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January 2, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program here on the EIB Network on the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We continue today.
Rush will be with us all tomorrow for his first broadcast day of 2007, yet another year of broadcast excellence here at the Institute.
And there is such good news today, I'm bubbling to share it with you.
It's something that is not going to be said in the mainstream media.
There is an absolute curtain that has fallen on this issue.
And I speak of a victory in the war on terror.
It is going on now in Somalia.
You may have seen some of the coverage of this issue.
It is remarkably spinning into an ether of nonsense compared to what is actually happening on the ground.
First, you should know, I guess taking you back a bit, this is the Blackhawk Down place, Somalia, a country of about 9 million on the so-called Horn of Africa.
It sticks out into the sea there, between the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea.
And you remember that we had in 1992, because of a famine there, intervened in the Clinton administration, in the humanitarian so forth and so on, to protect the deliveries of food, which the warlords there were intercepting, much like North Korea's dictator does, intercepting the aid to give it to the military and to keep the people starving.
And then, of course, Blackhawk Down, the deaths of 18 Army Rangers there, and the United States left the country, Clinton did, to degenerate into a, and gosh, this is interesting.
We left Somalia and caused a civil war.
Now, currently, the fad is that because we're in Iraq, we're causing a civil war.
But in the actual reality of it, when we left Somalia, it caused a multiple-party civil war.
And basically, what's happened now is that the Islamic Muslim states around this area, including Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan, are supporting the Islamic courts.
The Islamic Courts Union is the full title of this radical Islamist al-Qaeda-style government that has been in insurrection against the internationally recognized transitional federal government and an attempt at a secular government of Somalia.
Now, with that as background, here's what's happened: Ethiopia, a neighboring country, which has had its own problems of civil war and so forth, is predominantly Christian in terms of its culture.
It has invaded Somalia.
The leader of Ethiopia said they were not going to continence an al-Qaeda-style government in Somalia next door, which would begin to destabilize Ethiopia as well.
So they went into Ethiopia.
At first, it was 20,000 troops.
Actually, what happened was about 4,000 troops, backed by modern weapons, tanks, and so forth, have now taken back the entire country of Somalia.
The Islamists are fleeing Mogadishu.
They are fleeing toward the Kenya border down in the south of Somalia.
It borders on Kenya.
And Kenya has not been very strong about its border, and apparently that's where the Islamist terrorists are retreating.
Those among them include those apparently who have been ringleaders in the bombing of our embassies in Africa back in the day.
So there are serious al-Qaeda types in this Islamist group.
They were trying to restore a base of operations they had lost in Afghanistan and in Iraq in Somalia.
And they have now been thrown out, not by American troops, but by the Ethiopians.
Now, having said all that, which you can get out of the Daily Press, let me tell you a little bit behind the scenes.
The American Navy owns the offshore waters to Somalia.
We have a very active force there.
The active force is composed of elements that base out of San Diego.
And I am told, reliably, not to reveal too much, that there are operations going on, special forces operations going on and have been going on for some time in the so-called Horn of Africa, i.e. in Somalia, to pave the way for kicking these Islamists out, for preventing them from establishing an al-Qaeda-type base of operations in Somalia.
And we have been doing it not by an overpowering invasion of American Marines and so forth and so on, but by simply calling on the internal national security interests of Ethiopia.
So it has been interesting to watch as the Saudi Arabians, as the Saudis have been financing the Islamists, the al-Qaeda types, in trying to set up a new al-Qaeda base in Somalia.
The Saudis have been doing the bulk of the financing for this.
In fact, the CIA has come in very strongly.
They have something called the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism.
They have been working the Somali warlords to keep them away from the Islamists and to keep them in the new transitional government.
And it seems to me that this now is resulting in victory.
The Washington Post this morning headlines, Somali Islamic fighters flee toward Kenya.
Here's the take they have on this in the first paragraph, dateline Nairobi in Kenya.
Quote, Ethiopian forces backing Somalia's weak transitional government have taken over Kismayo, the last stronghold of the country's Islamic movement.
And on Monday, we're chasing the remnants of the Islamic militia along the Indian Ocean coast toward the Kenyan border about 100 miles to the south.
In the final stage of a dramatic power shift in the fragile horn of Africa nations, the Islamic fighters abandoned their heaviest weapons Monday morning and took off for villages in the forest.
No word that this is a victory in the war on terror, but it is, in fact, a victory in the war on terror.
