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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 247 Podcast.
So how's everybody?
Mark Davis here from the Texas branch of things in Limbaugh Land from the uh from the George W. Bush neighborhood of North Texas from News Talk 820 AM 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 still 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 I hope you had an interesting weekend keeping track of the news.
Why don't we uh ladle out some of the things that have been going on?
And and as Rush would do, and as 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 all those triple layers there of pastry will make quite the uh the tasty talk show delicacy.
You know how this goes.
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So here's what I have on my plate of any time that you and I are together here in uh in the 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, uh 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 uh hand me your answers, just hand them to the front of the class at 1800-282-2882.
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 and and I 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, I'm gonna America can't be the world's policeman.
Well, re really, then who will be?
You know, and uh and no, we can't be the world's policeman 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.
Uh I just wanted to have a particularly busy police department.
I love Philadelphia, no angry calls.
Um, but 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 gills with people who want to kill us.
Not every, you know, 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 uh 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.
You know, 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 is uh an unbearable evil who's just gotta go.
Well, what's been the narrative on Qaddafi?
After we bombed the holy stuffing out of him, you know, in the mid eighties, it's like it actually taught him a lesson.
Qaddafi was for the nineties and the aughts.
You know, 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, what 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 Qaddafi rebels.
Lovely.
Being anti Qaddafi seems to be a good thing to be.
But there are a lot of reasons to be anti Qaddafi.
You can be a good hearted humanitarian and freedom lover and be anti Qaddafi.
You know who else is excited to see him go?
Al Qaeda.
Know who else is excited to see that vacuum in Libya?
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad 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 Qaddafi Libyan picture would be.
We still don't know what the post Mubaric Egyptian picture is going to be.
Sometimes you have to actually wait and see what happens.
So I'm I am fine with the no fly zone.
I am fine with a coalition of which we are a part, in the 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.
Thank you.
And it 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.
You know, America should have been upfront 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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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 Qaddafi 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, etc., 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 Qaddafi 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 uh kind of funny.
Hesitancy, reticence, skepticism, that's fine.
There's 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 uh a guy I'm pleased, anybody who has, you know, the the uniform of the United States and this much stuff hanging off of it, I'm in I'm inclined to respect.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, tried to make I think every Sunday morning show, talking about the tone that seemed to come from him was, well, you know, we're gonna be in here for a little bit, don't anybody freak out, then we're gonna be able to, you know, we're gonna hand it over, you know, to like 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 uh, yeah, we'll 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 you know heavy handed, we can't look, you know, colonial.
Did we make Iraq the fifty first 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.
We've got you've got to level a lot of things before you level a playing field, trying to literally level the uh the 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 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 cow uh 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 uh you know this president to do, which is a doubly complicated what do you want any president to do is one thing.
What do you want this guy to do is 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.
Um it's it's been another reminder that we haven't had uh 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 uh schizo hissy fit.
Oh, we hate nukes, we hate nukes.
But wait a minute, it's 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, uh less enthusiastic about nuclear power.
Uh I don't think we're going to have uh, you know, 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, Infor Rush, 1800-282-2882, 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.
You're listening to the EIB Network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show.
With all uh sobriety and seriousness, uh it is time once again to uh engage in that vast national debate called Is This Worth It?
Mark Davis filling in for us here in Dallas Fort Worth.
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Uh through all of the Sunday shows and some of the debate of the last week as the likelihood of uh of American involvement has increased.
I've heard people say again and again and again and again and again and again, uh it's another shooting war.
It's like our third war, uh because you've got uh Iraq, you've got Afghanistan, uh, 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 uh in some cases, regimes in their many forms.
Sometimes uh they yield terrorism, sometimes fascism, sometimes uh oppression of various other types.
Uh and and I have never wanted to lapse into the logic that says, well, these people just can't handle democracy.
That 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 ninety one, in in the Balkans, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now in in Libya.
Uh w we're 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.
Uh is there a selfish interest in this?
I guess you could call it that.
It's called fewer uh try to create societies where there are fewer people who want to kill us.
