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Oct. 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So, how many of you still doubt me that everything this administration does is a political calculation.
How many of you still doubt me on that?
So we now have an Ebola czar.
There was a clamor for an Ebola czar.
And we've got an Ebola czar.
And he doesn't know the first thing about medicine or health.
All he knows is fisticuff politics.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
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Okay, so the regime is making my case for me.
Here we have Ebola, and as Rand Paul said, it's much more contagious than even AIDS.
And AIDS was back in its heyday, the panic era of AIDS back in the 80s, it was deadly, it was considered deadly.
And as Rand Paul said, you get you get Ebola at a cocktail party.
It's different.
And yet the regime has nominated as well.
We don't, you know, I'm gonna give you a little secret, too.
We already have an Ebola Tsar.
Her name is Lori.
You just haven't heard anything about her.
We already have any Bola Tsar.
We have somebody who has been working for a lot of years preparing for just this kind of thing.
She has a budget, she has a staff, and you've not heard about her.
And you won't hear about her because the Ebola czar is a politician.
His name is Ron Klain.
Name ring a bell.
It's Al Gore exactly right.
Trusted and knowledgeable staff on the case.
Ron Klain, highly, it's K-L-A-I-N, highly regarded at the White House, a good manager.
Excellent relationships, both in the regime and on Capitol Hill.
His supervision of the allocation of funds in the Stimulus Act is respected in Washington.
This guy is a money spender.
Ron Klain was in charge of determining who got what in the porculus bill.
Ron Klain does political payoffs.
Ron Klain determined which unions got the money and how many shovel ready jobs and school repairs and road repairs didn't get the money.
He's pure 100% politics.
He has no experience in any health field.
Other than staying alive in Washington politics.
He has no experience in any health or medical related industry field, area of research, exploration, zip, zero nada.
Why, even Jacob Tepper at CNN indicates, acknowledges that Ron Klain does not have any.
Extensive background in health care.
But the job is required as uh is uh regarded as a managerial challenge, see.
Yeah, and you know why?
Because there's gonna be a lot of money devoted.
When you have a new czar, what's I mean you're gonna you're gonna be uh spending a lot of money.
You're gonna be appropriating funds.
Who better than the guy who doled out nearly a trillion dollars of Obama stimulus?
He does not have one day's worth of experience or background in health care.
He's a former chief of staff to Vice President Joe Bight Me.
And also to then Vice President Al Gore.
Ron Klain was one of those supervising the Al Gore effort in the Florida recount.
Here back in 2000.
At the moment, Ron Klain, currently president of Case Holdings and the General Counsel of Revolution.
That's an investment group.
He's a lawyer to boot.
He has clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court and headed up Al Gore's effort during, as I said here, the 2000 Florida recount.
Now, if we can trust the Wikipedia entry on this guy, it says that Ron Klain went to Harvard Law, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review.
So he's certain to be an expert on everything like Obama, because that's what Obama was.
He went on to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Byron Wright and worked on Capitol Hill, where he was the chief counsel of Joe Bitmey's Senate Judiciary Committee during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
Does that tell you anything?
I mean, if he worked for Bite Me during the Clarence Thomas hearings, it also means he is a conservative slash Republican attack dog.
Pure politics, folks.
I mean, I I over and over, time and time again, I practically bleed trying to get people to believe me that everything going on with this administration and the Democrat Party is political.
First foremost and always, whatever this crisis or any other crisis, the only I mean, really, the only thing that is really, really cared about is the political opportunity presented by the chaos.
Now they're going to do a great job of making you think that this czar is uh very, very compassionate guy and cares about you and your family, just like all the other Democrats do, and is going to do everything he can to stop the spread of Ebola.
He's gonna do everything he can to be fair about it.
He's gonna do everything he can to be politically correct about it.
But make no mistake, this is just pure politics.
You know, even the drive bys, we have a ban on MSNBC on this program.
But I got an email today from a friend saying, you know, even the sycophants and MSNBC are questioning why somebody who's so obviously drenched in politics is in charge of Ebola.
But we do have a czar.
I need to get to that fairly quickly.
Uh there's also yesterday, late afternoon, something that I a lot of people I think consider a bombshell came out in the Daily Beast.
And not to be confused at a Daily Caller.
Daily Caller is the website of Chatsworth Osborne Jr.
The Daily Beast is a left-wing website.
And here's the headline Insiders blame Rove for covering up Iraq's real weapons of mass destruction.
