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June 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Day 12 of Hurricane Season, all is not quiet out there.
Hurricane Alberto.
They have named it a hurricane.
Category 1, Hurricane Alberto, making a beeline for the Northwestern Florida Gulf Coast.
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Have you heard, ladies and gentlemen, when I first saw this just mere moments ago, I literally started cracking up.
Iraq Al-Qaeda named Zarkawi's successor.
What did they do?
Did Al-Qaeda have a convention over there?
And they named a successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?
Come on, folks.
You know what this is.
This is nothing more than Al-Qaeda playing our dumb idiots in the media like a Strativarius, trying to westernize their organization.
They had a convention.
They had a new leader.
They appointed, they named a successor.
These people self-appoint.
These are renegades.
They wipe each other out as well as everybody else.
Who appointed Zarkawi?
He just showed up one day.
What I also love is the story comes from Dubai from Al Reuters.
In fact, let me let you hear how this was done on the BBC this morning from Baghdad.
Here's a portion of NBC.
I'm sorry, not BBC, it's NBC.
Middle East correspondent Richard Engel's report on the new Al-Qaeda leader.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq has also announced, I should say, that it has a new leader on an internet statement released today.
Stop the tape.
Re-cue that.
You hear how breathless the guy is?
You hear how excited he is?
What?
Sounds like Ian Whitcomb.
You turned me on back in the 60s.
Anyway, he's excited as he can be.
Why, Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda's named a new leader.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq has also announced, I should say, that it has a new leader.
On an internet statement released today, not missing a beat, Al-Qaeda in Iraq governing body said that it had unanimously chosen Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajar as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's successor.
This is not the person that the U.S. military had been expecting.
He's not very well known in the West, and it is something of a dark horse here.
Yeah, something of it is the U.S. military was totally dumbfounded by this, not on the short list of candidates to be named successor at the Al-Qaeda in Iraq convention.
Now, I have the Al-Reuters story and Mr. Engel here.
By the way, Mr. Engel, I think it was just reading from the Al-Reuters story because everything he said is here.
The Shura Council of Al-Qaeda in Iraq unanimously agreed on Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, to be said a statement signed by Al-Qaeda posted on a website frequently used by Islamist militants.
Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Muhajir is a good brother, has a history in jihad, and is knowledgeable.
We ask God that he continue with Sheikh Abu Musab began.
Muhajir, a little known in the West, was not among the names that Al-Qaeda experts had expected as Zarqawi's likely successor.
So they're all just thrilled as they can be because they want the death of Zarqawi to not mean anything.
They want it to just be absolute worthless in terms of the Bush policy.
Remember the template, remember the prism and the lens that the drive-by media Uses here to see all of these events.
I guess, you know, if they had a convention, if somebody had to put this guy's name in nomination, you know, they're trying to westernize this.
They're trying to make our media think that Al-Qaeda is a legitimate organization and that they're democratic and that they had a convention, probably even confirmation hearings.
They probably sought the foreign council of Pat Leahy and Russ Feingold, maybe in Ted Kennedy.
And maybe these three voted for the confirmation of this Muhajir guy to be the new successor to Zarkawi in al-Qaeda, Iraq.
See, the Libs want it both ways here, folks.
Time and again, they demand that we kill bin Laden.
And yet we kill this guy who is infinitely more important as a general on the ground than bin Laden is.
Bin Laden's just a mythical figure now.
As I pointed out last week, this guy was on the battlefield.
This guy's a general.
He's directing the troops.
He's inspiring him.
He's motivating him.
It was a big, big kill.
And of course, they dismiss that.
Zarkawi's, it doesn't mean anything.
In fact, I think there's almost like there's a new thing.
I would call it language deficit disorder.
You know, we got IED, we got ADD, we got AHDD, we got all kinds of DDs and Ds.
We got syndromes and so forth.
And I think I have discovered a new disorder, language deficit disorder.
Cut and run doesn't mean cut and run when the Libs use it.
