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Nov. 27, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 27, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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They continue to leak data from the upcoming Baker Report, it's being called, the Iraq Study Group.
It's fascinating what's happening on this.
Nobody any longer is talking about winning.
Everybody is not talking about how to get out.
And as it uh these these leaks um obviously are having their intended purpose.
The intended purpose is to set the stage to when the real report comes out.
The real report is probably going to exactly or equal what the uh what the leaks have been, and that is we gotta get out of there, and we gotta let Syria and Iran uh go ahead and and uh assume control over this and get their assistance with all this.
Meanwhile, Mahmood Ahmadinejad once again now saying that the United States, Israel, and the UK are doomed that it's only a matter of time.
Caesar Chavez says he's going to take us down, and uh nobody seems to notice or care.
Uh what?
Hugo, did I say Caesar?
It was a long weekend.
And Hugo Chavez uh uh in uh in Venezuela.
And and so, you know, it it's amazing.
Left here on uh what day, Tuesday?
Get back not much has changed.
The tenor of the news is pretty much the same.
I've got the requisite number of stories of what the Democrats are and aren't gonna do, and how they're gonna be liberal and not liberal, and how they're gonna investigate and how they're not going to investigate.
Uh it's uh the Pope is in Turkey.
Uh we have uh bombing bombing threats, bomb attacks on Walmart now, and there's probably a an explanation uh for this.
But everybody's all all hepped up now about the uh the situation in Iraq with the Baker report.
Here's a a little blurb on it from uh from the Associated Press.
The Bush administration is stepping up diplomatic efforts to stabilize Iraq, even as key congressional figures say that their confidence in the uh uh Nouri Al-Maliki uh government, Maliki government, is waning.
Uh you know, I would love if the Baker reports just put uh Saddam Hussein back in charge.
Just I know there's a columnist in the LA Times, a guy who wrote the why I hate bush columns, named Jonathan Shay.
Do it!
He says, Do it.
You know, yeah, he murders mass murderous people, and yeah, but the guy kept order.
The guy knew how to kept order, maybe a keep order, maybe the thing we should just.
It's getting so absurd that uh uh uh I wouldn't be surprised if uh somebody besides a columnist makes that suggestion of the New York Times reported uh today that a draft report by the Iraq Study Group led by James Baker recommends aggressive regional diplomacy, including talks with Iran and Syria.
This is no different than what uh has been leaked on prior occasions.
Anonymous officials who have seen the draft report wonder who they are.
Could they be members of the commission?
I wonder.
By the way, Vernon Jordan's on this commission.
Wonder what he thinks we ought to do about Iraq.
And uh Sanderdale Connor, a great Supreme Court justice, she's on the commission.
Wonder what she thinks we ought to do about Iraq.
Why are these people any better than anybody else in this commission?
Ed Meese is on the commission, he makes lots of sense uh a lot of times, but I mean Vernon Jordan's a rainmaker.
Uh Sandra Day O'Connor was a justice who doesn't think the uh judiciary should be criticized.
Um, these uh the best in the brightest in these blue ribbon commissions, they get appointed, and it's uh you know, I I'm looking at all this, and nowhere is anybody suggesting that we win it.
Nobody is.
I mean, we could do the Limbaugh plan.
The Limbaugh plan is win in Iraq and get out.
The Limbaugh plan would uh consist of many things which many say are impossible.
Uh Stop the politics.
Have both parties uh line up for U.S. victory.
Of course, it's a pipe dream because the fact of the matter is, as I said, have you heard all the calls by the way over the weekend?
We've got to send troops into Darfur.
That started before we left on Tuesday, and that's there now.
So what the case is, as I mentioned brilliantly to a caller last week, the left in this country will send our military anywhere where we do not have our own national interests at stake.
They'll send them on meals on wheels programs, they'll send them to stop uh a bloody civil war in Africa, they'll do it to feed people or what have you.
But where our interests are at stake, no way.
They're not gonna send our troops and our military anywhere where our troop where our where our uh interests are at stake because it's not fair.
And uh they don't like the military being used anymore.
All of this is a setup.
This whole this whole policy on Iraq is a is is a setup now to see to it that we don't have the guts or courage to deploy forces anywhere around the world the next time we need to defend ourselves.
