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June 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I tell you, folks, drive by media is and the libs.
And of course, what's the difference?
So predictable.
One of my major themes is playing out already and will soon be visible to one and all.
One of those themes is any good day for America and the U.S. military and the war effort is a bad day for liberalism.
A bad day for the Democrats.
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Yes.
What's good for America is bad for the American left.
What's good for America, bad for the Democratic Party, although the Libs do have some solace today.
Some idiot uh related to the Federal Reserve started uh opening his mouth and flapping his gums about core inflation uh and and uh price support getting very, very, very uh delicate now.
And so the stock market uh has plunged.
It's been down as much 150 points, now down 130 points, now below uh 11,000, I think around 10, 8.
Nasdaq um was down about 50.
So there's still reason for the Democrats and Libs uh to find happiness, even though the news out of Iraq is devastating to them.
Now they're putting up a good stiff upper lip out there by acting like this is a big deal, and it they're they're they're you know, you they're they're praising the uh the troops.
In fact, let me let me uh give you one example.
Let me what is the audio snowball?
And it's toward the end there, Mike, it's gonna be number thirteen, Dingy Harry today on the uh on the Senate floor.
Let's listen uh to Dingy Harry and and just and measure his uh attitude and tone here.
Today's mission that we're talking about and its successful outcome are a testament to the bravery, the skill, and the determination of those dedicated men and women on the front lines.
Stop the tape a minute.
Does it sound like Dingy Harry's reading this?
Sound like Dingy Harry is very happy about this.
I mean, uh it it it's risky to assign an attitude to someone's uh spoken words, but I mean I know these people like uh back of my hand, every square inch of my glorious naked body, and Dingy Harry sounds like he's uh delivering a eulogy here.
Zarkawi gotten us a hard thing for me to say about any human being, but he got what he deserved.
Oh, jeez.
It's a hard thing.
They just can't stand it.
And anyone who aligns themselves with him should know that they could wait a similar fate as long as they engage in terror.
On Good Morning America today, uh it was it was fascinating.
One of the ABC is is, I guess, taking credit for breaking the story.
At any rate, uh one of their reporters, a guy named Bill Weir, reminded the audience that Zarkawi beheaded American uh Nicholas Berg.
Then they replayed Berg's left wing dad, uh, saying at the time that he had no desire for his son's killers to be killed.
So ABC early this morning is out there actually running a tape of Nick Berg's dad.
Um say, I didn't I didn't want this guy killed.
I didn't want any reptribution, and Mr. Berg is uh all over uh television this morning.
Uh Michael Berg is all over the place now, ripping Bush.
You want to hear a little bit of that?
Let's start with audio soundbite number 10, Fox and Friends.
Um Nick Berg talking to uh I'm sorry, uh Michael Berg talking to Edie Hill.
Uh and she says he's the person who is despised by so many Iraqis for masterminding the massive killings of hundreds, thousands of people there.
So this is in essence.
I don't think that Zerkawi is himself responsible for the killings of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq.
George Bush is the one that invaded this country.
George Bush is the one that destabilized it so that Zerkali could get in, so that Zerkali I believe that the invading I believe that the argument, of course, would be that the American forces went in there and because and that followed hundreds of thousands, certainly under Saddam Hussein being tortured and killed.
In this case, Al Zarkawi.
As I stated hundreds of thousands of people were killed because of the direct orders of Al Zarkawi.
All right.
So it it gets even gets even better.
Uh next question was from Brian Kilmead.
Did you read the New York Times Sunday?
You see the little killing fields that were exposed, sir.
I'm amazed that you don't feel if you don't want to feel any relief, the person who beheaded your son is now dead.
How do you know he did?
Because George Bush told you he did.
He claimed he did and was spotted on video.
Mr. Burke, I know that you're very emotional.
There was video of it.
He was identified in the video.
And next over to CNN's American Morning with Soledad O'Brien.
Uh to Michael Berg.
There's a theory that as they try and form some kind of government that in fact it's going to be brutal, it's going to be bloody.
So one of the things you have to understand about all this, uh, folks, is the the prism or the lens through which the drive-by media the Democrats look at this event today is is no different.
