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Sept. 12, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 12, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It was so predictable.
The Democrats whining like little children last night and today.
Bush Police has a speech.
He mentioned Iraq.
Never.
Never.
We didn't get a chance to respond.
Hey, Democrats, you didn't respond when the shuttle launched successfully either.
Why not?
Why didn't you demand a respond to that?
Greetings, my friends, and welcome to the award-winning Thrill Pact, ever-exciting Rush Limbaugh program back on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Looking forward to talking with you today about all that's going on.
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We have audio soundbites of the president's speech last night.
We'll get to that in due course in just a moment, in fact.
The Path to 9-11, second night, won the night, ladies and gentlemen.
And I think it had about the same numbers as it did Sunday night.
It just wasn't going up against a football game on a network.
I got a lot of email from people last night.
Hey, couldn't watch all of it.
Started tearing up, getting all depressed.
Snurdley came in today.
The official program observer said, I couldn't observe the entire movie last night.
It just got to be too much.
So much to say about The Path to 9-11.
You can sum it up this way.
You can say, well, Wowie Zowie, we do have some people in the intelligence community who are skilled and dedicated and talented.
We haven't heard that for five years.
We hear just the opposite.
Apparently, we do have heroes who risk their lives every day for the country and our cause.
Haven't heard that for the last five years, not for the drive-by media at any rate.
And apparently, we have some bureaucrats who care more about their turf, their careers, than they do their responsibility to the nation.
We have regulations.
We've got bureaucratic layers that are hamstringing the mission.
We've heard that from time to time, but usually a split screen with an ACLU representative contradicting it.
So far, the coverage of the movie, The Path to 9-11, has been treated more as the path to the Clinton legacy.
If there was one dramatic license, the entire project has been painted as a dramatic license.
The drive-bys are trying to say the whole thing is made up.
The whole thing is crazy.
None of it is believable.
Yet here's the bottom line.
If the truth be told, if there's no controversial Sandy Burglar scene, if there were no other cherry-pick scenes that brought on the wrath of Clinton and the rage of the left, you still would have seen actual footage of the real Bill Clinton as a leader ill-equipped to lead.
Do you realize none of what we got in The Path to 9-11 that we got throughout the 1990s?
We had none of the staged good times of Bill Clinton.
None of the 90s in The Path to 9-11 were portrayed as happy-go-lucky and carefree and a roaring economy and everybody just happy as they can be.
We didn't see any trembling lip performance from Bill Clinton.
They didn't use any of that video.
We didn't see Clinton mesmerizing an audience, most of them drive-by media babes.
What we saw in this movie was the real Bill Clinton, awkward, hesitating, unsure, faking resolve.
And that, folks, is the real story behind the story.
The image, the years of a crafted image, has been laid bare for all who watched The Path to 9-11 to see.
Now that you've seen it, is it any wonder that the Clintonistas are now saying, make that crowing, that twice as many people watch the football game?
So unintentionally, they offer up the real Clinton legacy polls.
It's all ratings.
New York Times editorial today denounces me and Thomas Kaine denounces me for being a friend of the writer of The Path to 9-11 and how that should have sounded warning bells to the Clinton Easters and the Democrats.
Hey, New York Times, it did.
It sounded huge warning bells until I had made that statement on the program, made that quote-unquote admission.
It had been pretty tame, but that caused all hell to break loose, which was strange because as I said yesterday, Democrats had a number of powerful Democrats, Richard Benvinista and others, had seen a screening of this a couple weeks ago at the National Press Club.
Also, Jim Moran yesterday, it's interesting.
Jim Moran, Congressperson Virginia, had a 9-11 appearance.
And you talk about politics.
We have some of the audio from it.
It turned it into total political movement.
I got an email yesterday, and I've deleted it, unfortunately, but I got an email yesterday from a subscriber at rushlinbaugh.com who was there describing the event for me.
And this person said, I even shouted out, my brother was killed in 9-11.
Please shut up and don't make this political.
