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July 20, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I tell you, folks, it's a night it's another one of these days.
I feel like I'm in the twilight zone.
I'm watching Kofi Annan on TV address the United Nations whatever council.
I don't think it was might have been the Security Council, but it doesn't matter.
It's the Star Wars bar scene.
And I'm listening to Kofi Annan talk, and I said, Thought, do we need to get some sound bites of this?
I said, No, because it took him 45 minutes to say what he could have said in two minutes.
It would have taken us that long to play back for you what he said.
Anyway, this um we got audio sound bites here that you will simply not believe.
Well, that's a bit too far.
You will believe it because the characters involved are well known.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
Pleasure, a delight, a thrill, and honor, and it's also my job to be with you here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You ought to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, and the email address is uh Rush at EIB Net.com.
Before we get into Kofi Annan stuff, uh I want to continue with this this uh controversy that the drive-by media tried to gin up yesterday over our uh the administration's lack of compassion, uh lack of speed, uh lack of uh interest in uh in getting uh American citizens out of uh out of Lebanon.
Uh Martin Perretts is the uh is the publisher of the uh uh new republic.
And this guy, just so you know, if the name Marty Parrotts is his name, if you if you don't know, this is one of Al Gore's staunchest buddies and staunchest allies.
Now, the new republic is not as liberal as it used to be, but it still tends that way.
Uh uh, which which makes this even more interesting.
This is actually on the uh on the new republic's blog called the plank.
And I just to set this up, I want to remind you that I uh uh mentioned a couple times this week that the State Department constantly issues warnings to American citizens in war zones or in places where hostilities are feared or imminent to get the hell out of there.
And the State Department doesn't pay anybody to leave, they don't cover their expenses, they just issue the warnings.
And everybody has been talking about where's the Bush administration been?
Why weren't we warned?
Well, it turns out they were warned four times beginning in November of 2004 about the possibility that just this type of thing could break out in Lebanon.
Now, this does not even uh calculate the the necessary uh requirement for personal responsibility.
I this is just trying to get some more facts on the table.
I have just read, and this is this is Marty Parrot's writing on his blog.
I've just read the five Lebanon travel warnings issued by the Department of State from November 18th, 2004 through today, July 19th.
So this is about three days ago.
Okay, forget about the last one.
It came too late for those trapped in Lebanon now, but people who still don't take its advice have only themselves to blame, or they don't watch television.
But the four statements of foreboding that came before, and I haven't gone further back than November 2004, don't make Lebanon seem at all inviting, and the insistent travelers come to think of it, also have only themselves to blame.
In fact, each of the warnings tells you that U.S. air carriers are not permitted to use Beirut International Airport, and that the Lebanese carrier, Middle East Airlines, is not allowed to operate in the U.S. Sort of like the warnings at Logan Airport warning travelers not to go to Lagos.
The uh the warnings also caution you about suicide, bombs, terrorist activities, landmines on exploded ordnance, and a general atmosphere of violence, predictable and unpredictable.
The reader is especially warned against visiting the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, Southern Lebanon, Tripoli, the Bacaw Valley, etc.
Now, given all that, why families would take their kids for long summer vacations into this environment is beyond me.
And this is not me talking, this Marty Perts.
But many have, and a lot of them have been whining on television about how the U.S. government didn't rescue them promptly and comfortably from the touristic mayhem they put themselves in on their own volition, and despite the Fed's detailed descriptions of general and specific menace in the country, many of those who complained for the cameras Seem to me to be especially petulant.
Even those who have already arrived in Cyprus.
They complained about accommodations, the shortage of food, as if they were on a Greek island cruise boat suddenly deserted by the chef.
No sense of individual responsibility either for having put themselves in harm's way, despite the State Department's effort to keep them at home, or maybe go to Venice instead.
And keep in mind, this is the State Department.
State Department is, I mean, this the Liberals pet uh federal agents.
They love the State Department.
Uh and the State Department did what it was supposed to do.
And these people still went, and they still complained about it, and they still got all upset when there wasn't enough sufficient response to get them out there.
I asked yesterday, why in the world would anybody with half a brain go there on a vacation?