That's that's that's the danger that lurks behind all of this.
What the kind of political leaders we're breeding, who's gonna have the guts to do it if it's necessary to do anyway, given what no doubt will happen uh to him, as has happened to uh George W. Bush.
Let's see now.
Oh, by the way, anonymous officials uh who've seen the report say that does not specify any timetables for the uh withdrawal of U.S. troops at Iraq, although the commissioners are expected to debate the feasibility of such timetables.
Appearing Monday on Good Morning America, Jimmy Carter.
I think we got the audio of this at some point.
I'm not sure I want to listen to it.
Uh Carter thinks that uh Bush will take their advice as much as he possibly can.
Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, potential presidential contender.
Ha ha don't make me laugh.
Uh, in 2008 said it's not too late for the United States to extricate itself honorably from an impending disaster in Iraq.
And as for Bush, some of the harshest criticism is coming from within his own party.
We have misunderstood, we have misread, we have misplanned, we have mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam, said Hagel.
Honorable intentions are not policies and plans.
Senator Dick Turbin of Illinois.
Now the number two Senate Democrat called Iraq the worst U.S. foreign policy decision since Vietnam.
He said Democrats do not have a quick answer, and any solution might be bipartisan.
They don't have an answer.
They don't all of a sudden now they don't have an answer.
Well, they did have an answer prior to the election.
That was cut and run, redeploy.
Whatever the you know, redeploy is another one of these twisting and turning of words that just means quit.
But it softens the message of cut and run or quit and leave.
We'll redeploy.
We'll put our troops somewhere where there's really no need for them to be, under the pretense that if something really bad happens, we can mobilize them quickly and get them back in there.
In the meantime, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Michael Richards continues his nationwide apology tour.
Cindy Adams in the New York Post that I think had the best perspective on this.
Everybody talking about how he's damaged his career.
No, he didn't have a career.
And that's the whole point.
You don't go to the laugh factory ten years after the Seinfeld show if your career's on the ascension.
And he's upset that he doesn't have a career.
And so he starts getting heckled.
Her theory is that the people in the audience didn't think he was anything hot, anything big.
Uh, and he, of course, thinks he's the biggest guy on earth, having been in Seinfeld when he wasn't given the respect of being a quote unquote star.
He snapped.
At any rate, uh the uh the race business is all over this, uh, as is uh what's his face, uh Michael Richards himself.
We have some interesting audio sound bites from the uh Reverend Dax uh on this as well as your telephone calls.
So a quick timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back uh from your Thanksgiving holiday.
We'll continue here in just a second.
Hi, welcome back, El Rush Ball, America's real anchor man behind the golden EIB microphone here, the Limbaugh Institute.
As long as we're talking about the Middle East, this is interesting from King Abdullah II of Georgia.
Uh Jordan, he was not with George Stephanopoulos yesterday on uh this week with ABC, is it a civil war in Iraq right now?
Is the question.
Well, of course it is, because MSNBC has now proclaimed it a civil war.
And they've even got a better MSNBC now says Iraq conflict is civil war.
They're running that graphic.
MSNBC says Iraq is a civil war.
It's like they're calling an election result.
So anyway, Stephanopoulos asked uh King Abdullah II of Jordan if this is the case.
George, the difficulty that uh we're tackling with here is we're juggling with the strong potential of three civil wars uh in the region, uh whether it's the Palestinians, that of uh Lebanon or of Iraq.
Um and uh uh I hope that uh my discussions at least with the president will be to provide whatever we can do for the Iraqi people, uh but at the same time we do want to concentrate ourselves on the core issues, which we believe are uh the Palestinians and the Palestinian peace process, because that is a must today.
As well as uh tremendous concern we've had over the past several days uh of what's happening in Lebanon.
And we could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having three civil wars on our hands.
All right, well, let's just have them.
Let's just have the civil wars and let let the crumbs crumble and the cookie crumble where because I'm fed up with this.
The Palestinian situation.
For fifty years we've had the Palestinian situation, and it's not gonna be solved until a limb doctrine is imposed or tried.
And that is this is a war, and until somebody loses it, it isn't going to stop.
