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July 16, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2007, Monday, Hour #2
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You know, the more I see of these these these stupid car chases on cable TV, the more the more I'm convinced that we got some real morons that live in this country.
Now there's a car chase, and then the cable nets have it, and this one's near us.
It's on the Florida Turnpike.
It's somewhere near Fort Lauderdale.
They think the car was involved in a hit and run in uh in Miami Dade County.
And a car's got some damage, and it looks like it's a silver Lexus.
So anyway, this guy's had a helicopter following him for a half hour here.
Anyone that gets in a car chase, anybody tries to outrun the fuzz has got to know by now a helicopter is going to track them down and follow them wherever they go.
There's no getting away from this.
Especially when you're on a turnpike.
How in the world are you going to get off of the turnpike?
Uh and and blend in.
I mean, you'd have to just it's it's amazing these things.
It's that's even more amazing to me than the fact that the media covers these.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
It's L. Rushbull, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all concerned Maha Rushi.
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Just a couple more things about Iraq.
Uh New York Times on the uh on their blog poll, Americans Way In on Iraq.
Uh one of the one of the points that the poll makes is this level of negative public opinion has been relatively constant since January.
Well, I want to remake a point that I made in the last riff on this.
If the public opinion, the negative public opinion has been relatively constant since January.
It means that despite the New York Times and the drive-by media's best efforts, and an increase in casualties, by the way, during the surge, the anti-war needle hasn't lurched to the left.
Meanwhile, numbers for Congress are, as I say, are in the crapper, folks.
Their numbers are lower than the numbers of support for the war.
And yet, well, we're not talking about getting those guys out of Congress.
We're not talking about pulling them out, although that's going to happen in the next election.
Uh just ignore them.
They don't have any power.
Why everybody wants to react to what these people say?
Here's here's who I want to hear from, and this is this is the kind of thing that to me is important.
U.S. general in Iraq speaks strongly against troop pull-out.
An American general, this is a New York Times, uh, John Burns, a good reporter, by the way.
An American general directing a major part of the offensive aimed at securing Baghdad said yesterday it would take until next spring for this operation to succeed, and that an early American withdrawal would clear the way for the enemy to come back to areas now being cleared of insurgents.
His name is Rick Lynch.
Major General Rick Lynch commands 15,000 Americans.
He commands the third ID.
Almost 7,000 Iraqi troops under his command also.
He spoke more forcefully than any American commander to date in uh in urging that the so-called troop surge continue into the spring of 2008.
That would match the deadline of March 31st set by the Pentagon, which is said that limits on American troops available for deployment will force an end to the increase by then.
Now here's how they describe General Lynch.
He is a blunt-spoken cigar-smoking Ohio native who commands the 3rd Infantry Division.
He said that all the American troops that began an offensive south of Baghdad in mid-June were part of the five-month uh troop buildup now, and they were making significant gains in areas that were previously enemy sanctuaries.
Pulling back before the job was completed, he said, would create an environment where the enemy could come back and fill the void.
He implied that an early withdrawal would amount to an abandonment of Iraqi civilians who uh he said had rallied in support of the American and Iraqi troops.
And goes on to uh make some other statements.
Said he was amazed at the cooperation his troops were encountering in previously hostile areas.
He sighted the village of Altaqa near the Euphrates River, about twenty miles southwest of Baghdad, where uh four American soldiers were killed in an ambush on May 12th.
Three others were taken hostage.
One of the hostages later found dead, leaving two soldiers missing.
Uh Brigadier General Jim Higgins, Huggins, sorry, deputy to General Lynch, said an Iraqi commander in the area had told him on Saturday that women and children in the village had begun using plastic pipes to tap on street lamps and other metal objects To warn when the extremists were in the area planning roadside bombs and planning other attacks.
The tapping, General Huggins said, was a signal that these people have had enough.
So here's a general who's over there, commands a third ID.
Now that's somebody whose words interest me.
That's somebody whose opinion interests me.
I couldn't care less what Jim Webb says or Harry Reed or anybody, especially in the drive-by media.
