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July 26, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 26, 2006, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Well, there's breaking news out there, folks.
Uh Andrea Yates, uh, who uh drowned her kids in a retrial here has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Uh Democrats will blame the Bush administration somehow uh for this.
She's still gonna spend the rest of her life in an institution, but uh not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Saddam Hussein said uh today, I watched a little bit of the trial.
It's it it's great.
It's it's it's a comedy show.
You know, Saddam trashing his own lawyer, his own lawyer starts reading a statement, Saddam interrupts him and says, You didn't write that, an American spy wrote that.
Let me see you write 20 lines of your own right now.
And the judge shut him up.
Anyway, Saddam said that if he's convicted, he doesn't want to be hanged.
He wants to be shot by firing squad.
And I'm sure there are many people willing to uh acknowledge him in this.
Um, you know, the roll call today has a very uh interesting uh uh lead story, lead paragraph here on describing the Maliki speech.
We've been talking about that for the first hour of the program, as part of their effort to link the outburst of violence in Lebanon and Iraq to President Bush and Congressional Republicans, House and Senate Democrats denounced the decision by GOP congressional leaders to allow Al Maliki to address a joint session of Congress today.
Part of their effort to link the outburst of violence in Lebanon and Iraq to President Bush.
Uh that's that's that's gotta be one of the most honest leads that has been written in uh in quite a while.
I don't know if it was inadvertent, it probably was, but nevertheless, it nails it.
All right, the United Nations.
United Nations shocked.
United Nations stunned by the actions of the Israelis in uh hitting a UN peacekeeper force uh in uh in the territory of the Hezbows.
Uh Israeli warplanes bombarded a UN post in southern Lebanon uh yesterday, killing four observers in a strike that Secretary General Kofi Anon termed apparently deliberate.
Thank you, Kofi.
Thank you for telling us who you are.
Thank you for letting us know that your anti-Semitism knows no bounds.
This from the so-called leading diplomat of the world.
Uh the bombing capped a violent day that included the death of a 15-year-old Israeli girl from a Hezbollah in a northern Galilee town and renewed Israeli airstrikes in and around uh Beirut.
Uh the Israeli ambassador Daniel Ailon uh said on CNN's The Situation Room that uh I think this kind of rhetoric is deplorable, talking deplorable talking about Kofi.
It's outrageous, and I hope he'll apologize for that.
He went on to accuse the Hezbollah militants of positioning rocket launchers beside UN sites, a practice that has been reported by UN officials in recent days.
The UN said, hey, they're putting rocket launchers near our peacekeeper building here.
What?
You know, this is one of those questions you're not supposed to ask.
What the hell are peacekeepers doing in the middle of a war zone?
What are unarmed peacekeepers doing in the middle of a war zone?
My guy, these people children.
Are they children?
Do they not really understand what's going on?
Are they so arrogant that if they think they're in a building right next to some Hezbollah launchers in the middle of a war with Israel, all they gotta do is fly the blue flag?
That's exactly what Hezbolt wants.
Hezbo's a bunch of cowards.
Hezbo is launching rockets from private homes.
Hezbo is being transported around by ambulance.
Hezbo members are painting red crosses on vehicles as they putt putt around their little territory down there.
I tell you, I love the Israelis.
I'm they this they're not putting up with this.
This that this is a lesson to the rest of the world.
This, as I said when I got back for vacation a week and a half ago, this is a gift to the world, folks.
Let's go to the audio sound bites this morning in Rome, Italy.
Another diplomatic total failure, which was destined to be from the get-go, because all diplomatic efforts to stop wars before their natural conclusion, which is victory and defeat, are utter failures.
I was driving in today, and I was listening to some of this, and I thought Condoleezza Rice, what she said after this meeting was just brilliant.
And then, after that, when I got here, turned on the tube and I saw Karen Hughes, who I haven't seen in a while.
Karen Hughes in his under Secretary of State for um some sort of affair.
Uh those titles, but she was just on fire after this thing.
She was talking to the uh lovely and gracious uh Soledad O'Brien uh on the uh little watched CNN morning show.
