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Aug. 10, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 10, 2006, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
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As Rush said as recently as yesterday, as soon as I leave on vacation, something big will happen.
Well, he's out there on the golf course today.
Something big has not happened, but it's big enough to talk about.
It's what didn't happen that, of course, we're grateful for.
21 have now been arrested.
The Brits say it may be 50 who have been, I don't know whether they're redneck Texans or not, we haven't gotten the word yet on their affiliation, have attempted to blow six to ten planes out of the skies between the UK and the United States.
It has caused pandemonium today worldwide.
And we're going to, and in the editorial offices of the New York Times as well, where they're screaming bloody murder that they didn't get a two-week notice and a leak on this so that they could have informed the terrorists that the police were hot on their trail.
This, the first defeat for the New York Times in the war on terror.
We are going today to get into the details of this because they are intriguing to say the least.
It ties, of course, to Hezbollah, Lebanon, Israel, Ned Lamont, Cynthia McKinney, and the trail continues through to Dearbornistan, the new name for Dearborn, Michigan, which we'll get into later in the program as well.
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Back to the facts as we now know them, the French of all people releasing the fact that it's possible, just possible, that the people who were planning to blow up all these airplanes are Muslims and that they are young men.
So before you are forced to drink your baby formula milk to get on the next airplane, understand that you are a potential terrorist, that every single person on a plane is a potential terrorist, that the way we're going to handle this from a law enforcement perspective is not traditional law enforcement, where you try to narrow down the suspects, where you try to identify the suspects, where you try to get as few suspects as possible so you can get your people focused on those suspects to find out who the perp actually is.
In this case, we're going to say that the suspect is every single person on every airplane in the world because we dare not say that actually we should be focusing on young male Muslims.
So I don't know exactly how to approach this without being politically incorrect, so maybe I'll just throw that away and approach it the way the folks did yesterday in the news, in the theaters in New York, in the theaters in New York, where World Trade Center was screened.
Oliver Stone, of all people, has brought together a film.
And you know how America, how Californians are, all of our world is film-oriented.
Basically, the world, we explain through films.
Oliver Stone has apparently brought to the screen, I have not yet seen it, in World Trade Center, a film that not only, contrary to every expectation and prediction of every reviewer, New Yorkers are flocking to this, according to the New York Post, flocking to this film and expecting an emotional wallop, says the Post.
And they were not disappointed.
Coming out of the film, the reporters here getting New Yorkers describing intensely personal and still raw feelings that have been stirred by this film.
It took my breath away, said Felicia Brown.
One of the best movies I've ever seen.
Obviously, the reviewers did not feel the same way, and you've seen all the negative reviews and the predictions that New Yorkers would not even want to see it.
The folks, whoever they are, and of course we think it could be anyone, it could be anyone in the whole world, because we don't know who hates us.
We don't know what they've done in the past.
We don't have a memory about 9-11.
We don't have any idea.
So it's everyone on planes.
They apparently have some inclination to mix together ordinary liquid ingredients to create a bomb.
Ingredients that can, by the way, be purchased apparently after you get through security and into the modern airline terminal, which in effect is a shopping center with planes.
If you've been in modern airline terminals recently, the terminal is not a terminal any longer.
It is a shopping center that happens to have planes in the parking lot instead of your car.
So as you go through security, you then get into the shopping area.
Apparently, you can buy in that shopping area, forget about how much you're carrying on, you can buy in that shopping area the ingredients of a bomb.
In fact, all of this appearing in the UK papers today.
Everyday chemicals, writes the Telegraph, used in perfumes, cosmetics, drain cleaners, batteries, etc., can be used to create, for instance, TATP, a homemade explosive used in London on the July 7th attacks that killed 56 people.
So it is today that we are learning that certain people, again of unknown origin and gender and age, have determined to attack.
Just because I do have a memory and I do know history, let me insert, however, some clues that would possibly lead to the identification of possible suspects who could possibly be of a similar origin in this politically correct world.
We don't want to be hasty in our conclusions.
In 1994, there was a plot to bring down U.S. airplanes over the Pacific, leaving the Philippines and landing in the United States.
They wouldn't land, the Bojenka plot.
Ramzi Yosef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, not known to have ever been rednecks, Texans, or listeners to the Rush Limbaugh program, plotted to blow up U.S. airliners as they were in flight over the Pacific.
They had concocted liquid explosives, undetectable by the X-ray kind of security you go through to get on these planes, even then, that could be detonated by a timer.
