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May 1, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 1, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #2
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So I get home last night after the charitable outing.
And I had to leave really, really early in the morning.
I didn't get a chance to look at the computer and newspaper stuff.
So I'm doing all that last night when I get home, and I run across this blurb about me in page six.
Did you did you see this?
I told you people I went to this restaurant in New York last Thursday called a Kobe Club.
And a Kobe Club is I described it.
It's a Japanese, it's not it's a steakhouse, but it's unlike any steakhouse that you've ever been to.
And I just I I did my best in a short period of time to describe how indescribable the place is.
So I'm reading about this in page six yesterday.
According to the New York Post, Rush Limbaugh lived large at Kobe Club Thursday night, devouring bacon with truffles, Japanese strip steak, Kobe beef cheek ravioli, a large seafood platter, a combo of American, Australian, and Japanese wagyu steak, and several side dishes.
After the $700 feast, Limbaugh left the server a $1,000 tip.
Well, if you people think I ate all of that while in the midst of I've just I've probably hit 50 pounds here because I had to tighten my belt another notch today.
Now, I have a friend whose brother-in-law is Jeffrey Chotaro, who owns the place.
He's been raving about this to me.
So I wanted to go check it out.
And I got in there, and we didn't order anything.
They just started bringing things as like a tasting sampler.
And I swear they brought they brought half the raw bar.
It wasn't two stories.
Two trays, one on top of another with a raw bar stuff in it.
Took a couple things off that, then little portions of all these different cuts of beef that they sell.
They do sell Kobe, and Kobe is kind of like champagne.
You can't call sparkling wine made in any other country champagne.
It has to come from the Champagne region of France to be called Champagne.
Same with Kobe beef.
It has to come from Kobe, Japan to be called Kobe.
Well, the Australians and the Americans have come up with their own brand of Kobe beef.
They call it Wagyu since they can't call it Kobe.
And then there was a sample of U.S. prime on the plate.
And they brought out three different flavors of mashed potatoes.
And they brought out a couple of different flavors of the table was overflowing with things.
We didn't order any of it.
It was just the restaurant owner being nice.
This thing gets written up as though I'm a pig.
In the midst of this diet that I'm losing 50 pounds on.
And there were other people in there.
I mentioned a Randy Jackson, one of the judges from American Idol was in there.
And uh John Rich of the Country Crooner Duo, Big and Rich, bought me an adult beverage.
I don't know how they didn't get mentioned.
They had a much larger larger party than I did.
They probably had to they ordered Nate more than I did.
Uh didn't show up in there.
It just it's just um, you know, people read this stuff and they believe it.
If it's in print, why they believe it.
By the way, mentioned earlier, uh and by the uh I want to thank the people at Kobe Club.
They were very nice that they they were just they just brought out a little sampling uh well, one little, but they they they uh I in fact I remember you know looked at the menu and did order some things, and all I can tell you is that far more than what I ordered showed up.
And uh didn't eat a smidgen of it.
Wanted to eat more.
It was delicious.
It was superb.
At any rate, as I mentioned earlier, the NAALCP will hold a symbolic funeral for the N-word at their July convention, Part of its national stop campaign, that's in CAP, stop and campaign, to end the prevalence of racist and sexist language, images, and concepts in the media.
Holding symbolic funerals to demonstrate the end of a racially discriminatory practice is common practice of the NAALCP when they began a campaign.
The 1960s, the NAALCP held a funeral for the segregationist Jim Crow policies in the South.
And most recently, uh they held a funeral for voter apathy.
Now, this stop campaign calls on young people to stand up against anyone who argues that words are not hurtful and calls for increased diversity in the music and television industries.
I know what that means.
It means it's time to get a minority host at MSNBC.
And we've, as you know, we agree with the reverends Jackson and Sharpton on this.
And we ran a poll on our own website about who should resign.
Uh in order to make their slot available for the first minority host at MSNBC, and you people in our poll selected Chris Matthews.
