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July 17, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What's the old soul?
What do I always say when I leave?
Go on vacation, all hell breaks loose.
I got a market tip for you people.
The next time I announce I'm going on vacation for a week, just sell short the entire stock market the whole week I'm going to be gone.
It'll clean up.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back.
Great to be back.
Great to be here.
The uh one and only EIB network, Rush Limbaugh, and the uh golden EIB microphone here at the prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Email address rush at EIBNet.com.
All right, a lot to do here today, but let me just give you the first thought on uh on what has been World War III since 9-11.
I mean, all these people running around talking about it's not World War III.
We've been telling you it's been World War III since 9-11, and it is certain people that don't want to own up to that and face it, it's too scary, Russ.
It's too scary.
Well, get get real, folks.
But what has happened here?
I think what's going on here is this is a gift to the world.
What is happening in the Middle East today is a gift to the world, and I will be happy to explain this in due course.
But first I have to warn you, folks, I am dog tired.
Actually, I should say cat tired.
I am just I I had a whole week of golf.
I mean, 27 holes Saturday, 18 holes on Sunday, 18 holes on Friday.
Every day last week except Thursday, golf in a different city every day.
Well, except for the last three days was in uh was in Connecticut.
So I get home and I start doing a feverish show prep for this busy broadcast today.
And about 11 o'clock, I said, I'm just I I'm I'm I'm finished, I can't do anymore, and I just went up to bed.
And uh now when I got home, first thing I did was lavish attention on my little cat pumpkin.
Because I know pumpkin doesn't like it when I'm gone a long time.
So I just I spent about 20 minutes just lavishing attention.
I fed her and all that sort of stuff at 3 30 this morning.
A little cat starts headbutting me with my head, safely on the pillow.
I'm bothering nobody, there's nobody there but me and the cat.
And she starts headbutting me and biting my earlobes.
Usually when that happens, it's about 7 30 or 7 and she wants to be fed.
I said, Well, I'm not gonna reward this behavior.
I'm not gonna get out of bed at 3 30 in the morning and feed the cat.
Well, this went on for three hours from 3 30 to 6 30.
I could not get a no sleep whatsoever.
Cat was all over me.
I mean, I I'm literally mean all over me, headbutting me and all kinds of things.
Finally at 6 30, so I got up and fed her.
She didn't want to be fed.
She didn't want to eat.
I'm telling Dawn the story here this morning, and Dawn says, She's a female cat?
Yeah.
Well, she's mad at you.
She's mad that you were gone all week, and this is how she's letting you know.
I said, Women.
So anyway, I'm I'm I'm sitting here, folks, and I'm prepared.
I don't want you to be alarmed, but sometimes I get giddy uh during these uh broadcasts where I've had little sleep the night before.
Now, before I get into the detailed explanation of why I think this is a gift to the world that is happening now in the uh in the Middle East, a little historical perspective first, to set up the historical perspective.
I've got to share with you some audio sound bites first.
This morning in St. Petersburg, Russia, this is uh a portion of President Bush's conversation with Tony Blair about uh about Lebanon.
The president was eating lunch there, microphone on a table.
Uh that the story is that Bush and Blair didn't know the microphone was on.
I'm not sure I believe that.
You don't get to be present.
You see a microphone, you always assume that it is going to be on.
This is what the president said.
See, the irony is that what they need to do is get serious and get headbutt.
Stop doing this s***.
So what he said there, the irony is what they really need to do is the Syria get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this uh this bleep and uh and and it's over.
Uh that that is that that that's a key comment, aside from the uh expletive that was that was deleted.
Uh I'm not sure that that that was a a comment that was made uh with in ignorance of the fact that a microphone was on.
So let's go to this morning.
MSNBC.
Let's just set the table here.
Uh the anchor Contessa Brewer with NBC's chief correspondent Andrea Mitchell about uh Bush's swearing.
Uh and uh Contessa Brewer says, Do you think he expresses his frustration with these other players going in and getting their fingers involved where they don't belong?
What he was saying in that moment of uh uh unvarnished comment to Tony Blair was that they he's frustrated that Kofi Annan has first of all been calling for a ceasefire.
