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Dec. 4, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 4, 2006, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
How was your weekend, ladies and gentlemen?
I trust it was fine.
Mine was peachy.
But I've been eagerly awaiting since yesterday to get back at the golden EIB microphone.
And as usual, what I want, I get.
My wishes are usually granted.
And so are yours since I'm here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network at 800-282-2882.
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The email address rush at EIBNet.com.
John Bolton's gone.
John Golton has resigned.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to do this there's something about this here that you need to know.
There were ways of keeping Bolton and the United Nations, even though he might not have won Senate confirmation.
There's a real simple way to do it.
You simply, you know, he re recess appointment expires.
By the way, thanks to Lincoln Chafee on this and a number of other recalcitant Republicans who made this possible.
The man is great.
John Bolton is a brilliant man.
I I'm I um I met him in September, had dinner with him at a friend's house.
Uh it's one of us, folks.
He's just a tough guy and a great guy, and did a tremendous job up there, but I guess he's just had it.
Um the um the the way that he could have stayed, and I think this was an option, he just decided not to avail himself of it.
He just wants out of there for who knows whatever reasons, they're um they're personal, uh I'm sure professional personal, but he could have just been sent back to the UN under another title, uh, one that did not require any kind of Senate confirmation.
He could have stayed there, could have continued to work there, uh, but not as the UN ambassador per se by title.
Um there were many, many ways around this uh if the president wanted to keep him there.
President vowed to fight for him, Bolton said, nah, I'm done.
Now, Time Magazine, I'm Time Magazine reporter, I forget the name, is uh is telling us that there's an interesting guy on the short list of names to replace John Bolton, and that name is George Mitchell.
Uh that that's intriguing.
I don't know what kind of truth there is to this, and it could be a leak.
I mean, the president could be leaking this to show how he's reaching out.
Uh, the uh it could be true.
George Mitchell, what's he done?
He's been the uh Senate majority leader for the Democrats back in the uh in the eighties and the early 90s, and trust me when I tell you, as I have before, he was the most partisan Democrat in Washington when he ran the Senate.
He was never portrayed that way because he's one of the soft-spoken, barely audible kind of guys in the uh in the vein of the puffster.
Uh Tom Dashall.
But Dashell's partisanship nevertheless came through.
Mitchell's was a quiet partisanship.
He executed it behind the scenes, and something interesting, Bush's father, uh President Bush 41, did not like George Mitchell.
He liked Foley.
I could never understand it.
He liked Tom Foley, the former uh Speaker of the House, but he didn't like George Mitchell at all.
So I saw Mitchell's name on the short list.
It's a woo.
I mean, there's all kinds of possibilities here.
Couldn't it it might not be true?
Could be on the list but not have a chance.
Could make it, who knows?
If it we'll wait to see if it is George Mitchell.
He's running Disney right now.
Uh he's conducting the steroid probe into baseball.
He's running these a board chairman at Disney.
Uh big time former Democrat, Big Lib.
Now uh being suggested, at least leaked as names on the short list for uh ambassador to the United Nations uh from the United States.
Uh interesting point.
At any rate, uh it's it's it's sad to lose somebody like uh like John Bolton.
Uh and you know, for a lot a lot of people um talked to over the weekend emails this morning, saw this, and what what what is President Bush doing?
Um, the the the we got a story about immigration here about how it's on a front burner all of a sudden in the House.
Uh and it will uh the this story since the Washington Times says that we're not just talking amnesty, we're talking blanket citizenship For illegals currently in the country.
We'll have details on this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today.
By the way, in a shocking bit of news, speaking of Tom Dashell, the puffster, he has announced that he's pulling out of the presidential sweepstakes.
Now, we couldn't believe it when he announced he was considering it.
But he's decided to pull out because standing next to Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, or even Evan Bye, or even Al Gore, or even John Kerry, you wouldn't see Puff Dashel.
You just wouldn't see him.
The idea that he uh uh was even dreaming about this is an interesting psychological discussion.
But the puffster has uh has pulled out, and the aura around Barack Obama just continues to grow.
Supposedly Hillary.
