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Aug. 1, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 1, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Here we are on the 18th anniversary of the Excellence and Broadcasting Network and the Rush Limbaugh program.
You might say, folks, it's our anniversary.
You might also say that this show is now old enough to vote.
18th anniversary.
Today we're starting our 19th year of broadcast excellence.
Once again, a thrill and a delight and an honor to be with you.
You know, we all forgot about it.
I forgot about it.
Cookie sent me a note this morning, congratulations.
Oh, and I got a great card from Cookie.
Thanks for the card up there, uh Cookie.
Uh and uh I you know, and in one of the breaks in the previous hour, I um what?
What is so funny about that?
The one employee who remembers remembered twice.
You all said you guys forgot it.
In one of the commercial breaks, I got on the IFB here and I said, There better not be a cake in there, and it better not be coming out here in the middle of the program.
And they all got red faced.
No, we we forgot it too.
One staffer, one staffer remembered I didn't even remember it.
And Cookie remembered it uh twice.
In fact, probably three times because she had to remember it to FedEx the cards, so it got here today.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program, folks.
800-282-2882, the email address uh rush at eIBNet.com.
You know what the uh the in New York City, the uh you're monitoring the heat grid there, the electrical grid, because the the temperatures are skyrocketing.
It is 94 at one o'clock at Central Park, 97 out at LaGuardia at one o'clock.
Do you know what the record uh for this day, the record high temperature for this day in New York City is, and do you know when it was?
The record high for this day, August 1st, uh 100 degrees.
That record was set in 1933.
Matt Drudge informed me of this and sent me a note.
So what was going on in 1990 or 1933?
And I said, back then we called it summertime.
Uh today we we call it we call it global warming.
But I'll tell you what, folks, you know, there's a hurricane brewing out there.
Tropical storm Chris.
Uh it it's out there uh uh not far from the uh the Dominican Puerto Rico.
It's out the original forecast track this morning had it had it just coming right for us as a tropical storm.
They never uh said it was going to become a hurricane.
All the models said that it was going to go further south and maybe between Cuba and Florida, they're in the Florida Straits.
And at 11 o'clock, the Hurricane Center revised their forecast track and moved it south to be more in a in a in agreement with the consensus of the uh models.
But I mean it's still four days away from from uh uh getting near the United States.
It's it's still a uh pretty much a wild guess.
But with the temperatures in New York approaching a record today, and with Hurricane Chris out there, or Tropical Storm Chris, the uh the uh environmentalist wackos, the global warming enthusiasts will be cheering it on, hoping it becomes a hurricane, hoping it becomes horrible, hoping that it was it is devastating.
Uh so they can blame it all on global warming.
Remember, though, the high temperature for New York, 100 degrees, 1933, that's the record.
You know I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you people what's you people in New York know this.
My first year, 18 years ago in New York, it was the first time I'd spent any time there.
I'd been there a couple times when I worked for the um for the Royals, but you know, it was just on a bus to the ballpark and back to the hotel and went to the stage deli.
But that was it.
Um I really hadn't spent any time in New York till 1988.
I got there on July 4th, and I did a local show at WABC in New York for a month that was also carried back in Sacramento on KFBK until the network program began on August 1st.
I am telling you though, July 4th weekend was nice, but a couple days later, I have I have never I live in South Florida.
You know, we haven't we haven't we haven't exceeded 92 degrees down here yet this year.
And uh I I'll tell you played golf at Wingfoot on uh on Saturday, and it was 96, 97 degrees, and everybody say, Well, bet it's been really hot down in Florida this well, it is hot, but I mean it's not as hot as it is here.
And uh so far we haven't had any warnings about the electrical grid being threatened.
You know, knock on granite.
Don't have a four mica desk here, folks.
We've uh made the step up to granite.
Uh uh and not wood either.
Uh you always get a breeze off the ocean uh when you're out there sipping the pina colada by the pool out on the beach.
