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July 20, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, thrill seekers, music lovers, conversationalists, and fun lovers all across the bountiful fruited plain, the award-winning Thrill Pact ever exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds, Rush Limbaugh program here from the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Coming to you today live from high atop, the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
A telephone number if you want to join us on the program today, 800-282-2882, the email address rush at EIBnet.com.
We're going to keep talking about the situation in Israel and Lebanon, of course, as the program unfolds.
I've only gotten through maybe one little portion of that stack.
It does look like Israel is preparing an all-out assault.
The ground troops have made some incursions.
And they did bomb the bunker where the Hezbollah, the charismatic and friendly Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was holed up with his cabinet down there planning more social programs for his beleaguered people.
It blew up the headquarters and the offices, the Hezbollah offices.
Hezbollah offices.
I think they've got copy machines and coffee machines and so forth in their offices, whatever is in there.
It blew those up.
But the Nasrallah and his gang holed up 100 feet below deck, below ground, and apparently survived the attack.
But I'm surprised that hasn't been condemned, but give it time.
But I do want to get on to some other things here.
And if you want to continue to call about this, feel free.
A first-of-its-kind state law that would have required Walmart to spend more on employee health care in Maryland is invalid under federal law.
A judge ruled yesterday the state law would have required non-governmental employers with 10,000 or more workers to spend at least 8% of payroll on health care or pay the difference in taxes to the state.
The measure was aimed at Walmart stores, which have been under attack by critics who say that its inadequate health care offering is forcing some employees to use state-funded plans.
U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz, no relation to the manufacturer of that killer applesauce, decided that the Maryland Fair Share Health Care Fund Act, which is what this abomination was called, would have hurt Walmart by requiring it to track and allocate benefits for its Maryland employees in a different way from how it keeps track of employee benefits in other states.
Motts wrote that the law imposes legally cognizable injury upon Walmart.
And he cited the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which he said preempts any and all state laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan.
He said, My finding that the act is preempted is in accordance with long-established Supreme Court law that state laws which impose health or welfare mandates on employers are invalid under the federal laws.
A 32-page opinion.
The guy dug deep and is going to make sure that he's not overturned here because these clowns in Maryland are, in fact, going to appeal this.
Lee Scott, CEO of Walmart, said that the ruling meant businesses would not have to contend with different standards in different states for health coverage.
The thing that we find encouraging, he said, is that there's going to be consistency and these kinds of issues so that commerce itself, businesses, will be able to have one set of standards that they work against.
Kevin Enright, a spokesman for the Maryland Attorney General's office, said the state would appeal to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.
So, you know, it was largely believed that once Maryland passed this law, that a number of other states would want to get in on the action.
And I was one of them, but it hasn't happened.
I think 38 states, I think if that's account, gave it a shot or were talking about it, but it just hasn't happened.
One of the reasons is Walmart will threaten to leave.
Walmart's playing hardball with Chicago now over Chicago's efforts along the same lines.
And they're just, oh, we'll go somewhere else if we're not wanted here.
We've got plenty of places that we can go.
Now, the judge pointed out that lawyers for the state had argued that the Maryland law amounted to a payroll tax and therefore was outside federal jurisdiction.
However, the judge said the purpose of the law clearly was not to raise revenue for the state.
To the contrary, its purpose was to force Walmart to increase the level of its health care benefits.
You know, this is one of these times.
Normally, when I see a story that starts out with a federal judge in X state said why, I said, oh, no, it's usually bad news.
But in this case, very good news.
I think that the Walmart, this is just astounding.
And this judge has gone deep here to make sure he's not overturned.
This flies in the face of what the country's all about.
When a state legislature can tell a business how it has to run itself, how much it has to pay its employees and health care benefits and so forth, bye-bye competition.
And it's just a bunch of Walmart-hating liberals in the state of Maryland who jinned up for this.
And they hate Walmart.
And it's an amazing thing because Walmart serves liberal Democrat constituents.
Let's face it, most of the Democrat constituency is poor.
They have seen to it.
Most of the Democrats are rich.
Elected Democrats, Senate, House, everywhere.
They're rich Hollywood types.
But they've carved out this niche of the disadvantaged, the unwashed, the thirsty, the hungry, the illegal immigrants.
Everybody who's a victim of anything in this country is part of the constituents.
They're poor, lower, middle class, otherwise.
And I know they've got some suburban upper class types, but the vast majority of them are dirt poor.
And so Walmart serves that constituency.
But no, you see, it exposes one of the myths, ladies and gentlemen, of liberal Democrats.
