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I want to, just a little bit of a warning to those of you that when we eventually go to telephones today, some of you probably know what tinnitus is or tinnitus.
It's pronounced both ways.
And I have a little bit of it in my left ear today, but mine is a low rumbling hum.
I don't get ringing in the ears.
I get a low.
I don't feel it.
It's just, there's a, I wish I could give you an equivalent sound.
If you ever heard a short in your speaker that's real low and hummy and you can't, you don't know how to get it out.
It's usually a groundwire problem.
And it's really loud today, so the effect of it is that, I can't write this in my hole.
And so you people on the phone.
And so I'm going to really be using your transcription efforts today, Dawn Baby, as I do each and every day.
Just a little warning for when we go to the phones.
Lots to do on the program today, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's start right now with the audio soundbites.
Let's go to the chief of Hezbollah.
By the way, do you know that the Hezbo's have a media relations office?
They have a media relations office, and the guy that runs it has a business card.
I saw it on a blog today.
The Hezbos have a media relations office.
I shouldn't be surprised.
Here is just a portion of the remarks yesterday made by the head honcho of the Hezbollahs, Hassan Nasrallah, issuing a new warning through a taped television message.
Bush.
The bloodshed in Lebanon is the responsibility of Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Rumsfeld and their barbaric administration.
Whenever this war stops, you should not forget it is the doing of the American administration and the results of this war.
Lebanon will not be Israeli.
Lebanon will not be American.
It will not be a part of the plan.
Rice is a new Middle East.
Well, it sounds just like a Democrat could have written it.
Sounds like Democrat talking points.
Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld, they're the problem.
To illustrate my point, last night's CNN Situation Room, the forehead was on talking about the situation of Middle East.
There are no peace, there's no stability, and there's no democracy.
Things are getting worse.
And then in the middle of all of this, for Condoleezza Rice, our Secretary of State, to say, well, this is just the birth pangs of a new Middle East.
It was one of the most callous, unhelpful, harmful statements I've ever heard an American diplomat make.
Okay, again, so I play that just so you can get an idea where the Democrats are coming from and to show you just how similar the forehead megala sounded to Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of the Hezbo's.
Now, let's go to Secretary Rice.
She was on Larry King Alive last night.
And King said, how do you handle the critics?
Senator Biden yesterday described the administration's Middle East policy as a failure.
What has been a failure in Middle East policy is the last 60 years in which we decided that we would try and trade democracy for stability, and we got neither.
We're on a different course in the Middle East.
And it is a course that, because it is different, because it insists on major change in the Middle East, is going to produce some turbulence.
But I would have to say that this is a better Middle East in which you have Syrian forces out of Lebanon.
It's a better Middle East in which Saddam Hussein is not still repressing his people.
And it's certainly a better Middle East where the rights of women and the rights of people to express themselves are being upheld.
So I will stack up this policy in the Middle East against any.
I think that we have made more progress under this president toward a Middle East that will be different and better than at any other time in recent memory.
And that is absolutely right.
She said it.
No, it can't be said better than the way she said it here at the top.
What's been a failure in Middle East policy is the last 60 years, which is what Bagala, the forehead, and all the Democrats seem to want to return to.
As it stopped think about how it's lunacy.
The last 60 years has given us little skirmishes and big skirmishes like this one repeatedly, albeit irregularly, but they have happened.
There hasn't been any peace.
There hasn't been any progress whatsoever.
None.
Now there is a sign of progress being made.
Now, folks, I have a thought here, actually, a bunch of thoughts, and I want to share them with you.
I could be wrong about some of this, but I want to share this with you.
And a lot of it is the product of just turning on television and watching the pundit playground opine on what's going on in the Middle East.
And you know how I keep talking about you got to be vigilant and not get caught up in the daily media bubble because it's so easy to do.
I think some of our guys, some of our pundits, some of the people on our side in Washington can't help themselves either, get caught up in the whole action line, the whole media bubble of any story, but particularly this one.
Now, this is my take on this.
I think the battle between the Israelis and Hezbollah really is the first battle in the war between Israel and Iran.
Iran is fighting Israel right now via their proxy, Hezbollah.
They are testing Israel's resolve.
They are testing Israel's commitment.
They're checking Israel's weaponry.
This Ahmadine Azad guy believes the world's going to end in three years, and he's going to bring it about.
And the first step toward that is destroying Israel.
And after that, he wants Arab nations to unite and take out the United States.
Now, I'm making this up.
