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May 30, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 30, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hiya, folks.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we uh we we need to open the program today by congratulating President Obama.
President Obama has done something extremely effective, and when he does, this needs to be pointed out.
President Obama has continued the Bush policies of keeping a military presence in the Middle East.
He did not scrub the mission to get bin Laden.
In fact, it may be that President Obama single-handedly came up with the technique in order to pull this off.
You see, the military wanted to go in there and bomb, like they always do.
They wanted to go in there and drop missiles and launch uh bombs, a number of uh of totally destructive uh techniques here.
But President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the special forces.
No one else thought of that.
President Obama, not us not a single intelligence advisor, not a single national security advisor, not a single military advisor came up with the idea of using SEAL Team Six or any of the special forces.
Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth, leaving no evidence of anything after the mission.
But President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here.
He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death.
Obama alone understood the aftermath, alone understood that there would be doubting Thomas's if the place was just obliterated and no evidence was to be found.
Not one member of the United States.
Well, according to news reports, not one member of the military, not General Petraeus, nobody in the Intel community, nobody had the slightest idea of going in there and using special forces.
It was President Obama, single-handedly and alone, who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of uh Osama bin Laden.
He kept the Bush policies alive, keeping a military presence in the Middle East, allowing the military to finish the job that they started nearly ten years ago.
What a great testament it is in these times for an element of the United States to perform as designed.
SEAL Team Six to Special Operations Guys.
What a magnificent moment for them.
A brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed operation.
And it's a very uplifting thing to realize that such precision can still be accomplished in this country.
I was last night I was as proud as I have been to the U.S. military in I don't know how long.
And I and I I remain so today.
I toyed with the idea of opening the program with military music.
Felt so happy and proud about this.
And the the uh this was just just from a 40-minute operation.
Get in, get it, and get out.
We've got I mean, there are a lot of questions about it.
Burial at C. The DNA supposedly takes a week to get, but we've got it already.
The proof positive it was.
Uh it's it's a um it's a very, very, very important and positive day for the U.S. military.
I've got a lot of uh uh press accounts here, by the way.
What did a number of things in terms of show prep today?
Uh I went back and looked at some of the stories that have been published in the past about where people thought bin Laden was, whether he was still alive, whether or not he's been dead.
It's interesting to go back and look at a number of uh ways, the any number of ways the story of Osama bin Laden has been covered since 9-11.
Reports that he was killed in Torabora, reports that he's been dead all of these eight years.
It's an interesting thing to go back when you have the benefit of research to go back and look at all this.
And I've got a stack of things like this.
One of the things that I want to point out here, Obama, sorry, Osama is dead.
And the fact is he has long ceased to be a commander.
The stories that we're getting are that this mansion, and believe me, I've seen the pictures, it's not a mansion.
I mean, it's a it's an enlarged hut where this guy was living.
It was a big hut, but it was not a mansion.
It cost a million dollars.
What we're hearing is that there were no communications in or out, that he required couriers.
And guess what?
It was again Obama who deserves praise of continuing the Bush policies at Guantanamo Bay.
I told you that this administration would never close Guantanamo Bay.
And it was the intelligence we gathered among the detainees at Guantanamo Bay that led us to this enlarged hut that's called a mansion outside uh Islamabad.
Couriers were needed by Obama to receive Osama to receive and send information.
In order to keep him alive, in order to keep him safe, they couldn't allow any communication.
There was no television, there was no internet, there were no telephones, no satellite, nothing in or out.
It required couriers.
Detainees who may have been waterboarded, and again, we need to never forget that President Obama deserves praise for continuing the policies established by George W. Bush, which led to the uh learning, the acquisition of this intel that led us to the enlarged hut in Pakistan that led to the assassination of bin Laden last night.
The detainees, many of them started talking, and the couriers were identified.
The couriers were then tracked and followed by intelligence operatives.
And it was learned as far back as last summer where bin Laden was.
Last summer it was suggested that we go in and get bin Laden.