The LA Times' pathetic spin on this this morning, the Los Angeles Times' pathetic spin on this this morning, was to be concerned about the people who, you know, formerly held these jobs, that they had a it's a sudden reversal of fortune for the Islamists who've lost all the territory they seized in the last six months.
They've lost all of their weapons.
They've lost their jobs.
They've lost their homes.
It's a panic situation.
This is so pathetic, it's unbelievable.
But at least the Washington Post reporting straight ahead what happened, but not reporting what it means.
What it means is the Saudis have been thwarted in setting up an al-Qaeda-based terrorism headquarters in Somalia.
Means that the Bush administration has a victory in the war on terror.
Here's the article.
Tuesday, January 2, Los Angeles Times, A1, quote, their leaders slipped out of this capital dateline, Mogadishu, Somalia.
Their leaders slipped out of this capital under cover of darkness.
Their plum jobs are gone.
Their former offices were the first looted in a spasm of vandalism last week.
On Monday, these mid-level officials and fighters of Somalia's now-defunct Islamic courts union got a renewed offer of amnesty from Somalian Prime Minister Ali Mohammad Geddi, who also set a three-day deadline for residents of Mogadishu to turn in their guns.
So, once again, it's the poor Islamists who've been invaded by Ethiopia, et cetera, et cetera.
Is there no end that the drive-by media will go to?
Is there just no limit to their capacity to twist and spin these events against the interests of the United States of America?
This is just an unbelievable development, but I wanted you to know that today is a day of rejoicing, a day of victory.
This may be, in fact, our midway in terms of the Battle of Midway turning the tide in the Pacific War against the Japanese.
This may be the Battle of Midway in turning the tide worldwide against the terrorists who have invested probably the last 10 years trying to recapture Somalia and are now totally crushed in that effort.
So I wonder how the analysis will go from here.
But now you know the rest of the story.
Here's Ray in Houston on the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Ray, welcome.
Hey, good talking to you, Roger.
With all due respect, didn't Bush 41 get us into Somalia and Clinton inherited it from him?
I think the first things in Somalia were done under Bush 41 and the humanitarian side of things.
It was Clinton who cut and run after Black Hawk down.
Okay.
Yeah.
Ray, thanks.
No, that's right.
Thanks for the call.
1-800-282-2882.
And again, I have finally, this was a New Year's resolution of mine, to finally carefully and correctly pronounce the name of the president of Iran.
I mean, if you're having trouble with this, I now know exactly the way in which this is supposed to be pronounced.
His name, as I understand it, is My Mood.
I'm in a Jihad.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in my own jihad, taking your calls in the Rush Limbaugh program at 1-800-282-2882.
Back with more after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush from the station KOGO Radio in San Diego, California, coming at you from the home of the top-seeded San Diego Chargers.
And Ravens will be here, what, in a couple of weeks, a couple of Sundays, and we get the bye week and then Ravens coming in, I think, to San Diego.
We have home field advantage throughout the playoffs, however long they last, and I think they're going to last all the way to Miami.
But that's just me.
All right.
On the Rush Limbaugh program, your phone number is 1-800-282-2882.
And by the way, all the updates coming at you at rushlimbaugh.com.
Rush himself will return for tomorrow's broadcast.
In the meantime, here's Doug in Kansas City, Missouri.
Doug, welcome to the Rush program, and Happy New Year.
Well, I'm not in Missouri.
I'm on the Kansas side, but from the home of the Kansas City playoff-bound chief there.
Oh, yeah.
That's kind of amazing.
Limping into the playoffs, Doug.
But go ahead.
We back in with a lot of strength.
Hey, I think it's kind of amazing the Ethiopian Army.
Maybe we should turn command over in Iraq to the Ethiopian commanders.
They went in here and kicked button Mogadishu and the U.S. Army couldn't.
Maybe we need to shoot some lawyers or maybe a few congressmen or something.
It's pretty amazing.
And it's exactly right, Doug, that they did kick butt.
I got to tell you, though, that Our American military is so riven with political correctness and the political managers that they're no longer, you know, I think they're so constrained from real combat.
You have American Marines being indicted for killing the enemy.
It's just insanity.
So I'm glad we got the Ethiopians who have been in a really barbaric civil war with Eritrea and so forth and who know how to go in, find, identify the enemy, and kill them until the enemy gives up.
We need to let our army fight.
I agree with you.
All right, Doug, thanks for the call.
