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July 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 7, 2006, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I'm sort of embarrassed today.
I gave Aldamont this big send-off two weeks ago.
Aldemont's leaving.
It's great to win Gritten and he's back.
Aldemont's doing the broadcast engineering today.
Greetings, folks.
Rush Limbaugh here, EIB Network Golden EIB Microphone Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
It's going to be a doozy on Open Line Friday.
We are loaded with stuff and we're still working on a couple of sound bites.
The president made mincemeat of a reporter.
No, no, no.
I didn't hear Suzanne Malvo.
I heard.
I don't know who the reporter was.
It was during the press conference, and the, so your policy on Iraq and North Korea is so inconsistent.
How do you explain it?
It's over.
And Bush just slam-dunked the guy.
Well, what did Suzanne Malvo say?
Did she ask a question?
Oh, okay.
Oh, okay.
Well, hey, Cookie, go find the Suzanne Malvo question and answer next.
I missed that.
I've been busy.
I've been doing stuff.
I mean, it's been incredible this morning, and about 80% of it has had nothing to do with the program.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Great to have you with us.
It is Open Line Friday.
Phone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Open Line Friday, the show is yours.
When we go to the phones, whatever you want to talk about, questions, comments, feel free.
As you know, Monday through Thursday, we restrict this.
I'm a benevolent dictator.
We only talk about things that I care about or am interested in, are interested in, yeah, am interested in.
But on Friday, blow that off.
And whatever you want to discuss, feel free.
I'll start with a couple of funny audio soundbites today.
USA Today, I guess have the CSA, I guess C-SPAN held a panel today with wait a second.
It was on June 29th.
I'm sorry.
I remember I got a notice about this.
They did a panel on June 29th on the preview of the 2006 elections from the Close Up Foundation.
They had USA Today Susan Page and the Close Up Foundation Vice President of Broadcasting and Communications John Malewski.
And an unidentified student stood up and said in 1994, the Republicans, when they had a resurgence in the House and Senate, they had a contract for America.
Why can't the Democrats pull themselves together and come up with something like that that would really say this is who we are as a party?
And you don't have these disparate voices all over the place like Mirtha and Hillary Clinton.
I realize you were probably a preschooler in 1994, but do you remember?
Sixth grade, actually.
Yeah, sixth grade.
So do you remember when the contract for America came out?
Yes, I do.
In September.
It came out in series.
You were in sixth grade, and you remember that?
There's something very wrong.
I just remember the Republican victory.
I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh and him talking about it.
Now, see, putting down his kid as a student, a six-year-old, and he remembers the contract with America.
And I don't know if you heard this guy, Maluski, say, you were in sixth grade.
You remember that?
There's something very wrong.
Sixth grade.
How old are you in sixth grade?
11, 12?
How old are you in sixth grade?
I've forgotten.
I got there on time.
I've just forgotten what it was.
At any rate, put the kid down.
And can you imagine the shock?
Can you imagine the cold shivers up and down the spines of journalists when a guy says, I remember Rush Limbaugh talking about it when I was in the sixth grade?
While they try to put the kid down.
I tell you what, I'd be embarrassed.
Speaking of kids, they can't let go of little Mr. Apricot out in Sacramento.
This is a little blurb from KOVR, CBS Channel 13 in Sacramento.
The small town of Patterson is surprised that a flip of the bird by a four-year-old pageant winner is still drawing attention, this time on the national level.
Matthew Burgess was crowned little Mr. Apricot about a month ago and was stripped of his crown after he raised his middle finger to the crowd.
Well, now the news is buzzing across the country.
This is what radio host Rush Limbaugh had to say about it yesterday.
Here's the thing.
If my mother, when I was four, had made me enter something, the Little Mr. Apricot pageant, I would have been flipping everybody off.
Especially if I had suffered the embarrassment of winning the thing.
Who wants to have it known about them that they were little Mr. Apricot?
Can you imagine what somebody could do with this information when his kid's 18?
Hey, weren't you once little Mr. Apricot?