Starting in 2004, some members of the George W. Bush administration and Republican lawmakers began to find evidence of discarded chemical weapons in Iraq.
But when the information was brought up within the White House, the senior advisor Carl Rove told him, let it go.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
We don't want to look backward.
The issue of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was suddenly thrust back into the fore this week as there was a blockbuster New York Times report accusing the Bush administration of covering up American troops chemically induced wounds.
Now, the people familiar with the issue, both inside the Bush administration and out.
The blame for the cover-up falls on Carl Rove's shoulders.
There are a lot of insiders dumping on Carl Roe here for covering up the news that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
They weren't discovered shortly after the invasion.
It took a year or two, and Rove didn't want to look back.
He didn't want to revive the story.
He didn't, he did so goes the story here.
He just wanted to sweep it under the rug and continue to look forward.
Rove also has admitted.
Let me tell you why this is important.
Well, I mean, yeah, there are obvious reasons why it's important.
But I just tell you what resonates about this to me.
This business with ISIS and Obama being weak on terrorism.
The reason we're involved in ISIS, the reason all this is happening is because Obama, Obama, made tracks to get out of Iraq as quickly as he could after winning election.
And that was political too.
It was a political requirement based on the Obama campaign.
Now you you might recall that I've made a big deal in recent months in characterizing the way the Democrat Party literally drove their base insane with all of these treasonous allegations they essentially were making about the Iraq war.
From the moment the Iraq war began in 2003, the Democrat Party, after after a couple days of making it look like they were all for it because public support was for it, it didn't take long before the Democrat Party in the media began an ongoing, never-ending 24-7, 365 effort to discredit it.
To discredit the effort, to discredit the war, to discredit the motivation.
They did everything they could to undermine every aspect of it.
And in the process, they broke they they drove their own supporters insane with hatred for George W. Bush.
They ginned up that you could arguably say now, since there were weapons of mass destruction, that all of this that happened, all of the mischaracterizations of the military in Iraq.
Remember John Kerry and Jack Murthus, oh, they're racists and they're terrorists, and they're they're they're blowing down doors in homes in Iraq, our troops and the marines in Haditha, and every going in and terrorizing women and children, carry out making this allegation.
Trying to sabotage the surge before testify uh Petraeus had even testified on this.
You remember this.
It was like it was yesterday, and it was never ending five years, folks.
Every day, every night, the body count.
The Democrat Party and the media did everything they could to lose that war and saddle that loss around the neck of George W. Bush.
And of course, leading their charge, which they thought gave them credibility was, there weren't any weapons of mass destruction.
The whole thing was unnecessary.
Bush lied, people died.
Remember all this?
So in the midst of it, we now learn there were weapons of mass destruction.
Chemical weapons and so forth that were found.
Military people are coming out of the woodwork now, admitting it.
They were told to put a lid on it back then, because the Bush administration didn't want to go back in time and relitigate some.
They had a philosophy in the White House.
Never respond to criticism.
Never defend yourself against any criticism, no matter what it is, because that'll just prolong the story.
They had a belief, just let it go, because the news cycle will take care of it.
Okay, they're calling us chumps today, but there'll be a new story tomorrow.
Nobody forget about it.
That's not what happened.
All of these charges and all of these allegations just piled on, one on top of another, and it became a full-fledged indictment and an allegation against the entire premise of the Iraq war.
And over half of this country was talked into literal hatred for the administration, for the military, for the for the war, and even to a certain extent, the war on terror.
And it was unnecessary.
And Rove has even admitted now that one of the big mistakes he made strategically, while he was uh uh chief of staff in the White House was letting some of these allegations day to day, whatever they're not just about the Iraq war, but let them all go by and not comment them on it.
And it is absolutely right about that.
But this one is particularly damaging because those five years of pounding, the five years of never-ending charges that Bush lied,
people died, he got the books and the in the movies on how to assassinate Bush, the disrespect that was foisted upon the U.S. military, the illegitimacy of their existence, illegitimacy of the mission, the illegitimacy of the Bush administration, and all of that was allowed to happen because somebody decided to not report that they had indeed found weapons of mass destruction.
Man, what a what a miscalculation.
And I know the I know the strategy.
I I mean I know the theory.
Sometimes I employ it myself here.
I mean, some somebody will tell me about a newspaper story or website story on me in some penny saver type publication.
You better respond to that.
No, I'm not going to respond to that.
99% of people don't even know about it.