This is what the guy is saying.
And he's having little back door meetings with Vladimir Putin, from whom he's buying arms and weapons.
So when you look at the Hezbo's, see Iran.
Here's what's happening, though.
This is where I part ways with what appears to be the conventional wisdom.
Israel is winning this.
Israel is winning this, and I think Israel is winning this big.
And when this is over, there will be no debate that Hezbollah will be much, much weaker, that it was no match for Israel, that it will have been forced out of southern Lebanon despite years of digging in, rocket attacks on Israel.
Iran's regional influence will have been weakened.
It will not be destroyed.
It will have been weakened.
Now, this is all predicated on the Israelis continuing this assault and even ratcheting it up.
They have to obliterate these guys.
They have to leave no doubt about this because of this so-called PR offensive, PR war that the media is itching to claim Israel has lost it.
He can't wait to declare the Hezbos the victors.
So there can't be any indecision about this.
There can't be any question about it when it's all over.
Now, I don't think very many people see this the way I do.
They're too focused on PR victories.
They're too focused on what the Hezbos are saying to see the truth.
It's been said that we're in World War III.
We are.
But this is one of the major battles of World War III, just as Afghanistan and Iraq are as well, I believe.
And Iran is going to be weaker for this.
As a result of this, it will be weaker.
Its proxies will suffer a devastating defeat.
And by the way, I think they have been already, despite the reporting and hand-wringing, even by some of our own people.
I think the Hezbos are in much worse shape than anybody dares discuss.
And I'll tell you, one of the reasons I think this is all these continuing calls for ceasefires.
We must stop the suffering.
We must stop the killing.
It's gone on long enough.
Why?
Can't the world do it?
Do you think if the Israelis were getting their clocks cleaned, anybody would care to stop it?
Hell no, folks.
If the Israelis were losing this thing, if they were getting their clocks cleaned, if they were on the way to being defeated, you wouldn't hear one person in France or Germany or Russia or the United Nations talking about a ceasefire.
You got to learn to read the stitches between the fastball here.
I got a lot more on this.
But I have to take a timeout.
EIB Profit Center break number one.
Be right back.
Open Line Friday.
America's real anchor man, El Rushball.
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Have you seen any of the mainstream media raising these doubts about Condoleezza Rice's competence?
Is she up to the job?
I think there's a little racism in this questioning, and I think there's a little sexism, obviously.
I note that it was never asked of Madeline Albright.
It was never asked of Ron Brown.
It was never asked of Jocelyn Elders, except by us.
But we didn't care whether she was competent or not because she was funny.
You know, she was good material.
But I mean, I tell you, I ask this.
And speaking of competence, you know, the other day I told you about this idiot, the French foreign minister Philippe Deuste-Blais.
I'm just Americanizing his pronunciation of his name.
He called Iran a stabilizing force in the Middle East.
And it was just, I mean, he just blew everybody away by saying this.
And it was just two days later that Ahmadinezad came out and said that the whole solution of the problem is to destroy Israel.
And so now, Dusteblase is saying, I totally condemn these words, responding to Mahmoud Ahmadinezad's statement yesterday that the solution to the current Middle East crisis was to destroy Israel.
Peace and security in Lebanon and its borders has to be preserved by the Lebanese government and people.
Deployment of foreign forces is not acceptable in any shape unless it's just, based on UN rules, and preserves the unity and territorial integrity of Lebanon.
These words, Dust de Blasey says, are absolutely unacceptable on anybody's part.
Just two days prior to this, he had talked about what a stabilizing force Iran is in the region.
You want to talk about incompetence?
Go to the United Nations and go to France specifically.
Now, these points that I made to you before the commercial break, that Israel is winning, that they're fighting Iran via the proxy, the Hezbollahs, that this is World War III, that Israel is going to win, and if they must win big, they already are.
The Hezbos will be weakened.
Iran either doesn't have the ability right now or the will to attack Israel from its own territory.
Now, I'm not saying they don't or won't have it anytime soon, but right now they're content for the Hezbollahs to do this.
The Syrians, it's all this talk about massing an army.
The Syrians aren't going to go in there because they know they will be blown off the map.
The Israelis are just waiting for a chance to level Damascus.
One thing that the Syrians and the Iranians know is that if the Israelis wanted to, they could level Damascus tomorrow, and they could level Beirut, they could level Lebanon if they wanted to.
And this, these people know.
What they're testing here is the resolve of the Israelis.