Uh a ceasefire right now would stop Israel from cleaning out Hezbollah or trying to clean out the water.
Stop the tape.
I cannot handle this.
I have all week long, I've been listening to and and hearing Israel must practice restraint.
Israel, world leaders uh tell Israel to practice restraints, Israel's fault.
This sit tight, folks.
Israel's been told you give up that plot of land and there'll be peace, there's no peace.
Give up that plot of land, there'll be peace, there's no peace.
And by the time they're they're said and done, in Israel's a country that at its uh you know narrowest up there's nine miles wide.
And everybody keeps telling them give that back to the Palestinians, give that back to Hezbollah, give that back to whoever, Hamas we'll have peace.
And it's not the case.
This is a classic illustration of the limbaugh doctrine.
There's not going to be peace in that region, and this is why this is a gift to the world in part.
There is not going to be peace in that region until somebody emerges victorious over somebody else.
The peace results from the winner setting the terms of surrender to the loser.
And not before the UN absolutely worthless.
I'm prior years.
This is all this about negotiation and diplomacy, diplomatic solution.
What's this been going on?
Fifty years?
When are we going to wake up?
When are people going to wake up and realize this is not how this is going to be solved?
Here's the rest of Andrea Mitchell.
Placements.
And not return the soldiers.
Uh, not in fact stop Hezbollah from continuing to rocket uh Northern Israel's second thing, uh the second frustration which you just saw there was the President saying that Kofi Annan has not come down hard enough on Syria's President Bashir Assad to stop Hezbollah.
So all of those things are in play, and that was President Bush unvarnished.
I refused, and I know President Bush, he's a smart man, and I refuse to believe that President Bush is sitting around waiting for Kofi Annan to deliver some hard-hitting message to somebody that's gonna stop this.
He's not that stupid, nor is he that ignorant, nor does he live in that sort of pie in the sky world.
And we put together here a little montage for you of the uh drive-by media and and democrats.
And and the basic the basic premise here, the new action line, the new template is that the war in Iraq has caused this new instability in the Middle East, and that has caused the president to be distracted and bogged down in Iraq, and therefore he was ignoring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for thousands of years.
It was Clinton who left all of these problems to be solved by his successor.
Uh and it was if if anybody was ignoring everything, it was Bill Clinton.
And I know you libs get upset with me.
Well, you can't let Clinton go.
Well, Clinton, the Clinton administration's a factor in all this stuff.
They're a factor in the way we deal with China, a factor in Iraq, they're a factor in North Korea.
They are a factor in Iraq.
Well, Jimmy Carter uh gave us the modern day Iran.
But just listen to this media montage to show you the narrow focus of the drive-by media.
The action line on all U.S. foreign policy is that whatever problem in the world exists, it's Bush's fault for one reason or another, largely Iraq.
Anything they can do to portray Iraq as a failed policy in as many ways as possible they will do, and this montage demonstrates that.
The administration has been so focused on Iraq and Afghanistan, it has failed to pay enough attention to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Where it's focused is Iraq.
The war in Iraq has led to what has happened in the actions by Hamas and Hezbollah.
Anybody think we can wage a war now against Syria against Iran while we're still bogged down in the world.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
The only people that don't think we can wage a war and win anywhere are people like you, Senator Biden.
And it's because of policies of the Democratic Party and the American left that we uh we now have this whole notion.
I'm getting so sick and tired of people rooting for the defeat of the good guys.
New York Times has an editorialist just may they may as well have announced that they have chosen sides and they want the terrorists to win.
It's the most amazing editorial.
We'll get to all that.
Here's the rest of the montage.
There's been an obsession with Iraq, taking advantage of the fact that we're bogged down.
The issue of Iraq.
We are bogged down there.
Are we so bogged down now in Iraq?
Iraq a distraction.
Did the president pay enough attention to the Middle East, or was he preoccupied with Iraq?
Many argue that going into Iraq would stir up a hornet's nest.
The war in Iraq has clearly spread in many different ways that's made the situation worse.
Can't believe what I'm here saying for having put the Israel-Palestine issue on the back burner for most of the last five years, paying much more attention to Iraq.
Literal idiots.
