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Aug. 17, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2006, Thursday, Hour #2
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All right, if you're just joining us, ladies and gentlemen, I'm fit to be tied today.
I've had it with the constant drumbeat of negativity, enraged, irrational madness that embodies itself in the hatred of George W. Bush by a bunch of people that have not the slightest clue what they would do differently about anything.
Jimmy Carter is engaging in traitorous conduct, in my opinion, with an interview that he has granted to Der Spiegel magazine, and I guess he's got a new book out.
Let's pick up this interview where we last left it at the conclusion of the previous hour.
Jimmy Carter says, another very serious departure from past policies that all of us ex-presidents did that Bush doesn't do is the separation of church and state, which I describe in the book.
I have no clue what he is talking about.
He doesn't describe it here.
I'm not going to read his stupid book.
I don't need to to know what the guy believes.
He said, this has been a policy since the time of Thomas Jefferson, and my own religious beliefs are compatible with the separation of church and state.
What the hell's going on in this country is the exact opposite.
We have people who are doing their best to squander a particular religion they don't like.
Separation of church and state for crying out loud, there is, if these people had their way, there wouldn't be any religious freedom in this country.
You get down to brass tax.
The other principle that I describe in the book, Carter says, is basic justice.
We've never had an administration before that so overtly and clearly and consistently passed tax reform bills that were uniquely targeted to benefit the richest people in our country at the expense or the detriment of the working families of America.
And here, Mr. Carter demonstrates just pure ignorance.
Can he not see what is happening in the U.S. economy?
Does he not see the growth of the world economy even after 9-11, even with terrorism out there?
Does he not see the 15% increase in the United States GDP?
Does he not know all of the increased tax revenues flowing into his precious government because of these tax cuts?
All they have done is increased employment.
We're at 4.8% employment, Mr. Carter.
What was it when you were ruining the country?
You tell me, sir, what was unemployment?
What were interest rates?
You expert.
You've got all the answers.
Sitting around in your cardigan sweater with the thermostat at 68 degrees in the winter time.
Bah humbug, sir.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
He is parading his abject ignorance.
He gets a Nobel Peace Prize for it.
Wages are up in this country.
Affluence in this country has never been higher.
The standard of living has never been higher.
And he sits here and talks about the immorality of tax cuts for the rich.
Tell me, sir, do you think the capital gains tax cut has anything to do with surprising revenues flowing into the treasury?
The projected deficit is smaller.
Experts are stunned every month when employment or other economic figures are released.
You sit there in Germany and you dare to criticize this economy when you ruined the U.S. economy for four years?
We had gasoline lines.
We had 14% inflation.
We had interest rates that were approaching 20%.
It was so bad, sir, during your great presidency, we had to come up with the misery index to quantify it and to explain it.
And your presidency was called that of Malays, and you're the one that named it.
What?
Well, of course he blames it all.
Liberals always blame everything on the people.
The people are stupid.
The people don't know what they're doing.
The people didn't understand the gift that God had given them in the Jimmy Carter presidency.
Der Spiegel.
You also mentioned the hatred for the United States throughout the Arab world, which has ensued as a result of the invasion of Iraq.
Given this circumstance, does it come as any surprise that Washington's call for a democracy in the Middle East has been discredited?
Carter, no.
As a matter of fact, the concerns I exposed have gotten even worse now with the United States supporting and encouraging Israel in its unjustified attack on Lebanon.
Let's go back to this question.
You mentioned the hatred for the United States throughout the Arab world, which has ensued as a result of the invasion of Iraq.
Again, a stupid question.
What was 9-11?
Did it not happen as far as these people are concerned?
We had not gone into Iraq.
George Bush had been president for barely six months, nine months, whatever, when 9-11 happened.
We were attacked throughout the 90s during the precious presidency of the precious Bill Clinton, who did diddly squat.
Could it be, Der Spiegel, that the United States is hated because we are considered an enemy by these people because of our way of life and because of our prosperity and because they fear the threat they think we are?
9-11 happens 2001.
Bush been in office nine months.
We hadn't gone into Iraq at all.
Hatred, Arab hatred.
What was the 93 World Trade Center attack about?
What were the Cobar Towers attacks about?
What was the attack on the USS Coal?
What happened to our guys in Mogadishu?
If you want to know what led to 9-11, that's going to point the finger straight at old buddy Bill Clinton.
Osama bin Laden has said so.
We're in Mogadishu.
