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March 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So, how's everybody?
Mark Davis here from the Texas branch of things in Limbaugh Land from the George W. Bush neighborhood of North Texas from News Talk 8:20 a.m. and 96.7 FM WBAP, proud Limbaugh affiliate, since I don't know when.
All that matters is it's a joy to be with you when the phone rings, and it did this past week.
Rush is out today, has a little charity golf outing, and we wish him well, both in terms of how the charity does and how he does on the links.
And Rush is back with you tomorrow.
But for now, Mark Davis from Dallas-Fort Worth.
How are you?
Hope all's well.
And I hope you had an interesting weekend keeping track of the news.
Why don't we ladle out some of the things that have been going on?
And as Rush would do, and as any host try to keep a thumb on the pulse of all of these things, I think should do.
Let's talk about what has happened over the weekend and then what we think about what has happened over the weekend and then what people are saying about what has happened over the weekend.
And those triple layers there of pastry will make quite the tasty talk show delicacy.
You know how this goes: 1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
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So here's what I have on my plate.
Any time that you and I are together here in the Universe of the Rush Limbaugh show, I have just completed my own local show here in Dallas-Fort Worth.
And in listening to the news over the weekend and getting a bit of a feel of what was interesting to people here in the local audience today, the things that occur to me are: I want to ask you some things.
I want to put things in the form of questions, if you don't mind.
And then you just hand me your answers, just hand them to the front of the class at 1-800-282-2882.
Number one, do you have a certain level of skepticism about how amped up and positive we should feel about our military involvement in Libya?
If the answer is yes, there are a number of places from which it can come.
Now, I know there are people I love, like Bill Crystal over at Weekly Standard, and I am of that stripe that tends to actively believe in America and the American military as a force for good around the world.
And I know people disparage that and they say, well, America can't be the world's policeman.
Well, really, then who will be?
And no, we can't be the world's policemen in the same way that the city of Philadelphia has cops to go look at every bad thing that happens.
Sorry, I didn't mean to pick on Philly.
I just wanted to have a particularly busy police department.
I love Philadelphia.
No angry calls.
No, but the force that America has used very selectively has resulted in a better world.
And right now, we are about nothing less, nothing less ambitious, nothing less vast than helping to reform the brutal Stone Age theocracies and authoritarian regimes of the Middle East that want to kill us, that are filled to the guilds with people who want to kill us.
Not every Middle Eastern and North African nation is filled with al-Qaeda.
And that, in fact, is what makes Libya a particularly tough nut to crack because as we learned with Mubarak in Egypt, and isn't this the way it goes?
Mubarak in Egypt three years ago, two years ago, one year ago.
Oh, yeah, he's one of the good ones, somebody might say.
One of the Arab leaders that does not wake up in the morning talking about killing us or wiping Israel off the face of the map.
But then people take to the streets of Cairo, and all of a sudden Mubarak is an unbearable evil who's just got to go.
Well, what's been the narrative on Qaddafi?
After we bombed the holy stuffing out of him in the mid-80s, it's like it actually taught him a lesson.
Qaddafi was for the 90s and the oughts.
For two decades, Qaddafi was an example of a guy who we taught a lesson with American military might.
Bad guy, bombs drop, not such a bad guy.
Sweet.
But then people take to the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi, and all of a sudden, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, people took to the streets.
Now he is completely unacceptable.
Now he must go.
Well, all right, fine.
So now we have anti-Qadhafi rebels.
Lovely.
Being anti-Qadhafi seems to be a good thing to be.
But there are a lot of reasons to be anti-Qadhafi.
You can be a good-hearted humanitarian and freedom lover and be anti-Qadhafi.
You know who else is excited to see him go?
Al-Qaeda.
Know who else is excited to see that vacuum in Libya?
Iran.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is thrilled at the opportunities presented by the coming vacancy.
And so this in no way is the sound of me saying, oh, no, we got to prop Qaddafi up.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm just saying, embrace your uncertainty.
Become comfortable with it because it is exactly the feeling you should have.
And as humans, as Americans, I don't know if it's a Western thing, an American thing, we like to think we have everything figured out.
Sometimes we don't.
And right now, we have no idea what the post-Qadhafi Libyan picture would be.
We still don't know what the post-Mubarak Egyptian picture is going to be.
Sometimes you have to actually wait and see what happens.
