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April 4, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2007, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I mean, you would think that Mahmood Ahmadinejad is the second coming.
The one man with compassion in the world today, Mahmood Ahmadinizad, the Supreme Leader of Iran.
Drive-by media is having orgasms today over what a guy.
And Mahmood, Mahmood actually criticized the British.
I wonder how the Feminazis in this country are going to react to this.
Mahmood criticized the British for deploying a woman to combat who has a child at home.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome, Rush Limboy here, raring and ready to go.
Fastest week in media.
We are already in Wednesday.
Three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead.
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We'll get to more details on Mahmood Ahmadinizad and the uh the uh pending release of the 15 British hostages.
By the way, the you know the president called them hostages the other day, and drive by said, oh no, no, no, it's gonna exacerbate the pro no, no, it's gonna make a oh no, no.
And even the British, eh, we're not, you know, we're not cool with using the word hostages to describe this.
And after using the word, I don't know if it had any effect.
I think there's something else at play here totally.
Uh but regardless, uh, does not does Mahmoud Ahmadini's not know how to play the U.S. media, or does he know how to play the all these Al Qaeda guys, all these militant Islamo fascists are just superb at uh at playing the U.S. media.
But I want to get to a couple other things.
First, I have been thinking about this global warming business.
You know, we uh we here at the EIB network are pondering the sale of carbon offsets uh to any of you who are consumed with guilt over the amount of pollution that you are, like the amount you exhale.
Um the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court yesterday actually said that what we all exhale, CO2, is a pollutant.
And I'm here to tell you that it is not.
CO2 is not a pollutant.
There's no difference in the CO2 that you exhale or what comes out of your SUV or your car or what have you, but it's now a pollutant.
And uh uh you know, Al Gore has uh has popularized this whole concept of uh uh carbon offsets, so specifically he will not have to reduce any of his consumption of power or usage of energy.
Uh no, no, I'm I'm investing in carbon offsets.
I uh I'm uh investing in a company which I own, by the way, uh he says, and and uh we go out there, we plant trees and we invest in uh in carbon neutral uh businesses and so forth.
It gave me an idea.
You know, we hear the EIB network are always on the cutting edge of societal evolution and a number of other things, including technology.
For example, I just I got a Blu-ray, finally broke down, I finally made a choice, and I got a Blu-ray DVD, one of these HD DVD plays, had it installed yesterday, went home last night, baby.
You know, and my uh my my video guys try to talk me out of it.
Don't do it yet.
The format war's not settled.
And I was reminded, you know, between Betamax and VHS, I chose Betamax, which was Sony, and it went down to tubes.
Well, Blu-ray is Sony, so I've I've duplicated uh my move.
They there are more titles on Blu-ray, it has more capacity on the disk.
It's way early on this, but my video guys were saying, Look, uh, it's too soon to do this.
And besides some of these discs, we've looked at them, and uh there's just garbage on there.
And I said, Look, I I I cannot believe that.
Uh these are high definition discs, and uh video guys said, look, look, the the standard DVD, you get a really well-mastered standard DVD, and it'll stack up against any of these HD DVDs or Blu-rays out there.
So, well, maybe on a tiny little screen you have, you won't be able to notice much difference.
But the time you blow these things up to a large screen, like I mine 16 feet diagonally, uh, and I so I did a comparison.
I got Casino Royale and Blu-ray, and I already had Casino Royale on the standard 480 DVD, the Blu-rays 1080p.
Uh, and I compared the two side by side, it's no comparison whatsoever.
The Blu-ray just especially now you the smaller screen you go, the less the difference you see.
But you time you blow this stuff out of a big screen.
So anyway, just to illustrate here that that uh not only are we on the cutting edge of societal evolution, but also on the cutting edge of technological evolution, this carbon offset business got me to thinking, you know, it's a it's a it's a brand new profit center possibility for us here uh at the EIB network to play off on so many people's guilt uh and the and the fact they think they're committing sin out there simply by being alive and destroying the planet.
