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June 21, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 21, 2007, Thursday, Hour #2
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, Russia taking a well deserved break.
We continue the relentless pursuit of truth.
And in that regard, let me bring you some good news.
At the same time that the drive bys, and I'm looking at CNN here, are reporting this is the most horrible day in the Iraq war.
Five kill, blah blah blah, but on and on and on.
In Camp Hendleton, where trials are being held against United States Marines for a massacre, Time Magazine called it, in Hadith, a town in Iraq.
A massacre by the men of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment that killed 24 innocent civilians.
Some of them executed, many of them women and children, who were slaughtered mercilessly by vengeful Marines after one of their own had been killed in an IED explosion just a few minutes before.
Innocent civilians in their homes in this village.
Doors battered down, Marines spraying automatic weapon fire everywhere, and then killing anyone who was left alive.
That's the description in Time magazine.
It turns out that something quite different happened.
And this is where the American media needs to take notice.
And Tim McGurk, Time Magazine reporter, and the people who published Time need to sit back for a minute and think again.
Because here's what happened.
What happened according to sworn testimony so far, and people have been uh passing their their uh polygraph.
The charges today actually have been dropped against one of the Marines, Sergeant Sanic P. Delacruz.
More of that is coming.
Newsmax.com is the only place where they have been following this story, and it has been a remarkable, a remarkable story.
Um, Marine intelligence officers for the events of that day, November 19, 2005, knew that an insurgent ambush had been planned.
They had been tipped off that a white car would be carrying some insurgents that would attempt to open fire, and in the crossfire between some mud huts in this village of Hadithha, they would try to kill all these Marines after the IED blew up and the Marine convoy stopped.
It was an ambush, a planned ambush.
The details were not known, but it was known that about twenty insurgents would take part, and this white car would play an important role in the ambush.
Um the officers and men of Kilo Company planned accordingly.
So when a white car showed up after the IED explosion, and there were young males in it, they engaged the young males in the white car, afterwards identifying four of the eight dead as known insurgents.
The insurgents in communic uh communications setting up this ambush have been intercepted.
They have been kept classified until now.
The Marines had audio tape of the probably digital of the uh of the of the insurgents planning the ambush.
That audio, the government of the United States won't release.
We now know enough about it, however, to know that the accusations against the Marines are completely false.
After uh the white car incident, they were still taking fire, AK 47 fire from this village, in accordance with their training and the practices of the Marine Corps in this war.
They came up on these places where the fire was coming from, battered Down the doors and went in.
What had happened in the meantime, of course, since the enemy knows our habit and practice, they had kept uh the civilian people who lived in those houses as human shields, and then at the last minute slipped out the back door, leaving the human shields in place with a couple of fighters.
So a couple of rounds are still going off while the Marines burst into this place.
Well, you know, on the nanosecond they had to shoot, it was I would say impossible to determine who's a civilian, who isn't.
They're all dressed the same.
Some have AK 47s and some don't.
They're all shooting at you that do.
You're going to shoot back.
It's also shown that no one was executed.
So for all of that, Time magazine, um.
First it was in the Washington Post, Ellen Nickmeyer took the word of an Iraqi witness from Hadithha, reported that the men in the white opal cab, quote, happened upon the scene inadvertently.
Well, we know that's not true now.
But here's what it gets worse.
Later media reports call called the the cab carrying the known insurgents, college students.
Um, who were on their way to school.
College students on their way to school.
Um but all of that pales into insignificance uh compared to the Time magazine piece done by Tim McGurk.
According to McGurk's first story, a quote, budding journalism student, unquote, had given him a video that the budding journalism student had taken after the massacre of these civilians in the houses near the site of the IED explosion.
Time had to correct that story, revealing that the so-called budding journalism student was actually 43-year-old Taher Fabet Al Hadith, who just happened to be there with a video camera while the ambush was underway.
Al Hadithi was then identified as the head of something called the Hammurabi Organization for Human Rights and Democracy Monitoring.