Uh speaking of that, you know Bill Hammer used to be in that morning show.
Now Hammer is becoming a star over at Fox.
CNN has this knack of letting the best people in their tent get away, and they bring in all these hasbins, think that they have stars.
It's amazing.
I'm just saying this is a broadcaster.
I'm not even talking about news here, but I get sidetracked.
Karen Hughes was just fabulous.
And it made me miss her.
So I fired off an email.
I say, Dad, you were fabulous, and I, you know, I miss you.
I miss you being out in the public domain and making these statements.
She was such a rock during the first term, and no doubt she's doing uh uh great job with Condoleezza Rice at the State Department.
Anyway, here's Kofi Anon about Israel's apology.
This is after the uh meaningless conference on the Mid East crisis in Rome this morning.
Look at the events of yesterday.
Our general and troops were uh people on the ground were in touch with the Israeli army.
Try warning them.
Please be careful.
We have positions here, don't harm our people.
And you can imagine the anguish of the soldiers and the men and women, unarmed military observers who were down there in the service of peace.
We await the investigations, end of the investigations, and I'm grateful for the Prime Minister for what he said, and we accept his say words.
But do cut correctly next time, please.
Do code correctly next time.
So there's Kofi accepting Israel's apology, then rips them and warns him not to do it again or risk another very nasty letter from him.
Oh, but boy, I tell you, I wouldn't want a nasty letter from Kofi Anon, would you?
That would really thwart me.
That would really make me put on the brakes.
You got a nasty letter from Kofi Anon.
All right.
Um here is uh this is uh outside our entire uh Lebanon.
Uh CNN again, UN Captain Ronan Corcoran, who is Irish, uh, is being interviewed by a reporter over there, Carl Penhall, and Penhall says, Oh, what can you tell us so far about what happened with the attack on the observation post?
Yesterday, throughout the day we had a number of what we term firings close visit when uh artillery fire or rocket fire is directed in an area within a certain circumference as to make us feel unsafe within our uh observation posts or our own Moes are unmanned.
It's a big part of our neutrality and freedom of movement.
Everybody, all players out here understand we are unmanned, we fly to blue flag, we are Secretary General's eyes on the ground.
And yesterday there were a series of firings close on the position that was eventually it.
You know, I don't don't misunderstand me, folks.
I am not happy that the uh these blue helmets got hit in their observation post.
That's not why I'm saying I love the Israelis.
So don't confuse uh what I'm saying.
I just I love the Israelis because they're showing everybody how it's done.
Hell with political correctness and a hell with what anybody thinks, when the lives of your people and the future of your country's on the line, you do what you have to do, and you've tried to cooperate for all these years, and nothing has worked.
You have bent over backwards and forwards to go along with all these diplomats and all these resolutions, uh, and now a gift to the world because the eyes have been opened on the part of a lot of people about who these terrorists really are.
The whole concept of land for peace uh uh has been blown to shreds.
There's no such concept as simply a uh uh a curtain or a camouflage, a mask uh that the enemies of Israel hide behind.
But I still say.
Okay, so these guys are Kofi's eyes on the ground.
Kofi, get a satellite for crying out loud.
Get Google.
Go get Google Earth for crying out loud.
What are you putting these poor people in the middle of a battlefield for?
You know, folks, if I didn't know better, if I didn't know better, there's a part of me that thinks that the diplomatic community at the UN is not all that unhappy about this because this gives them a real shot to point out in their minds just how evil and mean the Israelis are.
And they can then launch into their anti-Semitism and have their anti-Semitism portrayed as compassion, restraint, understanding, but made no mistake about it, it is anti-Semitism that that that runs all of this, anti-Israelism, uh, as well as as other factors.
But what in the world are they doing in the mid w when the when the Hesbos bring their rocket launchers right next to your peacekeeper building, what the hell do you do in staying there?
Somebody explain it.
Look at if I'm a UN peacekeeper, and I'm an I'm in a I'm gonna be questioning why I'm there in the first place, because there's no peace right now.
