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Sept. 24, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 24, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, indeed.
America's anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein, sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
It's always an honor to be here.
I'm from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a terrific exchange program.
Guys like me get to come and study at the Limbaugh Institute.
And in return, Barack Obama gets to complete his degree at the Muammar Gaddafi Institute of Public Speaking and Effective Communications Strategy in Tripoli.
Rush is on the Jay Leno show tonight, so he's out in California.
Does it still come from Burbank?
I think so.
I think it does.
So he's in Burbank.
He'll be doing that.
NBC scheduled for 10 p.m. Eastern.
But if the Colonel Gaddafi variety show overruns, it might be a little bit later.
Rush will be back here tomorrow for Open Line Friday.
But it was like, it wasn't like Open Line Friday in that Gaddafi speech.
I mean, that guy covered every topic: 9-11, swine flu, Yugoslavia, jet lag, healthcare, how he wants, quote, our son, our son Barack Obama.
By the way, for the birthers, I don't think that's a literal thing, so please don't go hunting up the Libyan birth certificate.
How he wants, quote, our son Barack Obama to be America's president for life.
And why not?
It's worked out great for Libya and North Korea.
And he also got to the truth behind the Kennedy assassination.
This is my favorite bit from the speech.
Quote, said Colonel Gaddafi, Jack Ruby, an Israeli killed Lee Harvey.
Why did this Israeli kill Lee Harvey?
The whole world should know that Kennedy wanted to investigate the actions of the Israeli nuclear reactor in Demona.
Unquote.
Case closed.
Boy, I bet that Mahmoud Ahmed Dinijad is kicking himself.
Why didn't I think of that?
Why can't my writers supply me with that level of surefire Zionist conspiracy crowd, pleaser?
I like this slide from Robert Gibbs, the White House Prescrati, who issued this statement.
Gibbs confirmed Gaddafi was not invited to the Obama's reception for world leaders this evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
That'll show him.
That's global leadership.
When the going gets tough, the tough cancel your canopies.
I'm told Gaddafi got around the ban by having himself smuggled into the Metropolitan Museum of Art as an exhibit.
So it all worked out.
Anyway, Colonel Gaddafi has now stopped speaking at the United Nations.
That's all, folks.
The deputy tourism minister of Turkmenistan, I believe, was the sole remaining person in the room.
So he goes through to the next round and will now have to sit through Joe Biden's presentation of his Afghanistan quagmire solution.
So congratulations to him.
I believe, by the way, that Joe Biden has actually hired Colonel Gaddafi's speech writers.
By the way, Colonel Gaddafi will be doing all five Sunday morning shows this Sunday, so they should wrap up around Thursday.
And then he'll be doing Dancing with the Stars, warming up with a 90-minute routine to Disco Inferno, followed by a four-hour macarena and rounding things out with a three-day version of Mumbo No. 9.
It is great to be with you.
Great to be with you live from New York.
This town is crazy with the UN crowd.
They're like, oh, I couldn't get over it.
It's like every block is choked with these black Chevy suburbans, full of delegations showing up in a 30-car fleet of black Chevy suburbans to do something about climate change.
So all you guys are rerouting pedestrians.
I've never seen that before.
Does that happen a lot in New York?
It's like I know, like with my taxi yesterday, I had to go three blocks and we wound up going via Weehawk and New Jersey and then coming back in through Westchester County or something like that.
But they're now rerouting pedestrians.
I've never seen that anywhere in one of these things.
But the place I'm staying, I came down to the lobby this morning and I run into the president of Latvia, which is, you know, it's not a great thrill, but it's a modest thrill to start the day.
Do you know the name of the president of Latvia?
1-800-282-2882.
Too late, too late.
I win.
I get the PBS tote bag.
It's Valdis Zuttler's.
Valdis Zuttler's.
So I bumped into President Valdez Zuttler's this morning when I was coming down looking for my first coffee of the day.
I mean, I don't like to complain, HR, about the accommodation that this show graciously provides for me.
But come on, the president of Latvia.
You know, I'm like calling my friends and saying, hey, I'm in New York.
