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May 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2007, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, well, what a day for the drive by media.
A National Hurricane Center has released its forecast, 13 to 7 namestorms, five Big Mamas.
I want you to think five Katrinas in the media just excited as they can be.
Because now the media gets to scare us.
Terrorizes all they want.
With these predictions and so forth, just fits the mold for them.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
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A Washington Post story today.
Immigration compromise faces new opposition.
Proposal stays alive, but foes lie in wait.
What's interesting about this Washington Post story is that this little um reference here on page two.
Supporters had expected opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, but they conceded they were taken aback by the furious response over the weekend, especially from conservatives, who declared that the legislation is nothing short of amnesty for lawmakers.
They were surprised.
You would think by now that these people would have known for how many how many years have they been trying to ram this amnesty stuff down our throats, and they know what's happened each time they've tried.
Surprised at the level of support they got from read talk radio on that, by the way.
Surprised from the see, we're just a niche audience here.
Nobody outside of you people here has any idea what's going on here, of course, is their is their line of rap.
Anyway, they put the debate off uh the vote off until after the Memorial Day recess.
And the longer this goes on, the longer the delay, the more the debate, the more uh people find out what's in this, uh, then of course the uh the better we'll all be.
I'm gonna tell you folks, doing nothing's better than doing this.
That I mean it is.
You you're gonna hear the exact opposite from all of the uh so-called experts.
We gotta do a bill, we gotta do something.
This dad is quoted just won't say yes, better than this.
We're talking, you know, it's it's really even a misnomer to call this immigration.
This is not about immigration reform.
This is this is this is not immigration.
There's no assimilation here.
That's not what this is.
What this is is an attempt to remake the United States culture and society as liberals envision it and would love it to be.
And that is a culture in society that keeps them perpetually in power.
That's what this is.
It's a whole because the you know, there's a there's a romantic attachment to the whole term immigration.
We are a nation of immigrants, goes the phrase.
We are the melting pot.
Uh blah, blah, blah.
And so th I think the word uh immigration somehow does the uh a little bit of a disservice here, and I know it's not a uh purposefully done thing.
It's just it's it's confusing to people.
We're not talking about uh immigration in a traditional sense that uh it has been discussed as a uh way to build this country.
I had to take my little cat to the vet last night.
Uh to the emergency vet, little punkin.
Yeah, it's uh it turns out it's something a urinary tract infection.
She's uh she's an Abyssinian, she's a ruddy Abyssinian, and uh got her from a breeder, and and the the breeder does shows for cats, and so some of them there's a little inbreeding that goes on, and sometimes if you get a cat that way from a breeder, uh showbreeder, then uh they might uh have some weaknesses uh with the immune system and and this kind of thing, and she's got she's what's that.
Well, I would have loved to have been able to take family leave, but this happened last night at seven o'clock.
You know, and uh uh but I don't think of that.
You know the thing, I didn't even think of that.
See, this is the thing.
Uh I got my stats.
Well, you can take family everybody around here oriented toward vacation time except me.
Everybody around here oriented toward time off except me.
Yes, just kidding.
Anyway, she's got this condition.
Her bladder forms little crystals and end up blocking the urinary tract.
And she thinks that she's got to go to the bathroom and can't.
Poor little thing was suffering in there in a little box in litter box.
I'm watching this for 25 minutes.
And I know what had happened because we got a special food for it uh for this for this condition.
It's a soft foods made by Ralston Purina.
And of course, they discontinued it a month ago.
And the vet said, well, here's a substitute for it.
Does the same stuff.
She doesn't like it as much.
It's uh it's hard food.
She eats it, but she doesn't like it as much.
I also think that she was sending me a message of being gone for a week.
She was very I'm all over three o'clock this morning on.
I didn't get a whole lot of sleep, headbutting me, climbing on my hair, literally pulling my hair on the pillow.
So she's getting back.
We took her to the um the emergency vet last night, get an antibiotic, got got back around 10 30 or 11 o'clock.
I was exhausted anyway from the from the time away.
