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July 13, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 13, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
So welcome.
Welcome back to the program today, day two of my sojourn of along with you conversationalists across the Fruit of Plains and all the other uh descriptors that Rush uses and Russia, of course, on a well deserved vacation this week.
And um I'm here today, Paul W. Smith from WJR WJR in Detroit tomorrow, and then uh the Rushmeister will be back uh on Monday.
And of course, as usual, when he leaves the golden EIB microphone.
Oh, by the way, did you know that there's a there's a golden EIB microphone in New York?
And there's one at the Southern Command.
And then they have this one, kind of like when the president moves, they move the limousine and run different bars.
There's one they shipped out here to California for me to use uh the golden EIB microphone.
So I've it'll be sent back to us to the lockbox uh uh on Monday.
We have so we have when he leaves the world goes uh usually a little bit nutso, and they're not so it's nutso in a big way, and I want to get into what's going on right now with over in uh uh Israel and Hezbollah and Ham uh Hamas and uh all the other situations, and we'll get you an update on Dear Leader out of uh North Korea, too, because things there are not going well, which is no surprise.
Um I'm on the road and and I'm in Los Angeles, and so I'm I'm I'm hotelling it last night.
So since I'm I'm I'm Mr. Hotel Room guy, I've I watch Larry King last night, and guess who is on there?
But none other than Gunga Dan, Dan Rather, and his uh it was it was an amazing Well, here's if you can if if you can picture the scene, I'm sitting there cringing, and then I start squirming, and then I cover my eyes with my hands when I'm peeking through my fingers to see what happened, what it was really happening last night with Larry King and Dan Rather.
So I want to I uh it's it's about it's about how Dan Rather represents so many people in the mainstream media, and he and he really did show his callers in a big way last night.
And so it's about the mainstream media, it's about network television, it's about people that are uh just don't know how to step out of the spotlight.
It's about it's about a bunch of things.
So I want to big, you know, I'll put my psychology hat on and and do a psychoanalyst review, if that's possible about uh Dan Rather and Larry King last night.
And while I've got that hat on, uh I'm gonna we'll get into uh Nancy Pelosi is out with yet another plan for the Democrats to win.
Then and the plan uh obviously they went out and they did some polling, and the polling said people are not real happy about the way Congress is spending like a bunch of drunken sailors, not to put down the good reputation of drunken sailors by associating them with Congress, but you two you do have a a um a problem with spending.
We know that.
Um we're mad.
We're mad at the conservatives are mad uh at Republicans.
Republicans are not being responsible about the way money is being spent in Washington, D.C. And after they gain power in 1994, takes a few years, and then they get back to the same old power mode that everybody in power does, which is uh, well, we can vote ourselves some gifts, so let's do that.
So Nancy Pelosi did the research and says people are all upset about the fact that Congress is spending too much.
So tell you what, you vote in a whole bunch of Democrats so we can get control of Congress again, and then we're gonna be the fiscally prudent people.
Yep, that's the plan for Democrats to win.
They're gonna go out and do the fiscally prudent uh campaign message.
The only problem is Nancy Pelosi doesn't know what fiscally prudent even means.
Because as you could expect, the number one thing on her list is she's gonna roll back those Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
In other words, she's going to raise taxes.
And I've never yet seen a tax rate hike on just one small group of people.
It never happened.
So the idea is to raise taxes, and they're going to take half of that money and apply it towards the reducing the deficit, which is $13 billion, which is a drop in the water.
In other words, it'll take 300 years to get the deficit down.
And the other half they're going to use on increased spending, even though she says, no, no, no, no, no.
People don't want us to spend more.
They want us to spend less.
But she's thinking, aha.
Well, we'll use half of it for deficit reduction.
The other half will come in and we will use it for more spending.
That's what we'll do.
So we'll get into Nancy Pelosi's plan in detail.
We'll psychoanalyze Dan Rather and uh on the show from Larry King last night.