And now you know we've done everything we can to make Lebanon a democracy, and it's uh it's crumbling because Syria keeps killing the popular leaders there.
Meanwhile, the Hezbos keep expanding their influence in Lebanon.
But what the hell?
We're gonna bring Syria and Iran in to fix Iraq.
Why not let them just fix the whole region?
If we're heading to civil war, I mean, everybody comes to us and say you gotta fix this and you gotta fix that, so we go and try to fix it, and then our own people, Democrats of the left in this country do their best to sabotage our efforts, and then we get blamed for trying to clean up the messes that these people start.
And then they come on our television shows.
Well, George, a civil war over there soon, they're gonna do something.
Palestinians, it's a must, it's a must.
We must fix it right now.
Fine, just blow the place up.
You know, just let these natural forces take place over there instead of trying to stop them.
Instead of trying to use I just sometimes natural force is going to happen.
You're gonna have to let it take place.
Uh you can spend all the time you want with diplomacy, and you can spend all the time you want uh massaging these uh these things with diplomatic uh maneuvers.
You're just you're just you're just delaying the inevitable.
At any rate, let's move on now to the uh Reverend Dax and Michael Richards.
Uh uh the company that syndicates this program, ladies and gentlemen, gave the Reverend Jackson a show called Keep Hope Alive.
It's on Sunday when nobody listens to the radio.
And the uh Reverend Jackson was talking to the uh uh actor comedian Michael Richards yesterday, and here's a montage of a portion of that interview.
Do you consider yourself a racist?
No.
That's why I'm shattered by it the way it's.
Stop the tape.
Stop it.
It's like Michael Vick yesterday.
Moon nothing moons.
He gave gives the Atlanta Falcon fans two birds, right?
Two middle fingers.
After he popped.
That ain't me.
It was you, dude.
It was you.
That ain't me.
That who I know who I am.
It was who you are.
And now here's Michael.
No, I'm not a racist.
No, of course not.
Cue this up to the top, Mike.
Of course not, I'm not a cut who.
I know Michael Vick was uh frustrated.
I I don't care that he did it.
I don't does it offend me.
Nothing offends me anymore.
I'm uh I get more amused by all these people running around getting offended over everything these days.
Everything offends somebody.
I mean, what Michael Vick did is far less insulting than the way football games are produced these days, anyway.
Or highlight shows or what have you.
Uh anyway, don't get me sidetracked on this.
I just hey, dude, you did it.
Stand up for yourself.
I am somebody.
Be who you are.
All of this stuff.
Here now here's here's this montage again.
I'll try to let this go.
Without interrupting it.
Once again, you're listening to the Reverend Jackson.
Hmm.
And uh Michael Richards.
Do you consider yourself a racist?
No.
That's why I'm shattered by it.
The way this came through me was like a freight train.
Use the word.
Then the Lynch insane.
Mean Have you been here before?
No.
No, no, no.
No.
It's the first time for me to talk to an African American like that.
That's a first time for me.
I know I've hurt them very, very deeply.
And now I can I can I can say I am deeply sorry for this.
I don't doubt that.
I I don't doubt that he's very, very sorry that it happened.
And uh and well, the two guys in the crowd, Mr. Sturdley, they claim they were hurt.
They were hurt to the tune of ten million dollars, and they got Gloria all red on the case.
Uh I think it's ten.
They want some money.
And they're trying to get some money now as a as a as a pledge not to go for a full-fledged lawsuit.
So they've gonna they got Gloria, they got Gloria all red on their uh on their crace.
But uh here's the Reverend Jackson, you you consider yourself a racist.
No, no, that's that's why I'm shattered by it.
The way this came through me was like a freight train.
Well, it was in there, pal.
You know, it was uh it was in where?
In there.
Uh have you have you ever been here before?
The Reverend Jackson asked, meaning said these words.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And then uh during CNN's newsroom yesterday, uh the correspondent Carol Costello had on the Reverend Jackson, uh, who had comedian Michael Richards on his radio show earlier in the day to once again apologize to the African American community.
And she said to the Reverend Jackson, do you think that this apology from Michael Richards is genuine this time?
Uh maybe more so than his appearance on Letterman.
Well, he is genuinely sick by his own admission.