A peacekeeper supposedly keeps the peace.
These guys don't even do that.
Talk to them about it in Rwanda.
Talk to him about it in any other number of African countries where UN peacekeepers are all over the place.
The most common occurrence is rape.
But they sure aren't keeping any peace, but that's beside the point.
Once again, I sidetrack myself, but I don't lose my place.
If I'm a peacekeeper and I've been sent in there, and I see the Hesbows bring some rocket launchers over very near my building, I don't look for a bigger flagpole to put my blue flag on.
I get the hell out of there.
Something fishy about this, folks.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Phil Collins set a rip.
Something happened on the stairway to heaven.
One of my all-time favorite tunes.
I just saw a graphic on CNN.
I don't know what town they're talking about.
It might be this tire.
Uh am I pronouncing that right?
You gotta forgive me if I do not when I watch television, I don't have the sound up.
Uh it just it's irritating to me.
It's just my hearing, so I read close captions.
I never hear some of these names pronounced, so I just pronounce them as they look to me.
And I'm I'm not trying to insult anybody if I mispronounce their names.
I'm just you know the way it looks is the way I pronounce it.
Sort of like learning a foreign language.
At any rate, uh thick, thick billowing clouds of smoke were raging over this town.
Really?
I wonder why, folks.
Could it be that one of those California wildfires is spread all the way to Lebanon?
Could it be global warming?
What in the world would be causing smoke in a war zone.
You know, it is it is it really, really challenging and difficult here to um suffer fools.
I found an interesting story.
Coco at the website uh went back to his memory archives and recalled this incident.
This is the Washington Times, October 28th, 1995.
Uh kudos, actually, what is this?
Uh it's an editorial.
It's an editorial.
Kudos and congratulations to New York City Mayor Rudolph Rudy Giuliani for standing behind his decision to kick Yasser Arafat out of Lincoln Center during a concert on Monday featuring Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in honor of world leaders in town for the UN's 50th anniversary celebrations.
Rudy didn't invite Mr. Arafat to the concert, and when Arafat tried to crash it, he was asked to leave by the mayor's representatives.
Since the New York Post broke the story, Giuliani has been aroundly criticized for his rude behavior.
According to White House Chief of Staff Mike McCurry, the incident was regrettable.
But he added that Mayor Giuliani has the right to invite whomever he wished to a city-sponsored concert, just as President Clinton has the right to invite Arafat to a bunch of White House receptions, if he so wishes.
That sounds just about right, though it has to be said that in this case, Giuliani shows a good deal more discernment than Mr. Clinton.
So the very same Democrats who called Rudy a bully, how dare you kick Arafat out of Lincoln Center when he wasn't invited and crashed the event.
Now upset that Maliki was allowed to show up and speak.
make sure you catch it on our podcast this afternoon or at Rushlimbaugh.com when we update the website to reflect the contents of today's program.
You know, the tell you a little trick here about Kofi Anon and how he gets away with with these untenable, ridiculous, outrageous positions.
All Kofi has to do uh is to lament the human suffering.
You notice when Kofrey pronounces an ING word, he never pronounces a G. I'm thinking I'm human suffering.
No, I won't resign.
He's always missing the G on.
I guess I guess it's I know it's not his native tongue, so I will back off.
But when he comes out and he talks about the human suffering, he's loved.
Why?
Man of peace.
His years of peacekeeping failures that caused all the human suffering in the first place melt away.
Because the liberals of the world go, oh he cares.
He's concerned about human suffering too.
I don't have you Kofi.
That's all he's gotta do.
And whatever outrageous thing he does or says is then forgotten.
Remember those words.
End human suffering.
It's the open sesame to a liberal's heart.
You know, I'm what if I were to start, you know, I we really need to end this human suffering.
I you you think liberals' hearts would be open to me.
If I started saying we need to end this uh human suffering.
Well, I don't know if I could pull it off.
You know, there was a day I could be a lib.
You remember back in the uh in the early 90s, I'm doing the Rush to Excellence tour, and uh I I I was a lib for the first hour of the program.
