Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I knew it.
I knew this was going to happen, and it has happened even sooner than I thought it has happened.
Well, all this talk about the government's doing just as bad a job getting our citizens out of Lebanon and Beirut as it did in Hurricane Katrina.
I just wasn't certain how the left was going to play it.
And I'm not sure they're certain how they're ultimately going to play it.
Anyway, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Here we are in the middle of the week.
Sit tight, Mr. Snurris.
One mention of these ingrates that are, and you've seen them all over television.
They so they were flies.
They were actually flies in the boat that they took us.
As though there aren't any flies in Lebanon.
At any rate, we'll get to this in due course.
Just sit tight in there.
I've never seen you this worked up so early before I even said anything.
You said one word, Katrina.
Anywhere's the phone number, 800-282-2882.
And the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
All right.
Of course I know how much money all this is about.
Would you let me do the show?
Once I finish the monologue, I think you'll be pleased.
I think you'll be happy.
Sit in there like the program observer you are and observe.
Passions are really firing out there.
Here's the.
Put on your blue helmet in there, Bo.
Look, I was wondering how the left was going to play this.
I started thinking about this yesterday.
He made some references to this on yesterday's program.
Because here's the thing, when all you care about is winning elections, when that's all you care about, it's winning elections and figuring out talking points that will help you, then life can get pretty complicated.
Because if, you know, maybe a tad too divine complicated.
When there is no right or wrong in your mind, when there's no politics stops at the water's edge to restrain you, when the only thing that matters is winning an election, well, then you've got a real problem.
How does the left play the evacuation in Lebanon?
Supportive, critical?
Not so fast, ladies and gentlemen.
Do the Dean and Pelosi Crowd and Harry Reid, do they say the evacuations are too slow and do they try to revisit Hurricane Katrina?
Now, the Drive-By Media is doing this.
But do the Democrats do this?
Or do they say the rescues are going pretty smoothly and suggest that it's not Katrina because the evacuees are largely fair-skinned?
It's hard to say that this is Katrina because Katrina was all about the fact that the administration didn't care about black people.
Well, this certainly can't be said.
That can't be said of the evacuation from Lebanon or from Beirut.
Now, keep in mind here, folks, we are talking core beliefs, the coreist of the core liberal belief.
They've got one core belief, and that's winning elections.
And then after that, taking away as much of your money and your freedom as they can.
But before they can do that, they have to win an election.
So does the left say, well, we already own the black vote, so we don't have to revisit Katrina here.
Or do they want to fire up African American turnout?
Do they play the race card?
Or do they play the incompetence card?
Do they say this administration can't handle it?
This is terrible.
Or do they say this administration is racist?
And say, look how fast they're acting.
They're sending boats.
They're doing everything they can to get people out of there.
It may not be going as quickly as we want, but they're doing everything.
They didn't do this in Katrina.
Do they play it that way?
The answer will not come from me.
It will not come from you.
It won't even come from the New York Times.
The answer will come from polls and focus groups.
As Bob Dylan once sang, ladies and gentlemen, the answer, my friend, is blowing in the polls.
And the Democrats, I'm sure they're out focus grouping this right now.
Now, they may have already had their answer handed to them by the drive-by media.
Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi have returned to the scene of the original drive-by, which is Katrina.
The Lebanon evacuation is just like that now.
Here's a montage of various leftists.
Remember, Katrina?
France has gotten more than 700 of their people out.
Sort of brought back, you know, the whole Katrina thing.
It's like Katrina all over again.
Just another manifestation of the Katrina mentality.
It's too bad that this is being treated as a mini-Katrina.
The slow response that the Bush administration had after Katrina.
One of the people we talked to earlier today equated it to Katrina.
Some on Capitol Hill are now bringing up memories of Hurricane Katrina.
The image of Americans terrified has burned the Bush administration before.
Following Hurricane Katrina.
You have heard Katrina calling it a mini Katrina.
All right, so the voices there were Jack Cafferty of CNN, Chris Jansen of PMS, NBC, Anderson Cooper of CNN, Dingy Harry, Andrea Coppel of CNN, Miles O'Brien of CNN, Kate Snow, ex-CNN, now ABC, David Schuster, PMS, NBC, and Paula Zahn, CNN.
But it gets even better.
Gets even better.
CNN this morning found an ingrate to compare her evacuation to Katrina.
Soledette O'Brien interviewing an American student, Ashley Maranakio.
Soledad says, the first massive evacuation by a ship of Americans done by the Norwegians.