Anyway, we got let's go to audio soundbite number two because this is uh at a live press conference after the first plane of Americans from Lebanon landed.
This is David Merhij, who goes with the name of Goldie, is a musician from the East Village in New York.
And here's a um portion of Goldie's uh remarks.
The whole world was watching George Bush to see what he would say.
It seemed like such an atrocity.
I don't know if any Hezbollah died.
I I heard maybe five have died, and there's probably at this point 300 Lebanese dead, and when he said Israel has a right to defend itself when they're this doesn't look like a defensive maneuver at all.
This is a major offensive going on.
I don't feel great to be back.
I mean, it's uh knowing what's gonna happen uh, you know, after three days and after all the foreigners are out, I just don't feel great.
And for some reason nothing can stop this.
And I don't know why, and uh it's uh obviously just a script that everyone's the whole world's playing along with.
A total glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.
An absolute lame brain, an idiot, a stupid, dumb, uninformed, lazy, fat American, who hasn't the slightest clue what he's talking about, ends up in a live press conference complaining about.
He doesn't know a thing about what he's saying.
But there it was on television.
He has no clue, folks.
I have this is part of the surreal characteristic of the program today.
Here's another one.
Let's go to uh soundbite number three.
This is Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, watching it.
Uh and she's uh on this morning with MSNBC Live.
David Gregory is the host, big stretch.
And he says, So, how much more time is the Bush administration prepared to give Israel here?
The American public may not have too much uh of an appetite as this progresses for some of the visual evidence of what's happening on the ground over there, because clearly there is a disproportionate level of casualties, at least.
The uh the situation in Lebanon is proportionally worse than what is going on in Israel, just in terms of the numbers of people who have died and have been wounded.
Right, right.
That's exactly what's supposed to happen in the war, Andrea.
You are a major foreign affairs correspondent for a major American network, and you sound ill-informed, uninformed, and naive.
The disproportionality of casualties?
We have dealt with that this week.
Let me give you the stats that I announced earlier.
I did some lengthy research.
92,000 battle deaths in the Pacific theater suffered by America in World War II.
Japanese battle deaths, not counting civilians.
Uh in the uh bombings at Hiroshima or Hiroshima for you elites and Nagasaki, 1.59 million Japanese battle deaths compared to 92,000 American battle deaths.
We're supposed to have tit for tat here.
If X number of Lebanese or Hezbollah die, then same number of Israelis are supposed to die.
Where in the world?
How in the world do these people get these jobs?
Folks, this is ignorance that is on display and on parade that ought to embarrass every management personnel and every editor that works at NBC.
I'm gonna take a quick time out here because, you know, I'm probably gonna go a little far and say something I shouldn't say.
Well, I can't do that because I'm not afraid of what I shouldn't say or should say, but this is just it's it's amazing to watch this.
Uh uh, and and when you realize you have to understand the reason I get so exercised about this is that the uh the drive-by media in this country still has A lot of sway and impact over people.
There are plenty of idiots in this country, as you well know.
There are plenty of uneducated, uninformed, idiotic, duped idiots in this country, and they believe this rot gut, and they've all attended conflict resolution at some worthless high school or kindergarten or college, and they're all out there like this idiot Goldie who just got back upset that he had to leave, probably complaining about how slowly they got him out of there in the first place.
Those are the kind of people, how do you think a guy like Goldie ends up as stupid as he is, or as uninformed as he is, is because he's watching the drive-by media, who is as narrowly focused as they have ever been.
Their action line is what it is, their template is what it is, and in the process, they themselves are illustrating their own.
I'll be kind and just say ignorance.
I'll just assume that they just don't know.
But I know that's not the case.
We'll be back in just a second.
Stay with us.
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Let's uh uh one more audio sound bite, and then time to put this in perspective again.
Now, what we have here, a new talking point of the anti-Israel pro-terrorist left and other assorted members.
It's amazing how this stuff happens, but it does, and when it does, we are the first to notice.
We put together a montage.
We have here Katrina Vandenhoovel, Hurricane Katrina Van and Hoovel of the Nation, Ahmed Yunis of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Pat Buchanan, the Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan, and the Hearst newspaper columnist Helen Thomas.