And he'd be flipping them off.
Good thing.
I'm glad the four-year-old had the presence of mind to understand that this was ridiculous.
And then the San Francisco Chronicle today, it's a piece, am I going to read the whole thing?
Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle.
The question is whether we can hold on for two more years.
It's like some sort of weird, painful rash on your face that makes you embarrassed to walk out the door.
So you sit there day after day, waiting for it to go away, slathering on ointment and bactin and scotch, and the rash still lingers.
Some days the pain is so searing and hot, you want to cut off your own head with a nail file.
Other days, it's numb and pain-free, seemingly okay, to the point where you think it might finally be all gone, and you allow yourself a whisper of a positive feeling right up until you look in the mirror and then you scream.
George W. Bush is just like that.
And this whole piece is about how even Republicans in San Francisco are fed up with Bush and his environmental destruction, and they don't know if they can put up with two more years.
The question is whether in San Francisco they can hold on for two more years.
I guess the news of 9-11 hasn't made it out to the left coast yet.
Maybe Mr. Marford or Morford hasn't heard yet that there are Muslims that want to cut off his pretty little head with a rather dull nail knife.
And then Lori Bird, the syndicated piece at townhall.com entitled, The President is Coming.
That's the message in the subject line of a recent John Kerry fundraising email.
And listen to this.
In the message from Kerry to his supporters about the president appearing at fundraisers for Jim Talent in Missouri and Mike DeWine in Ohio, John Kerry wrote, The Republicans think they can sneak President Bush and Vice President Cheney in and out of these states under the cover of darkness, and that vulnerable Republican candidates will pick up GOP special interest campaign dollars, not Bush-Cheney Cheney baggage, make them pay a price for this most cynical of political calculations.
So, Bush, was Bush asked about this in this press conference today?
Not this particular, he was asked about being invited by some female candidate to go there, and the reporter wanted to know: does she really know what she's doing?
Your approval ratings are so it was what?
Yeah, so low you could hurt the candidate.
Do you sure you want to go in for these people?
But look at what Kerry says.
Somehow it is a trick.
It's a dastardly, dirty trick for Bush to go campaign for Jim Talent and Mike DeWine, sneaking in under the cover of darkness, thinking that they're going to actually raise money, but instead they're going to leave these candidates with Bush-Cheney baggage, calling this cynical, cynical political calculation for Bush to go into Missouri and Ohio to fundraise.
I mean, you know, the Looney Tunes are getting insane.
They are literally becoming insane.
Joe Biden, by the way, grab the audio soundbite for this, Aldermont.
Let me find this.
Good, he got number nine.
Here's Joe Biden.
This is internet quality.
You've probably heard all about this now.
He was, well, he was walking around somewhere and he ran into some constituent of his.
As you know, I've got a lot of support from these Indians.
No, I've had a great relationship.
In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India.
You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
Not much okay.
Right, right.
Here's from the compassionate, open-minded, tolerant, never-bigoted Democrat left Joe Biden, who is now out of the presidential race.
He doesn't have to worry about it.
He can stay at home, make love to his wife while his kids are asleep.
He's out of the presidential race.
What are you saying he's not going to pay much of a price for this?
Snurdley can't believe it.
He's a Democrat.
He's not going to pay any price for this.
Well, they say the main thing standing between Joe Biden and the White House is his mouth.
The would-be presidential candidate proved it again.
Recent trip to New Hampshire, C-SPAN cameras caught him telling an Indian-American activist that Indian Americans.
Well, anyway, the Indians are looking into this.
They were none too pleased.
The chairman of the Indian American Republican Council, himself a surgeon, responded to Biden's racist remarks with this statement: It is amazing to know that we don't all work at Dunkin' Donuts at a local 7-Eleven.
The contributions to America by Indian Americans in the fields of medicine, education, science, and business have been well documented.
You may be right, Snerdley.
The media is not making a big deal out of this.
No.
Not Native American, Indian, Indian, like the nation.
Are you thinking this is about Native Americans all this time?