So I am fine with the no-fly zone.
I am fine with a coalition of which we are a part.
In a minute, we'll get to whether we are leaders or followers.
That's really important.
But I mean, so far, so good.
Let's see how this plays out.
But as we segue to the nuts and bolts of how it's all been done, when Lindsey Graham sounds hawkish on the Sunday morning shows, you know something is curious afoot.
When the British, when the French seem to be in what could resemble leadership roles in a military operation, while the American president dithers and talks about its limited scope and how we are not trying to bring about regime change, then you get into the leadership thing.
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain talking about the moral and practical necessity of his nation becoming involved militarily, forcefully.
Where's that kind of leadership?
From our own White House.
People either liked or didn't like what President Bush did as commander-in-chief, but he was comfortable in his own skin as commander-in-chief.
He knew what his instincts were.
He knew where his mind and heart directed him, and he told you.
We don't get a lot of that from this commander-in-chief.
And so here comes another set of questions.
Is it an experience thing?
Is it a spine and guts thing?
Because a lot of people are saying, okay, about doggone time, better late than never.
America should have been up front with the firstest and the mostest ships, planes.
If this is a good idea, it's a good idea.
Now, here's the next level of questioning.
You ready?
Don't get overloaded.
We've got a commercial break in a minute.
And then we start to take your answers, and that's where it gets good.
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And I'll intermingle my answers with yours.
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How complicated is this, really?
How much time do we need to talk this to death before we know what to do?
I just talked about how vague this all seems and how it's hard to know whether the post-Qadhafi Libya will be good for America or not.
And by good, and let me tell you what I mean by good for America.
I mean good for liberty, good for democracy, good for freedom, good for setting up a country, among others that we're trying to set up, Iraq, Afghanistan, et cetera, where these are functioning democracies, self-determining societies, where the ability to do those things will hopefully create less of a haven for people who want to kill us.
That's what we're trying to do.
But hesitancy and skepticism, I think, are completely appropriate right now.
Mine is couched in a conditional willingness to go along with this, see how it goes, hope that post-Qadhafi is better than Qaddafi, because you know what that's going to involve, don't you?
Not cutting and running.
It's going to involve a no-fly zone, some military action in concert with some allies, and then sticking around to see what happens afterward and having the willingness to apply force if it looks like the aftermath is not good.
And I will tell you one last thing before we take our first break.
I have had it up to my eyeballs with the kind, kind of funny, hesitancy, reticence, skepticism.
That's fine.
There's a time for those.
But if it's time for America to act, it's time for America to act.
And here was a guy, please, anybody who has the uniform of the United States and this much stuff hanging off of it, I'm inclined to respect.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, tried to make every Sunday morning show, talking about the tone that seemed to come from him was, well, we're going to be in here for a little bit.
Don't anybody freak out.
Then we're going to be able, you know, we're going to hand it over to the British and some Arab nations.
Oh, I'll be real interested to see the litany of Arab nations that helps us out with this.
Some will.
I absolutely know that some will.
We do indeed have something that kind of sort of, if you squint your eyes, resembles allies in the region.
But yeah, we'll be seeing about that.
But this notion of leadership involves, do we go in?
I'm sick to death of, oh, we can't go in and look like we're trying to impose an American solution.
We can't look heavy-handed.
We can't look colonial.
Did we make Iraq the 51st state?
Did I miss something?
Hasn't that lie been told?
Hasn't that myth been exploded?
You know, we tried to get Afghanistan to apply as a protectorate of the United States.
We are not trying to take these countries.
We're not trying to take their oil.
We're not trying to run their lives.
We're trying to level the playing field.
You've got to level a lot of things before you level that playing field, trying to literally level the landscape that contains al-Qaeda or the Taliban or whoever else we're trying to get rid of.
We have to actually kill people and break things.
It's a war.
It's a war.
And we have to do that.
Our goal is to set up a resulting landscape in which the surviving population, hopefully the vast majority of them, can look around and go, wow, now our future is our own.
Now we can actually create for ourselves a country where we can elect our own leaders, draft our own constitution, have our own laws, and hopefully enjoying those freedoms creates populations that are less likely to want to kill us.
That is the American goal.
To be half-hearted in its pursuit is to engage in futility.
To say these are our goals, but to cower in fear of the reaction of whom?
The cafes along the Champs-Élysées?
Analysts at CNN?