Their concern is really not the poor, because they don't want them getting out of poordom or poverty.
They want them in a perpetual state of need.
No, their loyalty here is to big labor, which hates Walmart because it's not unionized.
And that's what this is.
It's sort of like the Kilo decision.
You would have thought that the liberal Democrats would have sided with these poor slobs being thrown off their property in New London, Connecticut.
It'd say, you're not going to allow this to happen.
But no, they sided with a government.
And when liberals have a choice siding with people to government, the people are always going to lose.
And this is a clear illustration, too, of that premise in the Maryland-Walmart case.
Now, remember, ladies and gentlemen, just to show you, remind you again, listen to this program regularly, and you'll be on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
It was two weeks ago that I made a prediction to you.
I said, if Democrats run around and scrounge around for some sort of an agenda and some sort of a plan by which they can approach the upcoming 06 campaign, I said, keep a sharp eye out for something they might call the affordability crisis.
Gasoline prices skyrocketing, the price of everything going up, the economy teetering on collapse, soup lines forming everywhere.
You just can't afford to live in the country anymore because Bush has given tax cuts to the rich.
Well, I hold here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story that I believe is the first step down that road.
It's a Reuters story, Al Reuters.
Swamped by credit card bills and loan payments, most Americans see the rise in personal debt as a national issue affecting people from all walks of life, according to a poll released yesterday.
According to a survey sponsored by a liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress, 43% of Americans are worried that they will be unable to pay bills.
80% think personal debt is a serious national concern.
Tell me, is this really revolutionary and new?
Haven't we all been worried about paying our bills most of our lives?
Well, I mean, not constantly, but it's something that's always out there.
And does some people, is this really the first time that people have been concerned about personal debt?
Anna Greenberg, who conducted the poll of 1,000 people in April, told a conference, this is one where there's a fairly universal argument that debt is a problem.
Retirement group, the AARP, the Center for Responsible Lending, and the National Military Family Association co-sponsored the survey.
Nearly 90% of participants said the personal debt problem has worsened in the last five years.
That coincides when George W. Bush was inaugurated.
A proportion that surprised Greenberg and Republican pollster Bill McInturf, who helped on the survey.
McInturf said in most polls, half the respondents say a problem hasn't fluctuated much.
Of the survey group, 35% reported their own personal debts had risen in the last five years, with most people saying that daily expenses and economic problems forced them to borrow more.
Greenberg said that, yeah, people are in essence saying, yeah, cost of living is so high, I have to take on debt.
I'm telling you, folks, this is a bunch of liberals that put this thing together.
They've got the answer they want.
Keep a sharp eye, the affordability crisis, even in the face of a pretty strong and roaring economy, despite all the external pressures on it.
This is just the first effort here, once again, to create in this campaign period the image of soup line America or future soup line America.
Greenberg said clearly people are not making great inroads on the debt that they are carrying.
A brief timeout.
We'll continue shortly here with much more broadcast excellence after this.
Hi, great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair again from high atop the EIB building in Midtown Manhattan.
A little more here on the controversy involving evacuees from Lebanon, American evacuees from Lebanon.
There's a story here from the Houston Chronicle.
And the, let me just cut to the chase of this piece, Red, and excerpt it.
It said, some Americans in Lebanon harshly criticized Washington for seeming to respond slowly to the fighting.
Israeli jets have attacked targets in the Beirut area nearly every day for the past week, while gunners for Hezbollah shot missiles into northern Israel and its militiamen engaged in firefights with Israeli soldiers.
But U.S. officials, however, said that the extra time was needed for planning and coordinating such a large evacuation.
Others said that they also wanted to make sure the evacuees were taken out in a certain level of comfort.
Some of the arriving evacuees seemed almost relaxed after their ordeal.
A few even managed to enjoy the chance to ride on a well-equipped cruise ship, the Nabil El Haj of Weston, Massachusetts.
Said Nabil El Hajj.
I thought that was an odd name for a ship.
Nabi Nabil El Haj.
Now, Nabil Al-Hajj of Western Massachusetts, who was traveling with his daughter Beatrice Al-Hajj when the fighting started.
Yeah, we had a private cabin.
I took a nice shower.
They had sandwiches and mixed drinks.
I had a piña colada.
Some people were swimming in the pools.
We know.
We've seen the pictures.
The criticism of the U.S. evacuation was unfair, said Nabil El-Haj.
They took an extra day, but it was worth it.
It was very well organized.
