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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 uh named it a hurricane.
Uh, category one uh hurricane Alberto making a beeline for the Northwestern Florida Gulf Coast.
Greetings.
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Have you heard, ladies and gentlemen?
When I when I first saw this just mere moments ago, I literally started cracking up.
Iraq, Al-Qaeda named Zarqawi a successor.
What did they do?
Did Al Qaeda have a convention over there?
And they named a successor to Abu Mousab 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 stratavarius, 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 uh NBC.
I'm sorry, not BBC, it's NBC, uh Middle East correspondent Richard Engels 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?
Well ha.
Sounds like Ian Whitcomb.
You turned me on back in the 60s.
Anyway, uh this 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 Hamsa al-Muhajir 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 a 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 uh Mr. Ingall here.
By the way, Mr. Ingall, uh, I think he was just reading from the Al Reuters story because everything he said is here.
The Shura Council of Al-Qaeda toraq unanimously agreed on Sheikh Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir to be blah blah blah day, uh 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 Mousab began.
Muh Hajir, a little known in the West, was not among the names that Al-Qaeda experts had expected as Zarkawi's likely successor.
So they're all they're all just thrilled as they can be because they want the death of uh of Zarkawi to not mean anything.
They want it to just be absolute worthless in terms of the Bush policy.
Remember the template, remember the remember the prism and the lens of the drive-by media uh uses here to to see all of these uh all of these events.
I I guess you know if they had a convention, if somebody had to put this guy's name and 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 Lahey 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 uh 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 uh on the on the battlefield.
This guy's a general, he's directing the troops, he's inspiring him, is motivating him.
Um it was a big big kill.
And of course they dismiss that.
Uh Zarkawi's, why it doesn't mean anything.
It in fact, I I think there's a almost like a 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 we got all kinds of DDs and D's.
We got syndromes and so forth, and I think I have discovered uh 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.
Um 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.
Uh and and I I find it just I love it.
I d I uh just have it a ball laughing at the way this story has been treated since it uh since it came out.
You know, we we uh 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 him 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 I thought the media wanted more troops in there because Bush wasn't doing this right.
They're just they're just uh 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 as they haven't infiltrated uh uh Al Qaeda.
The military knows knows far more about Al-Qaeda than the media.
Uh and 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 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.
Uh it it's it's ongoing effort to portray our enemies as just like us.
Uh to some somehow strike a a uh a moral equivalence uh in uh what we're doing and and what uh uh others uh happen to be doing.
I'll tell you, let's like I put the uh montage together too of some reporters' questions uh regarding the uh the death uh of Zarkawi and how it happened.
Ludicrous questions from the drive-by media.
They want to know if Zarkawi was beaten, if his body was treated respectfully according to Muslim law.
This is from this morning with Major General Bill Coldwell, the spokesman for U.S. military, his press conference uh with reporters and the drive-by media, a montage of questions.
I just would like to understand a bit better why it took twenty-eight 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 Zarkawis or if there are any other relationships there?
Describe to us whether Zarkawi was dressed when the autopsy began, if so, what he was wearing.
Tell us whether the clothing of Zarkawi was ripped pot as part of the medical procedures at the site.
If there's any concern being paid to Muslim burial rights or handling of the body, Zarkawi appeared in the video that was uh made available about uh 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 there's you can stick caring and the compassion and the and the desire uh for respect to have uh to have been shown.
I mean, th this is the uh one of the things that is most offensive.
Uh this guy was an absolute barbarian, a butcher, a wandering shred of human debris, who is not worth the respect that he did get uh from U.S. officials during the autopsy and in the aftermath.
Now you might have heard this question from a from a reporter at an InfoBabe.
Was there any evidence that Zerkawi was beaten up before he was taken away?
That's because the Associated Press has found a witness who said the 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 with Steel Elaine?
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 or Ahman called well said that's the spiritual advisor and the 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 Zerkawi 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 uh anonymity.
A man who uh identified only as Mohammed, who said he lived near the Zerkawi houd out, uh, told the AP television news that he had witnessed Americans beating Zerkawi.
They stomped on his stomach and his chest until he died, and blood came out of his nose.
Is that possible?
Well, we will examine if somebody in a nearby house could have seen any of this and 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.
A little news out of uh out of Pittsburgh for you, Steelers fans.
Ben Rothlisberger injured it in a motorcycle accident.
Uh 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 uh Rothlisberger went over the handlebars, hit the windshield of another car, and then hit the ground.
He was not wearing a helmet.
Uh the cops had closed down the bridge, the 2nd Avenue and the Armstrong tunnels.
They took Rothlisberger to Mercy Hospital.
No word on the extent of uh of his uh injuries.
Also, no word on whether the cops beat him, stood in his chest and forced blood uh from his uh nose.
