy.
If they can be lied to this easily, what good are they having even more power?
If Bush could lie to them, what could Dominique de Villepin do with them?
So they make themselves out to be a bunch of boobs in the process of portraying Bush as a real danger.
It's about as manly and it's about as gutsy as complaining about Bush's audiences that he speaks to.
Folks, you have to ignore the facts on the ground to conclude that we're not making progress in Iraq despite what are difficult conditions.
The Iraqi people are embracing democracy.
They're far better off than they were before the war.
But the bottom line to all this, there is simply no thoughtful and workable alternative.
Isolationism isn't the answer.
And let's face it, many of the critics are old-time isolationists who turn their backs on the growing threat of the Axis powers leading up to World War II, all the way up to the mass slaughter in Rwanda.
They are joined by those who hate U.S. sovereignty.
They demand globalized decisions, i.e., UN and European leadership over U.S. leadership.
They are isolationists in the sense that they think that we get out of Iraq that it'll go back to the way it was pre 9 11 and we can be mostly happy with the occasional terrorist attack.
They don't want to face reality.
They haven't got the guts to face reality.
They have created their own alternative reality and universe in which to live.
Their next problem is they dare not expose themselves honestly to the American people.
That would forever seal their doom.
So what do they do?
They use subterfuge, demagoguery to make their case.
It's a case they still can't make with any kind of logic or integrity.
They have no American solution for fighting this war, only contempt for American power and resolve.
You heard all of this embodied in Kerry's little 45-second response.
This is why they argue for UN leadership.
That's why they want to build coalitions with nations hostile to us because they don't believe in American exceptionalism.
It's just not part of the Democratic Party or the American left to think that way.
Cutting edge societal evolution.
With talent on loan from God.
Folks, I'm sorry.
I just can't let this go.
We keep doing more research here.
We keep finding more things that this slobbering buffoon John Kerry said just over a month ago.
So let's go back to the now famous, the legendary audio soundbite number seven.
There he was, Senator Lurch, Senator Big Ketchup, responding to President Bush today.
Saying this.
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.
What's not on the bite is he says that the Democrats don't want a timetable for withdrawal.
That's not what they've been talking about the last three weeks.
No Democrats have been talking about timetable for withdrawal.
They want a timetable for success.
In the first place, this is the first day in the past three weeks, maybe the past year, I've heard a Democrat talk about success in Iraq, as you and I would think of success, as in winning.
When they talk about success in Iraq, it's us losing because that's when they win.
They are invested in our defeat, particularly the last three weeks, with Mertha and Boxer and Feingold all demanding a withdrawal, all saying we're the enemy, we are losing.
That's what Mertha said.
We're the enemy, we're the problem.
We're making no progress at all.
And so Kerry today, because they're backpedaling faster than Deion Sanders and his prime on this today because Bush delivers a home run.
Now they have to go out and redefine everything and act like what they've been doing the last three weeks they never did.
So, no, no, no, we never set a timetable for withdrawal.
We just want to we just want a timetable for success, which means that they think we're losing, by the way, which will permit the withdrawal of the troops.
Well, here's here's Senator Carey.
Georgetown University, October 26th, is it, of this year.
It is never easy to discuss what's gone wrong while our troops are in constant danger.
I know this dilemma firsthand.
After serving in war, I returned home to offer my own personal voice of dissent.
I did so because I believe strongly that we owed it to those risking their lives to speak truth to power.
We still do.
Well, what does that mean?
Somebody's gonna come out and speak on a troop's behalf.
The troops are getting killed and murdered by car bombers and assassins.
And so we can't allow that to happen.
Kerry's admitting, yep, we will run from car bombers and assassins.
We will, even though he has to quote President Bush, which you'll hear in a moment, because he can't quote a Democrat saying it.
He can't quote a Democrat saying we're gonna win in Iraq.
He can't quote a Democrat saying we'll never run.
He can't quote a Democrat saying we're gonna stay there as long as it takes to achieve our goals and win.