He is engaged in this racist tirade.
Uh and uh he may not think it to be racist, but clearly it is that, so he does need to get well, but then the broader ramification of what he said, and one has to do with we put all this focus on this uh sick comedian and ignore the uh impact of of Trent Lott return to Congress with his baggage.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, so we we're we're we're making a big mistake to focus on this sick comedian when what we ought to be noticing is that Trent Lot's back in the leadership of the Senate on the Republican side, all because of his strong Thurman kind.
That's where we've really gotta.
Jesse doesn't care about this comedian because this comedian has no political tie to anything that Jesse can exploit.
Uh and I, you know, I I I think it's it's quite telling here that uh the Reverend Jackson is really not even interested in race in this particular case because he thinks he has a bigger target, which is uh Trent Lott on the Republican side.
Same program next question.
I think I think Michael Richards said the N-word seven times in two minutes and fifteen seconds.
He told you on the radio shows the first time he ever used the N-word directed uh towards an African American.
Did you believe that?
No, it's difficult to believe that.
I do believe he needs to get well.
I do not believe it's the first time he is engaged in this tire, and I believe he does need to get well, but I submit to you, as I keep trying to say that he is a symbol of a deeper malady in our culture.
It is Richards one day, but it's Harold Ford running a magnificent campaign for Senate, and then Republican Party uses a race bait to in fact diminish his chance of winning that sentence seat.
It it is how we respond to Katrina.
Man, I'd say the perpetuation of lies and myths just goes on and on and on.
Let's not talk about Lynn Swann or Michael Steele and what was done especially to steal by a Schumer's committee in violating his privacy by getting his credit report.
Uh and uh of course there there weren't uh if Michael Steele loses, it's not because it's uh race has anything to do with it.
No, no, no, no, I can't say that in a blue state because Democrats, of course, are not racists.
And then uh, and then finally, Costello says, Well, you heard Michael Richards say that uh he hopes to open a dialogue to fix those kinds of sentiments in the African American community.
I hope they will.
That there's not one black hosted show on CNN, ABC, CBS, uh in this show between five and twelve.
All day, all night, all white.
Well, I've seen the hall 15 years ago.
Uh Bill the Bill Cosby show, Max Robson, ABC News Network uh Anchor 20 years ago.
That seems to be a receding away from inclusion.
So I hope he's opened up a wound, and then that we've found a lot of glass and must take the glass out to really get healing.
Jesse forgets he also had a show on CNN.
Uh uh both sides now, I think it was called.
We we we chuckle and call it one side always.
Uh but he'll probably that's probably that he just wants his show back.
Tired of being on the radio on Sunday morning.
Put me on some time.
Notice he doesn't mention Oprah uh or anything along those lines.
Anyway, quick time out here, folks.
Back uh get to some of your phone calls when we come back.
By the way, I seem to remember that uh in his uh past, the uh Reverend uh Dax has uh had insulting terminology when describing is used insulting terminology, describing New York.
So it's hymy town and so forth.
And that that clearly uh was uh was a sickness and he needed to get well, and I wonder where he went to get well.
What psychiatrist or psychologist, the uh Reverend Dax uh consulted, perhaps.
Um the uh you mean before the first time he said it?
Do I think the Reverend Jackson might have used the term Heime Town before he used Heime Town?
Meaning in a public way, had he ever uttered it when in, say talking to Al Sharpton or uh any other of his uh comrades out there.
Well, he might have it.
I think the odds are that he probably has uttered the word himey town uh many more times than we have heard him do it, which was uh one time publicly.
My whole point is that if he had to, he was obviously sick when he did this, needed to go get some help, uh, and if he's a man of compassion, he could he could suggest uh whoever he saw also see uh Michael Richards, uh, who is clearly uh ladies and gentlemen distressed, doesn't know where any of his words came from.
Been trying to figure this out ever since the incident happened.
He's looking back in his past, he cannot figure out where all those words came from.
He was standing there, he's doing his stand-up, and man, he got steamrolled by a freight train.
Don't know where the words came from.
It's a conspiracy.
Here to the phones, Doug in Atlanta, your next sir, up first today on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Megadinhos Rush, how are you?
Fine, sir.
Thanks.