A simple wristwatch, for example, was in the mix here.
Mr. Yosef, a respected and peaceful Muslim, on the first leg of his flight, boarded the plane, stuck his device under his seat, did not continue on the second leg after the plane stops.
The bomb detonated, killing a Japanese national and nearly bringing the flight down, but it did not.
The Philippine police, apparently who had a Patriot Act in place at the time, were able to detain other terrorists in the plot.
In fact, one of those terrorists apparently went to a U.S. public high school, detonated prematurely his bomb in his apartment in Manila, thereby eliminating him from the gene pool, although presenting him, of course, with paradise.
Now, we are in the Rush Limbaugh program here going to get to the bottom of this and getting your help, of course, at 1-800-282-2882.
In the U.S., Mr. Chertoff, head of Homeland Security, has had a press conference.
The president has also made statements.
We'll get to that.
Chertov says that this is, quote, reminiscent of an al-Qaeda operation.
Now, let's not be hasty.
Let's not be hasty.
It could be soccer moms.
It could be ex-Marines.
It could be anybody, Chertoff.
Let's not jump hastily to conclusions here.
We still haven't had a leak.
We still don't know authoritatively because the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times have not yet told us who in the Bush administration is at the bottom of this because, of course, this is another one of these government plots.
I've been reading my blogs.
I know what's going on here.
This is obviously a Bush plot to bolster his sagging, flagging popularity in the United States.
So here's Chertoff trying to confuse us by saying it's reminiscent of an al-Qaeda plot.
Reminiscent?
It is an al-Qaeda plot.
They've tried it before.
Ramze Yosef and the rest that I just mentioned were al-Qaeda in Philippines, Al-Qaeda Philippines, a branch operation.
And this is an al-Qaeda-Hezbollah type thing.
The UK went to a red level of attack.
That apparently is their highest level of attack.
Lots of planes have been canceled.
Lots of folks have been unable to get on planes with liquids.
And so they've gone to the every passenger is a perp situation.
The French are saying it's Pakistanis.
As long as it's not Lebanese, I guess they wouldn't disclose it if it was Lebanese.
But is it Iranians as well?
Just because, again, I do have a memory and I do watch this stuff.
Here is a statement made on August 1st by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Quote, when I see the behavior of America, England, and their other...
Now, notice how he mentions America and England.
The plot is to blow up planes between England and America.
Possible connection.
I'm not drawing conclusions.
I'm not being hasty.
I'm not profiling.
Well, okay, I am.
He says, when I see the behavior of America, England, and their other accomplices, read Israel, in recent days, I get the impression that they are preparing even greater crimes.
I warn them.
Know that the fire of the wrath of the people is about to erupt and overflow.
No, this is not Ned Lamont.
Now, I'm quoting the Iranian president.
Track me, track me here.
He says, if you do not put an end to your crimes, know that the ocean of the peoples will soon rage.
When the peoples begin to move, they will drag everybody to the defendant's bench and will remove them from the throne of power.
Now, other than the mixed metaphor, I think you get the idea.
This is a threat.
It's time for a timeout for the Iranian president.
Send him to a corner.
Allow him to think through some of the mixed metaphors that he's employing here to unduly threaten and profile us in this way.
By the way, Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khomeini, or whatever it is, said, quote, on August 2nd, today more than ever, the Muslim peoples are disgusted and furious with the Americans.
The Muslim governments, including those governments whose political statements stem from restrictions that are placed upon them, are disgusted by the insolent and arrogant oppression and are opposed to it.
The American regime can expect a resounding slap and a devastating fist blow from the Muslim nation for its support of the Zionist crimes and criminals after it has so brazenly violated the rights of the Muslim peoples.
Again, these are not statements from the aides to Cynthia McKinney, but they are statements of the president of Iran.
More facts when we come back.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush back after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock, Phil Ganfor Rush today and tomorrow.
Going to have some fun here.
Swing for the fences.
It's amazing to me as we get into today's big news that 21 people and 50 total are suspected after months of investigation by Scotland Yard, pulled in now, apparently nipping in the bud a plot to blow up six to ten airplanes, mass murder on a mass scale, crossing the Atlantic from England to the United States, a blow that, of course, would be unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
I mean, one of those planes carries, what, four, five, six hundred people, whatever.
In the background, of course, threats from Iran and making Saddam the mother of all battles, reminiscent of this kind of stuff.
But chilling in this respect.
