Feb. 21, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Before we get going here, I need to ask does anybody in there know what an iron is? | |
| I have no clue what an iron is. | |
| High school senior discovers ironing deactivates anthrax. | |
| Protecting yourself from biological weapons might be as simple as using an iron. | |
| What's an iron? | |
| Oh, that, that, that, that, that, okay. | |
| I know what that is. | |
| All right, I just haven't used I haven't used one in about 40 years. | |
| Okay, greetings, folks, and welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program rearing and ready to go. | |
| Here we are. | |
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| We're going to start out here with this port snort. | |
| Um I I nailed it, I nailed it on Friday, and I double nailed it yesterday, but now the story is swerved. | |
| And I'll tell you what, there's there's there's a little bit of me that is concerned about what is happening in all this. | |
| Because no longer is is the story about the ports and the United Arab Emirates. | |
| I mean, it still is about that, but it's it's swerved and and gone in a in a different direction. | |
| What we have now is an illustration of how tsunamis get started and how we can't stop them. | |
| It doesn't help. | |
| Hang on a minute, folks. | |
| I got to adjust the pinpoint volume control on my 48-bar graphic equalizer here. | |
| I swear, Brent, I moved this thing a tenth of an inch and it'll change the volume 100%. | |
| Oops. | |
| Um and I'm convinced that this cleaning crew comes in here dusting this stuff at night and doesn't it does it. | |
| Does I'm not moving it. | |
| Why would I move it when it's perfect? | |
| It takes too long to get it set. | |
| Testing one, two, three, test, test, test, test. | |
| I'll this is getting front. | |
| Test one, two, test, test, test. | |
| I've done it'd be easier if I had Parkinson's disease. | |
| You know, I could I could I can adjust it that way. | |
| Um it's so sensitive. | |
| I've never seen it. | |
| Volume control, so sensitive. | |
| Okay, you're gonna work on it. | |
| Yes, I've heard this. | |
| Uh I've been mentioning this problem for months now. | |
| At any rate, what we we we have here is a tsunami. | |
| We've got a tsunami of uh of coverage on this port deal that that is is disabling any reasonable debate about this. | |
| Um and I know it doesn't help this idiot, Jimmy Carter has just I mean, if Bush really wanted this, Jimmy Carter's just screwed it. | |
| Jimmy Carter just blown this deal sky high by coming out and endorsing it. | |
| This this guy is the big we have some Carter sound bites from CNN yesterday. | |
| Just he just I'm gonna tell you what happened to Jimmy Carter. | |
| Everybody wonder everybody wants to know what's happened to Jimmy Carter, and it's real simple. | |
| It's the Nixon funeral. | |
| Folks, I will never forget this. | |
| Speaker after speaker. | |
| We got all the living presidents in the audience. | |
| And speaker after speaker is eulogizing Richard Nixon. | |
| And they are saying the greatest things about Nixon that have ever been said in Nixon's uh that were ever said in Nixon's life. | |
| He had Henry Kissinger up there, you had Billy Graham up there, you even Clinton went up there, and they were all praising Nixon, and they they really focused on his uh his foreign policy achievements. | |
| Um and I'm sure that what was Jimmy Carter doing that. | |
| He was pounding nails at at the habitat for humanity. | |
| And I just know that he had to be sitting there livid, listening, and and Rosalind was probably even more livid than Jimmy was. | |
| And I can just imagine all during these eulogies. | |
| Rosalind Carter starts jabbing Jimmy in the ribs and says, See, see, what are you doing? | |
| You're out there pounding nails. | |
| What are you gonna say about you when you die? | |
| You better get yourself in gear here. | |
| And ever since then, Jimmy Carter, I'm not kidding you, folks, he's been a different guy. | |
| He's been out doing nothing but traveling the world, monitoring elections, uh uh opposing his own country, winning the Nobel Peace Prize. | |
| Now he comes out in favor of the um of the United Arab Emirates operating these six ports, and that that's gonna seal the deal as much as anything else out there will. | |
| And I know the deal is I know this is not gonna happen, but I do want to discuss a couple things with you about this. | |
| Because uh the the the the tsunami that's taken place here based on on the politics of this, quite understandable, but you can't stop a tsunami. | |
| Once a tsunami, you can't stop it, all you can do is run away from it uh or or well, that's all you can do. | |
| Or maybe you can hang around and hope that you survive it, but you can't stop it. | |