It really it it now you go inland in Florida.
I wouldn't want to do that, but uh here on the coast.
What you've been sweating it out there, Brian?
And it is, it is hot inland, of course it is.
It's summertime.
It's Florida.
Why is everybody shocked by this?
Uh but uh it hasn't, it really hasn't been that bad.
But I'm telling you, that summer for about four weeks.
I have never experienced it uh as anything as uncomfortable as that, and that's 1988.
Uh and I was in Sacramento, you know, it gets it gets to 110 to 115 in Sacramento every summer for a period of time.
Nothing new about that.
It'll also cool down to 55 at night because of the sea breeze coming up the delta from the bay.
It's like a desert climate, it's a quote unquote dry heat.
None of this is new.
None of this is new.
But with all this attention being focused on global warming and the uh heat grids, the electrical grids being uh being threatened and so forth, I just sign of affluence people.
More and more people have air conditioning than they had in 1988 or than they had in 1933, certainly.
It makes it makes total sense when looked at rationally.
I mean, it was so hot.
The rain was hot.
The rain felt like a shower.
It was it was miserable.
And I remember there was the weather guy at WABC Radio at the time, guy named Keith, I forgot.
You remember Keith's last name?
What was Keith's last name?
Keith Keith Keith I can't keep um Eichner, Eichner.
And I'd go to Keith every day.
When is this gonna end?
I've never been anything like this.
This is outrageous.
Don't worry, the middle of the month.
You can make book on it, middle of August, the autumnal blast signaling the arrival of fall.
And it has never failed since 1988 since I've been paying attention to it.
So sometime in the next two to three weeks, there's gonna be a a weather system, it'll go through there that'll turn these 95 and 100 degree temps down into the 80s, maybe high 70s.
The humidity will vanish, and it'll be crystal clear out there, like you know, the weather does and nature does these things.
Interesting story uh about all this.
Find it here in the stack.
Uh explaining why there's so much haze out there today, uh, all across the uh the globe, in fact.
And it has to do with the uh Sahara Desert.
Yes.
Here we go.
This is uh from Naples News.com.
Dust from the Sahara Desert has blown over the Atlantic, making skies appear dull.
The Weather Service says, if the view from behind your Ray Bans looked a little hazy, don't bother wiping the lunges.
Smudges aren't to blame, just a little extra dust straight from the Sahara Desert.
National Weather Service Miami says that dust from the ocean's largest sandbox hitched a ride westward on trade winds and blew out over the uh Atlantic Ocean.
I've noticed this.
The last couple of days on Sunday, in fact.
Sunday I was in the library and I I had the solar shades down.
You can see through the solar shades.
They take about 80% of the UV out, uh, but you can still see through them.
And I it just looked overcast.
So I thought, ooh, maybe it's gonna rain, cool.
Go out there and watch it.
It's been a while since I've seen a heavy rainstorm.
Looking forward to this tropical storm getting close, in fact.
And um uh I opened the sh the the solar shades and went outside, and it no, it was it was clear as a bell.
The sky was just faintly blue.
This must have been the reason why.
And I'm sure most people were thinking smog due to SUVs and and that sort of thing, but it's uh folks, it's it's summertime out there, and more and more people work in air-conditioned buildings, and more and more people live in air-conditioned homes.
Uh and that is why there's all this new peak pressure uh on the electrical grids during uh peak hours.
Uh the electrical grids just have the they haven't been built to keep up with the affluence uh in the in the country.
The number of people with air conditioning in their homes increases every year, especially after a very hot summer, which most of them are.
Uh people go out and get a window unit if they don't have any central air conditioning or what have you, but they're just more stress.
It's not because temperatures are that much higher.
Like I heard a heard a report, wow, Kansas City 102 degrees with the heat index at 105.
Yep, been there, done that.
1980, working for the Kansas City Royals.
A whole month of August, or at least a half of it, every day, and the air conditioner in my car didn't work.
And I didn't have the money to get it fixed.
