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Jan. 23, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 23, 2006, Monday, Hour #2
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Audio soundbites 6, 7, 8, and 9, maybe even 10.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
America's anchorman feed, seated firmly here in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I forgot to mention last hour when I was talking about the great time I had out in Palm Springs last week at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
They had some fabulous pictures taken on the four tournament days, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and they're posted at rushlimbaugh.com.
And some of these, you should have seen it.
I mean, if people lined their houses on the houses on some of the fairways, some of the courses out there, people had signs welcoming me to town and so forth.
That was just, it was fabulous.
And of course, I'm a babe magnet, folks.
I mean, it's clear and plain as day when you look at these photos.
You just have to see them.
That was just, it was a grand time, but I forgot to mention we got those photos up.
They've been up.
We posted them every day last week.
But since I wasn't here, I don't know how many people are actually going to the website on a daily basis.
But so today some people are probably seeing these for the first time.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
You know, I'm sorry that I took that last phone call with only a minute and a half to deal with it because there wasn't enough time for an appropriate response.
It was Mike in Selkirk, New York, and he was saying, hey, look, you know, you're making it sound like we Democrats want to get hit again.
I said, no, that's not.
I'm not saying you're saying that.
If we rely on you Democrats and you liberals to run the show the way you're talking, that's going to be the result.
But we can't trust you people with national security.
You look at Bush as the national security problem.
You're looking at the president as the problem.
We don't.
So all your attempted focus to make the president the problem falls on deaf ears and it betrays you or portrays you as somebody who's not really serious about this.
So you want to get credit for saying, we don't want to get hit again.
I live in New York and I don't know anybody who lives in New York and I want us to go through that again.
Well, then be serious about it and stop blaming the president for the problem.
Mike also said that if your phone or your lawyer's phones are tapped, what if your phone and lawyers' phones are tapped?
First of all, can we review the law here?
The FBI must get warrants or it must have probable cause to tap telephones here in the United States.
It must have a reasonable basis to believe a crime has been or will be committed and it needs to tap the phone to get that information.
Nothing has changed in this regard.
There has been no change in law or practice as applies to domestic wiretaps.
This is so contemptible.
The Democrats are trying to make this NSA spy story and wiretap story out to be something.
Bush is just totally disregarding the law.
He's spying on everybody.
He's not getting warrants and he's spying on Americans.
And it's contemptible to say that.
And when you Democrats want to continue focusing on the president as the problem and then at the same breath tell us that you're all for national security, I'm sorry, the president is not the threat.
You are more of a threat with your ignorance or your blind allegiance to the enemy of our objective here.
You're more of a threat than the president is, I hate to tell you.
And that's why, you know, McCain's out there saying, why just come tell Congress?
Why?
Just tell come Congress.
It's okay to do this.
Just come tell because he knows that Congress is going to blow the lid on it like happened.
Somebody, we're going to find out who leaked this story in the first place.
What was this?
Back on, when did this whole story first did, January 16th or further back than that?
Yeah, it was further back than that.
December 15th, December 16th.
Okay, yeah, that makes more sense.
We're going to find out who leaked this originally, and we're going to find out some elected officials did it.
That's why, Senator McCain.
At any rate, in this current case, nothing's changed when it comes to domestic wiretaps.
The FBI still has to get a warrant.
You can't be listened in on your phone call, your lawyer and your doctor.
None of it can without a warrant.
Can't happen.
Nothing's changed.
In this current case, this current issue, we are dealing with intercepting communications from the enemy, E-N-E-M-Y, enemy.
It's a word you liberals and Democrats need to learn.
You need to go to the dictionary and look it up.
You will not find George W. Bush's face there unless you're looking in a domestic political lexicon dictionary written by your side.
But George Bush is not the enemy when we're talking national security.
We are dealing with intercepting communications from the enemy to contacts in the United States, not for the purpose of indicting anybody, but for the purposes of gathering foreign intelligence.
