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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.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and lovers of the Christmas season.
It's officially underway now here on the EIB network and the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to be with you, my friends.
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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 now talking about how to get out.
And these leaks obviously are having their intended purpose.
The intended purpose is to set the stage for when the real report comes out.
The real report is probably going to exactly or equal what the leaks have been.
And that is, we got to get out of there and we got to let Syria and Iran go ahead and assume control over this and get their assistance with all this.
Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, once again, now saying that the United States, Israel, and the UK are doomed, that it's only a matter of time.
Cesar Chavez says he's going to take us down.
And nobody seems to notice or care.
What?
Hugo, did I say Caesar?
It was a long weekend.
And Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
And so, you know, it's amazing.
Left here on 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 going to do and how they're going to be liberal and not liberal and how they're going to investigate and how they're not going to investigate.
The Pope is in Turkey.
We have bombing threats, bomb attacks on Walmart now, and there's probably an explanation for this.
But everybody's all hepped up now about the situation in Iraq with the Baker report.
Here's a little blurb on it 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 Nouri al-Maliki government, Maliki government, is waning.
You know, I would love if the Baker reports just put Saddam Hussein back in charge.
Just, I know there's a columnist in the LA Times, the guy who wrote the Why I Hate Bush column.
His name is Jonathan Shay.
Do it.
He says, do it.
You know, yeah, he murders, mass murders people, and yeah, but the guy kept order.
The guy knew how to kept order, maybe keep order.
Maybe the thing we should just.
It's getting so absurd that I wouldn't be surprised if somebody besides a columnist makes that suggestion.
The New York Times reported 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 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 Sandra Dale Conner, 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 a lot of sense a lot of times.
But I mean, Vernon Jordan's a rainmaker.
Sandra Day O'Connor was a justice who doesn't think the judiciary should be criticized.
You know, the best and the brightest in these blue ribbon commissions, they get appointed and it's, you know, 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 consist of many things which many say are impossible.
Stop the politics, have both parties 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 their announcement.
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 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 going to send our troops and our military anywhere where our interests are at stake because it's not fair.
And they don't like the military being used.
All of this is a setup.
This whole policy on Iraq 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 the danger that lurks behind all of this.
The kind of political leaders we're breeding, who's going to have the guts to do it if it's necessary to do anyway, given what no doubt will happen to him, as has happened to George W. Bush.
Let's see now.
Oh, by the way, anonymous officials who've seen the report say that does not specify any timetables for the 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.
Carter thinks that Bush will take their advice as much as he possibly can.
Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, potential presidential contender, don't make me laugh, 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 Hegel.
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.
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, ladies and gentlemen, Michael Richards continues his nationwide apology tour.
Cindy Adams in the New York Post, I think, had the best perspective on this.
Everybody talking about how he's damaged his career?
She said, no, he didn't have a career.
And that's the whole point.
You don't go to the laugh factory 10 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.
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, the race business is all over this, as is, what's his face, Michael Richards himself.
We have some interesting audio soundbites from the Reverend Dakth on this, as well as your telephone calls.
So a quick timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome back from your Thanksgiving holiday.
We'll continue here in just a second.
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As long as we're talking about the Middle East, this is interesting from King Abdullah II of Georgia, Jordan.
He was on with George Stephanopoulos yesterday on 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 King Abdullah II of Jordan if this is the case.
George, the difficulty that we're tackling with here is we're juggling with the strong potential of three civil wars in the region, whether it's the Palestinians, of Lebanon, or of Iraq.
And I hope that my discussions at least with the president will be to provide whatever we can do for the Iraqi people.
But at the same time, we do want to concentrate ourselves on the core issues, which we believe are the Palestinians and the Palestinian peace process, because that is a must today, as well as the tremendous concern we've had over the past several days 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 the crumbs crumble and the cookie crumble where, because I'm fed up with this.
The Palestinian situation.