Amnesty doesn't mean amnesty when the president and McCain and Kennedy use it, talking about illegal immigration.
The death of Zarkawi is meaningless because he will be succeeded by a successor.
So the death of Zarkawi is meaningless, doesn't mean anything.
And I find it just, I love it.
I'm just having a ball laughing at the way this story has been treated since it came out.
You know, we want these clowns to appoint new leaders, just like we want these terrorists at Club Gitmo to keep killing themselves.
Have you noticed the Libs ringing their hands?
Oh, no.
Three suicides at Club Gitmo.
Oh, no.
What are we doing wrong?
That's great.
Let them kill themselves.
That's three fewer terrorists that we have to deal with.
It was Zarkawi gone.
Let them name a new successor.
We'll take him out.
They can name a new successor.
We'll take him out.
They name a new successor.
And all the while, the Libs and the media wringing their hands in frustration.
Does this mean we can send fewer troops now, get some troops out?
I thought the media wanted more troops in there because Bush wasn't doing this right.
They're just all over the place.
The truth is, the media doesn't know very much about al-Qaeda.
They know very little bit of how it works because they haven't infiltrated al-Qaeda.
The military knows far more about al-Qaeda than the media.
And whatever the media learn is leaked to them by somebody in our government or another government or from one of these jihadists' websites.
Can you just see this website is announced where jihadists congregate to find the latest information?
Can you see a picture of that?
I'd love to see an editorial cartoon of these jihadists.
Maybe it probably would look like the Daily Coast Convention that happened in Las Vegas.
They all gather around the computers looking for the latest news to find out who the new successor is, find out who's doing what.
It's its ongoing effort to portray our enemies as just like us to somehow strike a moral equivalence in what we're doing and what others happen to be doing.
I'll tell you, let's put the montage together, too, of some reporters' questions regarding the death of Zarkawi and how it happened.
Ludicrous questions from the drive-by media.
They want to know if Zarqawi was beaten, if his body was treated respectfully according to Muslim law.
This is from this morning with Major General Bill Caldwell, the spokesman for U.S. military, his press conference with reporters and the drive-by media, a montage of questions.
I just would like to understand a bit better why it took 28 minutes for the first coalition ground forces to arrive at the scene.
Was there any evidence that Zarkawi was beaten up before he was taken away?
Were they handcuffed and forced to take their shirts off?
Have you determined if the child was Zarkawi's or if there are any other relationships there?
Describe to us whether Zakawi was dressed when the autopsy began.
If so, what he was wearing.
Tell us whether the clothing of Zarkawi was ripped apart as part of the medical procedures at the site.
If there's any concern being paid to Muslim burial rates or handling of the body.
Zarkawi appeared in the video that was made available about three, four weeks ago to be rather a hefty individual.
What would you say about his shape?
Was he a fit man?
All right, so there's you can see the caring and the compassion and the desire for respect to have to have been shown.
I mean, this is the one of the things that is most offensive.
This guy was an absolute barbarian, a butcher, a wandering shred of human debris, who was not worth the respect that he did get from U.S. officials during the autopsy and in the aftermath.
Now, you might have heard this question from a reporter at an Infobabe.
Was there any evidence that Zarkawi was beaten up before he was taken away?
That's because the Associated Press has found a witness who said that Zarkawi was beaten up and that they stood on his chest today, beat his chest today, forced blood out of his nose.
And the LA Times picks it up today, actually from yesterday.
The two bombs fell in the heart of the orchard near this village north of Baghdad, a little more than a minute apart.
Zarkawi's last refuge, a whitewashed house in an idyllic rural setting, was obliterated.
Have you seen pictures?
Idyllic?
God.
You would think that they've hit the neighborhood of the desperate housewives.
What is that?
Wisteria Lane.
He also confirmed that a girl between five and seven years old had died in the bombing.
Two unidentified women and one man were also killed.
Sheikh Abdel Rashid Rahman, Caldwell said, that's the spiritual advisor and the guy that we were actually tracking to find where Zarkawi was.