What Israel is doing today with a collective punishment of the Lebanese and Palestinian people.
The Palestinian people who have received a collective punishment.
This is collective punishment of an entire people for the sins of terrorists that they did not commit.
There is a collective punishment practiced by the Israelis against a peaceful country like Lebanon.
Collective punishment against Lebanon and Palestine.
So it's it's we're back to this the collective punishment.
This is what we get with a diverse and wide-ranging media.
We have them all saying the same thing when it comes to controversial stories.
Let me deal with this by first sharing you with uh sharing with you a brief bit of a brilliant piece today by Bob Tyrrell at the American Spectator Online.
To the grizzled and disheveled stalwarts of Hezbollah and Hamas.
May I say you did it to yourselves.
Kapow.
As another Israeli bomb lands nearby, as a shell whizzes overhead, may I remind you that you're hunkering down either on Gaza or on Lebanese soil that was evacuated by the Israelis so that you could live in peace?
And what did you donkeys do?
You tunneled under the Israeli borders to infiltrate Israel and kill innocent civilians.
You established an infrastructure of missiles to rain down destruction on Israeli cities that were at peace, providing security and prosperity for both Jews and Arabs.
You captured Israeli soldiers in an unprovoked attack.
Kapow, you're getting just what you deserve.
Moreover, the terrorists of Hezbollah and Hamas have revealed to any sensible observer that they have no interest in peace with Israel or with the West, for that matter.
Needless to say, they have no interest in a peaceful Gaza or Lebanon.
The same bellicity afflicts the allies of these terrorists in Syria and Iran.
The brutes in these governments are pitiless and belligerent tyrants.
Listening to their sophistries about their need for nuclear power or their desire for a peaceful world puts me in mind of all the poetry of the late Herr Hitler back when things were good for him in the middle 1930s, it all ended badly for everybody.
When in May of 1940 Churchill became prime minister, he thought himself a failure.
He recognized that all his admonitions against the Nazis in the previous decade had proved futile.
Now only world war would bring peace.
This idea that there is a collective punishment going on.
People have forgotten what happened here, and it didn't happen that long ago, and it happened under Ariel Sharon.
The argument to really understand this is really not complicated.
The argument has always been among the enemies of Israel.
Give up land and you will have peace.
Give up land and you will have peace.
The Israelis have given up land and they haven't had peace because land for peace is bogus.
What is desired is the annihilation of Israel.
Resolution 1559, talked about it yesterday.
UN Security Council resolution for all the good that body is worth.
Was designed and written and commanded Hezbollah to disband to get out of Southern Lebanon in exchange for Israel getting out.
And of course, Israel got out and they got out of Gaza.
The idea being that there would be peace.
Israel keeps expressing the desire for peace.
They keep going along with all this, but when it and they always get backstabbed, and they know they're going to get backstabbed.
And what Tyrell wrote here is exactly correct.
Israel gets out of the area of Gaza and the areas where Hezbollah is, and Hezbollah comes after them and is launching missiles now.
And somehow we have people in this country who talk about the collective punishment of the Lebanese and the Palestinian people.
Well, let's blame who's really responsible.
Who is putting innocent civilians in harm's way?
It's not Israel.
It's Hezbollah.
Told you yesterday.
Hezbollah is not allowing civilians in its land in its area of Southern Lebanon to leave.
They are launching these missiles at Israel from civilian homes.
They are doing this on purpose, precisely to generate this kind of idiotic, unreformed uninformed response about collective punishment and a disproportionate Israeli reply or answer or retaliation.
And the same thing goes for Hamas.
Hamas, these are the people that put bombs on their own kids for crying out loud.
These are the people that strap bombs of their own kids and send them out to blow themselves up, hoping to take out some Israelis at the same time.
And somehow we keep hearing about a disproportionate response.
And we keep hearing about a collective punishment.
We still, some people in this country still cannot see, and I know why it is.
There's just a genuine dislike on some people's part, a genuine hatred on many people's part for Israel for a host of reasons, all of which you could figure out, and I don't have to mention here.