We're trying to feed and get food to the starving millions who are being starved to death by their own government, a warlord, Mohammed Farah Adid.
We send the Army Rangers in there.
We are winning the battle.
But the pictures on American television are of a dead Ranger being dragged naked through the streets of Mogadishu.
Commanders over there asked for more equipment, more armaments.
Bill Clinton said no, and we cut and run, which is what Democrats today are still advocating as a policy.
It's their total policy when it comes to military operations.
The first sign of trouble, cut and run, get out, bring the boys home, keep the boys safe.
Osama bin Laden was watching.
He figured we couldn't take casualties.
Bam.
You want to blame 9-11 on anybody?
Blame it on Bill Clinton.
Osama bin Laden has as much said so.
So much for Der Spiegel's question.
Carter's answer.
No.
As a matter of fact, the concerns I exposed have gotten even worse now with the United States supporting and encouraging Israel in its unjustified attack on Lebanon.
It was not an attack on Lebanon.
Was an attack on Hezbollah, a terrorist group, after two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped.
What is with these people?
These are supposedly the best and the brightest among us, liberal Democrats.
These are the elites.
These are the pointyheads.
These are the people who know better than all the rest of us.
He can't even get his facts straight.
Sounds like a little anti-Semitism to me here, President Carter, criticizing Israel for attacking Lebanon.
Have you ever heard of Hezbollah?
Spiegel.
Well, wasn't Israel the first to get attacked?
Carter.
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.
Oh, of course not.
Of course not.
When you're attacked, you're supposed to sit there and die.
You're supposed to sit there and act weak, like Jimmy Carter did during the 1979 hostage crisis.
You're supposed to act timid and shy.
And when you get caught, when you get shot, when you get attacked, you start asking, oh, why do you hate us?
Why do you do this?
What happened is that Israel is holding, this is Carter continuing.
What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners.
So when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza, he can't even use the word Hezbollah.
So when the militants in Lebanon or Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza.
I don't think that's justified.
10,000 prisoners.
You make no distinction here, do you, Mr. Carter?
There's not a good side and a bad side.
The Israelis are not the good guys.
They are not our allies.
The militants?
How about terrorists?
You think there might be a reason that they have 10,000 terrorists in jail?
Do you think there's a reason it's a country surrounded by people that want to exterminate them, President?
It's a damn good thing all you can do is give interviews to stupid magazines.
Because if you had any power to implement any of this insanity, we would be in deep, deep duty.
And we are back executing assigned host duties flawlessly, describing and analyzing Jimmy Carter's traitorous conduct in an interview with Der Spiegel.
Jimmy Carter establishing once and for all one of my many theories that the fastest way to rise to the top in a liberal Democratic Party is to fail.
Become a failure and you become an expert.
Fail at foreign policy, you're an expert at it.
Fail in the economy, you become an expert at it.
Fastest way to launch yourself to the top of liberalism is to botch everything you touch.
Spiegel, do you think the United States is still an important factor in securing a peaceful solution to the Middle East crisis?
Carter.
Yes.
As a matter of fact, as you know, ever since Israel has been a nation, the United States has provided the leadership.
Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush Sr., Gerald Ford, and others, including myself and Bill Clinton.
This administration has not attempted at all in the last six years to negotiate or attempt to negotiate a settlement between Israel and any of its neighbors or the Palestinians.
Mr. Carter, can you cite for me one example where it has worked with a terrorist organization?
Please, Mr. Carter, cite for me in the history of Israel all of these resolutions, all of these meetings, all of these Camp David Accords, that was with Egypt.
We'll get to that in a minute.
Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians and the Oslo Accords.
All those just worked wonderfully.
Why, there's been peace in the Middle East throughout your administration and throughout Bill Clinton's administration, throughout Gerald Forge, throughout everybody.
There was all kinds of peace until George Bush became president, and we stopped negotiating, and we stopped the diplomacy.
President Carter, you're just, you're a dunce.
You're just an abject, obvious dunce.
How do you negotiate?
How do you believe any agreement made with a bunch of communists, with a bunch of Nazis, with a bunch of Islamo-fascist terrorists?
How do you believe anything they say?
How can you trust any agreement?
They are trying to wipe Israel out, President Carter.
They're trying to exterminate as many Jewish people in the world as they can, and then they're going to come for us.
And you're going to be among the first targeted because you're going to be the easiest.
You're going to walk up with a white flag, and you're going to be the biggest target in the world.
