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July 31, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
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A uh little programming note barring any unforeseen events which are fairly predictable in Israel.
We will have uh former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the program here at 1233 Eastern uh in the second half hour.
It's about a half hour from now, essentially, a little bit less than that.
Uh uh again, depending uh on whether or not uh he's able to make it given events that are certainly fluid in uh in Israel.
Uh obviously a lot to talk about, but folks, I want you to go to my website.
Uh you have to see something, but I I want to, and we've we got it ready.
We're gonna we're linking you to another website, and I hope we don't shut down their server, because I want as many people as possible to see this.
It I can't do it justice telling you about it.
Uh I can describe what it is, but you have to go see the pictures for yourself.
They are pictures from Kana after the Israeli retaliation killed 56 villagers, mostly women and children and uh uh young teenagers, so forth.
Now, what are the odds that would be the case?
That an attack on a building would not kill very many men, just women and children and so forth.
Uh there's a there are two wars going on.
Uh, one thing I'm gonna ask the former Prime Minister of Israel, uh Bibi Netanyahu, is what what matters most?
Winning the real war, winning the PR war.
Winning the spin, winning the PR, or winning the real war.
Uh I've got an audio sound bite here for you from a program on CNN yesterday that just takes the cake from a news babe named Lara Logan.
I guess she's a CBS.
Not really sure.
But it it it it really illustrates the nature of how 180 degrees out of phase everything is.
Uh, let me get back to this uh website.
If you've uh already gone to my website to get the link, I want to warn you these are really graphic pictures of dead children.
These children are being paraded around by Hezbollah members described as rescue workers.
Uh they are posing these dead children for cameras for a period of four to five hours.
A little boy and a little girl, dust covered, uh, obviously killed when the building collapsed.
And I tell you, folks, uh it is it is interesting to me to note this.
Apparently, the only thing more valuable than dead Jewish kids to militant Islamist terrorists is dead Muslim kids that they can blame for which the deaths they can blame on the Israelis.
I have never seen a group of people more willing to sacrifice their own children to advance their idiotic.
Well, I don't know of one that's ever done it.
Not in my not in my lifetime, not in my historical understanding.
Uh dead Muslim kids are obviously more valuable to these barbarians than uh than even dead Israeli children are.
The Israelis can't go touting uh this kind of thing.
They can't play the PR game this way.
Uh they'd never be allowed to get away with it.
But it's clear, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that the uh the there are forces arrayed, as I have been telling you constantly, that seek to sabotage victory over this enemy, the Islamo fascists.
And if we don't stop listening to the Lindsay Grahams of the world and the Arnold's uh Arlen Spectors of the world here at home, who uh I don't know whether they're doing it on purpose or not, whether they're just misguided, but they they seek to weaken our ability to find and interrogate the enemy.
If we don't start really kicking butt in this war, including not just allowing, but in fact, urging Israel to viciously attack this enemy, we're gonna end up losing it, and then it's gonna take something worse than this to wake everybody back up, and I'm afraid that's gonna be a nuclear weapon in the hands of an Islamo-fascist group.
I've got polling data that shows most Americans are already battle fatigued, don't want to deal with this.
This is another Israeli Middle East war.
It's none of our business.
Can't we go back to the nineties when there were no problems and no worries and everybody was having just a grand old time?
It's not a majority, but it's a pretty sizable number.
Well, in fact, in some cases it is.
In some polls, it is a majority of people just fed up with it.
I don't want to deal with it.
I have no desire.
And as such, uh not taking it seriously.
You know, we are not even making a an effort to make the public case for taking out the regimes in Iran and Syria.
And make no mistake, this this Israeli Hezbo skirmish is simply a proxy of proxy war between ourselves and Iran.
And in fact, you know, there is a story of the Washington Post today, which pretty much says this.
And I'm wondering, you know, they quote a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, uh, author of a book called Running the World, a book on U.S. foreign policy.
Um I said what they quoted this guy as saying months ago, months ago.
It's not like I'm show prepped for the news uh uh that follows, although I am.