Uh no eyewitness accounts of that yet either, but um just wanted to uh pass this on.
Uh 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 this Zarkawi business.
The old 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 a 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.
Uh the an eyewitness, a supposed eyewitness, uh identified as Mohammed, says that Americans beat and stomped Zerkawi until blood flowed from his nose, and he died.
The uh 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 the uh with his dish dusha, and then he stomped on his stomach and his chest till he died, blood came out of his node nose, uh, Mohammed said, without saying he uh 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 uh uh the press conference that took place today.
This is uh uh Colonel Stephen Jones, who is the command surgeon in Iraq.
He held a press conference with reporters, a portion of his opening statement uh 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, and there were 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 ex 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.
Well, we believe the guy.
The drive-by media will obviously think that this is all a setup.
Most of them 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 then you run around trying to prove that they're lying to you, and if you succeed, you get promoted somewhere in the drive-by media.
Now they're panicking in else uh other locations in the drive-by media on the Today Show today, Matt O'Hour 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, is no question.
Now, what's going on here, Matt?
You guys in the drive-by media have been hellbent 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 uh 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 Zerkawi's dead, we start pulling our troops out of there.
Now they're saying, wait a minute, start pulling troops out of there, 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 uh 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 uh that's baloney.
And we've already gone back, uh looked at it.
Our soldiers who were came on the scene, uh, found him uh being put in an ambulance uh by Iraqi police.
They took him off, rendered first aid, uh, and and he expired.
And so he died while American soldiers uh were attempting uh 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, you tried to kill him.
Yes, drive by media, but we military have rules.
We have standards.
Uh Once we attempt to kill an enemy combatant and wound that enemy combatant, he ceases being an enemy combatant and assumes the uh 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 dumb for.
What do you mean?
You just dropped two five hundred pound bombs in this poor guy's head, and he say you're trying to save his life.
You can't fool us.
We're not that stupid.
Yes, they are.
I'm that it's stupid.
They're just ignorant, folks.
They just they have a disdain for the military.
They don't really uh 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.
When you hear what Tom Hayden thinks about it.
Right here on the cutting edge, societal evolution, Rushlin blow half my brain, tied behind my back just to make it fair, latest on Ben Rothisberger, it's not much motorcycle accident this morning in Pittsburgh.
No helmet.
He doesn't like wearing helmets.
Coach's team didn't didn't like him riding motorcycles.
They made it very clear that they didn't like this, and he refused to use a helmet, had an accident, flew over the handlebars, hit his head on uh on a windshield of a car in front of him, uh I guess coming the other way, uh was conscious, bleeding.
Uh the Steelers uh uh officials not saying much, although it is being reported that the injuries are not life-threatening.
Uh and they keep updating this as they as they wish to parcel information out.
Mike in Wildwood, Texas, your up first today on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Good morning.
Russ, when I saw that picture uh of Zerkawi, saw his face picture.
I thought about Vietnam.
I flew helicopters over there, and it followed Arclight uh 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.
Uh and the thought uh came into my mind that, oh boy, he looks like he's been beat up.
But that's that's consistent with with damage from those kind of uh those kind of bombs.
Well, it's uh it's the shockwaves that do this, isn't it?
Absolutely.
It's it's concussion, it's uh being near a large explosion, and uh I just heard the autopsy read, and uh uh it the the lungs being damaged.
Uh you know, it's uh that that concussion is severe.
Five hundred pounds is a lot of ordinance to go off near you, scrapno doesn't have to hit you.
It's that concussion uh 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, it's just that's normal.
That's consistent with what happened.
Yeah, and this closed right, and and most of it internal uh internal damage, bleeding, uh, organ deterioration, in this case it was uh it was the lungs.
But you know, folks, uh pardon, pardon what what some of you out there, particularly on the left, uh, might regard as cruelty, but so the hell what?
Yeah, I mean, who what are we talking about here?
Did you realize this guy, Zirkawi is being what uh he he's he's he's he's he's getting more concern uh and and and and sympathy than American military victims.
I mean it's it's it just so what?
I don't care.
The guy is dead.
I don't doubt the military whatsoever.
In fact, I got emails from uh I've met some people, so I've traveled around pla folks, and I I've gotten I've gotten some emails since this all happened, and the emails are from people uh uh uh uh who know others who are on the scene,
and everything that the military is saying is very consistent with everything else that others um who know are saying about this and arrived on the scene, internal injuries uh uh there was there was a uh no no apparent uh external injuries other than the the blood from the uh from the ears, the middle ears, uh inner ears rather, and the and the nose uh and so forth.
Uh nobody beat anybody up.
Uh the U.S. military does have a standard that that uh once you're 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 and well, 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.
Uh, 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 video tape.
We have seen it.
Those of you who have sought to see it on the uh various websites where they've been posted.
Uh 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?
Well, he beat him up.