Forty nine to forty-seven percent over uh Heath Oberdork and then uh the what was uh Tucker Carlson was in there at uh at four percent.
Anyway, uh as you know, we have uh sponsor here, the Justice Brothers, and the Justice Brothers sent us new commercial today that goes along uh with with the uh the the NAA L C P funeral for the N-word.
The Justice Brothers.
Reverend Sharpton and Jackson, and you can't say that exclusive.
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Rupert Murdoch has offered sixty billion uh sixty dollars a share for control of Dow Jones.
That would be the Wall Street Journal, essentially, and all of their um subsidiaries, that comes out to a total of five billion dollars.
Now, this is this is a fascinating thing.
I I'll tell I'll tell you why.
This offer is really sweet.
This offer is north, way north of you know what you would think an opening bid would be.
And my guess is that an offer of five billion dollars, sixty bucks a share, is gonna tempt the family that owns Dow Jones Inc.
But here's the fear.
This is this is the fear that a lot of people have, isn't that uh that that other media powerhouses like uh Google uh or Bloomberg, or maybe a Soros, Soros outfit, would now step in with bids.
Uh and of course, you'd say Murdoch, probably the same mission as the Wall Street Journal has the Dow Jones uh people, but you couldn't say that about Google or Bloomberg, or maybe maybe even uh uh uh Soros front group or what have you.
And I think that's one of the reasons why that this price is so north of what an opening bid would be.
It this is a sweet offer.
Uh it's so far over the current trading price, this the the current share price of sixty bucks a share.
And I'll bet you that's why this is so big, just to keep others from getting in on this.
We'll have to wait and see, but this could be um well, it is big.
And it could turn out to be even bigger.
All right, to the phones to Danville, California.
This is m- Oh, Mike, I'm glad you you know you just reminded me of something.
That that uh that interchange collapse, the tanker truck that blew up the uh the bridge leading to the Bay Bridge, the interchange leading to the Bay Bridge.
You know what I read about that, Mike?
You read about it.
Yeah, I read that uh the flames melted the steel in the construction.
That's impossible.
Well, I thought that was impossible because the 9-11 conspiracy theorists say that that the that fire could not melt steel, for example, in the Twin Towers, that it had to be Bush and the government setting off uh implosion devices in order to bring down the buildings on now.
Here's a second instance here where fire melted steel in that construction project.
Well, no doubt you're on to something.
Yes.
Well, I usually am as hosts.
As host.
Well, anyway, it's uh it's an honor.
I haven't talked to you in a while, and now you're a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
So, I keep forgetting to mention that because I'm not braggadocious.
Yes, we're pulling for you on the West Coast.
Thank you.
You'd be my vote.
He write on uh Cuba.
Um I'm a frequent visitor to the island.
How do you get there?
I mean, actually legally, through humanitarian group.
Oh.
Um things are a little bit tighter than they were a couple years ago.
But uh I walk down where there are papers and scare uh immigration.
Um when I come back and I check the box that I've been in Cuba, but it uh it works.
What are you flying to Havana?
You take a boat in there.
Um, there's a couple ways.
There's actually charters.
Air Jamaica used to have charters.
I usually uh Yeah, when and then when Castro thought that we're getting close to ending the embargo, he'd shoot them down.
Well, no, not really.
But I there's there's there's multiple pathways to get get him.
A lot of charters out of uh out of Miami that go direct.
There used to be a flight from I don't know if it's still flying, used to go from LA actually uh straight into Jose Marty and into Havana.
And I'm always amazed.
Anyway, you're right, you're right on.
You must have traveled there, or obviously, you know, well schooled on Cuba.
I'm not an expert by any means, but I know uh I think a lot more than the drive-by media's reporting.
Your first impression, I'm always amazed when the Oliver Stones come back and they talk the virtues of Cuba.
Your first impression, I've always said this the place is broken.