And they're going, wow, you're in New York for the big UN show.
Yeah, all the heads of state are there.
Cool.
What dictators are staying in your hotel?
You know, have you gone down to the gym and done your morning workout with Kim Jong-il on the exercycle?
You know, does Ahmadinejad steal towels like he steals elections?
Is it hard getting a club sandwich and a latte sent up because Gaddafi's road testing his Kennedy conspiracy speech on the room service girl?
And then I have to say, well, actually, I'm with the president of Latvia.
Thanks a bunch.
Thanks a bunch, HR.
Look, I don't like to complain, but what was it?
A choice between that and the Econo Lodge round the back of the freight yards with the foreign minister of Burundi?
I mean, come on, come on, the president of Latvia.
It could have been worse, I guess.
I could have been in the Bedouin tent next to Colonel Gaddafi's and had to listen to him sacrificing goats all night.
Actually, these days when Gaddafi starts making a speech, the goats sacrifice themselves.
So that doesn't usually take too long.
By the way, on this Colonel Gaddafi thing, I don't know whether you've been following the Colonel Gaddafi tent situation, but he pitched his tent in Donald Trump's garden somewhere north of New York City in a town in Westchester County.
And the town found out that Colonel Gaddafi was pitching his tent on Donald Trump's lawn in Westchester County somewhere.
And the town immediately decides to take actions to prevent him pitching his tent.
Now, is that a normal state of affairs in New York that the municipal authorities can rule whether you're allowed to pitch your tent in a private garden?
Yeah, I thought, yeah, I thought so.
Oh, oh, he's got plumbing in his tent.
What kind of...
Oh, apparently Colonel Gaddafi has an en suite bathroom in his tent.
Now I'm really mad.
Yeah, yeah, there's codes, of course, codes.
If you've got a...
There's zoning codes.
If you've got a – look, I like to think that I'm as anti-dictator as anybody.
But if it's a choice between dictators versus municipal zoning, I incline towards the dictator side.
I think even if his tent has got an ensuite bathroom, if he wants to pitch his tent in a private garden, I don't see what business that is of the municipal authorities.
And actually, now I hear that his tent's got an ensuite bathroom.
I'm going to install one in my kids' tent just for when they camp out in the garden.
And you're going to have to prize that ensuite bathroom in my tent from my cold, dead hands if the zoning administrator is listening to this.
So when it comes to, I'm actually, I'm pretty consistent.
I take an anti-dictator view.
But when it's dictators versus municipal zoning authorities, I go with the dictators.
So anyway, if you were up late last night and saw Colonel Gaddafi's Bedouin tent coming down the Taconic State Parkway towards New York looking for a rest area to pitch in, that's because Donald Trump kicked him out of his backyard late at night.
I believe we have a soundbite from Colonel Gaddafi's speech to the UN.
So while it's playing, I'll go for lunch, get a haircut and massage, and I'll be back in a couple of hours to take your calls.
Oh, what's that?
We don't have the soundbite.
Oh, never mind.
Okay.
1-800-282-2882.
President Obama is doing more of his president of the world shtick today.
He likes that, doesn't he?
It's very interesting.
He's the first president of the United States to give the impression that the job is too small for him.
It's a very, very unusual manner he has in that respect.
So today he's chairing the UN Security Council and then he's hosting the G20, which is like the G7 plus the kind of Little League version of the G7.
It's the countries who couldn't get into the G7.
I don't know what's below the G20.
There must presumably be a G for countries that can't get into any of the other Gs.
But the Security Council meeting is the first time the President of the United States has ever chaired a meeting of this particular body.
So he'll be sitting, he'll actually be sitting, I believe, next to Colonel Gaddafi, or maybe opposite him.
So that will be like the Super Bowl of speechifying right there.
Who else is at the meeting?
Well, you've got what they call the P5.
That's the permanent members of the Security Council, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China.
And apparently, Russia is our new best friend on the Iranian nuclear weapon program.
Yeah, right.
And who else is on there at this meeting that Obama is going to be chairing?
Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso, the West African nation, formerly known as Upper Volta.
