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Sept. 11, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 11, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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Welcome back, my friends, as well as music lovers and thrill seekers all across the Fruited Plan Rushlin BALL, the Excellence IN Broadcasting Network, the most listened to radio talk show in America and growing and expanding by leaps and bounds.
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You may have heard, ladies and gentlemen, that the long-rumored luncheon between the former President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton and the Messiah, the most merciful Lord Barack Obama, was taking place.
There was to take place.
It did take place today.
And I happen to have a pretty good idea exactly how the former president thought about this and what his plans are.
We'll share those with you in moments.
But first, I want to, again, for those of you who were not here at the top of the program, the beginning of the program, I want to revisit thoughts earlier expressed on this, the seventh anniversary of 9-11.
Because we're told that we're not supposed to politicize this.
We can't bring any politics into this.
And I steadfastly reject that notion because 9-11 was not just something that happened on one day.
There has been a seven-year aftermath that I think we should all remember.
True, on 9-11, seven years ago, we were blind-sighted.
19 terrorists, possessed by evil, hijacked our airplanes with box cutters and brought down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
They blew a hole in the Pentagon, and they crashed a plane outside Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, which they were attempting to turn around and either hit the Capitol building or the White House.
At the end of that day, 3,000 Americans were dead.
But that wasn't the first day of such attacks on Americans.
Al-Qaeda's war on America had already claimed hundreds of lives by then.
We just hadn't accepted the reality of it.
They had claimed these lives via emissary bombings, the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, and countless other attacks.
But the Clinton administration treated all of these cases as criminal cases, deliberately handicapping our intelligence agencies and foregoing a strong military response.
And even Jamie Gorellik as a deputy attorney general at the time, famously constructed the wall between the intelligence agencies such as the CIA and the FBI and the DIA because they were conducting all these investigations as part of grand juries and that meant secrecy.
So whatever was learned in grand jury testimony could not be shared.
So our intelligence agencies were behind.
Now in the immediate hours after the 9-11 attacks, drive-by journalists sneered.
I mean this was the same day.
Drive-by journalists were sneering that President Bush was running scared aboard Air Force One.
The late Peter Jennings of ABC said on the air after the president's speech, well, it's just the case that some presidents are better at this than others.
Meaning Bill Clinton, of course.
Within days, various associates of Bill Clinton were quoted wishing the attacks had occurred on his watch so that Bill Clinton could have had a chance at greatness.
The Democrat leader Tom Daschell attacked Bush for doing nothing on what turned out to be the eve of our military operations in Afghanistan, once again looking like a fool.
Democrat political memos, because that was back in the day, by the way, where the Democrats wanted to look tough.
They wanted to look like they could be counted on to defend the country.
And by the way, there's polling data out, and I have it in a snack here.
They have lost ground in the area of the American people, trusting them on national security and their willingness to defend the country.
I'll find it in a second.
Daschell and the boys, they wanted to look really tough all over Bush's case for not doing anything about it.
And it happened to be they opened a door right into their nose again, bloodied their nose themselves, stepped right in a bag of manure because the very day Daschell's out there whining and moaning, the next day our operations at Tora Bora began.
Democrat political memos suggested, strategic political memos suggested that the president's popularity could be diminished by branding him a liar in all of this.
Hillary Clinton echoed the conspiracy-based claim that Bush knew about the attacks beforehand in a poll that was just referenced here some two years ago.
35% of Democrats, 35% of the American electorate, believe that Bush knew about 9-11 before it happened.
And if they think that, then they have to also admit that they think Bush let it happen.
Left-wing Hollywood's revisionist history movie, Fahrenheit 911 by the bloated bigot Michael Moore.
That movie was released.
It got the big award over at the Khan Film Festival, played all over the world.
And I am convinced to this day that to what degree this country is hated and despised and that Bush is hated and despised could be laid at the feet of the lying, stinking propaganda put out by Michael Moore in that movie, Fahrenheit 911.
Let us not forget that Michael Moore only recently said he was one of many Democrats who was gleeful over the fact that Hurricane Gustav would roll into New Orleans.
It was God's gift to Democrats.
He forgot that Hurricane Gustav had rolled through Cuba, his favorite country, and had wreaked havoc there, even as it missed New Orleans.
The degree of hate for this country expressed the last seven years by the Democrat Party and its associates, the desire for defeat of the United States and its military by the Democrat Party and its associates has been constant.