And these are the people in the drive-by media with such a narrow focus.
They have missed the problem with one letter.
The problem is Iran.
It is not Iraq, folks.
The problem is Iran.
Back in just a moment.
All right, so use the audio sound bites to set up now a couple of monologues historically.
By the way, welcome back, Rush Limbo, America's real anchor man here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Networks.
As you know, the uh the liberal left bouncing off the walls uh right now, new confusion in the confused already drive-by mainstream.
Uh there is new near suicide in the epicenters of liberalism over all this because the cowboy did it again.
President Bush unilaterally supported Israel.
Unilateral.
Oh, they just can't stand that.
The American left despises Israel, as does uh much of the of the rest of the uh terrorist world and so forth.
The President of the United States, our commander-in-chief, faced off over there with the uh this this group of eight and supported Israel.
Um supported their right, Israel's right to defend herself.
And our left, our liberals, our progressives, they have to suck it up and and and uh and think uh, you know I'm getting ahead of myself here just this little bit.
There's a week of catch-up here to do, a week of like split screen confusion that needs the clarity of me, you're all seeing, all knowing Maharushi.
Everybody wants to know who's at fault here.
Well, uh the American left and the Arab bloc, of course, blame Israel.
Uh our realists blame Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran, and put Iran in capital letters.
And then, of course, the American left says, well, Israel shouldn't overreact.
Hezbollah didn't fire rockets, and and and we'll we'll have peace and flowers and happiness.
What wouldn't that be nice?
Can we just have a thief fire?
Well, just who is at fault here?
Who is who is to blame?
It's not Israel, and it's not really Hezbollah, it's not even Syria uh and and uh well, you can it has to be Iran.
Um, but what is it that's enabling Hezbollah and Syria and Iran to act as they are?
Folks, this is terribly important here, because if a strong show of response is not demonstrated to these people, Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, they are going to be emboldened.
If you want to know who I think is at fault here, the United Nations for one, our State Department number two, and perhaps Colin Powell number three.
Uh we have political opportunists in this country always putting ambition over country.
We have the Bush-hating drive-by media that refuses to criticize UN failures while continuing to hold out hope that the only body on the planet that can ever solve any problem when it hasn't ever solved one is the United Nations.
Now, six years ago, folks, Israel and Lebanon and the United Nations agreed that Israel would withdraw from Southern Lebanon.
Lebanon would disarm the terrorist militia Hezbollah, and the UN would supervise.
Oh, let's all sing Kumbaya.
Let's have a Party.
Six years later, what's happening?
Hezbollah rocket launchers are launching alongside UN flags at the border.
And now, after all of this, God help us, Kofi Annan wants to supervise a ceasefire after a policy which guaranteed us all that this that's happening right now could not and would not happen if Israel, if Israel would just withdraw from Southern Lebanon.
So much for John Kerry's United Nations.
Now for the State Department.
President Bush showed the Middle East that the fund's over, did so in Iraq.
The next domino was to be Syria.
This this Iraq war was never meant to stop in Iraq.
You remember the original axis of evil.
This was uh this was to root out that whole region over there, um, either through diplomacy or through military action.
Syria should have blinked at all this.
But it was our State Department that blinked first, and Syria learned that they can withdraw from Lebanon without withdrawing.
They could pull out without actually pulling out because nobody was going to do anything about it once they didn't pull out.
And Iran now enters the fray with a brand new strateger, and it's called war by militias.
We got the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, we have the Hamas militia in Gaza, and the Muki al-Sadr militia in southern Iraq.
As for our allies, well, the old reliable Jacques Chirac, nobody's surprised here, accuses Israel of overreacting.
I mean, I think to the French, if uh if Israel said ouch after one of these bombs struck or one of these missiles struck, the French would accuse them of having an overreaction.
Wonder how many rockets France would have suffered without overreacting as somebody lawed some some missiles into them.
Uh France gets upset over penalties in the World Cup, but they don't get upset over anything else.
So here we are today, this very moment, the media template is Israel overreacted.
Bush was distracted.
Bush caused all of this by going into Iraq rather than the appropriate template after England, France, and Germany spent what is it, two years negotiating with Iran?