I think they changed their name from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso so that when Western nations were handing out aid, they'd come higher up in the alphabetical listings.
But Burkina Faso, he's going to be – Obama is going to be chairing this meeting with the president of – you've got me now.
I knew the – I knew the president of Latvia.
I don't know the name of the president of Burkina Faso.
I should be more on top of it.
Oh, here we are.
Blase Compore.
Blase Compore.
I think I had one of those at Miami Beach.
You have two of those.
You have three of those, and you wake up with a hell of a hangover.
Blase Campore.
It's the drink that spells sophistication.
So Obama will be chairing the Security Council meeting with Blase Compore of Burkina Faso.
And then he'll be going down to the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, where the left-wing protesters have already shown up to trash the town.
They're already barricading up the stores.
Now, am I missing something here?
I thought it was we right-wing domestic terrorists full of rage who were the ones you had to look out for.
When the Tea Party guys show up in Washington, D.C., and the crowd disperses, there's not a candy wrapper on the streets of Washington.
It looks cleaner than it normally does.
These guys picked up all their litter and took it away, and they left the town looking better than it does thanks to its municipal workforce.
But when, funnily enough, that's when you have the crazy, angry right-wing men full of racism and Nazism and all the rest of it.
When they show up to trash your town, they leave and it looks better than it did.
Funnily enough, when the nice, peaceful Celebrate Diversity Left show up, they have to board up all the stores and they have to bring in military vehicles and police cars to shut down the town for Pittsburgh and the G20 summit.
And people are staying away from their offices and their workplaces because they say it's not going to be safe with these anti-G20 protesters taking up space in the town.
So we'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush 1-800-282-2882.
More straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Rush was hammering the president's speech yesterday.
And I was listening to him on the radio, and I hadn't actually seen a draft of the speech yet.
I just heard the little clips, and I thought, well, maybe, you know, maybe I don't like to be suspicious of Rush, but maybe he's just picking a quote here and he's picking a quote there.
No, the whole thing, when you look at this speech, when you look at the full Obama speech to the United Nations, it was the most extraordinary speech by a United States President standing up and claiming to speak for his nation before the assembled Parliament of the world.
If you had to name the worst line in the speech, I think it would be the bit where he said, For those who question the character and cause of my nation, that's how he began.
And at that point, Rich Lowry, my boss at National Review, the editor of National Review, said, at that point, you thought, oh, yeah, he's going to come up with something from the Declaration of Independence or the Gettysburg Address or what this nation has done for other countries around the world in World War I and World War II and all the rest of it.
Instead, he said this: For those who question the character and cause of my nation, I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine months.
In other words, he's basically saying, Yes, you were right.
This is the worst country on the planet.
It was until January the 19th, 2009.
The first, basically, he's saying to them, right off the first 230 years, because we're on top of it now.
It's a brand new start in the first nine months, redeem us.
Redeem America for the hell we inflicted on the planet in the preceding couple of centuries.
I think that's the most, I mean, aside from its revolting narcissism, I think that is the most pathetic, pathetic, and self-centered and absurd apology for America I've ever heard.
The reality is that America accounts for 22% of the spending of the budget of the United Nations, and it accounts for almost all the good work that is done anywhere on the planet.
You go back to the tsunami that struck a couple of years ago.
The tsunami strikes, who shows up?
Not the UN.
The UN were in New York holding meetings.
The UN hears that a tsunami struck on the other side of the world and they call a press conference.
They call a press conference to complain about what America was doing.
When the tsunami struck Sri Lanka and Thailand and Indonesia, the first two countries on the scene were the United States and Australia.
They got there.
They got there.
They saved lives.
They do that when these things strike anywhere on the planet.
They did the same thing with the Pakistani earthquake a little later.
And yet, President Obama is going to the global community and apologizing for the United States.
You know, they pick up.
You don't need a translator to pick up on the width of national self-loathing that the American left through Barack Obama projected in that speech.
And it's no wonder Colonel Gaddafi says, wow, we would love this guy to stay president for life.
Because you can imagine what the state of the planet would be if he was president, if he did get to be president for life at the end of it.