Said the vessels used in the U.S. evacuation were an obvious target for Hezbollah.
But still, we've got these lame-brain idiots like Goldie.
You want to.
Hi, Fianna.
Yeah, how about that 20-year-old, what's her face, Mariana Marucci?
What was her name?
Last name was Maracino, somewhere.
Mariana Maracino, the 20-year-old college student from somewhere over New Jersey.
Ah, it was horrible.
It was hot.
People are hiding on their cardboard and tarpes.
And there were flies on the boat.
Here's this guy from Weston, Massachusetts.
Oh, no, we're in a pool.
We had a piña colada.
And Mariana Marchino, Marichino, whatever went on on a Norwegian ship.
Here, grab soundbite number two in there.
Just if you're just joining us, this is a live press conference after the first plane of Americans from Lebanon landed.
David Merhej goes by the name of Goldie.
He's a musician from the East Village here in New York City.
A portion of his remark, I keep in mind, just heard a great trip it was.
Piña Coladas, mixed drinks, swimming pools, first-class cabin, all of that.
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 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 knowing what's going to happen.
Stop the tape.
Why did you leave then?
If you don't feel great to be back, why did you leave?
Why did you get up?
Why didn't you stop and try to do something?
Why didn't you stop and practice conflict resolution, the way it's practiced down in the East Village?
Why don't you tell us a little bit about that?
Why don't you practice what you preach and stay amongst the hostilities?
Stay there and blame George W. Bush.
Stay there and see how far that gets you.
Play the rest of the tape in there.
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 it's obviously just a script that everyone's, the whole world's playing along with.
You know, if there were a script, I don't think this clown could possibly even read it.
And if he were able to read it, he wouldn't know what it said afterwards.
Megan in Chadsford, Pennsylvania, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you today?
I couldn't be better.
Thank you for taking my call.
My comment goes towards the UN and their prejudice against Israel.
And it's not just that they're an ally of the United States or that they're Israelis.
It's more invidious than that, that the UN requires dependence from those that they assist.
And Israel can take care of itself.
And so the UN has no interest whatsoever in supporting Israel in its all right.
I don't disagree with that.
But let's cut to the chase, shall we?
Let's just strip away all the PC and all the barriers.
United Nations today is the modern repository of anti-Semitism.
The majority of members of the UN hate Jews.
They want them marched into the Mediterranean.
They want the country annihilated.
They hate them.
And one of the reasons why is precisely what you've said.
I'm going to really cut to the chase here, folks.
Throughout their history, the Jews have been targeted for obliteration, extinction.
The Jews have been put through a lot, and they have survived.
Their culture is intact.
You take a look at the Israeli culture.
I don't know how many people, there are more, for example, if you define culture in certain ways, there are more symphony orchestras per capita in Israel than anywhere else in the world.
Art museums and this kind of thing.
They have not only thrived and survived, they have not allowed these endless attempts to annihilate them, to exterminate them, to wipe them out.
Those efforts have not weakened their moral fiber and their cultural strength.
Now, a bunch of them are liberals.
And that's all well and good.
But the fact of the matter remains, they have not disintegrated.
They have not given up, and they have not allowed all of this to cause them to fracture.
They have remained strong, and they're a bulwark of a moral fiber.
And that, I'm telling you, bothers just as many of these member nations of the United Nations as anything else, that despite the best efforts of some of the best people in the world, Adolf Hitler, and you name the others that you can come up with, the Jews have survived, and these clowns are all gone.
And one of the reasons why, Megan, is precisely what you say, self-reliance.
They've practiced it.
I believe that.
Rush, if it's possible, can I make a comment about the Judge Mott decision?
The Judge Mott's decision.
Yes, but we have 30 seconds.
Real quick, at least they're going to the Fourth Circuit, which is the most conservative of the circuits, and they stand a chance of getting it upheld on appeal.
Yeah, that's true.
By the way, it's Judge M-O-T-Z.
That's why I said he's not to be confused with the Killer Applesauce Company.
I better explain that.
In Philadelphia, some 66-year-old guy, some gunman was in a grocery store in Philadelphia, and a guy grabbed a jar of Mott's applesauce and beat the gunman on the head and stopped the assault on the same day that a woman put her husband's eye out with a carrot.
We're just talking yesterday about dangerous food products out there.
This guy's name is spelled M-O-T-Z.
Back in just a second, my friends.
Don't go away.
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Here's Najat from Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Thanks for the call.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush Limbaugh.
How are you?
Fine.
Thank you.