Time reported that the Hammurabi Human Rights Group was affiliated with Human Rights Watch.
Human rights watch vehemently denied any such connection or any knowledge of anything called the Hammurabi human rights group.
Time had to retract that.
Then it was revealed that the Hammurabi Human Rights Group was actually composed of two people.
The 43-year-old college student, Hadithi, and Ali Omar Abraham Al Mashadani, a Reuters news service stringer, an Iraqi, previously arrested by U.S. Marines in Ramadi, previously incarcerated in Abu Ghraib as a sympathizer to the insurgents and one who fed them information, spent five months in U.S. custody.
Three months later, Al Mashadani is the source of the Tim McGurk articles.
Hadithi and Mashhadani were insurgents.
They fed the video of the slaughtered bodies and the blood spattered walls and so forth, and you've seen all this stuff, to uh Time magazine and then through Time Magazine to the rest of the media.
Al Hadith claiming the deaths were the handiwork of out of control Marines wantonly charging through the innocent victims' homes, slaughtering women and men in revenge.
It isn't true.
The American media never checked.
They assumed, because they hated the war, that the Marines had killed innocent civilians.
The tragedy of this is not only isn't it true, in my belief, based on what we know and we don't know the whole story because the U.S. government is keeping us from knowing the whole story, those uh the audio of the intelligence we had would settle this whole thing.
The real tragedy is the United States Marine Corps prosecuting its own on the basis of press reports they know are inconsistent with the information they have in-house about how this ambush was set up, the habits and practices of the insurgency and trying to capture and videotape uh scenes that they can later sell to the American media as massacres because they're coming out of the Vietnam War playbook.
They're coming out of the Mi Lai Massacre.
They're coming out of uh Lieutenant Cali, prosecuted for the Mi Lai massacre.
They've taken that as their template.
All they have to do in every future war against the United States is get somebody there with a video camera.
It's worth a thousand AK-47s.
It's worth a million AK-47s to get the right pictures of innocents killed and play that on American television, and all of a sudden the Marines are baby killers.
It's in the playbook of how you defeat the United States.
My hypothesis, my view, Time magazine knows this.
Time magazine turned the other way, never verified their sources, had to cover up and then retract on their sources, never verified through any other sources in the Marine Corps what was actually going on, made the charges in the public media so publicly that then the politically correct leadership of the Marine Corps and the Pentagon had to bring charges against these Marines.
These Marines are our finest people.
These Marines deserve better leadership.
They deserve a George Bush that's a real commander in chief to tell the Time magazine and the rest of the media.
Verify your story.
It isn't true.
Go back and find out what did happen.
By the way, Tim McGurk invited, invited to come out to Hadith right after all this happened.
And to be toured through by the Marines who were involved and to get a firsthand look at what happened, turned it down.
I don't need to go there and see it myself.
I've got the video.
The insurgents gave it to me.
It must be true.
That's how the quote news, unquote, is actually made by our news outlets.
They're doing it today.
They've been doing it every day.
The war is unpopular.
The war is unpopular because the propaganda of the insurgency, the propaganda of our enemy is the news we get every day.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush Limbaugh with more after this.
Welcome back to the EIB Network Rush Limbaugh program here.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush today and taking your calls at 1800-282-2882.
So here's what you will get tonight all over the drive-by media.
A little taste of it here.
AP providing the copy.
The writer is Hamid Ahmed, an AP writer.
Quote.
The U.S. military announced the deaths of 14 American troops, including five killed Thursday in a single roadside bombing that also killed four Iraqis in Baghdad.
Elsewhere in Iraq, a suicide truck bomber struck the Suleiman Beck City Hall in a predominantly Sunni area in Northern Iraq, killing at least thirteen people, wounding 70.
The U.S. deaths raised to at least 3,545, the number of U.S. troops who have died since the war began in 2003.
The deadliest attack was a roadside bomb.
A rocket propelled grenade struck a vehicle for the US.
That's the news out of Iraq.