One of them is, though, that it's uh considered to be a powerful nation, and all these surrounding little Arab regimes and terrorist regimes are the victims, and it's just not fair that Israel can respond with that fourth.
It's a fairity.
It's not disproported that proportionate.
Israel should have responded to proportionality and says it's absolutely asinine.
All of this is asinine.
I'll tell you what about Kofi Annan and the United Nations.
You know, I'm beginning to think, you know, we hear about SDI, the strategic defense initiative.
I think the most effective anti-missile shield is located in the UN building.
You talk about an SDI.
If our defense system could deflect attacks as easily as the UN can, we wouldn't even need an SDI.
Have you ever heard, for example, Kofi Annan called a dim bulb, which he is?
Have you ever heard the oil for food program called a culture of corruption?
No, you hear George Bush call a dim bulb, and you hear Republicans uh labeled as being members of the culture of corruption, but you don't hear it about the UN, which defines corruption and lives off of it.
Oil for food, sex scandals in Africa among the blue helmet uh so-called peacekeepers.
You ever hear the phrase bad plan, a bad plan from the UN, you ever hear it?
No, you hear that about Bush and Iraq, but you never hear it about the United Nations in Rwanda or Lebanon.
You ever hear of investigating the reporting in the Congo or the UN rape for food?
Do you ever hear anything about this?
Do you have any criticism?
How does the UN do it?
How does our media let them do it?
Come on now, just for once, repeat after me.
Kofi Annan's a frat boy, Kofi Annan's a dim bulb, Kofi Annan lied to the people.
Kofi Annan represents big Islam.
Kofi Annan, every attack line that you've heard leveled at Bush would be Justifiably aimed and correctly stated about Kofi Annan and the United Nations.
It is an organization of supreme failure.
It is an organization which can't back up even the ostensible good things that it seeks to do.
And yet it is above criticism.
I know why, because it's a bunch of libs.
It's a bunch of socialist libs and dictator tyrants made up of a bunch of small-minded, small-powered little nations against the big bad United States and its evil, evil ally, Israel.
And so they are excused for all of their scandals and their corruptions and their bad plans and their idiotic statements because they're just trying to do the good thing, Rush.
We're not really supposed to analyze the results of the UN.
We're supposed to examine their good intentions, like they want to ceasefire, ceasefire and back off and so forth.
Well, they've never secured in getting getting one.
Nothing they've ever done in this region has had any impact at all that's been meaningful.
And why everybody wants to continue to reside on them or rely on them is beyond me, but I know it anyway.
All right, let me uh let me move on back uh to the Kofi Annan address.
I it was some UN body, looked larger than the Security Council, but I didn't see the beginning of it, so I didn't really know it.
I was just reading the clothes.
Well, I was actually listening to Kofi make the speech.
No, I will not resign.
Didn't say that, but that's how I always recall him after the oil for food scandal erupted.
I'm listening to him talk, and he goes through the perfunctory motions of condemning Hezbollah.
And uh but then veers into demanding that Israel stop what it is doing.
Uh he demanded a Hezbollah stop too, but I mean, you know, it this is idiotic.
What of Kofi's duty to enforce resolutions?
It's called resolution 1559.
It came out of his stupid, worthless United Nations.
And here he is from the United Nations, Turtle Bay, it's called, sitting up there demanding an Israel stop what it's doing, and a Hezbollah stop what it's doing, proving full well that the United Nations is incapable of enforcing anything.
This is nothing new, it's just the latest example.
To remind you again, Israel left Southern Lebanon and the UN and Lebanon were to remove Hezbollah.
They haven't done so.
Now Israel has to do it.
It's no different than Saddam Hussein flipping the world the bird after 14 years and 16 resolutions to come clean on his WMD program.
After 9-11, we couldn't afford to take the chance, and he was just bluffing, and so Iraq happened.
Somebody's always having to go in and clean up the messes made by the United Nations, and believe me, folks, they're just like a bunch of liberals everywhere.
They go in and they say, we're going to solve this problem, and all they do is create three or four brand new ones while not solving anything.