And Obama, even then, knowing full well, and the only one in the room knowing that the military's way, going in there and bombing this thing wasn't the way to work.
Thank God for President Obama.
If he had not been there, who knows what would have happened.
It was only Obama who understood the need to get DNA to prove that this was bin Laden that we had assassinated.
So the information, the intel from captured detainees at Guantanamo led to the discovery of the courier system that kept bin Laden informed of what's going on.
I told you that this regime would never close down Guantanamo Bay.
It was simply too valuable a military asset.
So, ladies and gentlemen, regardless what you think, and I know there my email is filled with people who saying they want to see the long-form death certificate.
I mean, there's uh uh just uh the the deathers now, that's the new term.
There are uh uh uh a number of people.
Well, it might have been Khalid Sheikh Muhammad himself who gave up the information about the couriers.
It might have been Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and ladies and gentlemen, while Osama is dead, he had long since stopped being a key commander because he had no way to issue orders.
He was a figurehead.
He'd been taken out of the game because of the worldwide manhunt to find him.
The actual planner, and we know this, the actual planner who drew up the blueprints, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad is still alive.
He's at Club Githmo.
That is something that is 100% under Obama's control.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could have been put before a military commission long, long ago.
They wanted a show trial for Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in New York City.
They still do, in fact.
But this is an occasion about which to declare victory.
And it is a victory brought about by the policies of the Bush and Cheney administration.
Policies that President Obama saw fit to continue to the end, keeping our troops in the Middle East, a heightened military presence, unafraid to use the special ops.
Unafraid.
You go back and look at some of these stories in the past that I was telling you about.
I got many stories where Obama said, I'm not going to make him a martyr as a candidate for the presidency in 2008.
Obama says, I'm not going to make him a martyr.
I would not kill him.
I would capture him.
Well, reality has a change, a strange way sometimes of maturing people.
And Obama realized that capturing now what to do with him.
The Saudis did not want his body.
Nobody wanted him.
So we buried him at sea, which is one of the final options in Islam that's permitted if all else fails.
We don't know what sea, but the last thing they wanted was to establish a grave site.
That could be a destination for pilgrims, if you will, for the ages.
So the question of where is Osama bin Laden also a brilliant, brilliant strategy.
Executed by this regime, utilizing the policies laid down by Bush and Cheney.
Time to declare victory.
It really is.
This is a major moment.
Even though bin Laden was no longer an effective leader.
In fact, our buddies at uh at Stratford, a global intelligence website, the tactical irrelevance of Osama bin Laden's death, they point out that there's not much he could do to leave.
He couldn't get orders in or out.
He'd become a figurehead.
And so, in terms of the war on terror, it will go on.
Terrorism will still happen.
There's another story here.
This is from six days ago in an Australian newspaper that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed says that there is a nuclear device planted somewhere in the world that will go off in the event Osama bin Laden is captured or killed.
A major nuclear device.
Having seen this, it was six days ago.
I didn't, it's in an Australian newspaper.
We'll go through this stack and share with you some of the stuff that we uh that we have dredged up.
Al Jazeera seems to be um uh a network here that many in Washington approve of and are quoting liberally from with uh with great credibility.
Also CNN back in October of 2010.
NATO official bin Laden deputy hiding in Northwest Pakistan, CNN knew via intel from NATO where bin Laden was months ago, all the way back in October of 2010, and we're told now that so did Obama.
And the military had plans that Obama alone knew would not survive the aftermath.
That Obama alone knew would not pass the smell test.
Here it is, Australia Nine News, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks warned that Al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe, which will unleash a nuclear hailstorm if bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed.
The terror group also planned to make 9-11-style attack on a London's Heathrow airport by crashing a hijacked airliner into one of the terminals, the files showed.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told Guantanamo Bay interrogators the terror group would detonate the nuclear device if the Al-Qaeda chief was captured or killed.
This according to files released by WikiLeaks.