The lens in the prism is the defeat of American forces in Iraq, the defeat of the Bush policy, the defeat of Bush politically.
Just because this event happens, and make no mistake about this, by the way, this is an event brought about by the United States military.
I have said countless times on this program, even got a couple of notes today from people thanking me for being optimistic while their impatience and pessimism was growing.
And they asked me, how do you do it?
And I said it's easy.
We're the United States of America.
We don't lose unless we get sabotaged from within.
But we've got a commander-in-chief who is not gonna lose in Iraq.
It's simply unacceptable to him, and he doesn't care what all these other people out there saying or doing about this particular issue.
He's standing firm in the concrete on his principles.
We don't lose, folks.
The United States military just doesn't lose.
It's depressing to see so many people attempting to sabotage the effort, and that's how this prism, you have to understand all this coverage.
Um you wonder why there's no real happiness and celebration on the American left.
Look at the Tony Snow press briefing this morning.
Uh i it was it was typical.
It was it was uh unremarkable in that it was predictable.
Uh Tony at one point got a little frustrated and say, uh, why why are you guys so hellbent on us getting out of Iraq?
This commander in chief is not going to accept anything other than victory.
This commander in chief is not gonna lose in Iraq.
That's something that is so foreign to these people.
You have to understand the drive-by media.
The Democrats have already chalked this up as a loss based on Bush's approval numbers and their giant electoral success in the primaries on Tuesday.
I mean, they're in a different world here, folks.
The template isn't gonna change.
The prism, the lens isn't gonna change.
Uh uh, and that's Democrats.
Well, this is good.
Yeah, it's a very fine effort.
Uh, we're very happy to say, but it's not gonna stop the terrorism.
And it just means I mean, there was a lot of questions today, and it's being backed up by Jack Murtha.
Okay, so this ought to mean we can get out there uh get out of there a lot sooner because we got the bad guy.
No, let's get out of there.
It's it's just it's gonna it's gonna frustrate you to no end.
Uh if if you get caught up in it rather than understand the prism.
So anyway, back back to the question from Solidad O'Brien to uh Michael Berg.
Now there's a theory, and as they try and form some kind of government that in fact it's gonna be brutal, it's gonna be bloody, there's gonna be loss.
See, here comes the negativism.
They're gonna retaliate.
Oh, wow, this is by the way, we formed or they formed the government in Iraq and announced it today, the very day the number one terrorist trying to stop it was killed.
I'm gonna tell you something, folks.
That's karma.
Anyway, here's Berg's response to all this.
Saddam Hussein didn't pull the trigger, didn't commit the rapes.
Uh neither did George Bush, but both men are responsible for them on under their their reins of terror.
I don't buy that.
Uh Iraq did not have Al Qaeda in it.
Al Qaeda supposedly killed my son.
Under Saddam Hussein, no al-Qaeda.
Under George Bush, Al Qaeda.
Under Saddam Hussein, relative stability.
Under George Bush, instability.
Under Saddam Hussein, about 30,000 deaths a year under George Bush, about 50,000 deaths a year.
I don't get it.
Why is it better to have George Bush be the king of Iraq rather than Saddam Hussein?
All right.
Now, some of you are saying, Rush, come on, the man lost his uh son over there.
Yeah, yeah, but he's not inserted himself in the political process, and as such, being used by the media to advance an agenda item, and therefore he's fair game.
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Hey, uh, let's go back to November 30th, uh 2005 with Tro Pennsylvania, Jack Murpha held a press conference.
Uh, hey, Jack, uh, you think Zarkawi thinks the American military is broken this morning?
We've got real problems.
The army is broken.
The equipment is worn out.
We got a $50 billion backlog of equipment which needs to be repaired.
Yeah, really.
Uh uh, Jack, uh uh, you did your best out there to to uh to break everybody's will, but I guess it didn't work.
I know that Zarkawi is now room temperature, pictures to prove it.
And his buddies that died with him, and those who remain as supporters think the military is broke.
And then on March 7th of this year, on Hard Ball with Chris Matthews, uh, Murpha said this.