So I came up with an idea.
If Al Gore can not reduce his carbon footprint, if Al Gore will not have to reduce by an IOTA the amount of energy he uses uh by simply buying carbon offsets, then why can't we expand the whole theory, the whole concept?
Uh, we here at EIB are examining the possibility of selling carbon offsets to the entire United States.
The entire United States government.
And in the process of selling carbon offsets to the entire government, the United States will not have to make one change, will not have to reduce any of its pollutants, will not have to reduce any of its greenhouse gas emissions, will not have to reduce any of its energy use,
because we are going to sell carbon offsets to the government for who knows how many billions they will pay, and then people all over the world will in will will plant trees and do other things to allow us, the United States, not to have to reduce any of our greenhouse gases.
It's a perfect way to exempt ourselves for forever from Kyoto.
I mean, if Gore and other individuals, like Governor Schwarzenegger, he's registered his private jet out there with uh with a company, and and uh he doesn't have to reduce the amount of time he flies in a jet, because some company out there is planting trees every time for every hour he flies, ostensibly.
Well, why can't we at EIB just do this for the whole country?
Just sell carbon offsets for virtually everybody so that nobody in the country has to reduce anything.
I mean, if it works for one individual, why wouldn't it work for everybody?
Why wouldn't it work for the country?
Why don't all of us buy carbon offsets?
I will sell them to you and to anybody else, and you can continue to make all of the energy use you want.
You can uh you get with without guilt and without fear, you pay us uh what it's gonna be a nominal charge because as you know, the the greater the volume, the lower price has to be.
We don't uh sort of like taxes.
Uh the more taxpayers, the the uh the lower the rates have to be on everybody in order to get more money.
So I will not charge exorbitant fees uh for people uh for when we sell the carbon offsets, and thereby the whole country will be exempt.
Uh what do you mean, Enron?
What does the word Enron mean anything to me?
What what what are you talking about?
What what's Enron got to do?
I think this is a brilliant idea.
It's a brilliant that br you know the whole the whole thing is I can get out of the radio business in one day's worth of sales of carbon offsets to the whole country.
I could be playing golf 24-7, 36 holes a day.
And I don't plant the trees, I'm not gonna do that.
I'm gonna let other people, I'll let Uganda do that.
I will let South Africa do that.
I'll let them do that in Bosnia.
Uh uh, and if there's some companies in America that we feel valid uh uh are valid to invest in, well, fine, we'll let them plant the trees too.
I'm j the point is here, folks, that if you or I or Al Gore or Governor Schwarzenegger or anybody else can go out and simply invest money in the so-called carbon offset program and in the process not have to reduce your energy usage at all.
If it's good for individuals, why can't we exempt the entire United States from this embrolio um uh by having everybody here be able to do this?
Think of the market that exists here.
Think of the guilt that we could assuage uh and and think of the good that we could do for burgeoning third world companies, all this investment money going all they have to do is plant trees.
Just just plant trees or start up a company that says they're gonna invest in uh pills that will make cows not uh expel methane when they expel.
Uh we're we're working on this.
I probably should not have made this public because now uh I've just I've automatically created um uh a bunch of competitors.
Snerdley says that this says, You ever heard of Enron?
Uh yeah, he said, Why so what's well it's fraud.
It's f it's first rate fraud.
What?
I don't care if it's fraud, it's already started, it's already happening out there.
The business has been established, the carbon offset uh burgeoning we we've got a spot for it.
We do.
So oh, that's right.
Let's we We do have a spot.
Absolutely play the spot.
Let's let people hear what we're talking about here.
Go ahead, run it right now.
Hit it.
Yeah, but see, the difference is that was marketed to individuals.
I'm talking about getting hold of EPA.
I'm talking about getting hold of NASA.
I'm going to get hold of all these government agents, all these people who believe in this stuff.
