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June 8, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 8, 2006, Thursday, Hour #3
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Radon, radon, radon.
Back we are on a great day in the United States of America.
Great day in Iraq.
A great day to be an American.
As they all are great days to be an American.
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Look at this.
Our old friends at Reuters.
The United States has not yet identified anyone eligible to receive the $25 million bounty offered for information leading to the death of Abu Musabal-Zarkawi.
The State Department made this official today.
Means that Reuters probably been calling all over the place.
Who got the 25 mil?
No U.S. government agencies nominated anybody for the reward, the largest the U.S. offers, along with the same amount for Al-Qaeda Chief Bin Laden.
Zarkawi's death was announced today after war planes killed, blah, blah, blah.
So, who got the reward?
This is a sneak attack, trying to, you know, get the government to admit who it was that was the informant here.
What makes this silly is, of course, the news that we already have, that it was somebody inside Zarkawi's organization, that there were some traitors in his midst.
His organization was falling apart apparently, some people getting scared that they were losing over there.
And so this is a triumph of all kinds of intelligence.
In fact, if you're just tuning in, let me share with you some of the information I passed on at the early part of the program because I did some deep digging today and talked to some people who have extensive knowledge of the intelligence that was used.
This is most of it's not classified, but I cannot, and you people will understand this.
I cannot reveal my sources on this, but it is people very close to intelligence.
The main aspect of it is that the detainee reporting played a role in all this, meaning people that are being held prisoner somewhere, be it Abu Ghraib or Club Gitmo, wherever they are.
Apparently, that was a pretty big part of the intelligence gathering operation.
There was a tremendous amount of cooperation between the Iraqis, the Jordanians, and a CIA targeting team.
As you know, the Jordanians were miffed because Jordan released Zarkawi from prison only to see 20 innocents of their own killed in Amman.
So they were loaded for bear on this.
Iraqis played a part in it, and the CIA targeting team working between their partners in the region, putting together this information, came up pretty big.
So there was a huge collaborative and cooperative effort here, which also points out that we're just not a lone operator in the world, that there is an effective coalition full of countries and entities that are cooperating.
Also, it was said to me on the phone this morning that April 25th video was Zarkawi's out there doing his bin Laden impersonation and firing a gun in the air, and he clearly looked like he didn't know what he was doing with it.
There were two versions of that tape and the drive-by media showed the edited version, which did not show Zarkawi incompetent with the gun.
The whole version, which was available because somehow it got, they suddenly screwed up and put the whole thing up on a bird.
And he had an assistant had to come in and show him how to use the gun.
And so anyway, it's really a triumph.
So the idea that we're going to identify who's going to get the $25 million is ridiculous.
And I don't know what the point of Reuters' story is, either to identify it or to point out the United States lies and promises $25 million, but it's not going to pay up.
But I guarantee you, it's not something intended to be helpful.
So they're already chasing down the money trail.
All right, let me go to the phones here quickly.
I've hurt somebody's feelings out there, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't want to wait any longer in repairing the damage.
Jenny in Sunset Hills, Missouri, who's back for an encore performance from yesterday.
Welcome back, Jenny.
Great to have you back.
Well, I'm glad you think so.
Yeah.
Let me refresh people's, because some people might have heard your call yesterday.
There was a story, ladies and gentlemen, some outfit had gone out and done a study, and they had concluded that teenage girls today are at great risk of being pressured into having sex.
And I, of course, read the details of the story, did not want to get into too much personal testimony on this, but at the end of the story, I said basically this is Kaka.
And Jenny here called to get mad at me for saying it was Kaka because it isn't Kaka, that it's a big problem.
So we had a discussion about it, and so she's back.
Why are you back?
Well, because, you know, during our conversation, you told me how much you like my name.
And, you know, I thought that was very nice.
It certainly made me feel good that you liked my name so much.
You said it had always been one of your favorite names.