| And we are in a full-fledged tsunami uh right now. | |
| We have we have an enemy, and the enemy is uh uh Islamo fascism. | |
| Uh some might call it militant Islam, and the United Arab Emirates are said to be one of the breeding grounds. | |
| However, recently the United Arab Emirates have become a partner of ours, quote unquote. | |
| I just hear me out on this in the in the war on terror. | |
| Now I have read the book, The Art of War by Sun Tzu. | |
| Have you read that book, Bran? | |
| I didn't think so. | |
| You know what the the theory in reading Sun Tzu in defeating this enemy was that you can't defeat them totally with military means alone. | |
| And one of Sun Tzu's theories is the best way to beat your enemy is to make your enemy your friend. | |
| Now we have spent, I don't know how many years and gazillions of dollars trying to export capitalism to China, export capitalism to Russia, the Cold War, the Cold War took 70 years to win, folks. | |
| So we're we're expecting overnight success in this thing. | |
| And we have pretty much uh the same scenario and circumstances that we have uh with the uh war on terror as we had with the Cold War. | |
| Uh you've got in fact a Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis is uh has has a book about this that that pretty much uh in fact is is is upset a lot of his colleagues because he's credited Reagan in this book for solving the Cold War. | |
| It wasn't FDR, it wasn't the Democrats, it was it was it was Reagan. | |
| And uh he said Reagan and uh a couple other people were the only people in the world who believe an SDI would work, but the Russians were one of the other people thought it would, because they were in awe of our technological capability and our rapid advancement, and he knew they couldn't keep up once Reagan started spending on it, it was over, and that's and that's what Lady Thatcher has said. | |
| Lady Thatcher's told me that personally, and I've heard her say that in speeches and uh and in lectures. | |
| Now it took 70 years because we practice appeasement. | |
| We took 70 years because we we we practiced uh you know mutual assured destruction and so forth. | |
| Well, when we confronted them, and when we pit pitted ourselves against them, uh there was no contest. | |
| Freedom will always win when posed against tyranny. | |
| And it will be the case in this circumstance too. | |
| But all during the Cold War, one of the things that we did was successfully export elements of capitalism, blue jeans were a huge thing to Moscovites and to uh Russian citizens. | |
| The TV show Dallas, once once our perverted prime time soap operas found their way behind the iron curtain, there was no way for those people to be continue to believe the lie that they were living the best lives in the world. | |
| Now the Islamo fascists want to do everything they can to keep our culture out of where they are, a, because they don't like it, B, they'd like to live in the 12th or 13th century. | |
| The other thing is it's a threat. | |
| It sh it'll like it always is, it will show the oppressed how much better life can be. | |
| And this takes time, but you plant those seeds and they grow. | |
| Okay, so if if you look at the art of war and Sun Tzu, and uh the the best way to beat your enemy is to make him your friend. | |
| All right, so we bring the United Arab Emirates here, and uh they invest uh uh w in into our country and into our economic system. | |
| Uh the theory behind Sun Tzu is that this will uh moderate them and so forth. | |
| Now I'm not suggesting this would happen. | |
| I'm saying I'm just suggesting it's not even possible. | |
| See, I did this as an experiment. | |
| Schnerdly is already shaking his head, no way, not possible, because the tsunami has swept him. | |
| It's simply impossible to debate the issue. | |
| There are legitimate, really good economic reasons to do this deal, as I said yesterday. | |
| But they are going to be overshadowed by the politics. | |
| Now you've got Pataki and and Ehrlich, two Republican governors out there saying, we're going to stop this, I don't care how, and that it's so it's you know, it's a it's a um it's moot. | |
| I just I just think that it's an opportunity to debate things uh in in a in a pure economic sense. | |
| And also let me just ask you, Mr. Sterley, do you think that we're actually going to defeat the Islamo fascists militarily alone? | |
| Do you think that do you think? | |
| Uh well, I don't. | |
| I don't think it's possible to do that, because when are you going to define victory? | |
| There are always going to be some of these renegades popping up trying to get a bomb or shooting somebody or whatever. | |
