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June 22, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 22, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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Hello, conversationalists across the fruit of the plains.
Welcome to the third and final hour of the Rush Limbaugh program today.
He'll be back on Monday.
I'm Tom Sullivan.
The phone number is still the same.
It is 800-282-2882.
And yeah, always fun to hear from where he went, what he did.
Always has some exciting story, so we'll be tuning in Monday.
You can check out Rush Limbaugh.com, of course, in the meantime.
There's a uh there's a story that has uh comes out of uh uh out of Sacramento, which is the oddest story at first glance, and the more I I almost barely if it wasn't in my backyard, I wouldn't have even paid much attention to it.
But it's uh it's it's it's troubling.
I it's it's a disturbing story about what we're doing in our country to a guy who was a very loyal supporter of our country.
The um in fact last week I had the uh U.S. attorney for Northern California, McGregor Scott on my local show, a good guy.
Obviously it must be he didn't get fired.
No, he's the U.S. attorney for Northern California.
He's uh uh, you know, his job is to enforce federal law.
Well, there's this there's this federal law that says, and apparently it it came into being somewhere around World War I. So it goes back to the early 1900s, what's something called the Neutrality Act.
And the Neutrality Act says that uh we citizens of the United States of America must be uh we must be neutral about other countries.
We can't stick our nose in their business.
Although we can send them contraceptives, but that's another whole show.
We can't we can't stick our nose in other people's business around the world.
This is the old neutrality act.
And so you and me and your neighbors, if we if we want to get upset about something that some something's going on in some other country, it's none of our business.
We are not to do anything about it.
We are just to sit back and have your uh private thoughts about it, but you cannot do anything.
Well, the story comes along where they arrest uh a whole bunch of people.
I think there's uh I don't know what they're up to now, ten, eleven people who were uh plotting to overthrow the government of Laos.
And you go, well, uh okay.
What's our what's the deal with Laws?
Do I even care about Laos?
I don't care.
Do you care?
I don't care.
I thought I didn't care until I started digging into this thing.
What they found, and they've arrested this the leader of this thing is a guy named Vang Pau.
He's a 77-year-old man, and they've got him in the f in federal jail.
And his uh he was raising uh he apparently 10 million dollars, he was raising 10 million dollars to buy all kinds of guns and automatic rifles, AK-47s, all kinds of different military armament to send to the people that are in Laos to overthrow the government or at least to defend themselves against the government of Laws.
And I thought, okay, that seems like an odd thing.
Uh is that is that illegal to get mad about I know we got gun laws and we got all these various things.
Oh yeah, it violates the neutrality act.
Well, I started digging around about who uh this Van Pow was because on the steps of the of the California Capitol were thousands of people on Wednesday.
Thousands protesting the fact that this guy was arrested.
So that caught my attention.
I said, Well, what is the story with this guy?
Well, Vang Pau was this general in Laos.
Back when we were in the Vietnam War, we had this rule.
Rules of uh rules of engagement that we would fight the Viet Cong only within Vietnam.
We would not go next door to Laos.
Ah, but Ho Chi Minh says, well, all right, so if you guys aren't going to go over to Laos, I'm gonna supply all of our troops down by Saigon fighting the Americans.
I'm gonna supply them, and I'll just uh divert and go down this path.
They call it the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
It was over in Laos because they said no American soldiers could go over there to fight these guys, yet they were bringing all the guns and ammo and everything else to kill to kill American soldiers.
So the CIA gets involved.
And the CIA, now in fact, there's a lot out today about the CIA.
We'll get into some of that as well because it's the reporting on this is uh rather suspicious.
But the CIA gets involved, and and uh you've heard of Air America.
No, no, no, no, no, not the not the radio thing.
It's uh the the guys who used to fly this the secret mission CIA planes and all that stuff.
Well, they would they would sub they would they went in and they said, hey, General Pow, we got a problem.