But before we get to all of that, let's start with the big story of the morning, which is uh the one that happened uh well Thursday morning over in Israel time, and that was this business about about uh the fact that they're firing more missiles, and Israel went in and said, uh, you know what, we're shutting down by method of sh of bombing the runways, the Lebanon airport.
So, yep, they bombed the Lebanon airport, and they the reason Israel says they're doing they did that was for one simple reason.
That is the supply line for Hezbollah.
So I'm digging around through looking at Hezbollah, and I'm looking at Al Jazeera's background and bio for Hezbollah.
And I want to I want to get into some of this so that we all understand so that we all can debate what's going on over there from the from at least the facts of who these people are.
Now, yesterday I just briefly mentioned it, but I'm going to go back.
There's a the there's a strip, a narrow strip on the southern part of Lebanon that borders Israel.
And in 1982, Israel said, Great, let's go ahead and have this uh that we'll just control the strip so that there's a buffer between us and those guys.
That's what we'll do.
And so there was a bunch of wusses in Israel that said, Oh, we shouldn't be doing that.
That's not uh there they'll be okay.
You just go ahead and pull back and uh let the let the give that back to the Lebanese people, and so Israel said, okay, and they barely had pulled back.
It was two months later, Hezbollah comes along and says, Well, let's go ahead and kidnap some um Israeli soldiers and demand the release of Arab prisoners.
Sound familiar?
Like Gaza two weeks ago or three weeks ago, whatever it was, and now yesterday up in uh Lebanon.
And so it did not work.
Israel should not have done that.
They should not have given that up, because Hezbollah took it as a sign of weakness.
And so uh they've they've they've they've been attacking ever since, and they've been attacking uh various areas of Israel, and uh so they lobbed uh the that they go in and they get this negotiation, and sure enough, Israel released 500 Palestinian Lebanese prisoners and returned for a kidnapped uh Israeli businessman and the bodies of four soldiers.
They had done it before as well.
It goes way, way, way back.
Israel said, okay, we'll do a trade for prisoners.
So you think Israel is this tough militaristic country that there's no doesn't take any you know what?
But in fact, they have negotiated for prisoner trades in the past.
And that's why they are back again with the same darn plan.
Let's kidnap a couple of Israeli soldiers, and then what we can do is negotiate this big um this big exchange of prisoners.
Now there's a guy that comes along, got this out of one of the Israeli newspapers, and this guy uh comes along uh and says, I'm the man.
I'm the man you got to deal with.
His name is Khalid Meshal.
And guess where he is?
He is in Damascus.
What country is Damascus Damascus?
Yes, boys and girls, it is Syria.
So Syria is the one that is funding, and so is Iran.
Syria and Iran are the people that give the money to Hezbollah, and without their support, without their weaponry, without their money, without everything, Hezbollah would have dried up and gone away a long time ago.
Now, Hezbollah was started in the early 1980s.
And they were put together because of the fact in 19 that that that stretch I told you about that 20, that strip of land right along the border.
They put themselves together a bunch of Lebanese Shia Muslims who wanted to fight the Israeli army.
And what happened was they were just a bunch of ragtag guys until what happened?
Syria and Iran started giving them financial help, military support, logistical support.
So here you've got, here you've got this group, this Hezbollah.
What they wanted to do was fight Israel.
And they said it was about, you know, getting Israel to withdraw out of that out of that buffer zone.
Well, it it israel did.
And yet Hezbollah is still coming back and doing the same thing.
Now, this is what doesn't make sense to me.
Israel says Gaza, you know what?
We're going to get all of the people from Israel out of there, and we're going to give you the Palestinian authority.
You're going to have, that's your land.
We're clearing out.
It's all yours.
So Hamas comes in and says, uh, okay, vote for us.
They got voted into power.
And they have a chance.
They've got this country that was just given to them.
You can debate whether it should have been or should not have been, but the point is they now have this land, the Gaza Strip, and they said, here, you, you Palestinians, this is just go there and you'll be, you'll live in peace.