Maybe I ought to start saying, you can hear it now on the Rush Limbaugh program or read it six months from now in the newspapers.
Anyway, here's the point.
It's really a proxy war between the U.S. and Iran, said David Rothkop, a scholar at the Carnegie endowment, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Now, what are we doing instead?
We're talking about a lasting ceasefire.
There's no such thing.
The reality of this is that there's no such thing as a re as as a lasting or sustainable ceasefire.
Uh our diplomacy, if we're going to go the diplomatic route, ought to be focused on building domestic and other support for the war, uh, which would include Iran and Syria.
Uh nothing is going to substitute for victory in uh in all of this.
But I want to pose something else to you here, folks.
You know, there's a in addition to the PR battle, and I think it's a fundamental element of it, in fact.
Um we have the Lebanese population, the Lebanese government, a Lebanese army, the military.
They're doing diddly squat.
We've got the Hezbos who have uh in interesting fashion, and I think the same thing is being attempted in Iraq, and it poses the same kind of trouble, or the same kind of challenge.
The Hezbos have pretty much uh made, and we've heard the puff peace stories.
Oh, they're wonderful humanitarians, the Hezbos.
Why, those the social services they provide the general population, why they're doing such wonderful things.
They care about people, they pass out health care and whatever the hell it is.
Well, what they're doing is making the general population of these countries dependent on them.
Uh and and as such, that is how they secure uh or it's either through blackmail or or genuine support, but that's that's how they get the support of the general population centers.
Uh you also have the Israeli factor in that.
These are these are Arabs, absolutely, so that there are a number of factors in it.
But the one thing that has really changed in warfare from World War II forward, and I know that tactics change, but strategy doesn't.
The art of war by Sun Tzu is still is still uh something that's uh regarded as timely, even though it's thousands of years old.
The one thing that you just don't do these days is kill civilians.
That used to be the name of the game in war.
Uh, and it was done on purpose.
Now, it was done to end wars, and it was done to achieve decisive victory, and it was done to save the lives of your own troops in the field.
All of those things were factors.
So we have this episode at Kana.
You know who really killed those people are the Hezbos.
Hezbollah killed those people.
Hezbollah put those people in that building and brought the Locke and rocket launchers in close by, knowing full well that the launcher would be targeted.
That building didn't fall for eight hours after it was hit.
What do you what do you bet that the Hezbos finished the job that the Israeli bomb did not actually complete?
What do you bet they kill their own people for the PR aspect?
These people cannot compete militarily with any industrialized nation.
So they have to fight the PR in the spin war.
And it is amazing to me see how easily the duped U.S. and world media is.
The truth of what happened at uh at Kana has been as distorted as what has happened and did happen in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
It's almost identical.
Media is proving they are incapable of accurately covering a war now.
Uh perhaps because they don't want to.
You'll see what I mean when you take a look at this website.
It's uh it's uh your referendum.blogspot.
But you you'll you when you see this photo display, this guy has went to gone to a lot of work to show how the uh the Hezbos are milking this, parading their own dead in front of the cameras, posing them at different times, taking them in and out of ambulances, covering them with dust, holding them for hours on end, and the and these are still photographers taking the pictures, obviously, and these photographers are obviously willing to participate in propaganda.
They know exactly what's being done.
All of these photos, bringing the bodies out of the rubble, posing them for the cameras, it's all staged.
Every bit of it is staged.
And the still photographers know it.
Yet they send these pictures out without saying all of this is being staged for us.
They send these pictures out as though they are in a timeline of an exact sequence, which they are not, which you will see when you read this.
So the point is, Israel's probably not even killing all these civilians.
I asked yesterday when you have the Hezbos who don't wear uniforms, how do you know what civilian deaths are versus Hezbollah deaths?
How do you know who's who there?
You don't.
Now you're gonna hamstring yourself uh on this uh in the PR side of this, then it's it's it it doesn't have uh a rosy outlook.
Now, one before we go to the break.
Here's uh audio soundbite 14 from the list today from reliable sources with Howard Kurtz.
Uh this is, I guess last night, and CBS News reporter Lara Logan is one of the panelists.