And somebody next to him said, you shut up.
You're brother and you are not important.
Let the congressman speak.
And so there were those kinds of tensions at the Moran appearance.
And the person that wrote me, whose name I forget now, left.
I think that's what they said.
In moves and news that the drive-by media and the Democrats certainly did not anticipate.
The average gasoline price has now fallen about, gosh, 17 cents a gallon in a week.
You know what the lowest price for gasoline is in the country today?
$2.03 in Ohio.
The highest price is $3.59 somewhere.
I'm not sure where that is.
The average price for a gallon of gasoline, $2.54.
That's the U.S. national average price.
USA Today says that gasoline prices continue to tumble, almost free-falling toward levels not seen in five months.
When they went to press, the nationwide average for regular was $2.61 a gallon, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Some sources, some places now say it's actually $2.54 a cent.
Oil prices are also dropping.
They're dropping so precipitously that our friends at OPEC are concerned.
When the price was sky high, our friends at OPEC said that there's nothing we can do.
The prices are now tumbling.
And our friends at OPEC are, oh, no, no, we got to have a meeting.
They're having meetings of what to do about this.
As I say, this has caught the Democrats off guard, ladies and gentlemen.
This is because we've had the polling data from yesterday.
This is just typical of what's been happening to them.
Polling data from yesterday, a bunch of different polls, cited the economy as most Americans, number one, concerned going into the election.
The Democrats have been going back and forth.
What do we make our issue?
The war, Iraq, or the economy.
And they've decided that they're going to focus on Iraq, then the economic news and the economy secondarily.
Now, the economic news is improving.
And, you know, you don't need drive-by media to spin it.
I don't expect the whole drive-by media to hail the reduction in gasoline prices.
I don't expect them to even mention it much.
And if they do, it will be within the context of, is there anything conspiratorial about this?
Bush and Cheney and Halliburton working with big oil to lower prices temporarily just to facilitate the reelection of Republicans in November.
They probably hear that, and they'll start caterwauling about it.
But the one thing, even if the drive-by media ignores it, if they give it scant attention, this is backpocket news that people are going to realize.
And it's like a tax cut that people are getting.
And they'll feel it immediately just as they felt the increase.
And they won't have to sit around watching television in order to be told that the gasoline price is coming down.
What they'll see is Democrats complaining it's some sort of a conspiracy or what have you.
So this is going to confound the Democrats because they're off and running on the war.
And now all of a sudden, one of the signal indicators of a robust economy, gasoline prices, literally plummeting.
I mean, 11 to 17 cents per gallon in a week.
And they are expected to continue to fall for the next three weeks or so, maybe even through Thanksgiving.
Lifestyle news.
This is the Washington Post today.
As homework grows, so do arguments against it.
A professor at Duke says that there is no academic benefit to homework in elementary school, and there's barely any benefit to homework in junior and high school.
Where were these people when I was in school?
I would have loved to have been able to cut this out of the Washington Post, take it to my folks, and say, see, see, homework is irrelevant.
A professor at Duke says so.
And my dad would have launched into a rant about college professors and how they're nabob, negative do-nothings and so forth.
It wouldn't have mattered, but still, it would have given me some ammo.
I'm suspicious of these kinds of stories.
What is it about people that do not, well, I'm asking a rhetorical question.
I was going to say, what is it about elitists that don't want young people to learn anything?
A lot of learning takes place when you study on your own.
No, Rush.
No, no, no, no.
That's dangerous.
That's like blogs, why there's no editor.
You've got to have people tell you what you're learning.
You've got to have people sift through what's incorrect and what's BS and what isn't.
And of course, the notion there is entirely wrong.
At any rate, we'll have a comment on that.
Senator Feingold has called on President Bush to refrain from using the phrase Islamic fascists, saying it was offensive to Muslims, that it has nothing to do with global terrorists who are fighting the United States.
Lord knows we don't want to anger the Muslims out there.
President's speech last night really got under this Democrats' skin, and we will let you hear excerpts of it when we come back after this brief timeout.