I just felt so sorry for this for this little cat, because you know, I don't know any of you have had urinary tract infections.
You think you've got to go to the bathroom and they got a pee and you can't.
Uh and of course, she was sitting there straining, started bleeding a little bit.
This, I'm not, I'm gonna get not gonna sit here and watch this.
I'm not gonna wait overnight until a regular vet opens up.
So we went to the emergency vet now.
It's on Forest Hills Boulevard.
Yeah, cats only or some such thing.
Uh and they they marveled in it.
They don't get to see Abyssinians much.
Um by the way, my cat is not the kind of cat that's uh kind of pussycat that's wiping out those hef bunnies uh down in the keys.
Don't don't confuse this uh this is a tame cat, lovely little cat, ten years old in August.
And aside from all this, the picture of health.
Listen to this story.
This is from USA Today, the headline alone.
Train kills man trying to kill woman.
It's from Los Angeles.
A man trying to kill his girlfriend by stopping a car in front of an approaching train was himself killed yesterday when the train hit the vehicle and launched it into him as he tried to run away.
The girlfriend survived.
The man drove the car in front of a group of other vehicles, stopped at a railroad crossing in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Sunland.
The driver who was seen arguing with his girlfriend, parked the car in the tracks and jumped out, leaving her behind.
A northbound commuter train hit the rear of the car, hurling it into the man, the girlfriend taken to hospital in stable condition.
She gets hit by a train and lives, he gets hit by his own car, and he dies.
I mean, you know, we're not supposed to laugh at stuff, but I mean, this is the uh the headline there.
The Democrats, uh ladies and gentlemen, this I want you to be prepared because they have they have totally pulled out now of a timeline.
The Democrats have dropped insistence on an Iraq withdrawal timeline.
Now, my question, what about the will of the people?
We keep hearing the will of the people was we gotta get out of Iraq.
That's what the election in November of 06 meant.
Scrambling to send President Bush an emergency war spending bill that he'll sign.
Democrat leaders have decided to drop their insistence on a timeline for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq.
The move is a significant concession to the president and his uh allies on Capitol Hill who have steadfastly rejected any date for bringing U.S. troops home.
Democrats also working to include a minimum wage hike in the funding bill in an effort to push the uh long delayed uh legislation of that by the way, they haven't got that done yet either.
Having got the minimum wage done, they can't get us out of Iraq.
You think their side, you think their kook fringe base gonna be happy with this?
This there's gonna be fireworks over this, this is gonna be fun uh to uh to watch, and they're throwing things in here like the minimum wage to try to buy them off and not get so mad.
Pelosi, in the meantime, while this is announced, is flying off to Greenland to look at glaciers.
Now, we talked yesterday, asked you a question I'm gonna ask you again.
During the Clinton administration, is anybody remember the hysteria on global warming that we are hearing every day during the Bush administration?
Sort of like homelessness.
When the Democrats in the White House, we don't have a homeless problem.
When a Republican's in the White House, we got plastic bags at grocery store problems.
We got homeless.
Everything is a crisis.
We are uh we're losing our image around the world.
Global warming is a pure political issue, and what is she doing flying off to visit glaciers in Greenland?
By the way, they've uh they've found I've got this story somewhere in the stack here.
Well, I guess I'll wait to it.
We get to the global warming update, but uh they are there are some receding glaciers where?
Switzerland.
And they're finding all kinds of things underneath these glaciers.
Mines where people lived uh and worked and so forth.
The glaciers came.
One one year the snows came and they didn't they didn't stop, and so you kept going, getting colder and colder and colder.
The glaciers are now receding, and the scientists talking about this, yeah.
Well, these are cycles.
We're just getting back to normal.
He's calling the current spate of global warming returning to normal.
Uh drive-by is also very excited about the continuing price rise of gasoline.
So oh, and folks, uh this was the subject of the morning update today, and I want to spend a little bit more time on this after the break.