Kurt says, Is Hezbollah winning the war of images?
Um if that is defined as creating world sympathy in terms of civilian casualties.
The Israelis can't get into this game where you know they show Hezbollah dead in order to counter the images of their wounded and dead soldiers.
I mean, that's uh that just becomes really tacky.
And I think the sense I get is that the Israelis are really at a loss for how to manage the propaganda side of this war.
I've seen rocket after rocket hitting homes in Israel where whole families would have been killed if they had been at home.
It's a problem for the Israelis because not having that, you know, that devastating impact on their civilian population means that they completely lose in the war of images.
The world is upside down.
So Lara Logan says more Israelis need to be killed, more Israeli kids need to be killed so that they can show their suffering, so that they can show the human suffering that's going on out there.
The thing that amazes me is she is fully aware that there's an image war.
She's fully aware she is being spun, and she doesn't care.
She's entirely thrilled.
She's willing to accept that she's being spun and that the Israelis are not doing a good enough job of spinning her.
It's almost like the media loved Clinton's lies so much they marveled at how good he was at it.
They're marveling at the spin of these terrorists and the and the Hezbollah people.
And of course, where it would be tacky for the Israelis to hold up their dead children to the cameras and pose them.
It's not tacky for Hezbollah to do that.
Note she didn't say that.
So we've got a morally inverted universe here, and the propaganda is being co-created, if you will, by the Hezbollah people and willing dupes, or perhaps worse, in the um in the Western media.
I gotta go.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue in just a moment.
I'm I'm just telling you what we're getting in the aftermath of the bombing in Kana is no different to what we got in the from the drive-by media after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
It is the same thing.
And I want to pose something to you, and I know it's it's it's gonna shock some of you, probably gonna shock all of you.
Well, I can't say all of you.
It's gonna it's gonna shock most of you.
Uh but that the reason it'll shock you if you are shocked is because you're not up to speed yet on what uh what we face out there.
I want to go back to the civilian casualty aspect of this.
The A-Bombs, Hiroshima Nagasaki, all the fire bombing of ten to twelve Japanese cities, the bombing of Dresden and so forth, all of those instances uh were instances where civilians were targeted.
The civilians in Lebanon are Lebanon's what it is, and the Hezbollah outfit is gonna end up running this country.
If we if we if we are if we're not careful, Hezbollah's gonna become the official government of Lebanon, and it will become the first terrorist organization that has control of a sovereign state and can make arms deals with other nations and so forth and get a seat at the Security Council all the while it is a proxy for Iran.
If we're not careful, that's what's gonna happen here.
And how to stop it, how to wipe out Hezbollah, not the way it's being done now, and no negotiated peace is gonna ever solve this problem.
It hasn't in the past.
It's not going to in the future.
Just today, the UN Security Council's beating its chest.
Look at us, look how big we are, look how important we are.
Why we just gave Iran 30 days to stop their nuclear enrichment program or else.
Or else what?
Well, or else, like sanctions, economic sanctions.
Oh, be still my beating heart.
You know what the Iraqi response, or the Iran, I'm sorry, Iran.
You know what the Iranian response was?
That Security Council doesn't even hold the force of law.
They basically said, screw you.
We're gonna do what we want to do.
You gotta you gotta stop us.
And of course, the UN is not gonna stop the Iranians from doing anything.
They're gonna go through the motions of sanctions.
Last time we had sanctions, big time sanctions for the UN was against Iraq, and we got the oil for food program.
Um it just it it becomes laughable.
Like I told you on Friday, somebody asked me where this is headed, and as it's headed to something really bad, I don't know how long it's gonna take to get there, but there just isn't a whole lot of uh of uh energy here for dealing with this right now.
Because the real focus of this has to be Iran and Syria.
If we're really gonna have a war on terror, then that's where it starts.
That's where it is, since we've already uh done the uh Afghanistan route and NATO troops, by the way, in the southern part of Afghanistan now patrolling patrolling there.
We've got uh we've got going on in Iraq what is going on, but it's a worldwide war on terror.