It's exactly right.
It's exactly what happened.
And that's why we relied on the Ethiopians.
Gave them a lot of help, give them a lot of assistance, put in our special teams, but basically said, look, you either get rid of these guys now or they're going to be all over you.
There's a little part of Ethiopia that's a Muslim part that they had already, the Islamists had already been trying to infiltrate and to foment insurrection against the Ethiopian government.
So the Ethiopian government said, okay, it's time we got in there and did the job, which they did.
You know, I'm still thinking about this caller from last hour about praising Castro and he flew to Cuba to get cigars.
That is so passe.
That's so yesterday.
That's so 1959.
Everyone knows that the Dominican Republic is where all of the good Cuban cigar makers went, and from whence, where did that come from?
From the Dominican Republic is where you get the best cigars these days, at least as far as I'm concerned.
But aside from that, how about this final tribute to the wonderful health care afforded everyone universally in Cuba?
I mean, I've heard from leftists since 1960 that, look, they've had universal health care.
All their citizens are cared for.
This is the kind of system we ought to have in the United States.
They're outshining us like crazy.
Blah, blah, blah.
I've been listening to this nonsense.
When it came right down to it, with Fidel Castro on his deathbed, where did he go to get medical help?
Which doctor last week attended to Fidel Castro?
A Spanish doctor who runs a private clinic in Madrid, was flown in to save his life.
The final irony, the final testament to the virtues of government-run health care.
Here's Joe on the I-95.
Joe, go ahead.
You're on the Rush program.
Hi, Roger.
Good to talk to you.
Thanks for calling.
Can I just brag about our Wisconsin Badgers before I get into my points on Iran?
Yes, you may.
Hey, man, we did it.
We beat Arkansas.
Our basketball team beat Georgia this weekend.
And you know, our Packers beat the Bears.
And you had a good week, no question about it.
Great week.
We're heading north on I-95 through South Carolina.
I was reading USA Today, big story about implemented, I'm sorry, IEDs, you know, the explosive devices.
Right.
No attribution to Iran.
So much talk about Iran, nuclear weapons.
We're at war with Iran now, and nobody's talking about that.
Very good point.
Very good point.
Those IEDs are coming out of Iran.
We just seized a couple of people who said, oh, no, we're diplomats.
You can't seize us in Baghdad.
They, in fact, had been there supervising Muqtada Sadr's militia and teaching them the latest and bringing in the latest money and guns and all the rest of it.
The Iranians are behind the Shia militias, the militant militias that are a part of this insurgency.
And it remains to be seen what Bush is going to do.
He's finally said, look, we're going to get my final plan out.
Let's see.
Here's BBC News reporting that George Bush intends to reveal a new Iraq strategy within days in a speech.
Is he going to put in the 30,000 troop surge that's being talked about?
And by the way, thank you to the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, by the way, is preparing to go out of Fort Bragg to Kuwait if they haven't done so already.
And so there does seem to be evidence that Bush is going to put more troops in.
Joseph Lieberman, Joe Lieberman, the so-called independent Democrat in the United States Senate, has in an op-ed piece in a number of papers.
I guess I got this out of the Los Angeles Times.
In a piece entitled Why We Need More Troops in Iraq makes that case.
My question is: if we had 100,000 more troops or 500,000 more troops, what are you going to allow them to do to win the war?
That's the key point I'm waiting to hear from this president.
What is our war-winning strategy?
Look, ladies and gentlemen, we could win the war with the troops we have there now.
The Ethiopians won the war with 4,000 troops in Somalia.
It isn't a question of the number of troops and the giant bureaucracy and all the other things that relate to the modern American Pentagon experience.
How many warriors do we have killing the enemy on the ground who are allowed to do so?
So far as I know, the answer today is zero, because the key phrase is allowed to do so.
There's not a warrior in the Iraq theater or in Afghanistan for that matter who isn't worried every time they make contact with the enemy over whether or not shooting this person or that is going to be second-guessed by a team of lawyers back at the base as to whether or not that was a justified killing.
This is starting to get seriously bad from that standpoint, and seriously enough, I even see parallels in our own local situation.
In San Diego County, we had a police officer shot by a gang member and killed in an ambush, by the way, in a traffic stop where the ambush, the 17-year-old kid was in a nearby house, rifle with a scope, shot and killed the young officer who leaves behind a widow and a three-month-old baby.