Hey, I just wanted to point out that the Lebanese government has been trying to disarm Hezbollah peacefully for the last year after the Cedar revolution, but they have not been able to because of Syria and Iran.
And the only way we are going to disarm Hezbollah is through Israel.
The only country that can do it is Israel.
And they need to go in there and take care of business.
Well, it's going to take a while.
And I know that Israel, by the way, Najad, are you Lebanese?
I'm Lebanese American, correct.
Lebanese American.
And okay, so that's interesting.
So the only country that can do it is Israel.
Lebanon's been trying to, but they were overwhelmed because the resupply plans from Syria and Iran keep happening now.
Yeah, and the only reason Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese parliament is because Syria put him there.
Hezbollah does not care about Lebanon.
They have nothing to do with Lebanon.
They're just taking shelter there.
They're trying to turn Lebanon into an Islamic republic, which will never happen.
They don't care about Lebanon.
If they cared about Lebanon, they would get the hell out of there and they would leave the Lebanese alone.
They're not going to do that.
Let me ask you a question because we're seeing stories today that the army, the Lebanese army, is making noise about joining up with Hezbollah.
No, that's a bunch of bull.
The Lebanese army will not take sides with Hezbollah.
It's maybe the Syrian army, or maybe they armed a bunch of Syrians and they're going to go and take fight with Hezbollah.
So you are telling me that a news story I'm reading in the drive-by media is not correct?
Well, I don't know what's correct.
What comes out of there, we cannot believe everything that comes out of there.
We're not there, we're here.
But I will tell you, the Lebanese that I know that are over there hate Hezbollah.
They want to get rid of Hezbollah.
Nobody is supporting Hezbollah.
They've destroyed Lebanon.
Syria and Iran have destroyed Lebanon.
They have destroyed it.
The Lebanese do not care about Hezbollah.
They want him out of there.
And nobody has been doing anything about it.
And now that Israel is trying to take care of business, the whole world is jumping against the Jews.
And, oh, they're being too harsh and whatever.
Yes, I am sorry.
They are destroying Lebanon.
That is my country.
They are destroying Lebanon.
And it's going to cost a lot of money to rebuild Lebanon.
But we need to get rid of Hezbollah.
We need to get rid of all the foreign armies in Lebanon.
Everybody needs to get out of there and just leave the Lebanese and let them be.
And the UN cannot do anything.
The UN is a waste of space.
They should not exist in the first place.
They sit there, they don't do anything.
Well, the Israelis have got a good start on one of the main problems, and that is they're blowing up the airport and the infrastructure, making it difficult for Syria and Iran to resupply Hezbollah.
Yeah, and they need to cut any resupplying from the north through Syria.
They need to take care of that, too.
They need to keep everybody out of Lebanon.
Well, they're doing that.
That's what I say, taking out as many roads as possible.
The problem is that Hezbollah's got over 13,000 rockets, or they're saying they do anyway.
Yeah, they've been resupplying Lebanon.
They've been getting weapons through Syria for the last how many years?
Through Syria, when Syria was, you know, in control of Lebanon.
And they have a lot of ammunition.
And that's why the Lebanese government has not been able to disarm Hezbollah.
They are more powerful than the Lebanese government, than the Lebanese army.
And the Lebanese did not want any more war.
They wanted to do this peacefully, but they weren't able to.
Iran is supporting Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is like Iran.
When you say Hezbollah, you should say Iran.
Yes, I've heard this.
I mean, Hezbollah's the Iranian army.
It's a proxy.
It is a proxy.
It's Iran in Lebanon.
It's Syria and Lebanon.
Everybody wants to fight Israel through Lebanon.
Why don't they go fight Israel through Iran and Syria and just leave the Lebanese people?
Let me taste them.
They understand the track record if you look at the recent Israel doesn't lose.
Israel wiped out Egypt.
Egypt, Jordan, and I think who was in the other six-day war was Syria?
It was Syria.
In six days, they had them all fleeing.
And after it was over, they had to Golan Heights, which the Syrian territory claimed it was Syria.
I'll never forget my trip to Israel.
I'll never forget my trip to the Golan.
Let me just tell you the story very quickly.
We're up in the Golan Heights.
This is 1993.
And during, by the way, this was July of 1993, and unbeknownst to anybody outside of Shimon Perez and Yasser Arafat, the Oslo Accords were being negotiated in Oslo.
It was the latest peace plan.
Yitzhak Rabin was the prime minister.
I met him.
And I met everybody I could.
And these Oslo Accords are going on, and nobody knew about it.
We didn't know about it.
