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July 9, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2007, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I don't know.
I'm just in one of these flat line moods, you know, just sort of blase.
Don't even know why.
You ever get those?
Just in a, maybe it was too much excitement over the weekend, the last three or four days.
I don't know, although there wasn't much.
At any rate, had I not mentioned that, you'd never know it from the way the program will unfold before your very eyes and ears today.
Greetings, folks, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here on Monday, the beginning of a brand new week of Broadcast Excellence.
Happy to have you along, as always.
The telephone number, if you want to be with us, is 800-282-2882, and the email address, rush at EIBNet.com.
Over the weekend, America's real anchorman, me, the man who's running the country, was discussed on many television shows.
First up, this morning on Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends, the co-host out there, Allison Camerada, was talking to Patrick Gavin and Jeff Dufour.
They're both in the Washington Examiner.
And they ask these two guys if I was the reason Scooter Libby's sentence was commuted.
People who think that Rush Limbaugh wields a lot of influence have one more example.
Hours before President Bush commuted Libby's sentence, Rush Limbaugh took to the airs and said, you know, I really think it's time that this president pardoned Scooter Libby.
Now, obviously, he didn't pardon him, but he certainly did help Scooter Libby out.
So I think if you think that Rush is powerful, here's another example for you.
50 million listeners have a lot of influence.
And then on C-SPAN's Washington Journal yesterday, the host was Rob Harlston.
And the Weekly Standards Matthew Continetti is the guest.
Harlston takes a caller from Silver Springs, Maryland on the Republican line.
My hat goes off to Rush Limbaugh and talk radio for stopping the amnesty bill.
And you could tell the politicians in Washington hate talk radio and will do anything they can to try and hush Rush, so to speak.
Well, I got news for you guys.
Talk radio is going to continue, and the next thing that talk radio is going to zero in on is that fence.
We want a fence.
We want English to be the national language.
I'm sick and tired of calling and having to press a button for the conversation to continue in English.
I think I just got my marching orders there, but not from Carl Robert of the White House, but from a listener.
Next thing is going to be that fence.
So I better get on that.
And then this was Saturday, Fox News Channel's Fox News Watch, Eric Burns speaking with regular panelist and syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, talking about the news media's response to Al Gore's son's problems.
I listened to Rush Limbaugh this week because of Rush's own difficulty with prescription drugs.
He was very compassionate and he was very open about this.
And he said he wanted to help any way he could with his own experience with Al Gore's son.
I thought it was one of those rare moments in the media where somebody of a different political persuasion could actually be understanding and compassionate.
It's a good thing.
Shh, Cal, Cal, sh, sh, shh, shh.
Kind of ruin things for me here.
You're going to ruin the image.
So anyway, that's America's Anchorman in the news over the weekend.
Time to give away another iPhone.
This is number four.
And we've got after today, six more to go.
Today's iPhone winner, Jeffrey S. Still haven't picked a woman out there yet.
This is all random.
Certainly hope one shows up in the winner's column before this is all over with.
Jeffrey S. from Alamogordo, New Mexico, listening to us on KRSY, 12.30 a.m.
Now, Holloman Air Force Base is in Alamogordo.
It's the home of America's F-117A Stealth Ground Attack Aircraft Fleet in Alamogordo.
So, Jeffrey S. Congratulations.
You get the iPhone.
You get a little check here of almost $1,500 to help you pay the two-year service that you're required to get with AT ⁇ T when you use an iPhone.
You also get $100 gift card from Bocajava.com, Spectacular Coffee, a one-year subscription to RushLimbaugh.com, and something we throw this into, and I've forgotten to mention this all last week, a one-year subscription to Limbaugh Letter, too.
That's included when you get your subscription to Rush 24-7.
So it's a huge package out there, and you can win too.
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So we've got six more iPhones to give away.
We'll do it again tomorrow.
I have another winner for you as this massive giveaway.
Oh, and somebody sent me an email.