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Bob, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
Um are you?
Yeah, I just want to say that uh you know, I think President Obama is is just brilliant.
Because he's making these uh other nations like in Europe thinking it's their idea to get involved in um 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 sixties hippie saying we gotta save the world.
We're we're President Ob you know, and trying to get everybody else involved where President Obama has allowed these other nations to uh you know, to make it their idea.
Well, and can I get some clarification?
Because to me, th the British and 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 uh Pied Piper tune from Barack Obama that the British and the French are simply kind of following his story.
Strike it's not a pipe piper tune, it's just that Obama hasn't you know, he hasn't said, oh, let's go to war.
Let's go, you know, like we gotta do something.
We gotta you know, he wasn't the first voice to come out Like a cheerleader saying, we gotta do something, we gotta do something.
Instead, he let these other nations and you gotta take the lead.
Yeah, take the lead and let them let them let them see that the U.S. See, this is what I think is brilliant.
See, let letting them it's almost like boosting someone up their town welfare.
It's saying, look, if you're not gonna do it, then it's not gonna get done.
Well, Bob, I tell you what, I 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 Farage.
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 uh 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 and it is because of their steadfast liberalism.
There are also those who would say they oppose American intervention in 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 uh it's it's kryptonite.
It's once again America, the American military as a force for good around the world, uh, don't like that.
That's what gets your Michael Moore, your Dennis Kucinich, your Jerry Nadler, uh, your Sean Penn gets them all worked up.
But then there is a there's a good slice of conservatism that that says uh uh uh to be conservative about our military resources, and by that it means to conserve them, uh to have the bar set really, really stratospherically high uh before we commit blood and treasure to another world trouble spot.
I I think that the question is fairly asked uh 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 is we go to some more of your calls.
My answer to that, tell me if you like it or not, is that every 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 Mid East, a safer America.
I know you could almost, you know, scare up the the fife and drum music behind me on that.
I I know that's there is a lot of of generalities and platitudes in there.
I know.
But there's there's a reason why something I think becomes a platitude, and that is because it's uh it's a familiar and noble theme.
I uh so that is why, not without reservation and not without condition.
Why I'm why I sit here this morning looking at America's involvement in uh 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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How are you, sir?
How are you, sir?
Great.
I'll I was just having a discussion with this with a friend of mine.
It was about the same uh issue you're having right now or discussion.
And our 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 point.
There is no dealing with people of that mindset.
He uh 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 gonna change we can get he said as he was there as a soldier a soldier's job is to kill period.
Right.
Right now, if we're trained to do that he 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 you know doing habitat for humanity Baghdad understand.
Yes.
But in the same token these are the same people that'll cut your head off just because of who you are.
How people let's let's examine let's examine what has happened and and I I don't begrudge him uh his opinion I certainly don't begrudge you yours you guys have served.
Are you kidding me?
I you know 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 but 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 seventy percent are people who really do want better for themselves who really do want to have constitutions
and hold elections and 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 uh desolate moonscape countries and that is what your friend uh 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 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 then I've I figured he's either uh nodding in agreement or running off the road.
Uh 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 when you're on the program there.
Thank you.
I wanted to uh wanted to chime in on this I feel that uh you know Qaddafi's not a not a good guy and he's 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 uh 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 um to where we weren't we weren't concerned with him.
And um it's over the past number of years here I say ten years or so he's pretty much behaved himself over there.
One of the things that I look at is all the countries over there these these governments topplin one after another, and uh if you listen to the mainstream news media, you'd have them you would have them pushing the 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.
You know, the the majority of people everywhere in the world.
But the thing that I see is Iran's the big player over there right now.
I ran through Hezbollah and uh the Muslim Brotherhood and you know it was pointed out when when that Egypt thing happened that uh 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 it makes sense.
The Muslim Brotherhood's been around for years, but it has ties with with radical, you know, fundamentalist groups like Hezbollah that's controlled by Iran.
And I'm thinking, you know, a couple countries fall the 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 in the sh in the Shiai sections of Saudi Arabia that they're having they're having uh trouble over there now and they're having riots in the street and stuff.