All this is in a WikiLeaks dump.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a self-professed mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, has been held at Club Gitmo since 2006, is to be tried in a military court at the U.S. Naval Base In Cuba over these attacks.
A brief timeout, my friends, will come back and continue here as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence right here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Let me give you some history.
Ladies and gentlemen, that will put some of this in perspective.
And we're all being inundated here with uh information.
We're all being inundated with news reports that raised questions as well as answer them.
We've all seen President Obama last night on television announcing his single-handed involvement in securing the death of Osama bin Laden.
We know that it was Obama who called off the bombing, insisted on the special forces.
In fact, it was Obama who assembled the team.
He said so.
I, me, my three of the most used words in President Obama's media appearance last night.
Not a single intelligence advisor, not a single national security advisor, military advisor came up with the idea.
Not one of them.
Not one of them, according to Obama, had the ability to understand the need to get DNA.
This was Obama's message last night.
He said that, quote, I assembled a team.
He refused to give the team the green light for the last three months.
Because the team wanted to go in and create Mayhem and Obama alone.
Barack Obama alone knew the right way to do this.
Slight problem.
See, we love the U.S. military here.
Cannot tell you how proud everybody in my house was last night over this.
Just especially with the status of the country in so many ways.
For that realization, comfort derived from knowing that they work, that they are still the best, that something in this country is still the best.
And that it is the U.S. military.
That it is the best.
That a part of America is still the best.
I can't tell you how happy and proud personally that made me.
Now, these teams that Obama said he assembled.
They fall under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command.
They have been operating for almost 30 years.
The Joint Special Operations Command is comprised of Delta, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
These are the guys who fly the helicopters in the dead of night 50 feet off the ground.
Marine Force reconnaissance SEAL Team Six, First Special Operations Wing, the 24th Special Tactics Squadron, a few other support elements.
The CIA is also heavily involved, especially those from the clandestine service.
That team, that organization, has been assembled and operating in Iraq and Afghanistan for almost 10 years.
This is the same group that brought down Saddam Hussein.
This is the same group that found Saddam Hussein in the hole.
Actually, the CIA found him.
They've been tracking him for months with the help of some Delta guys on the ground.
This is Obama, we're talking about Osama, and uh this team that went in last night was a mixture of these various units.
Guarantee you, they have been assembled and operating in Iraq and Afghanistan for almost 10 years.
And this is why I say that I want to sincerely congratulate Obama despite his words, Despite every indication he gave verbally of disassembling this because he wanted America to be respected again.
Despite his promises and words to tear apart this team, he continued it.
Obama does deserve to be graduated for congratulated for continuing the operations of this team, keeping a military presence in the Middle East.
But he did not assemble it.
When they went in and got Saddam, what it was the Rangers went in first.
They blocked the two roads that led into the area, then a mixture of SEALs and Delta went in and actually grabbed Saddam.
It's the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command who deserve all the credit for this.
And President Obama deserves credit for not disassembling them.
For keeping them in the loop, because this that happened last night has been the policy of this country for ten years.
It is a great day for America.
But the guys who did the heavy lifting are the guys who wear the uniform.
And they're not demanding lifelong pensions and health care demands today.
Okay, we're back and we go to the phones on the EIB network.
Uh Lavonia, Michigan.
Ken, you're next.
Great to have you with us here on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yeah, thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Um, as we applaud the uh death of uh Osama bin Laden.
I think it's uh important that we uh don't forget that if we had fought this war on terror, the way that the Democrats wanted it fought, uh he would be alive today.
Uh he would be sitting in his little hut uh just relaxing and taking.
What exactly uh you mean by that can uh if we'd have fought the war the way the Democrats want.
Well, from the very beginning, the Democrats were not on board with uh uh George Bush.
I mean, uh they didn't support uh Guantanamo.
Uh they didn't support uh the the questioning of uh of the um people that we had there.
Um they just were not uh supportive of uh of what we did.
Well, that's interesting.