Rush, you said you have an iPhone, and I've been reading reviews of the iPhone, and some people, like consumer reports have it.
And by the way, this is not a commercial for Apple.
I'm not doing it for this real.
I'll just tell you the truth about this.
Apparently, Consumer Reports said the phone's no good, or it's not that special.
They said the volume in the phone when you're listening to a caller is not good, and the ring volume is not very.
This is absolutely not the experience I have found.
You know, I have a cochlear implant.
It is tough for me to use the phone.
I don't like the phone anyway, as you know.
This is the best phone.
It's got more volume than any phone I've ever had.
I don't understand what people are saying.
What about you?
Is your phone low in volume?
No, I don't understand this.
So this is basically an attack on the media.
I mean, consumer reports, I don't care who they are.
They're libs.
It doesn't matter where you find them.
If they print what they write, nine times out of ten, they're going to be a bunch of libs, which puzzles me because so's Apple.
But nevertheless, whatever criticism this phone's getting when it comes to the clarity and quality of it, I think I'm a pretty good judge on this because, you know, everything sounds, it's hard to describe how you hear when you have a cochlear implant, sort of like AM radio.
But that doesn't, it just isn't, it's not high-fi, it's not high fidelity.
This phone is the clearest and loudest that I've ever heard.
Ringtones have to turn it down.
I keep it on vibrate anyway because I hate the sound of a phone ringing.
I think it can ruin the next 30 minutes of my life.
Well, they all sound the same to me, Snurdly.
He's telling me there's some cool tones on the...
I just have it set up for the old phone.
Ding-ling-ling-ling-ling.
All these weirdo Star Trek sounds all sound like, you know, a UFO is hovering over my house.
I can't, all those different tones sound the same note, and it's irritating as it can be.
So I just do the ding-a-ling-a-ling when I, but I have it on vibrate.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have a lot to do today on the excellence in broadcasting network.
And let me just get started with it.
You know, there have been a lot of defections, two more defections, Judge Gregg and who else?
Domedici Ivojnovich are defecting now on the war in Iraq.
The New York Times is building up its case to get out of their White House.
By the way, so we're not this story in the New York Times today that we're planning on getting out of there where that's not true.
White House is denying it today.
Meanwhile, the Democrats in Congress are working up all of these investigations, challenging executive privilege, knowing the White House is going to assert it.
And there's a reason that all of this is happening.
These committees in Congress, from Leahy to Conyers to you name it in the House, they're just trying to get Bush to repeatedly assert executive privilege.
All their demands for his top aides, present and former, certain documents, they fall way outside the traditional requests for information, and they know it.
It's just pure harassment.
They're trying to shut down this administration for the remaining year and a half that it has left.
Evidence of that, too, is that these committees are refusing to confirm, even hold hearings on scores of nominees to top administration positions, including the judiciary.
Now, what they're trying to do here, this is not just a game.
They're not just trying to stall the presidency here for the next year and a half.
They're trying to destroy the executive's power.
They're trying to destroy the office of the presidency and the ability of the president to function.
Now, normally this is standard second-term fair, delaying the confirmation of judicial appointments, particularly other nominations to cabinet posts, sub-cabinet posts, under-secretary posts.
That's standard fair.
But this goes a little bit beyond standard fair because it's far more systematic.
There is a political calculation here that goes beyond tradition that's guiding this.
And what they're trying to do is not just create one scandal.
They're trying to create multiple phony scandals as a pretext to tear the presidency down and paralyze it in every which way.
Now, you might say, well, Rush, aren't you going a little far here?
If they're trying to destroy or weaken the powers of the presidency, do they expect to lose the White House in 08?
No, quite the contrary.
When they get into office, they actually do abuse the powers of the presidency from executive orders to pardons, and that will continue.
They expect to win the White House, and they expect to win the Congress, and they expect to work systematically that way.