When the military gets stretched too thin like it is, the problem is that they can't we can't scare anybody.
In other words, when when Cheney makes a threat like that, uh it it's it falls on deaf ears because they know darn well we couldn't accept it.
But the big thing is as much money as we spend on intelligence, we we don't know where the targets are, we don't we don't know exactly what we need to do, so there's there's no use even talking about a military strike.
Jack, you you you think Zarkawi and his uh his deceased buddies and remaining supporters uh think we're unable to find out where they are.
Hey, Jack, do you think um Zarkawi and his uh dead compatriots and his remaining supporters uh think we don't have any intelligence?
And it's uh it's it's all a waste of time.
We don't know where the targets are.
We don't know exactly even what we need to do, Jack.
You do you still think that's true, Jack?
Hmm.
Uh Mertha was on television today praising the effort.
Give him credit for that.
Major victory, blah, blah, blah.
What else is he gonna say today?
Give them till tomorrow or tonight, maybe even.
But after even praising the uh the uh effort and the uh and the mission, he said, now this just proved we can get out of there now.
I mean, uh get us six months, we can do it, we can get out of there now.
Uh, it's all we get out of there.
I mean, it's a civil war.
We're never gonna win this thing.
Mirtha said today.
We're never gonna win this thing.
We can't win this thing.
And that's what I mean.
This is why a Democratic Party today and all their supporters are simply untrustworthy.
We cannot trust them with the defense of this country or this nation's national security.
They will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because it is policy for them.
They are so blinded with hate and rage for George W. Bush that they can't intimidate him on this issue.
They are just beside themselves.
The worst thing that could happen to them happened today.
And that is a successful mission by the best trained, the best equipped, and the best military force the world has ever known.
The United States military.
And these people are not happy about it, and they're doing their best to cover that up, but it won't be long before they're unable to do so.
I am waiting, and I'm gonna make a prediction to you, people.
It won't be long before somebody in the drive-by media or the Democratic Party raises the specter of was anyone tortured to get the information that led to the identity of the unsafe house, the whereabouts of Abu Mousab Al-Zarkawi.
Mark my words, my friends, because that's in the template.
That's in the prism.
And they're all about destroying our effort via Abu Grab, via Club Gitmo's secret black ops prisons in Eastern Europe.
The question will come.
We got close to it today during Major Caldwell's briefing in Baghdad.
here's an exchange between Cox newspaper reporter Larry Coppolo and Caldwell.
You've referred a few times to intelligence from Zarkawi's network, and I'm wondering on that were those people who were under interrogation in custody or people who came forward from Zarkawi's network to describe them.
It would be inappropriate for me to talk about where the information actually came from and uh who provided it to the uh intelligence sources.
Well, this is typical too.
The media was so how did you find out?
Tell us.
We want to know so that we can prevent you from finding out again.
Tell us your secrets.
We demand to know people have a right to know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Now, this question got pretty close.
I'm wondering, were those people uh sources, were they under interrogation in custody?
That's getting very close to did you torture those poor people?
What we have since learned is that it was tips inside Zarkawi's own network uh and a number of others that uh gave us accurate intelligence.
Now, what does that mean?
Well, that means that they're not happy over there in the Zarkawi-al-Qaeda network.
It means that uh they don't think they're winning.
If we're having fallout like this, um it is it is clearly uh uh an indication uh of something that I have thought, and many people have thought for the longest time that the tide has turned and that we are actually winning.
Now, I cannot divulge my sources.
Where have you heard this before?
But I honestly I cannot I cannot divulge my sources, but I talked uh to some people this morning who know, uh in a position to know the intelligence here.
Uh and the uh one of one of the major things that uh apparently did happen here was that uh information from detainees, i.e.
prisoners, did play a significant role.
Uh and I hope that at some point the uh truth of that can be made official.
Because all we're hearing, of course, is horror stories about the humiliation going on in Abu Grab, the torture, the alleged goings on in uh in Club Gitmo.
Uh if indeed uh this and I uh don't have I don't trust me, I don't question this.