So then I'm listening today, and you were talking to Cynthia from St. Louis, and you asked her if she knew Jessica from Sunset Hills.
I mean, I'm the one you talked to from Sunset Hills.
That's right.
And you said you really liked my name, and I thought, what's the big idea?
I just called you back to tell you that you called me Jessica instead of Jenny.
You are right.
It's sort of like forgetting our anniversary.
Exactly.
And, you know, you're in big trouble now.
I don't know what can be done, but at least I thought I should call you back and remind you that it was Jenny that you really liked, not Jessica.
You know, I can't explain.
It was a slip of the tongue.
I'm terribly sorry for it because what I told you yesterday is true.
I do love the name Jenny.
What's this about a lecture?
Oh, you said broadcasting.
No, I said, considering you are a broadcast expert, I was just kind of shocked that you would make such a grievous error.
Well, I can understand that.
After hearing me tell you in front of the country, in front of the whole nation, how much I love your name yesterday, to call you Jessica today would be, you're probably wondering if I meant it yesterday.
I know.
Well, I'm beginning to get over it, but I asked somebody, you also kind of asked where Sunset Hills was, and I said it was like South St. Louis only west.
And I asked somebody, is that the correct way to describe where I live?
And they suggested I revise it to say I am from Southwest St. Louis County.
Okay.
Maybe that sounds a better way.
Well, I can just say it in a way that makes you comfortable.
If it's South St. Louis only West makes you comfortable, then say.
Well, it did.
Southwest South.
See, because, you know, I have husband experience, and the one thing I've learned is that I'm never right.
Oh.
Well, you actually were right about the point that we were talking about.
I tell you, you have experts.
And they said that I am completely uninformed when it comes to the sexual proclivities of girls these days.
Teenage girls.
Well, we had a good call on that.
Yeah, a guy called and said, you know, there's a difference between force and pressure.
And he was right.
And the story was talking about civil relationships where the girls say they're pressured.
Well, I mean, Jenny, you know the truth about all this is one of the things, and I should have risen to the occasion yesterday to make this point, because there's literally nothing new in that story.
Really?
It's been that way since Adam and Eve.
Huh.
Well, I mean, that's the story of men and women.
It's called nature.
It's genetically programmed in there, and to do a story about how in the early 2000s, there's this phenomenon of high school boys pressuring girls to have sex.
It's absurd because it's been the way of the world.
If it weren't that way, there wouldn't be babies.
Well, I figured I must be wrong, and I probably shouldn't have called anyway because after talking, I mean, during our conversation, you made it clear how much experience you had with this subject, which is clearly much more than mine.
And so I figured, well, you must know.
Well, Jenny, this is amazing because look at what's happened here.
Yesterday, I tell you what I think about something, and you don't believe me.
After the call, you go talk.
After the call, you go out and talk to somebody else who tells you that I was right.
And then after somebody else tells you that I was right, then you think it was right.
But when I tell you I'm right, I'm not right.
That is husband-wife syndrome.
No, no, no, no.
Actually, I think.
Well, yeah, the husband's never right, and the wife is never right.
I mean, it's just the way things, kids think the parents are never right either.
No, see, if we had had more time to talk, you remember you had to hang up on me.
If we had had more time to talk, you would have been able to convince me that you were right because I took it the wrong way in the first place.
No, you were steadfast.
You were dug in, though.
You were steadfast in your opposition.
I didn't think that you were going to be able to do that.
Well, I had to stick with my point, or I'd look like an idiot.
But, you know, then I realized I wasn't really responding to what you were really actually saying.
Well, it's because you're nervous.
I've been a caller, too, and you're so focused on what you want to say that sometimes you don't hear everything that's said in reply.
I understand all that.
Right, and I'm saying it to you on the air.
So I appreciate that.
This is very big of you.
No, it takes a big person to call up a national radio program and admit they were wrong, even after being having their feelings hurt because you were misnamed today, even after having your name praised yesterday.