So if the executive wants all kinds of power, the Democrats in the House and Senate, I mean, it can be in turf battles that might ensue, but this is all about growing the federal government in their image and limiting the administration here in the last 18 months to what it can do.
If they take the presidency and then they take the Congress, they're going to work together to massively expand the power of the government, and they expect to do both.
And our guys, ladies and gentlemen, are just surrendering.
Our guys are not on the field.
I'll explain all that when we come back after this.
Don't go anywhere.
Yes, yes, of course.
We are going to review Live Earth.
But not a whole lot of time, folks, because it was a bomb.
It was an absolute disaster.
I think the whole Live Earth thing ended up being a joke.
It didn't move any, just a bunch of 60s relics showing up, bands that were, I told you, there was no A-listers on this whole bill.
What was hilarious in Johannesburg, they explained a low turnout, global warming because of the cold, cold weather and snow the week before kept people away from Johannesburg.
Now, how laughable can you get?
I mean, that's the kind of gorgeous snake bit on this kind of stuff.
We'll have some comments from some of the artists, Cameron Diaz, urging people to take showers together.
I mean, I'd take a shower with her, but not for global warming.
I mean, it's an absolute stupid, and that'd be it.
I'm out of there.
What a, what a New Jersey, over the meadowlands, there was a plane fly carrying a banner said, don't believe Alcor.
People are not buying this for some reason.
Probably the power of me, a man running America, made this a singular crusade.
All right, our guys, back to this problem that's in Washington right now.
Congress coming back to work today, and of course, we've got all kinds of headlines out there.
Congress returns ready to battle Bush.
Yeah, screw those Islamo fascists.
We're not going to battle our real enemies.
We're going to make up an enemy.
We're going to make the world's enemy the president of the United States.
And this is all about our political power.
Our real enemy is that damn Bush.
Well, he's not, but as far as they're concerned, he is.
So, what are the Republicans doing?
You might say, well, Rush, if a Democrats have designs on winning the White House, as you know they do, and maintaining control of Congress, what are the Republicans doing about it?
Well, you tell me.
It'd be one thing if they just weren't on the field, but it's worse than that.
They're surrendering.
From Voinovich to Judd Gregg to Domenichi, they're surrendering.
They are nowhere to be found in the war.
They are nowhere to be found on permanent tax cuts, which is a singular Republican issue, nowhere to be found.
They were nowhere to be found on judicial confirmations.
And they had to have some sense beaten into them on illegal immigration, or they would have destroyed the Republican Party altogether with that.
So it's not that they're not just on the field, they've gone into surrender mode.
I mean, look at this.
Dick Luger, who got the first, he was the first of the current wave of surrenders.
Then Domenici going soft.
These guys have been in the Senate forever.
Voinovich has been in public office for over four decades.
They've been there a long, long time.
They are tired.
They are weak.
It looks like they've lost enthusiasm, certainly ideological enthusiasm.
And all they're trying to do here is hold on for another term.
This is all about the next election and winning and putting a finger in the air, moistening it and seeing which way the wind is blowing.
But here's the truth.
The truth of this is that when it comes to what's happening in Iraq, the American people could put up with the Iraq war for many more years.
I don't care what you're hearing.
There is not an uprising among the public.
How do I know this?
What did we just have?
We had how many live Earth concerts were there?
There were at least seven that I counted.
Now, in the good old days of the anti-war movement, a rock concert anywhere under any auspices, ostensibly being televised around the world, would have been an ideal place to start raising hell about getting out of Iraq.
And I'm sorry, but it didn't happen.
You saw little pockmark examples of it, but it was the anti-war movement, even at the concerts in this country, was not taken up and involved deeply with this, which tells me that the anti-war movement as it exists in this country remains a bunch of relics from the 1960s.
In fact, I think Live Earth was such a disaster.
It may spell the end of all of these live everythings.
Live Aid, Live 8.
This was indicative of a format and a technique that simply run its course.