Everybody wondering where she was the last two weeks.
She was spotted having lunch in a New York restaurant last week with uh a couple of uh heavy hitters in the Democratic Party.
Supposedly she's stepping up, speeding up her decision making whether or not to go for it because of the rising uh uh energy and fascination with Barack Hussein Obama.
And by the way, that is his middle name.
And you know, there's a controversy that is now sprung up.
The Democrats do not like to be called the Democrat Party.
Uh Barack Obama after 9-11 says, Oh no, there go my political fortunes.
My name sounds too much like Osama.
Now somebody's found out his middle name, and they're reporting it as uh Barack Hussein Obama.
Do you know that Hillary has three names?
Actually, four.
Hillary Diane.
No, it's it's three names.
Hillary Diane Rodham.
It's Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton.
Not that it matters, people if they don't use their middle names.
My name is uh middle name is Hudson, for example.
Uh, but the uh the the idea that his middle name is Hussein uh makes me think that a lot of people are going to continue to use that as we ratchet up the election season for the presidential race in 2008.
Interesting couple of names he has.
Hussein Obama.
Uh, and his quest for president of the United States.
Do you see where Tiger Woods is going to open his first golf course?
Have you heard that Brian, do you know where you haven't?
Mr. Snerdley, have you seen where Tiger Tiger Woods is going to.
He has chosen Dubai as his first location for first golf course project.
Tiger Woods said yesterday he will develop his first golf course in Dubai, an oil-rich city that runs a lot of ports around the world.
It also hosts two European tour events, seen a recent rise in golf course construction.
The Tiger Woods Dubai will feature a 77-yard.
That's a behemoth, par 72 course, a 60,000 square foot clubhouse, a golf academy, 320 exclusive villas, and a boutique hotel with 80 suites.
Tiger said, I look at this project not only as an opportunity, but also as a great responsibility.
Now, there are a lot of golf courses already over there in Dubai, eight of them.
One of them is the Emirates Golf Club that hosts the Dubai Desert Classic that Woods goes to every year.
He's paid two million in an appearance fee to go over there.
And he's won the tournament.
He won it earlier this year to playoff with Ernie Els.
He lost in Dubai five years ago to playoff to Thomas Bjorn.
Wood said, I have been amazed by the progress of Dubai.
From the time I first came here in 2000, I wanted to be a part of this amazing vision.
He said he chose Dubai for his first golf course because he was excited about the challenge of transforming a desert terrain into a world-class golf course.
The development scheduled to be finished in late 2009 at Dubai land.
Dubai land, the region's largest tourism and leisure project.
Saeed Al-Muntafiq, the CEO of Tatweir said that he is confident that Wood's Dubai golf course will be a success.
We never looked at anyone beyond Tiger for this project because we believe in only working with the very best.
So the very best that American golf Has to offer, opens his first course in a country whose uh port operations the American people refuse to allow for fear of connections to the war on terror.
Quick timeout.
Women having a tough, tough time coming home from Iraq.
Women in combat.
You have this story right here.
It's an AP story.
Women face emotional wounds of war.
Predicted this 14, 15, 16 years ago, whenever the whole women in combat issue came up, and even when I predicted it, as a man of solutions, not merely a critic, I proposed a way that women in combat could work.
My idea was not accepted.
I'll review it for you.
But we don't see these stories much about men uh male soldiers coming home from combat.
It's a long one.
We'll share the excerpts with it uh with you and my suggestion from 1415, whatever 16 years ago, right after this.
Hi, welcome back, folks.
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Well, another leak.
Another classified leak of a Rumsfeld memo.
This one uh I'm I thought we discussed last week.
I think this thing uh was written to be leaked.
Uh but if it wasn't, there is a well, you know what's interesting, the Washington Post, in reporting on this leak, which occurred in the New York Times, the Washington Post has done a 180.
Now Rumsfeld has gone from GOAT and idiot and incompetent to masterful advisor.
They look at his memo of suggestions, say, well, and this thing was written, I guess, the day before the election.
Uh and it's it's it's quite interesting.