I could not care less what they say.
What's the downside of staying?
What is it?
How how are any of us who are not military family?
How are we actually affected by it?
We aren't.
We're allowing ourselves to be affected by it with a constant negative drumbeat on the drive-by media.
So if you don't, if you don't want to be made uncomfortable, then turn it off.
This program is optimism.
This program is good cheer.
This is all about American can-do spirits.
In fact, I want to play you some audio sound bites because this these uh these warmed my heart when I heard these today.
Yesterday on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Steve Scully, the the uh host, the topic is return to Fairness Doctrine.
And they were bouncing off the latest National Review cover story on the Fairness Doctrine.
I gave an interview to uh Myron York for it, and they they had funny picture.
They put a picture of me with ma with duct tape on my mouth uh on the on the cover of National Review.
Skully takes a caller from Port St. Lucy, Florida.
I strongly disagree with the fairness doctrine.
I think it takes away our freedom.
And as far as Rush Limbaugh, I listen to Rush uh when I can.
And uh I think Rush is a uh great American, he's a patriot, he's got traditional values.
He speaks a lot for the grassroots of this country that Hollywood and Michael Moore and people like that don't portray.
And and you you know, you ask any conservative an opinion about a subject, and he'll give you an answer uh pretty much right away.
And these liberals kind of have to hide who they are.
And I think a lot of people like Rush because he's articulate and he he expresses himself.
And then Scully said to the uh to the Florida caller, so well, let me ask you based on that, how often do you listen to Rush Limbaugh, by the way?
I listen to him uh a couple days a week.
I have flipped around to some uh liberal stations, and I I really can't handle it because it's like putting a dark cloud over me.
I it's so depressing hearing these folks bash America.
There's only so much you can hear about it, and it gets nauseating about how how negative.
And that's what I like about Rush.
Positive and upbeat about America, you know, and is talk radio.
It's not about hate when it comes to conservatives, it's about vision and the future of America.
And later on in the uh program, uh Steve Skelly took a caller from Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The major point to me that was never brought up is that uh Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram are entertaining.
They're funny.
Because they think it's all hate mongering.
It's not, it's entertainment.
It's funny.
Let me just remind the audience we were talking about that because of uh Byron York's piece in the National Review on efforts to so-called hush rush.
Yeah, I love it when I uh when he get people on these shows and uh who actually listen to this program and uh who understand it and uh and get it.
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Uh that guy that says he listens uh uh twice a week.
That's okay, but we could use more.
Uh so could you.
So could the country.
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We go to Fort Benning, Georgia.
This is Paul, and I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, thanks, Russ.
Let me hurry up and get this out before my phone dies.
Has anyone made the connection?
I haven't heard it from the media or from Bush himself that Iraq is a lot like Germany was.
A little history lesson.
Why were we in Germany and we still are for over half a century?
Was it because we liked Schnitzel or Cuckoo Klox?
We were in Germany because communism was the enemy, and that was our staging area, and that kept Russia in check.
That's the same thing that Iraq is.
The terrorist coaches, and what we are doing with our presence in Iraq is we have the light on.
Our presence there keeps them at bay.
They're still there, but now they can't move around freely.
If we pull the troops out, it's gonna be like turning the light, leaving the house, and then the cockroaches are gonna be free to do whatever they want to do.
Armed cockroaches.
Exactly.
And I'd also like to make the point that of the three thousand men and women that have died, all of those people, soldiers and contractors, have all volunteered to go over there.
The minute we pull out and we start having men, women, and oh, yeah, by the way, children, innocent men, women and children die on our own soil, then they're gonna blame the government because we get we went out too fast.
No, uh look at the Democrats want one of everything you said, by the way, except for that, is right on the money.
What the Democrats are setting up here is next time there's an attack, Bush's fault.
Everything that happens negatively in this country, in terms of future terrorist attacks, uh, either in this country or against Americans around the world, Bush did it.
Bush and his Republican allies did it because they stirred up a peaceful bunch of Muslims.