Danny Glover, uh, who, as you know, uh often on crusades like he can't catch a cab in New York because he's a minority, uh, is down in Venezuela or was over the weekend, where the government of Hugo Chavez has given him about 18 million dollars to produce a movie.
And the movie is aimed at bashing us, the United States, Western imperialism, and uh and all of this.
And this represent and then this uh idiot, Leonardo DiCaprio, an Algor acolyte, got his own global warming movie coming out in which he says we face extinction.
And Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the primary star.
He's one of the stars of the movie.
Now it used to be.
I mean, Hollywood, how many decades went by while Hollywood claiming they were persecuted when they were accused of being communists?
Or they were accused of being in league with communists.
Now look what's changed.
They can't wait to throw up their hands and say, hey, we're with the commies.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue.
Stay with us.
America's truth detector, Dr. Democracy all combined here as one harmless, lovable little fuzzball, Rush Limbaugh at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You know, the uh the drive-by media, uh, a constant focus of this program because they're so predictable.
They are more predictable than any well, other than other liberals.
They're more predictable than anything out there going on.
You just you I have no doubt how they're going to report things, and you know, there's a uh the the chosen sides now.
They're they're they make no pretense at objectivity in the in the way they do their work.
They still go on a television analyzing themselves and pretend and maintain that they're objective, but they've thrown their lot in with the Democrats, and they don't even hide this anymore in a number of ways.
I I remember in fact, grab you know, it's been a long time.
Mike, we should do this as part of uh of uh uh SUV update.
Grab in a Hugo uh and uh and let me know when you have it.
We chronicled when when the I guess it was the some environmental group came out some ten years ago, started bashing SUVs.
They are unsafe because the people who are not in them are at greater risk if people get into an accident with them.
Uh they pollute, they use too much gasoline, and but the drive-by's just picked up the theme.
All of a sudden, everybody hated SUVs.
When one little liberal interest group, and we started getting news stories about SUVs driving themselves off of the fourth level of a parking garage.
SUVs missing the exit, going off a bridge and ramming itself into an abutment over interstate highways.
And we sat here and marveled at this.
The SUV was driving itself.
There are no human beings of the SUV is so evil it can handle itself.
We began to chronicle all of these examples of the way the media just falls right in line, and not just one element of the media, but they all do it.
AP, UPI, the wire services, the cable channels when they report, and I've got a doozy for you today, and this one is worth an SUV update.
Drove with pride, getting squashed by an SUV.
Driving with pride, though.
Crosstown traffic, Jimmy Hendricks.
All right, here we go.
The headline is from the Orlando Sentinel.
SUV crashes into store, perhaps in attempt to steal guns.
It's right here.
Look, let me zoom in for you on the on the ditto cam, those of you watching this.
See that SUV crashes into store, perhaps in attempt to steal guns.
Orlando Sentinel comes through here with the big hen, and the story gets it right.
Robbers smashed a vehicle into an Orlando gun shop this morning for the second time in less than a year, possibly searching for weapons.
Somebody drove a stolen white SUV over the curb through the metal gates at Al's Army Navy store on North Orange Blossom Trail.
The suspect left the SUV abandoned.
The SUV is taken on its own identity and it is evil.
Now these are headline writers, and these are uh the people that write the story as well.
But it just filters down.
It just filters.
Every a liberal interest group can make a claim.
It is news, and they all end up using it.
You got to hear this sound bat, uh soundbite.
This is uh this is uh I think this is interesting.
This Chris Matthews on Hardball last night uh being hard on on former President Bill Clinton since his encounter with me.
His guests last night are Lois Romano of the Washington Post and Jonathan Darman of Newsweek.
And Matthews says, Hey, Lois, how do you explain a comment by the former president?
Quote, I talk to Hillary, that's his wife.
I talk to Hillary almost every day.
He does.
I Well, what does that mean now?
What does it mean to say you talk to your spouse almost every day?
What does that mean to say something like that?
I think they're extremely close.
They're of one mind, and and I I'm I'm not asking about that.
Are they living on the same planet?
Do they ever see each other physically?
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Come on.