And I had people calling saying they're gonna cancel their tickets, they weren't gonna show up wherever I was scheduled to be.
They bought it.
I don't know that I could actually pull it off today.
I was able to pull it off back then.
Uh uh it would it did take a studious effort, and I'll think about it.
Uh people have been waiting patiently on the phone.
John, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, thanks for your patience and welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush, and thank you for everything you do for us.
Thank you, sir.
Um I'm calling in reference to your uh announcement that Andrea Yates uh was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
And I'm wondering whether you think uh this is an example of the feminization of our society that you've talked about so many times, and I'm wondering whether you think that if this was a man that had done this that had exactly the same mental makeup as as Andrea,
and you know, exactly the same circumstances and so forth, the psychiatrist come out with exactly the same report, whether the verdict would have been the same, or whether the drive-by media and everybody else would have called him an SOB and they'd want to hang him, which they probably would.
What do you think about that?
Well, I think it's a fascinating question.
Uh and I think what the jury was trying to do here was just end the human suffering.
Uh that has gone on way too long in this whole trial, John.
Uh first verdict was just too disproportionate to the uh to the events here.
Uh and you have to applaud the jury for attempting to end the uh the human suffering.
It has gone on too long.
We need to move on.
Everybody needs to get on with their lives.
You know, I I think I think you uh you you made a comment just a moment ago that's uh very relevant to this.
You you talk about Kofi Ann and wanting to end the human suffering, and you said uh if you would come on and say you wanted to end human suffering, how would they treat you?
Yeah, well, how did you react to it when I said it?
Well, uh, you know, I was uh it's it's Andrea Yates, and and then and what what would happen if it would be a man.
Well, let me address okay, look, and I was just I just teasing there.
We're just I that was a trial balloon.
Uh that was practice.
Uh see if I can eventually pull this off.
Uh uh.
I don't know that the feminization of the culture is the number one culprit here, because these kinds of verdicts are as old as as I can remember.
Uh the not guilty by reason of insanity uh is this is not new.
And and in this case, the jury knew that this woman is gonna be incarcerated essentially in some really plebeian institution.
What?
Oh, the jury didn't know that.
The jury didn't know that she was going to be holed up in some institution for the rest of her life anyway?
Well, in that case, I'm going to have to revise this.
I think there may be a little Oprahization going on here because he's got a good point if it were a man.
Would it be any different?
We got to take a break here, folks.
Tight back right after this.
Squeeze in tight.
Okay.
Okay, couple of uh couple columns that I I want to share with you here, ladies and gentlemen.
Quite fascinating, in fact.
Uh, and then a couple of news stories.
We'll get back to your phone calls.
By the let me let me uh I was running way short of time uh moments ago, answering uh John from Harrisburg about the uh the Yates verdict.
Uh you know, it it not guilty by reason of insanity has been around for a long, long time, and it's it's popped up in some of the most odd circumstances.
It happened before the culture was feminized, uh, and it's happened since.
I think a greater example of the feminization of the culture, the Oprahization of the culture, something like the Menendez jury.
Uh when uh the women on the jury just couldn't convict the Menendez brothers because they weren't going to have their mother anymore, even though they killed her.
Uh and they and they went on television.
It was it was uh it was incomprehensible to watch.
Now there's no question there's been feminization of the uh of the culture.
And I've got, and I'm I'm gonna get to it today, snurly.
You're not gonna sidetrack me.
I got a whole lifestyle section, I'm gonna do it in the next hour.
But I got evidence of this.
Some of the some of the some of there's some comments uh uh somebody, some elected official, some woman has made about how women are much better at dealing with crises because they much better at dealing with consensus and getting it and so forth.
There's a there's no question that a feminization of the uh uh of the culture has has taken place.
I don't think that's really at fault here in the Yates in the Yates.
Clearly, folks, the woman's not all there.
I mean, when you get down to it just it's so sad.
I uh they showed the pictures of those little boys.
It's just there can't have been any anything rational about that.
So I think in this case, uh she clearly is uh uh elevator hasn't gone to the top floor for a long time.