It has been a loud, swelling drumbeat that we have not been able to escape.
This war is lost on the eve of the surge, said Harry Reid.
They accused General Petraeus of lying before he has opened his mouth in testimony before House and Senate committees.
I could go on and on Jay Rockefeller and his memo to Democrats strategizing how to use the war for Democrat Party political gain.
And I have that memo right on the top of my desktop.
I have not filed it away in case I need immediate access to it.
So here we are, seven years later, after having our troops compared to Nazi thugs by Dick Durbin, Having our troops compared by Dick Turbin to people who ran the Soviet gulags and Pol Pots killing fields.
We have the same Democrat Party feeling sorry for terrorists, wanting them to have constitutional rights, wanting them to have Miranda rights read to them on the battlefield.
The American judicial system, the legal community, many of which populated by Democrats, have sought to co-opt commander-in-chief duties in prosecuting the war on terror for themselves.
The ACLU and other interested civil rights groups have gone to court to prevent any intelligence gathering information that would help to secure this country further.
The Democrat Party and its associates has very publicly, very loudly, very blatantly, very openly campaigned against victory.
They have sought to foment hatred for this country around the world.
Their talking points the last seven years are no different than those that come out of the mouth from the latest tape from bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri or Mahmoud Ahmadinezad or even Hilgo Chavez, just to name four.
And they aren't the slightest bit embarrassed that people who hate us and are our enemies echo their own Democrat talking points.
So after all of this, seven years later, the president's popularity has diminished.
Video of the 9-11 attacks is rarely seen.
We're told it's too soon.
It's too emotionally upsetting.
We can't see this.
The Democrat Party has spent the last seven years trying to convince everybody we can go back to a pre-9-11 frame of mind and mindset.
I can't think of too many security measures that they have openly supported.
I can only think of security measures they have been forced into accepting.
Wiretaps, phone calls, international phone calls, trying to find out what terrorists are saying to one another.
Democrats opposed anybody doing that and then lied, saying that the president wanted to spy on Americans.
They wanted to sue the telephone companies for facilitating the effort to track down people who were conducting phone conversations overseas aimed at conspiring against the United States, planning future attacks.
They wanted to stop the ability to find that out.
So, president's popularity has been diminished.
We rarely see video of the 9-11 attacks.
The victories, the victories that we have had in the war on terror are downplayed and were opposed by today's Democrat Party.
Despite all this, 58% of the American people now say we're doing well in Iraq.
52% of the American people now think we are safer than we have been, safer than we were.
Despite the best efforts of the Democrat Party to convince the people of this country that we are at greater risk, that we are no safer whatsoever, that Bush lied, people died, our troops are thugs, they're rapists, they're murderers.
Hello, Jack Murtha.
The list of Democrats is endless.
Those who have impugned the honor and the integrity of the armed forces of the United States, and they tell us politics is off limits today.
Sorry, because 9-11 didn't just happen on one day.
It has an aftermath.
We're still living through it.
And every day, we turn on any television station.
We have to put up with drivel and bilge From Democrats and media people who are sour on the fact that we have succeeded.
They can't wait to report bad news.
They hide the good news.
Look at Hurricane Ike about to plow into Texas.
The drive-bys aren't there because it's not New Orleans.
They'll eventually send the B-team down there, but they're not there now wreaking havoc, praying for the worst.
But I want you to remember something.
Despite all of this, we had an administration which did not cave on this, the whole concept of U.S. national security.
We haven't had Democrats issue this stupid report this week saying the ports are no safer, the bus lines are no safer, the train lines are no safer.
We haven't had a bomb.
We haven't had one terrorist act succeed in this country for seven years.
No ports blown up.
No buses blown up.
No train has blown up.
No airport, no airplane has been hijacked or blown up.
But tens of thousands of al-Qaeda terrorists are dead and running for the sand dunes in Iraq.
Well, there have been no more attacks against Americans on American soil.
While you remember everything else about 9-11 today, also remember that.
Not one successful attack since 9-11, 2001.
We're back, El Rushboat, serving humanity while meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
By the way, a quick question, folks.
How come it's okay for Democrats to know what God intends?
Such as hurricanes hitting Florida, from Don Fowler to Michael Moore.
Oh, yeah, this proves God's on our side.