Why should I make them aware of it?
But this is different.
Everybody knew about weapons of mass destruction.
Everybody knew that was the reason for going in there.
And why doesn't matter when you find them?
Why not report it?
What is the point of covering it up?
What's the point of ignoring it?
Well, we don't want you know, we want to let sleeping dogs lie.
We've dealt with the fact that there weren't any, and that's the that's that's uh it just open up can of worms that we don't need because we want to keep moving forward, move our agenda forward.
We don't want to get tied up in these things that happened in the past.
But this now turns out to be totally everything that happened was unnecessary.
All of this criticism.
I I would venture to say that those five years of incessant, I mean, it was hate-filled, pounding criticism, lies, as it turns out, about Bush, about the Bush administration, about the military, arguably gave us Obama.
It arguably rendered the Republican Party practically impotent when it came to the 2008 election.
Allowing those allegations to stand, the lies after lies after lies that they were, no question.
It shackled the Republican effort in 2008.
I gotta take a break, my friend, sit tight, we'll be back.
We've got much more straight ahead.
Don't go away.
By the way, folks, I knew his Ebola Ron Klain is also who gave us Cylindra over the objection of the auditors.
Part of the stimulus, Ron Klain decided to fund it.
Now, I want to be clear about something.
The weapons of mass destruction, the daily peace, the daily beast is talking about, is not the same weapons of mass destruction that both Republicans and Democrats and every intelligence service in the world claimed are being manufactured by Saddam 1998-2003.
These are not the WMD we're talking about.
These were weapons of mass destruction, basically chemical weapons that are prior to 1991.
Doesn't matter.
They show the exist, they were found in 2004.
They were discovered by U.S. troops in 2004, and they show that Saddam was in investing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.
They show that Saddam Hussein Was in violation of all of those UN resolutions.
He was in he was in violation of the first Gulf War ceasefire.
And Saddam's violation of the first Gulf War ceasefire, including shooting at our planes, was enough on its own to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
What this is so horrible what's happened here.
So the war for uh weapons of mass destruction commences 2003, shortly after there aren't any, and the whole premise dies, and the Bush administration gets creamed for five years, and everybody knows it's not the case, and nobody stands up and says, wait a minute, all these allegations are false.
They're just allowed to stand.
The American people have no choice but then to believe this crap they're being told.
When in fact, Saddam Hussein was doing and had done pretty much everything he was being accused of that justified that invasion and justified getting rid of him.
This is I don't know.
Man, I look back on so much.
This is so damn unnecessary.
All because a political calculation was made to not revisit something that had already been determined that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
I swear I do not understand this.
How can you be a member of the Bush administration and know every day the lies that are being told, the allegations that are being made, the absolute crumbling of the integrity of the institution of the presidency that was undergoing, and to not even stand up and defend it.
I don't understand it.
I don't understand this entire Republican Party.
I don't understand how in the world you stand mute when lies are being told about you for five years in a row, lies that are destroying the military, lies that are destroying a necessary military operation in the war on terror, lies that are destroying the institution and believability and the credibility of the office of the presidency.
How you stand by and let that happen.
All on the belief that people will forget about it once the next news cycle hits.
Now, again, I this cost us the Senate and the House in 2006.
It gave the Republican nominee, who had no chance anyway, even less of a chance in 2008.
The Republican Party has still not recovered from those five years of lies and distortions.
How unnecessary, how unjust, how immoral the entire Iraq war.
Remember all that Joe Wilson stuff and Valerie Valerie Plame stuff and the scooter Libby.
All of this stuff that was unnecessary.
And I also remember that Grove was being pursued...
The left wanted him in jail over something, the Valerie Plame leak.
Who knows how intimidated he might have felt by that?
I have no idea.
But I just I look back on this.
And those five years, from 2003 to 2008, the Iraq war and the lies, and I knew they were lies.
I everything the Democrat Party was saying, I got so sick of it, I know you did too.
I got so from Ebu Grab on, I just got sick of the glee and the happiness that the Democrats and the media were showing and exhibiting every day as they reported lies about the U.S. military, false allegations about Marines engaging in terrorism against Iraqi citizens,
that the war was nothing for nothing but an attempt by Dick Cheney to secure oil for Halliburton, all of these incessant, stupid, silly lies that people had no choice but then to believe because nobody was telling them they weren't true.
And then of course the big one, weapons of mass destruction, the whole premise of the Iraq war.