Iran still is doing their nuke buildup.
Iran is still engaged in influencing events throughout that region.
Any wonder why Iran unleashed a militia strategy on the Middle East?
Because nobody cares.
Nobody cares what Iran's doing.
Nobody wants to do anything to stop Iran from what they're doing except Israel.
Now, if America is the cradle of democracy, Israel is the cradle of reality in that region.
That's why the rest of the world doesn't support us.
All of this restraint and cessation of hostilities is just a bunch of it's a bunch of garbage, folks.
They gave them Gaza.
They pulled out of South Lebanon.
Now they want to destroy Israel.
So what is this restraint business?
Israel just supposed to sit back?
I had some, I had a conversation when I was gone.
Guy said, You see the movie Munich.
I said, no, I haven't seen it, I've got it on DVD, but anyway.
Watch a brilliant movie.
You've got to watch.
It was all about these Israelis that went in and sought revenge after the 72 Olympics, and the commandos finally said, you know what?
Doesn't matter.
We kill them, they kill us back, and it never stops.
So what are we supposed to do then?
They're not supposed to avenge what happened to the 72 Olympics.
All this moral equivocation.
There are no good guys, they're no bad guys.
Everybody, you know, we just have to stop the killing.
Well, all right.
Uh and guess who has to be restrained?
The good guys.
Israel has to be restrained.
But when Hezbollah attacks or Hamas attacks, or Iran through proxies attacks, why that's somewhat understandable because Israel shouldn't be there.
Israel transplanted itself.
It's those people's country, and they're so poor, and there's just so they're so bedraggled, and nobody wants them.
Who can blame them for what they're doing?
But we can always blame Israel.
Here's the key.
Are we going to take care of Iran now before it has nukes, or are we going to wait until we can't do anything?
That's the key here.
Iran is nothing more than a third-rate dictatorship.
It's not supported by its own people, very restive population there.
It's a Jimmy Carter legacy, which has to be ended.
Now, Israel can't do this.
I've had people say on Iran.
Israel can't do it, folks.
They can't take care of Iran without us.
Iran is too far away for their ground forces.
it's too far away for their fighter jets to run bombing missions and to get back.
But just think, ask yourself a hypothetical.
If we if we were doing to Iran what Israel is doing in Lebanon, that might be enough.
We don't need to go in and occupy Iran.
Uh anything that takes its place can't be any worse if we were to root out the current Mullah regime, and that has to be objective number one.
That's why I think this is a gift to the world, folks.
This is fine an opportunity finally to do something about Iran.
Iran is the elephant in the room in all of this.
And if we sit here and say it's Hezbollah or it's Assad or it's Syria or it's Hamas, uh we are blaming the tentacles and not the brain.
And Iran is the center and the focus of this, and that's why this is a gift.
Making the complex understandable.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to uh be back with you after a week away in the uh great Northeast uh went to Martha's Vineyard to uh play golf, thought about thought about installing some chaff on uh EIB one in case I was fired on by surface-to-air missiles from the liberals there, but we snuck in uh and and got in and out of there without uh well I don't think they knew I was there.
We did go out to dinner one night.
Haven't heard anything about it since, so I think I snuck in and out of there uh with uh without any problem.
It was a great time.
I'll I'll tell you more about it in uh in due course.
But I want I want to stick with this theme.
I mean I'm just I'm just amazed.
I really am.
I these these are otherwise intelligent people, but they are just in the in the drive-by media I'm talking about, they are so narrowly focused right now on just getting rid of Bush, harming Bush, that no matter what happens in the world, it's Bush's fault.
And they can't even see the real evil when they look at it.
To them, George W. Bush represents more evil than Ahmadinizad in uh in Iran or any of these uh kooks uh around the world, such as uh Kim Jong il, and of course it's all Bush's fault, and now they they're starting to say Bush, well, you know, he's just he's getting ready to leave.
Uh he wants to leave all these problems for his successor.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh if there's anybody who left every problem on this planet to his successor, it was William Jefferson Clinton.
From Iraq to Iran to North Korea to Al-Qaeda, every one of those problems left to his successor.