He can't quote a Democrat saying we'll not cut and run from car bombers and assassins because no Democrat has said it.
Besides, it makes Cindy Sheehan mad.
They can't do that.
It makes these left-wing kooks that comprise the base of the Democratic Party mad.
Try this little excerpt from Kerry's speech just a little over a month ago comparing to what you just heard.
Oh, no, no, we never did the timetable for withdrawal.
No Democrats ever done that.
We want a timetable for success.
Oh, yeah.
From his speech at Georgetown a little over a month ago.
Senator Kerry.
It'll be hard for this administration, but it is essential to acknowledge the assurgency in will not be defeated unless our troop levels are drawn down.
If that doesn't sum it up in a nutshell, the only way we can win is by losing.
The only way we can win is by getting out.
The only way we can win is by letting the insurgency know we present them no threat.
Thank you, Mr. Pacifist.
Thank you, Mr. Peace Monger.
The Democrats fail to learn the lesson of the Vietnam War.
They think it launched them to great heights.
It has sandboxed them and categorized them as anti-war, anti-American, and anti-capable of defending this country and not being willing to do so.
That's what Vietnam did for them, and they haven't overcome that yet.
They can thank George McGovern for it, and everybody else who joined the anti-war movement.
But they think because they succeeded in engineering our defeat and getting us out of Vietnam that that makes them powerful.
Now they're trying to rewrite history or rewrite that history as current history, current news.
They're trying to old page in their playbook, trying to relive the glory days.
But they can't.
Then Kerry went on to say the drawdown of troops should be tied not to an arbitrary timetable, but to a specific timetable.
For transfer of political and security responsibility to Iraqis and realignment of our troop deployment.
Realignment, redeployment.
What is this?
Redeployment?
What do you want?
What's wrong with where they are now?
Oh, we got to get them into Kuwait.
We got to get quite what Kuwait.
Yeah, well, because we've got to keep them nearby in case things blow up.
Well, you know damn well they're gonna blow up if we pull out before we win.
So here he's calling for a specific timetable of the drawdro drawdown of troops, not arbitrary but specific.
Yet today he says no Democrats ever mentioned that.
Then he said this.
That timetable must be real and strict.
The goal should be to withdraw the bulk of American combat forces by the end of next year.
If the administration does its work correctly, that is achievable.
Today, that's just a month ago.
Today, Senator Kerry says no Democrats ever talked about withdrawing troops.
We only want a timetable for success.
Now listen to the rest of this drivel.
Everything that we have presented has been presented on the basis of how you succeed.
No, it has not.
It has not.
That's the problem.
You can't quote a Democrat who's talked about success unless the Democrat means success for the Democratic Party.
Success for the Democratic Party is not success in Iraq.
Success for the Democratic Party is defeat in Iraq.
But nevertheless, you can't find a Democrat talking about success, or he would quote a Democrat rather than quoting 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.
Stop the tape.
He has to quote George W. Bush.
He can't quote a Democrat saying that.
No Democrat has said it.
It's just the exact opposite.
It's precisely those car bombers and assassins that are driving the Democrats away from supporting this war.
Well, they never have supported the war in truth, folks.
They only went along with it because that's what they thought most Americans wanted.
Now when they think most Americans are opposed to it and they're wrong about that, they're just moistening the finger, but they haven't the guts to stick with something that they start.
An eight-year-old kid will tell you, Dad, you gotta finish what you start.
The Democrats don't have it in them.
And that's why they can't be trusted.
But he can't find a Democrat to quote on success.
He has to quote George W. Bush, and then listen to this.
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.
It's precisely what you've been doing the last three weeks.
That's precisely why we ought to be getting out of there in your minds.
We can't defeat the insurgents a month ago.
He says we need to draw down the troops.
The only way we have defeating the insurgents is to draw down the troops.
He is afraid of the car bombers.
He is afraid of the assassins.