Here's the real news out of Iraq.
This also by AP, by the way, but it will not be chosen by those people.
And I want you to know there are actually people who do this.
In every network, in every news organization, whether it's print, radio, or TV, there is someone who selects, who selects what is news.
This is what they won't select.
Date line Baghdad.
Quote A U.S. Marine commander in Anbar province predicted that Al-Qaeda fighters will be expelled from Fallujah by August as the military moves to cut insurgency supply and reinforcement lines into Baghdad and surrounding areas.
Brigadier General John Allen, deputy commander of American Forces West of Baghdad, said Al Qaeda in Iraq has largely been pushed out of population centers in Anbar province.
The vast majority of them, he said, have been pushed out of the population centers.
The surge has given us the troops we needed to really clear these areas, so we cleared them, and we stayed.
He said U.S. and Iraqi troops were trying to repeat recent success in calming Ramadi, the provincial capital, using the same neighborhood by neighborhood tactics in Fallujah, a Sunni insurgent bastion first cleared by a massive American assault in 2004.
He says we're going to finish off these neighborhoods by August.
The people are responding well, establishing very quickly neighborhood watch organizations and a police precinct headquarters now in every neighborhood.
General Allen said the military planned to oust Al-Qaeda fighters from Karma, thirty miles south of Baghdad by the end of July, and tackle them in the area around Tharthar to the north.
We're going to clear karma here very shortly.
And they go on and on.
Also indicating the number of Sunni tribes now who have agreements with U.S. troops to identify and to route out the Al Qaeda foreign fighters.
Ralph Peters in the New York Post today, quote, Hallelujah.
For the first time since Baghdad fell, our military in Iraq has a comprehensive, integrated plan to defeat our enemies.
Until now, our efforts have always been pecemeal, stop start affairs.
Even our success in the second battle of Fallujah went unexploited.
Things have changed, and the terrorists, not just Iraqi civilians, are dying.
That's the truth.
Already the Libs know that it is the truth, because you can always tell about what they're trying to do right now.
You will see reports today, tomorrow, the next day, that General Petraeus better not try to sugarcoat it when he makes that report in September.
He better not try to tell us we're winning this war because we're not winning.
You're going to hear that.
You're going to hear that all day, because now they're scared.
What if Bush is successful in Iraq?
Oh my gosh.
We must be defeated in Iraq to win the election in 2008.
That's the primary platform of the Democratic Party.
Defeat in Iraq is necessary for them to win the election in 2008.
Here's more from Associated Press writer Stephen Hearst.
They line Baghdad quote, U.S. forces expanded their push against insurgent strongholds outside Baghdad Wednesday as Iraqi units joined the offensive and took control of several districts in the key city of Bakuba.
I'd love to live in a place called Bakuba.
It'd be just fun to say.
Anyway, uh the this is uh also what you're not going to see.
Iraqi units are supposed to be undermanned, insurgency infiltrated, don't have enough willpower, they'll run when they get fired on, they're just incapable.
Well, not in Bakuba, apparently.
The U.S. military said at least thirty Al Qaeda fighters were killed and several bombs and weapon caches destroyed as the soldiers fought their way through Bakuba.
The Iraqi soldiers.
5,000 Iraqi soldiers and 2,000 paramilitary police were fighting.
Iraqi forces said they took control of neighborhoods in Bakuba and were greeted by cheering people.
The Iraqi defense ministry spokesman Mohammed Al-Askari said, quote, our goal is to have no safe havens in Iraq, and of course the Iraqi security forces play a huge role in this, and we're working very closely with them.
I don't think you're going to see that on CBS, ABS, or NBS tonight.
I just don't.
But it's at what actually is happening.
And that's the most optimistic thing you've probably heard about the Iraq war in years.
The surge is a response to a failed policy.
Believe me, in World War II, Korean War, Greatest Generation, all that stuff.
There were many failed policies.
There were many unnecessary deaths, thousands of them.