No, this is, no, no, this is about people from the country of India.
For crying out, where have you been?
I don't know if I can count on you today.
Let's go back to the archives.
You got number 10 ready there, Aldermont?
Aldermont.
All right, all right.
Hillary Clinton, January 3rd, 2004, St. Louis.
I love this quote.
It's from Mahatma Gandhi.
He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years.
Mr. Gandhi, you guys he'll go to the gas station?
A lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station.
I don't even get the joke, but here she's making fun of Indians, particularly Mahatma Gandhi.
Now, according to Democrats, Indians, you can't go to a Dunkin' Donuts or a 7-Eleven or a gas station without having an Indian accent.
And yet, President Bush was actually in a Dunkin' Donuts, Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday and said this.
Altamont.
President Bush was in Alexandria, Virginia.
He doesn't care he's leaving again, I guess.
It's owned by two Iranian American brothers.
They are small business owners.
They are entrepreneurs.
They are employing people.
And then I met with the district manager who works with the two Iranian American brothers.
Happens to be a Guatemalan American citizen.
She is learning business.
She is taking on additional responsibilities.
Then I talked to the store manager, who is a Salvadoran American.
These people remind me that one of the great features of our country is that people are able to come here and realize dreams.
Yeah, and that's, of course, Bush represents the bigoted, small-minded, unsophisticated, racist, sexist, homophobe in our politics, and yet there's Hillary and Joe Biden.
And Mr. Snurdley is apparently correct.
No fallout for Senator Biden on this, at least from the drive-by media.
Little pot-bellied dog-eating dictator in North Korea, Kim Jong-il, actually was aiming his Tapo-Dong missile at an area just off of Hawaii.
We'll take a break.
Lots to go.
We intercepted some lunatic terrorists trying to blow up the Holland Tunnel, and New York Senator Chuck Schumer's, eh!
No big deal.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
And we are back, America's real anchorman on Open Line Friday, the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Well, we keep learning more and more about Kim Jong-il's intentions.
A North Korean missile that was launched on Wednesday was aimed at an area off the ocean close to Hawaii, a Japanese newspaper reported.
Today, experts estimated that the Tapodong 2 ballistic missile, otherwise known as the Ding Dong, might have a range up to 6,000 kilometers, putting Alaska within its reach.
Wednesday's launch apparently failed shortly after takeoff.
The missile landed in the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, a few hundred kilometers from the launch.
The president has said, I think he's at a press conference today, that we were prepared to shoot it down.
We have the ability to do so, had it gotten any further.
In case you weren't with us yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, President Kim, dictator Kim, whatever his title is, issued a statement.
The following is an official North Korean communique to the Pissant American government.
And happy 4th of July, you terrorist dog mothers.
By now, you are aware of our own fireworks display with the launching of our four powerful Ding Dong missiles.
They will fly even faster and farther next year with the addition of more bottle rockets.
We launched these in protest of outlawed Bush administration who dares insult our impetuous leader, Kim Jong-il by taking a royal Asian leader to Elvis' home instead of Kim.
This has created a global crisis of great proportion.
However, in the interest of peace, we are willing to have a face-to-face talk with Hathi Madeleine Albright, mother of our bomb, in exchange for a state visit to Graceland and Nevalan Ranch, aspirin and certain hair care products, and three four million metric tons of rice.
And if you respond immediately, we could also possibly agree to exchange technology on nuclear triggering devices With Jimmy Carter as well.
Call soon.
Unless you want to incur the wrath of another tantrum.
Love Kim.
I hear that, right?
He called Madeline Albright the mother of their bomb.
Ooh.
I like that.
Anyway, greetings, my friends.
Open Line Friday it is with El Rushball behind the controls here, the golden EIB microphone, 800-282-2882.
All right.
Let's see.
Olamont, let's go to audio soundbite number one.
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is last week, a little montage after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of terrorists at Club Gitmo.
The drive-by media played it as a loss for the Bush administration.
This is a major defeat for the Bush administration.
This is another defeat for the Bush administration before the Supreme Court.