You and all your liberal buddies are going to be the first to go if it ever gets that far.
You're going to be walking up, smiling, waving a white flag, saying, welcome, brother.
Bam.
Histoire.
What makes you personally so optimistic about the effectiveness of diplomacy, President Carter?
You are, so to speak, the father of the Camp David negotiations.
Carter, when I became president, we had four terrible wars between the Arabs and Israelis behind us.
The Israelis won them all, President Carter.
Don't use the word terrible.
Our ally won.
And I, Jimmy Carter, under great difficulty, particularly because Menachem Begin was elected, decided to try negotiation, and it worked.
And we have a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt for 27 years.
It's never been violated.
You never can be certain in advance.
Negotiations on difficult circumstances will be successful.
But you can be certain in advance if you don't negotiate that your problem is going to continue and maybe even get worse.
Let's talk about the treaty between Israel and Egypt because it is interesting.
But once again, Mr. Carter totally misrepresents why it worked.
Land for peace has always been the demand of the Arabs.
Give us Palestine, give us this, give us the West Bank, give us that.
The Israelis, in the early days, believed that that's what it would take.
In these wars that Jimmy Carter described, the Israelis took a lot of territory.
The Arabs attacked them.
The Israelis defeated them and occupied the Sinai, for example.
The whole Sinai Peninsula.
Israel had it.
Gaza.
Golan Heights with Syria.
They've given it all back.
They made a deal with a nation, President Carter.
Egypt.
They didn't make a deal with a terrorist organization like Hezbollah, like Al-Qaeda, like PLO, like Yasser Arafat.
Oh, they did make deals with them.
Excuse me.
They did.
And every one of them was violated.
Dumcof.
Every damn one of them was violated.
The Egyptians, however, agreed to the deal as a nation.
And look at what's happened.
Land for peace, when it is actually meant, and when that's actually understood to be the real point, the Israelis do not attack again.
The Israelis leave you alone.
The Israelis don't care.
The Israelis will just hunker down and be who they are.
They are not an offensive attack machine.
They are a classic illustration of the superb execution of defense.
They defend themselves when they are attacked.
Egypt attacked them.
Syria attacked them.
And they won the war with Egypt, Mr. Carter.
The Limbaugh doctrine, sir.
Peace follows victory.
After winning the war, after kicking Egypt back into Egypt and occupying the Sinai, the Egyptians said, peace, peace, land for peace.
And the Israelis, after beating them, after winning the war first, President Carter, then gave them back the Sinai.
They beat them.
It was not your negotiations.
It was the fact that the Israelis defeated them in a war.
I mean, this interview goes on, and it is absurd.
It goes on another page and a half here.
Derspiegel says, but the negotiations failed to prevent the burning of Beirut and bombardment of Haifa.
Carter, yes, I'm distressed.
But I think that the proposals that have been made in the last few days to the Lebanese prime minister are quite reasonable, and I think they should declare an immediate ceasefire on both sides.
Hezbollah said they would comply.
I hope Israel will comply and do the long, slow, tedious negotiation that is necessary to stabilize the northern part of Israel completely.
There has to be some exchange of prisoners.
There have been successful exchanges of prisoners between Israel and the Palestinians in the past, and that's something to be done right now.
And it hasn't meant did Lee Squat.
This stupid resolution doesn't even call for the return of the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers, which is what started this whole thing in the first place.
This whole plan here, this peace resolution has become an abject joke.
The French are cowards, and they're backing out.
They only want to send 10 military advisors and 200 military engineers.
They're supposed to lead this.
The Lebanese army is trickling in there.
The Hezbollah is not going to be disarmed, President Carter.
Okay, he doesn't care about that because Hezbollah and Israel are no different.
Because to him, they're morally equivalent.
There are no good guys and bad guys.
The only bad guy is George W. Bush.
The only rotten apple in the world is the Bush administration.
Yes, if we can only go back to the Nirvana and the utopia that was the Carter administration, if we can only go back to the utopia and the nirvana that was the Clinton administration, if we can only go back to the utopia and the nirvana that was the Gerald Ford administration, every administration part of this one.
Wow, man, oh man, what a great time it was to be an American.
But now, this administration, the true enemy of the world, from separation of church and state being botched to privacy rights and civil rights being trampled upon to tax cuts for the rich, this administration is the problem to people like Jimmy Carter, who was the most disastrous president with the most disastrous four years of an administration in my lifetime and yours if you were alive then,
if you're old enough to remember them.