And he did so to gain credibility, Cred Street Cred, in his street gang, 17 years old.
How much longer, ladies and gentlemen, before an IED goes off?
How much longer?
They're already beheading people in Mexico, the drug cartels, who are so close to the terrorists in Mexico that they're adopting their methods.
They're starting to behead police chiefs and police officers and other opponents to their rule.
So it seems to me this all ties together for me that unless we get tough and win, win in Iraq and have a war-winning strategy, that war will not only follow us home, it is getting ready to be here already.
That's not good.
That's not good.
But the Somalia victory may, in fact, be the first step toward that victory.
So keep your eyes on that one.
Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh, back with more.
On a previous occasion, when I filled in for Rush, this is Roger Hedgecock from KOGO Radio in San Diego.
On a previous occasion, filling in for Rush earlier last month, I was roundly pilloried in the wacko-left media because I dared to bring up that the constant headlines about death in Iraq ignored the fact that the violence level was lower in Iraq than in many countries throughout the world and, for that matter, in Washington, D.C., in terms of violent death.
Those figures, of course, are accurate.
And I'm sorry I got him so riled up, but let me do it again.
It was so much fun the first time.
I'm going to do it again.
I am, I don't know, I've lived in California all my life.
And I know you have in your mind sort of a feeling about whatever, one way or the other about California, but at least you know it to be a wonderful land of opportunity, great weather, you know, kind of interesting place to behold.
It's certainly a wonderful place to live.
As I said, I spent New Year's Eve sailing on San Diego Bay.
But here's a comparison.
And this comes from Victor Davis Hansen.
Iraq with about 26 million people, California with about 36 million.
But let's compare the two.
Let's compare California and Iraq.
Why aren't we in California, and for that matter throughout the civilized world, getting headlines to say that every day you wake up as a Californian, every day you wake up, there have been six more murders, 27 rapes, 38 arsons, 180 robberies, and 360 assaults every day.
Where's the headline?
Nearly 200 poor Californians butchered again this month, says Hansen.
How about a monthly media dose of, quote, 600 women raped in February alone?
600 violent robberies and assaults in March with no end in sight.
You see, we don't get that because California doesn't advance the political agenda of the left, to point this out.
Violence in Iraq advances the political agenda of trying to create a defeat that does not exist.
Let's look at Iraq's judicial system.
On the eve of the war, and this is not remembered, Saddam Hussein released 100,000 inmates from his prisons.
Common criminals were released.
Now, let's see.
In California, we have 170,000 criminals behind bars.
Imagine if they were released.
What would the impact be on our society?
Ah, these are some of the things that we are not taking into account.
And we are being told in our media something that borders on the big lie, that somehow or other violence in Iraq is indicative of our defeat there.
If it's more violent in California, are we defeated here?
So these are some of the issues that, you know, and you don't even have to dig too deep into the statistics to find the point even getting more poignant.
If over every year, just about 4,000 Californians die in car crashes.
Now, that's twice the number of Americans lost in three years of combat in Iraq.
And yet there's not a headline about that because, again, there's not a political agenda that is being advanced.
And speaking of executions, here in California, early this morning, Clarence Ray Allen was executed for a triple murder he ordered from behind bars 25 years ago to silence some witnesses to other killings he was involved in.
Oh, yeah, the killings took place 25 years ago.
Mr. Allen had actually had his execution delayed temporarily because of his age and frail health.
Well, duh, he's aged and frail in health because he's been living for 25 years after the crime.
He's now 76.
At least in Iraq, they kind of get down to business pretty quick.
Saddam Hussein executed.
In fact, our death row population is aging significantly.
110 prisoners, at least 60 years old, as of 2003, this is in USA Today.
There was a spike, and it's continuing, of population of inmates on death row in various states, getting older.
They're simply dying of old age in our, quote, justice system, unquote.
Which country is doing better in the war against violence, in the war against an insurgency?
Our insurgency is criminals and gangbangers and illegals, and I don't think we're doing as well as the Iraqis are doing in their insurgency.
So there, let Keith Oberman get into that one today.
Here's Adele in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi there.
Hi, Raj.
How are you?
Good.
I think one of the huge mistakes that we made in Iraq is handing over the power to the fanatic Shias.
I'm from the Middle East myself, and I see in the videotape of the execution of Saddam that they aired on Al Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, which is the Middle Eastern stations.