And I'm going to say, give me your money and go ahead and send as many rockets into space as you want, by the way.
Friends in big business.
I mean, you think you you think people wouldn't pay big money to be able to go around and live their lives guilt-free, knowing that whatever energy use they make, whatever the size of their carbon footprint is, that it will not harm the planet.
Because we are going to take care of that.
By the way, uh we have uh we're still in the process of determining our final approach with the Nobel Committee on whether to charge Al Gore or ask them to uh investigate Al Gore for tampering and unethical behavior in campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize.
This is one of our first efforts.
We're going to send that off to the Nobel Committee to supplement the nomination.
We got Mahmood Ahmadinejad.
We got the Democrats.
I told you yesterday.
These people make me a genius.
I told you yesterday there is no war on terror.
They're doing their best to convince everybody there's no reason for a war on terror.
Now they have officially stricken the phrase from official government language.
And this is just too much.
Bush success versus Al Qaeda breeds long-term worries.
This is Reuters.
Bush has been so successful fighting Al Qaeda that we are at more risk than we have ever been.
I'll have details on all this, plus your phone calls, of course, as we get started right after this.
All right, before we go to Mahmood Ahmadine and the other stuff, I I have to share this with you.
The local newspaper here, the Palm Beach Post, ran a story this morning by Derek Cam.
And this is the headline.
Could global warming wipe out Palm Beach County?
Palm Beach County's shape puts it at risk, experts say.
If global warming continues at the rate of acceleration currently experienced, Palm Beach County could disappear within less than a century.
A climate expert told the Florida cabinet on Tuesday.
The curve of Palm Beach County that causes it to bump out into the ocean farther than the rest of Florida's East Coast makes it a poster child for the damages global warming can cause, according to Stephen Leatherman, director of the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University.
Leatherman told a global warming panel composed of Governor Christ and the Florida Cabinet yesterday said Palm Beach not only gets hit by hurricanes, but more importantly, the erosion is caused by the winter nor'easters.
It's an erosion hotspot.
Leatherman is also known as Dr. Beach because he ranks the world's best beaches every year.
I still don't think we have a comprehensive knowledge of the Palm Beach situation.
Now, you know, of course, this this is something that the liberals in this county are gonna buy and leave and believe it's just gonna be something that panic them even greater and further.
We happen to, we right here, do you people know we are on that curve?
Right at this minute.
Uh our EIB studios are right on that curve that juts out into the as it's described.
I mean, how many curves are there in our coastline?
East and west, north, how many curves are this one curve gonna wipe out Palm Beach County in uh in less than 100 years?
The guy says it's really not so much hurricanes.
We don't know what's happening to the uh the sand here.
We keep replenishing the uh beaches and uh sand goes somewhere, they want to do laser and satellite surveys to find out what happens to the sand uh during uh during erosion.
I mean, it's it's it's it it's just it is preposterous.
How long has the curve been here?
And it's still here.
And we've had hurricanes and we've had warming and how long we've we've known the coast of Florida to be what it is for how long?
How many hundreds of years has it been the way and it's still here?
You know, I live on Palm Beach, which is an island.
Uh and and uh, you know, it hasn't changed in the ten years I've been here.
The land that was here is still here, and I'm sure it's been that way for a number of years.
So this is a classic example of the kind of of just uninformed fear and panic.
Um, you know, there are a lot of people in the global warming movement who are beginning to worry that some of these claims are now getting so outrageous and just so unbelievable that are turning people off, because if it's that bad, there's nothing we can do to stop it.
I mean, what can we actually do to stop Greenland from breaking in half, for example?
If if somebody said if God said Greenland breaks in half in 2030, what can we do?
There's nothing we could do to stop it.
People think that.
Uh I think buying light bulbs are gonna fix it, got another thing coming.
Uh and it so it's it's they're running the risk here of in fact, I think they've already you're talking about jumping the shark.
I think the global warming movement has jumped the shark long ago, ceased to have any relevance.