They weren't announced till September.
But one of the trips we took was up to the Golan Heights.
And we were given a brief tour up there by a member of the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force, the Army.
Young kid, 19 years old.
And we're up there in the Golan, and one of the people in our group said, something like, why do you do what you do?
You're 19.
If you didn't have to, why are you joining the army?
What is this?
Because he was really passionate as he was giving us the little tour.
And he said, well, let me point something out to you.
Look over in that direction.
See that?
That's Lebanon.
You see over there, that's Syria.
And he kept pointing, and he identified all of the countries that surround Israel who want to exterminate it.
And then he pointed down to the bottom of the valley.
He says, see that?
That's my house.
That's where my mother and dad live.
I mean, we are within yards, meters here of numerous countries that want to wipe us out.
We have no choice.
And they're deadly serious about it.
And I'm telling you, folks, as Americans, you can't understand that.
We can't.
Not even with 9-11.
They still had to come over an ocean.
They hijacked their own airplanes.
But it would be like if the United States of America were New Jersey, God forbid, and everything else was the Soviet Union.
And the Soviet Union kept saying, give us more of your country and we will leave you alone.
And it's like we cannot relate to this.
We just simply cannot.
I'll tell you something else that concerns me about this.
I saw him on television today.
The former Iraqi general, forget his first name, I think his last name is Sada or Saida, S-A-D-A.
And this is the guy who has been on television and writing numerous columns saying that he knows that the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were moved out of there, some into Syria and perhaps some in the Bakaw Valley, Lebanon.
And he was asked today, do you think it's possible that some of the armaments that Hezbollah is using against Israel today are from that cache of weapons of mass destruction?
It's impossible to know that.
He wouldn't answer in the affirmative on any of that.
But let's just assume he's right.
I mean, he's a high-ranking former Iraqi official.
Let's assume he's right.
Let's assume some of those weapons of mass destruction are there.
We don't know what condition.
Let's assume he's right.
Let's assume they're there.
That's something everybody's got to be concerned about.
If there are genuine chemical and biological weapons at Hezbollah's disposal, which is one of the reasons I'm sure the Israelis are considering it.
I'm sure it's one of the reasons among many that they're trying to destroy as much infrastructure as they can to keep Hezbollah surrounded.
Tim in Sioux City, Iowa, next you are on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, hello, Rush.
What an honor.
Thank you, sir.
As the son of a World War II Marine veteran, I want to ⁇ I've heard you mention this before, how history always repeats itself.
What I'd like to, I guess, enlighten some of the listeners, if I may, is there was a time when Japan was beheading Chinese by the tens of thousands.
They were also beheading some of our own American soldiers.
There was also a time when those same Japanese were telling us how they wanted to sit down and negotiate and have talks, literally, as they were planning their Pearl Harbor attack.
And I don't know if a lot of people are aware of this, but you mentioned the Nagasaki and Hiroshima and what Truman had to do.
What I wanted to bring up is prior to that, we literally sent hundreds of B-29s, which firebombed dozens of Japanese cities.
Yeah, Tokyo and Osaka, tens of thousands of people were killed prior to the two A-bombs.
And I guess what I'm saying is, when history repeats itself, when I heard Israel's leader say, there is no such thing as a civilian in an air war, I hate to admit it, but this guy's got it right.
The terrorists that we're dealing with have only one objective, and that isn't the acquisition of land.
It is the total annihilation and destruction of not only Israel, but of us as well.
And until we have that same kind of, well, and again, maybe this is, I know this is wishful thinking, but that same kind of united front like we had back during World War II, this will never end.
I find it ironic that someone like Tom Brokaw, who's born and raised not too far from here, wrote a book called The Greatest Generation.
He nailed it on the head.
The only problem is I find it ironic that the same kind of liberal media and liberal thinking is they're just not willing to look back at history and then to do what it takes to win a war like this.
Well, why do you think that is?
Because something's clearly happened.
I mean, you look at the way we fought World War II.
And you know, you mentioned the firebombings of all these cities, Tokyo and Osaka.
Oh, there was a dozen cities or more.
But I know, but that was a bigger death toll than the A-bombs.
Absolutely.
But nobody's afraid of the business.
Wait a second now.
On the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a bunch of American liberals gather together and send good vibes and apologies to the Japanese, and some even go over there.
When I lived in Sacramento, the mayor at the time, Anne Rudin, was leading the cause.
We're so sorry.
We did mean to do it.
We don't apologize.
We're not apologizing today.
Some things happen.