They're they're a partnership.
Because look, she's a senator, she goes home on weekends, he's traveling around, but they are they are make no mistake about it.
They are a a partnership, and they are a love story.
I mean, regardless of anything else that's happened.
Well, how many is it?
Twenty days a year.
How many days here they actually together in the same roof overnight, if you will.
I think that I saw a report that said it was about half a month.
A year.
Yeah.
Well, a half a month every month.
So whatever.
I would recheck the reporting.
Is that what you got, Jonathan?
And you're reporting that they're together half the time overnight.
This is not again something they like to talk about that much, but that it's a little bit less than that.
I seem to recall a figure there was seventy days a year.
Sounds like the perfect marriage to me.
Seventy days a year that you uh under the same roof with your spell.
You notice Lois Ramon.
I know Lois Romano.
I've I've had pleasant experiences with her when she's been acting as a journalist, and I have been acting as the target uh and as the uh as the victim.
But uh oh, they're a love story.
Oh, despite all that's happened, they they're they're they're a love story.
They don't even need to talk.
They are they are they they're so on the same plane that they don't even need to talk in order to be able to uh communicate.
All right.
Uh you know, I just remember I just forgot to get to this point I wanted to make about uh Leonardo DiCaprio and Danny Glover and their especially Glover going down to Venezuela, getting 18 million dollars to direct a film.
It's on the epic slave revolt, uh, by the way, and it's designed to to uh really attack Western uh civilizations, cultures as imperialistic and uh and oppressive.
We got Jonathan Edwards or John Edwards charging fifty-five thousand dollars to speak at the University of California at Davis about poverty.
Fifty-five thousand dollar speech fee to talk about poverty.
We are loaded today.
We've got an immigration stack, but I'm trying not to lead with it because I don't want to become a one-note samba on that because progress is being made.
Uh, we'll continue to talk about it right after this.
Tight.
I can remember a year ago, six months ago, maybe twelve months ago, thirteen or fourteen months, a little over a year, maybe.
Friends of mine panicking over Senator McCain and his candidates.
What Russ, I mean, this is horrible.
He's not, he's not a conservative.
I said, don't worry.
Don't worry.
Senator McCain will implode at some point.
And I think the implosions uh have begun.
He's imploding here at Romney, uh, accusing Romney of flip-flopping, he imploded with uh with Corny.
He was here what that was all about was here are these guys in the Senate, the Republicans and the Senator trying their best to hold their own.
Some of them are on this negotiation uh on the immigration deal with with the Democrats and Ted Kennedy, and McCain's out there missing all kinds of Senate votes, and he's out there running around campaigning, and he's really intensely out of town because he hasn't uh raised as much money as he wanted or needed, his fundraising light.
And all of a sudden, uh at the last minute, the 11th hour, he you know, buzzes into town, heads into the negotiation room and starts talking about what this happened, and this should happen.
And Coran said to him, Look, you know, you you f you fly in here after being out of town for three months, start telling us what we're gonna do.
Get in line, pal, something to that effect.
And uh, you know, and and here came the F bomb from McCain.
McCain I know more records legislation.
Anybody in this room, you got that chamber, you got it.
Just blew up.
And and uh uh that got reported.
McCain's people try to downplay it, even some of the uh Republican Senator staffers try to downplay it, obviously.
Uh and now the uh the Romney uh flip-flop.
And I've seen stories I haven't reported them or haven't shared them with you, but there have been stories in the last couple of weeks about McCain's health as he you know, they writing about he uh his inability to get off his straight talk express bus smoothly, got a bum knee, uh not moving around as fluidly as he used to, and they're beginning to wonder some people in the drive-by's are starting to speculate hey, is his age becoming a factor here?
Uh seventy years old now, I think, and he's had two bouts of uh of melanoma.
This story about John Edwards, too.
Now let's look and see where this story comes from, shall we?
This is um this is from the San Francisco Chronicle.
The San Francisco Chronicle qualifies as the drive-by media.
Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards, who, as a Democrat presidential candidate, recently proposed an educational policy that urged every financial barrier be removed for American kids who want to go to college, has been going to college himself as a high-paid speaker.
The candidate charged a whopping $55,000 to speak to a crowd of 1,700 at the taxpayer-funded UC Davis on January 9th, 2006, last year.
Now, this is just coming out.
Now, why is this being reported?
That I mean, the drive-by's didn't go out and sniff this out.
This is in his financial reporting information.
But why are they reporting it?
Normally sweep this stuff under the rug.
He's one of their guys.
Uh John Fund has a piece today, the Wall Street Journal, speculating that it's getting even too much, getting to be even too much for the drive-bys to ignore and to look the other way.
The guy is such a blatant hypocrite.
He goes to this hedge fund, where he ostensibly is going to learn about about poverty.
He doesn't do anything.
He's in a he's at an offshore hedge fund.
He's got statements on the record opposing tax shelters that are brought about by having offshore hedge funds like he goes to work for one.
After he comes out of his little consultancy deal there, making whatever 400 and some odd thousand dollars, I think he made, he said he learned about poverty.
Uh what did he learn about offshore hedge funds and in tax shelters and so forth, he claims to want to put down.
Then there was the story about uh, you know, he's at the r bashing Walmart all the hell, and one of his staffers is sent to Walmart to get a PlayStation 2 or 3 or something for one of Edwards' kids.
And Funn's theory is that they're beginning to wonder if the guy's not just a total and utter phony.
The uh chronicle noted that parents might be excused for wondering, given that the University of California system's being hit with a seven percent tuition increase that'll impact a lot of struggling students.
Why didn't F Edwards offer to do his speech gratis for a public institution?
The Senator's office wouldn't comment, but journalists covering Mr. Edwards uh have lately started connecting certain dots.
Sooner or later, the public's gonna have to make a decision about whether Edwards, with his $400 haircuts, his 29,000 square foot house, his lucrative hedge fund employment, walks the populist walk that he talks.
Now, this is Joe Klein, a columnist at uh at Time Magazine.
Other reporters recall on the same day last November, Edwards participated in a union conference, uh conference call criticizing Walmart.
One of his staffers tried to obtain a coveted PlayStation 3 console for his family by calling the local Walmart and bypassing the hordes of ordinary Americans patiently waiting in line.
And then Edwards issued a bizarre statement claiming the staff staffer was acting apparently without our knowledge.
Former Senator either knew what was being done in his name or he um or he didn't.
Uh the fact that this stuff is being reported, and you could say some of it's coming from Clinton Inc., and you can say that some of, you know, Hillary's out there got her pals in the drive-bys and they want to take out as many of Hillary's opponents as quickly as possible.
And by the way, remember what remember that press conference when uh John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth announced her the return of her cancer?
And uh the I qu the drive-by's started speculating about how great this was politically.
What a wonderfully executed political press conference, and how it was gonna buy, they're all saying this.
How he's gonna buy a little cover for Senator Edwards.
He's gonna be a little bulletproof now because how do you go out and attack a guy politically whose wife just announced that her cancer is coming?
Well, it's happening.
I guess there was a little grace period there, but now it's happening.
And it's the drive-bys that are that are doing this.
The guy is phony.
I mean, he's uh there's there's there's no two ways about it.
It's just stunning to me that the drive-by's have turned on him.
I guess it shouldn't be.
I mean, they don't want him.
Uh the drive-by's candidate of choice right now, believe it or not, it's Al Gore.
I mean, they're literally going bonkered.
What do you think Matthews is doing that bit that we played for you last night about Hillary and Bill and how often they uh, you know, stay uh under the same roof at night, and Time magazine has been going on and on and on about Al Gore and uh and all that.
Uh and Obama has been built up.
It strikes me that there's not a whole lot of um love and affection for Mrs. Clinton.
Now, this could be that they're just trying to provide obstacles for her to overcome to make it look like she's not the candidate of inevitability that she can get into fights and win these things, uh, but it doesn't look like she can on her own.