There were many instances in which we had to recalibrate, to put it charitably, where we had to uh redo our strategic thinking, where we had to reapply ourselves.
But all through those wars we had the backbone and the willpower to say war is a messy business.
It's most often made up of who makes the least mistakes.
Who makes the least mistakes is going to win.
It isn't a question of being perfect, it's by definition an imperfect situation.
We are now turning a corner in Iraq with this surge.
And there is no question about the leadership we have in General Petraeus.
He knows what he's doing.
He is a successful commander on the field, in the field before he was made commander overall.
He is our generation's patent, and he deserves incredible respect and support from everyone because, as you can see, even from AP.
This surge is working.
The Iraqis are standing up.
The Al Qaeda foreign fighters Are being alienated from the general population.
The tribal leaders are coming in to make agreements with this Iraqi government.
If we can get them to share the oil revenues, if we can get them to make the political willpower and backbone indications that they are there to stay, and that's coming.
It will follow these military successes.
We had to have the military successes first.
So I want a government that doesn't prosecute border patrol agents for doing their job, that doesn't prosecute Marines for trying to win the war.
I want a surge that is proud of what it is accomplishing.
It is accomplishing the liberation of Iraq and the uh verification of the voters of Iraq in their freely elected government.
That's what this is all about.
Back with more after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for uh Rush today and Russia's right having more fun than a human being ought to have uh getting the truth out like this and taking calls from Richard in Dayton, Nevada next.
Hi, Richard.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Roger.
Thanks for taking my call.
I'm a former uh Vietnam uh Marine veteran, and I can't tell you how happy I am that you decided to talk about the truth about these Marines that they're prosecuting uh in Iraq.
It's it's a shame no one is speaking about what's going on and telling the truth about what really happened.
I'm gonna uh and I'm gonna be interested.
Uh first of all, Richard, thanks for your service to our country, and I'm going to be very interested to see how many of these media, drive-by media outlets, are going to be interested in retracting all of the wild accusations they made uh on this hadith situation, whether Tim McGurk will continue to be employed by Time magazine, whether Time will do a front page uh expose of the fact that they relied on insurgency video to nail our Marines, in effect becoming a propaganda outlet for Al Qaeda.
We ought to give our leaders some weapons and put them in that position and see how they act.
Yeah, that's another way of looking at it.
Guys shooting at you, what are you gonna do?
Uh read them their rights?
Uh all right, Richard, thanks for the call.
Uh I appreciate it.
Uh uh look, these same journalists, and I don't I don't know how MSNBC did this, but I mean I'm I'm a I'm I'm really in uh intrigued.
Uh uh if you have a chance to go to MSNBC.com, they have an article up uh journalists give campaign cash.
They have followed with an article called The List, journalists who wrote political checks, and for some reason or other have gone through and found all the reporters who continuously, of course, tell us they are objective journalists, simply giving us the truth.
Where they put their money, of course, into the most liberal people you can imagine.
A hundred and twenty-five of the ones they surveyed gave to Democrats, seventeen gave to Republicans.
125 to 17.
Now it gets worse than that.
Um this is MSNBC.
Most of the newsroom checkbooks have appear appear to be leaning to the left.
A hundred and twenty-five uh journalists gave to Democrats and all and liberal causes, only seventeen gave to Republicans, two gave to both parties.
Um the donors include CNN's guy uh guy Raz, now covering the Pentagon for NPR, who gave to John Kerry the same month he was embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq.
Hello.
Oh, and Time magazine, given the time situation uh in Hadith, they have a policy.
Quote, given the ease of internet access to public records of campaign contributors, any political giving by a time staff member would carry a great risk of feeding a false impression that the paper is taking uh sides.
Oh, is this the New York Times?
I'm sorry, New York Times.
Not Time Magazine, New York Times.
So, in other words, it's not a question of are we biased, and is it demonstrated that we're biased when you look at where we put our personal money in political campaigns?
It's a question of we're not able to hide that anymore because of access through the internet, so you better not give any more.