There's also a CEO, a guy named Murphy in the New York Sun today, who really ridicules Al Gore, says he's more dangerous than uh than global warming is, and we'll have details on all that as we get to the global warming stack.
First, let's go to the audio sound bites.
We have CNN people, we've got ABC people, we got Newsweek people, we got CNN people again, we got ABC people here, uh, all excited, all talking about fawning over uh the kindness of President Mahmoud Ach Madinizad.
President Bush used the word hostage.
Now, is that something the British would rather the U.S. stay away from?
Mr. Bush made that comment at a press conference.
Maybe it was off the top of his head, but certainly here the word hostage is not being used.
You heard President Bush say hostages.
That's the first time he said hostages.
Do you think Blair wanted him to use that word?
The use of the word hostage conjures up memories of America's own crisis with Iran.
British officials have been hesitant to use the H-word hostage, but President Bush had no qualms.
No qualms whatsoever, and of course it was supposed to worsen the situation.
Now the uh the 15 are free.
Again, Mahmoud Ahmedinezad chastised the British for having the uh uncivilized uh notion of uh deploying a woman with a child at home uh to combat.
Here's the CNN translation where Mahmoud, the great humanitarian, urges Tony Blair not to punish the hostages.
I declare that the people of Iran and the government of Iran in full power given their legal right to place on trial the military people to give amnesty and pardon to these 15 people and I announce their freedom and their return to the people of Britain I request the government of Mr. Blair not
to question these people or to place them on trial for speaking the truth.
And I request Mr. Blair rather than to increase international controversy or the occupation of other landscape to take steps towards peace, truthfulness and justice, and to serve the people of England.
How long is it going to be before somebody advances the idea that Nancy Pelosi in her burqa, by the way, she's a big proponent of women's rights, and here she is bending over and grabbing the ankles for the Islamo fascists.
How long is it going to be before somebody tells us that she was responsible for this?
That she talked to uh uh Basher Assad and Assad said, Oh, you know, you've got a good idea, let's release the Brits, and he talked to Mahmud and I just won't be surprised uh if this happens.
And of course, here's Mahmoud telling Tony Blair stop being an imperialist, go back home.
And don't punish these people.
Don't don't question them.
Don't punish it.
Uh it's sad.
It's just very sad, folks.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
All right.
Couple more sound bites on the uh on the on the magnanimity and the compassion and the uh uh the compromise capabilities of the great.
Mahmood Achmadinizad, here is CNN's Christian Amanpore speaking and reporting on the release of the hostages.
I think also it's important to note Iran, uh and you noted what he was doing.
He spent a lot of time talking about God and religion, but don't forget it's Easter coming up.
And perhaps part of this timing was also for Easter.
Big, big holiday in the Christian world, as you know.
Really, God, I'd forgotten that.
It's Easter.
If it weren't for Christiana Manpur in CNN, I I would have totally forgotten the fact that Easter is a big holiday here.
So Mahmood is sensitive to uh to the Christian tradition.
Uh, ladies, Mahmood recognizes it's Easter, and and of course, this is this is all designed to do exactly what it's doing.
Every time the president or somebody sounds the warning bells about Iran, idiots and sponges who soak up what the drive-by's are saying today, are gonna say, What that that guy?
The guy who patiently and kindly compassionately release those British hostages, he threatens us.
I don't believe it.
That's the purpose of this.
Mahmood Ahmadinejad stealing the limelight today, making himself look like Mother Teresa with a beard.
Uh and is designed to offset there's that word again, any uh any allegation that Mahmud actually heads up a terrorist state uh and has threatened to blow Israel off the map and other such things.
Uh also on CNN today, the anchorette Frederica Whitfield had this exchange with the reporter at Robin Oakley about the hostages' meeting with Mahmoud.
Here it is.
This has to be, of course, welcome news to see these British uh sailors and marines now uh all dressed up and ready to go.