She has to send Bill out to fundraise to make campaign appearances for her.
And uh drive-by's end up, they always end up touting and supporting the wrong guy.
Al Gore in 2000, Kerry in 2004, uh, and they always, if you listen to drive-by's, they will they will come through and pick a Democrat presidential loser, I'd say eight out of ten times.
Now, this Danny Glover business.
Because it really is interesting, and it it in the sense that it is a marked change among the liberals and the leftists from what used to be.
Venezuela's gonna give the American actor Danny Glover about $18 million, 17.8 million dollars to make a movie about a slave uprising in Haiti, with President Hugo Chavez hoping the historical picture will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort to mobilize world public opinion against imperialism and Western oppression.
Not his alleged opinion of, I know his opinion of the alleged imperialism and Western oppression.
No, this is uh, by the way, uh, the UK guardian.
And of course, they don't even question the notion that we are an imperialist nation and that we are oppressors.
The Venezuelan Congress said it would use the proceeds from a recent bond sale with Argentina to finance Danny Glover's movie of an iconic figure in the Caribbean in Haiti who led an 18th century revolt there.
It'll also give seed money for a film version of uh the General in his Labyrinth, a novel about the last days of Simon Bolivar, who liberated much of South America from Spanish colonialism.
Then we've got Leonardo DiCaprio.
And his new movie is called The 11th Hour.
We don't often do movie reviews here, but these are too good to pass up.
His new movie is The 11th Hour.
It's supposed to help you grasp the urgency of saving the planet from the bogus notion that a few degrees of higher temperatures will destroy life as we know it.
This movie claims we are going to go extinct.
Humanity is on the brink of extinction.
And one of the stars of this movie is the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Sageevich Gorbachev.
And his role in the movie is to persuade viewers that average human beings have caused horrific damage to the environment.
Now, how?
Average human beings have caused uh horrific damage to the environment simply by improving their standards of living.
Now, in this movie about the extinction of the human race.
One of the stars, Mikhail Gorbachev, will not talk about the proven harm, the genocide that occurred in his own country.
They inflicted massive amounts of genocide on their own people, and they scorched the earth in a number of wars, death toll in the tens of millions, a track record of rampant corruption, widespread pollution, talk about oppression.
About The former Soviet Union.
But of course, none of that, none of that will be referenced by Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet commiboss.
No, he's going to target you and me and every other American he thinks is average for destroying the planet.
He's going to be treated as a visionary, not as an apologist for communism.
DiCaprio, by the way, credits Al Gore with educating him on global warming.
So you got Al Gore educating the sponge DiCaprio, and then DiCaprio will educate the sponge that goes watch his movies, and so that propaganda train just keeps chugging on down the track.
It's too bad that guy out in LA didn't park his car in front of the propaganda train and try to derail it.
But you can't ask for everything.
But what's different about this?
You recall, and there have been countless movies about this and books, all the liberals in Hollywood spent decades trying to convince the American public and uh countless congressional hearings, committees, that they weren't in bed with the communists, that they weren't secret members of the Communist Party USA, that there were this was blacklisting to say this about them.
It was horrible character assassination.
And to go out and say this and ruin people's careers, why, why we can't have now.
After decades of trying to make us believe that they had no contact with them whatsoever, now they are embracing communists as a badge of honor.
They're accepting money to go make their propaganda movies.
In the case of Danny Glover, still can't catch a cab in New York, and uh and DiCaprio, who's just even need to be commented on.
This to me is a remarkable change.
And I think it's all part of the same evolution here of the American left.
They were able to live in the shadows, they were able to lurk in the shadows, hide who they really were.
They can't any longer, and they're getting frustrated as coming out and admitting it.
In uh in any number of different ways.
It's all there for you to digest.
All you have to do is have the courage to believe what you are seeing.
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Joe Biden is back, says we need to go to Darfur.
We need to get out of Iraq and we need to go to Darfur.
Bob Carey is back.