And it doesn't help when you have all these nincompoops in the diplomatic community ring in their hand, oh no, we must stop the thefrin.
We got to stop the killing and so forth.
This, it's a whole different era, it's a whole different day.
I think what's also been demonstrated here, folks, is that the Syria's military is a hollowed-out shell of its former self.
And while it's helping the Hezbollahs, Syria is too weak to take on Israel directly.
There's a whole lot to see from what's happening here, and so few do.
They get caught up, as I say, in the media bubble, and that becomes the frame of reference in the context.
I'll tell you something else this shows.
Despite all the early upsettedness that I shared with you that I had, and a lot of other people did too, it shows that Israel is not weak, and it shows that Israel's not afraid to take on this enemy, and that the Israeli people still have the will to fight.
Hezbollah and Syria and Iran, clearly stunned by Israel's unrelenting attacks.
I don't think they thought the Israelis would do this, especially over the kidnapping of a couple soldiers.
But I don't think they had any idea that the Israelis would go as deep, send in ground troops and the numbers they have, and bomb the areas that they have bombed.
As I say, all these calls for a ceasefire for several weeks now, that is because they know that if the Hezbollah suffer any further devastation, their regimes are weakened.
Iran and Syria are weakened, as goes the Hezbos, so go Iran and Syria here, regardless of the propaganda everybody's spewing, which is repeated by our media.
This is one of these things.
I'm looking at the reality of the situation on the ground.
I am not paying any attention to PR, except to the extent that I'm ignoring it, to the spin.
Where are all these AIDS?
Where are all these allies of Hezbollah?
Where is Iran?
Where is Syria?
Where are all these calls for ceasefires?
Week after week, day after day, we've got to stop this.
I just tell you again that if Israelis were losing and losing big, there wouldn't be one voice calling for a ceasefire anywhere.
And I'll tell you something else, folks.
Another thing that this shows is that these terrorists can indeed be destroyed, not just Hezbollah, but Al-Qaeda as well.
Now, I know that a lot of people out there criticizing Israel's approach.
I was one of them, demanding the immediate insertion of massive ground troops and so forth.
I'm not a general, and the people leading the Israeli Defense Forces are.
They apparently were right.
And the critics like me were wrong.
Israel used its far superior and massive air strength to soften up enemy strongholds.
They just took out a bridge this morning that connects Lebanon to Syria.
Just totally wiped out the bridge.
That cuts off supply lines, cuts off the ability to escape.
Now the massive numbers of ground troops are in there, and they're in there to mop up the enemy who cannot escape.
All they can do is hide among the civilians.
And that's going to get civilians.
In fact, just how many civilians are there in Lebanon anyway?
When you get right down to it, just how many quote-unquote innocent civilians, I know, exempting the children, but this is all part of the PR spin, that the Hezbollahs are really small bunch of people in there.
We're wiping out Israel's wiping out all these innocent civilians.
The media doesn't get what's going on, but I'll tell you who does.
The enemy.
The Iranians see what's happening.
Hezbollah feels what's happening.
And again, that's why all these demands for an immediate ceasefire, cessation of hostilities, complaints about disproportionate use of power.
I just tell you again, folks, if the enemy were winning this, we wouldn't be hearing any of these complaints.
These cries in the darkness and wilderness for ceasefires.
You know, I just think a lot of conservative commentators, too, are ending up following on this rather than engaging in independent thought.
You know, when they think things aren't going well, they line up with the naysayers.
And people's moods and people's attitudes can shift multiple times a day in this based on the way a media story is reported or not.
And you need to be an independent thinker, need to be of resolve when watching this.
And you have to understand the context that it is a new day and a new way of doing things over there.
What do we need to do?
The U.S. needs to just simply continue to support its ally, Israel, fighting exactly the same enemy that we face.
Israel's winning.
Israel is doing great damage to the enemy.
Get off this ceasefire stuff.
Let them finish what needs to be done.
A lot of people complaining about Prime Minister Olmert.
I don't think he's not the best, but I mean, he's not the story.
The military is on the move.
Israel is, in fact, winning.
The Hezbollahs and their patrons are, in fact, losing.
They're getting their butts kicked, folks.
Let me just tell you point blank, they are getting their butts kicked.
And it doesn't take brilliance like mine to see it.
Anybody can see it if you know how to read the players here as you immerse yourself in the media.
They're suing now for a ceasefire.
Syria is impotent.