If you're not, consider yourself fortunate.
Brief time out.
Your phone calls are coming up after this.
I've had enough of this stinking interview.
Umbanisha.
It really bugs them.
Always has, too, by the way.
All right, here's something interesting in this JonBenet Ramsey business.
This, uh...
This guy, what's it, John John Mark Carr, is that his name?
Says that he drugged the child and then had sex with her, but there's a problem.
The autopsy said that there were no drugs found in John Bonet Ramsey.
You know, this guy, you remember the Raelians?
Remember the Raelians?
The spaceship up there, and people were going to this house out in Southern California and drinking, going up there and joining the, I forget what they didn't call the mothership.
They had this wacko leader, this cult leader out there.
This guy, what?
I might have been dope, but this guy looks like a Raelian.
The guy just, he looks like a Raelian.
It was the Raelians, the cloning hoax.
It was the Raelian cloning hoax.
This press conference, this DA gave, may not have even, should not have even given it.
I mean, it was nothing new.
I want to address, before we go to the phones, struck me that some of you in this audience may be young enough that you don't remember the Iranian hostage crisis.
And so when you hear somebody like me say Jimmy Carter gave birth to the modern-day Iran, you may be, well, how?
How?
What do you mean?
You just can't say that.
Well, yes, I can say because it's true, but I'm also going to tell you how this transpired.
In October of 1979, and this is from the Benadorassociates.com website.
This is all documented and true.
In October of 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime in the U.S. appeared to be heading for an understanding when Mehdi Bazargan, the Ayatollah's first prime minister, met with Zbigniew Bzezinski, Jimmy Carter's inept national security advisor, in Rabat.
Carter had sent a flattering letter to the Ayatollah Khomeini praising the Ayatollah as a man of God.
In a show of goodwill, Jimmy Carter lifted the ban that he had imposed during the revolutionary turmoil on exports, arms exports to Iran.
We had a ban on exporting weapons to Iran in a show of good faith, trying to establish relations with the new Islamic Republic of Iran led by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Jimmy Carter via Zbigniew-Brzezinski lifted the ban on arms exports to Iran.
A few days after the Bazargan-Bzhinsky meeting, militants of the Khomeini regime raided the U.S. embassy in Tehran, seized its diplomats hostage.
The drama was to last 444 days.
In other words, the Iranians invaded U.S. territory, our embassy, and seized diplomats, kept them hostage.
And that, by the way, is what gave birth to the ABC show Nightline.
Originally, it was America Held Hostage Day what?
2, 5, 10, 25, 250.
Throughout the 19 year 1980, that hostage crisis went on, which is why, by the way, when the Clinton administration began in 1993, I referred to it as America Held Hostage Day 1, just as a playoff on Nightline.
Now, after the Khomeini militants raided our embassy in Tehran and seized its diplomats hostage for 444 days after the immediate seizing of those hostages, and according to his late son, Ahmad, who had been asked to coordinate with the embassy raiders, Khomeini feared thunder and lightning from Washington.
He really thought that we were just going to kick butt after this had happened.
But what came instead was a series of bland statements by Carter and his aides pleading for the release of the hostages on humanitarian grounds.
And I will never forget this.
Jimmy Carter was paralyzed the last year of his presidency, doing nothing but acting caring and sensitive and concerned about this.
And he was begging and he was pleading.
And they were laughing at us the whole time it happened, like bin Laden has been laughing at us since Bill Clinton's foiled attempt to save lives in Mogadishu in 1993.
Carter's envoy at the time to the United Nations was Andrew Young.
He described Khomeini as a 20th century saint.
He begged the Ayatollah to show magnanimity and compassion.
Carter went further.
He sent a letter to Khomeini.
He wrote it in longhand.
It was an appeal from, quote, one believer to a man of God.
Carter's syrupy prose must have amused Khomeini, who preferred a minimalist style with such phrases as, we shall cut off America's hands.
That's how he responded to Jimmy Carter's begging and pleading.
As the days passed, with U.S. diplomats paraded in front of TV cameras blindfolded and threatened with execution, it became increasingly clear that there would be no thunder and lightning from Washington.
By the end of the first week of the drama, which was to last for 444 days, ending as Reagan entered the White House, Khomeini's view of America had changed.
Ahmad Khomeini's memoirs echo the surprise that his father, the Ayatollah, showed as the Carter administration behaved, quote, like a headless chicken.