We've got Vietnamese guys coming down here, and also we've got we've got uh uh U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots falling out of the sky, they're they're parachuting out after they get hit by a missile or something and they're coming down here and they're being captured.
Can you A, save them?
B, can you protect any Americans that are not supposed to be in Laos but are in Laos because everybody was lying and saying they're not in Laos, but they were.
We had soldiers there.
We had CIA, we had people working there.
And also, can you do something about the Ho Chi Minh Trail so that we you can, you know, you're in Laos and you can you can uh so he said, okay.
He put together a small militia to go save Americans, save the American pilots, save the American soldiers that got caught over there, to fight the supply line so that the VietCon coming down with the guns and bullets to shoot at Americans and uh South Vietnam would uh would have a harder time.
And so we did all this for us.
What did we do?
We said, Adios, we're out of here, bye-bye.
Now we know that there was a bunch of people that worked for us in Vietnam, and we piled them on as many planes as we could get, and we brought them here to this country as refugees.
And generation or two later, living here quite happily as Americans.
But General Pau and his group that fought for us against the commies in Laos, they basically were left behind.
Now, General Pau and others had to uh basically run for their lives.
And they went from refugee camps to refugee camps and they finally got out.
Some of them got out, but a lot of them are still living in the highlands of Laos.
And it's mostly uh the Hmong uh group of people.
And they are treated, you think discrimination is bad in some countries.
Apparently the discrimination there is horrible.
These people are treated like dirt, worse than dirt.
Apparently, according to the people from Laos that I talk to, and there's and there's things on the internet you can go to, but I warn you there are YouTube videos about the kind of torture that the Laotian government does against these Hmong people that uh gang rapes, uh brutalizing children in front of their parents, gang raping women in front of their families.
Uh horrible, horrible stuff.
So I I caution you before you just click on YouTube and look at the the horrendous torture that's going on over there.
Well, this guy, this General Pow, basically he's sitting there going, wait a minute.
I worked for you.
These people are in trouble and are being shot at and killed and tortured because they worked for you, the United States government via the CIA.
And so he's trying to organize to get some money to send them some arms, and they arrest him and put him in jail.
And you go, something's wrong here.
We've got the we got we've got some injustice going here.
Why where's the loyalty to the guy that we said would you go help us?
Would you go and fight for us?
Would you save American sailors and uh uh pilots and and uh thank you very much.
So what do we do?
We leave them.
So is he violating the the neutrality act?
Probably.
And the neutrality act says Basically, that you can't do anything about what another country is doing if we have declared that we are at peace with them.
Now, if we have declared that we're at war with them, you can do whatever you want to try to go to war with these people.
But the communist government in Laos is on the State Department list that says we're at peace with them.
So that means you can't, I can't, and General Powell cannot go out and uh do anything to upset that government.
But there's something very wrong when we start arresting people and throwing them in jail for trying to help and protect his people who are brutally tortured because of the fact that they or their ancestors families, their fathers or grandfathers worked for us.
Something very, very wrong.
CIA also uh stories uh out today about the fact that the CIA uh the agency violated his charter for twenty-five years.
Documents offer unflattering view of CIA or some of the headlines that are out.
Uh we'll talk about the reporting on this because there's some there's some things missing that I want to add into this thing, but there's something wrong with and this by the way, this do you see where this ties in with?
We talk about, well, all right, let's just pull out of Iraq.
Bye bye, see you later, audios.
Okay, I thought we just talked about the fact that we did that uh uh 30 some years ago.
There are consequences to this, and you need to know what the consequences are in order to make a good decision about what and how we're gonna deal with our international affairs.
Phone number to join the program 800 28282.
My name is Tom Sullivan.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program.
Welcome back, Tom Sullivan in for Rush.
He's back on Monday talking about uh the neutrality act and this general Yeah, they've got him and a bunch of other people uh locked up in jail in um in Sacramento, and um it's it's it's a disturbing story because I understand you can't have you cannot have groups arming themselves in this country supposedly to go and overthrow some other government somewhere.