The court has delivered another defeat to the president.
It's a very, very big defeat for the Bush administration.
Okay, so today we busted a terrorist plot in New York City, the FBI, which is a federal agency, by the way.
Let's check the drive-by media today.
Matt Wauer of NBC, Bill Weir of ABC, Renee Seiler of CBS, and somebody from CNN.
Let's see how they played this story today.
The federal authorities have uncovered a plot to blow up the Holland Tunnel here in Manhattan.
The FBI has uncovered a major terrorist plot in its initial planning phase overseas.
The FBI uncovered the plot.
The FBI tells us they've uncovered this alleged plot by jihadists.
So last week when the Supreme Court issues its ruling, a major defeat, big, big, humiliating, terrible defeat for President Bush today, it's no mention of President Bush, no mention of a successful operation on the part of the Bush administration.
No, no, no, no, just a few kudos there to the FBI.
Senator Chucky Schumer, Democrat New York, said this is one instance where intelligence was on top of its game and discovered the plot when it was just in the talking phase.
One instance.
This is just one instance.
He has to put it down.
We have some sound bites from Senator Schumer today on American Morning.
Carol Costello, Anchorette Infobabe.
So what are you hearing about the plot, Senator?
It was caught in its very early stages.
There's no evidence in any way that anything was done, either purchase of explosives, even the sending of money.
It was caught by the terrorists talking to one another.
So this is one instance where intelligence was on the ball.
Second, these don't seem to be the brightest bulbs in the terrorist loss.
Their plan made no sense.
The Lincoln Tunnel is below sea level.
The Walls are below sea level.
And if you were to blow up the Lincoln Tunnel, God forbid, you would not flood lower Manhattan.
This was, wait a minute.
It was the Holland Tunnel, wasn't it, that they were targeting?
The facts may be true about the Lincoln Tunnel as well.
Who got it wrong?
The Daily News?
It was subway tunnels.
It was not.
Oh, MSNBC is saying it was subway tunnels.
No.
Well, did you notice that Schumer said we found out about this by listening to them talking to one another?
Excuse me?
You mean we were monitoring them in chat rooms?
What about their civil liberties?
When is Senator Schumer going to say that these terrorist civil liberties might have been violated?
Was there a warrant to monitor their chat room chats?
On Open Line Friday and to London.
Paul, I'm glad you called, sir.
Thank you for waiting and welcome to the EIB Network on Open Line Friday.
Thank you.
Mega Limey Dittos from a 24-7 subscriber here in London.
Thank you, sir, very much.
It's 7th of July.
We're commemorating the biggest terrorist outrage on our shores today.
And, you know, I was listening to a caller yesterday to your show who was blaming basically the Korean missile crisis on American pop culture.
Right.
I don't know exactly how McDonald's or Elvis or whatever has to do with, you know, Kim Jong-il building a missile.
But it struck me, you know, I've been to America three times.
I love the place.
I'm a European novelty, you know, somebody that appreciates and loves America.
What I really liked about the place was the pride that you have in your country, the fact that I can go to rich areas or not-so-rich areas and see, you know, American flags flown.
You do that in the UK, and they'll think you're basically a Nazi.
Well, there are some Americans who think that we who fly our flags are warped as well.
In fact, the French agency, French news agency, did a story, Paul, a couple of days ago.
I forget the exact terminology in the headline, how insufferable it was and how over the top it was to see all these American flags in this country.
And it was really getting to be too much.
Yeah, well, this is it.
I mean, you know, after World War II, Britain used to be a superpower.
We used to be where America is, basically, for years, centuries.
We lost that after World War II when we developed kind of self-loathing and guilt and all of those nasty things.
We felt ashamed to be patriotic, as though, because of the, you know, debatable sins of the empire, we had to be nice to everybody and play ourselves down and not promote ourselves and not be proud or anything like that.
You know, and with the bombings today, everyone's still kind of like looking, is it our fault somehow?
You know, is it Islamophobia?
Did we provoke these people with going into Iraq?