This again, you know, when I uh point this out, every time, and folks, I literally, since the day Obama was immaculated, we had that executive order wherein Obama was gonna close Club Gitmore and I said no, he's not.
And even trusted, loyal, devoted members of my staff, what are you talking about?
Of course he's gonna shut it down.
He's a lib.
He hates it.
No, he's not gonna shut it down.
He's not gonna close Guantanamo Bay.
I insist, they thought that I was being blinded by my own partisan ideological uh uh commitments.
And I was making an assessment based on, I mean, I know these people, I know who they are.
They will happily engineer the defeat of the United States military when they are not in power.
But it's a whole different ball game when they are.
I mean, you people on the left, uh those of you who are huge Obama supporters, you realize what you sound like today.
Here's David Rodum Gurgen.
Obama walks taller today.
Let me grab, let me look at some of these somebody.
I passed over them.
I wasn't gonna air them.
Let me go back and show you what I mean here.
Um, let's see, grab uh.
Well, we played number five.
Here's number six and number seven.
First off is John King of CNN.
Last night during a uh a special report, breaking news special report, Wolf Blitzer spoke with John King about the news that Osama bin Laden was dead, and this was what John King said.
Tonight, Barack Obama, the president of the United States, will walk into the White House briefing room and deliver a statement that you know, of course, George W. Bush would have loved to have delivered during his presidency because he was the president on 9-11.
Okay, so you look through the prism of how does this affect Obama's real life?
Whoa, man, would Bush have loved to give this president?
Remember, when 9-11 happened, these are the people who wished that it had happened when Bill Clinton was in office.
Don't forget this.
They wanted Bill Clinton to have an opportunity for greatness that was thrust into Bush's lap.
They were jealous.
And now here's John King talking, well, all feeling their oats now, after After how many years of the Democrats attempting to undermine this very mission.
Here comes John King now saying, hey, hey, hey, hey, buddy boy.
This is the exact speech old Bush would love to give.
The nyan yin-ny.
Bush can't give this speech.
It was Obama that captured Osama.
Yeah, Bush couldn't pull it off.
Osama got by Obama, Obama walking taller.
This is.
Now, those of you on the left who have bought into this notion that your guy, he's not a militarist.
He doesn't want military victory.
He knows the United States military is the focus of evil.
And what is he doing out there?
Now, well, it's re-election time.
Now he's got to be the biggest armchair general in the world.
Why he himself ordered the pulling of the trigger.
The Democrat Party fought the Patriot Act over libraries and other nonsense.
They fought these warrantless wiretap searches.
They fought every effort to gather intelligence to find not just bin Laden, but other terrorists, and to learn of any plans they had.
The Democrat Party, while out of power, fought all of that.
They didn't want the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to be called enemy combatants.
They didn't want them held indefinitely.
They went to the Supreme Court to get them released.
They wanted them to all have ACLU lawyers.
They did not want to surge in troops in Iraq.
They accused Petraeus of lying before he had even testified before a joint congressional committee.
They fought Bush over military budgets.
They called our troops terrorists, murderers, rapists, Nazis, accused them of needlessly killing citizens.
And look who it is thumping their chests today.
The mindless Joy Behar on the View actually said cancel a 2012 election.
So I guess all of a sudden she's for killing terrorists now.
See, when they're in power, when they're in charge, all that stuff goes out the window.
All that anti-military stuff and all that we've got to lose stuff, that goes out the window.
They are more than happy to secure a defeat for this country to hang that around the neck of a Republican president.
They're not going to sit there and secure defeat for themselves.
No matter what you think.
So all of you members of the anti-war left, listening to all this chest thumping today, and how proud the regime is of what it's done using the special ops.
Killing a human shield, protecting Obama, a woman, all of the atrocities you've accused the Bush administration of wanting to do here they've happened.
And you're out there applauding.
Oh yeah, big man.
Barack Obama.
See, he's not a wimp.
See, Barack Obama, he's a huge leader.