| I mean, I I can see considerable progress militarily, and I'm saying you can't do it without military uh uh action as we're engaging in, but uh at some point uh there's gonna be something else required of that. | |
| Not saying the UAE port deal is it. | |
| Please don't please don't misunderstand me here. | |
| Um it it's just it's just this simple. | |
| Um some I've heard some people say one of the smartest things we could do is get them involved with us economically and make them dependent on us economically more and more, and that will lessen their support for the governments that we're dealing with here, lessen their support for these renegade mosques and imams and terrorists. | |
| Now, there's one argument, a glaring argument against that. | |
| We have gotten them so involved in our economy with their own oil, uh, and it is not stopped them uh from funding these organizations. | |
| However, have you noticed the panic that has the mile panic it set in when Bush has started talking about our addiction to oil and how he say we got to get rid of this dependence on foreign oil, and he's out in Colorado today at the renewable energy laboratory. | |
| He's now big into hybrids. | |
| It's so hard to say that. | |
| My own president big into hybrids. | |
| I could say, Mr. President, when you stop flying on Air Force One and start traveling in one, then I'll take you seriously. | |
| But I I will refrain from saying that. | |
| But nevertheless, the OPEC clout crowd, when Bush did that, they they raised, they raised their hands saying, wait a minute, you are not going to succeed at this. | |
| See, it's there's no question they need us. | |
| Um we um but because we're in this sense of dependence and need on their oil for their oil, we uh we don't talk as tough with these people as uh as we did, say, with the Soviets and uh and this and this sort of thing. | |
| Anyway, I just wanted to throw this out there as it's something to think about. | |
| Uh I I'm not trying to persuade you at all. | |
| I'm just this just a little think piece. | |
| It's it's irrelevant anyway, because the tsunami has overtaken this, and uh the UAE will not be part of the port deal. | |
| I suggested yesterday that the compromise here would be Halliburton, and lo and behold, a limball echo syndrome erupted. | |
| John Gibson on Fox asked that very question to Chuck Schumer. | |
| I'll let you hear the audio answer. | |
| We come back right after this. | |
| Oh, yes, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. | |
| I love provoking thought out there, and I I love provoking knee-jerk reactions too. | |
| And I'm sure that many of you are having knee-jerk reactions. | |
| And many of you are wondering if I've lost my mind, because you have not really listened to what I've said. | |
| You are hearing that I am not just ripping this deal like everybody else is. | |
| You're wondering if, oh, wait a minute, there's a rush. | |
| Sort of like the sort of like the backlash I got when NAFTA was going on out there. | |
| But uh it it is a free trade issue uh economically, and that's why economically it makes all the sense in the world. | |
| But I'm not gonna belabor that. | |
| I do want to give you the details here. | |
| Um I mentioned the book uh on this distinguished historian from Yale, John Lewis Gaddis, he's got a new book on the Cold War. | |
| And it's got to exasperate the left because he doesn't credit all the presidents for the collapse of the USSR, and he doesn't credit Gorbachev all that much. | |
| He credits Reagan, as I say, for this is a Yale historian for for confronting and spending beyond the the Soviet's ability to keep up. | |
| And he also says, as I as I said to you, every scientist uh in the world uh knew that SDI wouldn't work. | |
| The only people who believed it would work were Reagan and the Soviets. | |
| And uh that's his theory. | |
| When asked, well, well, didn't the Soviet scientists warn their leaders that, hey, it's just a bunch of mumbo jumbo and talk, it won't work. | |
| He said, Yeah, but the scientists in the Soviet Union were ignored because their leaders were so in awe of U.S. technological capabilities. | |
| They had seen us do too much. | |
| You put a free society up against a tyrannical dictatorship any day of the week. | |
| Uh I don't care if it's one superpower versus the next, and eventually the free society is gonna is going to run rings around them. | |
| And then he was asked, uh Mr. Gaddis was if the war on terrorism was at all similar to the Cold War. | |
| And he said there's no question about it. | |
| It the similarities are profound. | |
| He said, I might disagree with the plan of the execution of the war on terror, but the overriding idealism to spread freedom around the world and to rescue people from tyranny is exactly what the Cold War was about, because that's how you protect yourself is you disarm people who uh want to imprison others. | |