You know, instead of saying no, it's a loopy cult group who believes that killing people sends them to heaven where they'll get virgins or whatever.
You know, it's still like looking to us for the answer.
And I just sincerely hope that America doesn't go further down that route because we need you protecting, you know, the world.
We can't look to the UN.
You know, there's no other superpower.
We, you know, appreciate you guys.
Paul, thank you very much.
I can't tell you how ecstatic and proud all the people in this audience are to hear you say what you just said.
That's terrific of you.
And you know that there are Americans that worry about the very questions you raised after the 2008 election, depending on who wins it.
You know, it's an ongoing, it's an ongoing process.
You talked about the whole business of being introspective.
Is it our fault that these al-Qaeda terrorists blew up our subway a year ago in London?
Same thing happened here after 9-11, and our State Department actually convened the panel.
Why do they hate us?
I think it comes.
I'm sure if you listen regularly on 24-7, you've heard me recommend Shelby Steele's book entitled White Guilt.
If you haven't and you haven't gotten it, go get it, because he talks about not just American white guilt, but British white guilt, your colonialism, our so-called imperialism, and how we somehow have been made to feel guilty for our power, our superpower status, and how we need to make amends for all the destruction that we wrought and all of the civil rights that we violate, all the human rights that we violate, all the crime that we committed, all the plundering of the earth that we have done.
We have to understand that their people hate us, and we have to give them a little leeway in hating us.
They should hate us, blah, It's frustrating.
I don't know what the status in the U.K. is, but over here, those people are a minority.
I don't think they're very large, but they are amplified by our drive-by media and made to look like a much larger contingent than they actually are.
But they're still sizable, and it's still, this stuff is being taught in universities.
That caller you heard yesterday is a product of the American education system.
I am convinced.
And it's what he was taught growing up in various levels of education in his life.
And it continues today.
It's the last area here that the libs in this country basically have monopolistic control over, although great inroads are being made.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you subscribing to the website, listening in every day over there in London.
It's terrific to have you call.
Thank you so much.
Open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
I want to go back to the Chuck Schumer soundbites and then get on with some of the great back and forth with President Bush and the media at his press conference today in Chicago.
You know, when we last left, Senator Schumer, he had just said, well, you know, this is one instance where intelligence was on the ball plotting this, thwarting this plot to blow up a tunnel connecting New Jersey to Manhattan.
And he said it was caught by the terrorists talking to one another.
And, of course, I wonder if he realizes the irony.
One instance of intelligence working well, we were monitoring these clowns in their chat room.
Who cares if they're dim bulbs or not?
Some of the stupidest people in the world are the ones that commit violent crime after violent crime.
So anyway, the next question from Carol Costello, Infobabe, Anchorette CNN: Are our tunnels and bridges protected enough, Senator?
Are they?
Are we going to die?
This once again shows that Homeland Security and Secretary Cherdoff's view that New York shouldn't get funding and shouldn't get funding for personnel makes no sense whatsoever.
The only way you would have stopped a plot like this is added personnel.
This idea that there should be a preference for mechanical devices and detection devices, important as they are, over manpower, it doesn't make any sense at all.
To take the occasion of a successful thwarting of a plot and blame Homeland Security for not giving New York enough money, it's just no funding.
They're getting the lion's share of the funding, but here's he's saying no funding, we're being cut out, so forth and so on.
I know he's playing to a New York audience here, and I know that's all he cares about in terms of his own research.
Well, actually not.
He's running the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, trying to take back the Senate for the Democrats, but this is just ridiculously banal or banal, as some pronounce it.
All right.
Now, what was the plot?
We're told, and I'm now confused because Schumer said it was the Lincoln Tunnel.
The New York Daily News, which broke this as an exclusive today, said the Holland Tunnel.
And now MSNBC, PMSNBC, is saying, no, it was subway tunnels they were going to blow.
I don't know now.
We're going to have to.
We've got a senator, we've got a New York tabloid, and we've got a cable network that nobody watches disagreeing here on what the actual plot was.
