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RUSH: This is Howard in Brandon, Florida.  Great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  How are you doing? <\/p>\n

RUSH:  Very well, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  It\u2019s an honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Thank you again.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  I would just like to real quick say hello to my two sons.  One is a uniformed police officer in Cobb County, Georgia.  The other one is a detective in Hillsboro County, Georgia.  Boys, proud of you.  Rush, first off, I\u2019ve got a bumper sticker for you: “Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire! Never Hillary.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) “Pantsuit on fire.” (laughing) I like, “She puts her pantsuit on one leg at a time like all the other guys.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right. Pants on fire, Rush.  Pants on fire.  In this case, it\u2019s a pantsuit on fire. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: As a Vietnam veteran, Navy veteran, I wanted to relate to you what my thoughts are on this $400 million.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Hang on, because I\u2019ve got to break here in five seconds, and I don\u2019t want to try to have you say it in that limited amount of time.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Howard in Braden, Florida.  You\u2019ve got — is it Braden or Bradenton? <\/p>\n

CALLER:  Brandon, Rush, just outside of Tampa.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Oh, Brandon.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just outside of what? <\/p>\n

CALLER:  Just outside of Tampa.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Just outside of Tampa.” Okay. Cool.  So you have a theory about the $400 million ransom.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER:  The point being that Iran really owes us millions of dollars for the damage they did by providing the engineering, design and materials of all the IEDs and shaped charges they provided to the bad guys in Iraq over the years.  Why did we not levy a claim against all this money, $400 million, and have that money set aside and put in an account for the Veterans Administration to pay for all the medical care that our veterans are going to need over the next 30 or 40 years, as a result of all these injuries that were caused by the material, design and information that Iran provided to the bad guys in Iraq?  It\u2019s just amazing to me that you\u2019ve got a government that is known as one of the worst terrorist providers in this world, that we would provide them $400 million instead of setting aside that $400 million for the Veterans Administration to provide for assistance to all the vets that either were wounded — or families of dependents — that will be out there for the next 30 or 40 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  I don\u2019t want to make you feel worse, but it\u2019s not $400 million.  It\u2019s $1.7 billion, and $400 million is just a part of it.  In addition to that, there\u2019s $150 billion of Iranian assets that were frozen when we slapped sanctions on them for violating agreed-to terms in their nuclear plans, and that\u2019s all been unfrozen.  So we have seen to it that one of the world\u2019s largest state sponsors of terrorisms has been able to reacquire $150 billion, which they openly say that they would use some of it for terrorist activity.<\/p>\n

And which John Kerry, our secretary of state (who served in Vietnam), has acknowledged that they will probably use some of it to modernize or equip or whatever they do to sponsor terrorism.  Now, the idea… You had a great idea here that we should be extracting payments for the damage they\u2019ve done.  But we\u2019re doing the exact opposite.  And a lot of people are asking, “What is it the Iranians have on Obama?”  It makes so little sense that that\u2019s what people start asking.  “Why in the world…?<\/p>\n