But when you can't even get a bunch of long-haired maggot-infested dope-smoking, blue-jean-clad, tie-dyed-wearing FM types out there taking advantage of this kind of an opportunity to preach against the war, when the big anti-war news of the weekend was Cindy Sheehan's going to run against Nancy Pelosi if she doesn't offer articles of impeachment against President Bush in two weeks.
I'm telling you, the American people are not experiencing a great uprising against the war.
They may be ambivalent about it, and they may be in the midst of fatigue hearing about it because the news.
Let me ask you a question.
In the four years that we have been in Iraq, can any of you name one thing any Democrat, throw Joe Lieberman out, any Democrat or any drive-by media member has done or said that would help win the war in Iraq?
You cannot.
May have happened, but it's so infrequent that you don't remember it.
What have they done?
It's just the exact opposite.
The Democrat Party has already proclaimed defeat.
They own defeat.
They have managed to demoralize the troops.
They have openly criticized the commanders.
The drive-by media dutifully report this.
The drive-by media dutifully report all of the so-called acts of barbarism committed by our guys, but they ignore some truly unbelievable acts of barbarism that are taking place in Iraq today.
And I'm going to give you some examples, courtesy, of a man over there who's following our troops around.
He's, for all intents and purposes, call him an embedded name, Michael Yan, Y-O-N.
And let me just give you a heads up.
Let's give you a heads up.
Al-Qaeda throughout the country is attempting to persuade average Iraqis to join their movement.
Persuade is a loose term given what's going on.
They go to families that have young boys, 10 years old, 11 years old.
They, I don't know how to say this delicately, and I know that this is the lunch hour, but they invite the families to lunch.
It's lunch hour in Eastern and Central time zones.
They invite these families to lunch, their homes and so forth.
And when it's time to serve lunch, they bring out the 11, 10-year-old sons of these families, baked, with fruit in their mouths.
Al-Qaeda is doing, there are pictures of this at Michael Yan's website.
Now, these acts of barbarism are being recently discovered.
They're not uncommon.
This, as you know, is not persuasion.
This is coercion and fear and intimidation to get average Iraqis to join al-Qaeda.
But all you hear about in this country from the drive-by media is Abu Ghraib and Club Gitmo and the Haditha incident where we supposedly raped and murdered innocent people.
But you're not hearing, it's up to the White House and the President to make this news public.
It's shocking.
We had to kill the Nazis because they were doing things like this.
We had to kill them.
We had to stop it.
You can't just walk away from this on the pretext that, well, it's happening half a world away.
It's not going to happen here.
We've been safe for seven years.
Those people are barbarians anyway.
We can't stop them.
They're aiming at us, folks, and they're being honest and telling us what they want to do.
Be right back.
Stay with us.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You know, the American people could put up with Iraq for many more years.
The thing that's becoming patently obvious is that politicians have no stomach to see this through.
And now including more and more on the Republican side of the aisle.
Because they're prisoners and paranoid of the media culture and the liberal culture that dominates inside the beltway.
Democrats have succeeded, as you well know, in portraying every aspect of victory in Iraq and subsequent progress as a series of defeats.
The Republicans have never competently responded.
Meanwhile, Sunni tribes are now killing al-Qaeda terrorists.
They're getting fed up with them.
There is no great civil war happening between these three major factions, the Sunnis, the Shia, and the Kurds, despite the lie that there is a big civil war.
Yeah, you can't go back and say, well, I wish we'd have used more firepower at the outset because what's done is done and what happened happened.
But I'll tell you that they've successfully worked here to sabotage this war from day one.
Nothing that they say, the drive-bys and the Democrats can be believed.
Nothing that they demand can be accepted.
ACC, E-P-T-E-D.
The problem is that, you know, I hope we're not paralyzed in taking future military action that might, in fact, be required.
Now, let me give you details about this barbarism I described moments ago.
The best way to do it is just read verbatim from Victor Davis Hanson.