Who do we believe?
A senator, a Democrat senator, or a tabloid newspaper, or PMSNBC.
It's a toughie.
So who would you believe, Mr. Snerdley?
Who would you believe in this case?
Sound like you believe MSNBC.
Okay.
All right.
Snerdley tends to believe it's MSNBC.
It's something that we will learn later.
But what was the plot?
The plot was to blow up a tunnel.
I don't know if you people know it.
Some of these people, I've been with them driving through the tunnel and get all scared.
I have this fear that the tunnel is going to collapse and water is going to inundate us.
I said, you think the tunnel's going through water?
No, where the tunnel was bored under the water, under the bed of the river.
There's no water around it.
And now, if somebody, you know, if the river bed, you know, collapsed or something because of global warming, you know, then all bets are the tunnels not in water.
At any rate, their plot was to blow up the middle of the tunnel, which would cause the tunnel to flood with water from the Hudson River, which then would in turn flood lower Manhattan, the Wall Street area, and render the primary economic engine of Manhattan defunct.
Now, where would they get an idea like this?
Perhaps, let's go back to May 24th of this year on the Today Show.
Katie Couric was interviewing Al Gore, who is, of course, the world's foremost authority on global warming.
And all he is is a politician running for re-election.
It's all he is.
But yet he's the world's foremost authority.
Katie said, What do you see happening in, say, 15, 20 years, even 50 years, if nothing changes?
Of course, Florida and Louisiana and Texas are particularly vulnerable.
The San Francisco Bay area, Manila.
And we have seen the impact of a couple hundred thousand refugees from an environmental crisis.
Imagine 100 million or 200 million.
Even Manhattan would be in deep water, right?
Yes, in fact, the World Trade Center Memorial Site would be underwater.
All right, now you may say, well, what's this got to do with anything?
Well, let me explain this, folks.
You may remember to name Ted Kaczynski ring a bill.
Ted Kaczynski was a human bomber.
And when they went into that little shack of his, among other things, they found Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance.
So the Unibomber and his manifesto, published by the New York Times, by the way, was influenced tremendously by Al Gore's book, Earth in the Lurch.
Therefore, it's not a stretch to assume that these terrorists in their caves in Afghanistan and Pakistan might have seen Al Gore's movie, in which he shows in his slideshow Manhattan being flooded, not by a bomb going off of a tunnel, but rather by global warming.
So it's not a stretch to suggest that this whole plot, and you know, Gore's slideshow has been around for a number of years, long before the movie came out.
And then we've had this scene depicted in The Day After Tomorrow, which is an environmental destruction movie.
So it could well be that either Al Gore or Hollywood provided the inspiration for these terrorists whose plot to flood southern Manhattan was thwarted.
The brief time out here, ladies and gentlemen, Open Line Friday continues right after this.
Why do I think Cindy Sheehan, every time I hear this in the bumper rotation?
All right, you've got to hear this.
By the way, those of you on hold, please be patient.
I'll get to you.
But I've been promising the sound bites from President Bush today at the press conference in Chicago at the Museum of Science and History.
Here's a question from a local Chicago reporter.
A lot of people here in Chicago tell us that they see an incongruity in your foreign policy.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
I don't believe that for a minute.
I think the reporter, if there are other people, it's other reporters at the bar who are lamenting and whining and moaning about the lack of congruity in the policy, foreign policy.
That is a typical journalistic trick.
I am hearing, and people are saying, your critics suggest, blah, blah, blah.
That's just a way of getting their own opinion in the question while appearing, they think, objective.
All right, Olamont, let's hear the rest of it.
Shooting war in Iraq, yet we have a leader in North Korea who has announced his affection for nuclear weapons and no hesitation to use them against the United States.
Is your policy consistent between the way you have dealt with Iraq, the way you have dealt with North Korea?
And if so, are we headed toward a military action in North Korea?
And if so, can this nation sustain military action on three fronts: Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Korea?
Here's the president's answer to this impudent snob.
I have always said that it's important for an American president to exhaust all diplomatic avenues before the use of force.