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Broadcast excellence resumes after this.
On to excerpts from the president's speech last night.
This excerpt contains a limbaugh echo.
See if you can spot it.
The war against this enemy is more than a military conflict.
It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century and the calling of our generation.
Our nation is being tested in a way that we have not been since the start of the Cold War.
We saw what a handful of our enemies can do with box cutters and plane tickets.
We hear their threats to launch even more terrible attacks on our people.
And we know that if they were able to get their hands on weapons of mass destruction, they would use them against us.
We face an enemy determined to bring death and suffering into our homes.
America did not ask for this war, and every American wishes it were over.
So do I.
But the war is not over, and it will not be over until either we or the extremists emerge victorious.
And there you have the limbo echo, ladies and gentlemen.
Peace follows victory.
I have said this in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian, the Israeli-Hezbo war.
And that is, until one of these two sides wins, it isn't going to be over.
The next soundbite, read it and weep, Democrats.
The safety of America depends on the battle in the streets of Baghdad.
Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone.
They will not leave us alone.
Stop the tape a second there, Ed.
Stop the...
Yes, and, you know, that's exactly right.
That's what the Democrats think.
They'll leave us alone because the Democrats think they have the power of personality to talk to these people and reason with them, to negotiate with them.
Because these terrorists will understand that they're sensitive, life-loving people who don't want conflict and don't hate anybody.
And they're not going to be blowing them up like Bush is doing.
It would be one of the greatest follies.
Give these people any chance at trying that.
They would be laughed at, just as Bill Clinton was laughed at after Somalia.
In fact, you know what?
I'm going to make some of you mad, but I'll bet you back in 1979 when the American hostages were taken from the U.S. Embassy in Iran.
What did America do?
Forget Jimmy Carter.
What did we do?
Anybody remember, Snerdley?
Come on, you were alive in 1979.
How old were you?
40?
How old were you in 1979?
You remember what we did?
What did the American people do?
I'll give you a hint.
What became the theme song, essentially, on top 40 radio for the Iranian hostage crisis?
Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree.
Do you not think the Iranians got a big chuckle out of that?
The big, mighty United States of America tying yellow ribbons around trees and so forth?
At least, at least, well, that too, with Carter not leaving the White House, wearing the sweater there when it was 68 degrees inside because he'd lowered the thermostats and making it appear like it was the only thing on his mind.
You know, have you seen what Steve Irwin's fans are doing?
They're out there killing stingrays.
I mean, Steve Irwin's fans know how to deal with something like that.
Yes, they are, Don.
Ten stingrays so far have been killed.
They're not sure if some of them have been killed in fear by people who run into them after what happened to Steve Irwin, but they fear that people are taking revenge on stingrays, the stingray community, for the unwanted murder of Steve Irwin by a leader stingray of the PAC.
Here's the rest of the president's remarks.
The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad.
Osama bin Laden calls this fight the Third World War.
And he says that victory for the terrorists in Iraq will mean America's defeat and disgrace forever.
If we yield Iraq to men like bin Laden, our enemies will be emboldened.
They will gain a new safe haven.
They will use Iraq's resources to fuel their extremist movement.
We will not allow this to happen.
America will stay in the fight.
Iraq will be a free nation and a strong ally in the war on terror.
We have audio soundbites coming up.
Dingy Harry took to the floor of the Senate today, just whining and moaning, talking about turning the whole speech last night into politics, and pleading with the president to listen to Democrats, listen to Democrats and get out of Iraq.
Democrats aren't listening to Democrats, Dingy Harry.
How many resolutions have you offered in the Senate?
And the largest number of votes you've got for one was 13 votes out of 100.
That is the carry resolution.
Snerdley's sending me a little note here.
How come we haven't seen any day after polls?
Give them time.
We didn't see any flash polls last night.
Well, maybe because the speech was billed as non-political.
But we'll see.
It could be that there aren't any flash polls because the American people like the speech.