We won't bother each other.
But no, could I mean they've got a perfect opportunity, but do you think the people at Hamas sat back and were happy with that?
No, let's let's go ahead and capture an Israeli soldier.
Let's stir up the old hornet's nest.
Let's see what happens.
And so now the Israel's coming back in and bombing them and missiles flying and people being killed, and what a stupid group of people at Hamas.
And you then move to the northern border and you got the same thing going.
Lebanon finally has a government that is so-called anti-Syria.
They've got their own group, they're backed.
Remember all the bombings and terrors that were going on back in the 80s?
That's been quiet and peaceful, and they got these beautiful beaches, and that's a they can they can stimulate their economy and everything's going fine.
Then these pinheads from Hezbollah say, well, let's not have that.
Let's not have the security and of this beautiful country.
Why don't we just go ahead and muck it up by going ahead and firing uh uh go ahead and then get these uh Israeli soldiers and and uh fire at them and then take them in and kidnap them?
That's a good idea.
And so now the the people of Lebanon they've got missiles coming down over their heads, they've got Israeli fighter jets flying over their heads.
I'm telling you, these people in Hezbollah and Hamas, what it shows to you, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, is this.
These Islamo fascist Muslim people will not stop.
They're not going to be nice.
You cannot leave them alone.
They will not just sit there and enjoy what they have.
Instead, they are going to come after us, the infidels, and of course, Israel.
That's their number one enemy, and we're right behind them.
They won't stop.
This is a perfect example of why the war on terror is a war on terror.
These people will not stop, and I know all the peace nicks out there just say, oh, just leave them alone.
Bring our soldiers home immediately because I we don't like any of well, they're not gonna stop.
And this is a perfect example of two places where they have been given a great deal and they have mucked it up.
And you think they're logical?
Give me a break.
Phone number to uh join the program 800-28282.
My name is Tom Sullivan.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program.
So welcome back, uh, Tom Sullivan in for Rush.
Russia will be back on Monday, uh, just looking at this um this bio that that Al Jazeera has on their website about Hezbollah.
So you think, you know, they're gonna be pretty much pro Hezbollah.
They're gonna say they're all a bunch of just a bunch of just a bunch of good guys.
But what they point out is this history about how they how they get their support from Syria and Iran, and how when Israel withdrew in 2000 and said, okay, you can have that buffer zone back.
All right, all right, all right.
And they got a lot of pressure from a bunch of of uh of wusses in Israel.
And so they said, okay, all right, all right, you can have that land back.
We'll get out of there.
When that happened, when Israel withdrew from that buffer zone, what Al Jazeera's reporting is that Hezbollah was widely seen as the reason for the Israeli defeat.
Yep, they beat Israel, and that is hailed in the Arab world as the first Arab military force to defeat an Israeli army.
That's the way they see it.
And so Hezbollah not only is getting the money and the military support and everything else from uh Syria and Iran, but they're now super popular with the people that that hate Israel because these are the guys, oh yeah, did you hear these are the only guys they call them a military force, they're just a bunch of terrorists.
They're the only guys who have ever beat uh the an Israeli army.
And and um further in the big bio at Al Jazeera says that the movement's success at driving Israel out of Lebanon has inspired many other Islamic groups around the Middle East from Hamas in Palestine to uh Al Sadir's army in Iraq.
We've talked about this, and this is why you have you cannot use anything but force with these people.
They don't understand words.
They look at your actions and say, aha, you pulled back, we defeated you.
And so the others, and remember, I mean, this goes right down the line, whether it's Saddam Hussein reading Blackhawk down or whether it was uh you go down the list, these people look at any weakness that anybody's showing the U.S. or Israel, and they take it as a sign of they won, we lost.
They defeated us when those things happened, and that's why it's given even more credence and more power and more support to forming more Islamic groups, radical Islamic groups who are dedicated toward uh the defeat of Israel and the defeat of us.