Because it proves what the right wing has been saying, we're all a bunch of lefties.
And they actually have a policy that says that.
Here's Ed in Brooklyn on the Rush Show.
Hi, Ed.
Good afternoon, Roger.
Hi.
Uh, you know, the the outline that you just gave of the reporting of the story of uh in Hadith is exactly the reason why public opinion in this country is like it is towards the war.
Not in conjunction with the fact from day one, the media has made the war in Iraq out as something other than the war on terror.
Well, that's exactly right.
The media has been because they have come to believe that if George Bush is successful as a war president, the Republicans will probably be in office uh for the uh foreseeable future.
In order to recapture the White House for the party that is the natural party of governance and what is right and good, the uh the Democratic Party, the media, which believes that with all its heart, most of them do, uh, is willing to completely mischaracterize what's going on,
to completely emphasize the pessimistic and and negative parts of war, which has many negative and pessimistic parts, and completely unwilling to uh give any kind of an equal opportunity, uh, let's say the fairness doctrine to uh what we're doing that's going right in Iraq.
You know, it's not just that, it's that you know Iraq is basically a terrorist black hole.
It's a place where they can't resist the you know gravitational pull of being sucked to to try and fight Americans.
And that's where the whole, you know, strategy of the war on terror comes in.
That's what makes it part of the war on terror.
That's exactly right.
No, that's exactly right.
And I appreciate the call.
Now, it's interesting because uh it's finally dawning on the drive-by's, here's the Christian science monitor, for example, that they've been had in a way because their uh claim to objective journalism is going to come under attack by guys like me when it's so obvious that they've been had, that they've been used at the least, if not been enthusiastic about it.
So um here is the uh Christian science monitor, quote, in battle for hearts and minds, Iraqi surgeons are doing well.
Subhead they have coupled terror tactics with a sophisticated use of the modern media.
So here's how they're gonna get out of it.
They're gonna say, well, these guys are good.
They're good.
It isn't so much that we've been duped, or that we've been willingly duped, or that we have uh uh accepted being duped.
No, no, no, no.
It's they're getting really good on the other side.
Quote.
This is John Hughes and the Christian Science Monitor.
Their command of the Internet, their use of television, their release and timing of material calculated to be picked up and used by Arab and Western TV outlets and news agency, that indicates a high degree of planning and professionalism.
Or a pretty well-known degree of the American media wanting to find out how to defeat America.
You think I'm too extreme, let's look at the BBC.
Let's look at the BBC because they had to admit in a year-long probe of BBC reporting done by them, done inside.
The British Broadcasting Corporation has acknowledged a bias toward the left.
They uh they looked at everything, including single-issue politics, uh, climate change, poverty, race and religion, and the London Times reports, quote, the report concludes that the bias has extended across drama, comedy, and entertainment, with the corporation pandering to politically motivated celebrities and trendy causes.
Really.
There's a tendency to groupthink, with too many inhabiting a shared space and comfort zone.
The uh investors' business daily says, like alcoholics who become their own worst critics after entering AA, the British Broadcasting Corporation, after a year-long internal probe, is now saying things about itself that echo the complaints of conservative media watchdogs.
An inherent liberal culture within the BBC staff is behind its bias, the investigation report concluded.
And BBC personnel must challenge their own beliefs.
The um Sunday Times put it, what emerges from the report is a picture of an organization with a liberal anti-American bias and an almost teenage fascination with fashionable causes, unquote.
IBD says Americans need no official government probe to tell them that our big three networks are similarly biased, along with the state-owned PBS and NB NPR.
But imagine if there was such a report.
Think of the fit Bill Moyers would throw if a PBS higher up suggested he get out of his ideal ideological, quote, comfort zone.
And oh, how that multimillion dollar smile would vanish from Katie Kurick's face if her fondness for Algore was publicly described by a CBS exec as a quote, teenage fascination, unquote.
Thankfully, in America, we haven't had to wait for the government.