What especially surprised Khomeini was that Carter and his aides, noticeably the venerable Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, rather than condemning the seizure and the treatment of the hostages as a barbarous act, appeared apologetic for unspecified mistakes supposedly committed by the U.S. and asked for forgiveness and magnanimity.
This is after we had lifted the ban on the export of arms to the Islamic Republic of Iran when they took these hostages.
And Jimmy Carter is out there begging and pleading, appearing apologetic, negotiating, if you will, exercising typical wimp, linguine-spined liberal Democrat diplomacy.
And all the while we're being laughed at.
It was during this period of time that Mike Wallace, recently of the interview with, what's his face, Mahmoud Ahmadinezad, went over and did the same interview with Khomeini.
I will never forget that one.
Wallace sitting there with Khomeini.
Every question that was asked of Khomeini was prefaced with the word, Imam.
Imam, and it was clear, why are you doing this?
Why do you hate us?
What do we need to do?
The Khomeini regime, expecting to get blown to smithereens, is sitting there laughing their butts off at us.
And frankly, a little surprised.
Once he had concluded that America would not take any meaningful action against his regime, Khomeini took over control of the hostage enterprise and used it to prop up his anti-imperialist credentials while outflanking the left.
The surprising show of weakness from Washington also encouraged the mullahs and the hostage holders to come up with a fresh demand every day.
Started as a revolutionary gesture, the episode soon led to a demand for the U.S. to capture and hand over the Shah of Iran for trial.
When signals came that Washington might actually consider doing so, other demands were advanced.
The U.S. was asked to apologize to Muslim peoples everywhere and in effect change its foreign policy to please the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Matters worsened when a military mission to rescue the hostages ended in tragedy in the Iranian desert.
The force dispatched by Carter fled under the cover of night, leaving behind the charred bodies of eight of their comrades, Mogadishu, anyone.
They flew choppers into a desert.
It was a disaster.
It was an unmitigated, embarrassing disaster.
Jimmy Carter today dares grant interviews and write books to tell people how to deal with the Islamic fascism that we are facing worldwide today?
I'm incredulous.
I'm incredulous he's not laughed off the stage.
In his memoirs, Ahmad Khomeini nicely captures the mood of his father, who had expected the Americans to do something serious, such as threatening to block Iran's oil exports or even firing a few missiles at the Ayatollah's neighborhood.
Not only did none of that happen, the Carter administration was plunged into internal feuds as Vance resigned in protest of the rescue attempt.
He didn't even want to do that.
It was then that the Ayatollah Khomeini coined the phrase, America cannot do a damn thing.
He also ordered that the slogan, Death to America, be inscribed in all official buildings and vehicles.
And it was during the Iranian hostage crisis, ladies and gentlemen, and it was during the Jimmy Carter administration that the Death to America phrase was born in militant Islam.
Death to America!
Death to America!
And it was picked up by Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat, you name it.
They were all sprouting it.
And it survives, and it exists to this day.
The United States flag was to be painted at the entrance of airports, railway stations, and ministries, factories, schools, hotels, and bazaars so that the faithful in Iran could trample it under their feet every day.
The slogan, America cannot do a damn thing, became the basis of all strategies worked out by Islamist militant groups, including those opposed to Khomeini.
And it apparently remains the operative phrase, or remained so, until a little bit after September 11th, 2001.
Because it was only then, President Carter, that somebody had the guts to take action against these kinds of assaults on us.
And it is that man, George W. Bush, the one president in the last 20 years who's dared do anything about this that you seek to destroy.
It is offensive.
It is mind-numbing.
Quick timeout.
I promise your phone calls are next.
I wanted you people who didn't know this to know it.
We will post all this on the website at rushlimbaugh.com so you can read it, print it out, digest it, send it to your friends or what have you.
It is Jimmy Carter's finest hour.
He's a Nobel Peace Prize winner, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, my friends, there are other things in the stack of stuff today, and we will get to them in due course.
One other little item here before we move on.
Have you seen this?
Nicole Kidman, the actress, has made a public stand against terrorism.
The actress joined by 84 other high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses, and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully worded full-page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times newspaper.
You know, it's amazing to me that 84 of them feel they have to take out an ad to tell us they oppose terrorism.
I'm not criticizing them.
I'm criticizing those that don't sign up.
Even these 84 realize how pathetic Hollywood's become.
They have to take out an ad for people to understand that they oppose terrorism.