Now, this this war on terrorism, which a significant population or portion of the population of this country does not even want to consider a war, and many of those people are elected Democrats.
But it is a war, and I don't know how you can look at these pictures and understand and not understand that there's something really serious going on that yet presents us uh finally with an opportunity that we didn't start, of course the drive-by media thinks we did start all this by going into Iraq and stirring up a hornet's nest, as though there hasn't been tension in the Middle East long before we got there.
By the way, uh in as far as stirring up tensions, have you seen this in and about face?
The Sunnis want the U.S. to remain in Iraq.
I thought John Merth is out there saying that they wanted us out of there.
The Sunnis have now undercut Mirtha.
They've thrown Mirtha over the overboard.
The uh uh many Sunni Arab political and religious leaders once staunchly opposed to the American presence in Iraq, now saying they need American troops to protect them from the rampages of Shiite militias and Shiite-run government forces.
They don't want us to leave.
That's really stirring up a hornet's nest, huh?
See, the war on terrorism was never supposed to be limited to just Iraq.
Uh you have to attack.
If you can have a war on terror, uh there are terrorists all over the place.
You have to you have to hit them where they reside and from where they are attacking our forces in Iraq.
Uh if if this, if what they're doing now, if what Hezbollah, which is which if I keep saying Hezbollah and Hamas, it's all Iran, folks.
If what Iran is doing does Not result in a big blow to these people in Lebanon and uh in the Palestinian areas, they are going to be emboldened.
If the in fact, Ralph Peters has a piece today saying he's a little worried because the Israelis are not fighting this as they've fought other times before.
They have sent ground troops in before.
And his uh theory is that if we don't, if the if the Israelis don't send some ground forces into Lebanon, they did for a while temper pull them back.
Uh if they don't do that, they're gonna send the message that they're not serious about this.
If they're just gonna trade missile lobs and not actually send in some uh some ground troops, uh, then these people will be emboldened and it will show uh the uh Hezbollah types and the Hamas types that all of a sudden Israel has become afraid of casualties.
That's Ralph Peters' theory.
Uh who knows, but it it probably will have some sort of effect uh on the bad guys if if they do think, if they tell themselves whether it's true or not, that the Israelis all of a sudden are afraid to uh take casualties, uh, it'll have the same effect as bin Laden, assuming we were afraid to take casualties after Somalia.
In fact, I mentioned this to you after I was in uh Afghanistan a year ago, February, I guess about a year and a half ago now, and I I had dinner one night at the home of the uh commander of the Mujahideen forces against the Soviets.
And you know, they're the first ones that actually defeated in a ground war the Soviet Red Army.
I said, How'd you do it?
He said, Very simple.
Uh we wanted it more than they did, but they became afraid of casualties.
They they they they they were afraid of the news going home of all their losses.
They were afraid to put themselves in a position to take casualties for the first time in their history.
So you read what Ralph Peters thinks, military strategist author and so forth.
He's in the New York Post today writing this.
Um you have to say that that got a point, but it's soon.
Israel may not want to show all their cards.
But he says in the next two, three days a week, whatever, if uh if they don't send ground forces in to root out some of these uh hell spots, uh it will indicate a new strategy on the part of the Israelis that might not be uh all that positive in terms of the emboldening effect it would have on the on the bad guys.
But I'll tell you what else we don't know.
I've got a couple sound bites of Madeline Albright, and I'm getting fed up with hearing from Madeline Albright.
I'm getting fed up with hearing from all the failures in this thing for the last thirty years.
We don't need right now to be hearing from all of those who failed this process for the last 30 years, and they're all over television.
These former ambassadors, former members of the State Department, former secretaries of state, all failures, uh pontificating on what this administration is doing wrong.
And then we got all this newts out there saying World War III, we got it to it.
World War III began on 9-11.
But there's an opportunity here.
We right now have no plan to deal with Iran if it gets nukes.
Now's the time to deal with Iran, folks.
That's I can't emphasize enough how how I think this is uh a gift.
Israel's bogging down uh Hezbollah.
Israel has opened a Western front in the process.
Israel's wiping out the infrastructure.
Israel's not trying to hurt the Lebanese, by the way.