Did that surprise you?
I mean, look at the evacuations from Katrina.
We didn't expect to be getting out anytime soon.
Okay, then what are you complaining about?
What was the lesson of Hurricane Katrina?
I'm going to hold the fire.
We got two more bites.
We got two more bites from this ingrate.
Soledad O'Brien, next question.
Sounded like a pretty awful trip.
Looks hot.
You see people covering themselves with tarp and sort of arranging their children around cardboard to describe what that was like.
Pretty crowded on that ship.
Yeah, it was unfortunately a floating refugee camp.
It was awful because there's people with 10 kids, you know, seriously, 10 kids.
And they're trying to get food.
And then there's other people yelling, saying that they're stealing food.
And, you know, I'm assuming that they were hungry because they'd been there since 9 o'clock.
And apparently, from what I hear, at around 11 o'clock when they came around giving food out, this was the first time that people were being fed.
Yeah, it was sad.
And one more question.
Did you notice that first montage?
How similar the Democrats, like Dingy Harry, and Pelosi sounded to the media?
I mean, it's obvious the talking points have gone out.
Next question.
Highly organized.
We're on it.
We're doing a good job.
Is that how you would describe the evacuation?
I mean, the boat's not made to hold people.
I mean, it wasn't comfortable, and there were lots of flies.
It was by the end of the trip, people were sort of going crazy.
I mentioned yesterday, when was the State Department over the course of my lifetime has issued evac warnings from people to get out because hostilities are about to break out or have broken out in various places.
And I don't know that in the past we've had airlifts and we've chartered American airline and Delta airline jets and sent them over to wherever these Americans were to get them out of there.
It's always been something Americans should do on their own.
If they keep people talking about Hurricane Katrina here, it is that government has limited abilities.
I mean, to have these expectations is absurd and to have the ungrateful attitude about this.
You know, here's a little question I have.
Why are all those Americans over there in the first place?
What are they doing over there in the first place?
I'm sure they don't think they're in Bermuda.
So what are they doing?
Well, I know that some of them are going to college.
Why would you want to go to college in Lebanon?
Why would you want to do that?
Why are you there?
When business isn't yours.
I'm not making my business.
I'm just asking a question that I know is controversial.
Yes, and we have to pay to get them home.
It's our business.
Why are they there in the first place?
Why are we having to pay for it?
What is this?
It's their life.
They have responsibility.
Whatever happened to the notion that people have to take responsibility for themselves.
The government can help, but it can't do it all.
School bus Nagan actually made this statement not long ago.
I think it was close to the first of hurricane season back on the 1st of June.
School bus Ray Nagan, the mayor of New Orleans, to make sure that his city knew what the limitations of his government and the state government and the federal government were, told everybody in that city during his inauguration or whatever, this happens again, you get yourself out.
Buses are going to run, but you get yourself out.
The one thing that Katrina has told us is, take care of yourself.
Katrina was a failure of citizenship.
There were three failures, failure of government at three levels and a failure of citizenship.
And this is a failure of citizenship in a sense.
All these people sitting around waiting, well, Russia's tough to move around in Beirut.
Tough to move around.
It's a war zone in the first place.
What do you expect when you go there?
You know you're not going to Bermuda.
You know, they went into a country that only recently was able to move the Syrian regular army out that has Hezbollah in its government and where Hezbollah has controlled the southern region for years.
Did it ever occur to these people that a war might break out while they were there?
Did it ever occur to them to maybe make some plans to get out of there if there were signs that this was going to happen?
And I'll tell you something.
You know whose job it is to get people out of there?
I mentioned at the top of this monologue, the State Department.
That's the Department of State that the Libs love.
That is their haven.
This is a State Department botched operation.
We're not going to hear about that, though.
They're going to be hearing about how the Bush administration is replicating its incompetence in Hurricane Katrina.
I got to run here a little long in this segment.
We'll be back.
We'll continue right after this.
Yes.
You know, it does sort of go to what I have been saying for the past couple of weeks.
Are we really a nation with the will to do what needs to be done in the war on terror?
When you listen to these spoiled brat in great Americans whining about, they're in my boat.
It costs me $200 to get.
Where my government?
Where is my government?
Where are my government?
And the government's there, and the government's doing what it can, but this is not the government's responsibility.
Government didn't send you over there.
It's not the government's responsibility to, first and foremost, get you out.
That's your responsibility.
Here we have a life in this country that's so cushy.
The expectations are so high that when a little hardship, like going without food for a couple of hours or riding on a cramped boat out of a war zone, where do they think they are anyway?