| And that's the same thing that we're doing here. | |
| Now, PS did this, the Cold War took 70 years because about sixty-five of those years or or or or sixty of those years were fought under the policies of appeasement and the uh and the mistaken notion that we couldn't do anything about the Soviets, that we all we had to do was find a way to live peacefully with them, peacefully coexist. | |
| That governed our belief system for sixty years until Ronaldus Magnus uh assumed office in nineteen eighty-one, and then it was a few short years after that, and Sayonara uh the Soviet Union. | |
| So uh I'm I can't I can't wait until Bill Schneider at CNN reads this book or or or hears an interview, because Schneider, I can imagine the poll question he'll put together. | |
| Would you rather be in a cold war or not? | |
| Is the Cold War the right direction for the country? | |
| As though it's our choice. | |
| He'd have a field day with that. | |
| Speaking of Jimmy Carter, do you see what his son Jack said? | |
| Jack Carter, 58 years old, um, the eldest son of former U.S. President Jimma Carter has announced that he's gonna seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate to represent Nevada. | |
| At his launch, launch party, whatever, Carter spoke with reporters revealing his schizophrenic stand on abortion. | |
| He was speaking with uh with Kathleen Hennessy of the Associated Press, and he described his views on abortion, saying, I'm a personal freedoms person. | |
| I don't want the government to come in and tell my child or whoever it is that they can't have an abortion. | |
| I'm pro-choice as far as a woman choosing, but I'm against abortion. | |
| I am pro-choice as far as a woman choosing, but I am against abortion. | |
| Well, there is a totally worthless view. | |
| This is just his version of I support the troops, but I don't support the war. | |
| Or I'm against slavery, but I oppose freeing the slaves. | |
| I'm for jobs, but I'm not for Walmart. | |
| I'm for open government except when a Democrat's in office and I want to have the power to do what I want to do without anybody seeing me. | |
| I mean, these people are just they are so just total wimps. | |
| Come on, Jack, tell us what you really believe and stand for something, and come out and lead on that basis. | |
| Jack. | |
| This is No, I want to make sure I don't offend you women. | |
| This this is here you go. | |
| Classic example of the castrati, the new castrati. | |
| Jack Carter is has been castrated by the feminization of this culture since he grew up. | |
| He's uh he's three years older than I am. | |
| He was subject to the same pressures I was, plus probably even more. | |
| What with his dad being in there in the White House and so forth. | |
| Here's this uh here's this sound bite with the Chuck Schumer, was on Fox News uh uh the big show with John Gibson yesterday, and Gibson says, okay, okay, we can't have this huge see, I told you so here, folks. | |
| Okay, we can't have we can't have a United Arab Emirates. | |
| Suppose it's Bechtel or Halliburton that says, well, we we can operate that thing. | |
| Are you gonna object to that, Senator Schumer? | |
| If they can do the best job and they get the contract on the merits, absolutely not. | |
| So you you would if it's gonna be the UAE, you'd take Alliburton. | |
| If it uh if that's the choice. | |
| And look, the bottom line is this when the objections to Halliburton have been that there were no bid contracts, and then they found that they made large amounts of profit. | |
| It wasn't Halliburton per se. | |
| It was why did they get a no bid contract? | |
| But I take Halliburton over UAE at this point. | |
| Yeah, if I had to take a choice, maybe this one or the other. | |
| There'd be no complaint about Cheney. | |
| There would be no inside dealing about Cheney, former executive. | |
| Okay, you pat him on the back. | |
| Oh, I don't believe that for a second. | |
| That that promised that pledge would last for about thirty seconds, and then they'd be wondering how Halliburton got the contract. | |
| And then they'd be saying this whole thing was a setup in the first place to give it to Halliburton, because Bush and Rove have to know that the country's not going to approve of a bunch of Arabs coming in opening ports and running our port operations. | |
| And so it's gotta go to one of Bush's big donor cronies. | |
| And who better than Halliburton? | |
| Another trick. | |
| This is what's what they would be saying, that's what they will say. | |
| Uh and they would they would get on Cheney. | |
| That they never were concerned about the no-bid contracts because Taliburton's the only company that does what they do. | |