We are not wiretapping Americans to find out if they are engaged in some nefarious activity.
That's not what this is.
If we are wiretapping the telephone, say, of Iranian diplomats in the U.S., we would need a FISA warrant to do so, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
We got to go to that FISA court if we're going to do that.
On the other hand, though, if we are trying to intercept communications between a declared enemy with whom we are at war, who is contacting sympathizers in the U.S., just like 9-11, we are talking first and foremost about protecting the nation from another attack, not seeking indictments of individuals for law enforcement purposes.
FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and that court deals with foreign intelligence.
So me and my lawyers, you and your lawyers, or you and your neighbors and your business would never trigger FISA unless there's something going on in terms of foreign agents and the like.
If Mohammad Sahib Skyhook is calling you at your business and he's got ties to al-Qaeda, yep, you're going to pop up.
But if you're calling your lawyer to talk about some event or issue that you have, it's not going to happen.
That's not.
It's why this line about domestic spying on Americans is such a contemptible lie.
That is not what this is about.
Next time you hear FISA court or FISA anything, remember what it stands for, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
By not mentioning that we're at war, by not mentioning that we are dealing with al-Qaeda and their related groups, we are trying to get information to prevent another attack.
The Libs want you to think that you and I are about to have our communications intercepted by Bush.
The Libs want you to think that we are the targets of Bush, that you and I and all the rest of us in this country.
Now, the Libs may feel like targets.
I don't know.
I can't testify to what some of them are doing out there.
But that's not the purpose of all this.
Nothing has changed when it comes to getting a warrant based on probable cause that a crime has been or will be committed for the purposes of getting an indictment to prosecute somebody on a crime.
This is Another clear case here of how the whole program is being misrepresented, the president's actions are being lied about, and the people doing both of those things then accuse the president of criminality and spying on the American people.
That's not the case.
And when you Democrat, the American people understand what this is all about, the vast majority of them do.
And when you Democrats or liberals, whoever you are, when you come out and oppose the program and then at the same time say that you are for finding out who's doing all these bad things or who might want to attack us next, you can come out and say that all you want, but if you're not going to support what it takes to find that information out, then you're not worth being on our side.
It's just that simple.
You can sit there and you can mouth your gums all day long about how tough you are, how serious you are on crime.
You want to make sure.
You want to make damn sure we're not hit again.
And then you start talking about, but we want the president to obey the law.
President hasn't broken the law.
The president's not the enemy.
The president does not constitute the national security threat.
Quick.
Time out back in a moment.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
Nicole in Phoenix, Arizona.
Great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush, you were born to host, and Snerdley was born to observe.
Yeah, yeah, well, he better pick it up.
Got a question for you.
The Democrats and experts have been telling us for the past, what, three years that Afghanistan and Iraq are not connected, but Osama just connected them.
So what's he doing?
I mean, he took away the biggest talking point for his supporters.
Well, you know, I'm not sure that I would interpret what he said exactly that way.
I get your point.
And Snerdley, by the way, the official program observer is really smiling at your point.
You've brought him back around.
So he's smiling big.
You're talking about the fact when bin Laden said that basically Iraq and Afghanistan have been destroyed by war and need to be rebuilt.
Yes.
Right?
And so he's therefore linking the two.
Yes.
Well, the fact is that Iraq and Afghanistan have been damaged by war.
The process of rebuilding is ongoing in both places, though, is the dirty little secret.
I'm not so sure.
It does make the point.
Is that a bird that you have there squeaking in the background?
No, that's a baby.
A baby?
Yeah, same thing.
They both make noise.
They poop all over the place.
Well, I think the Democrats' point about Iraq and Afghanistan is that we didn't need to go to Iraq at all because that's not where the terrorists were.
We had no beef.
There was nothing.
Saddam was an angel.
He was a good guy.
He wasn't doing anything wrong.
We didn't have to go to war there.
