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RUSH: There\u2019s another great scene in The Path to 9\/11. The ambassador to Yemen, whose name is Barbara Bodine, is portrayed by Patricia Heaton in this movie, Patricia Heaton from Everybody Loves Raymond, and she basically prevents O\u2019Neill from doing anything to uncover the Yemenis who might have blown up the USS Cole<\/a> because she was more concerned about the effect on the Yemeni people. She didn\u2019t want them thinking badly of the United States. She has an op-ed piece in the LA Times here denying this today. I\u2019ll get to relevant parts it. It will come up at the break at the top of the hour.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: And we plod on here, ladies and gentlemen, through the Stalinism of the Democratic Party. Former President Clinton and his hacks, five years out of office, are still trying to run things. The telephone number, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program. E-mail address, Rush@eibnet.com<\/a>. Let me give you a little detail here on what I blurbed right before the break at the top of the hour. Barbara Bodine, ambassador to Yemen at the time the USS Cole was exploded. “One of the myths…” She\u2019s got an op-ed today in the LA Times, and I\u2019m reading excerpts of it to you here. “One of the myths perpetuated by ABC played out in the steamy port city of Aden, Yemen, in October 2000, using an FBI agent out of New York, John O\u2019Neill, and the U.S. ambassador to that country. According to the mythmakers, a battle ensued between a cop obsessed with tracking down Osama bin Laden and a bureaucrat more concerned with the feelings of the host government than the fate of Americans and the realities of terrorism. I know this is false. I was there. I was the ambassador. I am not here to either defend or attack O\u2019Neill. He was a complex man.”<\/line>This character is portrayed, as I say, by Patricia Heaton<\/a> from Everybody Loves Raymond. “The realities of a U.S. investigative style inevitably collided headlong with the limited capabilities of Yemen. The Yemenis knew Aden and its people but lacked technical and professional competence; the FBI had the forensic and technical capability but could not operate ‘on the street\u2019 in Aden. The friction, the suspicion, the miscommunication between the two could not, however, be allowed to derail a successful criminal investigation of the attack, its roots in Yemen and its links to other attacks against Americans around the world…<\/line><\/p>\n

“In the aftermath of the attack on the Cole, the stakes were high. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell\u2019s first lesson of leadership is that ‘being responsible sometimes means'” making people mad, although she uses the P-word instead of making people mad. “It\u2019s inevitable, if you are honorable. The job of the ambassador is to make the tough calls. To paraphrase a fellow Missourian, the buck stopped on my desk.” So she\u2019s denying what she…? What is she, confirming here? Anyway it\u2019s a really good scene. It\u2019s a talk scene. Here\u2019s my thought about it. We\u2019ve heard that there are dramatizations that are taking place. We have heard that there are literary liberties being taken. Let me ask you a question. How many of you have grown sick and tired of diplomats in this country, in this country and around the world saying, “No, we can\u2019t do that because I\u2019m afraid of what the world will think of us”? <\/line>The idea, Ms. Bodine, that this is outrageous and could not have happened spares me my credulity. I\u2019m sorry, madam. It may not have happened in your case but it\u2019s a hallmark of our state department. It is a hallmark of our ambassadorial crew. It\u2019s a hallmark of our diplomacy. In fact, one of the things hamstringing us right now is, “we must recapture our image in the world. We must be concerned with what people think about us.” For crying out loud, Madam Bodine, we didn\u2019t go get bin Laden on a number of occasions because we were afraid we might kill civilians or we might get blamed or it might lead to something! We are always worried about what other people think. It is the nature of a bunch of diplomats because to them they take it personally. <\/line>So you\u2019re always going to be concerned what people think, whereas the average American who\u2019s dying out there in these attacks and is threatened by them and having to go through hell just to get into an airport and on an airplane actually doesn\u2019t care what people think. Well, the wacko kooks and the lib fringe do. But that is my point. I don\u2019t know whether this actually happened in her case. But this movie compiles attitudes that are undeniably true about the diplomatic corps, about the battles between CIA and the FBI and the inability to share information. There is no question the Clinton administration did nothing of any substance throughout the nineties. There\u2019s no question whatsoever. I occasionally go to a blog out there called PowerLine. It\u2019s three lawyers. <\/line>These guys are in Atlanta. They\u2019re not particularly fond of talk radio, but I\u2019ll be bigger than that and I will compliment them when they do something I like. Scott Johnson and Paul Mirengoff and John Hinderaker. (See, I don\u2019t hear these people\u2019s names pronounced so forgive me if I\u2019m mispronouncing them.) They have a five-page post today that lists every terrorist event in the 1990s. <\/line><\/p>\n

“Looking at the big picture, though, it\u2019s a little hard to see what the Dems are complaining about. I haven\u2019t seen the miniseries, but I take it that it doesn\u2019t portray the Clinton administration as having taken very effective action against the growing threat from Islamic terrorists. What I don\u2019t understand is how the Democrats think they can rewrite history to challenge that characterization. There is no doubt about the fact that the terrorist menace grew and became increasingly obvious during the Clinton administration. To note just a few highlights,” and I can\u2019t — I?m not going to read this whole thing because it\u2019s almost three pages of bullet points. Let me count them. Starting January 25, 1993 with a guy that fired an AK-47 into cars, a Pakistani, waiting “at a stoplight in front of the CIA headquarters in Virginia, killing two CIA employees.” <\/line>Then February 26, 1993, the first World Trade Center attack. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. It concludes with the October 12th, 2000, Al-Qaeda bombs of the USS Cole. “Between 1993 and 2000, everyone who was paying any attention knew that the threat from Islamic terrorism was grave and getting worse,” and then came 9\/11. So what history are these people trying to change? Are they going to try to say these terrorist attacks are unrelated and they really didn\u2019t happen? I mean, this is just absolutely outrageous, ladies and gentlemen. This is the United States of America — and, I\u2019ll tell you what. When you have campaign finance reform — thank you, Senator McCain, and thank you Senator Feingold; when you have campaign finance reform — that chips away at free speech, at the First Amendment, in violation of the Constitution, and the Supreme Court didn\u2019t stop it…<\/line>By the way, the president, in his signing statement on the McCain-Feingold bill<\/a>, expressed his fears and cautions, but he said he was confident the Supreme Court would deal with it. They didn\u2019t. So you know, we\u2019re close to the moment now where no more advertising can take place for the November elections among special interest groups, 60 days out. It\u2019s either now or soon. It\u2019s no question this week. It\u2019s either we\u2019re at 61 days or 60 days now. It\u2019s this weekend at some point. That\u2019s it. Probably right now. November 8th, 30 days? Yeah, it\u2019s right now. From now on, no more commercials on TV from certain groups, for people running for election, reelection, what have you, in November. <\/line>So now it\u2019s easy to chip away at the First Amendment. Here comes the Democratic Party acting as pure Stalinists while claiming Bush is the dictator. Bush is the oppressor. Bush is spying. Bush is denying people all these privacy rights and civil rights and human rights, here come the Democratic Senate leadership, threatening ABC with its broadcast licenses and its owned and operated radio stations, for a movie. They\u2019re squealing like stuck pigs. Folks, I hope that you are able to understand exactly what this means as it relates to their position on the whole issue of national security and their utter fear of being exposed as utterly useless to this country in that regard. <\/line><\/p>\n

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