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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 stupid car chases on cable TV, the more I'm convinced that we got some real morons that live in this country.
Now, there's a car chase, and 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 Miami-Dade County.
And the car has 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.
Anybody 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?
And blend in.
I mean, it's amazing these things.
That's even more amazing to me than the fact that the media covers these.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
It's El Rushbo, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, Maha Rushi, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address is rush at EIBnet.com.
Just a couple more things about Iraq.
New York Times on their blog poll, Americans Weigh In on Iraq.
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, 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.
Just ignore them.
They don't have any power.
Why everybody wants to react to what these people say?
Here's who I want to hear from, and this is the kind of thing that to me is important.
U.S. general in Iraq speaks strongly against troop pullout.
An American general, this is the New York Times, John Burnt, 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 3rd ID, almost 7,000 Iraqi troops under his command also.
He spoke more forcefully than any American commander to date 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 has 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 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, he said, had rallied in support of the American and Iraqi troops.
And it goes on to make some other statements.
Said he was amazed at the cooperation his troops were encountering in previously hostile areas.
He sighted the village of Altaca near the Euphrates River about 20 miles southwest of Baghdad, where 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.
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, planting 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 Reid 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 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 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 soundbites because these warmed my heart when I heard these today.
Yesterday on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Steve Scully, the 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 Myron York for it.
And they're funny picture.
They put a picture of me with duct tape on my mouth on the cover of National Review.
Scully takes a caller from Port St. Lucie, Florida.
I strongly disagree with the fairness doctrine.
I think it takes away our freedoms.
And as far as Rush Limbaugh, I listen to Rush when I can.
And I think Rush is a 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, you know, you ask any conservative an opinion about a subject, and they'll give you an answer 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 expresses himself.
And then Scully said to the Florida caller, he said, well, let me ask you based on that, how often do you listen to Rush Limbaugh, by the way?
I listen to him a couple days a week.
I have flipped around to some liberal stations, and I really can't handle it because it's like putting a dark cloud over me.
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 negative.
And that's what I like about Rush, positive and upbeat about America.
You know, and 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 program, Steve Scully took a caller from Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The major point to me that was never brought up is that Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, are entertaining.
They're funny.
You'll only hear that brought up by the left 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 Byron York's piece in the National Review on efforts to so-called hush Rush.
Yeah, I love it when people on these shows who actually listen to this program and who understand it and get it.
So I want to thank those two people.
And I know they're listening.
That guy that says he listens twice a week, that's okay, but we could use more.
So could you.
So could the country.
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America's real anchorman, America's Truth Detector, Doctor of Democracy.
Here on the EIB network, 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 clocks?
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 approaches, 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 going to be like turning the light, leaving the house, and then the cockroaches are going to be free to do whatever they want to do.
Armed cockroaches.
Exactly.
And I'd also like to make the point that of the 3,000 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 going to blame the government because we went out too fast.
Yeah, they're going to know.
Look at the Democrats, 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, 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 Ghrab, and we had Club Gitmo.
And we have angered the Muslims.
I'm telling you, the Democrats and the drive-by media are going to 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 their part, and it is insidious.
Now, as to the reason that we're in Iraq in your comparison to Germany, 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 just want to pull out of there.
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.
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 have time to sit around wringing our hands and telling ourselves, oh, gosh, that feels so bad.
I don't feel uncomfortable here.
I wish we weren't at war.
Pull the troops out.
Americans, we're not that one.
And I'm not convinced that the majority of Americans are that way now, despite all these polls.
But back in less affluent times, we didn't have all this time to hang around and get upset and get worried 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, We got to get out of Iraq, Mitha Lumbar, because I feel uncomfortable.
I don't like what's happening.
I don't like the, 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 can 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 a number of children have told me on occasion, close your piehole.
That's what they call a mouth, I suppose.
I've learned this, but no kid tells me what to do, so it didn't work.
Micah in Mooresville, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Dittos from the college graduate headed to graduate school.
Congratulations, sir.
Thank you.
Wanted to call, I'm actually a member of a NORC family.
My brother was a Marine in Iraq, served for two tours on his second tour.
He was actually killed in the battle for Fallujah back in 2004.
But I did want to say thank you very, very much for being, dare I say, the only national media figure who represents people like me.
And 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 pretty much 100% of what you say.
And it's very, very special.
You know, to tell you a little story, because you've made me feel similar to the way I felt in Washington one night.
It was at the National Review 50th anniversary dinner.
And they had a table of wounded and recovering veterans from Walter Reed.
And one of these guys lost an eye, had an eye patch on.
He'd been severely wounded.
