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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 in 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.
All right, 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, Cookie.
And I, you know, in one of the breaks in the previous hour, I, what?
What is so funny about that?
The one employee who remembers remembered twice.
You all say you guys forgot it.
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 forgot it too.
One staffer, one staffer remembered.
I didn't even remember it.
And Cookie remembered it twice.
In fact, probably three times because she had to remember it to FedEx the card 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, rush at EIBNet.com.
You know what in New York City, you're monitoring the heat grid there, the electrical grid, because the temperatures are skyrocketing.
It is 94 at 1 o'clock at Central Park, 97 out at LaGuardia at 1 o'clock.
Do you know what the record 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, at 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 1933?
And I said, back then we called it summertime.
Today we call it global warming.
But I'll tell you what, folks, you know, there's a hurricane brewing out there, Tropical Storm Chris.
It's out there not far from the Dominican, Puerto Rico.
The original forecast track this morning had it just coming right for us as a tropical storm.
They never 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 there in the Florida Straits.
And at 11 o'clock, the Hurricane Center revised their forecast track and moved it south to be more in agreement with the consensus of the models.
But, I mean, it's still four days away from getting near the United States.
It's still 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 environmentalist wackos, the global warming enthusiasts, will be cheering it on, hoping it becomes a hurricane, hoping it becomes horrible, hoping that it is devastating.
So they can blame it all on global warming.
Remember, though, the high temperature for New York, 100 degrees, 1933, that's the record.
I'm going to tell you people what's going.
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 Royals, but it was just on a bus to the ballpark and back to the hotel and went to the stage deli.
But that was it.
So I really hadn't spent any time in New York until 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 never, I live in South Florida.
You know, we haven't exceeded 92 degrees down here yet this year.
And I, I'll tell you, played golf at Wingfoot on Saturday, and it was 96, 97 degrees, and everybody's saying, 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 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 made the step up to granite and not wood either.
You always get a breeze off the ocean when you're out there sipping the piña colada by the pool out on the beach.
It really, now you go inland in Florida.
I wouldn't want to do that, but 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?
But it really hasn't been that bad.
But I'm telling you, that summer, for about four weeks, I have never experienced it as anything as uncomfortable as that.
And that's 1988.
And I was in Sacramento.
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 heat grids, the electrical grids being threatened and so forth, this is a 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 total sense when looked at rationally.
It was so hot.
The rain was hot.
The rain felt like a shower.
It was miserable.
And I remember there was the weather guy at WABC Radio at the time, a guy named Keith.
I forgot.
You remember Keith's last name?
What was Keith's last name?
Keith Eichenson, Keith Eichner, Eichner.
And I'd go to Keith every day.
When is this going to end?
I've never been anything like this.
This is outrageous.
Don't worry, the middle of the month.
You can make a 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 going to be 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 about all this.
Find it here in the stack.
Explaining why there's so much haze out there today, all across the globe, in fact.
And it has to do with the Sahara Desert.
Yes, here we go.
This is from NaplesNews.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 Raymans looked a little hazy, don't bother wiping the lenses.
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 Atlantic Ocean.
I've noticed this.
Last couple days on Sunday, in fact, Sunday, I was in the library and I had the solar shades down.
You can see through the solar shades.
They take about 80% of the UV out, but you can still see through them.
And it just looked overcast.
So I said, ooh, maybe it's going to 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 I opened the solar shades and went outside.
And no, 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 that sort of thing.
But it's folks, 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.
And that is why there's all this new peak pressure on the electrical grids during peak hours.
The electrical grids just have that they haven't been built to keep up with the affluence 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.
People go out and get a window unit if they don't have any central air conditioning or what have you.
There's just more stress.
It's not because temperatures are that much higher.
Like I 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 awful.
And then the players would come in for early BP.
Like Brett would come in at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
The temperature on the field was AstroTurf at the time, or artificial surface.
It had to be 120 degrees.