Here are the details, by the way, just quickly from this Daily Beast story.
In an interview with the Daily Beast, former Senator Rick Santorum said that he and his staff began to receive photographs of discarded sarin and mustard gas shells from U.S. soldiers in 2004 in Iraq.
Two years later, when he was up for re-election, Santorm even went public with some of this information in a press conference disclosing a Pentagon report that found 500 chemical weapon shells had been found in Iraq.
Let me read what they say here.
One might think that a politically vulnerable Bush White House would have seized on Santorum's discovery.
After all, Bush and his subordinates famously accused Iraq of having active weapons and mass destruction programs.
But at least in 2005 and 2006, the Bush White House wasn't interested.
Santorum said that Carl Rove said we don't want to look back.
Now, Santorum stressed that he was not quoting verbatim these conversations he had with Rove eight years ago, so he doesn't remember them verbatim.
But his takeaway is that that Rove said, well, we don't want to look back.
I will say that the gist of the comments, this is Santorum here.
I'll say the gist of the comments from the president's senior people was we don't want to look back, we want to look forward.
Dave Wormsor, who served at the time senior advisor to Cheney on national security issues, remembers receiving a similar message from Rove.
In 2005-2006, Carl and his team blocked public disclosure of these findings of mustard and sarin gas in Iraq in 2004.
Said, let these sleeping dogs lie.
We've lost that fight.
Better not to remind anybody of it.
See, the thinking was, okay, yeah, you've got sarin and mustard gas, but this is not the same weapons of mass destruction that we went to war for.
And again, I want to stress that.
The uh chemical weapons refuse that was found in 2004 was all prior to 1991, which that's the first Gulf War.
The evidence of weapons of mass destruction that uh Colin Powell demoed at the United Nations and all that stuff.
Some of that, I mean, minor that's evidence of that was found, but not massive stockpiles of it.
And I'm sure Rove is saying that doesn't help us.
This stuff from 1990, that doesn't help us.
Well, we went to war, we lost that battle, we've lost that fight.
Let's let's let sleeping dogs live.
Better not to remind people he was thinking, I don't care what you found over there.
It's from 1991, and it's not going to help us change people's minds about why we went in in 2003.
But it could have.
It could have spelled out exactly who Saddam Hussein was for anybody who didn't want to believe it.
It could have spelled out exactly why Saddam Hussein had to be targeted.
It would have spelled out and made clear why Saddam Hussein had to go.
It would have spelled out loud and clear why we couldn't take the chance that Saddam and Al-Qaeda weren't attached and didn't have, and Saddam didn't have any do with 2009-11, uh, 2001.
He might have.
There was enough to just it was more than enough to justify what we did.
And yet for five years, I just think of the unnecessary it all ends up having been.
And by the way, it's not insignificant that over half of this country was driven to real hatred.
That is an emotion that that has deep roots and it lasts a long time.
The Democrat Party in the media savaged everything having to do with the Iraq war, from Bush to Cheney to Colin Powell.
They gave him a pass not long ago after that over Valerie Plain, but he got his taste of it originally.
They savaged anything, and anybody had anything to do with it except themselves.
Of course, they had all voted for it, too.
They conveniently forgot that.
David Petraya, It didn't matter.
Anybody that wore the uniform was going to be destroyed.
The daily body counts and how unnecessary it was, and John Kerry and Jack Merthus, some of the things they were saying.
Over half of this country was driven insane with hatred and anger.
And there was, there were answers for it.
And that it was chosen to ignore them.
Mind boggling.
And it lasts to this day, does it not?
Is this still and doesn't it seem to be?
The operative theory of the Republican Party.
Don't challenge any lies told about them.
Just let it go.
Don't get into a fight.
The American people don't want partisanship.
The American people don't want to see President Obama in fact.
Here, get follow me on this.
For five years, the American people have no problem being talked into genuine hatred.
Just naked rank partisanship filled with lies about everything having to do with the Iraq war.
And it didn't send them running to the Republicans because they hated the Democrats being partisan.
Didn't do that at all.
It's a baseless charge that defending yourself is seen as partisan and will cause the precious independents to run to the other party, in this case, the Democrats.
That cost us the 2006 Congress, the House and Senate, the damage done to the, if you want to say branding, the Republican Party, the reputation of Bush and Cheney and Scooter Libby,
you name it, the list of David Petraeus, the U.S. military as a whole, and then the individual soldiers, the sailors, the cadets.