It it uh it actually shows the thing about it that I found fascinating is that Rumsfeld remains one of the few people actually talking about how to win this.
I can't tell you how frustrating it's getting.
Uh the drive-by media is invested in our defeat so that they can demonstrate to themselves their power to influence worldwide and national events.
And that's exactly what's going on.
We got the Gates confirmation hearings tomorrow.
Start tomorrow.
Robert Gates to head up the Pentagon to be uh replacement for Rumsfeld and uh Democrats.
It'll be interesting to watch.
I don't know how hard it'll go after Gates' past, instead focusing on uh what we have to do to lose uh and get out in uh in Iraq.
The president has already said in anticipation of the release of the uh the Baker document, the Iraq Study Group, what's that coming on Wednesday?
Um the White House is putting it out there.
We president's totally opposed to any kind of phased withdrawal.
No reason the president has to accept whatever is in this document.
Uh we're gonna wait until it actually comes out before commenting on it.
There's so many leaks, it's impossible to know what's true and what isn't, so we'll just be patient and uh and we'll we'll just we'll just wait.
Andy McCarthy, National Review Online, a great thought regarding the Rumsfeld memo.
He says, if high officials in wartime, no less, figure that they better not give their best, and their most candid advice on sensitive publicly charged issues, because opposing policy factions are going to leak each other's memos to the press, the initiative and the creativity of the smart people we want in government is stifled, and the leaks will be used to portray an administration as disintegrating into rancorous chaos, which uh avalanche feeds on itself.
It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
There is no question that there's a shadow government somewhere, and it's got the cooperation of the drive-by media defeating the United States in the war in Iraq, the war on terror is clearly at the top of the agenda.
Yesterday on Meet the Press, Stephen Hadley was on with Tim Russert, and Russard just kept badgering him.
When are you guys going to admit it was a mistake to in to invade?
When are you going to admit it?
Uh it's an obsession that the uh that the drive-by media now has, and they're not going to give up on it until they can make it happen.
Uh, and I it it's it's it just despite all the stories coming out from drive-by media buddies.
The New York Times has run two of them.
Pulling out now, why that would be that would be a flat out mistake.
Um I've got a story here from newsbusters, Jerry Kelly, the professional golfer.
He's in Wisconsin.
Uh Some other PGA tour members are on a USO tour of Iraq.
They went over there and they talked to the soldiers and Jerry Kelly, and I, you know, I've I've never met Jerry Kelly, but I know a lot of guys in the PGA tour.
Uh and they're entrepreneurs, they're they're um uh they're individualists.
It's the nature of their business.
But Jerry Kelly said after talking to the troops, seeing what they do, uh seeing the reaction of Iraqi citizens to this.
I I can't believe what a total misrepresentation effect the mainstream media has been the past two years reporting on Iraq.
And even Jerry Kelly started to talk.
Well, if we get out of there, it is gonna be the biggest mistake in the world.
We're making progress.
Now, people are gonna say, well, he was only shown the good things.
Fine.
If he was shown the good things, then the drive-by media has seen them as well, and they choose to ignore them.
Uh there it it folks, it frosts me.
It just frosts me that well, at the same time people are demanding we send troops into Darfur and other places around the world, like Bosnia, where we have no stated national interest, no goal.
We had 3,000 Americans murdered in 9-11.
He says, though it never happened.
Like we're the problem.
We caused it.
And we have got to get out of there, and we've got to do it in a way that's humiliating.
That seems to be the push.
Humiliated defeat.
And I think that that's uh that's w uh exactly what's on the agenda, and I think one of the reasons for it is to make sure to do everything they can, the left in the world, the left in this country to see to it that whoever is in charge next time something like this comes up, the deployment of U.S. forces abroad in defense of U.S. vital interests will not be taken.
I I can't conclude anything else.
This this goes beyond Bush hatred.
And Lord knows there's plenty of that.
But there's something institutional about this, too.
That is the hatred by many people in this country for this country, the hatred, or should say, of this country, the hatred by many people in this country of the U.S. military and the hell with the consequences of their actions.