Yeah, they're sending munitions down there, but they can't strike on their own for fear of being annihilated.
And the all-powerful Iran can't do anything else either but sit by and watch and hope and pray that the Hezbollahs are somehow able to make a comeback.
But it isn't happening.
The Hezbollah is losing.
Israel is winning big, and it's not time to pull back at all.
Time to mush forward.
It's about time that got updated and changed.
Thank you, Johnny Donovan.
I issued that call and that demand yesterday, and today it's done.
We're back.
America's real anchorman, Rush Limbaugh, on Open Line Friday, 800-282-2882.
Just a final thought here, folks, by no sensible analysis.
Can it be said that Israel is losing militarily?
And that's another reason, by the way, we keep hearing spin about a PR victory or an ideological victory.
What the hell is that?
Remember what I have said about reality versus spin.
The Israelis don't care about the spin.
They know they're not going to win a PR ideological battle or spin war with the media today and the diplomatic community today.
They don't have a chance.
They're going to focus on what real victory is, and that's wiping out the enemy, which is happening.
The enemy is losing, and they want this to end before more of their forces are destroyed.
Mark my words.
Starting now on the phones in Belleville, Texas.
Edward, glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Rush, I've listened to you since 1995.
I'm a Republican.
I graduated from the Naval Academy, Vietnam vet, but I've lived overseas for nine years amongst the Arabs in the Middle East, the Gulf countries.
And we have just committed such grave errors by this administration that I can't wait until it ends for them, and hopefully another good Republican will be in.
Our decisions to go into Iraq and the mismanagement, any corporate CEO would have been fired if it had been mismanaged as much as it has now.
The lack of knowledge of the Shias and the Sunnis and all those issues.
It's the reason we're spilling over to Lebanon and Israel now.
We've just mismanaged everything.
All of our goodwill overseas is zero.
And I've been back six months and I've listened to you and I've listened to the other radio stations, the conservatives, Sean Hannity, and all those guys and gals.
And we're polarizing everything.
Everything is just so polarized.
After 10 years and coming back and visiting the U.S. on vacations just a couple of times, we need to take care of ourselves first and not be so concerned about the democracy in Iraq and the new Middle East.
Why?
What for?
We've got the oil contracts and the establishment.
That's all it's all about.
Anyway, at the end of the day, we know that.
And it's just atrocious where we're headed.
Yeah, you know what?
I have to agree with that last thing you said.
And it's because of people like you who don't understand where we're headed and what we face and what's in our way and what we need to do to survive.
If you want to continue to blame your own country for these problems, you're more than entitled to do it.
You have total freedom to do it.
But I want you to listen to something here.
I want you to turn on your radio, and I want you to listen to this because I have a piece here by Victor Davis Hanson in National Review Online today describing people like you.
When I used to read about the 1930s, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the rise of fascism in Italy, Spain, and Germany, the appeasement in France and Britain, the murderous duplicity of the Soviet Union, the racist Japanese murdering in China, I could never quite figure out why during those bleak years, Western Europeans and those in the United States did not speak out and condemn the growing madness, if only to defend the millennia-long promise of Western liberalism.
Of course, the trauma of the Great War was all too fresh, the utopian hopes of the League of Nations were not yet dashed.
The Great Depression made the thought of rearmament seem absurd.
The connivances of Stalin and Hitler, both satanic, yet sometimes an alliance, sometimes not, could confuse political judgments.
Our present generation is now on the brink of moral insanity.
That has never been more evident than in the last three weeks as the West has proven utterly unable to distinguish between an attacked democracy that seeks to strike back at terrorist combatants and terrorist aggressors who seek to kill civilians.
We had this happen in this country on 9-11, Edward.
You seem to forget this.
You seem to forget that we have enemies.
You're from this crowd that thinks we're responsible for creating our own enemies by virtue of our own existence as we are.
And your goal seems to be to have everybody around the world like us.
Well, let's deal with that after we save ourselves, shall we, Edward?
It is now nearly five years since al-Qaeda left a crater in Manhattan and ignited the Pentagon.
Apart from the front line in Iraq, the United States and NATO have troops battling the Islamic fascists in Afghanistan.
European police scramble daily to avoid another London or Madrid train bombing.
The French, the Dutch, and the Danish governments are worried that a sizable number of Muslim immigrants inside their countries are not assimilating and more worrisome are starting to demand that their hosts alter their values to accommodate radical Islam.