I've seen the pictures.
I've been to Michael Yahn's website and I've looked at the pictures of what he has found while accompanying U.S. troops.
Last Friday, Michael Yahn reported that Al-Qaeda served up a son for dinner to his own family, a barbarism reminiscent of ancient Greeks, Atreus, hence the curse on the house of Atreus.
What they do is cook and then serve a guy's twin brother's sons to their unsuspecting father in the Greek story.
So Michael Yan reports a revolting modern-day feast of the, you know, reminiscent of that which happened in the barbaric Greek period.
The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Bakuba, Al-Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking.
In each instance, the family had a boy who was about 11 years old.
As Lieutenant David Wallach interpreted the man's words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent.
He stopped interpreting for a moment.
I said, Wallach, what did he say?
Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat, and then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed.
The boy had been baked.
Al-Qaeda served the boy to his family.
Now, what's striking about all of this, and these are Victor Davis Hansen's words, and they cannot be improved on.
What's striking about all this savagery, whether with the film beheadings of Westerners in Iraq to the recent flaming Johnny Storm human torch at Glasgow, screaming epithets as he sought to engulf bystanders and ignite his candidators, what's striking about all of this is the absolute silence of the West, either distracted by Paris Hilton or iPhones or suffering from Bush derangement syndrome and obsessed with Guantanamo.
It is hard to recall an enemy so savage and yet one so largely ignored by rich, affluent, and distracted elites as the radical jihadists, as we have to evoke everything from mythology to comic books to find analogies to their extra-human viciousness.
For a self-congratulatory culture issuing moral lectures on everything from global warming to the dangers of smoking, the silence of the West toward the primordial horror from Gaza to Anbar is horrific in its own way as well.
It could not be more correct.
Could not be.
I have said constantly on this program, we are so fat, dumb, and happy.
We are so affluent.
We have so much opportunity in this country.
Look at the things that we've made up to tell ourselves we live in tough times, that we're overcoming great obstacles, that we have big-time traumas that we have to face, global warming, whether or not to eat organic food.
You can go down a list of these meaningless, irrelevant things.
Is this food of the day going to kill you?
Is your kid doing this or not doing this?
Your kid may be playing dodgeball in school.
Can't have that.
That's dangerous.
Can't play tag because somebody's it.
That means more people aren't it.
That's embarrassing and humility.
Can't do that.
We can't even have adequate testing in schools because it's going to be unfair to those that don't do well.
We're preoccupied with all of these irrelevancies that we have made into some of the most momentous, mountainous challenges we think we've ever had when they're nothing.
We try to get people's hands ringing over every little thing that happens in the news as a crisis, except the one thing that really is.
And that is a worldwide movement of lunatics who are being very open and honest about what their intentions are.
And they are doing it, and there are pictures of them doing it, and they're even committing these atrocities against Westerners and journalists and so forth.
Still, not a peep, except it's our fault for causing it.
If we hadn't gone there, if Bush hadn't lied, if they hadn't cooked the intelligence, all of these irrelevant things, which themselves are not true.
And so what it's led to is fatigue.
You know, people only have so large an emotional reservoir.
You can only hear about something for so long before you have to stop caring about it because you can't care anymore.
And the global warming people have, I think, jumped the shark on that for a host of other reasons.
And the same thing with the war in Iraq.
The American people have been pummeled for four years, day in and day out, about what an abject failure it was, how unjust it is, how unnecessary it was, how it has led to people actually hating America.
Our image around the world is worse than it's ever been.
And meanwhile, these acts of barbarism are going on and they're ignored or they're excused or they are shuffled aside because it's half a world away.
And we don't really expect this kind of thing to happen here.
Well, you know, hope may be good for a couple minutes when you're stuck at the bottom of a well, but it isn't going to get you out.
This is something that it troubles me greatly.
I expect the Democrats to be who they are.
We know who they are.
We know they're cut and run.
We know that they're defeatists.