We needed to focus on getting bin Laden.
And now what's happening with the baby?
Oh, nothing.
He's just listening to you.
He's happy.
See, if that's a happy baby, then there's no way.
I mean, if that's what they do when they're happy.
Oh, yeah, he's happy.
Okay, good.
Well, as I was saying about Iraq and Afghanistan, he did link them, no question.
But I think the greater value of the bin Laden tape is how it spewed Democrat talking points.
We have a little soundbite here from this bin Laden tape.
It's ostensibly bin Laden.
This is from the translator.
This is last Thursday.
What motivated me to talk is your President Bush's repeated twisting of the facts in his comments on the results of the opinion polls, which showed that the vast majority of you favored the withdrawal of forces from Iraq.
But he went against this wish and said withdrawing forces would send a wrong message to the adversaries and that it would be best to fight them on their own land rather than them fighting us on our land.
And of course, the thing to take away from this is here's Osama bin Laden talking about presidential opinion polls, public opinion polls on withdrawing from Iraq.
This is John Murtha.
He's been listening to John Murthy and all the Democrats talking about pulling out.
You know, these guys want to pull out, redeploy, pull up, put the troops on the Kuwait border.
And if they have to move back in, then we move them back in.
But show the terrorists we mean no harm.
Show the terrorists that we are willing to stop.
And then he offered this truce.
This truce.
I made a joke.
We've got this link up on the website at rushlimbaugh.com.
I forget exactly when I did this, but I've had this long drawn-out routine about what the Democrats ought to do.
What we ought to do is just offer a treaty to al-Qaeda and grant them official status under the Geneva Conventions and so forth, and grant them all kinds of pleasantries and toiletries and things when they are taken prisoner and basically have a treaty.
Make a joke, and by gosh, here comes Bin Laden actually suggesting a truce, a stand down.
This is, you know, this is right out of the way the communists played the game, right out of the way all of our superpower adversaries in the past have played the game.
Let's call a ceasefire.
Well, let's call it a truce.
The Democrats will eat that up because while they can't trust George W. Bush, they can trust Osama bin Laden.
Well, you think that's an exaggeration or you think that's inflammatory?
Ask yourself in all of this, when you listen to Democrats, who's the enemy?
Bush!
Who's spying on Americans?
Bush!
Who allowed 9-11 to happen?
By not connecting the dots, by not spying enough.
Bush!
Who's spying too much now on America?
Bush!
Who stole two elections?
Bush!
Who's responsible for thousands of American deaths?
Bush!
Who's responsible for all the innocent civilian deaths in Iraq and everywhere in Afghanistan?
Bush!
If you listen to Democrats, the focus of evil in the modern world is George W. Bush.
And here comes Bin Laden offering a truce.
It's right up the Democrats' alley.
In fact, Bin Laden, I think, parrots the, well, I'm not sure about this bite.
I'm not going to get into it because I'm not sure we have the bin Laden bite.
But I'm told that Bin Laden parroted the Democrats right down to ridiculing the mission accomplished banner on the aircraft carry.
Did he do that in the tape?
Did you hear it?
Well, at any rate, if he did, the Democrats also did that.
The bin Laden videotape that came out right before the election last year, well, 2004, could have been a John Kerry speech.
You know, 75% of it.
Here's Robert in Fairlawn, New Jersey.
Robert, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, thanks for taking my phone call again, Rush.
You bet.
Rush, I've been calling in regards to Rogue's statement over the weekend about him trying to portray the fear card at making us believe that Bush will make us safer.
I just don't buy it.
And I don't think it's going to work this time around.
When you take into consideration that he's done nothing about the Mexican and Canadian borders, the 9-11 Commission gave him a flunking grade.
The war college called this Iraq War the biggest military blunder in the last 2,000 years.
We let Osama go, Katrina.
And he's wasting our resources chasing Quakers and peacekiks around the country.
So far, action speaks louder than words, and I think he's failing.