They're in the third world for all practical purposes.
This is the kind of stuff that's alarming.
You wonder, do we have enough citizens with backbone to deal with the challenges we have ahead of us?
I happen to think that we do.
I just think the drive-by media loves finding these little whiners and these moaners and these groaners.
Because remember, the prism of all of this is, I don't care.
There's no doubt about this.
The whole point of the coverage of this war is how Bush blew it.
Bush let this happen.
Bush wasn't paying attention.
Bush was distracted in Iraq for whatever cockamame conspiratorial reason.
Bush was this.
Bush was that.
Cheney was over there.
Rumsfeld stinks.
Rice stinks.
They should have been canned, voted out, fired, impeached, whatever, months ago, years ago.
And that's the action line on this story.
And in the midst of all this, look at what's happening.
We've got now the Hezbollah, which yesterday treated to puff peace profiles.
Hassan Nasrallah on CNN now blowing up Nazareth, which is a holy, well, they sent a couple rockets in there.
Holy city, of course, in Israel.
And they're claiming, hey, we got 13,000 rockets.
And Hezbollah Iran said, hey, we're ready for World War III.
We're going to attack you, United States.
So we're not afraid of you.
In the midst of all this, guess who the bad guy continues to be?
And we're not even there, United States.
Even in the eyes of our ingrate, spoiled, rotten, little children brat-type ingrate citizens in Beirut, it's our fault.
And when, yeah, it's a war.
How do I get out?
We're having to shield ourselves from this on my cardboard.
That's embarrassing.
It's embarrassing.
And then they can't even come up with 200 bucks to get out.
How'd they get over there?
We know they sure as hell didn't swim.
Speaking of Hezbollah, the Israeli defense forces, the IDF, has found that Hezbollah is preventing its civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon.
At least our spoiled brat Americans can get out of there.
Hezbollah is not letting its civilians in southern Lebanon leave.
Roadblocks have been set up outside some of the villages to prevent Lebanese residents from leaving, while in other villages, Hezbollah is preventing UN representatives from getting in.
They're trying to help residents leave.
In two villages, exchanges of fire between residents and Hezbollah have broken out.
Now, why do you think that is, folks?
Why?
They want the civilian death count to skyrocket.
They want the Israeli strikes to kill civilians.
These are the people praised all day yesterday by CNN for having so much compassion.
Social programs, sewage treatment plants, whatever the hell else they said they had.
Now they're making sure that these poor people hang around so that they're part of the death count so they can make a PR spin move and say, look at what Israel is doing.
Israel is killing civilians.
Well, I don't know how widely reported what I just told you is.
It is out there.
But you have to have access to certain websites to see it.
It's the kind of thing that's not being reported in public.
I got to get a phone call here real quickly.
I talked about the movie Obsession yesterday on the program, and we've linked to the website for that movie.
We've got the director of that movie on the phone from South Africa.
His name is Wayne Wayne.
It's great to have you, and I'm appreciative of your call.
Hello.
Hi, Rashid.
It's great to be chatting to you.
All right.
Now, Wayne, you know, one of the things I mentioned yesterday, I guess you've heard about the fact that we discussed obsession on the program yesterday and you're calling to add to it, I assume, correct?
Correct, correct.
One of the things I remembered about watching it was how much footage you found of Hassan Nasrallah and how really radical and dangerous he is and who his models are, such as Adolf Hitler and so forth.
What about that?
You know, when people see the film Obsession, they always comment that it must have been so difficult for us to find the footage of these radical Islamic leaders all over the Arab world preaching hate against America, calling for genocide, calling for violence.
And people say it must have been so difficult to get that footage.
And I explained to them that that was the easiest part of the entire filmmaking process.
The organizations like memorytv.org and PMW.orgil, these are organizations that scour Arab media and they just record what these leaders and these mullahs and these sheiks are saying on their own TV stations in their own language on satellites or free to air.
And these organizations just record it, transcribe it, and put it up on their website for everyone to see.
It's all in English.
It's all transcribed.
And this is footage that has been available for anyone to see.
And no one, but no one has picked it up.
And we...
Now, that's the question.
Did that, why...
Why is that?
Why is what I call the drive-by media reluctant to show everybody this stuff?
That's the million-dollar question.
It could either be that they are so afraid of raising the icon of 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, and they don't want to put their finger in their proverbial eye, or it could be that they have a blind spot, that they just refuse to see this.