God's aiming at hurricane in New Orleans.
But then when Sarah Palin refers to our mission in Iraq as a blessing from God, all hell breaks loose.
When they talk about Jesus Christ was a community organizer.
Pontius Pilot was a governor.
How come no outrage over any of that?
We all know the answer to this, the double standard, but they're not getting away with it.
Art to the audio soundbites.
This is funny.
The drive-bys hated waiting for Sarah Palin to arrive in Alaska.
We got David Rodham Gergen here with Anderson Cooper.
Cooper says, you guys, it's going to be interesting, David, to hear Sarah Palin in a different context.
This is a state where the people know her, where clearly she's overwhelmingly popular.
She's not going to be telling them about the bridge to nowhere and thanks, but no thanks.
I'm rubbing my eyes in disbelief that we're all sitting here waiting to watch the arrival of a vice presidential candidate.
I mean, we don't do this for presidential candidates.
Yeah, well, why do you think this is happening, David Rodham Gergen?
Then Cooper says, well, David Gergen, as you watch this, can this last?
Can this sort of, I mean, it's been a honeymoon period for Sarah Palin.
Can it go on much longer?
It's unimaginable to me.
It is unbelievable to me that we're sitting here at 1130 at 9 Eastern Standard Time.
Why?
This is just great.
It's unbelievable to me.
We're sitting here at 11.30 at 9th Eastern Standard Time waiting for this woman to arrive.
Well, why don't you go home?
Look at that.
Look at Fox's doing a little, do Democrats think Biden is the right VP pick or a mistake?
I warned you people, I predicted this from the get-go when I begged for Biden, when I asked the Democrats to nominate Biden.
I suggested that anybody going to be first to leave a ticket, it will be Biden.
I'm telling you what, I think the powers that be in the Democrat Party, wherever they are, are having a whole lot of buyer's remorse about both these guys.
Speaking of Clinton, I mentioned this earlier.
Clinton and Obama had lunch today.
Now, you see the body language on this?
Clinton was as far away from Obama as he could get.
Now, let me tell you what Clinton, what's going through Clinton's mind here when this happens.
Okay, he gets this call from Obama, and Obama says, look, I want to come have lunch with you.
I want you to come campaign for me.
Clinton bangs up the phone.
I just don't believe this.
I had to go out there and I had to stand side by side with my wife who's trying to feed off me, trying to build a career off mine.
And now I got to go out there.
And this guy wants to meet me.
He had no doubt he's going to ask me to go out there and campaign with him to get his acorns out of fire because this little guy cannot do it.
He's going to rely on the professional, big-time old Bill.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I'm going to do it.
And you know why I'm going to do it?
Because the last thing I want, the last thing Hillary wants is for this little guy to win this election.
That'd be the worst thing that could happen for her future and for mine.
And so I'm going to make him think I'm going to help him out.
But there's one thing that I know.
I know that this pic of Sarah Palinette babe from Alaska that has united the Republican Party like I have.
Last time they were, this were united as against me.
And if it hadn't been for that little Ross Pro, I'd have never been president.
They hated my guts.
And I'll tell you what, they're going to ending up the way the Democrats are making these mistakes here saying all this crazy religious stuff.
So I'm going to go out there and I know the last thing I represent standing there next to Obama is the future.
I'm the past.
They look at me as the past.
Did nothing change about old Bill.
Bill's what you see, what you get.
So I'm going to go out there and I'm going to make Obama think I'm helping him out.
It's going to cost him big time.
He's not going to know what hit him.
I'm going to be sandbagging.
I'm going to be sabotaging his campaign while Obama thinks I'm helping because these Democrats still think that I am the Messiah.
They think that I am the guy that still runs the party and I'm the savior.
That's why they're coming to me.
But what do I know?
I know that every time I show up with Obama or any time I show up anywhere, the Republican base gets even more unified because there isn't one Republican out there that's going to vote for me or vote for Obama because I'm out there supporting him.
And of course, the idea I'm going to somehow be able to get these women back, only Hillary can do that.
And I've talked to Hillary about this, and she wants nothing to do with Obama.
She's got to campaign for other Senate candidates, retire her dad and out there.
So I'm actually glad they called me.
Hey, Bill, can you get my little acorns out of fire? said Obama, because I can't do this on my own.
It's a little bit bigger than I thought it was going to be.