He's the president of the new school of Democrat Senator, former Democrat senator from Nebraska, has an amazing piece at Opinionjournal.com today on the left's Iraq muddle.
Yes, it is central to the fight against Islamic radicalism, and it may be one of the best summations of where we are that I've read in a long time, and it comes from a Democrat.
At this year's graduation celebration at the new school in New York, Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and uh Nobel laureate Sharin Ibadi delivered our commencement address.
This brave woman who has been imprisoned for her criticism of the Iranian government had many good and wise things to say to our graduates, which earned their praise, but one applause line troubled me.
Mrs. Zabadi said democracy cannot be imposed with military force.
What troubled me about this statement, a commonly heard criticism of U.S. involvement in Iraq, is that those who say such things seem to forget the good U.S. arms and weapons have done in imposing democracy on countries like Japan and Germany or Bosnia more recently.
Let me restate the case for this Iraq war from the U.S. point of view.
The U.S. led an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein because Iraq was rightly seen as a threat following 9-11.
For two decades, we had suffered setbacks by radical Islamic groups.
We were lulled into a false sense of complacency because all previous attacks were over there.
It was our nation and our people who had been identified by bin Laden as the head of the snake, but suddenly Middle Eastern radicals had demonstrated extraordinary capacity to reach our shores.
No matter how incompetent the Bush administration, no matter how poorly they choose their words to describe themselves and their political opponents, Iraq was a larger national security risk after 9-11 than it was before, says Bob Carey.
Member the 9-11 Commission.
And no matter how much we might want to turn the clock back and either avoid the invasion itself or the blunders that followed, we can't.
The war to overthrow Saddam Hussein is over.
What remains is a war to overthrow the new government of Iraq.
Some who have been critical of this effort from the beginning have consistently based their opposition on their preference for a dictator we can control or contain at a much lower cost.
The critics who bother me the most, though, are those who ordinarily would not be on the side of supporting dictatorships, who are arguing today that only military intervention can prevent the genocide of Darfur.
Or who argued yesterday for military intervention in Bosnia, Somalia, and Rwanda to ease the sectarian violence that was tearing those places apart.
He's talking about Joe Biden here, who is out there saying we need to go into Darfur.
That's what I would do if he's elected president, he says.
And and Bob Carey here is um putting these guys under the lights as American liberals need to face these truths.
The demand for self-government was and remains strong in Iraq, despite all our mistakes and the violent efforts of Al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents, and Shiite militias to disrupt it.
Al Qaeda, in particular, has targeted for abduction and murder those who are essential to a functioning democracy.
School teachers, aid workers, private contractors working to rebuild the infrastructure, cops, anybody who cooperates with the Iraqi government, much of Iraq's middle class has fled the country in fear.
With these facts on the scales, what does your conscience tell you to do?
If the answer's nothing, that it is not our responsibility, or that this is all about oil, then no wonder today we Democrats are not trusted with the reins of power.
American lawmakers who are watching public opinion tell them to move away from Iraq as quickly as I don't believe that, Bob.
Otherwise the Democrats wouldn't keep pulling away from it from a definite withdrawal.
They can't get that done.
It's not the will of the people to get out of there and lose.
The will of the people in this country is not for the defeat of this country or for the U.S. military.
Those who argue that radical Islamic terrorism has arrived in Iraq because of the U.S.-led invasion are right, but they are right because radical Islam opposes democracy in Iraq.
If our purpose had been to substitute a dictator who was more cooperative and supportive of the West, these groups wouldn't have lasted a week.
So he rakes them over the coals.
Bob Carey does Wall Street Journal today, actually Opinionjournal.com, so we'll be able to link to it.
Um, you can go there now and read it yourself if you uh if you wish.
Uh I told you there's smarter people in the Democratic Party than what you're hearing about, and they know that the Democrats are on a suicide mission with this.
And this is um one of the first efforts I've seen to try to prevent the suicide led by Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry.
Sitting here a little irritated, folks, at some of the name calling going on, even from the elites on our side about people like you and me on this whole immigration debate.
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