Some people really don't think it's a war that needs to be fought, many of them in this country, thinking that Bush is the real enemy, that Republicans are the real enemy of, and if we just get rid of them, why the world will be safer and full of bliss, peace, all these all these uh all these other things that uh the peace activists conjure up as this as this beautiful world will be nowhere near achieving it unless these people are actually taken out.
Here's the thing.
Uh and I know some people disagree with me on this that the civilians and the citizens in these uh tyrannical regimes are irrelevant.
Uh but one of the ways, how how do you think a terrorist organization, which cannot compete with us or anybody else militarily, how else does it support itself?
How else does it entrench itself?
Uh it does so by making the local population depend uh on its uh uh existence, making the civilian population depend on them.
Until civilians, frankly, I'm not sure how many of them are actually just innocent little civilians running around versus active Hezboy types, particularly the men.
But uh until those civilians start paying a price for propping up these kinds of regimes, it's not gonna end, folks.
Uh yeah, I know you're sure what do you mean civilians start paying a price?
Um I just ask you to consult history for the answer to that.
Uh it's not their fault, Rush.
It's not their fault.
Uh no.
Not saying that it is.
Uh but as long as you're gonna allow these people to hide behind baby carriages and women and children and mosques and so-called apartment buildings, and if it's if you're gonna uh launch military strikes at military targets, which Hezbollah's not doing 120 rockets into Israel yesterday.
Nobody has a care in the world.
Nobody has one word of condemnation for that.
We don't know what targets were hit.
We don't know how many people died.
The Israelis are not parading their victims around on TV for propaganda purposes.
It's a it's just it's is as long as as uh we are going to pussyfoot and patty cake around, uh it we're not going to get anywhere, we're not going to make any real progress.
We may delay the inevitable.
We may get ceasefire after ceasefire after ceasefire, but we're not going to deal with the root cause of the problem.
And as such, your kids and grandkids are going to be saddled with that.
At some point uh when they assume responsibility for the fate and future of the country.
Got a run, be back.
B.B. Nutanyahoo may be delayed by at least 15 minutes, I've been told.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scheduled to be with us at this very moment.
But as I suspected, as events there are very fluid, he has called into an emergency meeting.
Could be in 15 minutes or so.
We will continue working on uh scheduling uh the interview with the former prime minister and now the leader of the opposition party, the Lakud Party, which is totally unified, by the way, uh behind Prime Minister uh uh Ulmert.
Uh I saw a story here.
I didn't I didn't I threw it away because I had two lines I can remember it.
Uh it was a quote, a couple quotes from a 33, 35-year-old woman in Kana in Lebanon.
So, of course there's Hezbollah here.
Well, of course, you see the flags, of course, Hezbollah's all over the place.
But there weren't any in the building the Israelis hit.
Well, why didn't you leave?
She was.
I mean, you the Israelis have been broadcasting for for days over the radio to get the hell out of there.
They've been dropping leaflets.
It's not as it's not as though that they're being totally inhumane about this, not being inhumane at all.
They weren't.
Why didn't you leave?
Well, uh for two reasons.
We don't have this the seven dollars to get a cab to go to another village, and we also didn't think it would ever really happen.
Come on.
That's propaganda, too.
Didn't think it would ever really happen.
The real reason these people don't leave is because they can't.
The deaths on the Lebanon side of the border, the majority of them are dead because of Hezbollah.
The majority of them are dead because of terrorists.
Their own kids are more valuable to them.
Dead Muslim kids are more valuable to them than dead Jewish kids if they can say and convince people that the Israelis killed their kids.
These are the people put bombs on their kids, teach them out how to go out and blow themselves up to advance the cause.
Uh it is it is stunning.
None of this makes any presentation of the drive-by media the real evil here, portrayed as innocent little victims, almost angelic, multicultural, of course, people of ethnic rich culture and tribal histories and so forth.
Displaced from their lands.
Take a look at a map, all of the surrounding countries into Africa that are Arab and in the Middle East, and look at little Israel and talk about the Arabs being displaced from their land.
The whole the whole thing is just it's it's there's an inverted morality here.
There's a totally upside-down world.