But Robin, just a few days ago, we know that Great Britain didn't like the idea of uh these servicemen being paraded in front of cameras.
Today, maybe they like it.
Well, in uh to have them paraded in these circumstances, I think yes.
So um uh the Brits are a bunch of bumbling fools and idiots.
I don't know what they're talking about.
Bush is a bumbling fool and an idiot.
And of course, this wouldn't have happened if it weren't for Bush being the big cowboy that he is.
But the bottom line is that Mahmoud Ahmadini uh such a great man, great man of compassion.
What a what a heart.
Uh and how can anything that anybody's been saying about Mahmood and Iran be true after this generous, generous act of of uh of kindness.
I've got a lot of emails from people who are just livid at Nancy Pelosi, and and we talked about this yesterday in great detail.
Um of the things that that they're upset about is here is this here's this woman who has made the big case for women's rights, women's equality, and so forth, going over to these countries like Syria and other places wearing the uh the Hajib, the Burqa, whatever it is.
Uh and and uh people are you know righteously indignant about it, and there's it probably justified.
Let's go back to earlier this year, January 4th, uh, on the floor of the House.
Here is just a portion of uh Pelosi's remarks.
We have waited over two hundred years, never losing faith.
We waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights.
But women weren't just waiting.
Women were working, never losing faith.
We worked to redeem the promise of America that all men and women are created equal.
For our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.
Yeah, okay.
Well, the marble ceiling's been broken, but Pelosi goes over to Middle East and rebuilds it.
The Queen Bee, after kissing the ring of Basher Assad, declares that he, the dictator, is ready to engage in peace negotiations with Israel.
She spoke to the press uh yesterday after she met with Assad.
Peace in the Middle East is a high priority for the American people and indeed the people in this region and in the world.
Uh, we were very pleased with the reassurances we received from the president that he was ready to resume the peace process.
He was ready to engage in negotiations with peace with Israel.
And she's over there wearing the burqa.
She's doing all this for women's rights, but now she claims that Assad is ready to talk with the Israelis.
He's ready for peace with the Israelis.
Um that stupid.
I I think you know Snurdley says, is she that stupid?
Uh this is a tough thing to say.
I mean, it gives so this can be misin misinterpreted a lot of weight.
Well, look, there's a way of saying somebody.
For example, you you can in instead of somebody telling somebody that they have holes in their head, you can tell them they have an open mind.
You know, there's uh there's a way.
You call somebody stupid and uh people, you know it's but I d I I don't think that she is blessed with a tremendous IQ.
I I don't think this is the brightest bulb, incandescent or compact fluorescent in the socket.
I don't think I I don't think that the elevator goes all the way to the top.
She is an order of French fries short of a happy meal.
I uh there are any number of ways that you can say this.
I really do think that that that she's she's she's stupid.
There.
You happy?
Why now the Snerdley's question, I'm sure it's why is anybody going to believe her?
Uh folks, we talked about this yesterday.
I can't explain it, but people will.
People will why is anybody gonna believe it?
Because Pelosi's dead, because Bush isn't talking to Assad.
Pelosi did.
You understand people have been taught conflict resolution.
They think if you reach out to your enemies, you can convince them you're not a bad person, and everything can be hunky-dory.
There are a lot of people who think that not talking to bad guys only widens the gap.
A lot of people who think that having conflict and standoff with people doesn't get you anywhere.
Uh and they think that sitting down and talking, even if it means you look at all the people that love compromise.
And look at how they define it and so forth.
Uh I I frankly, uh to be honest, I don't know how many people are gonna give a rat's rear end about this anyway.
I I let's talk a month from now and we'll see how many people actually think that uh something serious happened here.
She doesn't have the ability to negotiate for the United States.
She doesn't have the ability to negotiate for the Israelis.
All she can do is go over there and talk and puff up her own resume, say whatever she wants in a press conference.
We haven't heard Assad say this.
Assad hasn't come out and said he's ready to negotiate with Israel.