He was ambulatory, but he was severely wounded.
And he came up and said much the same thing to me that you just did.
And I honestly, I was taken aback.
I looked at him.
I said, how in the world can you I ought to be saying this to you, and I would have if I'd have had the chance to open my mouth first.
I mean, compared to what I do, 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 wanted to tell me what any words of support from anywhere mean to the people that wear the uniform.
I'm by no means the only one.
I appreciate your comment on that, Micah.
But you have lost a brother, and I find it touching that you want to call and thank somebody who just utters a bunch of words on this stuff.
I know words count, and I know they matter, and they can help.
But you, your family, and some others, you've given up the ultimate sacrifice.
And that's another thing.
When I start hearing all these people who have nothing at stake, nothing on the line, other than their precious moods, it just frustrates me all to hell because I can imagine how people like you and your family hear it when people say it.
It does, Rush, and it burns me to no end for people that have nothing at stake and could care less, really, say, oh, I support the troops, but I hate the war and I hate the president and everything else.
It burns me up.
Well, it should.
But, you know, the thing is, we all have something at stake.
It's just some don't want to have the take the time to admit it.
Some would rather bury their heads and just say, you know, they're not going to be able to wipe out 3,000 of us anytime they want.
That was an aberration.
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 how these people deal with it rather than understanding what truly is at stake.
Micah, thanks again so much for the call.
And God bless you and your family.
I know that everybody who heard your call here in the audience is saying the same thing to you, hoping that you can hear them.
I said it for him.
We'll be back continuing in just a sec.
Would you like to hear how Washington liberals deal with terrorists?
Story from Friday.
This is actually been in the Washington Post.
It's this AP version that I have.
It also ran the International Herald Tribune.
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, who's 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 his wine.
I'm not making this up.
This is the wine and croissant crowd in action.
The Chablis and Brie Bunch.
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.
Christina Chacha Rowan, who works at her children's school, 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.
This happened on June the 16th, and it lasted for all to 10 minutes.
Police classified it as strange but true.
The witnesses thought the intruder may have been high on drugs.
We've had robbers that apologized 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 how liberals will deal with criminals, terrorists, and intruders.
A hug, group hug, and a glass of wine.
I know some of you are thinking, boy, that's really fast thinking.
Off the Geyson offer the intruder some wine and so forth.
You got a gun pointed at a 14-year-old girl's head.
And it was fast thinking, but they let the guy go.
No, it's Washington, D.C.
It's Washington, D.C., not California.
Absolutely right.
Rick and Du Bois, Pennsylvania, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, how are you?
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 just baffled me how I could have so much hate.
My brother always said, you got to listen to Rush.
You got to listen to Rush.
And I said, I didn't care whether Rush lived or died.
I said, I really didn't care.
But when I started listening to you, it just, all my life, 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.
My parents, I 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 CNN.
It's like you can't believe everything that you're seeing on there.
There's more out there than what you're hearing.
And it's sad that people are like that.
They're so closed-minded that you've truly changed my way of life or my thinking, and I agree with so much almost everything in what you say.
Let's put it that way.
Well, you're more than welcome.
Thanks very much.
I have a question.
Sure.
Because 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?
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 know, what's worth 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 true.
And the more that I listened, the more I said, it makes so much sense.
You know, 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, oh, he's off today.
Well, you know, there's an old entertainer's creed, and that is you always keep the audience wanting more.
And, you know, I remember Snerdley is sending me a note here and reminding me, Rick, that after the 2002 midterm elections, Tom Daschell, who was then the Senate minority leader, commissioned experts, he said, a polling group, to go out and they did a private poll of Democrats and talk radio.
And Daschel 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 stunned them.
And you're one of those guys that they discovered exists out there.
Well, thanks.
I appreciate your kind words more than you know.
Moving on to Jerry in Milwaukee, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Nice to have you with us, too.
All right, thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yes.
A consistent message I hear among conservatives is that liberals, even if you 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 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 because they believed the war was wrong.
And then they opposed the war.
Why cannot liberals, those who oppose the war in Iraq, did the same thing?
If they don't support the troops, why is that wrong?
But it's right for conservatives not to support the troops in Bosnia.
I do not know where in the world you come up with that.
I've listened to you, Rush.
I listened to you.
I didn't oppose the Bosnia.
I did not.
We're not protesting the troops.
I was not NATO troops anyway.
I did not oppose the war.
There were American troops in Bosnia.
There were some American pilots fighting missions in Bosnia.
But the American involvement was from 15,000 feet.
Should it matter?
Should it matter?
It does.
But there was no reason to protest it.
Nobody did protest.
The Republicans supported President Clinton.