Uh cuppin' saucer short of a full place setting.
So in this case, the the verdict may actually be correct.
Now, Dick Morris has a fascinating piece today, finishing what Clinton left undone.
I thought what Clinton left undone mostly was it pants, but that's not what uh uh Morris is writing about here.
Ten years ago, this is this is fascinating to me.
Ten years ago on April 18th, 1996, Israel attacked the Hezbos in Lebanon for sixteen days in an operation called Grapes of Wrath.
The global condemnation of Israel was fierce, especially when it bombed a UN refugee camp, killing a hundred and seven people, an attack that Tel Aviv said was a mistake.
At the time, the United States did nothing to stop the tide from turning against Israel, and President Clinton said, I think it's important that we do everything we can to bring an end to the violence.
Have to end the human suffering.
In private, Dick Morris writes, Clinton seethed at the Israeli attack, saying that he had discussed with the Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Pares the possibility of concluding a military defense treaty with Israel, pledging U.S. aid in the event of an attack.
They really want this guarantee from us, Clinton told me, writes Morris.
And I would have given them that commitment too, but now I can't because of the uproar over the refugee camp bombing.
So no such treaty was ever signed.
Clinton's willingness to use American power to force a ceasefire on Israel before it had fully eradicated Hezbollah stands in stark and sharp contrast to George Bush's insistence on letting Israel proceed with its attacks until the terrorist group is neutralized.
In a nutshell, this illustrates the difference between the democratic and Republican approaches to Israeli security.
Bush and his administration clearly see that the Israeli attack as an opportunity to clean out terror cells that have come to be pivotal in Lebanon.
With Hezbollah's power expanding into uh uh the cabinet in Beirut, it's clear that Israeli military action is necessary to forestall the creation of a terrorist state on its northern border.
While Clinton said he embraced the need for Israeli security, when the going got rough, he bowed to world opinion and called for a ceasefire.
When the United States asks Israel to stop fighting, it's like a boxer's manager throwing in the towel.
The bottom line is that true friends of Israel cannot afford to let leftist Democrats take power in Washington.
Thank you, Mr. Morris.
Another echo, another limb echo out there in the drive-by media.
Morris says American Jews have voted Democrat in the past and they're going to continue to do so in the future.
It is really the Christian evangelical right that stands up for Israel.
The reason Israel has to fight in Lebanon today is that the United States did not permit it to finish the job of destroying Hezbollah in the nineties.
Now, fortunately for Israel's two friends, the White House is letting Tel Aviv win without reigning her in.
The global condemnation of Israel is simply illustrative of the low esteem attached to Jewish blood in this world where anti-Semitism comes disguised as morality and a commitment to peace.
So I had forgotten this incident.
I remember it now that Morris writes about it, but yet another example of a loose end, one of what turned out to be countless loose ends from the Clinton administration, failing to close deals, failing to deal with real problems.
And remember, after this, it was it was Clinton doing everything he could to convince Yasser Arafat to uh go along.
Arafat was playing Clinton like a fiddle.
Uh it's just it's just stunning.
And that's why, you know, I love I wish we had tape of what Condoleezza Rice said today.
We've got it.
We'll try to find some soundbites of it soon, if not today, tomorrow.
But I thought she was just fabulous today as I was driving in listening to her in the in the post so-called diplomatic peace conference that was destined to fail.
Um she's saying all the right things.
Oh, yeah, we want a ceasefire, but we're not gonna go back to a ceasefire with a status quo.
Uh that is very clear.
John Bolton, George Bush, uh, Condoleezza Rice are singing with one voice, speaking with one voice, and it's uh it's consistent.
Uh, and the Israelis are giving it a clear signal uh that they have free reign to finally once and for all uh deal with this.
The second column that I want to share with you is by Josh Manchester, and it originally was published at Tech Central Station Daily.
It's a it's a fascinating take.
Basically, his thesis is that by liberating Iraq, the U.S. set the stage for the destruction of the Hezbollah's.
The U.S. invasion of Iraq has so shaken and stirred the Middle East that some exceptionally strange things are happening.