He's a great guy.
See, you guys had him all wrong.
Baghdad Jim McDermott.
Other Democrats went to Iraq to be human shields for Saddam Hussein.
These are the people that did anything they could to undermine the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And now look at them.
So I'm curious how you people on the left feel today.
Do you really feel as proud and chest thumping as uh as as Obama is and the uh all the Democrats in Washington celebrating this?
Because this is the kind of atrocity that, you know, you uh accuse Bush of engaging in.
Osama bin Laden killed eight years to the day of George W. Bush's mission accomplished speech.
Now compare and contrast those reports then with what we're getting now.
If you just went for the news media loads, the war is over, it's finished now.
We got bin Laden, and that's it.
Time to get out of Afghanistan now.
Time to get out of Iraq.
We got bin Laden, and that's it.
And these journalists, these news readers, you know, they always tend to make fools of themselves.
When these late breaking stories occur, Wolf Blitzer said that all Americans will now remember forever where they were when they heard that Osama bin Laden was dead.
John King on CNN was just babbling on and on about what a momentous event this was.
And we all know that if George W. Bush had been in the White House when this event happened and had made the announcement, why the investigations would just be ramping up now.
And you and I know what form they would be taking.
Is the lead story would be what took him so long.
Is this all for his re-election?
Is he using it as a prop?
How long is he known?
Is he really dead?
Let's see the DNA, let's see the body.
Where the photo, all of this stuff.
There would there would be no belief, no extended, there certainly wouldn't have been any happiness.
And there wouldn't have been any celebratory mood in the media.
You and I, you and I know this.
David Ignatius, audio summit number 10, Mike.
This morning on PMS NBC, Joe Scarborough said, David Ignatius, when did the president shift from candidate Obama that had one set of beliefs as far as foreign policy goes to commander-in-chief Obama, who became a much tougher commander-in-chief, and anybody would have suspected.
So Bob see, he's he's risen above it.
He's tougher than anybody would have ever thought.
He made the shift as he became president.
I was struck last night watching him that this is the commander-in-chief, an increasingly self-confident one.
Uh you learn on any job, and I think we'd we'd all say that Obama's performance in the first year in office was sometimes uncertain.
Except on these intelligence-related activities, from very early on, he decided that he was not only going to continue the predator drone attacks over the tribal areas of Pakistan, he was going to step them up significantly from what they'd been during the Bush administration.
Uh his willingness to conduct unilateral operations, as they're called, and that's what we saw yesterday in Pakistan.
So they're just overwhelmed with uh with how much Obama has grown since he was immaculated.
Which obviously means he didn't have a clue when he was elected.
But look how he's grown.
And he even Ignatius, Mr. Ignatius making my point.
He's now grown into commander-in-chief.
How?
By keeping and expanding the Bush administration policies.
And for that, he deserves to be congratulated.
I didn't say it as many times as it takes for people to understand what I mean by that.
Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah, the uh the media would be saying if this had happened with the Bush administration, we would be hearing about how Bush put uh troops at risk for a PR stunt.
That Obama, sorry, that Osama was no longer an important figure anyway.
And uh this was just Bush being a cowboy, knowing full well he had to do something to ratchet up his pretty poor polling numbers.
Oh, yeah, this would have been no military solution to this.
They would have ripped this to shreds.
If this were George W. Bush.
No question about it.
But look at this from the New York Times.
But as Mr. Obama delivered his remarks, and the crowds continue to gather outside the White House, there was little question that his presidency had forever been changed by snaring bin Laden.
The search for him has played out over Obama's maturation as a national political figure in the last decade.
Obama's maturation as a political figure in the last ten years.
Next will be a story in the New York Times, C, C, this is why he got the Nobel Peace Prize.
By the way, speaking speaking of you um uh Obama supporters, why aren't we hearing anything from the 9-11 truthers?
The 9-11 truthers, they're the people thinking Bush did all this.
Obama's Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with this.