Whom are we afraid of?
Do what's right and stop caring about what people say about it.
Do it.
But the tough thing is, we've got to figure out how much of a whole hog operation in Libya is right.
What is right?
What seems right to you?
What do you want this president to do, which is a doubly complicated thing?
What do you want any president to do is one thing?
What do you want this guy to do?
It's fraught with all kinds of complexity.
So let's work our way through that.
Before we're done today, I'd love to talk some nukes with you.
The whole Japan thing, God bless everybody in that country.
Hope everybody's doing as well as can be expected over there.
Every prayer to the folks in their loss in Japan.
It's been another reminder that we haven't had, what is it?
Haven't had a new nuclear permit in America since 1978.
Yeah, that's good.
And it puts the environmental extremist crowd into a bit of a schizo hissy fit.
Oh, we hate nukes, we hate nukes, but wait a minute, it's not fossil fuels, it's clean, and it certainly seems safe.
And it is safe.
There's not anything that's happened in Japan that makes me one molecule, I don't put intended, less enthusiastic about nuclear power.
I don't think we're going to have a whole lot of American tsunamis, and I don't think most American nuclear plants are built along fault lines.
So we can talk about some of that too.
And there's always budgetary stuff to keep our topical toes tapping.
So there we are.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Rush back tomorrow.
But very pleased to be with you today.
So let's start some phone action.
Let's do it right quick.
I'm Mark Davis.
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With all sobriety and seriousness, it is time once again to engage in that vast national debate called, Is This Worth It?
Mark Davis filling in for Rush here in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Rush is back tomorrow.
To the phones here in a second at 1-800-282-2882.
Through all of the Sunday shows and some of the debate of the last week, as the likelihood of American involvement has increased, I've heard people say again and again: it's another shooting war.
It's like our third war because you've got Iraq, you've got Afghanistan, and now you have Libya.
Guys, it's the same war.
It's the same war.
It is a slightly different facet of the same war.
We are up against these ancient Arab, Muslim, Stone Age, authoritarian, theocratic, in some cases, regimes in their many forms.
Sometimes they yield terrorism, sometimes fascism, sometimes oppression of various other types.
And I have never wanted to lapse into the logic that says, well, these people just can't handle democracy.
It always seems so insulting.
And I know there's plenty of evidence that that may be true, but I don't want to go there yet.
I want to give these Muslim folks, and look what we've done in Kuwait in 91, in the Balkans, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and now in Libya.
We're liberating Muslims all over the place.
Maybe someday we'll actually even get credit for it.
But what we are helping to establish is some liberty and democracy for them.
Is there a selfish interest in this?
I guess you could call it that.
It's called try to create societies where there are fewer people who want to kill us.
All righty, we are in Cleveland.
Bob, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you?
Yeah, I just want to say that, you know, I think President Obama is just brilliant because he's making these other nations like in Europe thinking it's their idea to get involved in military action in Libya.
You know, usually in the, you know, for the past, you know, his predecessor would have been like running around like some 60s hippie saying we got to save the world.
Where President, you know, and trying to get everybody else involved, where President Obama has allowed these other nations to, you know, to make it their idea.
But can I get some clarification?
Because to me, the British and shoot, even the French seem to have clarity on this.
It seems like these are nations that have looked at Libya and said, we want to be involved there.
It seems like we've now done the same after taking a little more time.
Tell me the dynamic by which you think that they are somehow responding to some Pied Piper tune from Barack Obama that the British and the French are simply kind of following his source.
Well, I think it's not a Pied Piper tune.
It's just that Obama hasn't, you know, hasn't said, oh, let's go to war.
Let's go, you know, like, we got to do something.
We got to, you know, he wasn't the first voice to come out like a cheerleader saying, we got to do something.
We got to do something.
Instead, he let these other nations and you got to take the lead.
Yeah, take the lead and let them see that the U.S. See, this is what I think is brilliant.
Letting them, and it's almost like boosting someone up that's on welfare.
It's saying, look, if you're not going to do it, then it's not going to get done.
Well, Bob, I tell you what, I thank you because this may either be one of the most muddled things I've ever heard or masterful sarcasm, and I'm not sure which, but I'll take it at face value either way.
And in a moment, we'll talk a little bit about whether it was a good or bad idea to wait this long and who leads and who follows in this mess.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
And a good Monday, one and all.