Yes, they were minding their own business, and we had to invade and occupy one of their precious countries.
And we blew up mosques, and we had Abu Grab, and we had Club Gitmo, and we have angered the Muslim.
I'm telling you the Democrats and the drive-by media are gonna blame every future act of terrorism on Republicans, and that's their objective.
Their objective is not to stop the attacks.
The objective is not to stop the people who will commit these atrocities.
They are trying to pull out of there so that they can secure defeat, have it blamed on Bush and on Republicans, and win elections from now until the sun goes down.
They are just this is pure selfishness, pure politics on on their part, and it is insidious.
Now, as to the uh the reason that we're in Iraq and your your comparison to Germany, I have I've tried all that.
Throughout the history of this wall, I have reminded people of how many more deaths we lost in one battle.
D Day in World War II than we have lost in four years in Iraq.
In a training exercise for D Day, we lost more troops than we have lost in battle in Iraq.
I have pointed out that we are in Germany still.
We have bases there, and you're right.
They were staging areas for the Cold War, but we're also in Germany because they were Nazis at one time.
And the world doesn't trust that to not surface again.
And there's somebody in the world that has to protect the world, and we are the lone superpower, and that's us, and we protect the superpower or protect ourselves in the process we protect the world.
And these Democrats And the media people just want to pull out of there.
It is it is it is short-sighted, it is selfish, it will secure defeat, and it will guarantee more attacks, which they will then love to blame on Bush and the Republicans.
I be get ready for this, folks.
The only option here is to continue to fight these SOBs and win.
That's who we used to be as Americans.
We didn't we didn't have time to sit around wringing our hands and telling ourselves, oh gosh, that feels so bad.
I don't feel comfortable here.
I wish we weren't at war.
Pull the troops out.
We don't Americans we're not that way.
Now, despite all these polls.
But back in uh in uh less affluent times we didn't have all this time to hang around and get upset and get worried uh about things, especially those of us that do not have members of family in the military.
I mean, that's you talk about selfish and self-centered and me, me, me, me, me.
We gotta get out of Iraq Myth, Lumba, because I feel uncomfortable.
I don't like what's happening.
I don't like the doubt, I don't like the roadside bombs.
Well, screw you.
You know, country won't survive with people like you in charge of things, so just go away.
Well, you can stay out there and whine and moan, and you can complain and you go protest and you can put on your stupid little banners to say you love and support this, but you count for nothing because you're doing nothing.
You're doing nothing constructive, you're doing nothing that's building anything.
You're inspiring nobody.
Just cram it.
As uh number of children have told me on occasion.
Close your pie hole.
That's what they call a mouth, I suppose.
I've learned this.
But uh no kid tells me what to do, so it didn't work.
Micah, in uh in Mooresville, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello, Rush, didddos from the college graduate headed to graduate school.
Congratulations, sir.
Thank you.
Uh wanted to call, I'm I'm actually a member of a uh notes family.
My brother was a Marine in Iraq.
Uh served for two tours on a second tour.
He was actually killed in the battle for Fallujah back in 2004.
Um but I I did want to say uh thank you very, very much for being uh dare I say the only national media figure who represents people like me.
And I I can't tell you what it means to me to turn you on every day and listen to what you have to say and agree with uh pretty much hundred percent of what you say, and it's very, very special.
You know, I I uh to tell you a little story, because you've made me feel uh similar to the way I felt in Washington one night.
It was the uh National Review 50th anniversary uh dinner, and they had a table of um uh wounded and recovering veterans from Walter Reed.
And uh one of these one of these guys uh lost an eye, uh got an eye patch on, he'd been severely wounded.
He was ambulatory, but he was severely wounded, and he came up and and said much the uh same thing to me that you just did.
And I honestly I was taken aback.
I I I look I looked at him and said, how uh how in the world can you I ought to be saying this to you, and I would have if I'd had the chance to open my mouth first.
I mean, compared to what I do, uh you're you're you're out there on the front lines, and he stopped me.
He said, We all have our roles.