They're the smart people, they're the elitists, and it's uh it's a frustrating thing to see, and this cacophony of uh a drumbeat of continued defeat and humiliation increases each and every day.
Mertha is I'm gonna have two hearings a day on this on this this this disaster, I'm gonna have two hearings a day.
I told you Democrats are not going to be able to uh to help themselves.
Now we'll find out just how many Americans actually want to lose wars.
How many Americans just actually want their country humiliated?
As to the story on women in the military, headline, women face emotional wounds of war, the nightmares didn't start.
Until months after Alicia Flores returned home.
The images were stark and disturbing.
In one dream, a dying Iraqi man desperately grabbed her arm.
In another, she was lost in a blinding sandstorm.
I'm fine with what I did over there, she says.
In my eyes, I did a good thing.
It really doesn't bother me.
The only thing that bothers me is I just want to sleep more.
Floria says she's not alarmed by her diagnosis of post-traumatic stress.
She's getting help for her sleeping problems.
Wasn't about the war, but the adjustment to the civilian world that she found difficult.
Anxiety, along with depression, irritability, and feelings of isolation are common symptoms with post-traumatic stress, but some mental health experts believe there are distinct pressures for women veterans.
Some come from military service itself, where some women feel they need to prove themselves, while others come from the transition from vigilant soldier to caring wife or mother.
Women are pulled in different directions, says Dara Westrup, lead psychologist veterans' affairs women's trauma recovery program in Menlo Park, California.
They want to be a good partner.
They want to be a good mother.
They want to be a good soldier.
Returning home can be especially stressful for women who may find themselves running a household.
Taking care of the children, going to work and dealing with insomnia, or other war-related problems, says Diane Sherid, women veterans program manager at the Heinz VA Hospital in Chicago.
They get frustrated with themselves not being able to manage like they did before.
They have to run the kids to school.
They have to take them to different functions.
Can you imagine what that's like with just two or three hours sleep?
You're wondering, am I gonna leave or be forced to live Like this forever.
The story goes on and on.
I was trying to get back into being a wife and mother, said Darcy Gruel, a VA nurse in Milwaukee, spent nearly a year at the 452nd Combat Support Hospital in Afghanistan.
But it was wow, they survived without me.
I really didn't know where my place was.
I had to be really careful when I came back home.
I didn't want my husband to think I was not appreciative of what he did.
I didn't want to come back and say it's all going to be my way.
Emotional trauma and distress among returning female GIs, ladies and gentlemen, much more pronounced, according to this story than post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms of male soldiers returning.
Now, was this necessary?
The whole argument about women in combat.
People said that there are many reasons why this should not happen.
I proposed a solution, a compromise.
And I will remind you of that right after this timeout.
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All right, what is the purpose?
What is the purpose of the military?
The purpose of the military is to kill people and to break things.
It is not a social experimentation laboratory.
And yet that's what it has been turned into, not just by the Clinton administration, but there are plenty of leftist influences in the Pentagon.
You can see the offshoot of this when you look at the preferred deployments of these people, Darfur, Somalia, when it was just a feed people mission, uh Bosnia and this sort of, but don't send them anywhere where their actual U.S. interests at stake.
Then along came this whole, well, we got to be fair, women in combat.
You know, women want to go to combat, they're qualified, they're capable, and they want to serve their country.
The argument began, well, you know, this is not what a civilized society does uh to its female population.
It just doesn't do that.
There were many, many arguments on this.
I realized that the women in combat issue was going to lose, uh meaning that women would be going to combat.
They would be flying jets off of aircraft carriers.
It'd be flighting flying uh combat aircraft, it'd be in foxholes and all these places.
So I wanted to come up with a way to make it actually effective given what the purpose of the military is.
And again, that is to kill people and break things.
It's bad enough that we have men coming home in body bags.
We don't need to subject women to that.
Uh the torture that they would endure.
Of course, our troops don't get tortured if everybody knows we're the only ones who torture.
Have you seen this latest photo of Jose Padilla or Dio, whatever?
He can't stand trial, ladies and gentlemen.
No, he's not suitable.
He's not fit, he's not competent to stand trial.