She's saying so.
Um, you know, and and Assad's probably sitting there saying, Boy, I love this.
We got the biggest dupe in the world that's shown up here over to see me.
She's out there saying all these great things about me, and nothing has to change.
Uh he's not gonna have to prove anything here.
Uh, it's just I understand how maddening and uh and frustrating it uh it is.
Let's go to the phones.
Dexter, Minnesota, Troy, your first today, the EIB network.
Hello.
Megadito's rush from Southern Minnesota.
Yes, sir.
Say, I'm uh I'm suggesting that you sell the carbon offsets to countries like France and Belgium.
I think you'd make a killing there.
This would be huge.
Well, I've thought about this, but you gotta have some people buy these offsets.
Uh is the thing.
I mean, you can you can I mean we can sell the offsets to France and so forth, but some of these places around the world are gonna have to reduce or plant trees or do something in order for the United States not to have to reduce its carbon footprint as a whole.
Uh and I I think what we ought to do is go to the signatories of the Kyoto Protocol.
France is a signatory, the EU, some of their nations are signatories, since they believe in it, uh uh, you know, we'll go out and sell these carbon offsets and then tell them, look, you guys, this is gonna work.
You guys reduce your carbon footprints, or you plant all these trees or whatever.
Another idea, we could we can have illegal immigrants plant trees all along the U.S. Mexican border.
We don't even need to build a fence.
Just plant trees.
Look at you that's a long piece of that's uh that's a long border.
It's a big stretch.
Uh and we would uh kill two birds with one stone and have all these new trees soaking up all the supposed pollution that we are putting out.
One thing I have to say, I'm having a little fun with this, but this Supreme Court decision yesterday is not insignificant.
The Supreme Court, the quote unquote law of the land, has just told the EPA, they haven't told them they have to so much, but they have cleared the way for the EPA to start regulating CO2 as It treats it as uh as a pollutant.
Now, I don't I don't want to be absurd here, but with with if if the if the Democrats win the White House in 2008, the EPA becomes what they want it to become.
Hello, Clinton carbon tax.
You remember one of the first taxes that the Clinton administration tried to enact in early 1993 was the BTU tax.
And it was going to add up to a 50 cent per gallon tax on gasoline and other usages that so-called uh left a so-called carbon footprint.
Imagine down the road, everybody being taxed for the number of times they exhale.
I mean, if you if if if CO2 is being emitted, whether it's coming from the human oral cavity or a smokestack or an exhaust pipe, uh, it can be taxed because the Supreme Court has just said it's a pollutant and the EPA.
See EPA never before qualified CO2 as a pollutant.
Now they might call it a greenhouse gas, but that does not mean it is a pollutant.
It's just been said now by the Supreme Court that it is.
Brilliant scientists that they are.
It's it is ridiculous, but this is not an insignificant thing down the road when the wrong people get in charge of the EPA.
Uh, and you know, the EPA is a government agency, and governments exist to grow, and they exist to tax, and they exist to control.
They exist to expand power.
So you get you give uh the right administration the power to start taxing CO2 emissions, and there's no end to it.
Especially under the guise of saving the planet and saving Palm Beach County.
You know, last time I looked, I just looked at the map.
North North Carolina juts farther out east than the little curve here in Palm Beach County.
They got hurricanes up there too.
Uh but I haven't seen any stories about how North Carolina's gonna be wiped out by global warming.
It'll happen.
Uh just uh just a matter of time.
What about all the curves in California?
What about that's just a wallapalooser of uh of a day.
Snerdley came in to me before the morning.
He said, I can't believe stuff in the news.
I just can't believe it.
It's it's it's it's insane.
Such as this story, we're doing such a great job on dealing with Al Qaeda that we're more dangerous or at greater risk than we've ever been.
I said, Snurdly, nothing we can do about it.
It makes for good radio, though, so there's an upside.
We'll have details coming up on these and other things as well.
More of your phone calls after this.