And that's why they portray these puff pieces, as you mentioned, because I think the reality is if they show the audience, if they show the viewers what is really going on, who we really are facing, I guess they think that it could be too hard for us to deal with.
I don't think that's a good idea.
I don't think they're giving the viewers the kind of credit that we need.
I've got a different theory about it, Wayne.
I think they're afraid if they show the truth about what we face, that it will buttress the Bush administration's policy.
And these people in our country, the way the media, drive-by media is interested in destroying the Bush administration.
The second thing I think is, I think because they're leftists mostly, they look at people like Nasrallah and the rest of these mullahs and sheiks essentially as victims.
They're poor.
They're backward.
They live in the 14th century.
Can you hold on through a break here?
Because I want to ask some more about the movie.
And it's great that you called here.
I didn't even expect.
Hang on.
Hang on.
Take a break, but don't go away, Wayne.
Stay right where you are.
We'll be right back.
Exactly right, ladies and gentlemen.
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No spin here.
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Back to Wayne in South Africa, the director of the film.
Robinson, you want to take the music?
Thanks.
Director of the film Obsession.
Wayne, I hate to be ignorant about this.
Is this movie available to the general public right now?
Rush, we've been desperately trying to find a distributor for the film.
I guess the same blind spot that we're finding with the media, we're also finding with distribution companies.
I guess they're finding that this story is just too hot to break to the poor public.
So we are struggling with that at the moment.
But we have a website if people want to find out more about the film.
And as soon as we're able to find that distributor, we're going to get it out there.
We're looking at doing a series of September 11th screenings in key cities around the United States on that day.
And so hopefully people will be able to come and see that.
We've linked to the website on my website.
We did this yesterday when I discussed the film.
And if you're just joining us, we're talking about the movie Obsession.
But Wayne, you know, it's hard to describe this actually as a movie.
There aren't any actors.
These are all real people in this thing.
You've got narrator and so forth.
But how do you draw the line between this being a documentary and a movie?
And how does that impact your ability to get it distributed?
Well, you know, what we found is that over the last few years, documentaries have found its way into the mainstream.
Liberal documentaries.
I beg your pardon.
Liberal documentaries, like Al Gore's stupid movie and Michael Moore.
And we figured that this could be a way to kind of showing the other side.
It's just a case of showing the reality what we're dealing with.
And, you know, and documentaries are finding their place in the market.
People are fascinated by real stories.
And I don't think anything is more real than what we're showing in this film.
Oh, it's chilling.
It is chilling.
You know, I had not really seen the Hezbollah leader much on the mainstream media.
He's all over Obsession.
He's all over your film.
And some of the things he says, I don't want to go.
I mean, it's don't specifically remember everything, but I mean, it is amazing how he's portrayed as he is in the American media and what he's really telling his own people and inspiring them to do or poisoning their minds to do.
Tell me this one thing.
The one thing that surprised me, the one thing I really didn't know when I watched the movie was the ties that middleton Islam has to Nazism in terms of philosophical agreement and strategical agreement.
Strategic agreement.
Yeah, this is also a story that has also, for some other reason, been embargoed that people just don't know much about.
Sheikh Hassan al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, had very, very close ties to Adolf Hitler.
And in fact, he also set up Nazi, excuse me, Arab Nazi Corps called the Hanschard Division, made up of Croatian Muslims.
And we have the protocols of a meeting that happened between Hitler and al-Husseini, where for the first time, Hitler revealed his plan, what he was actually doing and what he was about to do and why he was doing it, vis-à-vis the elimination of the Jewish people.
And Professor Robert Wistrich, who's an authority on the issue, as well as Sir Martin Gilbert, who wrote the definitive book called The Holocaust, they both testify that the reason that Hitler let out the secret to al-Husseini is because they both shared the same ideology, which is the destruction of their common enemy.
And they both had global genocidal ideologies.
And no one, this story has been sequestered.
The story has been quashed.
You won't find any evidence of this in any of the Holocaust museums.
And it's something that we, it's been on the public record for 60 years.
But we feel like we're kind of breaking this story.
And it was astounding to us that people haven't discussed it.
In the meantime, the American left refers to George Bush as Hitler and continues to make these ridiculous assertions and comparisons.
Well, Wayne, by the way, is Wayne Copping is his name, and he's the director of this movie Obsession.
I really wish you the best in getting this out.
Thank you.
It's shocking.
It's stunning to see it.
Some of it, as I say, I knew.
Some of the footage I'd actually seen little specks of, but most of it I had not seen.