So I don't see, I don't think it's going to work, the fear card again.
You don't think Rove speech is going to work?
Well, he's a genius, but he can only play that hand so often before we catch on to him.
Well, we've been playing it here for about five years.
Yeah, and it's catching up to him, though, don't you think?
I don't.
I think what's catching up, I think the Democrats and liberals are being swallowed and don't know it because they haven't gotten to the beast's digestive tract yet.
As far as the Democrats and liberals, I think they don't have the onions right now.
They're not as tough as the Republicans when it gets to get their message out.
I don't even think they were having a message.
They're splintered.
You got like eight different people running.
They're not going to get unified until we get one person running.
This is what I don't get.
You don't think they've got the onions?
Yep, they don't.
They don't.
You don't think that you don't think they're speaking out strongly enough?
Not so much.
No, no, because you take Harry Reid, for instance.
He came out last week and he went through this whole big 42-page things about the corruption in Congress.
The next day he swallowed it.
He took it back.
That's not having onions.
You got to stick.
You know, it's Twilight Zone time here.
Never in the course of my well-connected adult political life have I been witness to some of the most disparaging, mean, spirited, slanderous, libelous garbage uttered about a president.
Maybe Nixon and Reagan would come close, but I haven't seen anything like what's been done to Bush for five years.
Bush equals Hitler.
Bush is a murderer.
I don't know how much more you can say.
I think the problem that you really have and that the Democrats have is that none of that has worked.
You shot your wad.
You guys gave it your best go last year.
Everything you had, particularly the last six months of last year, and you succeeded in getting the approval numbers down into the low 40s, but you haven't gotten rid of the king.
And now the numbers are coming back.
Supreme Court nominations are being confirmed.
Democrats realize they can't stop it.
That counts for a lot.
They have no agenda whatsoever that they can be honest about.
They have to go behind closed-door meetings to figure out what they believe.
And what they're actually doing is what they've always done.
How can we fool them today?
How can we come out and say something that they will believe we mean when we don't mean it?
And that's their objective.
Because if they were to be honest, and they get close to it when they get raging angry, they get close to it.
If they were to be honest, it would be all over.
And it's close to that now in terms of public opinion.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Ha, welcome back.
El Rushbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Mr. Snurdly is reading over the transcript of the Osama bin Laden tape.
Did he say anything about a plantation in there?
He didn't say anything about George Bush running this country as a plantation.
He didn't say that.
Well, that'll be the next tape.
Did he actually say something about these guys or about the aircraft carrier land?
Bush's fake declaration of victory.
Well, okay, then grab audio soundbite 21.
So all we're trying to establish here is that bin Laden parodies Democrats or parrots Democrats and vice versa.
So in this tape, Osama bin Laden lampoons Bush for claiming fake victory.
He doesn't call it an aircraft carrier.
He called it the airplanes, whatever, the ship, the airplane's carrier.
So he's, well, this has been done too by the Democrats.
We have a montage of Democrats talking about President Bush's mission accomplished speech on the aircraft carrier in 2002.
We have Nancy Pelosi, Terry McAuliffe, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry in this montage.
It's reminiscent of the ship that he jumped onto and said mission accomplished two years ago.
He's at a 45% after he's done his aircraft carrier landings.
The president landed on an aircraft carry and said, mission accomplished, when that banner should have said, we've only just begun.
Six months have elapsed since President Bush flew out to the aircraft carrier and declared mission accomplished in Iraq.
Today, we all know too well that the war is not over.
The war goes on.
The mission is not accomplished.
Reminds you of an aircraft carrier and mission accomplished.
I know something about aircraft carriers because I've worked with them for real.
This guy is just too much.
He's got this kind of, if I knew this guy personally, he would grate on me.
I couldn't stand to be around him.
He's one of these people has to constantly one-up whoever is talking or whatever is in the news.
Constantly.
Is this nothing more than, I know a little bit about aircraft carriers.