Gee, it's a shame nothing happened over the weekend.
Rush is back tomorrow to pilot you through the various developments between now and then, but handling things right now.
Mark Davis from Dallas-Fort Worth on WBAP, Proud Limbaugh affiliate, and great to be with you.
Already taking first waves of calls here to American involvement in military action in Libya, playing a little game that's always instructive called Good Idea, Bad Idea.
Welcoming those.
And what's interesting about this is the strange political bedfellows, because there are people who do not like the American operation in Libya, the American involvement in the operation in Libya, and it is because of their steadfast liberalism.
There are also those who would say they oppose American intervention in Libya in this operation because of their steadfast conservatism, calling on different strains of logic.
In the case of the left, it's because, oh, it's kryptonite.
It's once again, America, the American military as a force for good around the world.
Ugh, don't like that.
That's what gets your Michael Moore, your Dennis Kucinich, your Jerry Nadler, your Sean Penn gets them all worked up.
But then there is a good slice of conservatism that says to be conservative about our military resources.
And by that, it means to conserve them, to have the bar set really, really stratospherically high before we commit blood and treasure to another world troublespot.
I think that the question is fairly asked.
If the bar is met in Libya, bad leader doing bad things to his people?
Shoot, man.
That rodeo is on if that's the only place the bar is set.
So the answer to that as we go to some more of your calls, my answer to that, tell me if you like it or not, is that every case is different.
Can we find other places?
Can we find other countries led by really bad people doing really bad things to the population?
Of course we can.
But that's not all of what Libya is about.
Libya, and to some extent, as we may find out, Yemen, Bahrain, other countries, all fit into this narrative of the war that we are fighting in that part of the world.
It is a fight against terrorism.
And I know how vague and how frustratingly broad that is.
A war against terrorism.
What's that?
What's that uniform?
What country is that from?
I know that's how vague it is.
But don't let its vagueness distract you from its necessity.
So it's vague.
What does that mean?
It means that if our compass is pointed in a direction that says, let's help create where we can pockets of democracy, plant the seeds of self-determination,
liberate countless Muslims from the Stone Age hatreds and authoritarian regimes of their past, that that will yield a safer Mideast, a safer America.
I know you could almost scare up the fife and drum music behind me on that.
I know there is a lot of generalities and platitudes in there.
I know, but there's a reason why something I think becomes a platitude, and that is because it's a familiar and noble theme.
So that is why, not without reservation and not without condition, why I sit here this morning looking at America's involvement in a Libyan operation, saying, okay, I'm prepared to look at this as a good thing until I have reason to believe that it's not.
So you tell me.
That's me.
How about you?
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Ben, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you, sir?
How are you, sir?
Great.
I was just having a discussion with a friend of mine about the same issue you're having right now or discussion.
And our point of view is: I mean, we're both veterans.
He served in the Middle East, and he's directly dealt with those people.
All they want to do is kill us.
That is the point.
There is no dealing with people of that mindset.
He pointed out, my friend pointed out that there is nothing we can do or say as Americans for the Middle East people that's going to change.
He said, as he was there as a soldier, a soldier's job is to kill, period.
Right.
Now, we're trained to do that.
He did not like the mission when he was there because he was building schools.
He was building their infrastructure.
He felt like he was working for the Peace Corps.
Right.
No, no, no.
He was in the Army.
No, I understand.
But he might have felt like he was doing Habitat for Humanity Baghdad.
Understand.
Yes.
But in the same token, these are the same people that will cut your head off just because of who you are.
Let's examine what has happened.
And I don't begrudge him his opinion.
I certainly don't begrudge you yours.
You guys have served.
Are you kidding me?
And there are those who have served who are on board for this and those who are not.
There's no monolithic opinion in the veteran community, I don't think.
So let's take a look.
You're completely correct that that region is filled with all kinds of people who would kill us where we stand and be thrilled to do so.
Is it all of them?
No, but it's a shockingly high percentage of them, more than the politically correct crowd would have us believe.
But there is something that I really steadfastly believe myself, and that is that these people taking to the streets from Cairo to Tripoli to Yemen to Bahrain are looking at these authoritarian regimes.
And in those crowds, somewhere, maybe it's a quarter of them, maybe it's a half, maybe it's 70%, are people who really do want better for themselves, who really do want to have constitutions and hold elections and chart their own future.