We all have our roles.
And he was he was uh uh he he wanted to tell me uh you know what any words of support from anywhere mean uh to the people that that wear the uniform.
I'm by no means the only one.
I appreciate your uh your comment on that on that, Micah, but you you've lost uh uh a brother, uh and I've I find it uh touching that that you want to call and and thank somebody who just you know utters a bunch of words on this stuff.
I mean I mean I know words count, and I know they matter and and uh and they can help, but uh they're you know, you you uh your family and there's some others you've given up the um the ultimate sacrifice, and and that's another thing.
That's uh when I when I start hearing all these people who have nothing at stake, nothing on the line, other than their precious moods, um it just frustrates me all to hell because I I can imagine how people like you and your family hear it when people say it.
Uh it does, Rush, and and I uh It it burns me to no end for people that have nothing at stake and could care less, really, say, Oh, well, I support the troops, but I hate the war and I hate the president and everything else.
It it it burns me up.
Well, it should.
But then the you know, the thing is, we all have something at stake.
It's just some don't want to have the uh take the time to admit it.
Some would rather bury their heads and and and just say, you know, uh they're not gonna be able to wipe out three thousand of us any time they want.
That was an aberration.
That's we have to get used to that kind of thing in a dangerous world, especially when we're as bad and mean and evil as we are conquering their countries and so forth.
That's that's how these people deal with it rather than understanding what truly is at stake.
Uh Micah, thanks again so much for the call and uh God bless you and uh and and and your family.
Uh I know that everybody who heard your call here in the audience uh is saying the same thing to you, hoping that you can hear them.
I said it for.
We'll be back.
Continue in just a sec.
Would you like to hear how Washington liberals deal with terrorists?
Story from Friday.
This is uh actually it's been in the Washington Post.
It's uh this AP version that uh that I have.
It also ran the International Herald Tribune.
It's read it's all over the place.
Because the liberals love this story.
A would-be robber was disarmed by hospitable hosts who offered him a glass of wine and sent him off with a group hug, but no money.
A group of friends was finishing a dinner of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp on a back patio of a Washington, D.C. home when a hooded man slid through an open gate and pointed a handgun at the head of a 14-year-old girl.
Give me your money or I'll start shooting, the intruder said.
Everybody froze, including the girl's parents, but then one guest spoke up.
We were just finishing dinner, said Christina Chacha Rowan, 43 years old.
Why don't you have a glass of wine with us?
The intruder had a sip of the fine French Bordeaux and said, Damn, that's good wine.
The girl's father, a federal government worker, told the intruder to take the whole glass.
And then Christina Chacha Rowan offered him the whole bottle.
The robber with his hood down took another sip and a bite of camembert cheese.
He put I'm not making this up.
This is the wine and croissant crowd in action.
The Chablian Brie Bunch.
Uh the robber with his hood down took another sip and a bite of camembert.
He put the gun in his sweatpants.
Then the story took an even more bizarre twist.
He said, I think I may have come to the wrong house.
Can I get a hug?
The intruder.
Uh Christina Chacha Rowan, who works at her children's scroll, lives in Falls Church, Virginia, stood up and wrapped her arms around the would-be robber.
The other guests followed.
Can we have a group hug?
The intruder asked.
The five adults complied.
The man walked away a few moments later with a filled crystal wine glass, but nothing was stolen.
No one was hurt.
Police were called to the scene, found the empty wine glass unbroken on the ground in an alley behind the house.
Uh this happened on June the sixteenth, and uh it lasted for all of ten minutes.
Police classified it as strange but true.
The witnesses thought the intruder may have been high on drugs.
We've had robbers that apologize and stuff, but nothing where they sat down and drank wine with us.
It definitely is strange, said the commander Diane Grooms, adding that the hugs were especially unusual.
So that's that's how liberals will deal with criminals, terrorists, and intruders.
Uh a hug, group hug, and a glass of wine.
I know some of you are thinking, boy, that's really fast thinking.
Off the guys and uh offer the intruders some wine and so forth.