You're either a big person or a real screwball.
Yeah.
Okay, Jenny.
Yes.
In the future.
Let me give you a help.
No, no, no, no.
In the future, just a little helpful hint here.
Okay.
Don't doubt me.
Aha.
Okay.
I will give that a whirl.
Have a great day in Southwest St. Louis County.
Bye.
Thanks for calling back.
See you in a moment, folks.
Stay with us.
This is a great, great tune and a bumper rotation until Cindy Lauper starts singing, which you will not hear on this program.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you'll pardon me for just a moment, I have called Jenny in Sunset Hills back.
Jenny, are you there?
Yes, I am.
You know, Jenny, I feel very bad.
I do.
I mean, it was a terrible thing to do to mispronounce your name or to get the name wrong.
And I want to offer you a gift.
Great.
I want to offer you a select comfort bed, and we'll figure out when we hang up, stay on hold, and we'll get you in touch with somebody.
You pick out what size you want and so forth.
Are you serious?
I'm dead serious about it.
There's no pressure to use the bed, Jenny.
Don't misunderstand here.
But I want to give you, I want to, I want, I want to give you the bed.
I really do.
I do this.
I have the.
Why?
Because I feel bad about it.
It was terrible to get your name wrong.
It might have just been a slip of the tongue, but I don't want you thinking.
I didn't mean it yesterday when I told you I love the name Jenny.
Well, naturally, I wondered.
Well, it was a terrible faux paul, but I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to send you one of these beds.
I can't even believe this.
This is just great.
I'm so excited.
Well, they're really terrific.
And I am going to use it.
Good to know.
I'm going to use it.
Go for it.
I am.
It's a tremendous bed.
It's everything and more that I can't do today.
Yes, it is.
I don't want you to feel pressured here because I'm doing this on the air, and it's public.
It's national.
Don't feel pressured to take it here, Jenny.
I mean, if you don't feel like you have to do something you don't want to do just to please my.
No, girls, when offered gifts, they never hesitate.
You know, I mean, anything else you want to give me?
The bed is enough, but believe me, I mean, if there was anything else, I'd be glad to get it.
Let's just start with the bed.
Okay.
We'll just start with the bed.
So as a token of my appreciation for your good naturedness on this and your understanding, your high-spiritedness.
Well, I am thrilled.
I'm thrilled.
Terrific.
Well, you hang on, and we'll get this whole process started of getting you a select comfort bed so that you, Jenny, can discover your sleep number.
Mine is 75.
Ladies and gentlemen, one other thing, I keep getting emails.
This makes me think we're going to have to redo this Allen Brothers steaks commerce because people, I keep, what is the, what is the email, or what is the website?
It's www.absteaks.
Some people think it's AB meats.
It's www.absteaks.com for Allen Brothers.
And by the way, for those, I know not everybody eats bacon, but if you do, you have not seen nor tasted anything like Allen Brothers bacon.
This stuff's over a quarter inch thick.
You need a knife and fork for it.
Yes, I had some of that this morning.
I had breakfast here at the studio today, and I had some of it.
And two slices, and I'm telling you, that's like a pack of stuff that you'd get at the grocery store.
Okay, Marty in Washington, D.C., I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, how you doing?
Good, sir.
Thanks for not hitting that dope button.
That was so very refreshing.
Hey, I appreciate the insight you've given from the benefit of the sources you have in the administration.
I'm sure you're right about that primary source being for the hit being that captured guy.
I mean, I'm ecstatic.
I don't know.
No, I don't know that was primary.
I don't know.
I think primary was somebody involved with Zarkawi still with him.
But all I'm saying is that somebody that is in a detainee circumstance played a role as well.
Oh, okay.
Maybe more than one.
I don't know.
Yeah.
But I just want to say that I thought it was significant what Dan Sr. said on Fox this morning.
He's that coalition spokesman.