So they come to me and I'm going to do it.
I'm going to make it look like I'm having more fun than I've ever had.
I'm going to make it look like I am back in my element.
But I know that my presence and some of the strategic things I'm going to say, Republicans are going to show up in droves this election like they haven't shown up in years.
And Obama is going to be history forever.
All right, everybody's zeroing in now on Hurricane Ike and where it will make landfall in Texas.
It's the hurricane track right now.
It's going to be very, very close to Houston and Galveston area, a little southwest of that on the Texas coast.
They're already evacuating people.
Hundreds of thousands of people are being evacuated in the area from the area where it is to hit.
I'd like to offer a public service for those of you in Texas who are being evacuated, and that is to throw away all of your possessions.
Throw away everything that you got.
Throw away your car, throw away your laundry, mache, whatever it is, throw it away.
Because I read a story from the AP today talking about how much we could learn from Cuba in dealing with hurricanes.
Cuba apparently is better than anybody in the world at evacuating people.
And I also learned this from the Associated Press.
Anita Snow was the info, babe.
There was no looting.
There is no looting ever in Cuba during hurricanes.
And that's because nobody has anything.
And this was said by the AP to be a really monumental achievement.
I mean, this was something we should all emulate.
We should be more like Cuba.
So to avoid looting and losing your possessions to theft, just throw them away if you are in Texas.
And that way you won't be looted.
I'm just trying to help here by spreading the word from the Associated Press today as they credited Cuba for being able to show the world how to deal with natural disasters.
Sarah Palin, a huge ovation last night when she got home to Fairbanks, Alaska.
We have three sound bites.
This is just overwhelming.
Thank you.
Oh, I am so glad to get to be here.
Thank you for being here, Fairbanks.
Thank you for letting us be here.
This is beautiful.
Wow, it's been an amazing couple of weeks.
And I just want to thank you, Alaska, for your support and for your encouragement.
And what we've been doing is taking our campaign on the road, of course, across the nation.
And we've been carrying our message of reform to the American people.
And we've been talking all about Alaska.
And people are engaged.
What a trip it's been.
And I cannot wait until you meet John McCain.
He's a friend of Alaska and he's going to be the next president of the United States of America.
They love her up there.
They just, they literally love her up there.
She's got 80% approval ratings as higher than that even as governor in Alaska.
She's genuine here.
She's a very authentic, real person.
You can hear that she genuinely appreciates this outpouring of support.
Here's the next bite.
Americans know that you've done some great work up here, Alaskans, as we've kind of taken the government here in the state, put it back on the side of the people in these last couple of years.
You've really helped shake things up, just like we're going to go to Washington, D.C. to do also is to shake things up in the Capitol.
What John McCain has noticed is that Alaska has returned to the fundamental truth that government is not always the answer.
In fact, government too often is the problem.
So we've got back to the basics and we put government back on the side of the people.
There's a little channeling of Ronald Reagan there.
Ronaldo's Magnus government is the problem was one of his most famous utterances.
Here's the third sound bite from Governor Palin.
I feel like I'm preaching to the choir because you guys already know this.
It's a message for America.
We've got a reform agenda for America.
That's what we're going to run on here, guys.
And I am so honored and I am so humbled to serve as Senator McCain's running mate.
And I am equally honored and forever will be honored to serve as your governor of the great state of Alaska.
Representing our fellow Alaskans is not only a tremendous honor, it's also a sacred duty.
And you have placed great faith in me.
And as I travel across the country, I will keep that faith by fulfilling my duty to you and spreading our good message.
And I promise that I will do my best to make Alaskans proud in the weeks to come.
And I would ask you to help me then.
Let us work together.
Let us elect John McCain, a great man who will be a great president because he is a friend of Alaska and he will be our next president.
Governor Palin, by the way, today was impugned and insulted by no less than Lincoln Chafee, who has the same number of brain cells as an amoeba.
Governor Chaffee, or Senator Chaffee, ex-Senator Chafee, called her a cocky wacko.
We now know Joyce is an ex-senator.
Really, the guy is, you know, an order of fries short of a happy meal on a given day, and that's the best he does.
But let's just keep it coming.
All you moderate, liberal, Republican, Democrat, just keep it coming.
Just keep leveling these mindless insults.