And I had to put on a suit and tie and go to business meetings during the day.
Oh, it was it was awful.
And then the players would come in for early BP, like Brett would come in at two o'clock in the afternoon.
The temperature on the field was astro turf at the time or artificial surface.
Had to be 120 degrees, going out there taking extra batting practice.
Uh it was just what it was.
It was just the you know, there were boxes of ice behind the dugout.
Players would go between innings and stand in it to cool their feet because the astro turf hasphalt underneath it.
The idea that any of this is anything new and that the pressure on the electrical grid is due to never before seen temperatures.
Why, oh my God, the global warming people are it's not that at all.
There's just more affluence, more desire for comfort, more people able to afford its pursuit.
Back in just a second, stay right where you are.
America's real anchor man and living legend, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Well, the uh because of popular demand, we've added a new item to the EIB store and uh also as a premium to new subscribers to the Limbaugh Letter or Rush Limbaugh.com, you know, those baby on board signs.
I used to hate those things.
What's the baby more important to everybody else in that car?
But it's supposed to make people drive more defensively.
Uh well, with the uh uh discovery of the phenomenon in America known as rush babies.
Uh these are young people who grew up listening to this program with their parents, stuck with it, have become conservatives, now are at colleges and universities, in some cases at newspapers and other publications, and there's a whole bunch of them out there, and uh so somebody said, Why don't you come up with this why don't you do a rush baby on board sign like those old things did?
So we did that, and they're now available little suction cups in there, so you can stick this on the inside of uh whichever car window you choose.
We originally were going to do one of these metallic things, either fits on a on the uh uh refrigerator door or on the bumper or on the back of your SUV, but I said, No, can't do that.
They're gonna be stolen.
They'll be stolen by liberal pilferers, they'll be stolen by people that don't want the signs to be seen.
People that will wish to sign was theirs.
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Full details on how to go about getting yours at rushlimbaugh.com back to the phones to Jacksonville, Florida.
Charles, nice to have you with us, sir.
Oh, Rush, I'm so excited.
Thank you.
I'm a pre-ditto ditto head, I guess you could say, I remember your program when it first came on.
We used to go to this sports bar out here in Jack's Beach, and the bartender at lunchtime one day said, You guys gotta listen to this.
And the first thing that we heard was when you called the feminists, that word, and people were falling off their barstools laughing.
And it became a ritual.
We would go there every day at noon from noon to about one thirty, we'd listen to your program and just have a it was just a hoop.
It was unbelievable.
Well, thank you.
That's very nice to say.
Yeah, the old the old rush rooms they were called.
Yeah, and uh it was just a great time, and I've been listening to you ever since.
It was one of those things where we sat around that place and we laughed and we had a good time, but but it was finally what it was, was it was somebody saying what we were all thinking all along.
And that's what that's what captivated us.
That's what held us as an audience is that you were saying what we were thinking that nobody else was saying, and you're doing the same thing today, and I just gotta thank you for it and give you a big happy anniversary.
Thank you, Charles.
I really uh I appreciate that.
Uh WOKV and Jackson Vilsman are affiliate from day one there.
Uh, and that's the station that you were you were listening to.
And this is something the critics of this program, I think they probably get it.
They just don't want to admit that they get it because they want to continue to the only way they can defeat this program, they've proven they can't, by the way, and they've tried every which way uh you know, they've tried every which way they can to defeat the program and uh and uh and to damage it or do it harm, uh but they have to create this image that uh not just me, but all conservative commentators uh have no credibility.
And so, well, you know, Limpo, my audience, uh idiots, mind numbed robots.
They just march to whatever he says to do.
And of course, they really do know, and this is why they're afraid that it's just the opposite, that the way this works uh is exactly what Charles said.
I came along and I simply was validating what a whole bunch of Americans thought all along and never heard reflected in the uh in the mainstream media.
Mike in Detroit, your next sir, your turn on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rach Megados, sir.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
God love you, sir.