Hezbollah is making sure as many of its civilians as possible die.
Each time Israel launches a salvo into a Hezbollah stronghold area, and then they parade the bodies of the kids around and pose them for photographers who are willing to pass on the photograp uh the propaganda knowing full well they're being propagandized.
Willing to do it nevertheless.
Again, if you're just joining me, there's an incredible illustration and poof of all this.
I linked to a blog site at rushlinbaugh.com, and that blog site's holding up pretty well.
We haven't shut down their servers.
They're pretty, it's a European bunch.
Uh and they've they've documented some proof with Reuters and AP photographs.
The photographs are grisly.
They are uh quite disturbing.
Uh should warn you about that before you go see them.
But you have to See how the the PR and the spin war is being managed and how our drive-by media and the rest of the world media is just falling for it, hook, line and sinker, because it's their action line.
Action line is Bush is wrong, Israel sucks, rice is bad, Bolton's bad, gotta get rid of all Rumsfeld and all these people.
Bush is horrible, Israel's horrible.
In fact, Israel may have replaced Bush now in terms of being the primary target of the drive-by media.
Bush will get it back.
Uh but but they're covering Israel in this war the way they've covered Bush and practically everything since he was inaugurated back in 2001.
And I'm I'm I'm just uh telling you when you go look at these pictures, uh, and I urge you to do so to understand just how the spin PR battle is being waged.
Uh you exercise caution because they're not they're they're they're not bloody and gory, they're just they're just really disturbing.
It's really disturbing.
De Moine Iowa, let's go to the phones.
Michael, glad to have you on the program and welcome, sir.
Morning, Russia.
As usual, you're right on target on this topic.
And and speaking on this topic, I really think we at this point in time have a golden opportunity to use the United Nations and for Secretary Rice and John Bolton to help us, we should call for a ceasefire in the Middle East, but we should call for it just long enough to move all of the civilians out of Lebanon.
That way our approach can be look, folks, we're gonna not shoot anymore.
We can bring in you and troops, we can move all the civilians out, and then if the two militaries want to go at one another, go ahead.
I think that puts Hezbollah then on their heels where they would have to either agree to a very humanitarian thing to do, or it would show them in the light of what you are pointing out right now, which is they're keeping the civilians there.
Wait a minute.
You want to you want to evacuate all civilians from Lebanon or just from Southern Lebanon?
Just from Southern Lebanon, just from the and then if these two militaries want to go at it, as as Hezbollah is as as showed their bravado over the last several days, saying we'll fight forever.
Great, get the civilians out of Southern Lebanon and let the two militaries go at it.
Uh that'd be an interesting suggestion.
Uh, but uh even when you say this, and I understand your thinking, everybody's trying to come up with an angle here to move this along, because we all know, folks, we're just pedaling a tricycle here.
We're just pedaling a tricycle in terms of actually getting this thing done and dealt with.
Uh and interesting idea, but the point here, you're still seeing I think you're still falling for the whole PR and spin versus reality.
And I'm gonna let you people in on a little secret.
Most interviewers don't do this.
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you one of the questions, uh, derivative questions I'm gonna ask of uh Prime Minister Netanyahu if he's able to make the program today.
There are two wars going on.
The PR propaganda spin war, which presents no facts, zero, no facts whatsoever.
It is totally spin.
It is inverted, it is out of phase, it's an alternative universe and reality versus the reality.
The reality is the guns that are blazing, the jets that are flying, the bombs that are being dropped, and the missiles that are being launched.
And it appears that there actually are some eggheads who think it's more important to win the image war, the spin war, the PR war.
In fact, commentators that I admire are all upset at Israel for two things.
One that they're not fighting as Israel used to fight, flooding the zone with ground troops and ending this in days.
And secondly, they don't care, they don't seem to care to fight the spin war, the PR war.
They don't seem to care about that.
And the the commentators are very distressed about that.
They've got to learn to fight the PR in the spin war.
They've got to.
Bush didn't learn how to do it.
Can I ask you just a point-blank question?
Do any of you have any evidence that Israel could ever win any kind of a spin or PR war?
It's impossible, folks.