Once again, a distinguished member of the mainstream media, the drive-by media, simply, well, you remember all the interviews of Saddam.
Remember Dan Rather in Baghdad?
Mike Wallace has gone to Iran to interview President Mahmoud Ahmad Abarabra.
And I'm just stunned.
This is actually what he said.
This is an AP report.
Headline, innocuous enough, CBS Wallace interviews Iran president.
Here's the quote, however, from Wallace of Ahmad Abarabra: Quote, he's an impressive fellow, this guy.
He really is.
He's obviously smart as hell.
Well, he's going to be in hell, but I don't know if he's smart as hell.
Wallace goes on to say, you'll find him an interesting man.
I expected more of a firebrand.
I don't think he has the slightest doubt about how he feels about the American administration and the Zionist state.
He comes across as more rational than I had expected.
Unquote, ladies and gentlemen, Mike Wallace found in the president of Iran a fellow Bush hater and instantly liked him.
The Reuters doctored pictures and the doctored events and the use of American media as a propaganda arm of the enemies who would kill us has become more clear today because of Mike Wallace.
Thank you very much.
Let's get more clear on something else involved here.
Two men, and this does relate to our major story of the day and this, thank goodness, the Brits did it, nipping in the bud this plot to blow up all these airplanes.
Of course, it's caused chaos today for those of you who are trying to fly.
And don't you dare bring that baby milk formula on board because that's not going to be allowed.
We're all perps.
We're all suspects.
And I find this fascinating because in World War II, a Democrat president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, found it easy enough to discriminate between Nazis and Americans.
There were Americans and then there were Nazis.
Now, some Americans were Nazis.
In fact, they rounded those up.
The FBI went out and they said, okay, that guy with the swastika armband, yeah, him.
Pull him in.
But all, you know, the soccer mom next to him, no, no, grandma, no, we don't need her.
We pulled in the actual perps.
I know this is so old-fashioned.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, but it's just a flashback for you to America 1941.
In those days, we said, okay, those are the enemies, go get them.
And the enemy is not every American or every American trying to get on an airplane, okay?
But these two Americans might well be the enemy.
Osama Sabi Abul Hassan, age 20, and Ali Husaiki, or Husaykout, or something, 20, both of Dearborn, Michigan, were stopped in Ohio on a traffic violation.
Does this sound eerily similar to the stop in Florida of the hijacker of 9-11 when they just let him go?
Well, this time they didn't let him go because the police found flight documents, $11,000 in cash, 12 phones, and some marijuana, and a map showing locations of Walmart stores in Ohio through Kentucky.
At first, the police officers thought these were labor organizers.
But then they decided, no, there's more to the story.
There is much more to the story.
That's what I got from AP.
This is what I got from Debbie Schlussel.com.
She calls it Dearbornistan.
She has pictures of Ali Husaiki of Dearborn, Michigan.
Honorable mention in the Michigan Class A all-state football team in 2003.
The Fordson High School football team, co-captain, hailed in USA Today for its observance of Ramadan fasting.
Full scholarship to play football at Grand Valley State University.
And now, in 2006, a pot-smoking Islamic terrorist, not the all-American boy that we thought.
Is he just like us?
Apparently not.
The two admitted further to police that they had bought over 600 pay-as-you-go track phone cell phones.
They had removed the chips.
They had given the chips to their, quote, boss, unquote.
The chips are used in bombs by Islamic terrorist groups.
They are used to detonate car bombs.
Their boss is a terrorist.
He has been with others in Hezbollah cells in this country, traveling around, picking up these track phones, purchasing as many as they can, hence the map of the Walmarts, where they were dropping off in each one and buying up these phones with money.
Where did they get it?
No one will admit to saying, admit that yet.
In the same track as the Hezbollah cigarette smugglers, three of those rings have been busted, raising money in the United States for Hezbollah.
And in the courtroom, Husaki shouted out, I'm just doing my job.
Yes, he was.
Roger Hedcock, in for Rush Limbaugh here, broadcasting from the studios of KOGO Radio in San Diego, California, just seconds away from the wide open international border.
We are going to, let me just continue with this Dearborn because this is something you've got to tie in.
You've got to connect the dots.
The news, by the way, today is very good.
The news is very good.
The Brits and the United States stopped in its tracks a very complicated, sophisticated plot to blow up a lot of airliners in the name of the religion of peace.