Here is yet another soundbite.
And the president says it's not really a clash of civilizations.
It's a struggle for civilization.
The terrorists fear freedom as much as they do our firepower.
They are thrown into panic at the sight of an old man pulling the election lever, girls enrolling in schools, or families worshiping God in their own traditions.
They know that given a choice, people will choose freedom over their extremist ideology.
So their answer is to deny people this choice by raging against the forces of freedom and moderation.
This struggle has been called a clash of civilizations.
In truth, it is a struggle for civilization.
Yeah, the city.
We're fighting to maintain the way of life enjoyed by free nations.
This is just something that the Democrats cannot deal with.
They keep expecting, I'm not kidding you about this.
The Democrats, along with the drive-by media, continue to expect Bush to cave.
They really do think that they're going to force him off of this position.
They really think that this is going to happen.
And one of these days, Bush is going to make a speech and change his focus and policy on this so they can go around and crow about it.
And the exact opposite happens.
Every time he goes out and makes such a speech, it gets even more forceful and etched in stone, and he's not changing his mind about anything.
And that just sends him caterwalling to the cameras.
There's an excellent piece here tonight, or today, actually, it was posted late last night, by William Tucker at the Americanspectator.org.
It is entitled Overprivileged Children, and it's a review of the book, The Looming Tower, Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9-11.
He begins by saying, you aren't going to find a better recounting of the events leading up to September 11th than The Looming Tower, journalist Lawrence Wright's meticulously reported account just published by Kanopf.
And in it, he makes the point that how many times have you heard left say, well, these terrorists, you know, they're just a bunch of poor enslaved people.
They're just dexterant poverty.
They hate our prosperity.
They think that we're stealing all the world's resources, the usual liberal complaint.
The author Lawrence Wright makes the point, it's just the opposite.
These are highly educated people, Zawahiri, bin Laden.
They are wealthy.
They are very wealthy, and they have a lot of education.
They're not dummies.
And they're not insane.
They're a little bit delusional and deranged, but they are doing what they're doing out of a sense of great purpose.
And that they are recruiting people like Mohammed Atta who are disaffected in one way or the other.
There's a passage here in the review of the book that brings into question the masculinity of Mohammed Atta.
Physically, there was a feminine quality to his bearing.
He was elegant.
He was delicate.
So that his sexual orientation, however unexpressed, was difficult to read.
Atta consistently demonstrated an aversion to women who, in his mind, were like Jews in their powerfulness and corruption.
And then he quotes from Atta's will and wait till you hear that.
Get to that right after the break, plus with more President Bush soundbooks.
Stay with us.
I'm going to make you a prediction that before the election, Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri will release another statement in tape in which, like Mahmoud Ahmadinezad, they will decry the lack of health care for 40 million Americans and then go on to criticize tax cuts for the rich.
And the Democrats say, see, see, they have a reason to hate us.
You wait.
I'm just making it a prediction.
Tax cuts for the rich will eventually emerge from one of these Islamo-fascists' mouths prior to the election.
What emerges from the looming tower, this book by Lawrence Wright, is that we are not facing a clash of civilizations so much as a conflict with an educated segment of a civilization that produces some very weird, sexually disoriented men.
Poverty has nothing to do with it, and it's stunning to meet the al-Qaeda roster.
One highly accomplished scholar after another with advanced degrees in chemistry, biology, medicine, engineering, and a large percentage of them educated in the United States.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden's number two, is typical.
Highly trained Egyptian doctor, often providing sophisticated treatment to his hospital patients, even as he plotted the overthrow of the Egyptian government.
As Wright, the author shrewdly observes, what the recruits tended to have in common, besides their urbanity, their cosmopolitan backgrounds, their education, their facility with languages, and their computer skills, was displacement.
Most who joined the jihad did so in a country other than the one in which they were reared, like Saeed Kub, who they defined themselves as radical Muslims while living in the West.
Alone, alienated, often far from his family, the exile turned to the mosque where he found companionship and the consolation of religion.