And I think every high school kid should spend a week in Havana.
And you'll come back and kiss the ground that you left in America.
And then you'll see recruiting go up.
Uh you in in what I'm getting at the you know, for example, the the trip from the airport into Havana, my first impression is Fidel, this place is broken.
This is just busted.
And and you know, it's a good idea.
Let me tell you something, uh, Mike, it's in such bad shape.
Uh even now on places like the History Channel.
They're being forced to do stories on the crumbling, beautiful, one-time beautiful Art Deco architecture in downtown Havana.
They just they can't there is no restoration, there is no maintenance.
It's just it's literally all falling apart.
And you see, this is all a problem, the U.S. embargo.
But you wonder why uh and I did for the longest time too.
How is it that leftists, be they academics or entertainers or whatever, go down there and they see what you see.
You can't miss it.
Uh they see the squalor.
Remember the story not long ago, Castro was going to give away rice cookers to every rice cookers.
And the reason he was giving rice cookers away is because of black market and producing food had started.
People were starving.
They are rationed beans in Cuba.
Beans.
They're rationed beans, folks.
You wonder why do the leftists from academia and entertainment go down there, come back raving about the place, and there's a simple, simple answer for this.
They see what you see, Mike, but they don't see it.
What they see is a man with total power.
You have to understand leftists and you there's uh there's certain things about them that you cannot omit.
You can't forget.
They believe in huge, all powerful government to tell everybody else how to live.
I will guarantee you that when these leftists that you're asking about take their trips into downtown Havana, they're picked up uh because they're there to see Castro.
And they're they're picked up in nice cars and they're given the nicest way in the town possible.
But they listen to Castro and they hear an idealist, and they hear a guy who's got uh got his uh uh gripes against the United States, as they do, uh and they they identify with him.
He's just this little guy.
Look at what he's done.
Why he took over that country.
He took it away from a right wing dictator, Batista.
And he's done his best.
And if it weren't for the U.S. targeting him and trying to kill him and assassinate him with exploding cigars and the bay of pigs, and if it weren't for our embargo, who knows what a paradise this would be?
They thought that about the Soviet Union.
There's uh there's this there's this attraction they have to leaders who are omnipotently powerful, and that's the attraction that the the the that Castro has for them.
They they they they don't see Castro in any way responsible for the squalor and the poverty and the decrepiteness of the country.
They see Castro as still in the midst of a 50, 40 year mission to fix it, but my gosh, the odds that he faces the U.S. government, not one president has recognized him.
He's faced a country only ninety miles away that probably would like to bomb or invade or whatever.
It's I know folks, it sounds convoluted, but this is how they think.
But the main thing is they look at the power and they're envious of it.
That's that's it in an upshow.
And then they they start lying to themselves about the good intentions that Castro has had all these years.
I mean, liberals, they've wreaked their share of havoc culturally in this country.
They don't own up to that either.
No, because you're not supposed to examine results.
You're supposed to examine good intentions and big hearts.
And that's what they see in Castro.
How else to explain the pure sophistry that Cuban health care is somehow a standard to be emulated?
How do you explain?
Do you see them sending their kids down there for health care?
When Castro got sick, he had to bring in surgeons from Spain for crying out loud.
He didn't even use his own people.
Well, the second time around he did because the first the Cuban people botched it.
He might have played a role in that by refusing a colostomy bag.
He demanded that his colon be, you know, resown and it broke and that he got infected.
So they had to bring some Spanish doctor who knew what he was doing.
I mean, how look it.
It's like, like I said in the previous hour, Andrew Mitchell down there, she honestly believes, she honestly believes the only thing holding Cuba back is the U.S. embargo.
Why, if it weren't for the U.S. embargo, communism would thrive.
So what?
We're supposed to support communism, lift the embargo, and then communism can thrive.
Do you realize that that's just ignorant?
It is sophistry.
Great.
Thank you.