Because um then you get into the question of well, is it going to be a government that we like, a government that we don't like?
Somebody we get some crackpot group putting themselves together because they want to overthrow Canada or something.
I don't I don't know.
I mean, you know you don't know where it will go, and you also don't know if some of these groups might be uh, yeah, we're organizing to overthrow uh some other place, and actually they're they're organizing to overthrow this government.
So I understand the concern.
But it seems to me like the the there hopefully will be, and I don't know, maybe this will fall into the the judge's hands, some recognition of the fact that this man is uh not trying to harm anybody here.
He's trying to protect some people that work for him that worked for the U.S. a long time ago.
Uh-huh.
Bob in uh Tampa, Florida.
Bob, hello.
You're welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, Bob.
Um, I disagree with your stance on this.
I don't think that private citizen should be able to basically supplant the government policy, and and basically I look at it this way.
We would expect the government of Saudi Arabia to keep groups in Saudi Arabia, private citizen groups from raising money to promote terrorist acts here in this nation.
So if we're at peace with that country as we are with Saudi Arabia, Laos should be able to expect the same protection from our government.
I don't disagree with you, and that's why I say I'm I'm I'm troubled by this because you can't just have groups running around doing this sort of thing.
What what bothers me, and maybe I'm just overly sensitive, is this is a guy who saved so many American soldiers bacon and we toss him in prison.
Isn't there some other way to break up his group, tell him not to do it again, take away his Arms, I don't know what you do.
I don't know, but it's just Absolutely.
I I agree with that, but you know, you look at the situation in the Middle East, and people that were friends are now enemies, people that are enemies are now friends.
Yes.
So you you take something thirty years later, well, you don't know which side to to take on that.
So again, you have to you have to default to government policy and the agreements that these governments have formed between each other, and you you can't allow private citizen groups to override that policy.
Well, and and I don't disagree with you.
Uh it's just that this particular guy in this particular case, it just rings wrong with me.
And um I had a lot of calls on my local show about the from former CIA Air America people, all kinds of different people that said that yeah, yeah, General Powell, he's like the George Washington of that country over there.
He's highly respected, highly thought of, was instrumental in helping us in Laos during the Vietnam War and was instrumental in saving so many Americans' lives.
Well, that's it.
I got called after call after call.
You know, that's that's why the presidential pardon was uh is there to correct those kind of things.
So yeah, maybe we slap him on the wrist and he's pardoned as an individual, but we make sure that you know we can assure the Laotian government that he's not going to act against that.
Yeah, let me tell you another uh part about this because I'm not uh uh familiar with Laos and ever been to Loves, but I but uh a lot of people called and said, Oh, it I've just got back from Laos, I've I travel there every other year.
It's a great country.
It's fat well it's kind of like Vietnam now.
You can go to Vietnam and you know, they're they're busy building factories and making stuff that that winds up in our uh uh ports every day.
So we've got we do business with communist governments and they don't have a problem with you walking down the street in Laos where they have a problem is is this group of people who supported us.
That's and and it's not just a problem, they are literally torturing these people.
It's it's a humanity you know, and then you get into the the other big question too is you want to be the police uh policeman of the world, and I don't want to be.
Uh but there are some human atrocities going on in Laos against people or their or the ancestors of or the children or grandchildren of people who supported us.
And and I just I don't know, I just think it's wrong.
Uh John in Taylor, Michigan.
Hi, John, thanks for waiting.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
Hi, Tom.
I want to be the dead horse about the car companies in the unions.
Yeah.
Uh I worked for the largest car in what at the time was the largest car company.
And the only people who ever saw the union guys were the people who didn't want to do their jobs or didn't come to work or didn't do their jobs when they were there.
And there are people there that have worked thirty years and never called a committee man or the union because they never had a problem because they did their job and they came to work every day.
You're gonna get a lot of Mark from Beacon New York's gonna call back in a minute.
He was he sounded like a he sounded like a pretty smart guy, pretty aggressive guy.