We know that they are invested in the defeat of their own country and their own military for their own selfish political gains and purposes.
But the Republicans surrendering on this and running for the tallgrass, that's a disappointing thing.
This is all going to be a factor in the next series of elections, presidential and congressional, coming up in November of 2008.
We've dealt with people who commit atrocities in the past, as I mentioned in the first part of the program, with Nazis.
And we decided without much hesitation that they had to be killed.
You couldn't just say, well, leave them alone.
I mean, if we don't bother them, then they won't bother us.
But that seems to be the objective or the primary way that we make ourselves feel comfortable about how to deal with this.
Here's another headline.
This is from the Financial Times: Al-Qaeda linked to operations from Iran.
Evidence that Iranian territory is being used as a base by Al-Qaeda to help in terrorist operations in Iraq and elsewhere is growing, say Western officials.
Okay, so Al-Qaeda is using Iran as a base for terrorists.
The terrorists then go into Iraq.
They kill Iraqis and Americans with the explicit intention of undermining progress in Iraq.
They get help in doing that from the drive-by media in this country and the Democrats.
And then they flee back across the border to Iran.
Any U.S. progress in Iraq means that Western culture and ideals are percolating in their backyard and they can't have that.
And by the way, we talked about last week the latest tape from Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
That tape should have represented in a sane political environment the final nail in the coffin of this era of political Democrats.
Because it made clear that we are winning.
It made clear that we're causing them all kinds of problems.
The surge, in fact, is working in a number of places because the New York Times inadvertently lets this cat out of the bag today because the al-Qaeda insurgents are being forced to take up shop in different parts of the country as we send surge troops in.
Yet, here it is July.
We're not going to have a report from Petraeus till September, and yet everybody wants to pronounce the surge DOA in July.
It's not September yet when he's due to report.
It's now, it's July.
Why?
Can't afford victory if you're the Democrats.
Can't afford for something to actually be said to be working.
Not good, not good politically.
After all, we've already proclaimed defeat.
The Democrats have already got us dead and buried, and they've raised the right flag.
So it's sickening.
It's extremely troubling that this kind of thing is being allowed to happen.
Now, there's a solution to it.
And this is something talk radio can't do.
Talk radio is not going to be able to gin up the American people on this.
Not totally.
This is something the White House is going to have to make a cause of bearing the news to the American people of these atrocities, talking about just who these people are and just what it is we're doing.
You know, the Democrat, this would be so easy to refute.
The Democrats are saying, well, yeah, all these al-Qaeda guys in Iraq, we admit that, because Bush went, Bush created them there.
Bush, Bush, I mean, there weren't any al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Okay, forget all of that.
And go back to the Zawahiri tape from last Friday.
They're there in Iraq, and they say, Zawahiri says it is the center.
It is the forefront.
It is where the mother of all battles is taking place.
Why?
If they didn't care about Iraq before we were there, why do they care about it now?
Why don't they just stay hidden in the caves in Afghanistan and Pakistan and build up their forces in Somalia?
Why do they care about Iraq?
Because we're there.
They can't afford for a country in their region, particularly in an oil region, to go any way, shape, manner, or form Democrat.
And, well, in terms of democracy.
So they just, and freedom, liberty.
They just can't allow that to happen.
So yeah, we're there, and that might be the reason they're sending everybody in.
But the fact that they sent everybody in, the fact that they do want Iraq and that we know who they are ought to wake everybody up as to how serious this is.
But too many people in this country, let them have Iraq.
Who cares?
Because also, you know, we're all concerned here about burning fossil fuel, folks.
Yes, we might be destroying the environment.
We might be polluting things.
So we've got this movement on don't use oil.
We're getting ourselves all rung up about solar energy and wind farms and windmills, and it's irrelevant.
It's stupid.
It's nothing but a bunch of liberalism to occupy people whose lives are fine or have the opportunity to be fine.
They want you in crisis constantly.