I was just thinking as we were discussing the uh the Castro issue, that since the drive by media is so comfortable with the transfer of presidential power as practiced by Fidel Castro.
I would urge George W. to exercise that same reasonable democratic practice and declare that as of December of 2007, he's going to transfer all presidential power to Jeb Bush.
Yeah, just to see the reaction.
Uh you know, you you you bring up a a good point, uh Castro transferring power and so forth.
Uh this is what happens in dictatorships.
Now, a lot of people wonder why why you know Rush, you say the drive-by media is a little upset, they're concerned that Fidel's sick.
Uh why why do you think the drive-by media loves Castro?
Why do you say that?
Um folks, it's not a matter of thinking it.
I just listen to what they say, I watch what they say, and I read what they write.
And it's not just the drive-by media.
Castro has come to New York a couple times in the last eighteen years, and each time liberal Democrats from Harlem and other places hold rallies with him and for him.
And you'll find reverends of churches in uh in New York there, you will find Chuck Wrangell, Charlie Wrangle from Harlem there.
They love this guy.
So there has to be a reason.
It's like I got the question the other day.
Why are so many liberal Jews in this country not on the president's side, not on America's side, not on Israel's side, in this battle with Hezmala?
And I said the answer is very simple.
They are liberals first.
Liberalism is more their religion than um any other faith that they might practice.
And liberalism comes first, and it will always come first.
Castro is a liberal and he is a communist.
There is, therefore, um a link of commonality between liberal Democrats and Fidel Castro.
But there's another reason, folks, and I know you're you're gonna you're gonna maybe rush, you know, you know we love you, but it's you know it's your anniversary, but you're going a little too far here.
Nope.
What is it that I have always said that liberals want?
They want equality.
They want everybody to be the same.
They don't want anybody being humiliated by not being as good as the next person or by not having as much as the next person.
The only way to do that is to spread misery equally.
In Cuba, you've got it.
In Cuba, you have total equality.
You have misery spread equally.
Some people got what what what what kind of machine did Castro pass out to the people?
Oh, yes.
Uh within the past couple years, Castro did give, supposedly, every household a rice cooker.
Uh and all and the and the drive-by media uh and and Lucia Newman, who was the uh bureau chief for CNN now, oh what a tremendous heartfelt move by uh El Presidente, a rice cooker for every home.
They were just beside themselves with how egalitarian that was, and how thoughtful.
And this is the kind of good works that government do.
Well, gave every household a rice cooker.
Uh the reason that this was happening is because there had become a black market in people preparing food for other people uh with rice and beans and so forth and so on, and Castro had to cut down that free market, that black market he could not allow, cannot allow any vestige of of entrepreneurism or capitalism to surface.
I'm not exaggerating.
They look not that wow, how how in the world do you explain?
Liberals and the drive-by media daring in this country to praise the Cuban health care system.
There's only one way that they can do it.
And that is to say everybody has it.
I'm sure everybody does have it, but what do they have?
Not much.
Maybe a band-aid.
If that, they want to draw this moral equivalence.
Not everybody has health care in America, but in Cuba and Castro's Cuba, they do.
Well, but they all have equal misery and not much health care, and that to liberals is the ideal society.
But of course, them not participating in all that.
You know, one thing about this Castro business.
White House says it's monitoring the situation.
We here at the EIB Broadcast Southern Command, we too are monitoring the situation in Cuba.
And I'm sure that the Democratic National Committee is monitoring the situation.
Because it is quite possible, uh we don't know how serious this is, but it is quite possible that uh Fidel Castro could assume room temperature, which would mean a state funeral.
And I would like to know how many calls Howard Dean has received so far from Democrats demanding to be in the official delegation to the uh Castro funeral.
I would love to know that.
From the archives.
From the archives of the 18-year-old excellence in broadcasting network Rush Limbaugh program.
That was Barbara Chenalt Law adapting Puccini.