He doesn't think that we will prevail.
He wants to cut and run.
The whole Democratic Party did.
That's what the past three weeks have been all about.
And don't forget these past three weeks when they were beating their chests like King Kong and thought they were winning a day, folks.
They thought they had turned the corner.
They thought they'd brought the American people along with them and their anti-war belief and movement.
They were happy.
Oh man, they were celebrating.
If you're watching the cable TV shows at night, you're watching practically live orgasms on the part of Howard Feynman and Chris Matthews and whoever the hell else was talking about this.
Finally had Bush on the run.
Finally Bush is going down.
Approval numbers at 35, time to implement plan.
We can get president out of office.
We can get us out of Iraq and put ourselves back in power in 06 and 08.
And today, poof, gone.
Inside of one presidential speech.
With Senator Carey now having to respond with abject lies about what the Democrats have been saying and desiring the past three weeks.
I love it.
I am not surprised.
This is who they are.
I can tell you before they do something what they're going to do.
I've read every page in their playbook, and there aren't too many of them left, by the way.
So it doesn't take long.
Here's George in West Newbury, Massachusetts.
George, I'm glad you called.
Thanks for waiting.
I appreciate your patience out there.
Ah, you're welcome, Rush.
Thank you.
And Megadiddos.
Yes.
Rush, the reason I was calling is uh, as usual, you're absolutely right in your analysis regarding Carey's speech.
And I wanted just to point out three quick points here.
I think Senator Lieberman's uh Wall Street Journal article is great evidence to support your opinion and contention that the Democrats really never had an ideology of success with regards to Iraq.
Because if you look at the wording of that article, he goes to great lengths and great pain to articulate what he has seen as success in Iraq, even to the point of countering things like, well, there's no progress in Iraq.
The other thing, too, that I thought was kind of interesting is immediately we've got Mertha coming to Boston on a campaign to promote his um philosophy of immediate withdrawal, which he's categorizes, I guess, as six months from now.
So I don't understand how Carey can come out and basically talk about a timetable of success when all the modifiers that you hear of people who support.
Well, let me let me explain the answer to you.
Mertha was on how many television shows and interviewed by how many print reporters after his remarks.
Uh you can't count the number.
And he was on for a solid week.
Even through the weekend, the subject of the Sunday shows, and he appeared on the Sunday shows.
How many times, other than on CNN yesterday morning have you seen Lieberman as a result of his op-ed which disagrees with his own party?
Zero.
Zero.
And the reason is Lieberman doesn't advance the story the media wants.
So, yeah, CNN had him on, but that was it.
Therein lies the answer.
Carrie can go out and lie today because he knows that CNN, MSNBC, probably not even Fox, maybe Fox on one of their shows, NBC, ABC, CBS, John Stewart.
Well, whatever, whatever people watch, they're not going to do to carry what I just did.
They're going to amplify what Kerry said as though he said it today, and he's 100% right.
You're going to see Kerry treated heroically in the mainstream press, and Kerry knows it.
That's why he can go out and say these things.
That's why he can go out and contradict Lieberman.
And he can do it with a clean conscience because he knows that his buddies in the mainstream press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, are not going to parse what he said.
They're not going to go back and said what he just a month ago said just a month ago.
They're not going to find other Democrats and quote them to contradict what Kerry said today about success and immediate withdrawal.
But that's okay.
There's a whole new media that does it.
The American people learn about it anyway, but Kerry and his buddies are still relying on their old belief that they have a monopoly.
Their alignment with the Democratic Party and the mainstream media is something they still think is practically monopolistic.
And so he'll go on and say, Tomorrow I'll say whatever else he has to say.
Plus, he's running for president all over again.
That makes him special as far as the media is concerned, at least at this stage, before we get to the primaries.
So they're not going to parse him, they're not going to tear it apart, they're not going to analyze it, they're not going to show the contradictions and the out and out lies.
That's how we can.
And even even if they were to do that, I don't think it would change the way Carey speaks.