He said in February 2005, he said we got 400 tips from Iraqi citizens in the SUNY triangle.
In February 2006, a year later, we got 4,000.
So I think the Iraqi citizens are getting on board and abandoning al-Qaeda.
And I think Senior called it momentum.
I think he's right.
Well, I do too.
And I think this is one of the frustrating things for the administration.
This has been going on for quite some time.
And this momentum signifies victory.
You can see pictures.
And I have one here of an Iraqi woman who's been given a pistol to fire in the air in celebration for the death of Zarkawi.
There are a lot of people that do not like these terrorists, insurgents running around hiding in their homes and hiding behind their women and children, hiding in their mosques and so forth.
The idea that the Iraqis are teamed up with these insurgents and that they're all on the same page has been ridiculous assertion from the get-go.
So I didn't hear Dan Senor say that, but that's obviously documented provable for 400 to 4,000 tips.
Well, you're doing a great job.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Days like this, it is more than fun.
This is Rita in Phoenix.
Rita, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
Rita, you know, Rita is one of my all-time favorite names.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Are you going to forget it tomorrow?
I'll probably call you Rena tomorrow.
Well, I just wanted to tell you that my husband is in human intelligence.
He's been in it for his whole career.
And I'm thrilled today about the Zarkawi bombing.
And I'm sure all intelligent spouses are.
We don't get to hear much about what they do.
You probably don't either.
You probably don't get to hear much from your husband either, right?
Oh, no.
No, I never hear much of anything.
And usually when I ask him something, he just walks away.
Well, it's a lonely existence for those people.
They never get to share their successes with anybody.
They never get to have a party other than their co-workers, maybe.
You can really see the stress and the concentration on their face even when they're at home and away from work.
It really is a hard job to do.
But what I wanted to tell you is I did ask my husband one time when it was on the news, you know, if we, I'm sorry, if we doesn't interrogate.
He does debriefing.
And I wanted to know if we torture, if we really torture people like the news was saying.
And he says they absolutely do not in his organization because it does not work.
Well, you know, I had a story.
I'm glad you reminded me of this because there were new guidelines that somebody tried to issue after this Haditha thing broke, you know, all this new cultural sensitivity, values training, and so forth.
And one of the things that somebody's trying to strike from the manual is attacking a captive's manhood as just too hurtful.
More on that in a moment.
Stay with me.
Boy, is that ever read?
Is exactly what happens on this program, real life, not a false reality.
Speaking of a false reality, I have a couple of more instances of how the drive-by media, in conjunction with the Democratic Party, I'm sorry, Democrat Party, is attempting to convince themselves that what happened on Tuesday didn't happen.
First, the Los Angeles Times.
Whether fatigued or angry, California voters have too much to decide.
As usual, the most resounding vote on Tuesday came from those who didn't bother.
About three-fourths of registered voters sat this one out.
Many of them undoubtedly were Republicans, members of smaller parties or members of no party at all, who saw a little at stake at a primary dominated by Democrats battling each other.
This is absolutely absurd.
Most of them are, a lot of them are Republicans, probably so.
But the key here is a bunch of Democrats didn't show up either.
And it was a Democrat-oriented election in California.
And we were all told Democrats were seething to vote.
Sifting through all the results, reports the L.A. Times editorial, we're not sure what to make of them beyond extolling the wisdom of those voters who agreed with us and lamenting the foolhardiness of those who didn't.
We can hope that the defeat of Prop 82, the preschool tax initiative, heralds the end of California's flirtation with ballot box budgeting.
We have to acknowledge, though, especially given the defeat of Prop 81, the library bond issue, as well as the defeat of all eight ballot measures in the last election, that when voters reject an initiative or bond, it's not necessarily about the particular measure so much as a rejection of politics and politicians in general.
Yeah, but just too much to decide.
It was just too tough.
And an election with Democrat issues and mostly Democrat candidates on the bill.