| It was all about connections and chaining. | |
| It was just another avenue and vehicle to rip this administration and so forth, and it would happen again all over. | |
| I know. | |
| Thank you and welcome back. | |
| Here we are, Rushlin ball America's anchor man, America's truth detector, and the doctor of democracy all combined as one harmless lovable little fuzzball, and let's go to the phone, so start in Jacksonville, Florida. | |
| This is Rob. | |
| You're up, sir. | |
| Your turn. | |
| Dittos, Rush. | |
| Hey, I listened to your monologue about trying to equate the USSR and the Al-Qaeda problem As having the same solution. | |
| I just have to disagree with that. | |
| So one of the things I wanted to do. | |
| And I want to applaud you. | |
| I actually I want to applaud you before you get into it. | |
| Because what you're doing takes guts. | |
| Thank you. | |
| What you're disagreeing with me takes guts. | |
| You've you've seen many people try this and and and bomb out, fail miserably, and yet here you are going to try. | |
| And I applaud you. | |
| Go for it. | |
| Thank you. | |
| The USSR is a government, and that is basically a system on how the people will conduct themselves. | |
| Al Qaeda is the USSR was a system where the people had no choice in how to conduct themselves. | |
| That is correct. | |
| Still that was a formalized government. | |
| Al Qaeda. | |
| Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization with a belief system based upon the S. It's an ideology masking as a religion. | |
| True. | |
| That is correct. | |
| That's right where we have educated several people in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe in general, and these people have lived in our culture. | |
| They go back to the Middle East, they reject our culture, and they become still involved with Al Qaeda. | |
| The simple point, we had 19 hijackers that came over here, educated themselves on how to fly our planes into our buildings. | |
| They were amongst us. | |
| We did not know these people. | |
| They were kind of like sleeper cells. | |
| We knew who the Russians were. | |
| When the Russians sent their athletes over here after wearing our blue. | |
| Wait, wait, wait, hold it. | |
| Hold hold on a second. | |
| I think you're missing you're missing my point here. | |
| We did know who they are. | |
| I don't want to go. | |
| We're rehashing history. | |
| We did know who they were. | |
| It's called Abel Danger. | |
| It's called the CIA. | |
| We knew who these were. | |
| We knew who these people were the afternoon of 9-11. | |
| We had their pictures up on television. | |
| We knew who they were, if not then the next day. | |
| We knew who they were. | |
| And we knew what they were doing. | |
| We didn't connect the dots. | |
| But that's that's old news. | |
| That's that's that's history. | |
| That I understand the differences. | |
| Soviet Union is a state, and Al Qaeda isn't. | |
| And to prove that, Al Qaeda doesn't have a team in the Olympics, and that's what the Olympics is missing, by the way. | |
| If Al Qaeda had a team, I would be watching. | |
| See, when the USSR and the Soviet Union had a team, it was it was it was blood sports. | |
| You know, it was us a good guys versus evil, white hats versus black cats. | |
| Where's Al Qaeda? | |
| The fact that Al Qaeda doesn't have a team proves they're not a state. | |
| They are an ideology. | |
| They are a fascist movement masquerading and hiding under a religious movement, trying to and and that's that gets them all kinds of freedom and and uh and judgments that are favorable to them and so forth. | |
| I understand all that. | |
| What the the the the the just the point I'm making here is that I'm not I'm not talking about the port deal uh as having an eventual effect on Al Qaeda individuals. | |
| But Al Qaeda does get support from governments. | |
| And the more those governments could be made our friends and become interdependent with us or interlinked economically, um The less likely, theoretically, would be their desire to do anything to upset the success of their trading partner, the United States, and so forth. | |
| This is a theoretical discussion. | |
| I am fully aware of the differences between the Soviet Union and Al Qaeda. | |
| But we're not talking about Al Qaeda buying the ports unless that's what you think is going to happen. | |
| If you think this is actually Al Qaeda buying and running the ports, then there I agree. | |
| There's no there's no way. | |
| There's no way anyway, folks. | |
| I told Mr. Snerdley during the break, I ought to come out for the deal. | |
| I ought to come out for it, just like I came out for NAFTA, just like I opposed Perot. | |