An Iraqi police lieutenant who said that he was among the first people at the scene told the LA Times on Saturday that after Iraqi police had carried Zarkawi to the ambulance on his stretcher, U.S. troops took him off the stretcher, placed him on the ground.
One of the Americans tried to question Zarkawi, repeatedly stepped on his chest, causing blood to flow from his mouth and nose, said the lieutenant, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A man who identified only as Mohammed, who said he lived near the Zarkawi hideout, told the AP television news that he had witnessed Americans beating Zarkawi.
They stomped on his stomach and his chest until he died, and blood came out of his nose.
Is that possible?
Let me examine if somebody in a nearby house could have seen any of this and back up what he mentioned to the AP.
Quick timeout, back with more in just a second.
Already having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Got a little news out of Pittsburgh for you, Steelers fans.
Men Rothlessberger injured today in a motorcycle accident.
Steelers have confirmed the accident.
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review newspaper said the accident happened on 2nd Avenue near the 10th Street Bridge.
And a witness said that Rothlessberger went over the handlebars, hit the windshield of another car, and then hit the ground.
He was not wearing a helmet.
The cops had closed down the bridge, the 2nd Avenue and the Armstrong tunnels.
They took Rothlessberger to Mercy Hospital.
No word on the extent of his injuries.
Also, no word on whether the cops beat him, stood on his chest, and forced blood from his nose.
No eyewitness accounts of that yet either, but just wanted to pass this on.
You never know when you have Cleveland Browns fans infiltrating the Pittsburgh Police Department.
You always got to be on the lookout when the quarterback has an accident.
All right, now back to the Zarkawi business.
The Associated Press, as we just shared with you, got this whole notion started that U.S. troops beat Zarkawi up.
They literally dragged him out of his stretcher in front of witnesses and started pounding on his chest, and blood started easing and oozing and flowing out of his nose.
This is all seen by somebody.
An eyewitness, a supposed eyewitness, identified as Mohammed, says that Americans beat and stomped Zarkawi until blood flowed from his nose and he died.
The Iraqi, identified only as Mohammed, said he lives near the house where Al-Zarkawi was killed.
He said residents put a bearded man in an ambulance before U.S. forces arrived.
When the Americans arrived, they took him out of the ambulance.
They beat him up on his stomach and wrapped his head with a dish dasha.
And then he stomped on his stomach and his chest till he died.
Blood came out of his nose, Mohammed said, without saying how he knew the man was dead.
Now, what makes this interesting is that Al Reuters had reported earlier that the house could not be seen from any of the other local houses because it was screened off from roads and other dwellings by idyllic-looking palm groves that hid it from private eyes.
You couldn't see this house.
It was one of the reasons it was chosen.
It was 400 feet from the road, 400 yards from the road.
That's four football fields.
There's no way anybody in a neighboring house could have seen any of this take place.
And yet, mainstream media, eager to indicate that the U.S. military is a bunch of brutes and beat him up.
And so they're eager to believe such a story and delve into it.
I will guarantee you there are in-depth investigations going on even now to find out the real cause of death, even though the autopsy results have been announced because the last people you can believe, of course, if you're the drive-by media, are the U.S. military.
We have the press conference that took place today.
This is Colonel Stephen Jones, who is the command surgeon in Iraq.
He held a press conference with reporters, a portion of his opening statement giving the results of the autopsy.
There was extensive blast injury to the lungs with bruising and disruption of the lung tissue.
There was bleeding in the middle ear on both sides.
There was no evidence of firearm injuries.
The cause of death was closed-spaced primary blast injury of the lung.
Blast waves from the two bombs caused tearing, bruising of the lungs, and bleeding.
These injuries are not apparent from an external inspection.
They can only be seen by examining the lungs.
This wound was not immediately fatal.
Death occurred as lung function deteriorated and the lungs became progressively unable to absorb oxygen into the bloodstream.
Yeah.
But we believe the guy.