And they've got a picture or video of Jose Padilla being walked along in chains.
And the graphic on television is picture of torture.
With a question mark after it, picture of torture.
And so the effort continues even after the Democrats have won the midterm elections.
The effort continues to impugn, to debase the American military and to secure it and this nation's defeat in Iraq and the war on terror.
As I say, this is very frustrating.
All right, since I recognize we're going to have women in combat, there's a way to do it and make it work.
I called it the all-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion.
And this is how it would have worked.
We know that there is this dread event that occurs in the lives of many women.
PMS.
Don't deny it.
We all know that it happens.
when certain women experience PMS to the extreme, you don't want to be around them.
Now, Dawn, don't start rolling your eyes like this because you know this is true.
Every Everybody, this is if you can't admit this and you can't admit anything.
It's just this is not a sexist comment.
This is true.
Women, when suffering PMS to the extreme, uh can turn into vicious, Unpredictable, hellacious human beings who behave without any rational rhyme or reason.
Nothing can stop them from what they are intending to do.
It's just and and it upsets them too.
I mean, it's just it's one of these things.
There's med medicine for it, but if you had the all-American first cavalry Amazon battle, you want you wouldn't want to give the medicine.
What you would want, I mean, folks, I have done the stories on this program.
There have been women who have murdered on PMS, and they have been acquitted on the basis that they weren't themselves when this happened.
You know it.
I know it to be true.
We're talking in the context of women in combat.
My idea was very simple.
What we need is fifty-two Amazon divisions or battalions.
Women trained to be the bloodiest, deadliest killers possible.
That's what the military does.
Because with 52 of them, we could be guaranteed that on a moment's notice, some of them would be at that time uh suffering PMS.
And I'm telling we I will never forget when we had uh what was his name?
Grapefruit face, so what was his name?
Umel Noriega.
He was holed up down in some house in Panama, and I always thought we were playing rock music to try to get him out of there.
But can you imagine if we had had an all-American first cavalry Amazon to tell you back then, slavery led by the late Molly Yard?
She was always shouting, I am outraged by it.
Outraged.
Can you imagine Molly Yard leading a screaming battalion of Amazons and the all-American first cavalry Amazon battle while on PMS, feminist debut, anybody any it would give up right then and there to avoid what would happen next?
This was my idea for compromise.
Of course, it was rejected, and now we're f we're we're we're forced to see these sad, sad stories of the emotional duress that uh female soldiers are encountering when they come home from the battlefield.
Just another one of those examples.
Had I been listened to, uh, this probably wouldn't be the story today, nor would it be the uh case.
Charleston, West Virginia, this is uh Todd.
Todd, nice to have you on the program, sir.
So, Rush, it's an honor to speak to you.
Greetings from the Great Mountain State.
Thank you.
Listen, sir, I just wanted to ask you um a quick question and get uh get a couple of comments on it.
Um I'm I'm a political science major at West Virginia State University.
I'm currently taking a course in war peace and morality.
And uh what we're currently talking about is uh the concept of war and whether or not it's becoming obsolete in America.
Um meaning uh is the American public uh now so turned off by the thought of war that it's very unlikely we'll go to war in in the future, within uh especially within the next ten years.
Well, that's interesting.
Well, we're we're at war now.
Uh what's your professor say about that?
Uh he absolutely does not like the war now.
But uh but I mean uh uh of course I I agreed with the reasons why we went into a war uh in Iraq uh uh initially, but but um forget forget the individual war in Iraq.
This guy's advancing the notion that war is or will become an obsolete concept for the American people.
Exactly.
That's the right.
What do you think about that?
Do you agree with your professor on this?
You're not getting a grade here, so tell me the truth.
Well, well, well, what I what I I personally believe that yes, I mean, it's some to somewhat in in the uh approval ratings and the approval of wars is going downhill, um, which actually scares me because I I'm afraid that somebody will actually read into this and think that because uh the American public uh uh disagrees with the war in Iraq that uh wars are bad in general and uh and that we'll no longer go to defend uh of freedom.