Happy holidays.
Ditto.
Hey, hey, just wanted to say I uh, you know, I I don't get it.
I I'm shocked and amazed that there isn't more outcry against this policy or desire to have Iran and Syria involved in it's like putting the Fox in charge of the hen house.
And and secondly, um, to me it's just a slap in the face to all those soldiers that have given their lives for this for this uh endeavor.
What is it you don't understand?
I I don't understand why people aren't more outraged at the thought of even involving these terrorist states and coming in and and and running Iraq.
I mean, it's a good thing.
Well, let me let me let me try to explain it to you.
Let me um let me try to explain it.
The Iraq war to the vast majority of people in this country is no more than a 20-second or 30-second television show every night on the nightly news.
And they're uncomfortable.
They're fed up, they don't want to watch it anymore.
Just end it.
Figure it out.
I don't know what's going on with this phone there, but just end it.
And uh and I because I don't want to see it anymore.
There to them it's it's it's it's not it's it's not about the country being threatened.
Uh it is not about uh a worldwide conflict in which we find ourselves.
It's just something inconvenient.
The American people don't want to be inconvenienced, they don't want to see that stuff.
And uh so we got a story out there now.
We've been in Iraq longer than we were in World War II.
So what?
When did World War II become the official timeline of wars?
That doesn't matter.
The objective doesn't matter.
However long it takes to win this, that's no longer the objective.
Getting out, because the American people don't want to see it anymore.
They just they they they they're gonna continue to watch the news and they don't want to see this.
It's no more complicated than that.
Chris Staten Island, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's a pleasure speaking to you.
Thank you, sir.
I was calling because to be honest, I'm actually starting to get afraid of what's going to happen with the new direction we're going in with pulling out and speaking to terrorist uh countries.
It honestly makes me afraid.
Be very afraid, sir.
No, um I I, you know, I know people that died uh, you know, in the world trade, and I really don't I you know I love my country and I love all my fellow Americans.
And for another tragic thing like that to happen again, um I I feel it's coming in the direction that we're going.
Yeah, uh I think you're right.
It's gonna take at least one or more of those kind of events to get people revved up.
They've forgotten about it because they want to forget about it, and because you live in America, you can forget about it because there are enough diversions.
There uh the there's tranquility, there's peace for the most part.
I mean, everybody has their problems, but uh there's economic opportunity, economic performance.
Uh why why do we want to jeopardize all that with a war on terror when there hadn't been another attack here?
Uh so uh plus with with the political divisions on this, uh it has the whole subject has become a sort of a a negative for people.
They don't even want to hear about it.
Uh much much less much less supported.
Uh I'll tell you, you know, you talked about being scared.
I was well, I was I was following the news over the weekend of this Russian spy Litvidinko, or whatever I don't have his name written in front of me.
This guy goes into a sushi rep at uh restaurant in uh in uh in London called Itsu.
Uh he's a former KGB, former former Russian Secret Services spy.
He defects.
He goes to Great Britain in 2001, becomes a citizen of Great Britain last year.
He is investigating the Putin government, the Putin administration for the murders of journalists and other dissidents.
And all of a sudden he ends up in the hospital after eating at this place and visiting a couple of sites, a hotel in Mayfair and other places in London on a particular November 1st or November 3rd, ends up in the hospital for about three weeks.
It wasn't until two or three days before he died that they found out what had poisoned it.
They knew it'd been poisoned, they couldn't figure out what it was.
They thought it was thallium at first.
They finally did a urine test and they found this uh this isotope polonium-210, which is only the substance used to trigger nuclear warheads.
And it was, they theorize sprayed on his food at the sushi bar in the form of a fine mist, and he ingested it, and that was it.
Now, unless you digest it or ingest it, it's harmless.
But did it get sprayed anywhere else?
There's a there's a there's a control panic in the UK over this now over whoever sprayed this stuff, what else did they hit in the restaurant, if anything.
They're really watching the guy's family because you can pass on the poison in the form of uh uh saliva, other bodily foods, kissing, sweat.
And this is if family comes in the hospital or give him a kiss if he was sweating or if there was an exchange of oral fluids, uh then uh they may be infected too.
What was incredible about this is that doesn't take much of this stuff.