Bush brought down the World Trade Center.
The truthers, where are they?
What is their reaction to this news?
Where's Rosie O'Donnell?
All the other big Obama supporters who are also truthers.
Media probably too busy mocking the berthers to get around to the truthers.
But where are they?
All this celebration, all those leftists who believe that bin Laden was a fall guy.
Now their leader is going out and killed bin Laden and is being credited as finally achieving competent leader status.
Look what it has taken.
For Obama to be praised as competent, the killing of another man.
That's something the left never signs up for.
Who's next?
Ron Konkuma in New York.
John High, great to have you, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Megaditto is from a conservative trapped in the liberal enclave we call Long Island, New York.
Yeah, yeah, boy, I feel for you.
Hey, listen, uh, first uh first of all, I want to say I'm very proud of our military and uh and our country, but uh I can't help to think that the killing of bin Laden during the Obama regime's tenure pretty much does make Obama a lock or a shoe-in for re-election.
It does.
That's what I mean.
Where am I going wrong?
You think he's a shoe-in.
Well, after this, you know, I mean, he's got the media behind him, the media's gonna keep playing this up.
This is gonna be his uh you know, this is gonna be his his campaign.
Uh you know, he got a uh Bin Laden.
Now wait justice.
Are you being speaking of truthers?
Are you being truthful with me?
Are you a seminar caller in disguise?
No, I am not a seminar caller.
You are not a seminar caller in disguise.
No.
So you're in the throes of depression then.
Yeah, pretty much.
I mean, I and I wanted to take this as good news, but it's just it's it's good news.
It's a good thing to happen, but bad timing.
Uh well, uh, I don't go along with that.
I I I think I think that uh, as I said at the top of the program, I was I was swelling with pride last night that there's something still, something about this country that's the best.
Oh, yeah, I think it's a good thing.
And it was on display.
This is this is uh this is great.
This is achievement.
It was um the product of a lot of long committed hard work.
President deserves to be congratulated for maintaining the Bush policies here that enabled all this to happen.
But man, it's only it's only May of 2011.
There is so much that's gonna happen between now and uh in November of 2012.
What if there's another terrorist attack?
What good's this gonna have done that?
What if look at you're gonna have what what all this is you know, we're we're in a euphoric moment, now a lot of people are, but this is gonna pass.
All these events always do.
Uh look, do you do you think, let me ask you this.
You not trying to trick you.
Sure, go ahead.
Do you think that it was the Oklahoma City bombing that re-elected Bill Clinton in 1996?
Um the way he reacted to it.
Yeah, I mean, he reacted well to it, but I don't think that helped him.
Okay, well, you but you do think killing Obama that sealed it, it's over now.
That that's what that's what it is.
Well, it's not this is not gonna have one change positively.
It's not gonna change anything about the impact of Obama's economic policies.
It's not gonna change what his health care law is gonna do to people.
It is not going to change our debt situation, it is not going to change uh the price of gasoline or energy or its availability.
None of the realities that people face each and every day are at all affected by this.
In fact, you could say, and you'd be truthful in saying it, that as a terror leader and somebody who posed an ongoing threat.
Obama's been Osama has been irrelevant for many years as he's been forced to hide out with no direct communications.
Right, I agree, but now it's relevant and they're making it relevant, you know.
Ah, but the media's always loved him.
Oh, yeah.
The media has always um uh the the one look at it this way.
The what uh uh uh Obama has just lost something that's pretty important.
Remember now, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri and Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad at election time they put out talking points that sounded just like the Democrat Party.
So, in a way, you could say that Obama has lost a voice for his re-election.
Back after this.
Well, folks, look, one thing, uh, and you have to say this.
I mean, if you're talking about the impact of the Osama assassination on the 2012 election, you have to say that uh President Obama will no longer have to worry about or fear any endorsement from Osama, bin Laden, as uh John Kerry was endorsed by Osama in uh October of 2004.
And that's something now that won't be a factor.
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