And there is one thing, there is one thing that has inspired them to think that it might be possible in their desolate moonscaped countries.
And that is what your friend and what folks like you and he have done in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iraq and Afghanistan have hope for the future because of America and its allies creating a world where democracy is possible.
And I believe that they may not tell you this to your face.
I believe that all these demonstrations from Cairo to Tripoli and beyond are inspired by the American and Allied success in making Iraq and Afghanistan candidates for freedom in the future.
What do you think?
Whoops.
I forgot he's either nodding in agreement or running off the road.
I would love to know.
In fact, let's find what everybody else thinks.
In fact, let's head out to Los Angeles.
Bob, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you, sir?
Hello, Mark.
I enjoy it when you're on the program there.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I wanted to chime in on this.
I feel that, you know, Qaddafi's not a good guy, and he's had a tyrannical regime for a number of years.
But when we went into Iraq, he kind of changed his tune.
I think he decided he better get on what he considered the winning side at that time, and he gave up some of his nuclear aspirations, and he pretty much turned that over to where we weren't concerned with him.
And so for the past number of years here, say 10 years or so, he's pretty much behaved himself over there.
And one of the things that I look at is all the countries over there, these governments toppling one after another.
And if you listen to the mainstream news media, you would have them pushing the point that it's just all coincidental and they're all just wanting liberty and freedom just like us.
And I'm sure everybody wants that.
The majority of people everywhere in the world.
But the thing that I see is Iran's the big player over there right now.
Iran through Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood.
And, you know, it was pointed out when that Egypt thing happened that a lot of the signs held by the demonstrators are written in English, which didn't make a whole lot of sense, does it?
But the other thing is the only, I heard some commentator speak to it, and it makes sense.
The Muslim Brotherhood's been around for years, but it has ties with radical, you know, fundamentalist groups like Hezbollah that's controlled by Iran.
And I'm thinking, you know, a couple countries fall, the regime's topple.
Yeah, you could see maybe coincidence.
But when you're talking about all the numbers that we're talking about now, and you start looking at Saudi Arabia, and I understand in the Shiite sections of Saudi Arabia that they're having trouble over there now, and they're having riots in the street and stuff.
Okay, that's and Saudi Arabia is Sunni, most of it.
There's a certain part over there that's Shi'i, like the Iranians.
And I believe this thing, I would, especially since Libya, Gaddafi's held back here over the last 10 years and kind of decided maybe not to get on our team, but just to mind his P's and Q's, I don't think this is the time to go in there and weaken them to the point.
And we've said we don't have any laws.
Do me a favor.
I've followed every one of the 12 sentences that you've begun.
It's like listening to me.
Finish one of them for me in the following way.
Bottom line for me, does this make because I think you have properly identified the complexity, and there's a point I want to piggyback on there.
So generally speaking, how does all that you've just laid out with a fine amount of skill there, how does it make you feel as we go into what could be a spring and a summer of American military involvement in Libya?
I don't think it's a good idea.
So we should have, so the British, so the British and the French, so we should have, we should have said to the British and the French, knock yourselves out.
We're going to lay back here.
We're going to be more cautious.
That would have been your wish?
Yeah, I'll tell you what, Mark, the most I would have done in that situation is maybe imposed a no-fly zone just to make sure he didn't.
Yeah, but gosh.
But a no-fly zone is a huge deal.
Oh, I just would have just imposed a no-fly zone.
A no-fly zone is an enormous thing.
Oh, I hear you.
That's a very, very in-your-face thing to do.
It is not a peripheral, low-risk, low-cost thing.
A no-fly zone is a big, big bat to swing.
Well, just let me say this.
The bigger issue here is Iran and what's going on in the Middle East.
And that is huge.
It is all interrelated.
And that, and that makes it even harder to know exactly how to feel about the whole thing.
Bob, let me thank you enormously.
As we go into the break, here's the deal.
And here's some sentences that are true.
You ready?
Sentences that are true from the guest host.
Number one, of all the nations over there, some are led by outright evil people.
Some are led by folks we can sort of deal with.
And some are led by folks who are in a mushy middle who probably wake up each morning and try to figure out whether they want to be pro- or anti-democracy, pro or anti-America, pro or anti-Israel.
Here's number one.
Here's number two.
Find me a crowd of protesters in Cairo a little while back, in Tripoli this past couple of weeks, in Bahrain, in Yemen.