As is their their illusion, delusion that the Cuban health care down there is, you know, the standard uh which everybody should have their own health care measured.
Anolulu, Hawaii.
Jim, thanks for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Aloha, Rush.
A little Hawaiian lingo there for you.
Great to hear it.
Uh your monologue today reminded me of something that one of the Democrat presidential candidates, Mr. Biden said.
Which uh which monologue would that be?
I've done four.
The one about how the Democrats are gonna stay in Iraq.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh, even if they get the White House.
And one of the contenders for that office, Senator Biden, said in his interview last week with Chris Wallace on Fox News.
Something to the effect of how they will need to keep some troops in Iraq in case an al Qaeda camp pops up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I thought, well, gee, isn't he basically uh validating your point about that they probably will.
Yeah, and he's he's not the only one.
Now, for those of you just tuning in, this is the worst possible way to hear what I said.
This is a big long monologue and plenty of context.
Uh and I don't have time to go through it.
You'll have to check in the website later this afternoon we update it to reflect the contents of today's program.
But it was uh I spent about what was it, ten or twelve minutes on this.
The Democrats aren't going to pull us out of a rock, not when defeat will be lasso'ed around their necks.
They're not going to do that.
By the way, speaking of Biden, uh I don't know where he said this, but he says on television, we need to get rid of the incivility.
We've got to be more civil in our society.
And then he said he personally was going to shove the Iraq war bill down George W. Bush's throat.
We'll be back after this.
No need to think about it, folks.
We do all the thinking for you here at the EIB network.
All you have to do is act like a mind-numbed robot sponge and soak it all up.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program today, George Tennett.
If there's ever living evidence that President Bush held on to too many people from the previous administration, in not only the CIA of State Department and number place, George Tennet is the guy.
Uh in in dealing with this, but it is almost as though.
Remember when Charles Barclay wrote his autobiography and somebody asked him about a couple things and he said he was misquoted.
Misquoted in his own autobiography.
It's almost like George Tennett has written a book, but on a number of the things he wasn't around when it was being written.
Now the weekly standard, Bill Crystal, a bunch of people have been doing some uh incredible research into the book, even before I think a book comes out today, where it's already out yesterday or whatever it's if not, it's gonna be soon.
Uh one of the most egregious things that Tennant reports is that uh that after September, it was on September 12th, that he was in the um in a White House.
And he saw Richard Pearl walk out of the Oval Office.
So what's Pearl in there doing before the president seen me?
And Pearl, according to Tennet, said to George Tennet, Now, this is it.
It's a rock's behind us, and we got to go get Iraq.
Finally we're going to be able to get Iraq.
Well, guess what?
Richard Pearl was not in the country on September 12th.
He was out of the country.
He couldn't get back in because air traffic control had closed all American airspace.
Totally.
How does something like that happen?
Maybe maybe Mr. Tennant was misquoted in his own book.
But Pearl's not even in the country for crying out loud.
He says he saw him coming out of the Oval Office.
Meeting with Bush before he did.
One of the other things that's, and this has long been bandied about in the drive-by media, the Democrats in the drive-bys have done their best to suggest that Cheney made it all up about al-Qaeda being in Iraq before 9-11, And he didn't make it up.
It's in it's in the book.
Of course, I don't know what we can believe in this book, frankly.
Uh, with that Richard Pearl example.
But George Tenet cites all kinds of intelligence.
Yeah, yeah, well, Al Qaeda was there.
Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi was there.
He was there recuperating from injuries.
I think he suffered in Afghanistan.
Now, nobody ever said from Cheney Bush on down, nobody ever said that operational control for 9-11 had anything to do with Saddam.
All they ever said was that Iraq was in infiltrated and with Al-Qaeda members, which was true.
And of course, the reason the drive-by's of the Democrats is trying to say this is that there was no reason to go to Iraq or Al Qaeda did 9-11.