I've actually been on them for real.
Blah, blah, blah.
So here they are misrepresenting this too.
We did accomplish the mission.
The mission was getting rid of Saddam Hussein.
The aftermath is the fight for peace.
It is the fight for peace that has gone on.
The mission was to get rid of Saddam Hussein.
Now, there's a column at the American Spectator, and I don't know who writes it.
It's called Enemy Central.
And this piece was published on January 20th, three days ago.
Who let the scurrilous dogs out?
Nobody's laughing now unless it be Democrat at large Osama bin Laden, who barked out a closing tune after earlier howls this week by Al Gore and Mrs. Bill Clinton.
This piece starts out talking what an idiot Ted Kennedy made of himself, how all the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee made fools of themselves during the Alito hearings.
And then we had Al Gore with his moveon.org speech and Mrs. Bill Clinton with her plantation speech.
And then all that's followed by Osama bin Laden, Democrat at large.
The Honorable Bin Laden has proposed a truce as staple of the Democrat lexicon.
The word is borrowed from truce, T-R-U-S, pronounced truce, the Russian term for coward.
Of course, the word today has different connotations.
In Moscow, a coward is someone who declines to go snorkeling in an ice-covered lake.
In Washington, a coward is somebody who questions Jack Murthy's bona fides.
Returning to our best-in-show, Senator Joe Biden remains expert at chasing his own tail.
All the while he pants and begs on the assumption that the sweet Patty Page song, How Much Is That Doggy in the Window, was all about him.
It's a great piece lampooning all the Democrats and once again associating Osama bin Laden with them.
Carol Stream, Illinois, this is Leslie.
You're next.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush.
Hi.
With your last caller, you mentioned something about the Twilight Zone.
And I got to tell you, I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone this morning when I learned that after that tape was released, people went and bought that book, Rogue State, by somebody named Blom.
It was recommended by Osama bin Laden, and people went out and bought it.
It shot up the Amazon list.
Yeah, his name is William Blum Laden.
And he's, he's a he's it's, it's a it's, it is, it's a total socialist.
Uh, you know pro-socialist, pro-communist.
In fact the the, the Investors Business Daily, has a um story on this.
Let me find it today, because i've got it somewhere here in my stack since you bring this up.
Uh yeah, here we go.
Osama's reading.
If you thought Ward Churchill was despicable for saying the victims of 9-11 deserve their fates, wait till you get a load of Osama Bin Laden's favorite American author, William Blum, in last week's audio tape warning of new attacks to come from Al-Qaeda.
Bin Laden had some recommended reading.
It'd be useful, he said, if you read the book The Rogue State.
Blum, the author of this obscure screed, is a former State Department staffer who became a rabid America hater during Vietnam in the early 70s.
He lived in Chile during the Marxist regime of Salvador Allende.
That Bin Laden would like his work will come as no surprise once you get a taste of it.
Most terrorists, Blum says, are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
Maybe we should call him Blum Laden because he provides excuses for everything terrorists do.
In an internet posting titled why terrorists hate America, William Blum asks who killed more innocent, defenseless people, the terrorists in the United States on September 11th or the Americans in Afghanistan with their cruise missiles, their AGM-130 missiles, their 15,000 pound daisy cutter bombs, their depleted uranium and their cluster bombs?
Blumladen is such an apologist for communism that in the November 10th 2005 issue of his online Anti-empire Report, he doubts the documented fact that Joseph Stalin was a mass murderer.
Of course many people died under Stalin.
Many people died under Roosevelt.
Many people are still dying under Bush.
Were millions actually murdered in cold blood in the Soviet Union?
If so, how?
The logistics of murdering tens of million people is daunting.
Still in denial about that.
And this is the book that Osama Bin Laden recommended.
Uh and uh.
Yeah, he's a former State Department guy.
I've I've told you about State Department, Mr. Sturdley.
You know who's in there.