It's simply not possible.
There's nothing they can besides that, winning a spin PR war gets them what?
We're back to this same old thing.
We've got to be loved, particularly by the media.
If the media understands and appreciates what we're doing, then the world will see the truth.
Well, fat chance when it comes to the world media and Israel, or the world media and conservatives.
Fat chance.
one of the reasons I always advocate staying grounded in reality.
And the reality here is not complicated.
The limbaugh doctrine, and I don't say this for egocentric purposes.
As I ego is sufficiently strong, don't need to keep reminding myself how good I am.
Victory is the only thing that works here.
One side has to be defeated.
And only then will there be a sustainable peace.
There is no limbaugh doctrine for victory in the media.
Particularly now.
I don't know that it's possible for Israel.
I know it's not possible for them to win a spin or PRO.
How would you do it?
What would you tell them to do?
Do uh same thing the Hezbollahs are doing, start lying about what's happening, hold up a bunch of dead kids that you've killed yourself, blame it on the Hezbos, pose them for the cameras.
Do you know what the world media, the drive-by media would do with that?
If the Israelis tried to portray themselves as victims in any way, shape, manner, or form, they would be destroyed in the media.
They would be held up to ridicule.
Folks, it's just what it is.
The question everybody has to decide is, what is the reality anymore?
What is the reality that matters?
Is the reality that matters still hard cold reality with facts?
Or is the new reality of spin and propaganda and PR the actual method of victory when fighting wars today?
That's a question everybody's got to decide.
Uh I think it's a silly question, but some people think about that.
That's a good question.
It's a silly question.
It's a stupid question.
The stupid question.
When you're talking, well, sadly it isn't a stupid question, Mr. Snergley asked.
When you're talking about survival of a nation or people.
I don't want to survive on a bunch of pages of magazines and a bunch of pictures on television.
I want to really survive.
I want to be living and breathing, and I want to be free.
David in Brooklyn, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, I are people blind.
I mean, besides what you're saying that the uh civilian that the uh the the Hezbollah is, you know, basically killing the civilians.
Besides that, I if I remember correctly, 80% of the civilians are back in Hezbollah.
And I think that deserves consequence.
That's what got me going on this.
That's what the that's what the polling there says.
But you don't know if that's true either.
Come on, a poll of the Lebanese population?
Do you think people in the country of Lebanon are going to really think a pollster is independent?
So do you support what's happening here with the Hezbollah group against the Israelis?
I bet the 20% that supposedly said no may not be living to tell them about it now.
Come on, a poll of the Lebanese, give me a break.
It's more spin, it's more PR.
What else are they gonna say anyway, even if it's a genuine poll?
But what does it matter?
What does it matter other than if you want to go that really awful step and say, okay, you support them, you're gonna pay the price for doing so.
Because this is the modern focus of evil in the world, this Islamo fascism, and we're gonna deal with it.
We're not gonna put up with it, we're not gonna take it anymore.
If you support it, you're in a line of fire.
But let's be honest, there is nobody in a position of power who is either going to say that or make policy based on it.
Uh back in just a second.
Stay with us.
I wonder, uh I wonder what Dominique de Villapin thinks of all this.
I haven't heard anybody ask him.
Good.
Is he commented?
He probably.
A 48-hour ceasefire is not enough.
Well, you notice how long it lasted.
You notice how long this 48-hour, it was not a ceasefire, by the way, it was a it was a suspension.
And it was, by the way, to get the innocent civilians out of the Hezbollahs.
And there supposedly was a convoy of civilians headed north.
Uh, when this uh when this thing all broke down, but Israeli planes, this this story broke about uh eight o'clock this morning is when I first heard about it.
Israeli planes hit targets in southern Lebanon on Monday after Hezbolla gorillas blasted an Israeli tank And injured three Israeli soldiers breaking a brief respite in twenty days of fighting.
When I heard this yesterday, I just threw up my hands.
Did this happen in World War II?
We're gonna cease uh hostilities here to get the uh innocent civilians out of the way.
I mean, anybody in their right mind knew this wasn't gonna work.