I mean, look at what Dick Durbin was.
Dick Durbin goes to the floor of the House and is comparing U.S. military personnel down at Guantanamo Gay, uh, Guantanamo Bay to the gulags of the Soviet Union and the stalags of the Nazis.
I haven't forgotten any of this.
Some of the most baseless, you want to call it un-American criticism I've ever heard in my life was in this five-year period.
And it was relentless, it was unstoppable.
It didn't end.
It just piled on one on top of another, day after day after day, with no retort.
With no reply, with no defense, with no correction, whatever you want to call it.
The lies were just allowed to sit there.
And they festered, they effervesced, and they boiled over.
And I I, you know, I remember during the 2008 campaign I had a we all had to listen to Obama talk about how he was gonna make the U.S. respected again and loved again.
The implication being we were hated all over the world because of the Iraq war and because of Bush and Cheney.
And I knew even that was a lie.
But even the Republicans were on the defensive about that.
You know, it's one thing to lose when you put your best forward and the other guys beat it.
Okay, fine.
We went we didn't even get in the ring on this.
And this wasn't something like the next continuing resolution or the Medicare Part B vote.
This was serious stuff.
There were real weapons of mass destruction.
When the news was discovered, it was decided to sit on it because talking about it would simply remind people of the flawed premise of the Iraq war in 2003,
to not even Have a desire to take what you had, the discovery of WMD, even if they were pre-1991, and build on that and explain things when you are in the White House, when you have the bully pulpit, when you have the ability to command the attention of the whole nation.
I have to take a break here, folks, because of the constraints of time and the busy, busy programming format.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Just a couple of more things that even the Daily Beast.
Again, this is a left-wing oriented publication.
Tina Brown founded it.
I don't know who still runs it.
Part of the Newsweek, Tina Brown bumbling leftist operation.
And even they, in this article, Eli Lake is the author of the article.
Even they write.
At least part of the Bush administration's case against Saddam was based on the fact that he never properly accounted for the chemical weapons stockpile he had built up in the 1980s.
There were a lot of reasons, in other words, I hope you'll remember this.
Besides weapons of mass destruction, that we went into Iraq.
That was not the sole reason we went in.
Saddam Hussein had violated United Nations resolutions.
They were not U.S. resolutions, and they were one after another.
You would think the left would be really outraged over that.
They love the UN.
The UN is the future government of the world.
And Saddam was thumbing his nose at the UN.
But for a chance to destroy the Republican Party, the Bush administration, and maybe even parts of the military for a while, to hell with the UN will destroy the Republican Party.
And they did.
Look at this.
See if you recall this.
This is an AP story from July 5th of 2008.
Five years ago, George W. Bush still in office.
I remember when I first saw this, I just I was reduced to scratching my head.
I was almost babbling incoherently, saying, well, uh what?
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program, a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans,
the removal of 550 metric tons of yellow cake, the seed material for higher grade nuclear enrichment.
Wait, what?
Yellow cake?
Why?
Joe Wilson, the estimable, the esteemed, and the highly regarded Joe Wilson, the husband of Valerie Play, the poor outed CIA agent, said there wasn't any yellow cake.
And the media said Bush lied and people died.
There wasn't any yellow cake.
He went and looked.
He couldn't find any.
Here in 2008, the last major remnant of Saddam's nuclear program.
What the hell, nuclear program?
A huge stockpile of concentrated yellow cake reached a Canadian port.
Look at all that turned out to have been accurate about this.
If I'm a member of the Democrat Party all during this, I have to be really scratching my head.
Why are these guys shutting up?
Why are we getting away with this?
Why are they letting us get away with lying about them and this war in it every day?
And after a while you stop asking, and you just keep piling the lies on top of one another.
And what we're told here, the uh the active theory was, well, that's 2003, 2004, 2005.
We lost that battle.
We didn't find any weapons of mass destruction then.
And it just won't work to tell everybody we have now, because they won't believe us and They think better to let sleeping dogs lie and just move on to the next news story.
I just those five years drove me nuts, too.
Not insane with rage, but disbelief that it.
The news was so filled with lies, and so filled with distortion every day with not one day of reaction to it.
Yes, yes, yes, I know.
Eli Lake is solid conservative and a great reporter on national security defense issues.
Daily Beast is uh uh very liberal publication, which they ran it.
That's my point.
At any rate, folks, there's still more to this.
Some more intricacies to this, some more observations to make about it, too.
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