Find me a crowd of protesters.
They are not monolithic.
They are not all singing from the same hymnal.
You could pluck somebody from a crowd who wants Jeffersonian Western-style democracy, standing shoulder to shoulder with someone who longs for The benevolent authoritarianism of Hezbollah.
And then that guy could be shoulder to shoulder with somebody who's just looking to clear the deck so that al-Qaeda can come in and make the most of the vacuum.
It is impossible to know how to feel about these protest movements.
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Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Monday, March 21.
I'm Mark Davis from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas.
Rush is back tomorrow.
Lots of Libya here in our first hour, and we'll blend it in with some other stuff next hour and just see where you want to go on maybe some nukes, some Japan by then by that.
Wow, nukes.
What do you mean?
Power or using them as a weapon in what may be yet another war theater.
Well, okay, maybe both.
And budget battle stuff.
Lord knows there's plenty going.
And given Monday is quite the talk show cornucopia, so we'll cover it all.
1-800-282-2882 as we head next into Houston.
And Lucas.
Hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you doing?
Doing great.
All right.
Yeah, I used to be a, I guess my point is, I guess I don't want to use the term chickenhawk because it's so loaded, but a lot of chickenhawks tend to be on the right, but tend to want to go do things.
Would you define the term, please?
Define that slanderous term for me.
Chickenhawk?
I don't know what he uses loaded, but it usually means somebody who talks a big game and doesn't actually want to go put their money where their mouth is, right?
And by that, what do you mean by put their money where their mouth is?
Does it mean someone who favors America as a strong military force for good, but has not yet or does not plan to put on the uniform and dodge bullets himself?
Yes.
What a load of steaming BS that is.
And I want the rest of your opinion.
But right there, the notion that one must actually participate in a war in order to have opinion about a war.
You live in Houston, right?
Are you a cop?
No.
Then you have no right to have any opinion about crime in Houston.
That's how stupid that chickenhawk thing is.
That's how stupid that chickenhawk thing is.
Now go from there.
All right.
Well, that's not exactly what I meant.
I guess I shouldn't have agreed to.
Maybe you weren't as obnoxious as I thought.
I apologize.
If so, I do.
Anyway, go ahead.
The thing is that it's there needs to be an acknowledgement of we.
Oftentimes we need to do this.
It drove me crazy.
I was overseas in OIF-1, and people would say, we need to do this, and we need to bomb, and we need to invade, and we.
And I was like, hey, step your boots on and let's go.
What is this we talk about?
But stop it.
Dude, stop it.
It is we.
If you're, and God bless you for your service, thank you so much.
But at the time you were there, I'm sitting here in Texas doing a talk show.
Of course it's we.
It is America doing it.
You're the soldier and God bless you.
But when America does something, America does something.
It is we.
That is the proper pronoun.
I guess the other half of that is it used to, I guess it used to be, all right?
World War II, you drove a little less to Save Rover to send overseas to the troops.
You ate a little less meat so the troops overseas had some meat every now and again.
Nowadays, what's the real sacrifice?
You see, absolutely right.
Absolutely.
Yeah, after 9-11, you're so correct on that.
After, you know, in World War II, I mean, my parents told me stories where you couldn't get aluminum foil, couldn't get a chocolate bar, couldn't get a Plymouth.
After 9-11, what are we supposed to do?
Buy a refrigerator.
Go shop at Best Buy or the terrorists win.
Completely, completely right.
I need to scoot it.
I've so, so honor your service and thank you.
99 of the last hundred people who've dropped that chicken hawk thing, though, have had exactly that agenda, which I will have no part of.
All righty, Mark Davis in for rush.
Back in a moment on the EIB Network.
Okay, you think we're having fun so far?
Wait until I add another delicious layer in the next hour.
You got like 45 seconds before I got to get out of this hour.
So rather than give a caller short shrift, I'll just tell you, hi, Mark Davis in for rush.
And when we come back, we'll take the calls from some people who are, again, giving us loads of good idea, bad idea on being involved in Libya.
But then we've got to go to that pesky War Powers Act.
Is that thing even constitutional?
And a consistency check did President, what kind of hoops did President Bush have to jump through?
What kind of hoops do you want President Obama to jump through in terms of committing troops with or without certain levels of consulting Congress?
All of this and more coming up on the Monday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
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