And while they're killing him and they're making the execution, which he deserved, they chanting and they're screaming the name of Muqtada and the name of Al-Sadr and the name of the Iranians, the Iranian leaders, and they thanking them for bringing Saddam to justice, not thanking the Americans, not thanking the general that we heard that he was present at the execution.
And I think this is one of the huge mistakes that we made in Iraq.
We just handed over everything to the Iranians and their supporters in Iraq.
And I think this is one mistake that we made, and we need to correct that.
And I'm going to say, you know what?
I agree with you, Adele, and I'll tell you what's going to happen.
The UK papers are reporting January 5 that an offensive will begin against the militant militias associated with Muqtada al-Sadr.
And I think the Bush administration is going to make a plank of the new offensive in Iraq that the provisional government, the elected government of Iraq, is going to have to get after these militias and disarm them, or the United States military will do it for them.
But no longer will an Iranian-backed militia be allowed to effect have a veto power on the Iraqi, the elected Iraqi government.
And it is a very important mistake we better correct.
If they are present at the execution, how powerful they are in Iraq?
And I think they're making all this mess so they help the Iranians make the U.S. look bad in the Middle East and not go after Iran.
That's the whole idea of the fact that they're not going to be able to.
The earlier caller made the point it might be a proxy, be seen best as a proxy war between Iran and the United States.
Do you agree with that?
Yes.
Yeah, I do too.
Adele, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
The sooner we disarm Muqtada al-Sadr and reduce his influence in the Iraqi government, the sooner we have struck a blow against Iranian infiltration.
We didn't have Iranian infiltration at the beginning of this war, but we sure as heck have it now.
And of the prospect not of a civil war, but of a proxy war between the United States and Iran.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh at 1-800-282-2882.
Let's see, Kissinger back.
Okay, Art in Kennett, Missouri.
Is it Art?
Go ahead.
Yeah.
Hey, Roger.
First, thanks from the son of a former United States Marine for your appreciation of the sacrifices and professionalism of our troops.
I wish we would hear more of that.
Second, you just terrific program today, and the original point on which I called was that you said Kissinger was the worst diplomat in the history of the country.
I feel like a fairly educated conservative, and that's one of the first times I've heard that observation, so I wondered if you could elaborate a little bit on that.
Absolutely, and I'll summarize.
There's a lot to be said about this.
I could take the rest of the show, but I won't, for those of you who thought I might, given that I've talked about this before, but I'll give you the summary version of it.
Henry Kissinger, of course, as a Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon, he had both posts.
He held both posts, was the point man on the negotiations with the North Vietnamese in Paris, the so-called Paris Peace Talks, going back into the Vietnam War now, 35 years ago.
The negotiation was basically his philosophy was the United States was in decline, the Soviet Union was on the rise.
We had to get the best deal we could to get out.
We needed an exit strategy.
We needed a way to, with the honor, to be able to leave Vietnam to the victorious North Vietnamese and their sponsors in the Soviet Union and China.
And that was his starting point.
Just as Reagan's starting point was the United States was on the ascendancy.
The Soviet Union was consigned to the ash can of history.
All it took was a push, and he was the guy who was going to give them that push.
So you have to look at their orientation.
Kissinger went on to negotiate in the Paris peace talks an accord that basically used, well, it used phrases like that a decent interval would occur between the retreat of the United States leaving South Vietnam and any further military activities by the North Vietnamese.
And in fact, the North Vietnamese honored that for a year or so.
And in 1973, when they did resume military activities, the South was strong enough to fight him to a standstill.
But by 1975, the North had been resupplied by the Soviet Union and China and began their final march through South Vietnam.
Kissinger at that time saying the decent interval is over.
It's time for us to simply acquiesce in this victory, or didn't say it in those words, but that was basically his position.
Because of that position, and he was still the Secretary of State when, in fact, the administration position of Gerald Ford was, no, we should back the South Vietnamese with a bombing campaign that supports them and with money and arms to help them defend themselves, Congress cut off all of the funds.
The Democrats in Congress cut off all the funds to South Vietnam and left them to be to their fate in the North Vietnamese invasion of the South.
So Kissinger was an architect of defeat, of surrender, and in the old metronik tradition of European diplomats, he was really the epitome of kind of that real politic, European approach to big power politics with such a contrast to Ronald Reagan.
It's the contrast I always make.
So in a short art, that was it.
Thanks.
Appreciate the call.
I'm Roger Hedgecock with a short break.
Back with more on the Russian Limbaugh program after this.