Here's the thing about this, Todd, and I uh your professors engage in wishful thinking here by posing this whole concept uh and getting you people to think about it.
I think it's his way of advancing the thought.
Uh and and you are you're eighteen.
I mean, in all I'm I'm 22, sir.
Twenty-two?
Sorry.
I misread the uh the line up there on the on the call screen monitor.
Okay.
All right, twenty-two.
Well, you're you're still essentially compared to what you're gonna be twenty or thirty years from now, you are a skull full of mush.
I don't know how much history you have learned, but you don't have to know a lot to know that it was just four years ago that the people of this country couldn't wait to go somewhere to get revenge for people who they thought had taken out three thousand Americans at the Pentagon and the World Trade Center at Ditto Iraq.
That was the result of two things the actual attack and leadership.
The American people will respond to leadership.
They did when the president was leading everybody in the response to the war on terror, and the Democrats, by the way, were too chicken to not go along with it, so they signed up in record numbers as well.
It's only after it went south and went bad to Democrats, are now trying to pretend like they were lied to and skunked and wanted no part of it in the first place.
They're the ones that can't be counted on.
They're the ones that I don't think have deserved to win the position of power that they have to defend this country's national security.
Let me tell you something, sir.
There's an undeniable truth of life.
I wrote it.
It is true.
War, it will never be obsolete because this is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
Exactly.
I I believe that it it has become obsolete to liberals, but I don't believe that liberals speak for the majority of America.
They want it to become obsolete.
That's what your professor is trying to get.
Don't fall for it.
They want it to become obsolete.
They want it to be not because they want this country torn down a couple of sizes, if not greater.
They want this country uh to be weakened.
They don't the the they look at the U.S. military as the focus of evil in the modern world.
American leftists, worldwide leftists do, and that's what this is all about.
Exactly.
That's what he preaches every day.
Yeah, well then see.
I know these people, man.
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
Not just the back, not just the back of my hand.
I applaud you for resisting this.
Okay, thank you, sir.
God bless you.
One question before you go.
Yes, sir, absolutely.
Were you tempted?
Did it was were was it was it a seductive proposition when you first heard it?
War is obsolete.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, absolutely, sir.
Um why?
Because we're in the midst of an of a of a of a supposedly unpopular war that's not going well.
The reason why is because it has been beaten to my head.
I'm a third-year political science major here at West Virginia State University, and it has been beaten to my head ever since we went into Iraq, that Iraq is a bad and unjust war, and it's been beaten, beat and beat and beat.
And at first nobody believed it.
And then it starts to catch on, and it starts to catch on.
It gets a snowball effect, and now you got the American public strongly disagreeing with the war in Iraq, thus George W. Bush, and in turn, Republicans in general.
And it it is absolut I mean, I go into class every day, you know, trying to combat this, and it's like, you know, I've got this uh a PhD in political science who, you know, he just didn't think that that I have an opinion.
And uh, and so basically what I wanted was some fighting words to go in there today whenever I go into class and uh and uh some ammunition.
What?
Okay, well, I'll tell you what I if if if that's what you're looking for, and if you if, you know, and I I would encourage you.
I know grades are important, but they're not.
Here's what I would do, were I you.
You can decide for yourself.
I'd stand up for myself no matter where I am, and no matter what the consequen consequences.
My principles are my principles, and I'm not gonna be bullied or cowed by anybody into changing my core beliefs.
So what I would do if I were you going into your class discussing this proposition that war has become obsolete, I would say, sir, did I not only disagree that war is obsolete, it is how this country came into being, it is how this country grew to be the most prosperous country in the history of human civilization, because we are not an aggressor.
We defend ourselves, we have liberated millions and millions and millions of people around the world, and instead of asking this class to ask and then consider the proposition that maybe war is obsolete, which all you want is for us to agree so that the American people will stand down and the nation won't defend itself.
Can we, sir, can we start discuss history in a political sense and talked about how the American country used to win wars?
Can we look at for ham for perhaps what Abraham Lincoln did during the Civil War, which was a far worse circumstance for public opinion and loss of life than this war in Iraq is.