They're trying to encircle and close in on Hezbollah in Lebanon, cut them off from leaving and from receiving support.
That's why they're blowing up the highways, that's why they're blowing up the airports.
Um and all this has been portrayed as Hezbollah.
Hey, nobody's ever seen them fire rockets like this.
I guess Hezbollah's serious.
Hezbollah is being cordoned off.
Hezbollah is being surrounded.
Uh and and they're being bogged down.
And I don't care what these narrowly focused lame brains in the drive-by media are trying to tell you.
It is the front line in the war against Syria and Hezbollah.
But Israel cannot do this by herself.
Not be because Iran is in the mix.
I mean, Israel can take out Hezbollah in Lebanon, and uh his Israel could wipe out Syria.
There's if they if they had a mind to.
Uh uh and don't think that that little tin horned Basher Assad is not scared to death today.
You know, this guy's been emboldened in the past because he was told to pull out of Lebanon, he said I'm pulling out, and he didn't, and he got away with it, thanks to our State Department, the UN not following up, putting pressure on him.
So he was feeling his oats.
He's out there flexing, thinking, aha, I'm a big guy.
I stared him down, but don't think he's not scared right now today.
He is scared to death.
But as I say, Israel cannot get to Iran for a knockout blow.
They cannot do it all.
Well, unless they use nukes, but they're not going to do that.
Not now.
And so while Israel is bogging down Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, we keep hearing from the drive-by media, and our population keeps hearing that we're bogged down in Iraq.
Oh, yes, we're bogged down.
We're the the big mighty United States of America bogged down in Iraq.
And you people are being told that we cannot fight multiple wars at once.
You just heard Joe Biden say it in our uh in our montage in the last half.
Well, because we're bogged down in Iraq, we can't deal with Iran, we can't deal with North Korea.
We are the United States of America, for crying out loud.
We haven't shown one third, maybe not even that much, of the force that we can project.
We haven't.
We are fighting a minimalist war in Iraq, and we have been from the get-go because we're trying to allow the country to rebuild and re-establish.
We don't need to occupy all these places in order to fight wars in them and to show our force and to project our power.
We haven't unleashed our Air Force.
We haven't unleashed our big bombers.
We can do ten times what Israel is doing in Lebanon to Iran if we had to.
If we had the will to.
Make no mistake about it.
But right, but right would stir up a harness that the Muslims around the world would get.
We're talking about the head here.
What about bin Laden?
What about Bin Laden?
We're talking about the regionalized conflict here going on between Israel.
You know what Ahmadinizad's been saying ever since he came into power?
Israel's gonna get wiped off the earth.
He's in power to do it.
People are dead serious over there.
Uh here's the the point.
Much of the ongoing terrorism in Iraq is funded and aided and directed from Iran and Syria, especially Iran, and much of the effort to undermine Iraq's government is coming from those countries.
They have to deal with them.
We know that Iran is sending in these IEDs, they're being manufactured there, that's been discovered.
And if we deal with both Syria and Iran, then Iraq has an even better chance of surviving and becoming what uh everybody hope well most people hope that it will uh become.
And have you noticed, and I've got the story here in in the stack.
Uh I'll get to it in detail in a in a moment, but have you noticed that several of the usual Arab countries have not blasted Israel in the usual terms?
In fact, the story I have, and I'll let me dig that out.
I'll have to do it after the uh after the break, but they're they're worried.
The Saudis uh and a number of other Egypts of the world.
I mean, these guys are not coming out like they usually do.
And they're worried about Iran.
Forget everybody over there is worried about Iran.
This guy's a nutcase.
Iran is not Arab.
Iran's nuking up.
Iran's trying to make sure that it's the number one supplier of oil.
There's a there's a there's a lot going on, and they are worried to death about that.
They know what Iran's doing.
They know who's funding Hezbollah, they know who's funding Habbas, they know that Syria and Iran are, and they know that Iran and China are linked together too.
And that doesn't make them happy.
They're troubled by Iran.
They're troubled by Hezbollah.
It's not that they like Israel.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
They fear what Israel will do in response.
They also fear for their own survival.
I'm a little long here, must take a brief break back at it right after this.
All right, so I checked the email during the uh during the break.