Now, as you listen to Senator Palin, or Governor Palin, as you listen to her, and as you are mesmerized by her ability to speak, I don't know if she's an imprompray there or not, but you hear how genuine she is.
She's excited and all that.
Compare it to, say this.
Chuck Graham, state senators here.
Stand up, Chuck.
Let him see you.
Oh, God love you.
What am I talking about?
I tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, oh, pal.
I tell you what, stand up for Chuck.
Stand up for Chucky!
Chuck!
Chuck, stand up over there.
Let everybody say, oh, my God, what am I?
Oh, just stand up for Chuck.
And then, of course, there was this yesterday.
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America.
Let's get that straight.
She's a truly close personal friend.
She is qualified to be President of the United States of America.
She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.
And quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me, but she's first rate.
So there you have Joe Biden essentially saying he's not the guy for the job.
And then it just never stops.
The gifts just keep on giving.
Yesterday, in an interview with the Associated Press, noted celebrate Matt Damon.
You do the actuary tables.
You know, there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it'll be President Palin.
And it's like a really bad Disney movie.
You know, the hockey mom, you know, oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she's the president.
And it's like she's facing down Vladimir Putin and, you know, using the, you know, the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey, you know, rank.
You know, it's just, it's, it's absurd.
Matt, let me tell you, so you will need a study up on Sarah Palin.
You will find out that she has been very open.
It says everything she learned about competition, everything she learned about dealing with obstacles in her way and adversity, she learned playing basketball.
And she was good at it.
And this was back in the, this is before Title IX, Matt, before the feminists got their hands around high school and junior high school athletics.
I'll tell you what, old mad old buddy, I'd rather have Sarah Palin staring down Vladimir Putin than Barack Obama agreeing with Putin that the United States of America is the problem in the world, you little jerk.
The United United States of America is the solution to the problems in the world, and your guy, Obama, thinks we're the problem.
We're not as great as we once were.
We haven't met our promise and so forth, but he can't tell you when it was better.
So when it comes down to staring down either Mahmoud Ahmedini's out, I mean, it's your guy who said he would meet with these people without preconditions, and he would grant them the imprimatur of seriousness by walking them into the Oval Office.
Your guy lives in a pipe dream.
He thinks with the power of his personality, his messianic personality, his ability to persuade that all these people are just going to become our friends, and we're going to be ended with strife, and there will be no tense anxiety, and nobody will be wranging their hands together because it's all going to be one perfect world of peace and love and harmonic convergence from the top of Mount Shasta.
Give me Sarah Palin dealing with these thugs any day.
Here's more of the celebratard Matt Damon.
It's a really terrifying possibility.
The fact that we've gotten this far and we're that close to this being a reality is crazy.
Crazy.
I mean, does she really?
I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago.
That's an important thing.
I want to know that.
I really do.
Because she's going to have the nuclear codes.
You know, I want to know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago or if she banned books or tried to ban books.
I mean, you know, we can't have that.
What an idiot.
Well, there you have it.
I just, actually, I want to take back.
Matt, I'm sorry I called you a celebratard, and I'm sorry I called you a jerk.
And I am.
I really should, because I want him to keep talking.
I think he's brilliant.
I think he's got some tremendous insights here.
I think Matt Damon may be onto something here, folks.
We need to hear more from Matt.
Matt, I'm sorry.
I usually don't call people names like this.
And I just, it's been a pressure-packed day for me, too.
So I'm sorry.
You keep talking.
Keep granting these interviews like to us weekly and to Entertainment Tonight.
And let's see what else could you go on?
I don't know, some of these stupid shows.
Go on, American Idol.
You know, asking for a speaking engagement one night in American I have to get ginned up here before the election.
Some such show as that.
Buy an hour's worth of TV time.
Actually, buy an hour's worth of TV time to tell everybody how concerned you are with Sarah Palin.
But buy it on NBC.
They'll sell it to you, probably cheap.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, back to the phones.
We have Tanya from Fayetteville, North Carolina, home of Fort Bragg on the phone.
Tanya, nice to have you here.
Oh, thanks.
How are you doing?
Very well, ma'am.
Me too.
I'm going to get right to my point because my main point is Golda Meyer, a Milwaukee school teacher that went to Israel, was prime minister, and kicked butt an ordinary everyday woman that rose to the challenges.
Any woman, any person can rise to any challenges.