I thought this was an extraordinary speech.
I don't think it was naive, by the way.
The New York Post has an editorial saying that Obama at the UN was the naïve in chief.
I don't think he is naive.
I think he actually, I think if you look at where he comes from and where he's lived his entire adult life, he is actually attracted to some of the least attractive features of the UN,
namely those people who run very authoritarian regimes and are able to affect transformative change very quickly without any of this messy problem of democratic back and forth and multi-party confusions and compromises getting in the way of it.
So I found it an incredibly depressing speech.
And I thought, by the way, that the sort of platitudinous parts, the sort of bland bits, were actually almost as offensive as the intentionally offensive bit.
He said, I have been in office for just nine months, though some days it seems a lot longer.
I'm well aware of the expectations that accompany my presidency around the world.
These expectations are not about me.
Blah, blah, blah.
That's his usual hey, but enough about me stuff that he does.
Rather, they are rooted, he says, in a discontent with a status quo that has allowed us to be increasingly defined by our differences.
No, I'm sorry, but if you take the United States on the one hand and Cuba on the other, let's not be chauvinistically American about this, let's broaden it out a bit.
If you take the United States on the one hand and Cuba on the other, or Sweden on the one hand and Burma on the other, or Canada on the one hand and Syria on the other, no, these are defined by our differences.
The differences here are absolutely critical.
The differences get to the fundamental view of what it means to be a functioning sovereign state and one that allows its people to fulfill their potential.
And this gets to the heart of what is the real problem with the United Nations system and why the United States as the global superpower should not be doing anything more than paying lip service even to its ideals.
I said a couple of years ago, I think I said in my book somewhere, that the problem with the UN is very simple.
If you take half a pint of vanilla ice cream and you mix it with half a pint of dog doo-doo, to put it at its mildest, the result will taste more like the latter than like the former.
And that is the problem with the UN.
When you mix free societies with totalitarian basket case dictatorships, the result naturally inclines more to the dictator's view of things than to free people's view of things.
That is why no U.S. president should be trying to advance U.S. national interests through as dysfunctional a body as the United Nations.
Lots more straight ahead.
Yes, great to be with you.
Don't forget, Rush will be on the Jay Leno show tonight.
He'll be back here tomorrow.
You can go to rushlimbaugh.com, by the way, and hear Rush's interview with Chris Myers and Steve Hartman from Fox Sports Radio.
That's up at rushlimbaugh.com, where you'll also get all the other details from Russia's stack of stuff and all kinds of other good things on there too.
Rushlimbore.com.
I see Acorn.
More developments on the ACORN scandal.
I like this.
The IRS have cut off all ties to Acorn.
I didn't know they actually had any.
I would like that myself.
By the way, while you're doing that, IRS, if you'd like to cut off all ties to me, that would be greatly appreciated too.
I wish we could all get that deal.
That would be wonderful.
This UN meeting that Obama is chairing, it's supposedly on disarmament.
I cannot believe that 20 years after the end of the Cold War, we now have a president who is committed to ending the world of nuclear weapons.
It was interesting to me that during the Cold War, the left was absolutely obsessed with nuclear weapons.
They wrote, remember the big mushroom cloud?
It was on the front of movie posters, on plays, on novels, on albums.
It was everywhere.
Because the world lived in this balance of terror, and the nuclear weapons belonged to these five big powers, and the whole powder keg could go up at any minute.
They wrote children's books about it, terrorizing children.
We could all be nuked, living in a nuclear winter landscape.
After the bomb goes off, the mushroom cloud goes up, you're going to want to kill yourself because your eyes will be melting as you're struggling through the streets of what's left.
They did this stuff all the time.
Because at that time, the crazy guys like Reagan and Thatcher had nuclear weapons.
Okay, so then what happens?
Nuclear technology goes freelance.
And then it's AQ Khan in Pakistan who comes up with a nuclear weapon.
And then it's Kim Jong-il with nuclear weapons.
And then it's Iran with nuclear weapons.
And throughout this, the left was entirely relaxed.