She is from Dallas and a professional soprano.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, here's another one of the ludicrous stories is from yesterday's stack.
Study examines why people eat supersized portions.
A study depends on how big the candy scoop is to determine how many MMs are enough.
At least that's a key factor, says a study that offers new evidence that people take cues from their surroundings in deciding how much to eat.
It explains why, for example, people who used to be satisfied by a twelve-ounce can of soda may now feel like a twenty-ounce bottle is just right.
It's unit bias, the tendency to think that a single unit of food, a bottle, a can, a plateful, or some more subtle measure is the right amount to eat or drink, researchers propose.
Wait, I thought this was a study.
I thought after studies you had results, not propositions.
Whatever size a banana is, that's what you eat.
A small banana or a big banana said Andrew Geyer, University of Pennsylvania.
What's served on your plate, it just seems locked in our heads.
That's a meal.
But in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, Geier and colleagues dig into why people are so swayed by this unit idea when they decide how much to eat.
Uh I don't think this has anything to do with it.
You're talking psychological things.
If you want to go that far, uh, how many of you when you're growing up, like I'm 55?
How many of you when you were growing up were made to eat everything on your plate?
If you didn't, you were wasting it.
Had to eat up vegetables and everything, had to eat everything on your plate.
Well, I'm sorry, that creates a habit.
If you want it creates a sense of responsibility, creates sense of duty when you're young.
Um I didn't want to eat everything on my plate.
And I I did.
I got the spiel about starving kids in China.
Starving kids elsewhere, and I find one day I looked up at my mother, or looked over at her at dinner table.
I said, Do you mean I eat all this food?
And I rub my stomach in satisfaction that a bunch of kids in China are going, wow, I feel better because some kid in the United States finished his whole meal.
Don't you sass me, she said.
I said, with the same token, if I don't finish this, I mean I wasn't using this language, of course.
I said, if I don't finish this, the kids in China are gonna are gonna starve.
Um don't you sass me.
But I think there's another answer to this, too.
Uh the supersized portion, we were talking about uh like supersized beverages and so forth.
The supersized beverage only 39 cents more than a 12 ounce thing.
If you can get a 12 ounce for whatever it is and get eight more ounces for 39 cents, people will do it.
And you just you don't have to go back and get it refilled as often.
There's all kinds of reasons here for the it could also be, uh ladies and gentlemen, people are hungry.
Uh it it could also be they love the taste.
It could also be that let's be honest, where are these supersized portions taking place?
Fast food places primarily, right?
Have you ever been to the cheesecake factory?
Now you want to talk about supersized portions.
The menu is supersized.
I've never seen a menu at a restaurant like that.
I can't believe they've got all that stuff in a kitchen.
Wait, what do you mean?
Wait a minute.
I I I once was I was once uh escorted to the cheesecake factory over at City Place, yes.
I I've been to City Place.
I was dragged in there, and I uh th there back in certain periods of my life I had duties I no longer have.
And uh one of them was to go to the cheesecake factory and so on.
Anyway, you talk about supersized portions.
Uh so another possibility could be that food manufacturers and restaurateurs are chemically monkeying with all this so that you don't get full in a smaller portion.
Well, I I can join the conspiracy kooks, just like anybody else can.
Anyway, they did a whole study on this.
Look at I've done five minutes on it myself.
It's stupid.
Mike in uh Stoughton, Wisconsin.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Mr. Limbaugh, sir, uh Ditto's from uh Proud Stay at Home Dad.
Thank you.
I was listening to your opening monologue regarding the PR war, and and uh I think what what triggered my call was when you said something to the effect of um that uh there's a lot more of this than meet the eye.
And I would maintain that ever since 911 and all throughout as I listened to the news and and to you and to all of the uh the the dudes out there that that I'm just glad that I'm only thirty-eight years old so that I will be able to live for hopefully another forty or fifty years so that we can actually find out what was really happening during all of the last five years uh that all of this has been going on and probably beyond.