You got a gun pointed at 14-year-old girl's head.
Um and it it was fast thinking, but they let the guy go.
Washington, D.C., not California.
Absolutely right.
Uh Rick and Du Boys, Pennsylvania.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, how are you?
I'm I'm great, thank you.
It is an honor to speak to you, sir.
Well, I appreciate that.
And my comment today is I understand how people can hate you.
Because years ago I was one of those people before I listened to you.
And after listening to you, you made so much sense that it's it just it baffled me how I could have so much hate in my brother always said, You gotta listen to Rush, you gotta listen to Rush.
And I I said, I didn't care whether Rush lived or not.
I said I really didn't care, but when I started listening to you, it just all my life I I thought I was probably a liberal Democrat.
And then when I listened to you, it's like maybe that's because that's all I ever heard, or all I was ever taught.
Um my parents, I I uh try to talk to my parents and that's all they know is what they see on CNN and it drives me crazy that they listen to to CNN and just it's like you can't believe everything that you're seeing on there.
There's there's more out there than what you're hearing.
And it's it's sad that that people are like that, they're so close minded.
But you you've truly changed my my way of life or my thinking, and I agree with so much almost everything on what you say, let's put it that way.
Well, you're you're you're uh more than welcome.
Thank thanks very much.
I have a question.
Sure.
Because I th there are a lot of people still out there like you used to be, and they harbor hate, not just for me, but President Bush and a lot of other people.
What was it that made you have this intense dislike for me when you had never listened to my program?
Uh I don't know because my parents were lifelong Democrats, so of course I thought that's what I was, and I knew you were you were um you know what's the word I'm looking for?
You were a lifelong Republican and maybe what I thought was bashing the Democrats for no reason until I listened to you.
And it's like, you know, that's true.
That's that's true, and uh the more that I listen, the more I said it makes so much sense.
You know, it's it's so true what this guy's saying out here.
And I mean now I get mad at you when you're not on the radio.
It's like double we're off today.
Well, you know, there's an old entertainer's creed, and that is you always keep the audience wanting more.
Um and uh you know, I I uh I remember uh Snerdley is sending me a note here and uh reminding me, Rick, that after the two thousand two midterm elections, Tom Dashell, who was then the Senate uh minority leader, uh commissioned experts, he said, a polling group, to go out and they did a private poll of Democrats and Talk Radio, and and Dashell was so stunned by the results that he made them public.
He said, We found out that there are a lot of Democrats that listen to Rush Limbaugh, and some of them are changing their minds.
And they thought that this audience was nothing more than a choir being preached to, and it it stunned them.
And you're one of those guys.
Uh that uh that uh they discovered exist out there.
Well, thanks.
I I appreciate your kind words more than you know.
Moving on to uh Jerry in Milwaukee, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Nice to have you with us too.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yes.
Uh consistent message I hear among conservatives is that uh liberals, even if you d strongly disagree with the war, no matter how your objections to the war, say in Iraq, you should support the troops, don't undermine the president.
The problem and that that supporting the troops is the ideal, it's more important than one's objections.
But the problem is that conservatives during the Bosnian war, they didn't support the troops.
They stood up for their objections, they said that the war was wrong, and they didn't uh because they believed the war was wrong, and then they oppose the war.
Why cannot liberals, those who oppose the war in Iraq, did the same thing.
If they don't support the troops, w why is that wrong?
But it's it's it's right for conservatives not to support the troops in Bosnia.
Uh I do not know where in the world you come up with that.
I do I've listened to you, Russ.
I listened to you.
I didn't oppose the Bosnia.
I did not I we're not protesting the troops.
I was not the war.
Those were NATO troops anyway.
There was the war.
I did not oppose the war.
There were American troops in Bosnia.
Yeah, there were some American pilots fighting missions in Bosnia.
But but nobody but there were n the American involvement was from fifteen thousand feet.
Should it matter?
Should it matter?
It does American.
No, uh but there was no reason to protest it.
Nobody did protest.
The Republicans supported President Clinton.
They posed the war.