Yesterday on this program doing a couple of brilliant monologues.
I pointed out that a reason why so many people in this country don't seem to be agitated uh by a number of things that we all are, is that they're inundated all the time with drive-by media uh coverage of various events, and one of the things that the drive-by media has been insistent upon, along with their allies of the Democrat Party, is trying to convince as many people as possible.
There really isn't a war on terror.
I mean, Bush created it.
The only reason Muslims are trying to kill us is because we're killing them.
We're invading their countries, we're doing all these other horrible things.
It's Bush that's the problem.
We're, you know, if it hadn't been for Bush, none of this would have happened.
9-11, a mere episode, it can't be tied to anything that's uh part of a uh a big broad plan that militant Islamo fascists might have.
Uh and and so there really isn't any need for being in Iraq.
There's no need to be in Afghanistan.
There's no need to have a war on terror.
We need to fund education and health care.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Show you just how prescient I am.
And to once again illustrate just how I know these people.
As I said yesterday, I know liberals, like every square inch of my glorious rapidly shrinking nevertheless body.
Not just the back of my hand.
From the Army Times.
The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.
It's not because the war has been won or lost or even called off, but because the committee's Democrat leadership doesn't like the phrase.
A memo for the committee staff circulated on March 27th, says the 2008 defense bill and its accompanying explanatory report will set defense policy and it says it should be specific about the military operations and avoid using colloquialisms.
The global war on terror, phrase first used by President Bush shortly after the 9-11 attacks, Should not be used, according to the memo.
Also banned is the phrase the long war, which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against the terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years.
Committee staff members are told in the memo to use specific references to specific operations instead of the Bush administration's catchphrases.
The memo written by Staff Director Aaron Conatin provides examples of acceptable phrases such as the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, operations in the Horn of Africa, or ongoing military operations throughout the world.
There was no political intent in doing this in a Democrat aide who didn't want to be identified.
We're just trying to avoid catchphrases.
John Hawley, Josh Hawley, actually, a spokesman for Representative Duncan Hunter of California, the former chairman of this committee, now it's senior Republican, said Republicans weren't consulted about the change.
Ike Skelton from my home state of Missouri is a Democrat, chairman of the committee, had a staffer draw up a little memo instructing staffers and members the references to the war on terror should be eliminated from the 2008 defense budget.
It seems the Democrats do not like the phrase.
Skelton's been among those who've been complaining long time that the military is tied up with Iraq operations.
It's reduced its capacity to take on other expanded operations.
But uh, this is a war that can't be named.
There is no war on terror, and they think they they telling us this isn't political.
They're telling us that this we're just trying to avoid all this confusion.
So as as far as the Democrats are concerned, the lingo in the defense budget 2008, which which goes into effect October 1, the fiscal year here in September 30th.
So we're talking about the defense but defense budget authorization for for next year beginning in October.
Uh no war on terror, folks.
No, of course, this isn't political.
No, no.
This is designed to get a lot of play and uh to to convince as many Americans as possible that everything we're doing in the war on terror is just non-necessary, because there isn't one.
And that is the uh the specific intent.
Uh, a couple other things I don't have time to get to right before the break here ends, but I keep hyping this, and it's unbelievable.
It's a Reuters story.
Bush has been so successful, so successful against Al Qaeda, that the United States has never been at greater risk from them.
Uh we'll explain this.
Well, we'll tell you what they say.
There's no explaining this other than to call it insane and pure partisanship disguises journalism.
And I've also learned something from the Washington Post blog today about the John Edwards campaign.
We have some audio sound bites.
And once again, what we have learned will once again confirm that I and my instincts were dead on right from the get-go on this story.
Look at here, folks.
Uh, North Carolina actually beat Palm Beach County as the first county or the state to suffer total annihilation by global warming.
The barrier islands out there, 2005 is the story.
Details coming up, so Palm Beach County, we won't be the first to be destroyed because of our curve by global warming.
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