Uh the reason I say that.
Now, if you s if you say that, you you obviously have some suspicion that uh something's being withheld from all of us.
Do you have any guesses as to what's being withheld?
Well, I'm not talking conspiracies like the liberal would say uh that all George Bush is behind 911 and all that.
I don't think that's what I'm getting at.
I think that though, well, for an example, I don't remember how long ago it was, but it's a few months ago when when everyone was all up in arms about the kind of information that was being shared, uh public information or private information, whatever it was.
Um it would not surprise me to learn 30, 40 years from now that that was actually a a war on terrorism tactic to um monitor just what mechanisms the terrorists are using to communicate, and so they will purposely leak these things, whether it's through the Democrats because they're a bunch of stooges and they'll go along with it.
Um, I see what you mean.
That uh knowing that the terrorists would hear this, and so then they've got all these wiretaps or however they're monitoring it, and they watch their reaction.
All right, so basically you're you're uh you have the uh suspicion that there's a whole bunch of Machiavellianism going on in the war on terror, that we're trying to outsmart our enemy and constantly stay ahead of them by uh treating them to Machiavellian type tactics.
I don't know.
To make to make them think that our systems have been blown wide open and are useless when in fact they haven't been.
We purposely leak that and so forth.
Uh I can understand how people would think that.
Um, but uh you know you you have to resist uh the the temptation here to try to be too smart by half.
And a lot of people do it.
Uh I myself uh have fallen into that trap, and once again I slap myself in the face to bring myself back down to reality.
There's j there's a there's an old saw that that that is is true more often than it's not, and that is that the simplest explanation is probably the accurate one.
And in this case, there are some things undeniable.
The Democratic Party is singularly focused on destroying this president and presidency.
And they don't care where they have to go and what they have to do to do it.
Uh They are they are convinced that when they get back to power they can clean whatever mess up.
In fact their arrogance is such that uh they don't think there'll be a mess to clean up that the world will be so happy that Democrats are running the United States again that all will be forgotten and all will be forgiven and will go back.
In fact, let me give you I I got an audio soundbite that illustrates this point.
This is classic.
What I've just described to you is exactly what they think is last night on uh I guess it was Hannity and Colbs because Alan Combs is interviewing Senator Kerry.
Uh and he starts out here Kerry does by warning Colbs not to distort his words and then well just listen to it yourself.
The question that Combs asks what would be happening and how can you be sure that President Kerry would not be presiding over the kind of conflict that we're seeing what I was talking about Alan uh which should not be distorted is Iraq and the impact Iraq has had on the Middle East and the lack of diplomacy and involvement by this administration for several years.
I would not have gone into Iraq the way President Bush did if I had to I would have done that very differently and our leverage we would have a great different uh a great deal more leverage in the region than we have today.
Now obviously I can't tell you that Hezbollah wouldn't do something bad.
What I'm saying is Iraq would have been profoundly different and our engagement and diplomacy would have been profoundly different and the attitude of the United States towards the countries in that region would have been different and as a result we'd have greater leverage and greater ability to protect our interests.
Can I translate this for you?
I'm I'm gonna have to translate it because this is gobbledygook what Kerry is saying is that he would have invaded Iraq smarter and better than Bush and that everyone in that region would love us and that if John Kerry was president now he would simply say to Israel and the Hezbow stop fighting because I,
John Kerry say so and there would be so much respect for the United States because John Kerry was president that the moment he ordered a ceasefire he just went over there you guys stopped they would stop that's what he's saying.
He's delusional in the first place what's happening is a transformation of a region right under his nose and he doesn't even get it.
All he's doing is saying I would have done the status quo I would have made sure that we'd done it smarter and wiser and I would have not alienated the French and I would have done it John Kerry and the Democratic Party are 30 to 40 years old their playbook is that old the play is in the playbook if not been revised or updated is a walking accident.
John Kerry is a walking disaster waiting to happen.