More importantly, these things unequivocally favor the U.S. in influencing the outcome of the Israeli Hezbollah now taking place in Lebanon.
What sorts of strange things will consider an Arab League meeting in Cairo over the weekend, where a fight of sorts broke out.
Jeb Babin described it best.
This meeting began with the Lebanese foreign minister proposing a resolution condemning Israel's military action, supporting Lebanon's right to resist occupation by all legitimate means.
The Lebanese draft also called on Israel to release all Lebanese prisoners and supported Lebanon's right to liberate them by all legitimate means.
The Syrian foreign minister strongly supported Lebanon and the Hezbos, but an historic obstacle was raised that blocked the Lebanese endorsement of terrorism.
The Saudi foreign minister, Al-Faisal, led a triumvirate including Egypt and Jordan, that according to the AP report was, quote, criticizing the guerrilla group's actions, calling them unexpected, inappropriate, and irresponsible acts, unquote.
Faisal said, these acts will pull the whole region back to years ago, and we simply cannot accept these acts.
The Arab leaders are frightened that the acts of the terrorists that they have coddled for decades might have consequences for them.
And they're very frightened of what Iran may do next.
These regimes would most certainly not be afraid of what Iran may do next if Saddam Hussein still ran Iraq, providing for the Arab world a deterrent against Iran.
toppled dictator Saddam Hussein himself issued a warning to the Syrian leadership not to go too far in its alliance with Iran, blaming Tehran for the current flare-up of violence in the Middle East and The head of Saddam's defense team claimed Tuesday, quote, I'm convinced the Iranian and U.S. agendas have met in Iraq.
I told you that three years ago.
I have said that what really is going on in Iraq is the prep prelude to a coming skirmish with Iran.
And here is Saddam's Saddam's own lawyer yesterday saying the same thing.
I'm convinced the Iranian and U.S. agendas have met in Iraq and elsewhere in the Arab world and Arabs are now placed between the U.S. Israeli hammer and the Iranian anvil.
His lawyer was quoting Saddam.
Now, this Saddam who said Saddam is a man whose prized dictatorship was overrun by U.S. forces, who was captured by U.S. forces, and who, as a result, is on trial for his life.
And he blames Iran primarily for the current flare-up, not some Zionist U.S. conspiracy in the standard rhetoric of the region.
So the bottom line here is that the uh attack and our action in Iraq has blown this region wide open.
And it has.
But it's an it's a it's i i there's a huge uh period of time here where there's a lot of fallout.
Uh we'd we expect answers and solutions quickly.
Uh not going to happen here.
But this region is totally shaken up and stirred, as this guy says, why it'd be a total mistake to get out of Iraq.
Uh to do so would be admitting defeat, and that would just that would that that would destroy everything that's happening in there.
Uh, obviously it's tremendous progress.
Here's the last paragraph from Mr. Manchester.
Israel now has the chance to destroy the Hezbos.
Only time can tell what Israel will do with the opportunity it possesses.
Opportunities forsaken are opportunities lost forever, as Douglas MacArthur was sometimes rumored to say.
But let there be no mistake, this moment would not have been possible without the invasion of Iraq, and the destruction of Hezbollah is very much in the interest of the U.S. and that of any other nation that abhors terrorism.
A quick timeout back after this.
All right, uh, want you to hear Candy Connellizer Rice.
Uh, in uh in Rome today, uh this is uh after attending this day-long conference on the Mid East crisis with the uh United Nation and uh all these Star Wars Barcene diplomats.
First of two sound bites.
Let us be very clear that there was and indeed continues to be regional participation in these efforts.
The question is whether Syria, which has obligations under Resolution 1559, intends to exercise those obligations in a way that leads to a fully sovereign Lebanon that can indeed control all of the armaments in its country.
That is the question for the Syrian government.
And let me just say what I said the other day.
We do actually have diplomatic relations with Syria.
We continue to have a charge in Syria.
But it's not a question of talking to Syria, it's a question of whether Syria is prepared to act.
Yes!