It's just too much to decide out there.
Democracy is tough for the U.S., the common people.
But we, the elites, we, the elites at the L.A. Times, we can sit here and judge this.
And of course, the meathead proposition, Prop 82, that was not defeated on the merits.
No way.
No, no, no.
People are just fed up in general with politicians.
So you see, nobody rejects liberalism because they don't like liberalism.
They reject it because they're just tired of politicians.
They're tired of politics.
They're just tired.
If that were the case, L.A. Times, they wouldn't bother showing up.
Of those that did care to show up, 60% wanted no part of it.
And it was precisely because it was on the merits, because even in California, there have to be a significant number of people fed up with tax increases, especially those sponsored by elite, wealthy Hollywood leftists who want everybody else's money to be spent on their pet issues.
Oh, no, no, no, no, that's not true, Mr. Liberal.
No, no, no, no.
It wasn't defeated on the merits.
It was just defeated because people are worn out.
Now, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles AP writer Juliet Williams, voters rejected two feel-good measures that once appeared to be easy sells in Democrat-leading California, perhaps showing their dislike of tax increases and concern about the faltering economy.
Oh, yeah, that's why the meathead proposition went down, Juliet.
Yeah, the faltering economy, right?
What is another attempt to say it had nothing to do with the substance of the issue?
The headline here, voter fatigue, spending jitters could explain initiative's defeat.
Voter fatigue.
When was the last election?
Voter fatigue is people tired of voting or just fed up with politicians.
So the same theory in the LA Times editorial and an AP story, same theory abounds.
It wasn't the substance of this stuff.
People are just tired.
It's the economy.
They're not really voting this stuff down in the merits.
That's not.
So they continue to lie to themselves about why they lose.
That's the main point.
Bob in Grass Valley, California.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
It's ironic, you know, that the whole world is overjoyed about this, the death of Al-Zakari.
You know, his emir and the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq said that it was joyous news.
The only people that aren't happy about it, it seems, is the American left.
Isn't that ironic?
No, we could just get the other guy to commit suicide, then everybody would be happy again except for the left.
The other guy, Bin Laden, meaning.
Well, we've got to be very careful.
The left has not expressed their unhappiness yet.
They'll happen.
That will happen.
Right now, they're doing their best.
We've got to give them a gold star for effort here because they're doing their best to sound like they're really happy.
But you notice they can't bring themselves to praise the troops.
They can praise a successful mission and so forth, but as far as statements celebrating the talent and the training and the commitment of the U.S. military, you won't hear it from them.
That'll kill them with their cook base.
So we know that throughout much of the left and throughout some in the Democratic Party, there is, damn it, damn it, damn it.
We were on a roll.
We had the house back, we had the White House back.
And they do a Howard Dean scream.
It won't be long.
So I've made a prediction here at the beginning of the program.
It won't be long before somebody out there in the drive-by me, somebody in the left somewhere raises the specter of, I wonder if any of these informants that told us where Zarkowi was was tortured.
That's what they can't let go.
Remember, the focus of evil in this conflict is the United States and the United States military and its commander-in-chief, George W. Bush.
And that has not changed today.
Just because Zarkowi's dead does not mean they've got one lens.
They have one template.
They have one prism through which they look at this whole Iraq story, and that is, we got to lose this.
We got to defeat Bush.
This is a political story to them.
It's not about a legitimate war, war on terror.
And so this is a bad move, bad event for them politically.
I want to, before we go to the next break and grab more of your phone calls, I want to go back to the UN story.
It turns out that late yesterday afternoon, a bunch of networks tried to reach me to ask me to appear on their various programs, and I didn't learn about that till this morning.
I doubt that I would have done any of them because I had fun scheduled last night, and I would have opted for that even had I known.
But now the spokesman for Kofi Annan has come out and defended Mark Malik Brown.
Let's go back.