I don't understand why why you need somebody to help you if you're good.
Well, I was I worked on the line for sixteen years, and I was a supervisor for sixteen years.
Yeah.
And they called me on and on.
They said he may not tell you what you want to hear, but he'll tell you the truth.
Well and the union to me is a waste of money.
I paid my dues when I was working the line every month, and they send it to the Democrat Party.
Well, and here's the other part, and you uh you know this better than I do, sitting in Michigan with all the changes that are going on, and with all the cutbacks and with all the financial pressures on Ford and General Motors and Chrysler, uh I now hear a different tune coming from the unions that are saying, um um um um we better work with these companies.
I think they're facing reality that jobs are going out the door.
You see where we're Ford got twenty-nine thousand or twenty-six thousand people said, Yeah, we'll take an early out if you're gonna give us a big check.
Well, that's how I left uh my company.
Yeah.
I took the buyout and I had enough time for retirement.
And they made it uh very worth my while.
They have a secret ballot, do they have a secret ballot there?
Uh not hardly.
Yeah.
They don't have any secrets there.
Yeah.
Everything is white out in the open.
But what we're talking, I'd like to say something about this war we're in.
Yeah.
Somebody needs to explain to the liberals that we are at war.
I'm old enough to remember.
Now nobody feels that nobody feels like they're at war.
And I'll tell you why.
I got a break for time here in just a minute, uh, John, but what has changed in your life?
What sacrifice have you made this week because of the fact that we're at war, and most people have had no change in their life.
That's the big difference.
That's the big difference between now and back in uh World War II generation.
Appreciate your call.
We'll be back.
Tom Sullivan's coming in for Rush Limbaugh.
Yep, filling in today, and Rush will be back on Monday.
Uh the phone number here is 800 282 2882, and of course, all the goodies at uh Rush Limbaugh dot com.
Gosh, I got a big stack here.
Hmm.
How are we gonna do this in a half an hour?
Ron in Gadston, Alabama.
Ron, hello, welcome to the program.
Oh, thank you, Tom, for taking my call.
I just uh wanted to let you know how much I agree with your opinion concerning this secrecy.
You still there?
Sounded like somebody cut you off.
What what what'd you say the one degree with what?
Well, I wanted to agree with what you were talking about is uh your opinion as far as the secret ballot.
Oh, for the unions, yeah.
For the unions.
I mean, I I've organized on both private and public sectors, and I can tell you out of the thousands of people that I have talked with, the first major concern that they have is my name going to be disclosed.
Yeah.
I mean before.
See, that's what that's what I was that's what I was trying to tell that other guy.
It works both ways.
I mean, you so he says the unions uh can intimidate you or the business, the boss can intimidate you.
You don't want anybody intimidating you.
Well, no, that's like handing the list of news to the employer on a silver platter saying, Here you are, have at it, go at it, go.
This is gonna tell you exactly who we have supporting our our Yeah, and who's gonna and who's gonna get fired right away at the first chance the minute the boss gets a chance to fire him.
So why put that name out there?
Yeah, I I don't understand it.
I think it's kind of cutting the nose off inside of the face.
Uh yeah.
I I would think that labor would be uh utilizing this Congress for better issues dealing with labor than uh a matter of voting.
Listen, nobody wants nobody nobody.
Nobody reacts well to uh to pressure to high pressure sales to to intimidation to whatever you want to call it.
Nobody likes it.
So to me that doesn't sound like a very good way to organize anyway.
So I'm not sure.
Oh no, I mean you're looking at you made a comment earlier also about it being what, thirteen percent organized?
Yes, sir.
Um you can look at that reducing.
I mean, I d I just don't see how they see that as a organizing benefit at all.
I mean, when you have to go to people's homes, you have to go to you have to go.
Let me scare you.
Let me scare you into buying my product or my service.
That never works.
Well, yeah, put your name here.
I want to let your employer know that you support this union here and that you're willing to vote for us, and you know that's I just don't see the uh it it's idiotic, it really is.