The drive-by media will obviously think that this is all a setup.
Most of them will be very suspicious because one of the requirements to be in the drive-by media is you don't believe anything a government led by Republicans has to say about anything.
You just don't.
That's how you make your mark.
You speak truth to power.
You tell these people in charge, we don't believe you.
You're corrupt.
You're lying to us.
You go on that assumption.
And you run around trying to prove that they're lying to you.
If you succeed, you get promoted somewhere in the drive-by media.
Now, they're panicking in other locations in the drive-by media.
On the Today Show today, Matt Owa interviewed retired Army General Barry McCaffrey, and they had this little exchange.
Do you worry about a political side of this, that the administration may pull a substantial number of troops out of Iraq just prior to November's midterm election simply to sway public opinion?
I don't think so.
Although I do think there's a political dimension to it, there's no question.
Now, what's going on here, Matt?
You guys in the drive-by media have been hell-bent on getting troops pulled out of there.
You have been demanding it for a year and a half, as have members of the Democratic leadership and others in the drive-by media.
Now, all of a sudden, that Zarkawi is dead.
The left is in panic mode because now there are Democrats suggesting, well, now that Zarkawi is dead, we start pulling our troops out of there.
Now they're saying, wait a minute, start pulling troops out of there.
There'd be a political move.
It's like an October surprise.
Why, that'll change public opinion.
We've revved up public opinion against the war, but if Bush pulls troops out of there, oh no, if Bush does what we want, oh no, why it could help him politically.
Oh, no, is this a conspiracy?
This is absolutely deranged.
These people are delusional.
Yesterday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, General George Casey, commander of forces in Iraq, was one of the guests.
Wallace said, General, we understand the autopsy.
The body's been completed.
You know what those results show?
And how do you respond to this claim by at least one Iraqi man who was on the scene?
He saw Zarkawi's body being beaten before he died.
The way I respond to the comments of the alleged Iraqi who saw what went on there is that's baloney.
And we've already gone back, looked at it.
Our soldiers who came on the scene found him being put in an ambulance by Iraqi police.
They took him off, rendered first aid, and he expired.
And so he died while American soldiers were attempting to save his life.
And so the idea that there were people there beating him is just ludicrous.
All right, now the media today was, what do you mean?
Trying to save his life?
You just dropped a couple bombs on him.
He tried to kill him.
Yes, drive-by media, but we military have rules.
We have standards.
Once we attempt to kill an enemy combatant and wound that enemy combatant, he ceases being an enemy combatant and assumes the status of wounded.
And as is the case, we make every effort to save that life once that life is incapable of defending itself.
We were unable to do so in this case.
The media can't grasp because they have no concept.
They cannot grasp.
You should have seen it this morning.
They were just dumbfounded.
What do you mean?
You just dropped two 500-pound bombs in this poor guy's head and he says you're trying to save his life.
You can't fool us.
We're not that stupid.
Yes, they are.
I'm not as stupid.
They're just ignorant, folks.
They just, they have a disdain for the military.
They don't really make much of an effort to understand its rules and standards and how it operates.
And this story clearly illustrates that and a lot more.
Wait till you hear what Tom Hayden thinks about it.
Right here on the cutting edge, societal evolution, Rushlin blah, half my brain, tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Latest on Ben Rofflesberger, it's not much.
Motorcycle accident this morning in Pittsburgh.
No helmet.
He doesn't like wearing helmets.
Coach's team didn't like him riding motorcycles.
They made it very plain that they didn't like this, and he refused to use a helmet, had an accident, flew over the handlebars, hit his head on a windshield of a car in front of him, I guess coming the other way.
Was conscious, bleeding.
The Steelers officials not saying much, although it is being reported that the injuries are not life-threatening.
And they keep updating this as they wish to parcel information out.
Mike in Wildwood, Texas.
Jordan, up first today on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Good morning.
Rush, when I saw that picture of Zirkowi, saw his face picture, I thought about Vietnam.