These people, you have to understand liberals for the last forty years, thirty years, twenty years particularly, have had to live a lie.
They've had to tell you they are things they are not.
They've had to tell you they are supportive of things they're not.
They dare not tell you the truth about what they really believe or what they want to do, or they'd be sunk.
So it's really no big deal to go out and change your story every day, because that's what they've been doing every day for twenty years.
And even longer.
I gotta go because of time.
More phone calls right after this.
You know, I I'm I'm I'm developing a stack of things here that I could probably spend the next half hour reading to you that contradict Carrie's claim today that no Democrat has spoken about anything about an immediate withdrawal.
All the Democrats want us a timetable for success.
I mean, I've got a transcript of Mertha appearing on Meet the Press on November twenty-first.
Uh Mertha, our military has done everything has been asked of them.
The U.S. can't accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily.
It's time to bring the troops home.
I said a year ago, and you remember me saying this, we can't win this militarily.
The military's done everything they can do.
It's up to the politicians, it's up to us in Congress.
We need to bring them home.
I'll tell you why it's different.
It's different is because there's no progress at all.
I mean, this is John, these just little excerpts of John Mertha on Meet the Press three weeks ago.
Yet Kerry goes out today and talks about how the Democrats have only been talking about success.
Here's uh Megan in New York City.
Hi, Megan, welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
It's my pleasure.
The pleasure to be on your show.
Um, I was calling because I wanted to talk to you about a story that just came out two hours and forty-nine minutes ago on the AP press.
And it's from the LA Times, and the headline is U.S. military planting stories in Iraqi newspapers.
Yes, I have that story.
It's here in my stack of stuff.
Well, the first paragraph and the last paragraph I just wanted to expose on your radio show.
It's so disgusting.
How can they do this?
They have no facts, nothing to back it up.
They just they're gonna make these claims.
Yeah, I'm looking for it now, uh, because it's buried in the Go ahead and read it.
Well, time is short here, so go ahead and start reading it.
The U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to print stories written by U.S. soldiers in an effort to polish the image of the American mission in Iraq.
A new uh a U.S. newspaper reported.
Here it is.
And then the last one, the task force has even bought an Iraqi newspaper and taking control of a radio station, refusing to name the outlet to protect their staff from surgeon attacks.
So what's your thought on this, though?
That's the important thing.
It upsets me.
It's so disgusting.
How can they do this?
Where but you're you know, they're you're leaving out a a very important paragraph.
What?
Well, here's the first paragraph, as you say, is part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
Here is the here's the fourth paragraph.
Though the articles are basically factual, they present only one side of events and they omit information that might reflect poorly on the U.S. or Iraqi governments.
Well, this is just an object lesson on how journalists think they're supposed to do their job.
Even though it's factual, that's not good enough.
You gotta go get some critics.
You gotta go get some people to disagree.
If you don't do that, it's not balanced.
It's not there is no truth.
And what they're really upset about here, Megan, when you get right down to it, this is nothing more they think than it's unfair.
The U.S. is trying to artificially affect the mindset of the Iraqi citizen.
They're trying to propagandize them.
But they're not, are they?
No, I don't think there are operations in the military.
They this is this is very common to do this kind of thing.
The only way you can be suspicious of it is if you distrust your own country, is if you think your own country's a lying sack of you know what?
If you think your troops are a bunch of barbarians that don't deserve to live and don't deserve to win, then you can be suspicious of this.
This is a great story in the LA Times to tell people exactly what journalism has become and what it is.
They're not interested in our victory.
In fact, this they think is cheating.
Although this is No different than what they do themselves.
It's exactly how they do their jobs.
They're just upset that they can't stop this from happening.
They can't stop from being published in the Iraqi news.
You don't hear them condemning Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera, oh no, just like CNN, just like MSNB, a legitimate news network.
Yet they'll condemn the U.S. military for trying to get facts out to the Iraqi citizens.
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