They were squashing on his chest, and it was blood coming through.
He said, 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 I pity these poor military guys are 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 Honore 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 w 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.
Uh among people who are supposed to be the best and brightest.
Gene in St. Mary's, Ohio.
I'm glad you called.
Hi, Russ.
It's an honor and thrill to speak with you.
Thank you.
You know, I don't remember this much concern or sympathy or um measure of compassion towards Timothy McVay.
Um, you know, in 1992, I think.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
That is actually that is actually an exit point excellent point.
Here's an example of a caller caller building on a point that I had made rather than repeating it.
That's excellent.
Hey, they hated McVeigh.
First place is 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.
And he also listed a talk radio.
That he got his ideas from talk radio, according to Bill Clinton.
I didn't know that, but that doesn't surprise me.
Um you know, Rush, in 1992, I lived in South Florida, and I remember every gay man that I knew wanted Andrew Koonanin, who was the guy that killed Versace, dead.
They didn't want him taken alive.
They didn't want him uh treated with any compassion or a measure of humaneness.
They wanted him dead.
So what is the difference between Zarkawi and Timothy McVay and someone like Andrew Koonan?
They're all terrorists.
Well, Cunanin uh it took out an icon out there of uh Johnny Versace.
Uh and that was that was not good.
Kunanon Kadana was the guy gave everybody a bad name.
His wacko is a nutcase, he's uh I could never understand why anybody knew who he was before.
You know, there were actually vanity fair stories on Andrew Canaan months before Andrew Canana was known to anybody.
I 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 Cunana was, I couldn't have cared less.
Uh this is long before the Versace thing happened.
But you're absolutely right.
Uh and and you know, McVay, the media hated McVay all the way up until the time that uh we we we executed him.
Because he would never express remorse.
He didn't say he was sorry, and he laughed at them while they strapped him under Gurney.
Remember that?
They strapped him under Gurney in a place where they uh 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 uh for Zarkawi than there was for uh Timothy McVeigh.
Josephine in Montauk in New York.
Hi, welcome to our program.
Yes.
Hello.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing?
Fine, thank you.
My comment basically was that uh uh Zackawi got better treatment than the Italians gave Mussolini.
They uh hung him upside down even with his girlfriend.
I mean, uh it it wasn't as if that uh 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 uh hand-wringing uh uh uh analyses about are we humane, are we civilized in in in or the Italians humane and civilized over what they did to uh to uh to Mussolini.
Now, this is this is actually sickening uh to watch all this and to watch the military have to be uh PC uh with all of this, but it is what it is.
Josephine, great call, thank you very much.
Uh 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 Zarkawi take stakes, the new favorite in the kooky conspiracy derby uh is far from a cult.
Galloping ghosts, it's defrosted anti-Vietnam warmen 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 uh, what is it, um Huffpo, um Ariana Huffington's deranged little blog out there.
And he tries to give himself uh cover by stating, I have no reason to believe Zarkawi 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 Zarkawi serve the purpose of dividing and fragmenting the Iraqi national resistance into bloody sectarian strife.
One wonders who really turned Zarkawi 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.
Um there you have it, the latest from Tom Hayden.
And that pretty much sums up the uh the Zarkawi story, other things, suicides at Club Gitmo, uh 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 this is a this is genuine human debris down there.
And uh we've we've all now been privy to the PC notion that these are just innocent stolen from the battlefield without charges.
We have no clue who they really are, but because of certain uh discriminatory judgments that we are making.
Uh these people just they could be innocent, and we don't know, and the Bush administration is making no effort to find out.
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 gonna die in there or they're gonna be punished or whatever, but they're never gonna 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 whole this is a this patently absurd.
All of this is being concerned about the wrong group of people.
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There's some uh funny sound bites 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.
Schefer says to Elizabeth Palmer, the infobe, tell us about any overnight developments out there since the death of Zarkawi.
Well, we're uh most of the way through what's been quite a peaceful by Iraqi standards weekend.
No big reprisals yet, uh, that the Iraqi government was clearly expecting, and I suppose half the population is still expecting.
Uh, there was a new communique from Al Qaeda in Iraq on the internet, which promises more operations uh that are going to, and I quote, shake the enemy, but so far uh no sign of it.
Well, damn it.
Well, we want to see chaos over there.
Bob persists.
He says, Were 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 wind and the breeze.
An idyllic setting for the reporterette in the infobabe to file her story.
Uh this is just this is not how it was supposed to happen.
The killing of Zarkawi was supposed to launch even more um chaos, tumult uh, and uh, and disorder, and yet the population seems at large to be very happy about it, which we already knew because we have uh we have seen pictures.
Uh all right, we have uh 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, the too much religious content, so it got parental guidance, could poison the minds of young churren who uh who go to see it in the Democrats, uh 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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