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RUSH: Oh, man. That would really be duty.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah. (Laughing.)<\/line>RUSH: This program, up to now, has been fun. <\/line>CALLER. Oh, no.<\/line>RUSH: Now you\u2019re actually wanting me to go to work in order to do this program.<\/line>CALLER: You know what? It won\u2019t be fun for me to watch beheadings, either, but it will strengthen my resolve.<\/line>RUSH: Well, I understand. Is this movie playing here?<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, it\u2019s playing where I am in Asheville.<\/line>RUSH: No, I\u2019m talking about where I live. I don\u2019t even know if it\u2019s playing. I know it\u2019s playing in North Carolina. It\u2019s playing in all these little art house theaters in Republican states.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, you could get to it (laughing) if you really tried.<\/line>RUSH: (Laughing.) Well, I tell you what. You\u2019ve issued me a challenge. I may try to find a way to see it but I\u2019m not going to pay to.<\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m not going to pay to see this. The more important point, though, Karen is — and I\u2019m glad you understand why I say what I say about watching the videotape of 9\/11 again and some of these beheadings.<\/line>CALLER: Yes.<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s not for voyeurism. It is for people — you know, we showed, and we still do and we still make movies about, what happened in the Nazi concentration camps<\/a>. Why? So people never forget it.<\/line>CALLER: Yes.<\/line><\/a> RUSH: The word “Nazi” today is just as horrendous as it was 40 years ago, and there\u2019s a reason. It\u2019s because people are never allowed to forget what happened there, and we showed those pictures and we showed black-and-white films. We\u2019ve seen actual footage of the carnage there. But we will not see, the media will not show us what Saddam Hussein did to his own people, won\u2019t show us anything but the empty <\/emphasize>mass graves<\/a>. But when the U.S. commits atrocities in prison, ah, it\u2019s all we get. We get to see how rotten we are but we don\u2019t get to see how truly <\/emphasize>deadly and inhuman or enemy is, and I think that because — and this is a key point here, folks. This is a key element to this. Not just the fact that we are conditioned to believing things more so when we see them. It is that unlike World War II, and even Vietnam to a certain extent but let\u2019s focus on World War II, the whole country had to rally around the war effort in order to make it succeed. Sixteen million <\/emphasize>Americans wore the uniform of one of the service branches during World War II. The people that didn\u2019t wear the uniform went to work in factories to build <\/emphasize>the machinery and the weaponry and the ammo for the war effort to succeed. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s not necessary anymore. We have become so much more prosperous that if you want to tune out, you can. If you want to party all night, you can. If you want to go in the library all night and study, you can. If you want to veg on the couch and watch television all night, you can — and in the process of doing that, you can tune out what this country faces. You can tune out an attack and a threat that\u2019s every bit as dangerous as what we faced in World War II, because it\u2019s worldwide. <\/emphasize>These terrorist cells are worldwide, but you can tune it out and forget it, and as you tune it out and forget it what\u2019s going to happen? You\u2019re going to think it\u2019s over. You\u2019re going to think it doesn\u2019t exist because it\u2019s not affecting you, and if we don\u2019t see the pictures that spawned all this, if we don\u2019t see the jets hitting the World Trade Center, if we don\u2019t see the carnage at the Pentagon and on the ground at Pennsylvania, and if we don\u2019t see the beheadings, it\u2019s very — and it\u2019s not our fault. It\u2019s just the way our brains work. <\/line>Nobody wants to see pain. Nobody wants to see suffering. Nobody wants to see things like that. You tune it out. You pretend it doesn\u2019t exist. You go on you and live your life because the country is so great and so prosper that we can all feed our desire for contentment, happiness, or what have you while others <\/emphasize>are out risking their lives seeing to it that it doesn\u2019t happen again — and in the midst of all this, we have an entire political party which is engaged in an effort to make sure we lose <\/emphasize>this war so that they win the White House, and I am not mincing words. They are doing everything they can to see that our effort to win this is defeated, because it\u2019s Bush leading it. That\u2019s why I think these pictures need to continue to be shown, because the party that\u2019s seeking power at the expense <\/emphasize>of the lives of American soldiers, is not equipped to continue the defense of this country because they don\u2019t believe in it. They don\u2019t believe in the defense of the country. They believe in accommodating those who would harm us. <\/line> They don\u2019t believe in defeating them, is what I mean. Not saying they don\u2019t want to defend the country. They don\u2019t want to engage those who would wipe us out, in a battle that would end the lives of those who want to wipe us out. They want to appease. They want to form accommodations. They want to try to form peaceful organizations, where we fly white flags and doves and so forth and king “Kumbaya!” all day long, and that\u2019s not the way of the world, and we\u2019re going to forget the way of the world. This is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.<\/emphasize> It always has been and it always will be. There will never be a day where this is not a world governed by aggressive use of force. That\u2019s why the as the leading nation of the world the lone superpower and the nation that leads the world in freedom we have to have more force than anybody else, to repel those who aggress against us. We\u2019re not an aggressor nation, but we are going to defend ourselves and our easily and friends when they are transgressed against, and if we\u2019re not equipped to do that we\u2019re not going to be equipped to protect ourselves — and that\u2019s what frightens me about the current batch of leaders in the liberal Democrat Party. <\/line> I don\u2019t think they\u2019re willing. I don\u2019t think they think it\u2019s that big a threat. I don\u2019t think that they are really citizens of this country first. They look at themselves as “citizens of the world” more so — and it alarms me. It truly does, and that\u2019s why I say, “Show these pictures.”<\/emphasize> It\u2019s not about voyeurism, and it\u2019s precisely because there are too many options that population members. People of this country can take to forget it, and to forget that it happened and to pretend that it\u2019s not happening — and if you pretend it\u2019s not happening or you don\u2019t know it\u2019s happening or you\u2019ve forgotten it\u2019s happened, you\u2019re not going to be properly equipped to deal with it as a citizen when the country needs to be defended, which it does now. So that\u2019s just my reasoning on this as to why to show the pictures, and keep them shown. I don\u2019t agree with this business of suppressing it to protect people\u2019s feelings or to hide the gore <\/emphasize>and the horror. <\/emphasize>Just the opposite, because until we all know what we\u2019re dealing with we\u2019re not going to have a firm spine. We\u2019re not going to have a firm enough resolve to actually deal with it — and, <\/emphasize>on top of that, if enough of us end up thinking that it\u2019s us <\/emphasize>committing all the atrocities in this war, we are cooked. We\u2019re doomed, and there are people trying to make that happen. The New York Times, 50 stories on the Abu Ghraib prison photos. Fifty <\/emphasize>stories! Think there\u2019s an agenda there? <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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