Committing our troops into harm's way is a difficult decision.
It's the toughest decision a president will ever make.
And I fully understand the consequences of doing so.
All diplomatic options were exhausted as far as I was concerned, with Saddam Hussein.
Remember that the U.N. Security Council resolution that we passed when I was the president was one of 16, I think.
16, 17?
Give me a hand there.
More than 15.
Resolution after resolution after resolution saying the same thing.
And he ignored them.
And we tried diplomacy.
We went to the UN Security Council, 15 to nothing vote that said disarm, disclose, or face serious consequences.
I happen to believe that when you say something, you better mean it.
And so when we signed on to that resolution that said disclose, disarm, or face serious consequences, I meant what we said.
That's one way you keep the peace.
You speak clearly and you mean what you say.
And so the choice was Saddam Hussein's choice.
He could have, you know, not fooled the inspectors.
He could have welcomed the world in.
He could have told us what was going on, but he didn't.
And so we moved.
And we're in the diplomatic process now with North Korea.
That's what you're seeing happening.
I mean, it's amazing the narrowness of the vision of these reporters.
I know that they're trying to make news with what they think are trick questions, but the questions just only illustrate, I think, their overall ignorance of the subject they're even talking about.
In this case, the disparity in our foreign policy: well, we're shooting at Iraq.
Shouldn't we shoot in North Korea?
Why aren't we doing that, you coward?
Whatever the implication of the question is.
The president wasn't through, though.
He then buried this reporter.
Remember, we put a coalition together at the United Nations that said, disclose, disarm, or face serious consequences.
It was 15 to nothing.
It wasn't a U.S. 1 to 14.
It was 15 to nothing.
Other nations stood up and said the same thing we said.
So we're working the diplomacy, and you're watching diplomacy work not only in North Korea, but in Iran.
It's kind of painful in a way for some to watch because it takes a while to get people on the same page.
Not everybody thinks the exact same way we think.
Words mean different things to different people, and the diplomatic process can be slow and cumbersome.
That's why this is probably the fourth day in a row I've been asked about North Korea.
It's slow and cumbersome.
Things just don't happen overnight.
But what you're watching is a diplomatic response to a person who, since 1994, has said, you know, they're not going to have a weapon.
Have these people forgotten?
They keep talking about how we rushed to war in Iraq.
There were 12 years after Gulf War I and Gulf War II or the invasion of Iraq.
There were 12 years.
And in those years were all these resolutions he's talking about.
And during those 12 years, nobody's, what are you going to do about Iraq?
What are you going to do about Iraq?
What are you going to do about Iraq?
Nobody asked Clinton that.
1998, Clinton comes out and gives the same speech on weapons of mass destruction that Bush gave four years later.
And nobody seems to remember that.
And nobody seems to remember all the Democrat senators agreeing with Clinton.
That's a horrible threat that we face in this Hussein guy.
We've got to do something about it.
No, the Iraq problem only began in 2002, and then we went to war in 2003.
That's what I mean about these people being ignorant.
Just purely ignorant.
If they're not ignorant, if this really escapes them, then, you know, it's proof of something else, and that is the agenda and the template, what I often call the action line in drive-by media reporting.
The action line on a story is the ultimate objective.
And anything gets you there, you report.
Anything that doesn't, you ignore.
And the action line on our Iraq policy is it's a failure.
And too many people are dying, and it's not worth it.
And there were no weapons of mass destruction, and Bush lied.
That's the action line of that story.
So I think they can point out that Bush is a hypocrite by not just launching into North Korea with the same kind of military attack.
This diplomatic crisis basically began recently because he's right.
All during the 90s during Clinton, Kim Jong-il was lying to the world, assuring everybody he had no intention of developing nuclear weapons.
Now he's threatening to use them on everybody.
The guy running Phil Angelita's candidacy for governor in California has compared Schwarzenegger to Kim Jong-il.
Guy's name is Bob Roholland.
Lots ahead on Open Line Friday.
Sit tight.
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