I just uh uh cannot get close to identifying the the people involved here, but uh they uh made it clear that the Taney reporting has played a significant role here.
Also, how about this?
You know, the charge that the U.S. is alone, uh no effective coalition or cooperation in the area.
I mean, didn't that take a big hit today?
Multiple factors came together to make this possible.
There was, I mean, the he look at who was involved here the Iraqis, the Jordanians, and a CIA targeting team.
Yes, a CIA targeting team all involved to bring this about.
Now it was uh it was Jordan.
Jordan released Zarkawi from prison uh only to see twenty innocents of their own killed in Amman, Jordan, and uh Jordanians were in on this as a result.
The Iraqis played a part.
You aren't seeing them yet, but there are pictures of Iraq.
Well, you might I don't know, I I haven't seen them on TV.
You might have.
But there are still photographs of Iraqis celebrating, firing guns in the air, happy at the news that Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi has assumed room temperature.
So we have the Iraqis and we had the Jordanians and the CIA targeting team working between uh elements uh in that region and putting together the information, and it uh came up big.
I'm also told that that uh April 25th video of Zarkawi who did it firing away and not knowing how to do it.
He looked very weapons challenged in that video.
You might have seen that being played on TV today.
Uh that that played a role, but they wouldn't tell me how.
I said, What was it to give you an idea where he was can't go any further than that?
But uh uh obviously, folks, uh there was a tremendous amount of successful intelligence, Congressman Murphy, a successful military operation based on that intelligence hitting the target with two bombs.
Two 500-pound bombs from a couple of F F-16s, uh, and and wiping out a uh a whole cadre of Zarkawi units.
Uh the uh U.S. military did this.
This was not the result of uh the democratic government of uh Iraq.
And what I mean by that is it's great that they're having a democracy, great that we're putting it together.
Uh, but the United States military is going to win this.
Uh the United States military, uh, if turned loose like this.
Uh Katie Bar the door.
Uh in addition, uh uh ladies and gentlemen, we have uh I want to draw I've read something about Andy McCarthy today, National Review Online, in which, and I want to expand on this because he didn't spend a whole lot of time on it, but I uh uh it's enough of a mention to excite my my fertile brain,
talked about how eager the Jack Merthers and the Democrats in Congress are to indict the Marines of Hadithha without even knowing yet officially what they did, and yet we can't do anything to Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana.
So men and women in the Marine Corps have no benefit of the doubt.
They are already guilty.
They've got to be strung up, dried and quartered, or drawn and quartered.
Meanwhile, Congressman Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, why we've got make sure that constitutional protections remain in place for him.
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All right, well, I want you to hear these Tony Snow bites from the uh Daily Press gaggle this morning.
Uh normally the morning gagalud in TV, and the TV, the one that starts about now at 1230, but this was important.
Unidentified reporter, don't know who this guy was.
Says the president has said security needs of the new government going to be one of the prime topics for discussion.
No discussion at troop levels.
Surely there's gonna be some discussion at troop levels, Tony.
Yeah, but you guys are all why are you so hell-bent on saying we're gonna get out tomorrow?
Or, you know, the uh make a good news headline.
But the facts on the ground, we we've got six additional dead guys out of the Terror network.
But there is still a significant problem here.
So I don't think I'm of course there is going to be a discussion of the way ahead.
And there will be discussions if this happens, what happens here?
You gotta understand these questions.
It's the template.
It is a uh prism.
We've lost.
The press has already decided this.
The drive-by media's already decided it.
Whether we win or lose, we've lost.
And so we got to get out of there.
Look at the president's poll numbers.
Look at all the deaths.
We gotta get out of there.
People do not even consider alternative views to the ones they have decided they want, folks.
He just as as a as a human characteristic, you have to understand this about nothing alternative to what they believe or hope will happen affects them.
Uh it's it's it's like a foreign language to them.
Uh and so, despite all the well, this is further.
We can get out now.
I mean, since we've lost the war, you'll note here that uh uh any administration's official speaking today, be it Snow or Rumsfeld president, they're not doing victory dances out there because this, you know, this is is not the end of anything.