Al Qaeda was in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
And no, they were they were in Iraq, and George Tenet's own book says so.
And he cites the intelligence on it.
And it's highlighted in this story by Thomas Jocelyn in the Weekly Standard.
Now, Saddam didn't control them, but they were there.
They were safe and comfortable in Iraq, and Saddam had to know they were there because they were meeting with some of Saddam's lieutenants.
Tennet devotes an entire chapter to the question of Iraq's ties to Al Qaeda.
It's chapter 18, no authority, direction, or control.
And much of the chapter is used to vilify Doug Fife, the former Under Secretary of Defense and Vice President Cheney.
Tennet claims repeatedly that Doug Fife and Cheney and others in the administration exaggerated the intelligence on Saddam's ties to Al-Qaeda.
Tennet says that they pushed the data farther than it deserved and sought to create a connection between Iraq and the 9-11 attacks that would have made weapons of mass destruction, the United Nations and the international community almost uh absolutely irrelevant.
In this vein, Tennet also erroneously claimed to have met Richard Pearl on September 12th.
And according to Tennet, Pearl said Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday, but Pearl was in France.
He has a house in France.
He couldn't get back to the U.S., he was not there on September 12th, could not have met with Tennet.
Richard Pearl's denying the conversation took place at all.
Now, Tennet doesn't offer much evidence to support his contention, but it's worth noting what he does not claim, and that is that the Bush administration cooked up the connection between Saddam's Iraq and Al Qaeda in its entirety.
In fact, Tennet concedes in his book that there was evidence of a worrisome relationship.
For example, Tennet explains in late 2002 and early 2003, a quote from the book here, there was more than enough evidence to give us real concern about Iraq and Al-Qaeda.
There was plenty of smoke, maybe even some fire.
Ansar Al-Islam, uh uh Zarkawi, Kermal the arrests in Europe, the murder of American U.S. Aid officer Lawrence Foley and Amman at the hands of Zarkawi's associates and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad operatives in Baghdad.
On Ansar Al-Islam, Zarkawi and Kermal, Tenet elaborates further in the book.
The intelligence told us that senior Al-Qaeda leaders and the Iraqis had discussed safe haven in Iraq.
Now what in the world is is Tenet trying to do here by saying that all this intelligence was cooked up.
He is confirming everything the administration said.
And nothing more.
The administration never ever said that Saddam Hussein or anybody in the Iraqi government had operational participation in 9-11, just that Al Qaeda was there.
Most of the public discussion thus far is focused on Zarkawi's arrival in Baghdad under an assumed name of May 2002, allegedly to receive medical treatment.
Zarkawi, whom we termed a senior associate and collaborator of Al Qaeda at the time, supervised camps in northern Iraq run by Ansar Al Islam.
We believe it up to 200 Al Qaeda fighters began to relocate there in camps after the Afghan campaign began in the fall of 2001.
The camps enhanced Zerkawi's reach beyond the Middle East.
Only the camps run by Ansar Al Islam, known as Kermel, engaged in production and training in the use of low-level poisons like cyanide.
Our efforts to track activities emanating from Kermal resulted in the arrest of nearly 100 Zirkawi operatives in Western Europe planning to use poisons in operations.
Now, according to Tennet, Al Qaeda's presence was not limited to Northern Iraq.
What was even more worrisome, he writes, was that by the spring and summer of 2002, more than a dozen of Al Qaeda affiliated extremists converged on Baghdad with apparently no harassment on the part of the Iraqi government.
They had found a comfortable, secure environment in which uh they moved people and supplies to support Zerkawi's operations in northeastern Iraq.
Now, Thomas Jocelyn writes, it strains credulity to imagine that all of this was going on without, at the very least, Saddam's tacit approval.
Tennet says the CIA didn't think Saddam had operational direction and control over the two Egyptians, Zarqawi or Ali, but he explored or Ansar al-Islam, but he explains from an intelligence point of view, it would have been difficult to conclude that the Iraqi intelligence service was not aware of their presence in their activities.