These are the remarks that got all of this started from Mark Malik Brown, the Deputy Attorney General or Deputy Secretary General of the so-called United Nations.
Much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors, such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
That is what I meant by stealth diplomacy.
The U.N.'s role is, in effect, a secret in middle America, even as it is highlighted in the Middle East and other parts of the world.
I don't even think this guy listens to the program.
I don't think Mark Malik Brown's ever listened to the program.
You know what I think happens?
I think these libs all get together and Fox News and I get cursed.
And then Mark Malik Brown will hear that and just assume that what he's hearing about this program is true.
I don't think he's ever listened to it.
I'd be stunned if he has.
Yesterday, John Bolton turned up the heat and demanded an apology for this from Kofi Annan.
The only way at this point to mitigate the damage to the United Nations is that Secretary General Kofi Annan, we think, has to personally and publicly repudiate this speech at the earliest possible opportunity.
Because otherwise, I fear the consequences, not just for the reform effort, but for the organization as a whole.
I spoke to the Secretary General this morning.
I said, I've known you since 1989, and I'm telling you, this is the worst mistake by a senior UN official that I've seen in that entire time.
That'd be hard to categorize, categorize the largest mistake by a U.N. official, senior U.N. official since 1989, criticizing me and Fox News.
Bolton's point was a criticism of the American people.
And what the United Nations, what Malik Brown was saying is U.S. government needs to engage in a PR campaign to defend the U.N. against guys like Limbaugh and Fox News.
And Bolton is out there defending Limbaugh and Fox News, not by name, defending the American people by name.
But Kofi Annan had an answer for John Bolton, and it was, no, I will not apologize.
The Secretary General stands by the statement made by his deputy, Mark Malik Brown, and he agrees with the thrust of it.
So there is no question of any action being taken against the Deputy Secretary General.
I'll bet you Kofi Annan has listened to this program, and I'll bet you he doesn't like what he's heard.
And if he hasn't listened to it, he's heard about it.
It's on this program.
We've accused him of throwing his own son, Kojo, under the bus in the oil for food program or overboard or whatever it was.
We have spared no criticism in discussing the corruption at the highest levels of the UN, and he's probably indeed heard about that.
At 7.30 last night on CNN, their UN correspondent Richard Roth reported that Mark Malik Brown digging in and has said it's time for some truths to be told here.
Malik Brown does say it's time for some truths to be told.
Bolton insists Malik Brown has no business as an international civil servant commenting on Middle America.
We're awaiting comment from Rush Limbaugh's camp.
As for reaction, Fox News referred us to their on-air reports on the story.
Okay, what is it about, what's so difficult for these people to access my on-air comments?
I got a website.
Everything I said about this, everything I would say to them were I to appear with them is on the website.
Now, I'm sure they'd like to have at me with questions and so forth, but why can't they use what I said yesterday?
Why can't they use what I said yesterday?
What did I say?
What would prevent them from saying what I said yesterday about the United Nations?
No, no, they wouldn't think it's too harsh.
Who would they care what I say?
They're out there trying to say that Mark Malik Brown probably has a point anyway.
And the more in their minds extreme my comments, the better.
Okay, Snerdley is saying there's no way they would air what I said because it would nail the UN.
Okay, all right.
Well, Richard, I'm sorry I didn't know you guys were trying to reach me until this morning.
But in the future, I mean, it's www.rushlimbaugh.com, and it's up and updated, reflecting the contents of each day's program by 6 p.m. at the latest.
There's audio up there, everything that you need if you can't find me.
One more thing about this Mark Malik Brown.
Excuse me.
One more thing about this Mark Malik Brown fiasco.
Mark Malik Brown made those comments about Fox News and me while speaking at the think tank Center for American Progress.
Now, the Center for American Progress is a think tank started by John Podesta, the former Bill Clinton chief of staff.
It is a think tank funded by George Soros.