Now, one of the newspapers over there in um in Israel says uh Hezbollah has declared that it has over 10,000 rockets to use against Israel.
They fired off 70 of them this morning.
7-0, 70 rockets into Israel, and Israel's supposed to sit there.
In fact, there's even an editorial in one of the Israeli newspapers today saying, well, on one hand, we cannot accept the scathing attack on Israel's sovereignty, but on the other hand, Israel has repeatedly adopted a more restrained and level head policy in the past, even in times of anger and frustration and uh it's appropriate to uh use uh deterrent capability.
But it's doubtful such action will bring about the release of the captives, and it's likely, I'm quoting, it's likely to bring about, God forbid, a new version of the 1982 entanglement.
In other words, they don't want, oh no, no, just sit there, Israel, and don't do a thing.
Cross your hands and say we're so sorry.
We're so sorry that you kidnapped our soldiers.
And and okay, we'll just open up the prisons and let all the the uh Arab prisoners out like we've done in the past, and that's why we're paying for it again.
To the phones we go.
Uh let's start with Alan in Texar Kenna, Texas.
Hello, Alan.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey, Tom.
Uh, I really enjoyed your uh opinions on this.
They're spot on.
Um Thank you.
I've thought for a really long time, like most people in America.
I think the biggest problem with the anti-war people in this country is they are either ignorant of history or they're just stupid, and they don't understand the fact that you look at the wheel.
they're ignorant or they're stupid.
Those are the choices.
Well, I mean, stupid stupid is a lack of ability to learn ignorance, just a choice not to.
Oh, I see.
All right.
So, you know, it they don't understand the fact with Islam, and we can look at the last six months, France, India, and um Israel.
None of those three things have anything to do with Iraq and Muslims did it to people.
Yep.
Yep, yep.
It it's true, and I've I've I've I've got the bottom of the hour coming up here, but you you are absolutely right.
This is getting to be real, real clear.
And I think, and I hope and I pray that they're gonna go ahead and keep doing this to the point where finally everybody does understand the real motive, and that is they want to kill you.
We'll be back.
Tom Sullivan and the Rush Limbaugh radio show.
Yep, we're back, and I'll tell you a lot of you uh uh you may be some of you, I don't know, I'm not gonna say a lot.
Some of you may go, What why is this guy talking about all this stuff going on over there on the borders of Israel?
We don't we're way over here and we're living our lives, and I'm more I've got a busy life and I'm more concerned about things uh right here in this country and about my life in this country, and besides that, I've got a bunch of appointments today.
And what does this have to do with me?
What it has to do with you is exactly as the last caller said, This is classic textbooked uh Islamo fascist behavior.
They will attack you, they will come after you, they are taught to hate you.
Uh we've seen it over and over again.
Uh even our buddies, Saudi Arabia are teaching in their schools, even though they say, Oh fix that, we'll fix that.
That in the textbooks in their schools in Saudi Arabia, they're teaching the young children literally.
I'm not making this up, I'm not exaggerating, to hate Jews and Christians, to hate us.
They use us for anything they possibly can.
Look at this is like a neighbor of yours coming over and throwing a firebomb through your front window.
And you go and you say, Okay, okay, okay, okay, we'll we'll just uh we'll we won't come out of our house.
We'll just sit back here in the back so you can't see us.
And then they do it again.
And they say, We want some of your stuff, or we'll do it again.
So you give them some of your stuff and they go away.
And they do it again.
I mean, at what point, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, do you think you're gonna be able to sit down and have words with somebody like this?
They are they are fanatics.
Yesterday we were talking about um about Adolf Hitler was criminally insane, and I think uh Kim Jong il is also in that same ballpark of he's insane.
These people, I I don't know, maybe it's a fine line in there somewhere.
Speaking of psychoanalyzing people, there's some fine line in there about the difference between somebody who's insane and somebody who is a fanatic.