Republicans voted it cut off funding for the war.
Republicans did not opp oppose the troops.
The The one problem that anybody had with Bosnia was Clinton's motivation for it.
That was a war for a legacy.
There was no U.S. vital national interest at stake.
This was another European mess that they couldn't handle in their own backyard.
They had their little genocide going on over.
So yes, we went over and tried to stop it.
It didn't really succeed.
It's still a hellhole over there.
Because sometimes these things have to play themselves out.
And somebody wins, somebody loses.
And after you get victory, is when you get peace.
It was meals on wheels.
It was a it was a you know the I love that how the way liberals will send the military anywhere.
They want to go to Darfur now.
They didn't want to go to Rwanda, but they don't want to go to Darfur.
And they wanted to go to Somalia until they got too dicey and they wanted to pull out of Somalia.
It was the New York Times that got us into Somalia with pictures of starving kids with flies buzzing around their faces.
Now, one picture of the New York Times that shows up on CNN and George Bush 41 forced to send troops over there.
Clinton brings them back when 24 Rangers die.
And we uh we we showed bin Laden that we didn't have the stomach in his mind to take any casualties.
And we're making sending that message again.
But this was the Bosnia War was not a war where any vital U.S. national interest was at stake.
Uh it was it was uh a Clinton legacy effort, but there were not Republicans running around in the street protesting the troops and doing anything equivalent to what is happening to the troops and the president in this case.
There was a lot of people who had a lot of problems with Bill Clinton, but it had nothing to do with the war in Bosnia or any of that.
It was accumulation of things.
I'm not saying people weren't protesting Clinton and uh and and because of course it'd be ridiculous to assert that, but uh you you you are totally wrong.
And even if you're right, though, even if you're right, listen to your logic.
Hypothetically, just because Republicans protested a war, you got to protest the war.
Regardless of the merits, regardless of what's at stake, regardless of what your protesting does in terms of affecting the morale of those involved in it.
Uh this tit for tat stuff that you guys seem to want to get in.
I know what's going on now with Bush and just trying to get back because of Clinton was impeached, and your boy was uh you know humiliated a bunch of times, mostly by his own actions, and he can't find a legacy.
Uh so I you you this you guys are but the tit for tat crowd is is uh uh is what you guys are, and it's it's it's irresponsible and it's uh also irrelevant because we're not gonna listen to you.
Yeah, I just I just love it snerdily when you find these uh these uh limp-wristed uh seminar callers out there, republicans with their limb off, trying to cut off funding for the troops in Bosnia.
Uh yeah, I didn't name for me one Republican who came up with strategy of redeploying to Okinawa.
Name one Republican who issued a timeline.
Name one Republican who's out there calling the generals a bunch of idiots.
Name one Republican who was ever saying we've lost, we should surrender, we should get out of there.
How about Mertha?
Give me, give me the uh uh the equivalent Republican equivalent of John Mertha and what his uh comments about the Marines have been, or Durbin's comments about the soldiers at Club Gitmo, or Kennedy's comments about the soldiers at Abu Ghrab.
Um all the other Democrats.
Clinton, I mean, he was he was right to go to war.
He should have been bombing Afghanistan, Dolt.
He should have been bombing Afghanistan rather than be on some meals on wheels legacy mission here.
Using a Well, there was I the the timeline.
Clinton said that we'd be home in eight months by Christmas, and we've still got troops there.
You know, and I mean well, what's the exit strategy?
That always comes up in a war, but what's the exit strategy?
Oh, well, I'll have limball.
You shut up.
You know, you're on the radio, and I'm running country, I don't have to listen to you.
We'll be home by Christmas.
I'll never forget the Bosnia war.
I had that, it was, you know, NATO thing, and they had that spokesman.
Uh Jamie, I forget his last name.
I love this guy's voice.
Our forces there.
Under the command of Brigadier General Oman Wogua.
Report heavy casualties in fighting.
Our forces are doing.
I don't know.
I just the whole thing.
Bosnia, Kosovo.