And I, you know, I got some libs out there that have joined Rush 24-7, my uh my website, just to have a direct pipeline of email to me.
You just can't leave Clinton alone, can't you?
Clinton's gun.
Clinton's finished, you can't leave Clinton.
As though everything I've said other than about Clinton uh has been discredited because I mentioned Clinton.
Well, Drudge has this little flashback posted, folks.
And this is from Sunday, August 4th of 2004, the 2002, almost four years ago.
And this is from the uh Daily Times.
Uh former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who many Arab uh Arabs thought was even uh more even handed uh on the Palestine question than his predecessors, shocked many when he asserted in Toronto last.
Can anybody forget who was the number one guest at the White House during the Clinton administration?
Was Araf?
Yes, sir Arafat.
Now get this quote.
Clinton says it was in Toronto in 2002, and he said that had Israel been attacked by Iraq or Iran during his presidency, he would have been ready to grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die.
Here's his quote.
Yeah, you know, the Israelis, I mean, they know that if the Iraqi and the Iranian army came across Jordan River, I would personally grab a rifle.
I get in a ditch, and I would fight and die.
Clinton told the crowd at a fundraising event for a Toronto Jewish charity on Monday.
I don't know if they believed him, or the point is everything is about him getting a he probably wouldn't do this for America, but he says he would do it for Israel.
Uh and meanwhile, Arafat's the number one game.
He didn't do anything to solve a problem.
What did the uh Oslo Accord solve?
What did any other stuff that Clinton and Albright brokered?
What did it accomplish?
Diddly squat.
Now, from the French news agency, the spirits of Dateline Cairo.
The spiraling Middle East crisis has exposed deep divisions within the Arab world and forced its leaders into a frank admission of helplessness.
After an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers on Saturday, the 22-member bloc admitted that it was impotent in the face of Israel's deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
The League's Secretary General told reporters after the meeting, don't ask me what to do.
Analysts said that the huge rift between Western allies such as Egypt and Jordan and radical states like Syria had proved impossible for diplomats to bridge.
Finally, finally, we got some honesty here that this is not the stuff of diplomats.
This is a war.
And it's been going on for I don't know how long.
And diplomats have been trying to stop it and solve it and come up with peace plans for I what, 30 or 40 years?
And where are we today?
The main structure of the Arab League is the idea of consensus.
So meetings always come up with the lowest common denominator, said Nadim Shahadi, a Middle East specialist with the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs.
The Saturday meeting was a bit more revealing.
There are real divisions at this time, especially to do with relations with Iran on the one hand and with the United States and Israel on the others.
We must take swift steps with sincere intentions to solve the Arab-Arab differences, which create an obstacle to reaching a unified Arab position, said the Foreign Minister Abu Bakar Al-Kurby.
The only way, the only way to revive the peace process is to take it back to the Security Council.
His comment sparked an angry reaction from Arab journalists, but analysts said that he was just playing to the gallery.
I mean, even these clowns know that the UN Security Council is worthless in all this.
The United States State Department is...
Well, I'm sorry, I think it's useless too.
I think any of these people who want to focus on a diplomatic solution to this are just repeating bad history and not seeing the light.
But of course that's what they are.
Diplomats, they're not supposed to solve problems.
They'll be out of work if they actually solve problems.
But my friends, the bottom line is as I said, in this new round of militia fighting has Balahama, Syria, Iran, the usual suspects in the Arab world are holding their fire when it comes to condemning Israel.
They are, because this is this is a whole new strategy here that's broken out.
It's the militia strategy, the insurgent in uh strategy, much as the insurgent strategy we're seeing in uh in Iraq and have for a year and a half or two, whatever the length of time has uh has been.
So all kinds of things are different here, this this time around.
But our drive-by media with their tunnel vision and their action Line are totally clueless when it comes.
And these are not even subtleties.
These are not even subtleties that you have.
You don't have to read the stitches on a fastball to be able to see this.
They don't see it because they don't want to see it.
But the bottom line is you spell the you spell the problem and the solution here.
I R A N. And also one more story here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers to illustrate the split in the Arab world that these latest hostilities are causing.
Sit tight, folks.
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