I flew helicopters over there, and it followed arc light bombings around, and we picked up survivors, if there were any.
And they had that same look, that puffy face, the blood from the ears, the eyes.
And the thought came into my mind that, oh, boy, he looks like he's been beat up.
But that's consistent with damage from those kind of bombs.
Well, it's the shock waves that do this, isn't it?
Absolutely.
It's concussion.
It's being near a large explosion.
And I just heard the autopsy read, and the lungs being damaged.
You know, that concussion is severe.
500 pounds is a lot of ordinance to go off near you.
Scrapnel doesn't have to hit you.
It's that concussion that squeezes your body and it squeezes it very fast.
And you get damaged like that.
The swelled eyes, blood from the nose, blood from the eyes and ears is just normal.
That's consistent with what happens.
Right, and most of it, internal damage, bleeding, organ deterioration.
In this case, it was the lungs.
But, you know, folks, pardon what some of you out there, particularly on the left, might regard as cruelty, but so the hell what?
You know, I mean, what are we talking about here?
Did you realize this guy, Zerkawi, is being more concerned sympathy than American military victims?
I mean, it's just so what?
I don't care.
The guy is dead.
I don't doubt the military whatsoever.
In fact, I got emails from, I've met some people.
So I've traveled around, folks, and I've gotten some emails since this all happened.
And the emails are from people who know others who are on the scene.
And everything that the military is saying is very consistent with everything else that others who know are saying about this.
They arrived on the scene, internal injuries.
There was no apparent external injuries other than the blood from the ears, the middle ears, inner ears rather, and the nose and so forth.
Nobody beat anybody up.
The U.S. military does have a standard that once you injure somebody, they're no longer an enemy combatant, and you don't go in and put a bullet between their eyes.
And that rumor was out there.
But so the hell what?
This is a war for crying out.
It's like the story we had, what is it, early last week or late the week before last about this.
And I know this is going to sound like an odd comparison to you, but it all goes to the lack of historical context and perspective and understanding and how we've all been trained and conditioned, even against our will over the course of many generations, to think in this stupid PC manner.
And I speak of the story that these idiots released, showing that there's a new phenomenon out there among teenagers, and that is that teenage boys pressure teenage girls to have sex as though that hasn't been going on since the beginning of time.
Ever heard of Adam and Eve?
It has been going on since the beginning of humanity.
There's nothing new about it.
And if it didn't happen that way, there wouldn't be babies.
It's just that simple.
It's called biology.
These things happen.
Well, this is a war.
It is not a criminal proceeding.
It's not a criminal activity.
It is a war.
And this was one of the guys who has beheaded Americans, done it live on videotape.
We have seen it.
Those of you who have sought to see it on the various websites where they've been posted, he represents the group that killed 3,000 Americans on September 11th.
I mean, what are we talking about here?
What are we really talking about?
He beat him up.
They were squashing on his chest.
And it was blood coming through.
He's like, good, who cares?
So what?
He's dead.
The purpose of war is to kill the enemy and break the things that they used to kill you.
It has forever been that way.
My gosh, can you imagine if we had gotten Hitler, would there have been this kind of angst over how it happened?
And were we humane?
And did we have compassion?
And did we care?
And were we cognizant of German customs at the time?
And what are we going to do about burial?
I'll tell you what we're going to do about burial.
We're going to turn him over to the Iraqis.
And they're going to figure out what to do.
It's their country.
It's that simple.
None of this is complicated.
I pity these poor military guys.
They're standing up there.
You can see on their faces at these press conferences, it's difficult to suffer fools.
And they just want to lash out and say, you idiot, you are stuck on stupid.
They all want to be General Honoré from New Orleans.
You're stuck on stupid, but no.
Have to be politically correct.
Yep, troops are going to sensitivity and values training.
Learn how to take care of people that we just blew up with two 500-pound bombs.
We wanted him to survive.
If we wanted him to survive, why would we have bombed his idyllic house in the idyllic neighborhood with the palm grove forest and the lovely white picket fence?