We are grateful today, don't get me wrong here for a second, at the efforts of Tony Blair and the Bush administration and the obvious success we have had in learning the lesson of 9-11, getting ahead of the curve, and getting at these people before they can kill us.
That is the news of the day.
I'm always, however, just being me, trying to figure out the next move, trying to figure out what we're not doing, trying to figure out how we can do it better, trying to urge our friends, the Bush administration, who is doing so well on the record here, and the Brits who have foiled more than a half dozen of these plots since 9-11, that we recognize how deep the threat goes.
This is the fact, okay, that Chertoff doesn't want to talk about.
45,000 people illegally in this country are here from terrorist-identified nations.
45,000.
We have no idea where they are.
If 10% of them are terrorists, we are in deep trouble.
You cannot have Mr. Chertoff saying there's no sign of America Hezbollah.
There's all kinds of America Hezbollah.
As I said before, there have been two major cigarette smuggling rings in Charlotte, North Carolina, and one in Detroit broken up by the FBI, and this is how they make money for Hezbollah.
And the FBI has all this stuff.
I don't know why this isn't on the front page or why it wasn't leaked earlier to the New York Times so it would become news.
So that the cigarette smugglers could be warned and get out of the country before they were arrested.
I mean, this is the way it usually happens.
By the way, do you think for a moment now, since all of this is coming out, that there are terrorists in this country?
There are sleeper cells.
There are thousands of potential terrorists.
We have no idea where they are.
There are active smuggling rings.
There are active fundraising arms of Hezbollah.
There are active technology gathering, this phone, buying all these phone cells for the chips.
There is an active movement to aid Hezbollah within this country.
To have Chertoff say there's no evidence here of Hezbollah is nonsense.
I direct him to Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan.
It is known locally, I am told, as Hezbollah High.
It is the place where, this last couple of weeks, there have been pro-Hezbola rallies by students at this tax-funded high school with anti-Semitism on parade.
So it is, it is, and of course then in the arrest of these two football heroes, these two 20-year-olds, these two, aren't they just as American as we are, Roger?
These two who are obviously driving around with cash and pot and phones and maps and information on flights, they aren't just tourists, okay?
The brother, Diana Hussaiki, claims the arrest of her brother is discrimination because, quote, his name is Ali and his friend's name is Osama.
Actually, if there's any discrimination here, it's against the public and in favor of Ali and Osama, who were not cuffed as potential terrorists during the arrest.
The deputies gave them bottled water and let them sit on the grass next to their car to drink it.
Were you treated that way the last time you had a little DUI or came into the country with Viagra?
I mean, just picture yourself for a moment having the problem that these two would have.
I have 11 grand pot in my car, a bunch of cell phones I don't own, maps of the Walmarts in the area, and a bunch of information about flights in the United States.
The Yosaki family, of course, predictably has called on the Michigan American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee to complain about the arrest, to complain about this investigation.
This committee, by the way, headed up by one Imad Hamad, who is, by his own description, a, quote, former, unquote, Islamic terrorist.
He is now urging people not to rush to judgment.
Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy is down the street, and the Bush administration is not taking it seriously enough.
All right, enough of me.
How about you?
Kim in Palm Bay, Florida.
Kim, you're on the Rush Show.
Hi.
Hello.
I'm a first-time caller.
Thanks.
And I'm just fascinating what you just got through saying because basically that's my point.
And I just wanted to say that I think that what you're doing and your show is doing, I know you're not Rush, but still you're a participant, is so, ever, so important.
When I first began to listen to this show, I totally blew it off, especially by the phrase drive-by media.
But the more I pondered that and chewed on it, the more I realized what that really meant.
And if you think about a drive-by shooting, such damage is done and devastation is done.
And I began to look at the facts and the issues from a different point.
And it is absolutely impossible for someone like myself to sort out the details on this global terror issue and what's really going on in our country and our Congress and our White House and everybody involved without help of someone such as yourself because it's your job.
You really do watch and see these things go by that I would totally not even know about if you didn't bring them to my attention.
And I just wanted to say thank you to you for what you do.
You've made my day.
I hope that you are among millions of Americans waking up to the fact that we are at war.
It is a serious matter of survival.
It is something we have to pay attention to.
All of our peacetime assumptions simply don't cover what we're up against here.
And Kim, God bless you, I'm going to continue to redouble my efforts as the guest lecturer here, as the guest professor, trying to live up to what Rush I know wants us to do every day here, whether he's here or not.
And that's the relentless pursuit of what the truth is about these matters.
Say this to you.