Okay that's and Saudi Arabia's Sunni most of it.
There's a certain part over there that's uh Shi I like the Iranians.
Right.
And I believe this thing I would especially since uh Libya Qaddafi's held back here over the last ten years and kind of decided maybe not to get on our team but just uh mind is 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're we've said we don't have any laws I I get do me do me a favor.
I've I followed uh every one of the twelve sentences that you've begun that's it's like listening to me.
Finish one of them for me in the following way.
G bottom line for me does this make because I I think if you have properly identified the complexity and there's a a point I want to piggyback on there but so so generally speaking how does all that you've just laid out with with a a uh 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.
Because 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 gonna lay back here.
We're gonna be more cautious.
That would have been your that would have been your wish yeah I'll tell you what Mark the the most I would have done in that situation is maybe imposed a no fly zone just to make sure he doesn't gosh but a no fly zone is a huge deal.
I 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 uh low risk, low cost thing a no fly zone is a is a big big bat to swing.
Well just let me say this the the bigger issue here is Iran and what's going on in the Middle East and that is huge.
It is all interrelated and you're and and that and that 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 and I I here's some sentences that are true.
You ready?
Sentences that are true from the guest host.
Number one in uh of 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 s probably wake up each morning and and try to figure out whether they want to be pro or anti-democracy, pro or anti-America, pro or anti-Israel is number one.
Here's number two find me a crowd of protesters in Cairo a little while back in Tripoli uh this past couple of weeks uh in in Bahrain and in in Yemen find me a crowd of protesters.
They are not monolithic.
They are they are not all singing from the same hymnal.
Uh y you could pluck somebody from a crowd who wants Jeffersonian Western style democracy standing shoulder to shoulder with someone who longs for the uh the the 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 how to feel about these protest movements.
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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 uh just see where you want to go on maybe some some nukes, some Japan by then by that I Wow, nukes, what do you mean?
Power or uh or using them as a weapon in what may be yet another war theater.
Uh well, okay, maybe both.
And uh budget battle stuff, Lord knows there's plenty going any given Monday is is quite the the talk show cornucopia, so we'll cover it all.
Uh 1800-282-2882, as uh 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 uh I guess my my my point is the f the f the I I guess I don't want to use the term chicken hawk because it's so loaded.
But there are a lot of chicken hawks tend to be on the right.
They tend to want to go do things.
Would you define the would you would you d define the term, please?
Define that slanderous term for me.
Chicken hawk?
Uh I thought it was loaded, but it it usually means somebody who who talks a big game and doesn't actually want to go put their money where their mouth is, right?
And by that, and what do you mean put 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 and and and dodge bullets himself?
Uh yes.
What a what a load of steaming BS that is.
Uh let me and I want the rest of your opinion, but right there, uh th the notion that one must actually uh uh participate in a war in order to have opinion about a war.
You live in Houston, right?
Uh are you are are you a cop?
No.
Then you have no right to have any opinion about crime in Houston.
That's how stupid that chicken hawk thing is.
That's how stupid that chicken hawk 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's it needs to be an acknowledgement of we.
Oftentimes we need to do this.
It drove me crazy.
I was over 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, Right.
Hey, strap your boots on and let's go.
What is this?
We talk.
But let's stop, 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, right?
World War II, you drove a little less to say rubber 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 what's the real sacrifice?
You think you've got to be able to do it.
Absolutely right.
Absolutely right.
Yeah, after 9-11.
You're compl 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.
Uh, you know, go go shop at Best Buy or the terrorists win.
Uh completely completely right.
Uh I I need to scoot it.
I I've so so honor your service and thank you.
Uh 99 of the last hundred people who've dropped that chicken hawk thing, though, have uh 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.
Yeah, like 45 seconds before I got to get out of this hour, so rather than give a 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 uh from some people who are again giving us loads of good idea, bad idea on being involved in Libya, but then we got to go to that pesky war powers act.
Is that thing even constitutional?
And a consistency check did President what what uh what uh 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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