Gagged me with a spoon.
Can you imagine?
Well, we really didn't want to kill him.
We were hoping the bombs would just scare him, flush him out so we'd capture him and ask him some questions like, where's Bin Laden?
Sometimes this program is actually difficult to do, commenting on the sheer idiocy that surrounds it among people who are supposed to be the best and brightest.
Gene in St. Mary's, Ohio.
I'm glad you called.
You're next on the program.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor and thrill to speak with you.
Thank you.
You know, I don't remember this much concern or sympathy or measure of compassion towards Timothy McVeigh.
You know, in 1992, I looked at that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
That is actually an excellent point.
Here's an example of a caller building on a point that I had made rather than repeating it.
That's excellent.
Hey, they hated McVeigh.
First place, he's a white guy with a crew cut.
That meant he was a hayseed hick.
Plus, he was in the army.
Plus, he was a white supremacist.
He deserved to die.
That's right.
He also listened to talk radio.
He got his ideas from talk radio, according to Bill Clinton.
I didn't know that, but that doesn't surprise me.
You know, Rush, in 1992, I lived in South Florida, and I remember every gay man that I knew wanted Andrew Kuninen, who was the guy that killed Versace, dead.
They didn't want him taken alive.
They didn't want him treated with any compassion or measure of humaneness.
They wanted him dead.
So what is the difference between Zarkowi and Timothy McVeigh and someone like Andrew Kunanen?
They're all terrorists.
Well, Kunan took out an icon out there, Johnny Versace.
And that was not good.
Kunana was the guy who gave everybody a bad name.
His wacko is a nutcase.
I could never understand why anybody knew who he was before.
You know, there were actually Vanity Fair stories on Andrew Coonannen months before Andrew Kunanen was known to anybody.
It's the first thing that led me to believe I have lost touch with pop culture because not only did I not know who Andrew Kunan was, I couldn't have cared less.
This is long before the Versace thing happened, but you're absolutely right.
And, you know, McVeigh, the media hated McVeigh all the way up until the time that we executed him.
Because he would never express remorse.
He didn't say he was sorry.
And he laughed at them.
Well, they've strapped him under Gurney.
Remember that?
They strapped him into Gurney in a place where they executed him and they put the first series of drugs in there.
He's smiling at them.
And that made him mad.
So she's got an excellent point.
Far more sympathy here for Zarkowi than there was for Timothy McVeigh.
Josephine in Montauk in New York.
Hi.
Welcome to our program.
Yes.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi, how are you doing?
Fine.
Thank you.
My comment basically was that Zakawi got better treatment than the Italians gave Mussolini.
They hung him upside down, even with his girlfriend.
I mean, it wasn't as if that he was abused.
The guy died in the bombing.
Yep.
Yep.
That just shows you how times have changed, Josephine.
And there weren't a bunch of hand-wringing analyses about are we humane?
Are we civilized?
Are the Italians humane and civilized over what they did to Mussolini?
Now, this is actually sickening to watch all this and to watch the military have to be PC with all of this, but it is what it is.
Josephine, great call.
Thank you very much.
On the day of the running of the final leg of the Triple Crown, this is from NewsBusters.com.
This would have been Saturday.
We have a new leader at the wackiest Zarkowi Take Stakes.
The new favorite in the kooky conspiracy derby is far from a cult.
Galloping Ghost, it's defrosted anti-Vietnam warm and battle-hardened Jane Fonda veteran Tom Hayden.
Tom Hayden is suggesting that Zarkawi might actually have been one of our agents in Iraq.
He wrote a piece on that, what is it, Huffpo, Ariana Huffington's deranged little blog out there.
And he tries to give himself cover by stating, I have no reason to believe Zarkowi was an American agent.
But then he immediately goes on to contradict himself by musing this.
But I still wonder what those British soldiers disguised as Iraqis were planning on the day they were discovered in Basra in September 2004.