It's uh it's uh, you know, brown draking, groundbreaking uh and and much needed victory, uh not just for morale of the troops, but for the uh country at large.
Another reason the press, the drive-by media not happy about it, still a lot of work to do.
Here was this exchange, too.
Um you gotta hear this.
Tony's just a fab fabulous job, I think, up there as as the press secretary.
It's uh it just it is the best press secretary I can remember being up there in a long, long time.
Marlon Fitzwater was good uh for what he did.
This is just really good stuff.
Listen to this exchange.
All right, good colleague over there being help bent to get troops out tomorrow, but I think there are some polling evidence that just Americans are getting antsy to see some troop movements, you know, back in the back.
But you know what I'm asking you is how does the president view that?
I mean, you're you're saying that is he with that?
Is he?
No, the president understands what the polls are, but he also understands what his obligations are as commander-in-chief.
And if the polling data is contrary to the national security interests, guess what?
National security interests win.
Period.
That's how he views it.
And so you can look at the poll data, and we do.
We we've we've taken very cold and honest looks at the poll data.
But the one thing is Commander in Chief.
He is not going to fail in Iraq.
He is not going to permit failure.
Period.
End of subject.
Subject closed.
Of course, it's not closed.
Why isn't the president listening to our poll numbers?
Those are our poll number, Tony.
We are producing those polls, and they say the American people want to see some movement on troop withdrawals.
It's all bogus.
Uh It's all a result of the questions that are asked after the stories that are presented.
I went and took a gander today, folks, at some of the uh the Kook blog websites on the left.
It's hilarious.
It's just Oh, they are fit.
It's it's they're fit to be tied.
They just they're just you gotta remember, too, that these are the people that the Democrats consider to be their new base.
One guy at uh at Daily Cause, Chaos, however you pronounce, I still don't know, and I frankly don't care, but uh I hate wasting time having to pronounce it both ways.
One of the one of the bloggers there complained that using military force to kill Zerkawi, quote, violates everything my America stands for.
It vi it it violates the rule of law, it invokes the rule of force and what should be a criminal, not a military matter.
Uh another daily causer upset because he thought the news would benefit President Bush.
No doubt Carl Rove will have the sock puppet president acting as if he personally dropped the bomb that killed that jackass.
But other than a couple of photo ops of Bush looking cocky, it does nothing because two more tin-plated Zarkawis will pop up.
A third poster at Daily Cause suggested there was little difference between the top Al-Qaeda terrorist and the leader of the free world.
He wrote, now that we're rid of one murderous tyrant, how about the removal of another one?
Believed hiding in a safe house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
These are actual Americans, folks, posting at what is said to be the most popular liberal blog in the country.
Went over to Dummer a Democrat Underground, and the uh the reaction to the death of Zarkawi was uh also negative there.
Democrat Underground poster said convenient too that this would happen now.
Guess yes, we should just all forget about that Haditha mess.
The fact that we're approaching 2500 dead, the fact that our economy is in big trouble.
So this whole thing, the timing was conspiratorial to take all the other bad news uh off the front page.
Another poster at the Democrat Underground said that killing the Al-Qaeda chief, there's not such a big deal.
He says Zarkawi was a fringe group of Al-Qaeda, definitely not responsible for the bulk of the insurgency and civil war now going on there.
Any gains that they hope to receive will be short-lived when reality strikes home.
So that's uh that's the Democrats in the quote unquote Democrat heartland, wherever the hell that is, Blue State America.
Uh and that's just a sample.
I mean, that's just an early sample of uh of what's what's happening out there.
But it's not just there.
Uh ABC News, the note today.
You've got to listen to this.
AB, this is uh Mark Halperin and his crew uh that write this daily briefing on the events of the day, how they'll play out politically, who's going where, who's gonna say what?
Uh and it's it these guys that they do everything they can to hide the fact that they're left to center, but but they are.
Uh here's their post for today, the note, June 8th.
Zarkawi is dead.
A decent interval is passed.
The politics is begun.
The briefed facts so far, safe house, kill by air, macho American tracking ingenuity, body recovered, fully ID'd, video documentation, few or no civilian or U.S. collateral damage, letting the Iraqis announce it, simultaneous editions of the new government could not be better politically, even if General Rove had directed the operation.