Welcome back to the Russian Limbaugh Program.
Roger Hedgecock on the first broadcast day of 2007.
Rush Limbaugh in tomorrow.
And, of course, another year ahead.
I'm excited about it.
Another year ahead of broadcast excellence here at the EIB network.
And to that end, let's get back to the phones.
Here's Shirley, Birch Bay, Washington.
Hi, Shirley.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program and Happy New Year.
Well, Happy New Year to you, and thank you very much.
I have a nephew that's leaving next week for Afghanistan.
So I'm praying for him while he's there.
I have a question.
Why do we pretend that the Saudis are our allies with what's going on in Somalia?
I don't know.
This is a fair question that I have no good answer to, Shirley.
They are not our allies.
They are, in fact, the sponsors of the Wahhabist sect of the Muslim world, an extremist group that is the source of most of these ridiculous imams and their idea that God has commanded them to kill all infidels.
So, you know, Shirley, you don't have to convince me.
I'm 100% on your side.
The Saudis are not friends of the United States, Western civilization, or anything else.
The royal family made their bargain with the devil 100 years ago with the Wahhabist group.
And they said, look, if we support you, you're going to support the monarchy.
And that's the deal they made.
They're sticking to it.
And the people who are hurt by it are the Muslims and everybody else who were in those towers in New York on 9-11.
Absolutely.
I just, you know, I think about what would happen should the Muslim terrorists get into take over the Saudi royal family.
We're in a whole world of hurt then.
Well, and this is, of course, what happened just because bin Laden went a little crazy on him and a little too vocal.
See, the Saudis have a strategy, and their strategy, bin Laden got too public and there was too much reaction.
Their strategy is a much more stealthy one.
I was in Spain a couple of years ago touring Spain and noting how many new mosques were being built in places that had been conquered by Ferdinand and Isabel back in 1492, you know, when they drove out the last of the Moors from Spain.
The Muslims since then have always regarded Spain as a lost territory for Islam, and they have determined to conquer it back.
Well, the Saudi strategy to do that was to allow a lot of illegal immigrants to come in, to get the Spanish to accept that, most of them from North Africa, all of them Muslim, and to then start sponsoring mosques and imams in those cities where those immigrants had congregated as a sort of a fifth column, as a sort of advanced group, to begin the takeover, the taking back of Spain.
This is their strategy.
And I think unless we come up with some kind of realization that this is going on, we're fooling ourselves.
Well, but it's the same thing going on right here in this country.
We've got a lot of new mosques going in.
We've got tons of Muslims coming in.
And it's like they're going, like Khrushchev said, even though he's communist, well, they'll take us from within.
Yeah.
And look, a lot of these Muslims are not involved in this.
But too many of them are.
And too many of these mosques are funded by the Saudis, by the Wahhabist cult.
Too many of them do have imams like those clowns that went on U.S. Airways.
And thank God U.S. Airways took them down and got them off that plane.
And by the way, U.S. Airways, putting in my plug, any airline that will stand up to those Imams and to the inevitable assassination by the drive-by media of any attempt to enforce a reasonable security on these planes, U.S. Airways is my choice of the airline of 2006.
I'll tell you that.
Amen.
All right, Jay, Shirley, thanks for listening.
Thanks for calling us as well.
Short break now.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh with more after this.
Just as I learned how to properly pronounce the name of the president of Iran, I now have it down.
It's my mood.
I'm in a jihad.
The satirical bead has been drawn on this guy, even by people within Iran.
According to the London Sunday Telegraph, satire surrounds Iran's president.
There's a joke making the rounds of the Tehran's middle class about Santa Claus passing out during a visit to the president's house in Tehran.
He was Santa Claus filling an unwashed presidential sock with presents when he was overcome by the smell.
Apparently, apparently, there is a whole line of jokes about the president's purported lack of personal hygiene and text messages and emails full of portrayals of him as an ignorant, bigoted bumpkin.
And this one, here's an example they have in the story.
One joke tells of how Osama bin Laden meets Mr. I'm in a jihad in hell and finds him dancing with the American singer Jennifer Lopez.
Is this your punishment? asks Bin Laden.
No, the president replies.
It's Jennifer Lopez's punishment.
This is some of the, you know, some of the comedy that's going around now, drawing a bead on this guy, my mood, I'm in a jihad.
We're in a jihad for truth, freedom, and the American way here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I want to talk about this polar bear situation when we come back.
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