They want you in misery, crisis constantly.
They want you in that mode so that you will accept whatever fixes they propose and so that you will also blame your president for the mood that they put you in.
Quick timeout.
Back after this, stay with us.
Now, I realize, I fully realize some of you may be bored with all this Iraq war stuff.
I know that there's burnout on it.
And I know that there's a feeling of fatalism that's wafted over much of the country.
But I've still just two more things here that I want to mention to you and remind you that the surge, report from General Petraeus is not due till September.
And yet, here it is, July, and it's DOA.
Surge is not working.
It's failed.
New York Times running stories.
Bush White House considering new action to pull troops out.
Defense Secretary Gates understands the futility of continuing the war.
Blah, But if you read carefully places, you'll find that that's not the case.
What's the fear of September?
If lost anyway, we're not going to pull all the troops out by September, even if they're right that it's not working.
So why not wait till September?
Why not follow the plan?
The only possibility is a fear that by September, the report will be that the surge is working.
Can't have that.
Cannot politically have that for the Democrats and the drive-by media.
Now, the defection of Luger and Voinovich and a couple of others is being portrayed as the wheels coming off of Republican support of the war in Iraq.
And of course, timing that with the reporting of this explosion in Iraq that killed upwards of 150 Iraqis in the news today, it's on the front page of the New York Times.
It's the worst ever.
More casualties may be a final deathblow to the president's efforts, so forth and so on.
New York Times, I think, says that what would really make Bush withdraw and quit is if McCain returns from Baghdad and joins in with Voinovich and company and defects.
Now, they may be hoping and praying McCain comes back and says it's lost, it's not working, and that Bush would then have no ally left.
They may be hoping for that.
But they then say, if Bush can just stick it out without more defections until the September recess, then surrender can be averted.
Why?
If we're going to surrender, we're going to surrender.
What's magic about September?
The Petraeus report, not just the congressional recess.
Don't forget this.
Now, this big terrorist blast that killed 150 people was in the town of Amerli, which is 100 miles north of Baghdad.
You've never heard of this town.
It had one small medical center that was overwhelmed with all of these casualties, understandably.
So the al-Qaeda gang basically hit the equivalent of Rio Linda because they can't hit San Francisco because the surge is having an effect.
The surge is chasing them to all these other little towns from where they've been taking up camp.
They're having a tough time in Anbar province.
All this I gleaned from drive-by reports that you've got to dig deep to find it.
Al-Qaeda having a tough time in the Anbar province because the surge started killing al-Qaeda and the Sunnis have taken up arms against them, as I mentioned in the beginning of the program, because they're all getting fed up.
You've heard of Diala province being aflame a while ago.
Al-Qaeda left Baghdad for Diala when we started the surge in Baghdad.
And now they're having a hard time in Diala because the surge is there, as are some pretty hacked off Iraqis who are also a little teed off at what's happening.
3,800 volunteers have been recruited to fight with coalition forces.
This is in the Boston Globe.
As a member of the Turkmen community in parliament said in the New York Times piece on this story, they have been suffocated out of Baghdad and Diala, meaning al-Qaeda.
That's why Zawahiri sent his tape out on Friday.
It's not going great.
It is treasonously irresponsible.
It's journalistic malpractice to get the news out of Iraq that we are getting.
And then to have it ballyhooed and amplified with calls for defeat and the proclamation of defeat by a number of Liberal Democrats, Pelosi, Dingy, Harry Reid.
That Zawahiri tape from last week, that was a call to arms.
And it was a justification of the Islamo-fascist state that they are trying to institute and make out of Iraq.
And by the way, that's polling very poorly with the Iraqis.
The Iraqis are not interested in al-Qaeda becoming Afghanistan too, with guys like Mullah Omar and the Taliban running around.
They just got through with something like that in Saddam Hussein.
So wanted to present to you the other side, folks, because you likely are not going to hear it anywhere else, including, sadly, the White House.
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