Islam provided the element of commonality.
It was more than a faith.
It was an identity.
And then the description here of Muhammad Atta and his as an example of the fact that there's some questionable sexuality about the men that are recruited, sexually disoriented men.
Physically, about Atta, there was a feminine quality to his bearing.
He was elegant and delicate, so that his sexual orientation, however unexpressed, was difficult to read.
Atta constantly demonstrated aversion to women who, in his mind, were like Jews in their powerfulness and corruption.
His will states the following: No pregnant woman or disbeliever should walk in my funeral or ever visit my grave.
No woman should ask forgiveness of me.
Those who will wash my body should wear gloves so that they do not touch my genitals.
Quote unquote.
The anger that this statement directs at women and its horror of sexual contact invites the thought that Atta's turn to terror had as much to do with his own conflicted sexuality as it did with the clash of civilizations.
Now, isn't it true?
What made me question or start thinking about this when I read this today was we really don't get that many character displays, descriptions of these terrorists other than where they're from, 19 of them, 16 of them were Saudi and so forth.
Atta was Egyptian, by the way.
But we assume that they are committed.
It's just, it's classic.
Remember during the first Gulf War, if you listen to Sam Donaldson, we're going to need 50,000 body bags.
The Iraqi army, far more committed than our troops, why ours is a volunteer army.
The Iraqis, they're used to desert fighting.
They just got through with eight years over there in Iran.
Well, we don't have a chance.
Meaning that the perfection and the commitment of the enemy is always unquestioned.
And likewise now with the hijackers of 9-11 or with any of the Islamic terrorists, the assumption is presented to us that they're fully competent, that they are extremely committed, that they are the best of the best.
We never get any description of character traits, personality traits that might explain why they're so screwed up.
And that's what this book that William Tucker reviews at the Americanspectator.org gets into.
Again, the book is The Looming Tower, Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9-11.
It's by Lawrence Wright, and it's just out from Kanaph.
All right, we're up to audio soundbite number four with President Bush.
Let's listen.
Our nation has endured trials, and we face a difficult road ahead.
Winning this war will require the determined efforts of a unified country.
And we must put aside our differences and work together to meet the test that history has given us.
We will defeat our enemies.
We will protect our people.
And we will lead the 21st century into a shining age of human liberty.
Yes, and this is where we're going to be appealing for unity, which when I hear him appeal to unity, that's a great thing to do.
But then I look at the left in this country and I realize it's not going to happen as long as he's in office.
And it is.
That is the line that's making them all ballistic.
They hear him asking them to shelve everything they believe and go along with him.
To them, it's all about him, everything, their whole hatred, their delusionment, their dissent into utter madness.
All about George W. Bush.
For him to appeal to them as Americans to join in this conflict and unify offends the hell out of them because they don't even hear it that way.
They hear it as, please stop criticizing me and join me in this.
Now, let's listen to some interesting drive-by media soundbites.
Last night on ABC, after the president of the rest of the nation, anchor Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos had this exchange.
George, you have seen a lot of White House speeches, both inside and outside.
What strikes you about this one?
Charlie, the headline is the war is not over.
The president's tone tonight was not political.
Oh, folks, Stephanopoulos, Mike, you might have come this close to being canned last night.
When he said the president's tone tonight was not political, can you imagine his BlackBerry?
It was probably about ready to explode with all the phone calls because he didn't get the talking point.
So this morning, after Democrats released statements blasting the speech as political, Stephanopoulos did a 180 and led the drive-by media charge.
Here is a montage.
George, you have seen a lot of White House speeches, both inside and outside.
What strikes you about this one?
Charlie, the headline is the war is not over.
The president's tone tonight was not political.
The fact that the White President focused on the President Iraq was political by its very nature.
Some of the comments the president made sounded like the kinds of political arguments he makes day by day.
The White House insisted that this was a non-political speech.
Critics are charging that he turned a National Day of Mourning into more like a political football.