From my own perspective, I am most affected when you're able to help me see it through your eyes.
You know, not hearing you or listening to you, but actually looking through your eyes.
That kind of a perspective actually changes me.
Kim, thanks for the call.
Thanks for being with us in the listening audience.
I would direct your attention, by the way, in that same vein, to another story.
And again, these seem unrelated when they happen because they're in the big torrent of stories that, you know, you may or may not be paying a whole lot of attention to.
But I'm connecting the dots for you.
Today's big news of what did not happen because of the vigilance of the Brits in the United States with regard to blowing up all of these airliners.
But the Dearborn High situation, those two arrests.
How about the 20, I'm trying to remember now, 2021 Egyptian students, quote unquote, who came to the United States on student visas to go to a certain university.
Only three of them made it to that university.
The rest of them disappeared into the United States.
We found three of them, by the way, they were supposed to go to Montana.
One student was arrested in Minnesota.
The other two surrendered to authorities in New Jersey.
11 students are being sought after they failed to attend the program.
It was a month-long program on the English language at Montana State University that somehow 11 Egyptian students from dirt poor Egypt got enough money to fly to the United States on a student visa.
I'm going to Montana State to learn English.
It's the obvious and logical place to go.
Just because I'm in Jersey doesn't mean I'm not on my way to Montana.
So this is, you've got to, I'm sorry, we've got to start being serious, more serious, if you will.
And certainly we've got to start looking askance, asking questions.
Egyptian student number one from a dirt poor farm going to Montana.
How did you learn about Montana?
Montana, I'm going.
How do you know that's the best place, best English in U.S.?
Got to go.
Somehow or other, there's got to be more questions asked, ladies and gentlemen.
Roy in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Roy, you're on the rush show.
Yes.
Hello, Roger.
How are you?
Good.
I'm calling today because I just wanted to comment on the Patriot Act and how good it is, especially what's happened over in England with their version of the Patriot Act with the arrest of these people.
And I think that a lot of Americans, and it's sad to see that, they don't think that something like this is good and needed at this time.
And the debate goes on.
There's all kinds of people in Congress who are saying, well, no, we don't need to go this far, this kind of power in the government.
And of course, again, no, in peacetime, you don't.
We are all conscious of the erosion of our civil rights and something we don't want to do and we jealously guard.
But I'm sorry, in war time, you've got to understand that the government has got to reach in and protect us.
Now, I don't go as far.
By the way, I do not go as far as Mr. Reed, the Home Secretary, John Reed in the UK, who's quoted in The Guardian as saying that Brits are just going to have to get used to the fact that there's going to be a severe restriction on their rights.
He says we are trying to, in the past, we had to protect against fascist states, but now the threat comes from fascist individuals.
And he says we've got to step up.
Well, you do have to step up.
But there is a challenge to stepping up and not using it to trample every civil right.
For example, the civil rights of people who are simply with their baby or their grandmother trying to get on a flight to Poughkeepsie.
They are not a risk to the United States.
Let's focus on the people who are from Hezbollah High or wherever.
So I'm with you on the Patriot Act.
I'm with you on the, because again, here was Bush trying to explain to people, look, I'm going to intercept phone calls.
If somebody in Dearborn is calling Osama down in Kuwait, I think we probably ought to just listen in.
Now, maybe they're just talking about grandma, and that's fine.
But if they aren't, and grandma means a package of explosives coming in, maybe we ought to be concerned.
Yes, maybe we ought to be concerned.
And we ought to be a little bit less politically correct about it.
Our enemies have no trouble labeling, marginalizing, demeaning their opponents with racist statements.
The anti-Semitism level in the Middle East is appalling.
No person in this country could read an Arab newspaper for five seconds and not just throw it down going, wow, what's this?
That's something we're never exposed to either.
I'm Roger Hedgecock.
I'm exposing it to you, exposing all of it to you.
Coming up with your calls, too, at 1-800-282-2882 on the Rush Limbaugh program right after this.
Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh on the Rush Limbaugh program here at the Limbaugh Institute.
We are continuing at 1-800-282-2882.
And let's see, Governor Schwarzenegger has now activated the National Guard at all of our airports here in California.
And Sean Penn has showed up for duty at the L.A. International Airport to personally guard all of it.
No, I'm just kidding.
Anyway, the California-centric, and I apologize upfront because it is a California-centric show out here.
And I know we are completely consumed by the whole movie culture.
But by the way, Mel Gibson, of course, well, I hope this got to your town in terms of the anti-Semitic stuff.