For 50 years, we've had the Palestinian situation, and it's not going to be solved until a Limbaugh 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 crumbling because Syria keeps killing the popular leaders there.
Meanwhile, the Hezbollah keep expanding their influence in Lebanon.
But what the hell?
We're going to bring Syria and Iran in to fix Iraq.
Why not let them just fix the whole region?
If we're hitting a civil war, I mean, everybody comes to us and says, you got to fix this and you got to fix that.
So we go and try to fix it.
And then our own people, Democrats and 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.
George, civil war over there, sooner.
They've got to do something.
Palestinians, it's a must.
It's a must.
We must fix it right now.
It's a tankless war.
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 going to have to let it take place.
You can spend all the time you want with diplomacy, and you can spend all the time you want massaging these things with diplomatic maneuvers.
You're just delaying the inevitable.
Editory, let's move on now to the Reverend Jackson and Michael Richards.
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 Reverend Jackson was talking to the 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.
Stop the tape.
Stop.
It's like Michael Vick yesterday.
Nut moons.
He 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 ain't who I am.
It was who you are.
And now here's Michael.
No, I'm not a racist.
No, of course not.
Let's cue this up to the top, Mike.
Of course not.
I'm not a racist.
Hell, cut who.
I know Michael Vick was frustrated.
I don't care that he did it.
Does it offend me?
Nothing offends me anymore.
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.
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.
Now, here's this montage again.
I'll try to let this go without interrupting.
And once again, you're listening to the Reverend Jackson and 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 lynching scene.
I mean, have you been here before?
No, It's a 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 say I am deeply sorry for this.
I don't doubt that.
I don't doubt that he's very, very sorry that it happened.
And, well, the two guys in the crowd, Mr. Sturdley, they claim they were hurt.
They were hurt to the tune of $10 million, and they got Gloria Allred on the case.
I think it's 10 million.
They want some money.
And they're trying to get some money now as a pledge not to go for a full-fledged lawsuit.
So they got Gloria Allred on their craze.
But the Reverend Jackson, you consider yourself a racist.
No, no, 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 in where, in there.
Have you ever been here before?
The Reverend Jackson asked, meaning said these words.
No, And then during CNN's newsroom yesterday, the correspondent Carol Costello had on the Reverend Jackson, 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?
Maybe more so than his appearance on Letterman.
Well, he is genuinely sick by his own admission.
He is engaged in this racist tirade.
And he may not think it to be racist, but clearly it is that.
So he does need to get well.
But then there are broader ramifications of what he said.
And one has to do with we put all this focus on this sick comedian and ignore the impact of Trent Lott returned to Congress with his baggage.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
So we're making a big mistake to focus on this sick comedian when what we ought to be noticing is that Trent Lott's back in the leadership of the Senate on the Republican side, all because of his strong Thurman concept.
That's where we've really got to.
Jesse doesn't care about this comedian because this comedian has no political tie to anything that Jesse can exploit.
And I, you know, I think it's quite telling here that the Reverend Jackson is really not even interested in race in this particular case because he thinks he has a bigger target, which is Trent Lott on the Republican side.
Same program.
Next question.
I think Michael Richards said the N-word seven times in two minutes and 15 seconds.
He told you on the radio shows the first time he ever used the N-word directed 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 has engaged in this tirade.
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 the Republican Party uses a race bait to, in fact, diminish his chance of winning that Senate seat.
It's 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 Swan or Michael Steele and what was done, especially to Steele, by Schumer's committee in violating his privacy by getting his credit report.
And, of course, there weren't, if Michael Steele loses, it's not because its race has anything to do with it.
No, no, no, no.
He can't say that in a blue state because Democrats, of course, are not racists.
And then finally, Costello says, well, you heard Michael Richards say that he hopes to open a dialogue to fix those kinds of sentiments in the African-American community.
I hope they will.
There's not one black hosted show on CNN, ABC, CBS, in this show between 5 and 12.
All day, all night, all white.
Well, I've seen the hall 15 years ago, the Bill Cosby show.