Democrats are furious saying that he used the anniversary of 9-11 for political purposes.
All right, so last night, does Cut Six also have Cut Five on it at the beginning, Ed?
Okay, let's play Cut Five and Cut Six back to back like you just did.
And what we're going to have here is, because I was talking, and I want you to hear this.
Charlie Gibson, George, you've seen a lot of White House speeches and Stephanopoulos answers.
That's last night.
And then you know the BlackBerry was starting to ring like crazy because he hadn't got the talking points.
Then this morning, he did a 180.
Here are cuts five and six back to back.
George, you have seen a lot of White House speeches, both inside and outside.
What strikes you about this one?
Charlie, the headline is the war is not over.
The president's tone tonight was not political.
The fact that the president focused on Iraq was political by its very nature.
Some of the comments the president made sounded like the kinds of political arguments he makes day by day.
The White House insisted that this was a non-political speech.
Critics are charging that he turned a National Day of Mourning into more like a political football.
Democrats are furious saying that he used the anniversary of 9-11 for political purposes.
Yeah.
All right.
So the only question here is who called Stephanopoulos?
Was it Clinton?
Was it Bruce Lindsay?
Was it other journalists?
Probably so.
George, what do you mean it wasn't political?
You're ruining the whole plan.
But he got back in gear today.
I mentioned Dingy Harry earlier.
Here's Dingy Harry on the floor of the Senate this morning.
The American people last night deserved better.
They deserved a break from politics that honored the spirit of 9-11.
They deserved a chance to reclaim that sense of unity, purpose, and patriotism that swept through our country five years ago.
Yeah.
Feelings only the commander-in-chief could have inspired.
He should have tried to inspire.
He didn't.
Last night was not a time for a political speech, a partisan speech.
Sadly, it was a missed opportunity for President Bush, who obviously was more consumed by staying in the course in Iraq and playing election year partisan politics than changing direction for this wonderful country.
Yeah, isn't that wonderful, Dingy Harry still upset that the president won't go along with what Democrats want to do?
His speech was partisan and political because it didn't do what Democrats wanted to do.
The Democrats don't even go along with you, Dingy Harry.
If you really believe to get out of Iraq, cut the funding for it.
You are Congress.
You can do that.
How many resolutions have they had where they've turned down Tom Rom, our old buddy in the Associated Press today?
Lawmakers stood side by side on the steps of the Capitol and belted out an impromptu rendition of God Bless America after the terrorist attacks five years ago.
Democrats and Republicans pulled together, as did the country at large.
We had an astonishing moment of unity, former President Clinton said on Monday.
All right, folks, I think that is revisionist history.
This idea that we were all unified on 9-11 is just bunk.
And I'm going to say it.
I don't believe it for a moment.
I think that when 9-11 happened, a lot of kooks on the left thought, aha, this is how we're going to get Bush.
He's incompetent.
Or they were either a, oh, no, the country's going to come together.
You can't tell me that the people who hated Bush 10 months earlier over the Florida aftermath, the Florida recount, all of a sudden came together and it was all kumbaya time.
I do not believe it.
Just because politicians came out as a single force on that one day to sing together doesn't mean differences magically disappeared.
You can't convince me that liberals dropped their liberalism once they were singing God Bless America, although that had to be tough for them to do.
In fact, I think the polarization became even stronger.
I think they did it because they thought it would look good for the voters.
Not all politicians were behind Bush that day or any day since.
They hammered him for reading a book to kids, not being at the White House.
The drive-by media that night, Peter Jennings was saying, well, you know, some presidents are just better at this than others.
Remember that comment?
That was about Clinton was so good at consoling the country during crises, which ones.
And Bush was a shrub.
There wasn't any unity on 9-11.
This is one of the big myths that has been perpetrated out there.
You know, some in the administration, like Colin Powell, wanted to continue to fight terror like Clinton did.
There wasn't even unity in the administration over this.
I remember politicians expressing dismay at President Bush because it took so long to start moving into Afghanistan.