And it's amazing that these people who claim to be objective journalists, by the way, they came to be claimed to be objective observers.
We know that it's a bogus claim, but they still claim it, it's still their operating principle.
They still deny their bias.
How in the world can this not be seen for what it is?
It wasn't that long ago that they hated the despised Ariel Sharon because he was such a mad right winger, came up with this deal, got out of Gaza, got out of the uh Hezbollah areas, got out of Southern Liz.
Okay, we'll we'll give you what you want.
And in exchange for peace, and there was head scratching in a lot of communities around the world and in Israel.
What's happened to Ariel?
What happened to Rabin?
What happens to all these guys when they get old?
They want peace.
There's nothing new about it.
They've always wanted peace, and they buy into every notion that is thrown at them under the guise of land for peace.
And when they give land back, and the other nations that they give land to, like gave the Sinai back to Egypt after the Six-Day War, cleaned Egypt's clock, cleaned uh Syria's clock, and cleaned the clock of Jordan.
And they gave oil-rich Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt, and the Egyptians have left them alone.
And the Israelis have left them alone.
The Israelis have demonstrated if you mean land for peace, we'll go along with it, because that's all we want.
Well, Sharon makes the deal, and now all of a sudden Hezbollah is violating it and they're violating it out of Gaza, and so the Israelis are having to clean up the mess uh that other people have made.
And why this can't be seen is quite simple.
It's it's not they don't want to see it.
Israel is forever going to be the enemy, uh, and and no amount of fact or uh uh factual observation is going to change this.
The bottom line is they don't care.
They have been kicking Israel so long uh at the United Nations that they just keep doing it and has become almost a cliche, just like to the liberals, we conservatives are racist, sexist, bigoted homophobes to the American left to the drive-by media of the United Nations, Israel is the equivalent of the evil United States because it's an ally and it just there's no thinking involved, there's just knee-jerk reactions.
Six years later.
Six years later, after all of this demand that Hezbollah disband in Southern Lebanon be free, so to speak.
Six years later, Lebanon says they don't have the ability to push Hezbollah out after they promised in the UN resolution that they would, and after they left the security zone.
Now, this means that uh the Lebanon doesn't want to push Hezbollah out, and there's a reason for it.
There's they're scared to death of them.
If Lebanon dared try to enforce, even after agreeing to it, UN resolution 1559, whoever in Lebanon actually led the push would meet the same fate as poor old Al-Hariri.
He would be assassinated.
He'd be assassinated by somebody in Hezbollah, he'd be assassinated by somebody from Syria, but he would be assassinated.
So, you know, the the Lebanese government is a prisoner of terrorism too, in a sense.
Uh and all the while, the blame continues to be focused on Israel.
You want to sum up the UN operational sum up the UN's plan, sum up Kofi Annan's speech for you?
Roadmap to peace.
Two-state solution, cessation of hostilities, restraint and peacekeepers.
Hell, he was complaining that he couldn't get his peacekeeper force in there because his current peacekeeper force couldn't get out of there.
Well, why can't his peacekeeper force get out of there?
The reason is peacekeeper force can't get out of there, and why he can't send in a new batch of peacekeepers, which would be just as worthless as the present batch, is because Hamas is not letting anybody leave.
Israel's getting blamed for that, too.
Well, the Israelis are bombing these areas and killing civilians.
Civilians want out of there.
What if Americans who want it out of there, who failed to heed the four State Department warnings in the last two years?
What if the Americans were unable to leave and they were being hit by indiscriminate fire?
Uh who do you think would be blamed?
George W. Bush.
George W. Certainly not Hamas, not the people who were denying them permission to leave, not the people keeping them in the war zone.
Well, Israel shouldn't be firing on them in the first place.
If Israel knows they're civilians, Israel knows the truth.
Israel knows that this is a bunch of cowards that are a hundred feet below ground in a bunker, and they're putting innocent civilians in these missile launching sites in their homes, and they are making them sitting ducks.
These terrorists are a full-fledged bunch of cowards.
The world is uniting around them, or much of the world is as victims and so forth, and blaming Israel.
Israel knows it's at war.