I wonder if U.S. Special Forces ever dress up as Iraqis and paint their faces.
It is enough to argue for now that Zarkawis served the purpose of dividing and fragmenting the Iraqi national resistance into bloody sectarian strife.
One wonders who really turned Zarkowi in.
So he gives himself cover, but I don't think he was an agent, but then goes right on to talk about how he might have been a U.S. agent.
There you have it, the latest from Tom Hayden.
And that pretty much sums up the Zarkowi story.
Other things, suicides at Club Gitmel, hurricanes.
Well, that's another thing.
Are they really suicides?
You can't see in those cells.
You know, those cells, the windows are covered on those cells.
You know why the windows are covered on the cells?
Can I tell you why?
Because Human Rights Watch demanded it.
Human Rights Watch told the Club Gitmo people, cover those windows so that those men have privacy.
They have requirements.
So because of Human Rights Watch, this wacko-liberal human interest group, Human Rights Group, they covered the windows.
And now maybe they weren't suicides.
Maybe they were murdered.
Here's another thing.
I don't think people have an understanding of who is down there.
I don't think people have an idea.
These are all Zarkawi types down at Club Gitmo.
These are terrorists who have sworn to kill themselves as they kill, hopefully, in their minds, thousands or hundreds of others.
This is genuine human debris down there.
And we've all now been privy to the PC notion that these are just innocents stolen from the battlefield without charges.
We have no clue who they really are, but because of certain discriminatory judgments that we are making, these people just, they could be innocent and we don't know.
And the Bush administration is making no effort to find it.
These are the worst of the worst, and they're never going to be let go.
They're never going to get out of there, folks.
They're going to die in there or they're going to be punished or whatever, but they're never going to get out of there.
It would be suicide to let the remaining group down there.
The people that have gotten out of there have been judged to be.
Okay, and even that, at that, some who have gotten out of there have rejoined the jihad.
This is petrily absurd.
All of this is being concerned about the wrong group of people.
Back here in just a second.
Talent on loan from God.
Has some funny soundbites here.
Let's go to Face the Nation yesterday.
Bob Schieffer, he just can't get any of the bad news that he wants out of Baghdad.
The reporter he's talking to stood in front of palm trees on a sunny day, reported a calm and peaceful day, and they're hoping for chaos over there in the drive-by media.
Schieffer says to Elizabeth Palmer, the Infobabe, tell us about any overnight developments out there since the death of Zarkawi.
Well, we're most of the way through what's been quite a peaceful by Iraqi standards weekend.
No big reprisals yet that the Iraqi government was clearly expecting, and I suppose half the population is still expecting.
There was a new communique from al-Qaeda in Iraq on the internet, which promises more operations that are going to, and I quote, shake the enemy.
But so far, no sign of it.
Well, damn it, but we want to see chaos over there.
Bob persists.
He says, well, you seeing any discernible difference there in Baghdad?
People begin to hear about this.
Are people happy?
Are they sad?
What's the story?
Overall, people are happy, especially the Shia against whom he had declared war.
Cautiously happy, most of the moderate Sunnis as well.
Oh, damn, it couldn't get any worse for the drive-by media.
There wasn't an immediate response from al-Qaeda.
The population is happy.
It was a bright, sunny day, lots of palm trees and the wind and the breeze.
An idyllic setting for the reporter at the Infobabe to file her story.
This is just, this is not how it was supposed to happen.
The killing of Zarkawi was supposed to launch even more chaos, tumult, and disorder, and yet the population seems at large to be very happy about it, which we already knew because we have seen pictures.
All right, we have, did you hear about the movie that got the PG rating because there's too much God in it?
You hear about that, Dawn?
A movie got, yeah, too much religious content, so it got parental guidance.
Could poison the minds of young churwin who go to see it.
And the Democrats, Democrats, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, are ready to roll out their action plan on domestic issues as part of their strategy to retake the house.
We will examine this.
It's probably just a false start.
There have been many of these in the past.
Hang up, folks.
Back right after this.
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