I mean, let's face it, you know, Kim Jong-il and AQ Khan in Pakistan.
It's not like Thatcher and Reagan having nuclear weapons.
Okay, now Obama is in office and is addressing the nuclear situation.
And he is saying we need to rid the world.
And that's what his UN Security Council meeting that he's chairing about.
He's going to discuss ridding the world of nuclear weapons with the president of Burkina Faso and Colonel Gaddafi of Libya.
And the basis for this, and this is where he's fundamentally wrong, is what they call non-proliferation.
No, sorry, that's a clapped-out, discredited old Cold War view of things.
He was saying we're stuck in this Cold War mentality.
Non-proliferation is a hangover from the Cold War.
You can't stop it proliferating.
Nuclear technology has gone freelance.
They're walking out there all over the planet.
Basically, any nickel and dime basket case that's starving its own people can become a nuclear power now.
Meanwhile, the wealthiest nations on the planet, like Norway, can't project force to their own frontiers.
So the issue is not non-proliferation.
This is a completely ridiculous way of looking at it.
It's the classic Obama thing, moving the goalposts so you set some goal that is unachievable, that gives you an excuse not to do anything about what's actually happening now.
Nobody would lose a moment's sleep if they woke up in the morning and saw that New Zealand had become a nuclear power or Switzerland had become a nuclear power.
It's not the technology.
You can't do anything about the technology.
It's the regime.
There's a difference between New Zealand being a nuclear power and Iran being a nuclear power.
And Iran being a nuclear power will then mean that Syria will be a nuclear power and Sudan will be a nuclear power and Iran's various client groups in Gaza and Lebanon will eventually be nuclear powers too.
So to frame it in this, after giving this pathetic speech yesterday about how we need to move beyond the old Cold War way of looking at things, to frame it within the context of this absolutely exhausted and irrelevant Cold War concept of non-proliferation is a completely ridiculous way of looking at things.
That's what President Obama is wasting his time with today, Ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
And he's doing it through the UN Security Council.
You know, the Democrats have advanced their thinking on this now.
We now have Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The Israelis are basically coming up against the deadline on this Iranian thing.
And sometime early spring next year, they're going to have to make a choice about whether they're going to send their bombers to take out the Iranian nuclear program.
Spignu Brzezinski, the genius from the Carter years, who thought it would be great, this was one of his better ideas, thought it would be great to outsource the Afghan resistance through the Saudis and the Pakistanis, and thus wound up creating, in effect, the Osama bin Laden organization.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the one whose administration helped deliver Iran into the hands of the Mullahs, Sbignu Brzezinski, instead of being chastened by the legacy he has left the world, is now coming up with solutions to the Iranian nuclear dilemma.
And from his point of view, the problem is not the Iranian nuclear program itself, but the fact that the Israelis want to do something about it.
They're going to have to fly over Iraqi airspace to hit the Iranian nuclear sites.
And Zbigniew Brzezinski is advancing the proposition that maybe the United States Air Force should be scrambled and shoot down the Israeli bombers on their way to take out the Iranian nukes.
In other words, Zbigniew Brzezinski is proposing that the United States should be the last line of defense for the Iranian nuclear program.
Meanwhile, the head of his party, Barack Obama, is pursuing these fluffy bunny delusions of a world without nuclear weapons.
You're not going to get to a world without nuclear weapons.
That's not going to happen.
Everybody's got the technology now.
Everybody.
Anyone who wants to be a nuclear power can have that technology.
You look at North Korea.
North Korea is a country that produces nothing, exports nothing except knock off Viagra.
It can't feed its own people, and yet it's a nuclear power.
Same thing when you look at Pakistan.
Pakistan is an entirely dysfunctional society.
It's not really a country.
It's an artificial country, and yet it's a nuclear power.
This is the way of the future.
We're going to see not only countries go nuclear, more and more countries go nuclear, but we're actually going to see groups go nuclear.
And instead of talking about solutions such as missile defense, instead of taking an active position against the regimes that are distributing this nuclear technology, we're investing in a complete charade of this UN Security Council meeting discussing the old Cold War theory of non-proliferation.