They opposed the war.
Republicans did not oppose the troops.
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.
Had their little genocide going on over it.
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.
But Clinton was doing this.
It was meals on wheels.
It was, you know, I love that how the way liberals will send the military anywhere.
They want to go to Darfur now.
They'd 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 on the New York Times, it shows up on CNN, and George Bush 41 forced to send troops over there.
Clinton brings them back when 24 Rangers die.
And 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, it was not a war where any vital U.S. national interest was at stake.
It was 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 that 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 an accumulation of things.
I'm not saying people weren't protesting Clinton.
And because, of course, it'd be ridiculous to assert that, but 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 a 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.
This tit-for-tat stuff that you guys seem to want to get in.
I know what's going on now with Bush.
It is trying to get back because Clinton was impeached, and your boy was humiliated a bunch of times, mostly by his own actions, and he can't find a legacy.
So you guys are the tit-for-tat crowd is what you guys are.
And it's irresponsible and it's also irrelevant because we're not going to listen to you.
I just love it, snortly, when you find these limp-wristed seminar callers out there, Republicans Mr. Limbaugh, trying to cut off funding for the troops in Bosnia.
Yeah, name for me one Republican who came up with strategy of redeploying 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 Mirtha?
Give me the equivalent, Republican equivalent of John Murtha and what his 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 Ghraib, and all the other Democrats.
Clinton, I mean, he was right to go to war.
He should have been bombing Afghanistan, Dolt.
He should have been bombing Afghanistan, Reddit, and be on some meals on wheels legacy mission here.
Using him.
Well, there was the timeline.
Clinton said that we'd be home in eight months by Christmas, and we've still got troops there.
You know, I mean, what's the exit strategy?
That always comes up in a war, but what's the exit strategy?
Oh, well, I'll have Limbaugh.
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, a NATO thing, and they had that spokesman, Jamie.
I forget his last name.
I love this guy's voice.
Our forces there under the command of Brigadier General Oman Ruba.
Report heavy casualties and fighting.
Our forces are doing.
I just, the whole thing.
Bosnia, Kosovo.
I mean, it was a mess that the Europeans had in their own backyard and they couldn't clean it up.
And 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 Milosevic, as she pronounced it, she hated the guy.
She hated Milosevic.
She'd go on the Sunday shows.
She's trying to tell everybody what a rotten SOB Milosevic was.
Same people now.
Saddam wasn't that bad.
Tony in Framingham, Massachusetts.
I'm glad you called and waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush.
First-time caller, a long-time listener, going back to 1991 when Bush was president, and we had troops on the ground in Iraq.
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 it myself, but I want your opinion on it, too.
Nobody's addressed it in the show.
I kind of listened to you during lunch.
But what would the world be like today if Saddam Hussein were still in power?
Aside from the fact he'd still be paying terrorist families for the 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 faster than 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 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, then, I mean, you would have had, that'd been a major defeat for us, and then, you know, then Saddam would be ramping up with all these terrorist buddies of his and 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, who knows?
But that didn't happen.
And we tried the diplomatic route.
That didn't work.
You know, Saddam, he took, took a, took a huge gamble.
But this, I know the point of your question, and the point of your question is this stuff isn't going away.
You can't buy these guys off with a bottle of Bordeaux and Camembert 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.
You're not going to get these guys bought off when they got a gun pointed at your kid's head with a bottle of wine.
And nor are they going to go for this group hug business to try to stop you.
Their idea of a group hug is a suicide belt.
Now, see, here's a, who cares?
Drudge just put up one of those flashes that Joe Wilson is going to endorse Hillary Clinton.
So what?
What's surprising about that?
Hell, the thing that worry me is if Hillary is elected, she'll make Valerie Playham a director of the CIA.
But who cares?
This is, you know, Wilson's endorsing a diddly squat.
What really, you know, the Hillary machine, nobody knows is there.
All these George Soros-funded things that are trying to take out her enemies and so forth.
Joe Wilson is A pimple on a pig's butt.
I mean, the people are going to vote for Hillary Oregon, but I know some, you know, wait a minute, Rush, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Hillary is 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 left.
It's going to be, she's going to be the nominee.
No question.
It may not be a bad thing for our side either.
Now, you know, Anna Quindlin, the good Anna, who used to be a columnist of the New York Times, out there singing the perfect ticket would be Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
And you're going to hear more and more talk about all that.
Joe Wilson went out to Santa Fe.
Had to hang around with all the, you know, the arts and croissant crowd out there.
Group hugs and the like.
All right, we've got to talk about the Brett girl and his poverty tour, which started today in New Orleans.
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