I mean, it's it was uh it was a mess that the Europeans had in their own backyard and they couldn't clean it up.
And uh Hello NATO, and it was made to order for the libs.
It was genocide.
It was ethnic cleansing.
And I'll never forget Madame Albright.
When she would talk about Moloshevich, as she pronounced it, she hated the guy.
She hated Molosevich.
She'd go on the Sunday show and she's trying to tell everybody what a rottenness will be Milosevic was.
Same people now.
Saddam wouldn't that bad.
Uh Tony in uh in uh Framingham, Massachusetts, I'm glad you called and waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush.
First time caller, a longtime listener going back to 1991 when Bush was president and we had troops on the ground in Iraq.
Well, I appreciate that, sir.
The more things change, the more they'll stay the same, I guess.
Anyway, question for you, Rush.
I'll try and answer myself, but I'm not your opinion on it too.
Maybe you've addressed it in the show.
I kind of listened to you during lunch.
But what would the world be like today if Saddam Hussein was still in power?
Aside from the fact he'd still be paying terrorist families for terrorists to go and kill himself and kill a bunch of Jews and Americans with them, aside from the fact he'd be killing his own citizens fast so that he could pronounce their names.
What else would the world be like today?
I'd say terrorism would really be on the march a hell of a lot more than it is right now because we'd have no stake in the ground.
Aside from Afghanistan, we'd have no stake in the ground.
Yeah, but you know, these if questions, I understand the point that you're trying to make, but if if Saddam, and they're interesting sometimes to speculate on, if if Saddam were still in power, but under what circumstances?
Had we gone to the UN as we did, and had the UN said nope, you can't help, and if we'd said, oh, okay, screw it, we won't go.
Uh then, I mean, you you would have had that'd been a major uh defeat for us, and then uh, you know, then Saddam would be ramping up with all these terrorist buddies of his.
Exactly.
Uh, and uh making plans for you know, continue marching on if we had never tried to enforce the resolutions, if we had never gone to the UN and Saddam were still in power, um, who knows?
But then that that didn't happen.
And and uh tried the diplomatic route, that didn't work.
Uh, you know, Saddam took a huge gamble.
But this uh I know the point of your question, and the the point of your question is this stuff isn't going away.
Uh you can't you can't buy these guys off with a bottle of Bordeaux and Camember because they don't consume adult beverages.
Well, they do when they go to the Bahamas, but that's when nobody can see them.
They don't, they don't, they they don't you know you you uh you're you're not you're not gonna get these guys bought off when they got a gun pointed at your kids' head with a bottle of wine.
And uh nor are they gonna uh gonna go for this group hug business uh to uh to try to stop you.
Um their idea of a group hug is a suicide belt.
Now, see here's uh who cares?
Drudge just put up a little one of those flashes that uh that uh Joe Wilson is going to endorse Hillary Clinton.
So what?
What's surprising about that?
Well, the thing that worry me is if Hillary is elected, she'll make Valerie Plame a director of the CIA.
Who cares?
This is you know, Wilson's endorsing and gonna do diddly squat.
What really, you know, the the Hillary machine, nobody knows is there.
All these George Soros funded things that are uh trying to take out her enemies and so forth.
Joe Wilson is uh he's a pimple on a pig's butt.
I mean, the people are gonna vote for Hillary Oregon, but I know some you know, wait a minute, Rush.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Hillary's having trouble with the anti-war left, and the anti-war left loves Joe Wilson.
Come on, folks.
Hillary having trouble with the anti-war lift.
It's gonna be she gonna be the nominee.
No question.
That may not be a bad thing for our side either.
Now, you know, Anna Quindlin, uh the good Anna, who used to be a columnist in the New York Times out there singing the perfect ticket would be uh Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
And you're gonna hear more and more uh talk about all that.
Joe Wilson went out to Santa Fe.
Um had to hang around with all the you know the arts and croissant crowd out there, group hugs and uh and the like.
All right, we've got to talk about the Breck girl and his poverty tour, uh, which started today in New Orleans.
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