These people are not insane, they are so driven toward their belief that you are not to be.
You either have to accept their ways or you're dead.
There's no in-between.
It's not sit down and talk, let's not have negotiations, let's get the UN involved.
I don't see the UN popping up here today on the border.
Steve in uh Gainesville, Florida.
Hi, Steve.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Yeah, Tom, maybe you can help me understand something as a 35-year registered Republican and our war against terrorism.
You know, in addition to withdrawing from from Lebanon, the buffer zone, as you mentioned, is last uh summer, Israel uprooted thousands of Jews from their homes in Gaza and northern uh Samaria in order to create a uh a palace sovereign Palestinian state, which is what the president wants.
And now President Bush and uh uh Prime Minister uh Ulmert are still committed to uh uprooting close to a hundred thousand Jews from their homes in the so-called West Bank.
The Palestinians saw the the retreat from Gaza as as a uh victory for for jihad and terrorism, and they elected Hamas.
As a this is what I don't understand as a Republican.
I you you generally think of these kind of plans, the land for peace and all that as a liberal Democrat notion, uh Jimmy Carter, uh Bill Clinton, but not a conservative Republican notion.
And this is what really sh sort of surprises me and disappoints me as a Republican to watch this going on in the Republican Party.
I I I'm I agree with you.
I I I think we're all learning that um see the problem we come from, and this is this is where in international negotiations it's tough because people don't start from the same place when they start negotiating with each other.
We start from a place of where we have liberties and we have rules and we have procedures and we have systems.
Uh and and and we think if if we do that, if we talk to other people like that, then they will uh come along, we'll be able to sit down and have a nice conversation and work things out.
If you and I get into a dispute, Steve, we come from the same we come from the same country, same culture.
You and I can sit down together and we start our negotiations towards resolving the dispute from the same starting point.
But when you're talking to these people, they come from a completely different starting point, and that's the mistake our government is making, and I think it's the mistake that the Israeli government's making too.
Israel's government should know better, but they are being pressured by us.
So they try to try to behave the way the U.S. wants them to.
But why?
In other words, today, even President Bush was asked of, you know, he's basically siding with Israel saying Israel has a right to defend itself.
On the other hand, he says my attitude is that there is a group of terrorists who want to stop the advance of peace.
What advance of peace?
There's not going to be peace between uh Israel or or America and people that want to destroy you.
Well, he's in a box, and the box is because of the fact they finally have a government that is uh a government that we like and they like us running Lebanon.
And that's what he doesn't want to get disturbed because of the fact that it'll just fall back into Syria's hands, and then we're gonna get Syria in the middle of all this thing.
And then uh is the the Israeli Iranian uh uh president this morning said the U.S. you better not interfere.
He's warning us.
So I agree with you, Steve.
There's there's nothing I can do to refute what you're saying or give you some good reason other than then we're not using a strategic uh strategic head on this.
We're using what we know from our past, from our culture, from our history, and it's not working.
I agree, and also uh it it's pr uh problematic when we're not being consistent.
Now we should be out there killing as the president says we need to kill the terrorists, but we shouldn't be pressuring our ally to negotiate with terrorists.
I know.
Where's the where's where's the Bush doctrine?
The Bush doctrine.
I mean, that's the Bush doctrine is being watered down right now in my eyes.
Palestinian authority is uh is governed by Hamas.
You can say, well, uh Abbas who is was Arafat's right-hand man is more moderate, but he's a terrorist too, and we're negotiating with terrorists.
So it's just uh that's all I'm saying.
It's disappointing.
Disappointing to watch it.
I'm I'm I'm disappointed with you too, Steve.
I don't know, I don't have an answer for you.
I I appreciate the call.
I um again, this business about uh uh Mahmud Abbas.
And also even the guy, uh what's his name?
The the uh the guy who was elected uh uh by the people of of the Gaza area, the Palestinian area, uh Haninya, something like I forget his the pronunciation on his name, but the prime minister over there uh and a boss, and and all of a sudden this guy comes popping up in Damascus, Syria this morning and says, Hey, Israel, I'm the man, literally.