But they all want to guilt us into thinking that there was this massive love and unity on 9-11 for the couple of three days after because when we started playing baseball and football games again, we did all these ceremonies and so forth.
But don't buy it, folks.
It strains credulity.
It strains intelligence.
I use my intelligence guided by experience, and I'm here to tell you that human nature doesn't shame on a change on a dime or on a couple of explosions.
There was no unity in this country.
And even if there was, it might have lasted all of a week, max.
But I don't believe it was ever there.
And so now, why can't we all get a little, why can't we just go back to the way it was?
It never was the way they want us to believe it was.
Back in just a second.
I'll tell you something else.
Snurdley just remembered this.
It wasn't long after 9-11 happened that a number of Democrats from the Clinton administration lamented the fact that it happened on Bush's watch and he would have the opportunity for greatness.
They wanted to know why such important big things never happened in the Clinton administration.
And now, well, some of us have known things did.
They were just ignored.
A lot of opportunity for greatness.
The 1993 World Trade Center attack dealing with the Black Hawk Down situation in Bogadishu in Somalia.
The USS Cole, the Cobar Towers, the embassy bombings, all kinds of terrorist activity went on in the 90s.
But the Clinton administration didn't want you worried about it because they didn't want poll numbers falling.
So 9-11 happens and they were literally lamenting how unfortunate it was that a shrub like Bush was going to have a chance at greatness.
Why couldn't if this was going to happen, why couldn't it have happened when Clinton was president, preferably during the Lewinsky scandal?
Everything is about them.
Great peace today at one of our favorite blogs, theamericanthinker.com, is entitled The Moral Emptiness of the Left.
Here are the pull quotes.
Bush, Blair, and Cheney did not have the luxury of pretending that hard choices can be wished away.
That is what Harry Truman meant about the buck stopping here in the Oval Office.
The greatest disappointment since 9-1101 has been the total moral vacuity of the left, a complete and utter nullity, both here and in Europe.
Today, five years later, psychological denial still rules the day.
And the few Democrats who raise their heads above the screaming mob are chased out, like Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller.
One-third of American voters still being succored by the left-wing media who live in some sort of toon town where you can have your cake and eat it too, where lunches are free and healthcare is too, and where there are no ideological killer movements in this world.
And to achieve world peace, you just have to point your finger at the warmongers and scream really loud.
The left is now populated by muling, puking infants, as William Shakespeare put it, utterly lacking an understanding of the world as it is.
It's a sad sight to behold.
We need unity, not denial as it is.
The left has become a fifth column fighting the civilized world and busily explaining away danger.
The New York Times can get away with sabotaging our fight for survival against the worst fascist movement since you know who.
The left is even descending to Nazi slogans and scapegoating Jews.
Generation ago, who would have believed it?
And the final line is, all we know for sure is that the muling, puking infants of the left will blame any adults in sight for the anxieties of having to live in the real world.
Boy, that is well said.
A bunch of people who would just rather trade a bunch of security in order for not being bothered or hassled or living life in fear or what have you.
Here's Doug in Big Prairie, Ohio.
Hello, Doug.
I got about a minute here before the break.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
Make a door.
Thank you, sir.
I had a thought listening to President Bush last night, and the thought was that with all he's done and his administration has done and the protections they've given us, and if he's wrong, we're still safe.
Hypothetically, if he's wrong, let's just say he's wrong.
We're still safe.
If the Democrats get in control and do what they want to do and they're wrong, America's in big trouble.
Yeah, we're fried.
Exactly.
Kooked.
That's an excellent point.
Now, the left, I'm sure some of them out there list, oh, yeah, Bush is wrong.
Well, we're only losing about 3,000 soldiers' lives.
Nobody is safe.
We're not safer and so forth and so on.
But I think it's a moot point.
The idea that even Richard Clark last night in a broadcast after the PAT to 9-11 had to grudgingly admit you got to give the administration and the bureaucracy some credit here for the fact that we have not been hit in five years.
Back in a moment.
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