Certainly, Tennant adds, we believe at least one senior uh Ansar al-Islam operative maintained some sort of liaison relationship with the Iraqis.
It's a devastating analysis of the book here.
It's again the weekly standard by uh by Thomas uh Thomas Jocelyn.
And I I'll tell you, I don't take you back.
Do you realize you know, memories I know are fleeting and sometimes short, but you go back to the days immediately after 9-11 and the ensuing two years leading up to our invasion of Iraq in the spring of ninth or 2003.
There was there was greater consensus in the world for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq than there is for global warming today.
Our allies agreed that Saddam had WMDs, UN inspectors agreed that Saddam had WMDs.
The UN Security Council agreed it doesn't want to do anything about it.
The left in America, the Democrat Party from 1998 on, led by Bill Clinton and Tom Dashel were warning us of the weapons of mass destruction in the arsenal of Saddam Hussein.
The New York Times agreed.
Ex-President Clinton agreed.
His wife, Mrs. Clinton agreed.
John Kerry didn't flip-flop back in 1998.
They all knew that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Everybody, it wasn't consensus, it was fact.
He had used them.
It was not consensus.
It was near unanimous that Saddam had weapons.
Well, it probably never was to Dennis Kucinich.
But it was unanimous to everybody.
It was it was it was factual.
And yet this myth has survived that there was no Al Qaeda and there and there weren't any weapons of mass destruction.
See, when you're not the senior officer of the United States government, i.e.
the president.
Then you're free to just go off the reservation and say you were lied to and you you were made a fool of and so forth.
But the president can't do that.
Uh he has to stand by what he does, and it's far and something the Democrats still are not doing, even though they have the majority in the House and Senate.
Uh they're still acting like the minority, you know, this little petulant kids in a sandbox doing no, no, no, no, no.
Everything.
Anyway, quick time out.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Stay with us.
How are you?
Welcome back, Hell Rush Ball, the EIB network.
We go to Clinton, New Jersey.
This is Sylvia.
Sylvia, thank you for calling.
It's great to have you on the program with us.
Hi, Rush.
You know, I feel kind of sorry for George Tenet right now because he's getting blasted both from the right and from the left based on this book, as you probably know.
But I know I just talked about that.
Okay.
But I just think that, you know, this just bears out what we all knew that this intelligence was cooked going in.
And you know, you always talk all the time about how to do it.
Wait a minute.
Wait, what tell me what was cooked?
What what what is what is in the Tenet book that convinces you the intelligence was cooked?
Rush.
I mean, I haven't read the Tenet book at all, but his you know, the I guess what I've heard in the media.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That doesn't work.
That doesn't work.
That's not good enough.
What you've heard in the media, the media is not objective.
They've got an agenda.
I just are you saying that's a good idea.
Sylvia, are you that I looked at the Sylva Silvia?
Are you listening to the program?
Well, I just got in the car.
I couldn't believe I got through, you know, because I was so interested in that.
What website did you visit that gave out the phone number and the marching orders to call here and say the tenant book proves that intelligence I listen to I listen to you every day.
I mean, I listen to conservative talk radio more than anything that I ever hear.
Once in a while I hear hardball while I'm cooking dinner.
And this is just uh this is a rush.
But you can't you haven't read the book.
You don't you you if you haven't read the even if you haven't read any excerpts, you're gonna tell me it proves intelligence was cooked.
Well, Rush, what I'll well that I'll just say is that you always say can I Rush, can I say one thing?
Well, God you always say that the Democrats have been wrong about everything.
And I turn it to you and I say, My God, this administration, I'm willing to give him a pass on weapons of mass destruction.
But they knew darn well that he had nothing that Saddam, who hated fundamentalist extremists, he was just a secular dictatorship, had no patience for Al Qaeda.
This is more than that.