I mean, this is a radioactive poison, and it doesn't take much of this stuff to wipe you out instantly.
Yet there was the dosage of this stuff was just right that it it it uh it didn't show any effects for a couple three days or maybe a week, and then took a little longer than that to cause death.
That gives the assassins plenty of time to split the scene and get out of Dodge before anybody knows what's really happened.
Now, the reason this is uh a little scary to me is that this Putin guy is former KGB, and I think the Soviet Union is coming back.
I think I think the Russian government today is starting to reconstitute itself.
They're starting to eliminate democratic reforms that were made under Boris Yeltsin.
Oh, and I'm sorry, Mikhail Gorbachev, the savior.
All that's starting to be swept away.
Do you remember the uh the Chechens, uh group of Chechens stormed the opera house in Moscow, took a bunch of people uh uh why are you laughing in there?
What in the world is funny?
Here I'm talking about a deadly substance.
Who who knows how the let me just finish this and you tell me why you're laughing.
So they had this opera house, they had all these Chechens in there, and Putin says you got ten minutes to get out of there, you're dead, and the Chechnians said leaving.
So they gassed the people inside.
And you know what they did?
They used an opiate that had never been produced in gaseous form before.
Uh fentanyl is a patch that they put on people who have severe pain, it's time release.
Uh, you don't have to take pills for it, but it is powerful.
The way opiates kill you, the overdose, overdose of opiates, you stop breathing, it suppresses the respiratory system.
You die happy, but you die.
Now, it was interesting because nobody'd ever made this stuff into a gaseous weapon until Putin revealed that he had done it.
You could do it on a battlefield, you can do it in a number of different places.
Now they've now they're they're they're making this polonium 210 stuff into a spray mist.
Oh, come on, Russia, it's not much ado about nothing.
It's just one spy wiping out another spy.
It's Russians wiping out a spy.
So you couple all this now.
Now you got Putin uh sending air defense systems to Iran who's gonna bail us out of Iraq, threatening Israel.
You've got Putin sending uh uh missiles and rockets and warheads, uh, and helping Iran with its nuclear program, and all of this combined, then you've got the Baker Report, the uh Iraq Study Group report, and Chuck Hagel, and a bunch of courageous, brave American Democrats and Republicans say, we gotta honorably pull out of there.
And we gotta get out of there.
We gotta turn this place over to Iran and Syria and and let them show us the way out.
They can quell the violence, but we have to get out.
Uh and the, you know, this this is a very dangerous world.
The United States, a great nation at risk in a uh in a dangerous world.
And I don't care.
Some some people are are speculating that the spy actually killed himself.
There's a there's a group of uh law enforcement officials in the UK who are positing that.
I don't care if if that still, if the substance exists, they've um they've made it usable in this way.
Uh folks, uh it wouldn't take much to get this into the country uh inside a briefcase, suitcase, luggage, what have you.
Uh you don't need to hijack airplanes, you don't need to do that.
And I people are looking at this as just an isolated incident in the UK and thinking that, well, you know, this is just the KGB going after a defector and trying to send a message to other KGB people that you better you better tow the line.
But when you couple, look at Russia getting in bed with uh with Iran, getting in bed with uh Hugo Chavez, uh, and what are we doing?
Hey, we can't get out of Iraq!
We gotta get out of a rug.
Where's the Baker report to show us the way?
We have to get out of Iraq.
Uh a number of things that that happened get uh literally no response from us uh in in any way, shape, manner, or form.
And uh you have to wonder is you know if is the reason because uh our brave and courageous elected officials are listening to an apathetic population of Americans who just don't care, who don't want to face any of this kind of threat or even possibility of uh of threat or evil that's out there, but I think you have reason to be worried about some of this stuff.
Quick time out, we'll be back.
Now tell me why you are laughing.
Why why are you smiling?
Oh, you're gonna tell me during the break, oh, it's not suitable for broadcast.
Uh-huh.
Well, wait, well, way to get me talking about it and tease the audience.
You know, they hate this.
They hate when I talk to you and they don't know what you're saying back, and now they're really gonna get mad.
I mean, the emails, would you stop talking to snerdily and start and then talk to us?