Going out there, taking extra batting practice, it was just what it was.
It was just, 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 astroturf has asphalt underneath it.
The idea that any of this is anything new and that the pressure on the electoral grid is due to never before seen temperatures.
Why, oh my God, the global warming people are right.
It's not that at all.
There's just more affluence, more desire for comfort, more people able to afford its pursuit.
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I used to hate those things.
What's the baby more important than everybody else in that car?
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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 Jacks Beach, and the bartender at lunchtime one day said, you guys got to listen to this.
And the first thing that we heard was when you called the feminazis that word.
And people were falling off their bar stools laughing.
And it became a ritual.
We would go there every day at noon from noon to about 1:30.
We'd listen to your program and just have a, it was just a hoot.
It was unbelievable.
Well, thank you.
That's very nice to say.
Yeah, the old rush rooms, they were called.
Yeah, and 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 it was finally what it was, it was somebody saying what we were all thinking all along.
And 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 got to thank you for it and give you a big happy anniversary.
Thank you, Charles.
I really appreciate that.
WOKV and Jacksonville's been our affiliate from day one there.
And that's the station that 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.
The only way they can defeat this program, they've proven they can't, by the way, and they've tried every which way you know, they've tried every which way they can to defeat the program and damage it or do it harm.
But they have to create this image that not just me, but all conservative commentators have no credibility.
And so, well, you know, Limpaw, my audience are 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 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 mainstream media.
Mike in Detroit, you're next, sir, your turn on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Megan.
Hello, sir.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
God love you, sir.
I was just thinking as we were discussing 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.
You know, you bring up a good point, Castro transferring power and so forth.
This is what happens in dictatorships.
Now, a lot of people want to, why, why, Rush, you say the drive-by media is a little upset.
They're concerned that Fidel's sick.
Why do you think the drive-by media loves Castro?
Why do you say that?
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 18 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 New York there.
You will find Chuck Wrangell, Charlie Wrangell from Harlem there.
They love this guy.
Now, 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 Hezmann?
And I said, the answer is very simple.
They are liberals first.
Liberalism is more their religion than 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, a link of commonality between liberal Democrats and Fidel Castro.
But there's another reason, folks, and I know you're going to maybe, ah, rush, you know, we love you, but it's anniversary.
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 kind of machine did Castro pass out to the people?
Oh, yes.
Within the past couple of years, Castro did give, supposedly, every household a rice cooker.
And the drive-by media and Lucia Newman, who was the bureau chief for CNN, oh, what a tremendous heartfelt move by 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.
The reason that this was happening is because there had become a black market in people preparing food for other people 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 entrepreneurism or capitalism to surface.
I'm not exaggerating.
They looked down that, 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.
We don't know how serious this is, but it is quite possible that 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 Castro funeral.
I would love to know that.
From the archives.
From the archives of the 18-year-old Excellence in Broadcasting Network Rush Lindbaugh program.
was Barbara Chennault 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.
It's 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 M ⁇ Ms 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 12-ounce can of soda may now feel like a 20-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 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, Geyer and colleagues dig into why people are so swayed by this unit idea when they decide how much to eat.
I don't think this has anything to do with it.
You're talking psychological things.
If you want to go that far, 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 vegetables and everything.
You 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.
I didn't want to eat everything on my plate.
And I did.
I got the spiel about starving kids in China, starving kids elsewhere.
And one day I looked up at my mother or looked over at her at the 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, by 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 going to starve.
Don't you sass me.
But I think there's another answer to this, too.
The supersized portion, we were talking about like supersized beverages and so forth.
The supersized beverage is 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 well.
There's all kinds of reasons here.
It could also be, ladies and gentlemen, people are hungry.
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 was once escorted to the Cheesecake Factory over at City Place.
Yes.
I've been to City Place.
I was dragged in there, and Back in certain periods of my life, I had duties I no longer have.
And one of them was to go to the Cheesecake Factory.
Anyway, you're talking about supersized portions.