It's apparently not safe for Australians in Bali, and a Jew alone in any Arab nation would have to be discreet, and perhaps now in France or Sweden as well.
Canadians' past opposition to the Iraq war and their empathy for the Palestinians earn no reprieve.
If we can believe that Islamists were caught plotting to behead their prime minister, Russians have been blown up by Muslim Chechens from Moscow to Beslan.
India is routinely attacked by Islamic terrorists.
An elected Lebanese minister must keep in mind that a Hezbollah or Syrian terrorist might kill him.
In nearly all these cases, there's a certain sameness.
The Quran is quoted as the moral authority of the perpetrators.
Terrorism is the preferred method of violence.
Jews are usually blamed.
Dozens of rambling complaints are aired, and killers are often considered stateless, at least in the sense that the countries in which they seek shelter or conduct business or find support do not accept culpability for their actions.
Yet the present Western apology to all this is often to deal piecemeal with these perceived Muslim grievances.
India, after all, is in Kashmir.
Russia is in Chechnya.
America is in Iraq.
Canada is in Afghanistan.
Spain was in Iraq, or rather still is in a way.
Israel was in Gaza and Lebanon.
Therefore, we are to believe that freedom fighters commit terror for political purposes of liberation.
At the most extreme, some think there's absolutely no pattern to global terrorism, and the mere suggestion that there is constitutes Islamophobia.
Yet here at home, another Islamic fanatic conducts an act of al-Qaedism in Seattle.
The police worry immediately about the safety of the mosques.
But then the world is awash with a vicious hatred that we have not seen in our generation.
The most lavish film in Turkish history, Valley of the Wolves, depicts a Jewish American harvesting organs at Abu Ghrab in order to sell them.
Here's the bottom line, folks.
There are people around the world that hate us.
True.
And there are people in this country that hate their own country.
And I'm tired trying to figure out why.
Because it doesn't matter.
They are irrelevant.
There are more important things to deal with than a psychoanalysis of these sick puppies who want to blame everything on their own country and blame the United States and blame freedom and Western democracies for all of these problems.
I've given up trying to figure out who they are.
Well, I know who they are.
I've given up trying to figure out why.
They are like they are.
Because it doesn't matter.
It's a waste of time.
Finally, examine here at home the reaction to Hezbollah, which has butchered Americans in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia from a prominent Democrat Congressman John Dengel.
Quote, I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah.
And isn't that the point after all?
The amoral Western individual cannot exercise moral judgment because he no longer has any.
An Arab rights group, between denunciations of Israel and America, is suing its alma mater, the United States for not evacuating Arab Americans quickly enough from Lebanon.
Demonstrators on behalf of Hezbollah inside the U.S. Anybody remember our 241 Marines slaughtered by these terrorists?
They routinely carry placards with the Star of David juxtaposed with swastikas as voices praise terrorist killers.
No need to mention Europe.
They've already lost it.
It's now a cliché to rant about all this.
These past few days, the inability of millions of Westerners, including our first caller and a couple from yesterday as well, to condemn fascist terrorists who start wars, who spread racial hatred, and despise Western democracies, that's the real story.
Edward, you are the story.
You and your inability to understand what's going on, you and people like you are the real story.
The inability of Westerners to condemn those who are responsible for causing all of this.
It ain't us.
We are not terrorists.
We do not target innocent civilians.
We don't torture wantonly.
We do not do any of the things that we have been accused of, that people in this country seem so eager to want to believe because their moral compass is out of focus and upside down.
You know, it's very simple.
The media and all these people that are wringing their hands, demanding a ceasefire and worrying about all these quarter-ton Israeli bombs that inadvertently hit civilians in Lebanon who live among rocket launchers that send missiles into Israeli cities and suburbs.
Where's the criticism of Hezbollah?
Where is it?
Why is it not that Hezbollah and al-Qaeda and Iran are upsetting that region?
Why is it always us in you people's polluted minds?
Why is it always us?
Well, I've given up trying to understand you because I don't think it's possible.
I'm just not going to pay attention to you anymore because you are in the way.
To the extent that you are the story, you represent the moral decline and depravity and lack of ability to judge right from wrong that has been creeping into our society, oh, for so many years now.
But we don't have time to deal with that aspect of this anymore.
Maybe Israel should have hit more quickly and harder and on the ground.
Yeah, it's run an in-ept PR campaign.
Yes, to these criticisms and more.
But what's lost sight of is the central moral issue of our times, a humane democracy that does not attack its neighbors.