| Um I'm gonna tell there's there's part of me that if you throw all this the tsunami out is part of this that fascinates me. | |
| There's a there's a real part of this that fascinates me, and and the the idea that we have tried this technique in defanging enemies down there. | |
| I understand the cultural differences. | |
| I understand that a lot of these people are growing and and and and being raised on hatred uh and they return to these cultures and so forth. | |
| I'm not talking about affecting those people. | |
| I'm talking about affecting the governments that sponsor them and pay for them, even though they're not tied to a single state, Al Qaeda's not a state. | |
| Uh if it if it weren't for money from the Saudis, some of these wackos around there that that fund them through these phony bogus charities and so forth. | |
| Um, you know, they but if if it even if that stops, they're gonna steal the money somewhere, they'll find a way. | |
| They're thugs, they're criminals, fascists. | |
| Uh I appreciate the call. | |
| John in Boston, uh, your next sir. | |
| Nice to have you on the program with us. | |
| Good afternoon, Rush. | |
| Hi, maybe I'm uh reading too much into the whole port security issue, but for me, this is as dangerous as when uh Bill Clinton led his friends sell the missile technology to China. | |
| I mean, the main the difference here being that we didn't find out about what Clinton did until it was too late. | |
| But now we actually have a chance to stop this. | |
| And the reason I I think it's so dangerous is that the UAE has links to terrorism, has links to some of the 9-11 terrorists, they were apparently laundering money for Al Qaeda through there. | |
| And I I'm sorry. | |
| I heard all that. | |
| Well, I well, okay, I understand that, but I just I don't to me it it doesn't make any sense. | |
| It makes as little sense as you know, letting the Saudis run airport security. | |
| I mean, but wait wait, wait a second. | |
| A, they're not the Saudis. | |
| Uh and and you know, there's there's a there's I'll tell you there's a part of this, like I said yesterday, really fascinates me about the Democrats. | |
| This, in one sense, uh, yeah, the White House has to know this deal is gonna fly, so they set it up anyway. | |
| And look what's happening. | |
| All of a sudden the Democrats are acknowledging we have an enemy. | |
| A Democrats. | |
| I mean, I I would expect that the Democrats have been flushed on this like I haven't seen. | |
| I haven't seen them get flushed on anything. | |
| They don't they're gonna support this w if if they're trying to put Bush and Cheney in jail, essentially, if trying to impeach them for for domestic spying and for torture for all these these horrible things we're doing uh in conducting the war on terror. | |
| If we if we if we you know don't have a really a war on terror, we're what we're the ones manufacturing the terrorists. | |
| I mean, that's what the Democrat Party line has been. | |
| We are creating the terrorists by going to Iraq fighting the war on terror. | |
| They're the ones that wrote books and had seminars two weeks after 9-11. | |
| Why do they hate us? | |
| Why do they hate it? | |
| And the the Democrats have concluded they hate us because of Bush. | |
| Bush is a terrorist, Bush is a torturer, Rumsfeld stinks, rice stinks. | |
| All these people have got to go. | |
| We got rid of Ashcroft, we got really gotta get rid of Gonzales and so forth. | |
| And now all of a sudden, here comes the UAE port deal, and bam, Democrats are on board with the whole idea that those people are our enemies and represent a security threat. | |
| This is the first time in four years that I can recall a Democrat seriously being concerned about this group of people, and this is racism. | |
| This is racism. | |
| We are concluding that all Arabs are terrorists. | |
| We are concluding that every damn one of them, be they a sheikh, an emir, an imam, they're all terrorists. | |
| They all have ties to terrorists, and they all seek our utter total destruction, and we don't we can't risk an exception to that. | |
| They're all that way. | |
| And welcome to racism Democrats, because the Democrats are leading the show on this just as well as a lot of conservatives are. | |
| So with Democrats are illustrating their racism, their xenophobia, and they are also demonstrating that they fully exist, uh, fully acknowledge we have an enemy. | |
| Well, this is a tenuous position for them to take because their kook base doesn't believe any of this. | |
| So there's there's just there's a whole lot going on here. | |
| Now, as to the SHICOMs, uh I'm sorry, the North Korea. | |
| Well, either one, Clinton and North Korea and Clinton and the SHICOMs. | |
| In the case of the SHICOMs, here's what here's what the caller was talking about. | |