Press watchdogs like the Media Research Center in accuracy and media exposed the media elites in this country for what they are a long time ago.
Roger in Vero Beach, Florida, next on the Rush program.
Roger, welcome.
Roger, thank you for sending for Rush.
You're doing a great job.
Thank you, sir.
I uh those last two AP stories you had about the obvious success of the third strategy and rooting out and killing terrorists.
I didn't know if you just ran out of time, possibly, but did you skip over the part about John Mertha and his office issuing a retraction for his public linking of these Marines before um all the facts for him?
On Al Qa on the on the Hadith thing?
Yes.
Let me go back and look.
I might have.
What do you what is the story that you understand it?
Well, as uh like you were saying, Hadipa is not really as it was uh planned to be.
And I remember John Mertha about ready to burst a vein in his head, screaming at Chris Matthews that these murderous Marines had no choice but to kill these people in Hadipa.
That's what we caught them to do.
You know, I remember that too.
And let me find out if I had uh if I had that.
But I remember that too.
Where is has he apologized for that?
Well, that's why I wanted to see if that was you know, skip through on the story you had there, maybe just you know, for lack of time, you can get to the very bottom.
I didn't see it.
I didn't see it, but I'll tell you what, we're gonna go and look at it again because I would love to see Mertha apologize.
This man who said he was a combat veteran, uh, who was, as you describe, and you're absolutely right, uh accusing these mur these uh Marines of being murderers.
That's basically what he said.
And uh and I wonder if he's following the facts of this matter, because uh he should at the least be embarrassed.
But I'm not gonna count on that.
I mean, well, no, of course not.
Now there's a veteran of watching the news for a long time.
Roger, thanks uh for the call.
We're gonna take a break.
I'm Roger Hedgecock on the EIB network with much more to come.
Stay with us.
It's the EIB network, the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for uh Rush, and I appreciate the opportunity to do that.
Just got this in the email.
Headline U.S. control uh controls 40% of Baghdad.
This uh John C. writes that beats twenty-five percent of LA, ten percent of Detroit, and twelve percent of Atlanta, and eighteen percent of New Orleans any day.
I think he's got something there.
Uh Joan in Oceanside California, next on the Rush Show.
Hi.
Well, it's good to talk to you.
And I want to tell you what infuriates me about that Marine Massacre story is that it is so bogus to me, it didn't even warrant an investigation.
All it warranted was an out-of-hand dismissal.
I want to tell you, anyone who knows even one or two deployed Marines would just look at this claim.
Oh, gang of bloodthirsty U.S. Marines wantonly massacres innocent civilians.
Anyone would just listen to that claim and just say, you are bogus.
And the idea that Martha swallowed this I mean, my God, look at if you pick up a dead rat and someone tells you, hey, that's a purebred Persian cat, would you take the same off to the DNA lab in the corner and say, hey, let's test and see if this thing's a dead rat or a Persian cat.
It doesn't even pass the smell test.
It's as bad as, you know, prisoners flush 630-page book down the toilet.
And the idea that these Time magazine writers and editors it ran this story, I mean, even as much as they did is just nonsensical.
It's just nonsensical.
I mean, these people didn't even know their subject.
They didn't know the first thing about Marines, they didn't know the first thing about U.S. military.
I mean, forget the investigations and the following up on the sources.
They should have just said to this person to begin with, get out of here, you're bogus.
Joan, all I can say is Amen.
And I appreciate the call.
Thank you.
Hey, and by the way, BBC, let me let me weave this back into the conversation.
BBC now admitting we have a left-wing bias.
We go after all these uh uh uh cultural fascinating trends of the left.
Uh we're we're biased when we report uh global warming and everything else, including the war.
Well, yeah, including the war is right.
Even after that report came out, here's the BBC Being accused in this uh from the uh telegraph in the UK, risking the safety of British troops.
Now get this.
The BBC was accused last night of risking the safety of British forces in Iraq after trawling for information on troop movements in the war-torn country.