He was just pilloried out here.
It went on for day after day after day after day after day, quoting and requoting and requoting all the anti-Semitic stuff and how to apologize and all kinds of quotes from a reaction.
And it became, I mean, it was a story without end.
What are we going to do about the statements of Cynthia McKinney's aides after the press continued to ask questions of Ms. McKinney when they were leaving?
And I don't know whether you caught any of this in your local.
Very little of this got out.
But there is a strain in the African-American community of anti-Semitism that is absolutely as abhorrent and extreme as anything coming out of the Arab world.
Here is, I'm going to, you won't be able to hear much of this.
You're going to hear, and this was Fox News audio.
The video was stunning because they were kind of scuffling with reporters, these aides to Cynthia McKinney.
And one guy is yelling, I don't understand this bull S. Get your blank out of here.
You got what you wanted.
You got your Uncle Tom.
Now go put the cameras on him.
You ain't in Israel.
This ain't no Lebanese people going to bag all up.
I'm going to get your Jewish blank.
You lost, Ms. McKinney.
You go home.
I'll pray for you, Israel, you Zionists.
Go put your yarmul on, et cetera, et cetera.
Just listen to this.
You got what you damn wanted.
You got your Uncle Tom.
Now go put the cameras on him.
No, you ain't in Israel.
This ain't no Lebanese people that's going to bag all up.
Get your Jewish camera.
Go home.
I'm afraid for those.
I'm in Israel.
I'm a big Zionist.
I'm afraid of ACAP.
I'm afraid of the people.
I'm afraid of it.
Is there anything as virulently anti-Semitic that you have ever heard on the media that compares anywhere near to that?
Good grief.
Here's Steve in New Hampshire.
Steve, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Go ahead.
Roger, I've been following this thing since 6 o'clock this morning, and one of the first British officials interviewed said they actually delayed informing the United States because they feared leaks from the CIA.
And I wanted to get your comment on that.
It would be, of course, a reasonable thing.
If you were a Brit and you had been bombed, as they were in July, if you had the kind of fifth column of Muslim radicals in your country that the politically correct crowd had been coddling all these years, in effect, creating and supporting internal cells of terrorists who were committed to killing Brits, wouldn't you be concerned about leaks from the CIA?
I would.
But what that says to me is that we are even more at risk because here we are, one of our best friends in the entire world saying, you know what, we'd like to let them know, but I don't know.
I don't know.
It might put our country at risk.
Well, I think, Steve, what this does is it brings up again the issue of contracting out.
As conservatives, we'd love to see government contract out services to the private sector, try to get it done more efficiently.
I think that we long ago should have contracted out national security to the Mossad or to the Brits MI5 or to somebody who actually knows how to do it so that we wouldn't be caught in all this bureaucratic, overblown 100 million people employed by the Homeland Security, and then every other one of them leaking to the New York Times.
I think we've got to get some competent people doing this.
I agree, and you're doing a great job, Roger.
Keep up.
Thanks for the call.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh Short Break.
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Benjamin in Cincinnati next.
Benjamin, welcome to the Rush Show.
Hey, good morning.
I heard you talking about some of the restrictions about bringing materials on board the airplanes, liquids and what have you, and you seem like you didn't necessarily feel that was an issue.
And as a practice in science with a PhD in chemistry and 20 years' experience, I wouldn't talk about it.
Yeah, it is an issue.
Oh, there's no question.
I'm not talking about the liquids.
I'm talking about who brings them on.
I, once again, am not one of those people who believes that every grandma is a potential terrorist.
Every 16-month-old is a potential terrorist.
I'm objecting to the fact that every American is now a potential terrorist, and I think that's the wrong approach.
Yes, I agree with it.
I just wanted to make sure you understood that there are materials, even after the security screening point, that a person with reasonable intelligence could create a real problem with on an airplane.
You seem to be poo-pooing on that a little bit.
Oh, no, You missed my rant then about the fact that you can walk past security, go into the shopping center, the shopping mall, which is disguised as an aircraft terminal, and buy all kinds of products that could turn into a bomb.
I'm 100% with you.
That's a point.
Again, I'm glad you brought it up in case there was any confusion.
There's no question that those things can be made into bombs from cosmetics and all kinds of other things.
And it has been done.
In fact, this is a favorite al-Qaeda approach to blow up airplanes and terrorize the West and return us to the seventh century.
Sorry, we lived through it once.
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