Yeah, it is.
It truly is.
All right.
Hey, Ron, I appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
I um I'm glad union organizers sees it the way I do.
Don in uh Columbus, Ohio.
Hi, Don, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
Thank you for taking my call.
Welcome.
Uh I got very emotional about this uh Rush uh on Vang Pow.
Yes.
Um I worked for the company.
You know what I mean by that?
Yes within Lau in 1965 to 66, then again in 72 to 73.
I have a total of twenty-six months of my life in that country working with Vang Pau.
And a nicer guy you never want to mate.
And I am alive because he had his people protect me.
The furthest I worked into enemy territory was uh a straight line now from Vinchon, a hundred and eighty-six miles on the ground.
And I tell you, I'm getting upset with this.
Our companies country should support them one thousand percent.
Were you aware of of his arrest?
Yes, I was just y just yesterday.
I've been I've been on uh vacation down to the south.
And by the way, I'm from Cape Girardeau, um Russia's hometown.
Oh yeah.
But um he's safe.
I I left town just about a year before he was born.
His um his grandmother and grandfather were uh the I think one monetary ad advisors to my mother and dad.
Uh we were uh known as Cherry the Broadway florist.
And I'm I'm pretty sure my mother and dad worked with his grandmother and grandfather in investments and things like that.
Well Mr. Snerdley can pass your message on to him.
I uh I'll be talking to him soon too.
I'll I'll make sure he knows that that you called.
But I uh I and I mean I know you work for the company, and I I got these calls uh locally too.
I mean, there's people that say that that this man was responsible for saving thousands of American lives, and you're one of them.
Wait.
Uh my first year there, uh we didn't have any really uh present uh air sea rescue.
And uh we uh recovered using my road watch teams, uh, which were Hmong uh to recover uh Navy Lieutenant Paul Ilk, ILG.
He just retired oh about two years ago as a three star admiral.
And his escape and evasion plan was to head due south.
Excuse me.
A hundred and ninety miles.
He never would have made it.
Well but the Hmong picked him up.
So what do you but but but but but listen to me though, Don.
I mean th this I understand this man saved your life, but at the same time, as a as a former employee of the company and as a citizen, you also have to appreciate we can't let people just just go around arming themselves in this country because we don't know really what they're up to.
This particular guy I think should get a jaywalking ticket and let him go.
But I don't know how you feel about about the arrest.
We listen, but what the what the communist government has done to the Laotian uh people that are left behind uh is just despicable.
It's it's it's criminal worldwide.
It is.
Oh, they're using them It truly is.
I mean it makes Darfur or uh Rhodesia or any of those other stories, the torture, the gang rapes.
They're using villages to test chemical uh weapons with.
Yes.
And the monk are uh mountaintop people, they're nomadic.
Right.
And so they're in villages by themselves.
They don't even name their children until they're a year and a half, two years old because they don't want to waste a good family name on a child that probably is not going to live.
Wow.
But with this communist government racking them over the coals, uh, we should be supporting them uh just over and over again.
I would be willing to go back again just to help support them.
Some uh some State Department bureaucrat has put this country and this government on our uh oh you want to uh look I'll now I'll change your emotion from uh sad to uh to anger.
Put them on the list of uh we're at peace with them.
So it's some bureaucrat added them to the list, but do you know that we send them thirty million dollars worth of foreign aid to the government of Laos every year?
Yes, and we're giving it to the communist government thirty million isn't a lot of money, but I bet you in Laos thirty million goes a long long way, and like you said, it helps them buy the material and equipment to kill these people.
When I was there, the average family income for a year was sixty dollars.
Yeah.
30 million goes away.
There's no banks.
The Hmong women wore a silver necklace around their necks.
That's the number one wife.
They had two or three because so many of their men had been killed.
So you could have three or four wives.
I've got pictures of all of this.
Well, Don, thanks for your call and thanks for uh for letting us know uh again a first hand experience of somebody that uh it's it's a very disturbing story, folks, and it's one that I first looked at and thought uh okay, that's some guy breaking uh some up something in law.