And of course, most of the stories say Israel violated the suspension when it's that a wonderful picture of some UN blue helmets on Fox.
That just makes me want to puke and laugh at the same time.
Joy in Manhattan, I'm glad you called, glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Megadiddles from the Upper West Side, Rush.
Whoa, Upper West Side Ditto's.
Wow, that's that is rare.
We've been listening since Dave Dawson introduced you.
Oh, geez.
Dave Dawson.
I'll never forget that moment.
My first day in New York.
That's July 4th of 1988.
That's right.
Anyway, well, that's great.
You're very loyal.
I appreciate that.
Uh you you are right on the mark with your analysis of this situation.
Um the Lebanese government is really disingenuous when it comes to uh Hezbollah.
Uh the Lebanese government claims that its army is too weak to confront Hezbollah.
But what's preventing them from kicking the Hezbollah members out of the cabinet and also the Parliament.
Well, they're they've been duly elected.
Let's be honest.
The the Lebanese government's a shell here.
They've got an eighty thousand member military.
They don't want to take them out.
They're on the same side.
They're essentially the same people.
Um in in uh when we what in in terms of this conflict instead of who's the enemy, and there's no way that the Lebanese government's going to look at Hezbollah as the enemy when the uh uh mortar fire and so forth being exchanged is with Israel.
Right.
Uh that's just that's that's why uh all of this needs to be looked at through a a different prism.
And I hear people say, well, we we have to uh end up preserving and supporting the uh legitimately elected government of Lebanon.
Well, that's fine as an afterthought, but that's not what this is about.
This is about a war on terror.
I'm you know what?
I'm I'm I'm actually sorry, folks.
I took everybody seriously when this war was declared.
I should have known we didn't really mean it, and then I wouldn't have been this upset about it.
A real war on terror, we would have already kicked butt.
We would have sent messages to Syria and Iran that you're next, and we're not gonna put up with this.
And that's why I thought this was a gift to the world when this fighting broke out twenty days ago.
Uh well, yeah, 20 days ago.
I didn't get back for the first week of it.
Uh but but that's when I first had my chance to speak to you about this.
That's one of the first things I said.
It's a gift to the world because this is an Iranian proxy, Hezbollah.
Uh, and a Syrian proxy is uh as well.
Uh Heather in West Palm Beach, Florida, across the bridge.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you.
Many dittoes from the Space Coast actually around the road.
I just wanted to high highlight this morning.
We uh turn on the news for whatever reason.
You normally don't watch the news normally.
Good morning America had to highlight the fact that uh America supplied the bombs that were dropped and killed so many civilians, and that the civilians don't have chances to get out because of all the shrapnel on the roads and you know, look at you know, I'm sure it made you mad and made you regret you turned on a television, right?
Yeah, yeah, but you're trying to find find a way to blame Bush for the war, you know, even though Israel's been fighting for thousands of years.
Of course, of course, Bush was responsible for Katrina.
We're looking at the same kind of coverage here.
In fact, but did did Good Morning America happen to mention, Heather, that the Hezbos are getting their rockets and bombs from Iran and Syria.
Yeah, because the next the next segment was about Iran right after that.
Okay, so so they but they did mention that the Hezbollah are being armed from the Iranians.
No.
The next segment was about I you know, going into the threat with Iran.
Are we gonna go and put our troops in Iran trying to make it bad wolf?
Oh, yeah.
Okay, I already tried to sabotage that.
So the U.S. is guilty.
Bush's bombs.
What do you bet that we get that slogan before the week is out?
Bush's bombs killed innocent civilians in Kana.
Bush's bombs.
Uh so we gotta we got a two-front war.
We have to defeat, just as we do in this country.
I mean, it's just liberals are liberals first and last and always.
And we're gonna have to defeat uh somehow the drive-by media as well as their allies, the bad guys.
A brief timeout, ladies and gentlemen, and we will be back in resume right after this.
I know, folks, I know it's hard to wage war against a people who consider the death of their own children a victory.
But that's the enemy.
That's who they are.
We have rescheduled former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for uh the top of the third hour today on the programs.
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