Max Robinson, ABC News Network anchor 20 years ago, that seemed to be a receding away from inclusion.
So I hope he's opened up a wound and then that we found a lot of glass.
He must take the glass out to really get healing.
Jesse forgets he also had a show on CNN.
Both sides now, I think it was called.
We chuckle, call it one side always.
But that's probably that he just wants his show back.
Tired of being on radio on Sunday morning.
Put me on sometime.
Notice he doesn't mention Oprah or anything along those lines.
Anyway, quick time out here, folks.
Back.
Get to some of your phone calls when we come back.
By the way, I seem to remember that in his past, the Reverend Jackson has had insulting terminology when describing, is used insulting terminology, describing New York, so it's Hymy Town and so forth.
And that clearly was a sickness and he needed to get well.
And I wonder where he went to get well.
What psychiatrist or psychologist, the Reverend Zach, consulted?
Perhaps you mean before the first time he said it?
Do I think the Reverend Jackson might have used the term Jaime Town before he used Hymytown?
Meaning in a public way.
Had he ever uttered it when in, say, talking to Al Sharpton or any other of his comrades out there?
Well, he might have, I think the odds are that he probably has uttered the word Hymie Town many more times than we have heard him do it, which was 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.
And if he's a man of compassion, he can suggest whoever he saw also see Michael Richards, who is clearly, 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, you're next, sir.
Up first today on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Mega Ditto's Rush.
How are you?
Fine, sir.
Thanks.
Happy holidays.
Ditto.
Hey, hey, just wanted to say, you know, I don't get it.
I'm shocked and amazed that there isn't more outcry against this policy or desire to have Iran and Syria involved.
It's like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
And secondly, to me, it's just a slap on the face to all those soldiers that have given their lives for this endeavor.
What is it you don't understand?
I don't understand why people aren't more outraged at the thought of even involving these terrorist states in coming in and running Iraq.
I mean, let me try to explain it to you.
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 because I don't want to see it anymore.
To them, it's not about the country being threatened.
It is not about 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 so we've got a story out there.
No, 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're going to 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 countries.
It honestly makes me afraid.
Be very afraid, sir.
You know, I know people that died in the world trade, and I really don't.
I love my country and I love all my fellow Americans.
And for another tragic thing like that to happen again, I feel it's coming in the direction that we're going.
Yeah, I think you're right.
It's going to 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's tranquility.
There's peace for the most part.
I mean, everybody has their problems, but there's economic opportunity, economic performance.
Why do we want to jeopardize all that with a war on terror when there hadn't been another attack here?
So plus, with the political divisions on this, the whole subject has become a sort of a negative for people.
They don't even want to hear about it, much less support it.
I'll tell you, you know, you're talking about being scared.
I was following the news over the weekend of this Russian spy, Lit Vedinko, or whatever.
I don't have his name right in front of me.
This guy goes into a sushi rep at a restaurant in London called Itsu.
He's a former KGB, 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, like it was 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 him.
They knew he'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 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 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 saliva, other bodily foods, kissing, sweat.
And this is if family comes in the hospital, give him a kiss.
If he was sweating or if there was an exchange of oral fluids, then they may be infected too.
What was incredible about this is that it 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 the dosage of this stuff was just right that 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 a little scary to me is that this Putin guy is former KGB, and I think the Soviet Union is coming back.
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.
You remember the Chechens, a group of Chechens stormed the opera house in Moscow, took a bunch of people.
Why are you laughing in there?
What in the world is funny here?
I'm talking about a deadly substance.
Who knows how, 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've got 10 minutes to get out of there, you're dead.
And the Chechens said, we're not 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.
Fentanyl is a patch that they put on people who have severe pain.
It's time release.
You don't have to take pills for it, but it is powerful.
The way opiates kill you, the overdose of opiates, you stop breathing.
It suppresses the respiratory system.
You die happy, but you die.
Now, it was interesting because nobody had 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're making this polonium-210 stuff into a spray mist.