He's a former State Department guy, became a rabid Anti-American during the Vietnam War and and has become even more so.
And this is the guy that who's whose book Bin Laden recommended in that in that tape, and a bunch of libs are out reading it's.
I mean, it's funny in one hand, on another.
On the other hand it's, it's um, it's obviously not, not good, but gosh, it's so instructive for Bin Laden to be here.
Comes a man with credibility now with people, because he's Anti-Bush, because he's poking at Bush as the problem.
The reason folks, that I say that the Democrats can't be trusted because they consider the number one enemy in the world going to be George W. Bush.
Guess who else does Osama Bin Laden And guess who lines up on the same side.
Well, you can't accuse me.
I've never said I support bin Laden.
No, you don't have to.
It's just, I can't tell the difference when Bin Laden speaks or when you do, Senator Kerry.
Well, I'm going to play the audio tapes today.
Take a look at their actions.
Take a look at what they would do if they're being honest.
Gene in Pittsburgh.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, greetings from Cedar Land.
Thank you, sir.
Nice to have you at the program.
We talked a couple weeks ago about this Wilkerson fellow, this guy at the American Center for American Progress, and how he was ranting on about how President Bush and Vice President Cheney had hijacked foreign policy.
Yeah, this is Colin Powell's former chief of staff at the State Department, and he's a State Department guy, and he's getting mad.
Larry Wilkerson, and he said that Bush and Cheney have hijacked American foreign policy.
Well, the next dot to connect is, is this a war or is this a civilian law enforcement matter?
If it's a civilian law enforcement matter, then things like affidavits and warrants and procedure all apply.
But this is a war.
If the United States is part of the battleground, and it is when we have saboteurs running around trying to bomb things, then what President Bush is doing is acting very clearly under his power as Commander in Chief.
And I think the majority of the American people see it the way you do.
But you answer a question for me.
Can you honestly say, after listening to a Democrat, that he considers this or that any liberal, that they consider this to actually be a war?
No, I think that they think that this is a civilian law enforcement matter, just like Kerry said during the campaign, that we want to reduce this down to a nuisance and deal with it in the courts.
I don't even think that.
I don't even think they believe that.
I don't even think it's a civilian law enforcement matter.
Because if they did, then they would be more concerned than they appear to be over about our success in dealing with it in that basis.
They're trying to undermine that.
Democrats are appointed.
These terrorists are getting lawyers, and we're being told that they have to be given constitutional rights, that they have to be given constitutional rights as citizens.
Now, that's guaranteed, not to catch them, but to let them go.
Right.
Well, they're trying to establish any kind of check and bounds that they can throw at President Bush to hem him in, to reduce his latitude for action because they are instinctively mistrustful of the use of American power.
Well, that's true.
I mean, the projection of American power, they think, is one of the greatest problems in the world.
But I think I really do believe that as far as the Democrats are concerned today and the way they have oriented themselves, they think they have one enemy, and it's George W. Bush.
And that this terrorism stuff, you know, it's going to happen.
We're never going to be able to stop it.
We're going to get hit again.
Too bad.
We'll do our best, but it's not worth a war.
It's not worth going to Iraq.
And it's not worth any of that because we can't stop it anyway.
But I just don't think they take it seriously.
I think they want people to think they do, but you can't convince me that they do based on anything that they have proposed action-wise.
And when you look at any action that is proposed to improve security, and I don't mean screenings at airports and that kind of thing.
I'm talking about such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act spying catching cells in this country or conducting the war in Iraq.
They don't even think that's worthwhile.
We don't need to be there.
There's nothing going on over there.
We're only creating more terrorists.
Bush is the terrorist.
Bush is creating more.
Bush is making them mad.
I can't take them seriously in, which is why I have said for the longest time here, last five years, that they just can't be trusted with the defense of the country right now because there's nothing any of them other than Lieberman.
What they're trying to do to him.