You are watching the rollout of a serious PR plan.
This is not a blog.
This isn't well, it's a blog, but it's not the Kook fringe blog.
This is ABC News.
They're calling it a public relations plan.
They are calling this operation the rollout of a PR plan uh after the death of Zerkawi, after the mission, it they're not saying that the killing of Zerkawi is the mission.
They're saying everything announcing it and their thereafter is the PR plan.
Major 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue TikToking has already taken place, and it will continue unabated throughout the day.
Here are things the White House cannot totally control.
When will the first public poll with presidential job approval numbers come out?
If CNN and Fox have different numbers, how will the nation and the on-air talent deal with that?
When will be the first time that Dean Pelosi Reed speak out, starting the Rube Goldberg process?
That goes from Carl Rove's ears to Ken Melman's Blackberry to Tracy Schmidt's keyboard, Jack Kingston's talking points to the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
That's all part of the PR campaign.
So what's going to rove Rove will react to Dean Pelosi and Reed, and Rode Rove will send out the talking points to Ken Melman at the RNC, then over to Tracy Smith, who is the the the information babe at the RNC, Jack Kingston, a congressman from Georgia, and then to the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies for final dissemination to America.
I'm getting blue in the face.
I we don't get talking points from here, and I don't think we're even that liked right now in the rove office of the White House.
To tell you the truth, uh, Mark.
Speaking here to Mark Helperin uh at ABC's The Note.
I don't think we're we're we're we're looked upon favorably in that in that shop right now uh for a for a host of reason.
Uh yeah, but uh no, they are admitting that they at ABC don't reach America.
It's like this UN guy, this UN guys complaining that it's me and Fox News that define American attitudes.
And so here is ABC's The Note saying that without me the White House can't get its message out.
Uh then uh how how much violence will there be this week in Iraq?
They White House can't control that.
Watch how Democrats handle today's news, and if they regret sending that letter about Ambassador Khalizad canceling his Senate briefing appearance.
Khalizad, the ambassador in Iraq, he canceled the Senate briefing appearance, Senegal upset about it.
Now will they um will they handle that news uh given the death of Zark Howie?
Uh Republicans will be watching to see if the death see, look though, let me sum all this up.
This is nothing more than the latest political event.
The drive-by media cannot stop looking at this through the prism of a political event.
What they don't get is that Bush doesn't.
He is serious about the war on terror.
If if if they haven't learned that, I don't know.
You know, they they they they may find uh fault with him in other areas, they may think he's uh movable on other subjects, but not this.
Uh he ignores the polls on this, he doesn't react to the uh uh negative polls on Iraq.
This can continue the uh the mission.
Now they would counter by saying, What do you mean Bush doesn't look at this a political event?
Ever heard of Carl Rove?
Of course every White House looks at this as a political event.
If you think that you don't know Bush.
You think you do, but but you don't.
Sure, he's got political people around him, but to call all of this a PR issue or or PR campaign, PR plan, is folks it it it it's it's part and parcel of what I have uh offered to you as an explanation for those of you who just can't figure these people in mainstream media out.
Um the they have gotten so caught up in their own polls, they believe the polls they do.
They believe the stories.
It's like they they can't they still can't get over what happened Tuesday.
And there was no way Bill Bray was going to win.
They had all the polling data, they had the R and C spending all that money, they they just couldn't believe it.
They believe their own PR.
They believe their own propaganda, and they get flabbergasted and stunned when reality is always different from what their polling data suggest or what their own prognostications are.
And uh they just continue it to resist reality as a means of trying to show they have the power to create it as they used to when they had their monopoly.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
Okay, let's uh let's see what we get.
And we go out there and sample the opinion of the people who make the country work.
The audience to this program will start with Renee in Hamilton, Ohio.
You're up first, and it's an honor.
It's great to have you with us.
Oh, thank you so much.
This is such a wonderful day.
Uh, I gotta tell you, um, whenever um I and I thought of this uh Jack Martha.