That ship has sailed.
The days when you could confine nuclear weapons to the big five powers are gone.
They're over.
And yet Obama is sitting here discussing how to rid the world of nuclear weapons with the president of Burkina Faso.
You know, that is a great use of the President of the United States' time.
My favorite foreign minister on the planet was Alexander Downer, the Australian Foreign Minister.
And shortly after the tsunami, I asked him about whether he would be operating his Australia's relief program through the UN.
He says, no, we don't want to do anything through the UN.
That's a complete waste of time.
He goes, I don't want to find myself sitting on a committee with some busted-ass country like Burkina Faso, as he put it.
I think busted-ass country is Australian for the category that comes below failed state.
And he's absolutely right.
And here is the President of the United States on a committee with the busted-ass country of Burkina Faso discussing how to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Now, I said to him, I said to Mr. Downer, the Australian Foreign Minister, maybe you're being a bit harder.
We were in a restaurant.
I said, maybe you're being a bit hard on Burkina Faso.
Who is your opposite number there?
And he said, well, to be honest, Mark, I've forgotten.
And he got out his BlackBerry and he went to the BBC website to look up the entry on Burkina Faso while we're in the restaurant.
And the first line on the entry of Burkina Faso is, Burkina Faso has a poor economy by West African standards.
Burkina Faso has a poor economy by West African standards.
That is a very difficult concept for anybody to be grappling with.
Yet here is Obama sitting down to discuss ridding the world of nuclear weapons with Burkina Faso.
This is a complete waste of time.
And this is not only a distraction, but a delusion that sends the message to the rest of the planet that this is, as the Daily Telegraph in London has begun calling him, President Pantywaste.
Mark Stein, infra rush on the EIB network.
Lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
Rush will be back tomorrow for Open Line Friday.
This is kind of like Gaddafi speech Thursday.
If it's any one of the wide-ranging topics that the colonel touched on in his splendid seven-hour speech yesterday, then we're going to get to it.
Let's go to Tom, who is in dictator-choked Manhattan as we speak.
Tom, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hey, Tom, are you there?
All I hear is heavy breathing.
I get normally I'm on the other end of that kind of call.
So, Tom, actually, that's serious heavy breathing, isn't it?
Has he got some blow-up doll of an iron lung or something on the other line there?
I don't know what that is.
Let us go to Kevin in Columbus, Ohio.
Kevin, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show with Mark Stein.
Great to have you with us.
Oh, yes.
I'm getting kind of tired of everybody with the name calling.
I listened to Rush yesterday.
They called the president just about everything that he could get away with.
But as usual, he's offering no other solutions to what's going on.
And the other issue I have is: the other issue is at least this man is standing up and trying to right some of the wrongs.
We all know all governments make mistakes, and some are kept secret, some never.
We never find out.
Now, wait, now wait.
Okay, Kevin.
So, what wrongs do you think that President Obama was confessing?
We're talking about through history.
The United States history, the most recent one is the Iraq war, where we used faulty intelligence to start a war.
Now, that is a wrong.
Okay, we're there now.
Now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
In UN terms, that was a right, because Saddam Hussein was in.
We're not talking about UN, we're talking about most of the right people on the right.
No, Saddam Hussein was in breach of all these UN resolutions.
And why didn't we use that as a pretext instead of British intelligence?
We did use that.
The British intelligence, by the way, is nothing to do with anything.
That was to do with the Joe Wilson thing in Niger, where the CIA sends this tourist to sip tea with minor officials from the Niger government who actually confirm what British intelligence said.
No, no, no, British intelligence and the former Prime Minister of Niger, who may even be in town at the moment.
He may be in town for the big dictator get-together.
The former Prime Minister of Niger and British intelligence and Italian intelligence and everybody except the CIA agrees that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy yellow cake from Niger.
So you should be annoyed with the CIA.
What was it you guys used to chant in the 60s?
Hey, hey, CIA, how many lies did you tell today?
Well, why aren't you annoyed with them?
Why aren't you annoyed with them over this?
They're out of step.