And the only thing that some people might have, and this is a very minor thing, but how can viewers trust the translations from these various links?
Great question.
Great question.
Unlike most documentaries, we didn't put an English voiceover.
Sometimes they do that because it's easier for the audience.
But what we did is we kept the actual video footage with the actual person saying it speaking Arabic.
And then, of course, you have the subtitles.
On the screen at the same time, we put the website where you can go to for either memorytv.org or pmw.org.il, and you can type in the name or an excerpt, and you can see that transcript.
And in some cases, in many cases, you can actually watch that clip in its entirety.
We're also setting up links on our own website, ObsessionTheMovie.com, where people can see many of these clips in its entirety.
And people should do their due diligence to see whether or not we've taken these clips out of context.
And we are happy for people to do this because we are so certain that we haven't taken these clips out of context.
And so we're saying to people, if you don't trust us, here is all the information you need.
Please do your due diligence.
And I think people will be shocked when they find that we've only shown a tip of the iceberg.
There's so much more of this violent, anti-Western, anti-American hatred that is leading to the war that we're facing ourselves in today.
Well, congratulations, Wayne.
I know it was a lot of hard work putting this together in some sort of a timeline the way you did.
And I, again, wish you the best in getting it out.
And thanks so much for having heard about the discussion yesterday, giving us a call.
Where in South Africa are you?
I'm in Johannesburg.
Johannesburg.
Well, you're the first person I've ever talked to while they're in Johannesburg.
So it's an honor to have you with us today.
Thanks very much.
Thank you so much, sir.
All the best.
Same to you.
Wayne Copping, the director of the movie Obsession.
How did I get?
I'm a powerful, influential member of the media, Mr. Sterdley, and I have a DVD of it.
Michael Medved has seen it.
In fact, Medved's got a blurb on the DVD Jacket and on their website.
They're trying to get this movie in theaters.
They're trying to get mass distribution for it.
And so I, I mean, I'm not going to give you the trail by which it came to me.
I mean, I get people in trouble associating with me, so I just got it, okay?
To say it came in over the transom.
In there trying to stir trouble up.
Here's Pam in Renton, Washington.
Pam, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Pleasure to talk to you on my birthday.
Thank you.
Happy birthday to you.
How old are you?
I'm actually 44, and I have a three-and-a-four-year-old child, so I'm happy to be 44.
There you go.
Good.
I just wanted to say I'm quite confident the person that complained on the boat to Cyprus represented a small minority in that I've watched the media operate.
About 20 years ago, I was on a train that derailed, and I watched the media interview a bunch of passengers, including myself.
And the consistent story that we told over and over was: it was shocking how smooth it was that it happened.
The train swayed this way and that, and then it came over on its side, and there we were.
It was a very dramatic accident, but we were all surprised how smooth the motion was.
The one passenger that made it on TV was the one, the exception, who said, there was a big bang and a big crash, and that was who got on TV.
No doubt.
Yep.
I mean, that's a very wise observation and a reminder.
Plus, you've saw it.
You saw it happen.
But I just did not take long for CNN to go find this woman.
Now, there haven't been...
Have you seen others besides this woman, Mr. Snodely?
They're in print.
Okay, there are a bunch of them in print.
I haven't seen them all on television, and there's some of them in print.
But, you know, I don't actually think, to be honest with you, Pam, it's going to be that hard to find malcontents.
I think they're a bunch of spoiled Americans who are media savvy, and everybody wants to be on TV.
And I will guarantee you, what are the odds that some bunch of Americans living in Lebanon are Bush fans or conservatives or Republicans?
I still want to know what the hell they're doing there.
Yes, of course.
I mean, even if it's vacationing, I'd like to know that.
If they're going to school, some of them are actually going to college there.
Why in the world?
You're free to go or school wherever you want to go, and you can learn and study wherever you want to study.
But I mean, what is it?
I mean, maybe they're going there for the Lebanese health care system.
I'll bet that's what it is.
They went over there because this administration has such lousy health care in this car.
They had to go someplace, and they can't get into Cuba.
So they went to Lebanon.
You know, the other thing that distresses me about the clips that you played is, you know, criticizing our country because you deeply care about something is fine, but criticizing our country for no motive other than political gain is very grim.
Yeah, that's true.
But that's part and parcel of things now.
We're a very partisan, divided nation right now during a period of great risk and controversy.
So, I mean, we're almost 300 million people.
Now, it doesn't surprise me that we're going to have our share of malcontents.