I mean, no, I welcome it.
Don't misunderstand.
I just find it incredible.
I'm really as interested in those who didn't sign it and why.
So now, some of you might be cynical and say, well, they're doing this because box office receipts are down and they know what the American people think.
Well, that's true.
Follow the money.
It could be a possibility.
But the people that don't sign it, they're afraid of the controversy.
I will guarantee you that the people in Hollywood that were given a chance to sign this letter that's in the LA Times today and didn't sign it are afraid of the controversy.
Not the controversy of being opposite to terrorists, the controversy of appearing to support Bush.
That's what affrightens them.
That's what frightens them.
That's what stops them.
Because, yeah, they're just afraid that if they sign this, they're siding with Bush.
And liberals can't do that.
Get them in deep, deep doo-doo.
All right, Rudy in Buffalo, you're next.
I'm glad all you waited patiently online.
Hello, Rudy.
Hi, hi, Rush.
Greetings from the People's Republic of New York and Buffalo Gulag.
Thank you.
I was 13 when I watched the freed hostage come home that Reagan brought home.
And I am absolutely incredulous that former President Clinton, same thing, Carter, who turned around and said all this stuff, because it's his fault that we're in his place.
The West Doctrine says, peace through, victory.
Well, what happened is 9-11, we actually had 9-11 primarily because Jimmy Carter didn't park a carrier fleet off Iran and says, we think your people made a mistake.
You have about three hours to bring them back.
The fact that he didn't walk over there and say, bring them back now, you obviously made a mistake.
And what happened now is it goes step by step by step.
We're eventually into another worthless president who couldn't defend us, goes in there, and then absolutely we end up with another.
That's true.
That's true.
You have Carter begging and pleading and allowing his presidency to be paralyzed the last year of his term of office over this crisis.
Begging and pleading, sending letters, lifting arms embargoes.
Ayatollah, stunned and shocked and surprised, we give birth, they give birth to the phrase, death to America.
Then Mogadishu happens, all these other terrorist attacks in between that we don't do anything about.
You're right.
It's a step-by-step progression.
And that's the point.
Finally have somebody doing something about it.
And the very people who led us to this point dare to cowardly flee this country and then criticize a president with more guts, more resolve, more decency, more common sense than Carter and Clinton times two combined.
Here's Gaird in Sacramento, California.
Gaird, welcome to the program.
Well, thank you, Rush.
I enjoy your historical perspective on Jimmy Carter because it reminds me of his saying that planning the future without knowing your past is like planting cut flowers.
And I think a lot of cut flowers being planted here.
But the reason I was calling is when I saw the celebration of Hezbollah after the ceasefire in Lebanon, which, of course, was basically a defeat for Israel.
It reminded me of something that happened about 70 years ago in Germany.
The First World War ended with the Treaty of Versailles, as you probably know.
And among other things, it established a demilitarized zone called the Rhineland, which was part of Germany politically, but total sovereignty of Germany was not included in that.
And in 1936, Hitler sent in three divisions, about 30,000 lightly armed German soldiers, and they were under orders to scoot back across the Rhine if the French army attacked.
And they, by the way, had 100 divisions, which, of course, was totally against the Treaty of Versailles.
And England and France were obligated to preserve this demilitarized zone by this treaty, and they didn't do anything.
As a result, of course, Hitler's popularity went up, and he was celebrated by the Germans because he had done the right thing.
In fact, they did a poll where 99% of the registered voters in Germany went to the polls and gave them a 98.8% yes vote for a poll reoccupation.
Gary, I got 30 seconds.
Your point here is that history is repeating itself and nobody's willing to admit it, right?
That's right.
And instead of the Treaty of Vazai, we have UN resolutions that are not being enforced either.
And here's the irony.
that Hitler said when he spoke before the Reichstag about this, he says, we have no territorial demands to make in Europe.
Germany will never break the peace.
Doesn't that sound familiar, but Mr. Ahmadinead about we are beyond the bomb and building a bomb?
And we got the Neville Chamberlains of the World who believe it.
And we've got Neville Chamberlains of the World alive and well today.
Jimmy Carter is one.
Most of the Democratic elected officialdom in Washington, D.C. may as well be Neville Chamberlains.
Back in just a second.
And don't forget it was Jimmy Carter who appointed the federal judge, Ms. Diggs, in Detroit, that ruled the NSA spy program on terrorists unconstitutional this morning.
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