I didn't really Have a have any idea what was going on until you start thinking about it.
And we can have people running around arming, but man, this guy.
This guy has saved Americans.
We should give him a break.
We'll be back.
Uh phone number 800-282-2882.
Tom Sullivan sitting in for Rush.
Welcome back.
Tom Sullivan in for Rush Today.
Rush is back on Monday and an old friend of Rush and uh and uh and a woman that I've talked to in the past as well, Frankie Mayo, you may remember from uh from Operation AC about these about starting uh to send air conditioners and then it was heaters and everything else.
Frankie's on the line.
Hi, Frankie.
Um what's uh I uh uh Mr. Snerdley said you've got do you you just want to give us an update or give uh you got something new going?
What's going on?
We're sending air conditioners again, Tom.
Good.
We sent fifty out there.
It's still hot over there, isn't it?
Oh yeah.
Um it's 11 tomorrow, gonna be 115 next Monday.
Yikes.
So y tell people that are not familiar with you and your background.
Tell 'em w what you do.
Well, uh Rush first had me on.
He spoke about me on August 25th of 2003 when my son and daughter in law were there.
And uh we started sending air conditioners, Chris sent me an email.
Rush had me on, it took off like wildfire, and we had about fourteen hundred air conditioners out before the US Postal Service uh put the brakes on us, and then Rush came to the rescue, uh, got us on his show, talked about us, and we raised money to air freight them.
So now again I'm being And these are going these are going not just to troops, they're going to troops in our troops in Iraq.
They're going directly to our troops in Iraq by air freight.
We're not allowed to put them in the mail.
All right.
So you got the you g you got the shipping companies, uh the the the ones that with the big airplanes are doing their s so you got four, hundred of them over there, and that was in O three.
Yeah, now we have nine thousand four hundred and fifty as of Wednesday.
Wow.
And we need a lot more.
There's a lot of units that are in need now, and the reason for that is with this the way that things are happening in Iraq now.
Our troops are going out into remote bases where uh like they did in 2003, General Petraeus has uh uh you know a plan.
The plan is is happening.
Uh right now Al Qaeda's being killed in Bakuba, seventeen of them today and sixty-eight since Tuesday.
Uh it's very hard to catch that in the press because uh people don't want to talk about it, I guess, and and uh, you know, we keep abreast of things.
We're we're right on the ground with our intel.
People contact us constantly and we've been at it for four years now.
Well, uh yeah, we if you've got uh ninety four hundred of these over there and there's a hundred and fifty thousand troops, there's a lot of there's a lot of ground to cover over there.
The uh well we're concentrating on the remote areas of the troops that are out in the remote areas and and we are in contact with them only large part because of our relationship with Mike Young, who reports on the ground from Iraq.
All right, and so you have you've you over the four years you've established a system so that so that this gets done quickly, easily and efficiently.
Yes.
And honestly, uh I have tons of emails.
We we get things there, we get these air conditioners there uh in seven days from Delhi.
Really?
Yes.
I can't get mailed across the country in seven days sometimes.
So tell me what uh what people can do.
How how do they reach you?
How do they help you?
Well, you can log on to my website, www.operationac.com.
What we need now is funding.
I have five hundred air conditioners waiting to be purchased.
I need to raise 42,500 to get them.
And I know we can do it.
Yeah, I I know you can too.
And uh I look I'm looking at your website right now and you're saying, yeah, it's still very hot over there.
Uh it's it's uh you've got a point in here about the fact that you can raise the money to ship ACs purchased here in the USA, or you can buy them from Iraqis.
You like to you like to buy them here.
Absolutely.
Because the Iraqis are authorized uh by the military, I mean I mean by our government to sell them to our military.
And what's happening is they're getting sorted ouched by because there's a supply and demand issue, obviously.
So if I can get them here and ship them right to the units, they get them very quickly.