Amen.
Who was it the other day we played the soundbite?
Somebody was couldn't believe we weren't talking.
Some Democrat couldn't believe we weren't talking to Syria.
Uh and she makes the point, we have a charge, but it doesn't matter what these people say.
What they say is irrelevant.
We're going to watch what they do.
This is so refreshing.
You know, I'll tell you what, these these these diplomats are having their world rocked by all this.
This is they're not used to hearing this.
They're not used to dealing with reality.
And they're getting it from the U.S. delegation.
Uh here's here's her comment about not returning to the status quo.
We all committed to dedicated and urgent action to try and bring about an end to this violence that indeed would be sustainable and that would lead the Lebanese government uh with the prospect of full control of its country.
This is very important.
We cannot, and I heard it many, many times during this conference.
We cannot return to the status quo ante.
Yeah, well, no, that's very meaningful.
What is the status quo ante that we're not going to go back to?
If we're not going to go back to it, what's going to replace it?
See, that's and you know, even these thick headed, log headed diplomats know what that means.
So that don't it won't be long.
We got to end the human suffering.
We have to end the human suffering.
All right, Joe in Fort Myers, Florida.
Glad you called, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Love your show.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Listen, I'm really concerned that I expressed this correctly, so forgive me if I stumble a little bit here, but this is really important that I've seen people touch on.
Nobody's really expressed in a clear way than I think, and that is uh I'll put it this way.
I have the greatest admiration and respect for the Israeli government and people.
If I had to live in any other country than this one, it would be over there, and it would be right now.
Their love, their protection for two citizens, soldiers or not, to put so much on the line to get back their guides, is to be admired around the world.
And I stand up to them and I say, God bless them, and I tell them to stay the course, don't quit, get your men back.
And uh I pray that our country would do the same for everybody in this country if we are in a similar situation.
And the Democrats don't seem to give me that sense of loyalty and dedication to the citizens.
Now, their loyalty and dedication is to themselves.
They will tell you it is to the citizens.
You know, I I appreciate what you're saying, and I understand it, but I think in the full context of events, this is about more than just two soldiers.
The two soldiers were the savior of the the the final straw, uh, or the catalyst.
The Israelis have been patient, they have been agreeable, they have been defensive, they have been minding their own business.
They have gone through all this rigmarole of the Oslo Accords.
They've had, I don't know how many UN resolutions.
They've had all these demands on them to give up land for peace, which they've done.
And it has been exposed all of it as fraudulent.
And I I th I I think the uh Josh Manchester piece that uh uh I just quoted from it pretty accurate in the sense that if if if we hadn't invaded Iraq, uh, well, it it's hard to say what events would have followed that.
But let's say everything that's happened since we invaded Iraq in Israel and Lebanon along with the Hezbox would have happened.
I'm not sure sure that the Israelis uh would have been this aggressive uh in their response over just two soldiers.
But I think that region's blown up now, and I think that there's a lot of confidence uh on the part of many that it's time to deal with this.
The United States, the leader of the free world, has declared a war on terror.
And the Israelis have been facing terror daily in their lives.
And the whole approach to them to solve it has been to stop, cease fire, have negotiations, have peace talks, end human suffering, and so forth.
And it's gotten them nowhere.
It's literally gotten them nowhere.
It's gotten them a lifetime existence at war daily, despite all of these ceasefires.
But it's a new day now.
Uh there is a declared war on terror, and it's being fought in Afghanistan.
It's being fought in Iraq, and now it's being fought in Lebanon.
And it's gonna be fought in other places too, particularly as we continue to pile up victories.
Uh, and that's what's on the line here.
That's the answer to the question well, how do we not go back to the status quo, Tonda Lisa Rice talks about?
Well, status quo is Hezbollah running around still doing their terrorism little acts and so forth.
Having them not do that is what Candy's talking about.
There's only one way to achieve that, folks.
It's called victory.
Okay, folks, I am gonna get into the lifestyle stack in the next hour.
We gotta change the pace here.
We gotta can't be heavy all the time.
Sit tight.
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