British intelligence, the government of Niger, Italian intelligence are all agreed that Saddam Hussein was trying to acquire yellow cake from Niger.
Joe Wilson's report actually indicated that Iraqi officials had been there trying to buy yellow cake from Niger.
By the way, why do you send a trade delegation to Niger?
They've got two exports, yellow cake and chickpeas.
Do you think Saddam was ordering in chickpeas for the palace?
Okay, next lie.
Let's move on to the next lie.
Next lie.
Come on.
Come on.
What other lies?
I've been proven.
You can say whatever you like.
But the thing is, you, every time, no, this is what gets me.
You use Italian.
You use 12.
But any other time, you are down in these same countries for whatever reason.
Now, all of a sudden, you're so credible that we're going to go to war because of what they said.
That's the dilemma that I see.
No, well, what is your credible point?
Anything else, they're not credible.
Oh, so you're saying that if you take the Italian intelligence view on what's going on in Niger, you should also take the Italian view on global warming or the British view.
Yeah, I think you should be awful sure of what they're doing.
No, you send American troops to fight, to fight and die in the national interest.
In the national interest.
And the fact of the matter is that just a couple of years ago, earlier, President Clinton and the Democrats had all agreed that Saddam Hussein was an explicit threat to U.S. interests.
President Clinton bombed Iraq after they attempted to assassinate.
They were in a plot to assassinate George Bush Sr.
Until the Iraq war started, Iraq was a bipartisan policy.
And you can pull up any number of big shot Democrats who were all on board with the Iraq war.
And what happened then is for cheap, crummy, despicable domestic political reasons, they're entirely irrelevant to what was going on in Iraq, entirely irrelevant to U.S. troops there and their mission, and to 25 million people who were liberated by the courage and bravery of U.S. troops, Democrats decided that they were going to, regardless of what was happening in the theater of war,
they were going to inflict a defeat on Iraq on President Bush in political terms.
And that was contemptible.
And how did they do it, by the way?
While we're thinking about it, they said, well, Iraq is a distraction from Afghanistan.
Iraq is the bad war.
Afghanistan's the good war.
It's the old Democrat shell game.
They're always in favor of the war you're not fighting at the time you're fighting the other war.
So you say, okay, we'll switch cups.
Okay, we'll put Iraq aside, and we'll now see if the Democrat war-fighting P is under the Afghanistan cup.
And you pull that cup up, and what do you know?
Mysteriously, now that the Afghan war is here, the Democrats are in control, the good war, we can fight the good war, we can do what Obama wants and invade Pakistan and get, you know, because that's, if you're in the mood for quagmires, that is the mother of all quagmires.
Suddenly now he's saying, oh, well, no, I know Afghanistan was the war, the good war we all supported, but now we're backing off on that.
It's the Democrat shell game.
You can pick up all the cups and the P of the war in the national interest, The Democrat war-fighting pee that they're prepared to support at the time it matters, you can never find.
Mark Stein in for Rush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
We're talking about the big UN circus going on in New York.
Apparently, there's an outstanding arrest warrant in New York for Colonel Gaddafi.
I don't know what that, I have no idea what that is related to, whether it's for killing thousands of people, killing hundreds of Americans in the Lockerbie bombing, or whether it's just one of these tent things.
He's been driving around his tent with the en suite bathroom without a permit, or the B-Day in it is environmentally unfriendly, or something like that.
But at any rate, apparently there's an outstanding warrant for Colonel Gaddafi in New York, which the police are choosing not to enforce.
The other good idea that Colonel Gaddafi did say in his speech is he wants the UN to move every so often.
It'd be in New York for a while, then it could go to Beijing, then go to Delhi.
It'd be a bit like his tent.
You'd have like the UN in the Colonel Gaddafi tent on wheels going from one capital to another.
By the way, I think we should put the UN in Ugadugu, which is the capital of Burkina Faso, because their restaurant business could really use the boost.
So Ugadugu for the new United Nations building.
That's my thought.
Mark Stein, well, I think parking is fairly easy in Ugadougo.
As long as you get in early, you can slip in behind the president's goat.
It'll all be fine.
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