Oh, come on, Russia.
It's not much to do about nothing.
It's just one spy wiping out another spy.
It's Russians wiping out a spy.
So you couple all this.
Now you've got Putin sending air defense systems to Iran, who's going to bail us out of Iraq, threatening Israel.
You've got Putin sending missiles and rockets and warheads and helping Iran with its nuclear program.
And all of this combined, then you've got the Baker report, the Iraq Study Group report, and Chuck Hagel and a bunch of courageous, brave American Democrats and Republicans saying, we've got to honorably pull out of there.
And we've got to get out of there.
We've got to turn this place over to Iran and Syria and let them show us the way out.
They can quell the violence, but we have to get out.
And this is a very dangerous world.
The United States, a great nation at risk in a dangerous world.
And I don't care.
Some people are speculating that the spy actually killed himself.
There's a group of law enforcement officials in the UK who are positing that.
I don't care if that still, if the substance exists, they've made it usable in this way.
Folks, it wouldn't take much to get this into the country inside a briefcase, suitcase, luggage, what have you.
You don't need to hijack airplanes.
You don't need to do that.
And 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.
You better toe the line.
But when you couple, look at Russia getting in bed with Iran, getting in bed with Hugo Chavez, and what are we doing?
We got to get out of Iraq.
We got to get out of Iraq.
Where's the Baker report?
They show us the way.
We have to get out of Iraq.
A number of things that happen get literally no response from us in any way, shape, manner, or form.
And you have to wonder, is the reason because 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 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 are you smiling?
Oh, you're going to tell me during the break.
Oh, it's not suitable for broadcast.
Uh-huh.
Well, a 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 going to get mad.
I'm going to emails.
Would you stop talking to Snerdley and then talk to us?
I am talking to you, ladies and gentlemen.
Snerdly interrupts only on brief occasions and it never causes me to lose my place.
Back in a second.
Fighting fatigue and a little bit of boredom.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I don't know why you wouldn't tell me this when I asked you what it was.
Snerdley was simply reminding me that when Putin was first elected president or named president or whatever, 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, he's 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 to 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.
And they're helping.
They're coming up with these worldwide alliances with troublemakers like Iran.
This is like the old days.
Just look, and they got Danielle 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 going to get this country straightened out.
Meanwhile, we're focused on all kinds of really pointless, worthless, stupid, silly social stuff.
While all this stuff is percolating out there, Dennis in Pueblo, Colorado, home of the government pamphlet.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks, Brush.
It's an honor to talk to you this morning.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, going back to your earlier comments this morning about finishing the job in Iraq.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, I remember before we went in there, our mission was to go in and get rid of weapons of mass destruction.
Is that correct?
That was part of it.
What was the other part?
We went in there to get rid of Saddam.
We went in there to liberate millions and millions of oppressed Muslims.
Look at that.
I remember that as part of that.
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.
I'm not fighting that.
I don't remember the liberation of the Iraqis as our main objective.
I could give a hoot about whether they're killing each other.
I don't want them to kill my kid.
I view this as mission creep.
Well, the president built this stuff up for a year and a half, two years, talking about this, speech after speech after speech.
And he did often reference 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 the mass murders.
It was, you know, this really, 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 highway to hell, the road to Baghdad, was paved with so much death and mayhem.
And the pictures on our nightly newscasts were upsetting.
And so we stopped.
If we'd have taken, if we'd gotten rid of Saddam back then, but I can't play 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 going to be accused of playing 2020 hindsight, but it's not too late to change this.
Our objective right now is establishing and building 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 resistance and the insurgents, the terrorists, wherever they are.
The other day, there was a story about some guy in Iraq 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 reporting that very much.
But anyway, that's military victory as it's always been defined.
Got to go because of time constraints.
Be right back, folks.
Stay with us.
Okay, the first hours of the canon.
We'll talk about the Democrats and what they're going to do.
I didn't want to lead 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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