Politicians in the UK reacted in disbelief to the revelation that for over two hours yesterday, the BBC News website carried a request for people in Iraq to report on British troop movements.
Now think about that for a minute.
Here's what it said, actually, on the here's the wording of the request.
On the BBC news site, quote, are you in Iraq?
Have you seen any troop movements?
If you have any information you would like to share with the BBC, you can do so using the form below, unquote.
In other words, insurgents, tell us where the troops are so we can tell the world, so then you know where they what?
So that every everyone else in the insurgency knows where they are.
I think they just answered the question which side they're on.
Here's Lynn in Durham, North Carolina.
Hi, Lynn.
Welcome to the Rush Show.
Hi, Roger.
How are you?
Good.
Hey, um, I was listening to the show, and you said uh talked about Democrats wanting Bush to lose the war in Iraq.
What about all those Republicans who are saying the same thing as the Democrats?
How are they going to be able to come back?
Should we win in Iraq and should Bush be successful?
Which Republicans are we talking about?
Well, anybody who was speaking out against the war.
And we shouldn't be there.
You know, just those Republicans that have been fighting with the Democrats on the issue.
Well, they're very few and far between.
I mean, I I I agree with you.
I mean, they're they're in the same boat, but I mean, for the most part, the Republican voters and Republican officeholders and the presidential candidates are hanging in on the subject of we we must win this war.
I mean, to his credit, even John McCain has been stronger on this and and more sane on this subject than on other subjects by saying, look, we can't afford to lose here.
This isn't a question of being able to just come home like Vietnam and then won't follow us home.
This thing will follow us home, and we can't lose.
So, you know, you know, Lynn, for the most part, I think this is pretty much a divide where the Democratic Party believes that global warming is a bigger threat to the United States than the war on terror.
Most Republicans believe the opposite.
Right.
Well, it it's it's a frightening thought to think that we may lose this.
We don't want to, but we're not going to lose it.
We're not going to lose this, we're not going to lose the immigration fight, we're not going to lose the war in Iraq.
We're not going to lose any of this stuff.
I refuse to have be run by the mainstream media because they're not mainstream anymore.
They're drive-by's, as Russia's described so well.
They're it is just now uh not credible to take the position that the so-called uh drive-by media, the mainstream media has taken in any of these uh issues.
They're discredited on global warming, they're discredited on the war because we are going to win, they're discredited on this immigration thing, they're not going to shove 20 million illegals down our throats.
That stuff is not going to happen.
And this uh this nation has been aroused by uh the radio, the internet, and all these other sources of information in a way that I haven't seen in my entire lifetime, and I'm glad to see it.
I'm glad to be part of it.
Speaking of being a part of it, we'll take a break and come back with more of it right after this.
This just in, as they say in the news, Capitol Hill AP reporting, Senate Republicans have blocked a thirty-two billion dollar package, including twenty-nine billions in a d uh billion in additional taxes on uh oil companies, have blocked the Democrats' plan for energy.
Their plan, of course, as it always is on every topic, is to uh increase the size of government, the regulation of government, and the taxes they impose on your paycheck to pay for it all.
Twenty-nine billion dollars of taxes on the oil companies, just take a guess as to who would pay that tax.
Do you think the oil companies would pay that tax?
Ladies and gentlemen, just a guess on my part.
Not an economist.
My degree is in uh political science and law, but let me leap for a moment into the arcane world of economists.
I believe it's true that if you tax the oil companies $29 billion, they will do their damnedest to pass that $29 billion along to you in the form of higher gas prices.
In fact, the Heritage Foundation said if this uh package passed, you would be paying six dollars plus per gallon by 2010.
That's the Democrats' energy policy.
No wonder.
No wonder Gallup this morning announced the approval rating for Congress is at 14%.
Same Congress that's deriding George Bush as a lame duck, a dead duck, because his approval rating is now in the low 30s or high 20s.
14% for the Democrat-led Congress.
And no wonder, because most of the public knows, increased taxes on their companies means increased taxes on me.
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