I am talking to you, ladies and gentlemen, snurly interrupts only on brief occasions, and it never causes me to lose my place.
Back in a second.
Fighting fatigue and uh shh a little bit of boredom.
The Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, I don't know why you wouldn't tell me this when I asked you what it was.
Snurley was simply reminding me that when uh Putin was first Elected president or named president or however he got there.
The world was all a Twitter.
Oh he's so urban.
And he's so sophisticated, and he brings a new face to the Russian bear.
I said, is a former KGB agent, he's trouble.
He's a communist, former KGB, he's trouble.
And once again, I, ladies and gentlemen, knew what I was talking about.
I know communists, I know liberals, I know these people.
And they do not reform.
They don't reform.
These guys have just been laying in wait, waiting for a chance, take their country back.
And slowly but surely they're getting it done, and they're doing it by wiping out some of the people that are trying to stop them from coalescing their power.
Uh, and they're helping their coming up with these worldwide alliances with uh troublemakers like Iran.
It's it's just like the old days.
Just look, and you got Daniel Ortega back in power down in Nicaragua.
Old Sandinistas are back.
Meanwhile, meanwhile, we are focused on Michael Richards in this country, and we're gonna get this country straightened out.
Meanwhile, we're focused on uh all kinds of really pointless, worthless, stupid, silly social stuff.
While all this stuff is percolating out there.
Uh Dennis in Pueblo, Colorado, home of the government pamphlet.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks, Russia.
It's uh honor to talk to you this morning.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, uh your earlier comment this morning about uh finishing the job in Iraq.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, I I remember uh before we went in there, our mission was to go in and get rid of weapons of mass destruction.
Is that correct?
Oh part of it.
What was the other part?
We went in there to get rid of Saddam.
Okay, we went in there, we went in there to liberate uh millions and millions of oppressed Muslims.
Look at that.
I don't remember that as part of the.
And we went in there, we went in there on the basis of intelligence reports there were weapons of mass destruction, plus Saddam.
Let's not refight.
Yeah, that's why we went there.
Yeah, I you know I I I'm not I'm not fighting that.
I don't remember the the liberation of the Iraqis as our our main objective.
I I could give a hoot about whether they're killing each other.
I don't want them to kill my kid.
Um I I view this as mission creep.
Uh well, look, the president the president built this stuff up uh uh for a year and a half, two years talking about this, speech after speech after speech, and he did often reference uh the uh the horrors committed against the population of Iraq by Saddam Hussein.
He talked about the rape rooms and the torture rooms and so forth and uh the mass murders.
Uh it was uh, you know, this really you can't you can't rewind life like a TiVo, but I look back on it.
If we'd had just gone in there after the Gulf War, and we had 500,000 troops over there.
Do you people remember this?
We had 500,000 troops just to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait.
And it took what?
Three days.
And then the uh the highway to hell, the road to Baghdad was paved with so much uh death and mayhem, and the pictures on our nightly newscasts were upsetting, and so we stopped.
If we'd have taken, if we gotten rid of uh Saddam back then, but I can't plea the if game.
I know where you're going with this.
You heard me say early today, nobody's talking about winning it, and you want to know what winning it is.
At this stage of the game, I'm gonna be accused of playing 2020 hindsight, but uh I I it's not too late to change this.
Our objective right now is establishing and building uh a government and a democracy.
And that's all fine and dandy, and it's all well and good.
But to me, the focus needs to be on achieving a military victory, whatever it takes.
If that means wiping out these leaders of the of the the resistance of the insurgents, the terrorists, wherever they are.
The other day there was a story about some guy in Iraq who was who was disguised as a woman nursing a baby who was launching attacks against our troops.
Wipe them out.
This is war.
If you have to blow up some buildings, blow them up.
If you have to level some infrastructure, do it.
Of course, we've really built the country up in a marvelous way, and nobody is uh reporting that very much.
But anyway, that's that's military victory as it's always been defined.
Gotta go because the time constraints be right back, folks.
Stay with us.
Okay, the uh first hours of the can.
We'll talk about the Democrats and what they're gonna do.
I didn't want to leave the program with it because frankly I'm tired of talking about the Democrats, but I have a duty to do, and we'll do it when we get back.
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