Israel knows it's surrounded by enemies who would do to it what Hezbollah is doing it if it showed the first sign of weakness.
This is how you fight wars, and this is how you win wars.
You kill more of them than you kill or get killed of your own.
And folks, can I remind you something else?
And this is something I I, you know, it does concern me about the nature of our country, and I think it is directly related to how horrible history education has been in the public school system in this country.
Not only are the the disproportionate response of the United States and the Pacific Theater, we lost 92,000 on the battlefield, the Japanese over one and a half million, almost 1.6 million.
But what was Nagasaki and what was uh what was Hiroshima?
Attacks on civilians.
And why did Truman do it?
Truman did it to save American lives.
We were at war when we're bombing the hell out of Germany in World War II.
The the Dresden bombing, you think that was aimed solely at military installations?
We've got it, we got new ground rules for this now.
You're not supposed to kill civilians and these idiot terrorists, Not so idiot when it comes to this.
They understand full well the political correctness and the feminization of our culture that has taken over, and they put innocent civilians in the way, just like they've been doing in Iraq, and they get killed in a war zone, and somehow it is the fault of people who are fighting a war to try to win it.
The good guys.
There's another thing people have problems with, and that's the concept that there are good guys.
Now, when you look at what's going on...
Another serious question, why is the UN so critical here?
Because it did such a great job in Rwanda?
Because it did such a great job in Iraq for 14 years?
Like it's doing a good job in the Sudan?
Like it's doing a good job in Kosovo and the Congo.
You remember rapists, etc., the Congo, the peacekeepers or raping teenage girls.
Why is the UN so critical here?
Maybe it's because it is an expert in handling finances, like the oil for food program.
Maybe maybe the UN's important, folks, because it is made up of humanitarian countries who have an even-handed approach to Israel.
There is not a single thing, not a shred, not a morsel of evidence, to recommend that the UN has any meaningful involvement or role here at all.
It is impotent, it is incompetent, it has been for years, and it's not about to change.
And the idea that the UN has something meaningful to offer here, or that Kofi Annan's remarks are somehow critical, is just more obfuscation and surreal alternative universe BS.
The United Nations can't even define terrorism or genocide.
Did you hear about this yesterday?
Two top UN officials announced yesterday.
They couldn't legally define Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
That's your United Nations.
Now, if they can't see that Hezbollah's a terrorist group, they don't want to see it as the bottom line.
We can go to the Security Council.
I got, you know, I've taken back, folks, I'm I'm being too hard on them.
Being too hard on him.
We can go to Security Council.
I forgot we can go to the Security Council, yes, where Russia and China and France can veto whatever they want to.
Meanwhile, as Russia, France and China continue to veto things that we propose, China gave these missiles to Iran, which gave the missiles to Hezbollah, which were used to strike the Israeli ship, and are being used to strike deep into Israel, where two children were killed in Nazareth yesterday.
We don't hear about the innocent civilians killed in Israel.
Isn't that strange?
Russia, for its part, has helped Iran develop nukes.
So the Security Council's a joke, too.
The missiles that Hezbollah's using are from China via Iran.
And China's on the Security Council.
And so's Russia.
And Russia's working with Iran on missiles.
Meanwhile, in all of this, little old Israel somehow is the focus of evil and the problem.
Well, it ain't so, folks.
Brief timeout back after this.
Stay with us.
How many of you remember seeing the movie The Untouchables, Kevin Costner and Sean Connery?
There's a there's a scene in that movie where the Sean Connery character has a speech, and it goes something like this as you hurt one of our guys, we'll put one of yours in the hospital.
You put one of ours in a hospital, we'll put one of yours in the morgue.
It's the Chicago way.
I think Israel gets that.
Uh and in a war, that's what you need to get back to and what people need to understand.
We've got they got apparently an ever-increasing number of feminized pacifists out there, graduates of uh conflict resolution university.
Can I ask a question?
Of course I can.
I'm host.
It's my program.
Whatever happened to the Colin Powell doctrine, ladies and gentlemen.
Anybody remember what the Colin Powell doctrine was?
HR, you remember what the Colin Powell doctrine was?