Israel is mired in an asymmetrical war trying to protect itself against terrorists from the seventh century while under the scrutiny of a corrupt world that needs oil, a world largely anti-Semitic, a world deathly afraid of Islamic terrorists, and a world that finds psychic enjoyment in seeing successful Western societies under duress.
In short, my friends, if we wish to learn what was going on in Europe 1938, if you weren't around and you're starting to hear about it, just take a look at your world today.
History is repeating itself.
And we've got the same bunch of people, such as the Neville Chamberlains and all the others who thought we could appease and thought we could talk and thought ceasefires and papers and doctors and nurses and agreements and all this.
And we're looking for a church up in a moment.
Hey, look, folks, I know that that last guy was a seminar caller.
I know it.
I know it before you know it.
I know it when I hear, listen to your show all the time, voted for Bush, went to the Naval Academy, Vietnam vet.
And then you hear a bunch of malarkey.
But as I have told you, any call is a great call.
It makes the host look good.
And that call made the host, I mean, I couldn't help but look good on that.
That was easy as swatting a fly.
But the thing that's important here is don't get caught up in why these people hate because you're going to be distracted.
It's not the point anymore.
And it allows them to become the story and it gives them credence.
It validates them.
Just ignore them.
They are, well, they had an old saying back in the day.
I can't say it.
They're breasts on a boar hog.
Speaking of breasts, I got a little story here.
Breastfeeding's calming effects seem to be long-lasting.
Breastfeeding, it is now said, according to a study, reduces anxiety into childhood.
I am waiting for when they do a study on whether breastfeeding reduces anxiety in men.
I wouldn't mind.
Speaking of our last caller, and speaking of, um, there she is rolling her eyes in there, dear Dawn.
It's so easy.
Right.
Something for the e-harmony profile.
Now, you all remember Sidney Blumenthal.
Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary Clinton's right-hand, left-hand forwards and backwards, aid all over the place, well-known, big-time lefty.
Sidney Blumenthal has written a piece, I think in salon.com, essentially leaking the fact that the National Security Agency is assisting Israel in tracking weapons shipments from Iran and Syria to the Hezbollah, gaining him a whole bunch of anti-Israeli supporters on the blogs and so forth.
Clarice Feldman here at AmericanThinker.com thinks it might get him a subpoena to the grand jury investigating NSA leaks.
Why in the world would Sidney Blumenthal risk everything to publicize the fact that he has been leaked and is now publicizing classified information?
A bunch of left-wing anti-Israel websites are lapping this up.
They love every moment is.
A report by columnist Sidney Blumenthal in Salon claims that Israel is receiving intelligence from the U.S. NSA.
Blumenthal claims to be in touch with a national security official with direct knowledge of the operation to supply Israel with signals intelligence from American assets to help it monitor armament transfers from Syria and Iran to Hezbollah.
One thing this does is confirm that that's what's happening.
If any of you doubted it, it confirms that Iran and Syria are using their proxy and funneling them arms and other supplies.
Whatever else, though, Sidney Blumenthal, well-known leftist, well-known Democrat, was a member of the Clinton administration, has just alerted Iran and Syria and Hezbollah to the fact that their activities are being monitored, giving them clear warning to change tactics if they want to remain undetected.
You ask the question, when did the left become so overwhelmed with Bush hatred that they would help terrorists move military supplies into the battlefield so more Israeli civilians can die?
Are they so deranged, delusional, and mad that they hate Bush so much, probably because of the Florida reconciliation?
I guarantee you that's the root of this.
What happened here in Florida in 2000 is the root of it.
They think they've been cheated out of an election.
They've been cheated out of two elections.
And their minds are poisoned.
They're just infested with hatred.
I said yesterday it leads to early stages of madness and Blumenthal is there because he would much rather harm this administration.
He would do whatever it takes to harm this administration, even if it means more innocent Israeli civilians get killed, aiding and abetting a terrorist enemy.
A classic example of what I was talking about moments ago, using some words from Victor Davis Hanson in National Review Online today, about the inverted morality that exists not just here, but throughout the world today.
And it's being led by Democrats, American leftists, worldwide socialists.
You see, I just violated my own rule.
I started asking, why does he hate?
It doesn't matter anymore.
All I know is Sidney Blumenthal has just joined the ranks of the enemy.
Back after this.
The Democrats, the Senate Democrats did it, folks.
They told the nation's poor to drop dead.
They told them, we don't really care about your minimum wage.