And uh we solve the issue with the power between us and their S4, their their uh supply people.
So what uh I'm looking on your website.
Is there do you have like a uh a credit card or you I see you up on the top right, you've got uh donate now with PayPal.
Absolutely.
What if you don't what if you don't have a PayPal account?
Can you do a credit card?
Yeah.
You can go into uh our uh uh virtual care box system and click on donation and put the um dollar amount you want and process a credit card, any credit card.
Okay.
How much is that?
How much does it how much is one of one of these cost if I wanted to buy an air conditioner?
An air conditioner is eighty-five dollars, and to ship that air conditioner by air freight costs a hundred.
So for a hundred and eighty-five dollars, that's one air conditioner.
I get on a pallet, I get a pallet of them.
You know, we work together as a group.
That's how this country moves, and I believe in our country, and the people that listen to this show, and you know, with God's help, we get it done.
Yeah.
That's how it works.
And I'm sure the tens and twenties are very grateful, but it would be fun to sponsor one.
So one eighty one eighty-five to sponsor a uh to get it right into the hands of some of our troops that are over there.
Yeah, I had to stop for a while, Tom, because the DOD uh just put so many roadblocks and red tape in front of us, but you know, we had to create a path, and that's what happened.
Well, I know you if anybody could do it, you've got it down.
You're probably the most efficient air conditioner distributor in the nation.
Well, I hope so.
I I it's not just air conditioners.
We we have on our shipping page, you can see, you know, we sent two point four million dollars worth of supply since two thousand and three.
Combat boots, medical supply.
I mean, we have UK troops in Bajra that we can get cases of MREs to.
We have uh it's another it's another whole show.
It's another whole show about why you're why why we you have to do this, but I'm glad you you are there.
I'm very glad.
It's not an easy thing to do, but it's a necessary and important thing to do.
Yeah.
And I just don't understand the general malaise of people in this country and why they feel, you know, they just turn off in their brain that there's a hundred and fifty thousand troops over there in in disgusting conditions, doing a hell of a job right now.
Frankie Mayo is her name, and her website is Operation AC dot com.
And we encourage people to uh to get it to take a look and see what you can do to help.
Frankie, thanks.
Thanks for taking the time.
You bet.
We'll be back.
Short break.
Tom Sullivan's in for Rush on the EID Radio Network.
Welcome back.
Uh Tom Sullivan for Rush, he's back Monday.
As we um wrap up this Friday, I I was just um there's a report out today.
There's a whole bunch of stuff in the news about the CIA and how uh there's these documents that are oh man, they're gonna have a field day.
They're gonna have a field day with this because these documents are gonna be released over the next uh I think it's next week and maybe the the week after and it's really a lot of stuff about what the CI CIA has done in the past, most of which is decades old activities that we have known about for years,
and yet they're gonna talk about what we did, and so they're gonna bring up and and connect the dots, and they're gonna say, C, C, we're uh we're still doing it.
We're we're out there, we're doing horrible things to people.
We got the we got the get mode deal.
Oh, that's another whole thing in the news.
Uh the the Gitmo, we're torturing people, we've got secret prisons, we've got C the CIA has always been bad and and they're certainly bad under the Bush administration.
If you read the reports, it goes down and talks about what happened uh by name with Richard Nixon, and they mentioned Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger.
And they're going through all this.
Most of the names that they're talking about were in the um almost mid-70s.
Well, what was going on in nineteen seventy-four, boys and girls?
That's right.
It was the church commission.
The the the Senator from Idaho, who basically went in and and gutted a lot of the things that the CIA could do, which came back to bite our behind on September 11th of 01.
But they for some reason they mentioned wiretapping in 63 of some columnists, which is their number one concern is wiretapping of journalists.
They talk about assassination plots, including Fidel Castro.
They forget to talk about the fact that this was John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
They forgot somehow conveniently to miss all of that.
Hey, thanks for coming along with me today.
Rush again, back from vacation on Monday.
Have a great weekend.
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