| This little Clinton administration history for you. | |
| There's a company called Lorale Space out there, and it's headed up, I forget his name, but a huge, big time Clinton donor. | |
| The kind of guy that would get a puff piece as a donor in the Washington Post, as a bunch of Hillary donors got yesterday. | |
| All right, so this guy uh uh is involved in space technology. | |
| His company, Laurel is. | |
| Now, before the questionable deal came along, the State Department dealt with the um uh process of of of uh granting waivers to U.S. companies to help companies or foreign governments that were not totally friendly with us. | |
| The Clinton people came in and took that away from the State Department. | |
| Why well I know why, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. | |
| They control that too. | |
| They gave it to commerce. | |
| They switched that to the Commerce Department, where good old Ron Brown was installed as the secretary. | |
| And BAMO, the Chinese, the ChICOMs, could not put a missile in orbit. | |
| They could launch it, but they couldn't figure out how to get it to orbit, go up there and come down. | |
| Well, guess who fixed it? | |
| Lorell space. | |
| Laurel space sent some people over there after one of these crashes of a rocket that failed to secure orbit, examined the wreckage and taught them about gyros and whatever is necessary. | |
| And and now it is said that the ChICOMs can actually put an intercontinental ballistic missile of some significant range that might hit close to the U.S. left coast if they launched at us. | |
| Then we have the the North Koreans, and there we have our old buddy Jimmy Carter involved with Madeline Albright and Bill Clinton again. | |
| We thought we're helping helping them feed their population by giving them the means to build nuclear power plants, and lo and behold, they're a nuclear weapons uh uh manufacturer now. | |
| Leave the leave the North Koreans out for a moment. | |
| The difference between the United Arab Emirates owning or operating six of our container port areas versus the Chikoms getting their technology to get missiles to go where they want them to go from an American company, is that the United Arab Emirates already own almost all of the ports where the containers that are shipped to this country are loaded. | |
| They own, I think Hong Kong. | |
| They uh there's a whole bunch of other places that they already operate. | |
| I it it What's that? | |
| Yeah, China. | |
| They're in China and then they're uh in Hong Kong, and but I don't it's ownership is uh it's maybe too strong, but they're they certainly well, they own it, but operate it still happens locally. | |
| So it's not as though we're allowing them into an area of commerce where they aren't yet already involved. | |
| They're already involved, and the company that currently owns this or have sold it actually was British. | |
| Uh we we didn't we didn't own the port operations. | |
| Now Britain a greater ally than any Arab company. | |
| But I mean, we you can make these analogies, and I understand that. | |
| You can say this is a badest deal as uh helping the Shike Comms keep their missiles in the in the air, and it's as bad a deal as North Korea and so forth. | |
| I totally understand. | |
| I totally understand all that, and I'm not arguing with you. | |
| I'm just saying there's some other aspects to this that are not even being discussed because the tsunami has swept this whole thing along to the point that there's only one aspect to it that anybody wants to talk about except me. | |
| And I'm just because I'm just I'm fascinated by the the other elements of this and where it could lead. | |
| Uh I'm fascinated by the politics of it too, as I say, the Democrats having to come out and admit that we have an enemy here. | |
| It's just, I mean, they may they may not recover from this. | |
| Their whole foreign policy is based on the fact that none of what we're doing here is necessary. | |
| If the Democrats were consistent, this is a great example of how they are not telling us who they really are. | |
| If they were being consistent with everything they have said about the war in Iraq and the war on terror, Abu Grab, Club Gitmall, all the torture, the secret prisons, the Democrats ought to be cheerleading this deal. | |
| We don't have an enemy. | |
| We're we don't have this big war. | |
| We have Created all these terrorists. | |
| We need to welcome them into our society and culture and show them we mean no harm. | |
| If they were consistent, they would be leading this charge for this deal to be done. | |