And we have just learned, as I was watching Fox News, I have just learned that Mark Malik Brown rents a home, his home in New York, from George Soros for $120,000 a year.
And efforts are still being made.
Capitol Hill Norm Coleman is trying to get Kofi Annan to sit on Mark Malik Brown, but they're digging in deep up there at the UN.
And they say, hey, you need to listen to these comments that Malik Brown made in the spirit, the context in which they were intended.
And we are, and we think this is outrageous.
I frankly don't think it's that outrageous.
I think they're making a mountain out of a note hill, molehill.
But regardless, it was a very partisan group.
The guy's obviously a huge lib, worldwide lib, worldwide socialist elitist, probably, Mark Malik Brown from the UK, with these deep ties to Soros.
That explains why I would get thrown in the mix.
The Clinton people are obsessed with me and with Podesta being up there, and they're obsessed with Fox News.
So that explains how it happened.
Reading, Pennsylvania.
Joe, glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, Rush.
Happy Alzar Cowry Day.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I wanted you to know I'm very ecstatic about this.
I lost my son over in Iraq.
He was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division.
His name was Sergeant A.J. Battock.
This is just great for all the soldiers that lost their lives.
I want to extend my condolences to Nicholas Berg's parents and all of the families that lost someone at the hands of this idiot.
To me, this is the icing on the cake.
And when we get Osama bin Laden, that'll be the cherry.
Yeah, I don't have any doubt that that'll happen at some point.
And almost as excited to see the left-wing reaction to that as for the event itself.
I can imagine how this makes you feel.
When did you lose your son?
September, the end of September of 2003.
Actually, my son drowned rescuing, he had rescued one soldier from a Humvee in a canal and went in for the second one.
And him and the driver both drowned.
They were sucked under a culvert beneath the road.
My son's buried in Arlington.
Wow.
Every time I get a call from a parent who's lost a son or a daughter over there, I just, it brings this even more into perspective for me.
And I didn't think I was capable of having it in more perspective, but it just drives it home all the more.
I'm glad you called, and I'm happy you're feeling the way you are today.
I think it's well deserved.
Well, my hope is that one day we can all say that all of us that lost someone, we can all say that our sons and daughters had a hand in restoring, you know.
Well, I know it's tough because even though your son's gone, you still listen to the attacks on the U.S. military by other Americans, and it's got to be maddening and frustrating at the same time.
Oh, absolutely.
I just, you know, their heads just aren't in the right place.
You know, you just have to accept them for what they are.
But for as many as there are like that, there's just that many more.
I was down in Washington over Memorial Day for Rolling Thunder, and it was just, it was like being in heaven with all the veterans and talking to them and all, all the people that really know what America is all about.
It was wonderful.
Glad you got to go.
Thanks for the call, Joe.
I appreciate it very much.
Okay, Rush, take care.
You bet.
We'll take a brief time out, come back and close it out.
I think I may have time to squeeze another call in, perhaps, too, so stay with us.
Okay, Tom in Kennewick, Georgia, we have exactly one minute.
You're up.
Yeah, Rush, I just wanted to say that my sister is going to be deployed in November.
And I'm not going to fool myself into a false sense of security with our cowie being gone.
But, you know, for her and for all the other military up there, I know that it's going to be a lot more safer than it was yesterday, especially with the fact that people in his own party are turning on him.
Well, I think actually, I mean, I don't want to fill you with false hopes, but I think this today is not the starting point of a new momentum.
And this is a result of a lot of momentum that preceded this.
Obviously, we've been having all kinds of intelligence success long before this day in order to successfully accomplish this mission.
That's still a dangerous place.
And I, you know, anything that makes you feel better about this circumstance is welcome, I'm certain.
So, but you're both to be blessed as soon as she's volunteering to go.
That's more than 99.9% of the rest of the country, including me, what I had the chance would do.
So our hats off.
And we have to go, folks.
But we'll be back open line Friday tomorrow.
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