And I'd like to go on to Matt Damon and the Disney, the bad Disney thing, and what's the dinosaurs 4,000 years ago?
I mean, they weren't here 4,000 years ago.
No, I'll tell you what.
No, Let me tell you what I think that is.
Now, I'm not sure about that, but I think this is a, because she's never said that.
What this is, is Matt Damon's bigotry, prejudice, and bias against fundamentalist Christians who believe the earth is only 10,000 years old.
So that's what he thinks of all Christians.
He thinks all evangelical Christians think that the earth is not billions and billions and billions of years old.
It's only 10,000 years old.
And therefore, in the 10,000-year history of the planet, the dinosaurs would have been around 4,000 years ago.
It's just pure unadult.
I think that's what it is.
Because she's never said this.
I don't know where it's coming from.
But, you know, his buddy, Ben Aflak, raised by a single mom, rose to great fame, great prominence.
Women can do anything.
I know.
I'm a retired person.
Of course they can.
But they're not going to let a Republican woman get away with doing anything.
Well, they're hypocrites.
I mean, on one hand, oh, go out there, be all you can be, get a college grant.
Right, right.
I'm glad to see you figuring it out.
Children, run corporate America.
But then, when it's not somebody that espouses their views, it's like, oh, she needs to be home with her kids.
That's right.
I'm doing what?
I'm glad to see that you're figuring it out.
Better that people figure it out on their own than just be told by somebody.
Anyway, Tanya, thanks much for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
I saw it happen again the other day, folks.
I saw where a whole bunch of people lost their identity as some hacker got into some hotel computer system and made off with, I don't know what it was, like 25,000 names or 10,000.
I forget what the name was.
This is one of these things that everybody thinks it's not going to happen to them.
Identity theft if it happens.
Well, I just call a credit card company and I'll only be liable for $50 and so forth.
You're not protected from identity theft, and you can do something about it.
It doesn't cost hardly anything, and it's very, very simple.
But what if all of your stuff was stolen?
And what if your credit cards were used to create new bank accounts?
Your identity was used to get new credit cards.
They steal your wallet, open new accounts, or add new lines of credit.
What are you going to do about it?
And what if they go out and commit a crime in your name after they have stolen your identity?
Or they get medical care using your identity.
Who's going to protect you then?
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It's sort of like, you know, don't think your hard drive on your computer is not going to fry because it will someday.
You do not want to go through identity theft.
You may think it won't happen to you, but you don't want to have it happen.
It's a hassle that you may have a long period of time getting out of and reversing.
Lifelock.com can solve that from happening to you.
This is Sergeant Clay in Avano, Italy.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, hello, Russian mega ditto's my brother, and God speed to you.
How are you today?
Thank you, sir, very much, Sergeant.
No, thank you.
Hey, Rush, look, I want to touch very quickly on Obama and other politicians such as Murtha, Durbin, and the rest.
You can name them, I can't, because of my position, obviously.
But the fact that they are surprised at our success with regard to the surge in Iraq and the surprise that we are winning this war at all is extremely offensive, Rush.
And I understand it, though.
I understand that they think that we are the problem, that we Americans are the imperialists and the tyrannists.
But I've got a message for them, sir, if you don't mind.
Go ahead.
On this day of 9-11, where so many of my brothers have died and my sisters.
We are not Rome.
We do not Romanize.
This is not Greece, and we are not Sparta.
This is America.
We are the purveyors and the keepers of the faith, the freedom and democracy.
Since the birth of our nation, Rush, all we have ever sought as a people is not some kind of cheap, negotiated, prostitute peace, but only liberty.
True and prosperous peace, Rush, will follow liberty like her shadow.
where true and prosperous peace, as you know, is where he's child, a natural-born child.
Freedom is worth any price.
And look, you know, I don't blame you, Sergeant, for being upset at Obama and these other people taking shots, saying Iraq wasn't worth it.
It's like saying what you do isn't worth it.
We just, we thank God for people like you.
Listen to you speak about what you do and how close to your heart it is.
You're a special breed.
There aren't very many Americans who would volunteer to do what you do.
And I don't think there is ever any way we could properly pay all of you back for what you have done.
We'll be back.
Stay with us, folks.
Well, that's it, folks.
Sadly, out of busy broadcast moments here, but there's always tomorrow.
Open Line Friday.
Can't wait.
That ought to be a barn burner.
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