Anyway, Pam, thanks so much for the call.
Congratulations on your birthday.
It's always, I think, an achievement for a conservative living in the state of Washington to survive another year.
Congratulations to you.
And we're back, El Rushbow, America's real anchor man from the Limbull Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I, Mr. Snerdley, maybe you've noticed this, and I'm sure many of you in the audience have noticed it.
Normally, I do not toot my own horn, as you know.
Don't have to.
It ain't bragging anyway, if you can do it.
Who's it?
Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel, Joe DiMaggio, Fidel Castro, whoever said it.
It ain't bragging if you can do it.
Now, on Monday on this program, which is just two days ago, Monday on this program, what were my words in describing the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah?
I said, this is a gift to the world.
And I said, why?
Because this now gives everybody an opportunity to focus on the real problem that we face, which is Iran.
And the question that we have to deal with there is, do we want to deal with an Iran after they have acquired nuclear weapons or not?
Do we want to prevent that?
And if we want to prevent that, what do we do?
Do we have a plan to deal with them after they've got nukes?
No, we don't.
Doubt that we do.
So I refer to this as a gift to the world.
How many distinguished conservative columnists are being praised to the hilt for having said that yesterday and today?
I am not going to mention names.
I just find it interesting.
And they're all being praised for great thinking and great insight.
I love Newt.
Don't misunderstand.
But Newt's been saying World War III has just broken out.
We can't, Newt's out there saying you can't negotiate with these people.
You have to defeat them.
It's the Limbaugh Doctrine.
Except there's no mention of the Limbaugh Doctrine.
And I'll tell you why, because talk radio is considered alternative media to magazines inside the Beltway and newspapers inside the Beltway, and of course, television.
But I just mentioned this, not because my feelings are hurt and not because I want the credit.
I want you people to know.
I just want to remind you how on the cutting edge you are as listeners of this program.
What you hear espoused as theory, analysis, and philosophy on this program will be echoed.
This is why I have always said this program is show prep for the rest of the media, which follows.
And so I'm just saying you are in the right place.
You'll get all the right angles first, early, and so forth.
And then you'll get up and you read your paper and they say, oh, so-and-so is written.
I heard that two days ago.
Old Rush said that.
Here's Jeff in Lansing, Michigan.
Jeff, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush.
Mega, ultimate male dittos from Michigan.
Thank you, sir.
You know how you're always saying the Democrats are opening the doors into their own faces and bloodying their own noses.
This weekend on the Talking Heads programs, Jane Harmon, Democrat from California, was talking about we wouldn't have this situation over in Israel and Lebanon if only Resolution 1559 had been enforced, which was to keep Hezbollah disarmed and out of southern Lebanon.
But at the same time, these Democrats have been screaming at the top of their lungs about the Bush administration for doing just that in Iraq.
I mean, after 12 years, I think 17 ignored resolutions, Bush decided it was pretty much time that we finally enforced these resolutions against Iraq.
You know, that's actually a brilliant point, Jeff.
I have a piece here in my stack.
In fact, it's at the top of the stack as I'm going through the rotation here, precisely on Resolution 1559.
Not related to your point, but that is a great point.
He's exactly right.
The whole point of going into Iraq was to enforce 12 or 14 or 16 UN resolutions that the UN didn't have the guts to enforce, nor anybody else in the world had the guts to enforce.
So we go do it.
And now here, the Democrats, you know, if Bush had just done something about enforcing Resolution 1559, well, none of this would have happened.
Excellent.
Well, I'm glad you made that point, Jeff, because that one even escaped me.
Thank you, Rush.
It's probably because I didn't see Jane Harmon say it, because I don't watch Sunday chat shows anymore.
My friends on Sundays now have better things to do.
I pay people to watch that stuff and report to me anything interesting.
The story I have about Resolution 1559, Security Council Resolution 559, and he's exactly right.
It's designed to disarm Hezbollah and get him out of southern Lebanon.
There is a professor at Cal State Stanislaus, who is actually a visiting professor now at the University of California at Berkeley.
His name is Assad Abu Khalil.
And he is a committed, he hates Israel, just despises Israel.
And he granted an interview to Al Jazeera, and he said in this interview that the current Middle East crisis is an international conspiracy, a secret conspiracy to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1559.
This guy totally supports Hezbollah.
He's teaching at the University of California, Berkeley.
He hates Israel.
He is accusing the United States and other nations, including the Saudis and others, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, of being in on this conspiracy, a conspiracy to enforce a UN Security Council resolution.