And you were so right to remind everybody that uh well, him and John Carey uh both wanted like six months to get out, and that was over six months ago.
And had we listened to them, we would not have this victory here today.
Murpha's still just saying we should get out in six months.
Yeah.
And uh when they were showing the rubble, uh the people digging things out of the rubble where the where Zarkawi was killed, they showed a little blue teddy bear and and some little children's shoes, and I immediately thought of Murpha and how he accused our our Marines of uh murdering in cold blood, and I just figured his response was gonna be something like uh, you know, now we're we're still targeting children deliberately in cold blood to take out Zarkawi.
Did you hear him say that or you just thought you'd be?
No, that was just that was just going through my mind.
See, I uh I was watching.
Well, you can't give them you you gotta give this time.
They're not that dumb, but they can't help themselves.
They'll have enough discipline to hold their fire on what they really think of all this for a day.
But you just just be patient out there.
It won't it won't be long.
They'll start asking the questions, was anybody tortured.
When they learn that there was a detainee role played in this, when they when they learn that that what I have learned that detainee is offered intelligent, meaning prisoners uh wherever we're holding them, you mark my words.
Were they tortured in any way?
Uh I mean, some of the other things, folks, that uh uh you can expect to hear from assorted liberals over the course of the remainder of the week.
Did we have to use violence?
Couldn't couldn't we have tried diplomathy?
Couldn't we've talked to Zakawi?
This, of course, is the uh voice of the new Castrati as uh as I call them, those who have been uh neutered and have no spine backbone or a couple other things.
Um what was the edgy?
Could couldn't we have offered him a few carrots?
Couldn't we come in?
We couldn't talk to him.
Why do we have to do this so quickly?
Now the world is going to hate it.
The world's gonna hate it even more.
Boys it destroyed our image in the world.
Now we're we're killing people and putting on TV like we're happy about it.
Haven't we learned that violence begets violence?
I mean, I mean, if if we had been mature, if we'd been mature enough to to to leave and cut and run, then that meant Zarkawi would be alive today.
We'd be alive today.
Perhaps perhaps on the on the verge of rehabilitation.
And I'll tell you what we've done.
We all we've done with this, this is not a victory.
This does not event our cause.
All we've done is create more tariff.
And did they're gonna flock from the world over.
I mean, you know what they're gonna say.
Uh and then some of them are gonna thinking.
We would have gotten Zarkawi a year or sooner if Carey were president, or if we'd listened to Biden, or if Democrats were in power, Zarkawi would have never been in Iraq.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
You're gonna hear themes, variations on all these themes in uh in due course.
You are you uh we're first reaction when they heard it at home was a lump in the throat.
The vast I'm sure there's some exceptions to this.
But the Democratic parties just like the drive-by media.
They look at everything through the prism of politics and the politics today is how do we defeat Bush, who's not even on the ballot.
I mean, it's it's ridiculous.
But nevertheless, uh, probably the same when we captured Saddam.
We captured Saddam, oh, you know there was a lump in their throat there.
Choking and uh breath uh cut off for a while, uh, and stunned shock and disappointment.
I'm sure that in many quarters of the American left today and in certain sectors of the Democratic Party, there was aw Damn!
Damn it!
Just when we were on a roll, we got Bush right where we want him.
We had a moral victory in California.
Fifty, we got a California governor nominee's gonna defeat Schwartz and oh my God for it today.
Oh damn it!
We'll be back in uh just a second.
One other quick point here before we have to go to break.
Uh we're gonna move on to the things after this, by the way, but we'll still take calls from you.
I know you want to weigh in on this.
This is something that uh the drive-by media, the American left will miss totally.
This uh Zarkawi death today, and not it's not just a huge military victory.
But it's it's a huge Moral victory as well.
One of the uh most brutal and evil men on the face of the earth is dead.
That's a that's a good thing all by itself, quite apart from its impact on the uh war effort.
But uh just in terms of the morality of this, uh evil has lost.
The bad guys have lost a big one here, and in addition to whatever military significance it has, it is an amazing moral victory as well.
And don't forget that, because you're not gonna hear very many people in the drive-by media talking about moral victories.
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