| The fact that they're not means that the last four years, everything they've said about the war on terror and Bush's Hitler and so forth, we now, if we've always known it, we have evidence, an abject lie and nothing more than a strategical political position in order to secure funding from these wacko lunatics in Cooksville that run these Democrat websites. | |
| Got it? | |
| Back in just a second. | |
| Well, uh, Senator Frist has joined the uh uh Cascade, has joined the tsunami calling for an end to this deal. | |
| Let me let me show you that I'm thinking on all levels about this, folks. | |
| Let me pose some other questions to you that I also have that I know you are asking yourself. | |
| One of the biggest questions I have is why is this port management and operation transfer not viewed as a political and national security hot potato in the Bush administration? | |
| You know, people are saying that this is just another Harriet Myers moment. | |
| I also am curious and have been for a long time why all the evidence of weapons of mass destruction being transferred out of Iraq is not of more interest to the Bush administration either. | |
| That puzzles me. | |
| We've got these tapes out there. | |
| We know that the weapons were there. | |
| The administration seems not interested at all in finding them, and dealing with that on a political level as well. | |
| They know that they've set themselves up as a political football when there were no weapons to be found when we invaded Iraq. | |
| And yet common sense has to say that they understand they were there, these intelligence agencies around the world, for all of them to have been as wrong as they were, is simply hard to believe. | |
| And another, why are security issues related to immigration, um, border security? | |
| Why doesn't this administration view those issues seriously or seem to? | |
| So I can ask three questions about it. | |
| Where are they tone deaf on this port deal? | |
| How what it who was who was where thinking that this was not going to be the reaction to it. | |
| Now I would I would uh I'm sure, I mean, I've I've had emails from people. | |
| What's wrong with President Bush? | |
| I don't understand this. | |
| And I know you've been asking yourself the same series of questions about immigration and about weapons of mass destruction. | |
| And now this. | |
| Uh so it's it those are equally as puzzling to me as some other aspects of this are. | |
| Here's Rob in Clarkston, Michigan. | |
| Uh Rob, welcome to the program. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Oh, thanks, Rush. | |
| Good to talk with you. | |
| Listen, you're right on this. | |
| The uh we need we need friends over there. | |
| Right now, most people consider Israel to be our only friend in the Middle East, but uh we could certainly use more strategic allies, and that's what they'd be. | |
| What a great place for a for a base, for a shipping base, uh, Dubai and uh the United Air River. | |
| It's right in the middle of the the middle of the whole shooting match. | |
| It's like a great just a great opportunity for us. | |
| We need to make friends with with moderates and people that are interested in commerce and I think I I I think I think in one sense, the answer to my first question, why why is this port deal not raising red flags of the Bush administration? | |
| I think obviously they've they studied this. | |
| There's an independent commission that this these kinds of deals, any time a foreign nation is going to buy part of America, it has to be reviewed by some independent group. | |
| The independent group looked at it and passed us, uh, on balance, this is a good deal. | |
| And they were talking about economically. | |
| They're missing the politics of this. | |
| Um but but you still have to wonder why it is that uh that that aspect of this was missed. | |
| I think the Bush administration, in answer to your question, might actually think the UAE is now an ally. | |
| They are being reported as an ally in the war on terror. | |
| They're be that's what we're being told that they have that they've uh that this sheikh Moktar Muktaki, whatever his name is, has as has done a 180 and and the economic link that we now have with this country. | |
| There are buddies, there are allies. | |
| That's what they're telling us. | |
| That's how Bush would answer the question. | |
| We're making inroads in the war on terror, and this is one of them, he would say. | |
| Here's another question for you. | |
| Do you think George W. Bush is stupid? | |
| Do you think George W. Bush really looked at this deal and would really make a deal to turn over six container ports, essentially to terrorist leaders? | |
| Oh, the White House put out that he didn't know anything. | |
| I all right, fine. | |
| I gotta take a break. | |
| It's a good thing that I have a hard break here, too. | |
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