He said, I'm the man, his first comments.
You gotta deal with me.
The message was intended for Prime Minister Ulmert, and said, I'm the only partner you can speak to about the release of the prisoners and suspending the rocket attacks.
You gotta talk to me.
And so what he's saying is that he's declaring that he is the authority for the Palestinian people, and uh Abbas and Haniya had nothing to say about it.
They're just puppets.
They're just puppets.
Oh, by the way, uh France has uh condemned Israel's strikes.
Richard uh in uh Oxford, Michigan.
Hello, Richard.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
Well, it's a pleasure to talk with you, and it's a pleasure to be able to front with you.
I agree with you 100 percent on we shouldn't be negotiating, and Israel shouldn't be pulling back.
But as you said before, much of this was done by the urging of Bill Clinton and others previously in their peace agreements, the Oslo agreement and the others.
But the fact of the matter is they have the same problem over there that we have here.
Now, a week ago, I spoke with or maybe two weeks ago now, I spoke with Moshe Yalyan, who was the Lieutenant General and number two in command to Ariel Sharon.
Oh, you know the guy, huh?
Pardon me?
You know the man?
Yes, I met the man.
Yeah?
And I spoke with him on the 20th of this month, or last month.
Yeah?
And I asked him his problem over there, and he felt the problem was a moral problem.
And he said, he explained it this way.
He said, the money that we as Israel supported to make peace and gave up land and made sanctions was to go to the buildings.
and the infrastructure of the Palestinian uh people and he said unfortunately that money went into arms and it went into bombs and they used them against us and everything we have done to make peace and to live with them has gone and backed up on us.
So he felt wait a minute let me let me ask you this moral question.
So is he saying was it your was it your uh impression that he was saying look if we get all this money from the U.S. Is he saying they're a puppet of our country?
No, what he was saying was this they do not need the Palestinian authority to survive in Israel but to keep peace in the land they were willing to help support the peace by economic and uh giving up land sanctions so that they could live peaceably.
But get out the history books, General, and you'll see it hasn't worked in the past and it won't work in the future.
Oh, he knows that.
It never has worked.
That's why he left the Israeli Defense Forces in June of 2005.
And he's in this country now.
But Michael Evans, who has written a couple bestsellers, has pointed out that all of this has come to naught and we need to stand firm.
But his problem over there is the same one we have here.
We have a bunch of senators and congressmen that won't back our country, what we're doing, and we're doing the same thing.
Yeah, and they have the same problem over there, too.
They've got their lefties who want everybody to get along.
Can't we just all get along?
And it doesn't work that way, not with this crowd.
They see anything like that as a sign of weakness and a sign of victory for them and a defeat for the other side.
That's where it is, and that's the problem we've got.
Short break.
We'll be right back.
The phone number 800-282-2882.
My name is Tom Sullivan.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program.
Welcome back.
So the bombs are bombing and the rockets are flying, and Lebanon, which is this absolutely beautiful, gorgeous country that its economy used to be supported by tourists.
It's a playground for the Mediterranean, beautiful beaches, big hotels, lots of resorts.
And so they get into this 15-year civil war over religion, and they finally work out a settlement.
Israel says, okay, we're going to pull back from the buffer zone, and the Hezbollah are right in there saying, we're not going to be happy with that.
We've got a beautiful country.
We've got a good deal.
We've got a government that is becoming our government instead of run by Syria.
I don't know if Syria ever really got all their troops out of there yet or not, but they're they were supposed to and uh so things are on the on the upswing and what is Hezbollah do they stick a big old stick right in the in the hornet's nest Sarah in uh LA hello Sarah you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi hi Tom good morning I just want to tell you, as a Lebanese Christian, I've lived here in the States with my family for going on thirty years now.