Speaking of which Matt Drudge has on his fabulous website today a picture posted.
You have to go see this apparently Cary was in Iowa recently I don't might have been yesterday I'm not sure when he was there but he's in Iowa because he's got uh he's got fantasies of being elected president again and nominated by the Democratic party and there's a picture of a Cary rally.
I'm going to count the people here they got two tents set up one a lot of photographers here taking pictures of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seven about twenty-five people at this rally.
Me zero in here for you on the uh Ditto Cam.
You get a look at it.
There it is.
There's Carrie as you see there, I think Kerry's uh if I'm looking he'd be in the lower left hand corner.
See the two tents with people sitting there it looks like the most dull family reunion barbecue you've ever been to with old grandpa up there with a microphone telling everybody the way it was when he had to walk through ten inches of snow to get to school every day.
All right and news flash here ladies and gentlemen Raul Castro has just announced a new line of succession uh should something happen to him uh before his brother Fidel recovers sufficiently to resume dictator duties.
Raul Castro has said that he will pass the leadership of Cuba on to a Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter because of the uh expertise Carter has demonstrated in monitoring elections uh in uh in Latin America.
Jim in St. Louis, welcome to the EIB network, sir, you're next.
Biddles Rush Thank you.
You are worth the wait I have to tell you what is Kerry talking about is there any doubt that if if it wasn't for the invasion of Iraq, you know brilliant strategy by as Bush would say that Saddam right now would not be lobbying studs into Israel, and that uh there'd be an alliance with uh that Basher Assad guy and probably Qaddafi in Libya.
I mean I think I think these Democrats have stepped in it like you are today.
They've been st they've been stepping in it every day.
But I want to expand on the point that you're making.
Uh in the first place, there's an action line, just like the to the in the media, just like there is in the Democratic Party, or vice versa, there's an action line.
Their action line is Iraq's a total mistake.
You got Democrat leaders today demanding we get out.
What great timing.
What great timing?
Get out of Iraq now, in the midst of what is the transformation of a region and what is a significant front in the war on terror.
They're demonstrating once again they are incompetent and not qualified to defend this country's national security and national interests at this point.
But you're absolutely right about Saddam.
I'm gonna repeat this because I mentioned it yesterday, I've done it a couple of times on previous occasions.
Look at Iraq and look at Iran side by side.
Two different ways of dealing with it.
We dealt with Iraq after years of failed resolutions, the United Nations, after 9-11, preemptive strategy, we've got to take it out, weapons of mass destruction can't take the chance since 9-11 happened.
We went over there, we got rid of Saddam.
Mission accomplished.
Today, Saddam Hussein nor Iraq pose a threat to anyone in that region.
None.
Prior to our invasion, Saddam was paying every Palestinian family 25 grand that loaded bombs in their kids and sent them into Israel to blow up innocent civilians.
Saddam Hussein and Saudis were both supporting Palestinian families who would uh blow up their own kids for this purpose.
That's not happening anymore.
On the other side, Iran.
We've been dealing with them in a total diplomatic way, uh, led by the European Union, the French and the Germans and the Brits, and look where we are.
Uh UN resolution.
How many is this gonna be?
A UN resolution that came out yesterday say you've got 30 days to stop your uranium enrichment program, or else.
And of course, this uh crazy little Mahmood, I mean his odds, oh yeah, oh Roswhat.
Well, we'll sanction you.
And of course, Mahmoud just laughs.
So you've got the diplomatic route, demonstrable failure elsewhere in the Middle East for 30 or 40 years.
Ditto in Iran, uh a different route taken in Iraq, and Iraq poses no threat to that region.
Iraq poses no threat to us any longer.
There are lessons to be learned, and that's step in Afghanistan nozen pose any threat to that region or us either.
Uh they're trying to spread their base to other places in Africa now, but those two countries are off the board.
Fastest three hours in media, two of them gone already.
Another big one though, lurking right around the corner.
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