Well, that's that's where you go in there and you just kick butt all over the country and as fast as you can with as much force as you can project, as much power as you can project, and you wipe them out.
That's the Powell doctrine.
The beloved Colin Powell.
Whatever happened to that?
I guess since he's gone, we can't do the Powell doctrine.
I don't remember any of these nabobs of negativism criticizing Powell for his doctrine.
In fact, I remember him criticizing Bush for not doing the Powell doctrine, even after we did shock and awe.
Quick uh segment here of phone calls.
Jacksonville, Florida.
This is Gordon, glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Megadinos Rush.
Great to talk with you.
I just want to echo I agree with everything you're saying about the U.N. And we should consider what kind of suffering the Lebanese would have gone through if they had actually moved to disarm and remove Hezbollah and demilitarize Southern Lebanon.
There's no doubt that their suffering and their casualties would have been many times higher than the other.
What are you saying, Gordon, that uh they shouldn't have done it, even though the UN resolution 1559, which they agreed to, uh commanded them to do it?
No, I'm I'm I'm saying they should have done it, but when we hear these people talk about disproportionate uh suffering and all of this, someone needs to consider how much the Lebanese would have suffered if they'd actually determined to do their job.
Well, you know that the question, I I'm I I understand what you're saying, but you know the real question is how much is Lebanon suffering now?
Because they didn't do it.
They're suffering one way or the other.
There's no question they are.
They're losing a huge economic impact because of all of these rich, wealthy, lazy bum Americans who are getting out of there now.
Uh they are losing all kinds of tourists, can't believe they've got any, but they apparently do, because people are fleeing the place left and right.
Uh Lebanese citizens are being bombed, Lebanese citizens are dying in the in the hostilities.
What this illustrates, Gordon, really clearly to me, is the uselessness of such resolutions.
They passed these resolutions, and the people involved say, aren't we good people?
Look at our intentions.
Look what we stand for.
We stand for demilitarization, we stand for restraint, we stand for peace.
And what ends up?
Hell breaks loose.
All hell breaks out.
This is a this is a uh it was a mistake from day one.
It's like making agreements with liars.
It's like making agreements with known liars.
It's like signing a missile treaty with the Soviets in the Cold War.
It was pointless.
But the pacifists loved it because it was it was uh good intentions.
Kept dialogue going.
And so it's just it's you know reality is a hard thing to face.
I am convinced that more and more people just don't want to face reality because it's hard, Rush.
It's hard.
And we live in a country where we can bask in a in an alternative reality, and we can create our own cocoons in which we live, uh, and we can deny certain realities, and when they get close to us, and they get start get close to starting to smack us upside the head, well, we don't want to be reminded of these realities.
Well, this was a silly notion from the first place.
If you're gonna say we're gonna have resolution 1559 that Lebanon is gonna be responsible for getting Hezbollah out of there.
And if you know at the time that Lebanon will suffer greatly and they do it, then what's the point in the first place?
You're gonna end up where we are anyway.
Which takes us back to the limbaugh doctrine.
Peace follows victory.
We have proven, folks, peace doesn't follow UN resolutions, peace doesn't follow U.N. Security Council resolutions, peace doesn't counsel uh result or follow the the numerous calls for cessation of hostilities.
Peace does not follow from sending the Red Cross in, which was another brilliant idea of that lunatic Kofi Anna today, and we must make way for the International Led Cross.
Whoopee do.
What idiots would go in there in the zone, whether the Red Cross or not, now anyway.
What's the point of sending the Red Cross in there?
Well, it looks good.
Uh peace people in there.
Well, you know, it'd be better if you peace people just kept climbing trees and so forth and living in them than actually getting involved in meaningful things.
Back in a second.
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And there is some good news out there today.
Remember that stupid law that the Maryland legislature passed demanding that Walmart pay a certain amount in of its uh payroll tax in the form of uh health benefits, and if they didn't pay that much, the employees they had to give it to the state.
Well, a uh this law, first of its kind, uh has been ruled invalid according to federal law by a federal judge.
Uh this is great, great news.
The state of Maryland, of course, is going to appeal this.
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