And I want to commend you on knowing the difference and making the distinction between the Lebanese people as a whole and then this group of militant Islamic terrorist group that has in basically taken over a small part of Lebanon.
Yeah, it's a and and my impr my impression is that the neighborhoods where they live are in this one geographical area.
Right.
Because Isra Israel said, hey, Lebanon, you might want to think about getting the people evacuated from there because that's where the terrorists live, and we're going to come in and we're going to start dropping bombs on this area.
So you better tell the civilians to get the heck out of that neighborhood.
And my other impression is is that the Shia are basically the poorest part of the it's it's it's the slums, if you will.
This is what that's what they're dealing with, right?
And you mentioned earlier that it is Syria that has been funding it is.
It's Syria and Iran that have been funding the Hezablah and the Hamas in our country.
And I'll tell you, as a Christian in Lebanon, you're not very popular.
In fact, before the Civil War, it was predominantly a Christian country.
I think the breakdown was 70% Christians and 30% Muslims.
That helps really Christians in Lebanon because a lot of us have fled.
So that's the same thing that's happening in Europe.
In Western Europe is the Muslim population is coming into Christian countries and gradually but surely they are taking over more and more of the population and they're infiltrating but not assimilating.
And that's where you're getting the attacks in Spain, you're getting the attacks in London, etc.
etc.
Why unfortunately we left but just you know, and I'm I'm just I want to make sure people in the states really understand that there is a big difference between the Lebanese people as a group of people as a nationality versus the small group of militant terrorists that have and they're not just Lebanese Hezeball though.
They're they are they consist of different nationalities.
There's Saudi Arabians, they're Iranians, they're Syrians, or there are some Lebanese as well, but it's not a Lebanese group.
And I think there's a big difference there that I want to make sure people understand.
I think people I know.
I I do.
I mean, I understand that there's a there's a huge difference there, but what you're really this ties in a whole bunch of different issues that this country is debating right now.
One of them is the issue about immigration and and what Western Europe has found is that they got all these people coming in that are uh that are Muslim, and and that's fine until you start getting down at the local mosque where they're saying, Let's go kill the people in your neighborhood.
Let's go kill your fellow citizens.
And that's what's starting to happen.
And obviously, I I did not know.
It it brings up the immigration issue.
Are you how many how many are you gonna let in and keep and and then wiretapping and things along those lines to make sure that people that come to this country are not here for the purpose of basically taking it over so they can uh turn it into a uh a a radical Islamic country.
That's what their goal sounds like, and they did it to some extent in Lebanon with the help of Syria and Iran.
I uh it's fascinating.
It ties all this together.
Sarah, thanks so much for the call.
Short break.
We'll be back.
Tom Sullivan and for Rush.
Coming up next hour, I've got the uh Dan Rather psychoanalysis done by me.
And um, but we're talking about this uh craziness of Hezbollah and Hamas and uh Scott in Ocala, Florida.
Hi, Scott, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Oh, Cala, I'm sorry.
Thanks.
I I was just I just had a remark for that person uh uh uh talking about the difference between the uh the Lebanese radicals and the average Lebanese uh person, and and I I'm I think there's a time for us to have a serious conversation about the fact that uh if uh if you're if you're a member of the Islamic faith, you're either a radical or you're neutral.
And and I don't think there's a place for that.
You know, I I know that in the um another radio guy talked about the Confederate flag is is a symbol of of racism because in the 70s when the KKK started using it at their rallies, non racist southerners didn't stand up and say, Don't use our symbol of our heritage.
They allowed to become a symbol of hate, and I think Islam is becoming um a state of hatred because the radicals aren't being challenged by other Islamics.
They're they're to let them kill America.
I couldn't agree with you more.
The the problem is you talk to all these people that are Muslims and good Muslims, and they say we love this country, we love America, we don't believe in all that killing and everything else.
Well, then do something about it.
Start self-policing the mosque and get these people so that they're not representing Islam to the rest of the world.
We'll be back.
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