They're trying to run Joan Lieberman out of the party.
Five years ago, Joan Lieberman was the toast of the Democratic Party.
They're trying to run him out of the party all because of the Iraq war.
These people are warped, folks.
That's their problem.
Quick timeout.
Back with more in just a second.
We have some more of the Osama bin Laden tape, ladies and gentlemen, and translation.
Just listen to it for yourself.
This message is about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How to end those wars.
It was not my intention to talk to you about the boost.
Because those wars are definitely going our way.
We know that the majority of your people want to end this war.
Opinion polls show the Americans do not want to fight the Muslims on Muslim land.
Muslim.
Do they want Muslims to fight them on their lines?
If your desire for peace, stability, and reconciliation was true, here we have a giving you the answer to your call.
Muslim.
Wait a minute.
Who's translating who there?
Sounds like Ted Kennedy was telling Bin Laden what to say.
Got to prove my point.
Because I've been getting some wide-eyed stares from Snerdley today when I say the Democrats look at to me, they look to Bush as the enemy.
They don't see Bin Laden as the enemy.
They see Bush as the enemy.
Well, Bin Laden and the Democrats sound similar.
Would you not agree?
What is so outrageous about that?
You know what?
It's not outrageous.
You just can't believe I'm actually saying it.
You can't believe I'm actually.
Well, you know what's going to happen?
After I've said it, it's going to pop up on a bunch of other places, and people are going to say it for their own since the ICE has been broken.
And a little liberal media websites will have conniptions and they'll go nuts and so forth.
The same pattern will fall or follow as it always does.
But look at, let me let you here.
Listen to Obama.
Not to be confused, as Senator Kennedy once did with Osama.
This is Barack Obama, senator from Illinois, meet the press yesterday.
Tim Russert says, when you ran for office back in September of 04, you said this about Iraq, and I'll read it on the screen from the AP.
Quote, Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama opposed invading Iraq.
The pulling out now, he said, would make things worse.
A quick withdrawal would add to the chaos there and make an extraordinary hotbed of terrorist activity.
It would also damage America's international prestige and amount to a slap in the face of the troops fighting there.
Is that still your position?
It remains my position that we have a role to play in stabilizing the country as Iraqis are getting their act together.
But I have to emphasize that there is a cost for our presence there.
We are an irritant and we help spur the insurgency.
Now, my friends, did not bin Laden and has not bin Laden said the same thing.
We are an irritant there.
Yes, I support staying.
Of course we can't pull up, but we're an irritant.
Of course I support wiretaps.
I just want to do it in a more sensitive way.
Yes, I support wiretap, and I want to make it legal.
Of course, we can't leave Iraq, but we are spurring the insurgency and we're an irritant.
Here's another.
Russert says, when you say we're an irritant, who are we an irritant to?
Well, I think we are an irritant primarily to certain portions of the Sunni population that still feel disenfranchised.
And they may feel that, in fact, the United States is the guy with the club standing behind the Shias and putting them in a position in which they have no power.
Okay, so, oh, we can't get out of there.
No, no, no.
Cause chaos.
We can't pull out of there now, but we are an irritant.
We are spurring the insurgency, and we are the guy with the club.
Now, U.S. military, that's the focus of Everett and the medieval and the modern world.
We're too powerful.
It's just not fair.
We're the big guy.
We're hammering on these little guys.
We're making them do what we want to do.
We're not letting them do what they want to do.
Sort of like the way liberals have behaved with their own supporters.
And all of a sudden, you find that the portrayal of the United States by future bright star Democratic Party, Barack Obama, much closer to the rhetoric we hear from Osama bin Laden than George W. Bush, right?
A subscriber to rushlinblug.com in an email asks me this question.
It's a good question.
Whose book club will end up being more popular?
Osama bin Laden's or Oprah Winfrey's?
I mean, Oprah will probably still take it, but if she gets off of this self-help stuff and gets into politics, it'll be close.
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