Abraham Lincoln kept firing his generals until he found one that got it right.
His name was Ulysses S. Grant.
Sherman marched through Atlanta.
He preserved the Union.
War is a necessity brought on by evil.
Tell your professor that if he can't understand that the United States of America is the good guys, that he is going to Be poisoning the minds of the people in his class.
We are not the bad guys.
And the conversation in his class ought to be focused on what needs to be done to win this war, the result of which was an attack on American soil on September 11th.
Ask your professor if he remembers that.
And then if he does, ask him if he's among the cabal that blames Bush and Cheney and Halliburton for it.
All right, let's check the uh check the email.
Dear Rush.
As a vet and the son of World War II vets, I've long opposed women in combat and many other military specialties.
Your Amazon Army rent is, however, over the top, unnecessary and less than what I expect from you.
You know, some of you people that are new to the program, uh I'm gonna need to help you along in understanding this show.
It's uh there's a there's a thing we do here.
We start it, we invented it.
Uh practice it regularly.
It's called in it it's called illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
That was the motivating philosophy behind my agreeing with Harry Reed last week that I think babies should die so that I can hear.
Uh, some of you who are new to the program thought that I had gone over the edge, and selfishness had robbed me of my principles.
All of a sudden I was gonna next come out and become pro-choice and pro-abortion.
It was a way to illustrate what the embryonic stem cell debate is.
Uh, and the all-American first cavalry Amazon battalion is an illustration of absurdity by being absurd.
Some of you people out, you need to lighten up.
Let me try this.
Let me try to make it easier for you in this all-American First Cavalry Amazon battalion.
It's quite possible we wouldn't actually need 52 such battalions or divisions.
Uh, we all know, this has been scientifically established.
Everybody who is old enough to know these things knows this, that when you group women together, menstrual cycles tend to synchronize.
And so you could be guaranteed of having a combat ready division uh at all times, if you had enough to rotate.
All you'd need uh is enough battalions to rotate every, you know, have one ready uh one week per month.
Five days a month.
It just wouldn't maybe need 52.
Does this help it?
Belrose, New York.
Benny, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Merry Christmas, great one.
Uh, listen, Barack Obama is an empty suit in the Senate, but he just happens to be black, and that's all the mainstream media needs to push him into an otherwise what I think lacklusted democratic presidential field in 2008.
Um to the mainstream media, and you pointed it out.
Obama is cerebral, unjudgmental, broad-minded, and I'd like to add one more.
He is untainted.
He is being groomed for the VP slot, period.
The end.
Okay, for namely any candidate to dem pick, not just Hillary or John Kerry.
And ironically, uh, the way I see it, um, we all remember how Dick Cheney um was bought in in 2000, let's say it all together now, but gravitas or an otherwise um knowledgeable George Bush.
Yeah.
But Obama, in my opinion, is being brought in for the same thing, only a different type of gravitas, and that is he carries no baggage with him.
He had his coming out party in Boston in 2004.
He was pushed, push, pushed.
He's a backbencher, he's done nothing in the Senate, he's done nothing now.
He is being groomed for the VP slot.
He will never announce for the presidency.
Really?
Yes.
Well, I have to share with you uh a column by K Kevin McCullough.
I do not know who Kevin McCullough is, but he writes a column at Townhall.com.
And his opening paragraph in his piece that ran yesterday, barring several series of near-seizure-like corrections, Barack Obama will take the presidential oath of office in January of 2009.
It'll be a cold January morning.
His beautiful wife and daughters will be by his side.
They'll shiver as he places his hand on the Bible and swears to uphold the Constitution.
His presidency that will follow, if reflective of anything at all of his legislative record, will then seek to dismantle that same Constitution.
I have a long track record of predictions on Obama.
All of them have come true.
I have no reason to believe that this one will conclude any differently.
You keep keep the radio on out there, Benny, and I'll go through some of this guy's reasons why Barack Obama is destined to be our next president.
Gotta go.
Back with more right after this.
Yeah, war is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism.
Other than that, war is pointless.
We'll be back, ladies and gentlemen.
Sit tight.
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