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 can join the conspiracy kooks, just like anybody else can.
Anyway, they did a whole study on this.
Look, I've done five minutes on it myself.
It's stupid.
Mike in Stoughton, Wisconsin.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Mr. Limbaugh, sir.
Dittos from a proud stay-at-home dad.
Thank you.
I was listening to your opening monologue regarding the PR war, and I think what triggered my call was when you said something to the effect of that there's a lot more of this than meets the eye.
And I would maintain that ever since 9-11 and all throughout as I listen to the news and to you and to all of the news out there that I'm just glad that I'm only 38 years old so that I will be able to live for hopefully another 40 or 50 years so that we can actually find out what was really happening during all of this last five years that all of this has been going on and probably beyond.
The reason I say that.
Now, if you say that, you obviously have some suspicion that 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 that, oh, George Bush is behind 9-11 and all that.
I don't think that's what I'm getting at.
I think that, so, well, for an example, I don't remember how long ago it was, but a few months ago when everyone was all up in arms about the kind of information that was being shared, public information or private information, whatever it was, it would not surprise me to learn 30, 40 years from now that that was actually a war on terrorism tactic to 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, or by the way.
Oh, I see what you mean.
That 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 have the 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 treating them to Machiavellian-type tactics.
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.
I can understand how people would think that.
But you have to resist the temptation here to try to be too smart by half.
And a lot of people do it.
I myself have fallen into that trap.
And once again, I slap myself in the face to bring myself back down to reality.
There's an old saw that 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.
They are convinced that when they get back to power, they can clean whatever mess up.
In fact, their arrogance is such that 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, that all will be forgiven, and will go back.
In fact, let me give you, I got an audio soundbite that illustrates this point.
This is classic.
What I've just described to you is exactly what they think.
It says, last night on, I guess it was Hannity and Colms because Alan Colmes is interviewing Senator Kerry.
And he starts out here, Kerry does by warning Colms not to distort his words.
And then, well, just listen to it yourself.
The question that Colms 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, 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 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 in 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 going to 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 Hezbollahs, 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 did 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.
It's 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, Kerry was in Iowa recently.
It might have been yesterday.
I'm not sure when he was there.
But he's in Iowa because he's got fantasies of being elected president again and nominated by the Democratic Party.
And there's a picture of a Kerry rally.
I'm going to count the people here.
They got two tents set up.
A lot of photographers here taking pictures.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventy, about 25 people at this rally.
Let me zero in here for you on the Ditto Cam.
You get a look at it.
There it is.
There's Kerry.
As you see there, I think Kerry's, 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 10 inches of snow to get to school every day.
All right, a news flash here, ladies and gentlemen.
Raul Castro has just announced a new line of succession.
Should something happen to him 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 expertise Carter has demonstrated in monitoring elections in Latin America.
Jim in St. Louis, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
You're next.
Ditto Thrush.
Thank you.
You are worth the wait.
I have to tell you.
What is Kerry talking about?
Rush, is there any doubt that if it wasn't for the invasion of Iraq, you know, brilliant strategery by, as Bush would say, that Saddam right now would not be lobbying scuds into Israel and that there'd be an alliance with that Basher Assad guy and probably Gaddafi in Libya.
I mean, I think these Democrats have stepped in it like you.
They've been stepping in it every day.
But I want to expand on the point that you're making.
In the first place, there's an action line just like 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 going to 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 on their kids and sent them into Israel to blow up innocent civilians.
Saddam Hussein and Saudis were both supporting Palestinian families who would 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, led by the European Union, the French and the Germans and the Brits.
And look where we are.
A UN resolution.
How many is this going to be?
A UN resolution.
It came out yesterday.
So you've got 30 days to stop your uranium enrichment program or else.
And of course, this crazy little Mahmoud Aminizad said, oh yeah, oh Ruswat will 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, 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.
Afghanistan doesn't pose any threat to that region or us either.
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.
Sit tight.
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