This is why I I am I'm frustrated with you, Sylvia, because we're gonna have a new rule on this program, and we're gonna call it the Sylvia rule.
You have to be listening to the program to call.
I just talked about the weapons of mass destruction.
If you think that everybody knew that there were no WMDs.
I don't.
I think that that was the one honest mistake that they made.
What was dishonest was to try to link Saddam Hussein to the events of 911.
I didn't.
They never did.
I just got to talking about I'm getting frustrated, Sylvia.
Well, please don't get frustrated.
But you know what?
All right, all right, that's it.
Sylvia, thank you for the call.
Now I'm gonna have to repeat this whole thing that I just did.
Nobody ever said in the administration that Saddam had operational control over 9-11.
All they ever said, Sylvia, was that Iraq had members of Al Qaeda roaming the countryside.
They were in northern Iraq, they were even in Baghdad.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
It's in Tenet's book that you haven't read.
There was no intelligence cooked here.
If you go back and look at what the president said, weapons of mass destruction were not the only reason for going to Iraq, that there were Al Qaeda members there.
But they never claimed that all that Saddam had anything to do with 9-11.
But there were Al Qaeda members there, and the president said we're gonna go wherever they are.
And we finally did, after a number of years, kill Zarkawi.
And we may have killed Al Masri, his uh his his backup.
But look at I am sorry for my frustration, folks.
I I really am.
It's bad enough when people listening to the program don't get it.
But then to have talk somebody hasn't listened to it, act like the expert.
Um The description of Zarkawi as a threat with Al-Qaeda links and enjoying sanctuary in Iraq without being under the control of Saddam Hussein seems borne out by two things.
What Tenet has written in his book and also his testimony before the 9-11 Commission.
So what's changed?
What's new?
Al Qaeda was responsible for killing 3,000 Americans, and one of its worst terrorists was freely enjoying sanctuary in Iraq.
Now, what's changed about this?
What's changed about it is that the drive by media and the Democrats have sought to pollute your mind with a lie.
That Iraq was not uh hosting Al Qaeda, and furthermore, that Al Qaeda and Saddam worked together on nine eleven when Cheney never said it.
Rumsfeld never said it.
The president never said it.
All they ever said was that Al Qaeda was in Iraq.
And we were going after Al Qaeda.
And now we got Tenet's book out there pretty much confirming all this.
Nothing has changed.
Now, I love Sylvia.
She's obviously a hack.
But I I I love her, but she's she epitomizes a problem that we've got.
And that is ignorant citizens who think that they're informed.
And I'm not calling her stupid.
She just she's convinced.
She's convinced because she's heard it in the drive-bys that this administration said Saddam had operational involvement in 9-11, and they never did.
The administration never, ever said it.
I feel like doing a Howard Dean scream here, folks, but I won't.
SUV tried to drown a woman, but she survived.
I'll have details coming up in the next hour.
This is Valerie out on Long Island.
Hi, Valerie.
Thank you for the call.
It's a pleasure to be on your program.
I've been a listener for years.
Thank you.
I won't admit my age, but anyway.
What bothers me today they're celebrating our President Bush's um quote mission impos uh accomplished.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Uh to me, a mission is uh maybe I'm wrong.
I like to be corrected.
Uh several tries is a try toward a goal.
Well, let me let me your your instincts on this, Valerie Valerie, are right.
They are celebrating this, as you say.
They sent their Iraq resolution up that he's going to veto today on purpose.
They're the drive-by's on the Democrats are trying to call attention to this is the four-year anniversary of the mission accomplished arrival in the aircraft carrier because it's not accomplished.
Bush is a failure, uh, can't get anything done.
Uh Bush lied about accomplishing the mission.
Uh the mission accomplished had to do with overthrowing Saddam.
The mission accomplished, and it was, and it was it was accomplished rather quickly.
Saddam was tossed from power.
Uh the nobody at that time thought the war was over, and it was never portrayed as such.
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