But we don't do this on the anniversary of all these firebombings because nobody really cares about that because the A-bomb, that's unfair.
Why, that's getting close to nuclear.
Why, the United States was evil and guilty and so forth.
But something's changed from that day.
Something's changed in World War II, greatest generation and so forth.
What is it?
Do you think you're obviously actively engaged in this stuff?
What's changed attitudinally, not just among certain leaders, but the American people overall?
Boy Rush, I'd have to stop and think about that for a second.
I know my theory is it happened within a generation.
I think it's funny how the children of those very World War II veterans, you know, the products of the 60s, if you will, I don't know where it came from.
I really don't.
But I do know it happened very quickly.
Vietnam was clear, but I think it's hard to pinpoint a starting point, but the American universities?
Absolutely.
The way young generation was.
It didn't take long at all for them to forget, or I think it's a choice.
It wasn't forget.
It wasn't forget it.
It wasn't forget at all.
It was people being taught how America was immoral and unjust in what it did, primarily with the A-bombs, but in everything and the way we just wiped out Europe and world through there.
And then a bunch of other things happened in a succession, sort like political correctness came to dominate things.
I think the feminization of our culture and the whole notion of conflict resolution.
And then we started penalizing ourselves because of guilt.
We felt guilty at being so big and so powerful and so prosperous.
And every enemy looked small in comparison and almost as a victim.
And it just seemed unfair, no matter what they were doing to us.
It just seemed unfair to deal with it.
And now we're hamstrung.
And we're hamstrung from the top down.
We've got people predominantly a Democratic Party who will not lift a finger and can insist on trying to find out what it is that the United States is doing that's responsible for all of this around the world.
And so I've been saying all week, it raises serious questions about the will of the American people in dealing with this because you said it at the beginning of your call, and you're absolutely right.
Not only do these militant Islamo fascists want to annihilate Israel and wipe them out, same thing for all Western cultures and societies who they consider to be infidels.
And you say that to people and they can't comprehend it.
Oh, you're just being an alarm.
Oh, come on, Rush.
They don't want to wipe out the world.
Come on.
Which is a normal reaction.
Most people don't want to face such a reality.
When you do, got to do something about it.
And it's easier not to do anything about it.
Yeah, this is, you know, I don't want to interrupt my life.
I'm going to die before that happens anyway.
So what the hell?
And it's a balancing act because you wonder at what point, if it exists now, the majority of the American people feel that way, even after a 9-11.
Look how quickly people are trying to forget that.
Got a quick time out here, folks.
A little long in this segment, meaning the next one will be shorter than usual.
Don't go away.
I'm constantly looking for ways to put this conflict in the Middle East into perspective for people.
And I just got an email from a subscriber at rushlimbaugh.com, Larry Hubel, who reminds me of something.
The late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once said that there will be no peace until they love their children more than they hate us.
Now, think of that in a different context.
And she's right about this.
I mean, these are people that strap bombs on their own teenagers and even younger.
Teach them all this hate.
Prepare them for all of this jihad for whatever, you know, convoluted reasons.
Think about, put yourself in a situation, those of you who have children, imagine hating your neighbor more than you love your kids and willing to send your kid off to die in order to harm your neighbor.
As long as the kid takes a neighbor out with him.
Stop thinking.
Just try to put this in some sort of perspective, different from what the conventional wisdom is as it's presented by the same voice after the same voice in the drive-by media.
Bob in Lansing, Michigan.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Megaditto.
Thank you, sir.
I'm calling in as far as the direct question goes of where some of the fundamental problems are coming in and where the concept of essentially collateral damage has come from.
We've seen a complete abolition of personal responsibility.
Even as a businessman on the corporate level, no one makes decisions anymore that they're held responsible for.
Everything is done by committee.
Everything is done through moderation.
Therefore, when you have a totalitarian government, sorry, I'm a little nervous here.
Okay, but I've only got 45 seconds for this segment.
If you can make the point in that, can you do it?
I think so.
When you have a totalitarian government that gets absolutely no resistance from its general population, in fact, they actually support it either through moderation or lack of resistance, then they're no longer innocent bystanders.
They're a fundamental aspect of the problem, and it goes into your whole points on moderate.
They're part of the problem.
Interesting.
Yes, I get that.
That is an interesting point.
The whole notion that the civilians are innocent bystanders and they're not doing anything to stop them or get out themselves.
But if they're prisoners of Hezbollah, Hezbollah won't get them out.
But I still get the theory.
And it's fast to help.
I'm going to expand on this when I have more time.
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