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RUSH: James in New York City. James, nice to have you on the program, sir. Welcome.<\/line>CALLER: Thank you, sir. I mentioned to your screener that the message better go out to these other countries that think they\u2019re going to harm the United States, that there are nuclear weapons in the United States, and it doesn\u2019t take our Air Force or our Army to deliver them. And if they think that we\u2019re going to sit back the first time they trigger something like that and just take it, they\u2019re in for a big, big awakening. And on the other issue, I am a Jew, and my great-grandparents and grandparents were murdered by the Nazis. My parents got out by the skin of their teeth. If there was no Holocaust, where are my great aunts and my great uncles? Where are my grandparents that I have never been able to enjoy? What happened to them? They didn\u2019t exist?<\/line>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s what these people want people to believe. You know, it\u2019s very serious. As to your first point about we have nukes, too, and the Iranians better realize it. Here\u2019s what I think the Iranians are seeing, and this is what I think Al-Qaeda is seeing. And I think the ChiComs are taking their measure. They see us as not using the nukes. They see us as not really defending ourselves. I mean, even the way we\u2019ve gone about it in Iraq is sort of half-baked. They see us as unwilling to take casualties. They see us as a passive population. Mahmoud has done his best to threaten and provoke, and all we do is respond with words, and all the civilized world does is respond with words. He sees a group of Americans put out this supposedly scholarly study that says, “We think, Mahmoud, we should talk to you about solving our problems in Iraq.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, if I\u2019m Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I only interpret this one way. I\u2019m dealing with a bunch of wusses. I\u2019m dealing with a bunch of people who can\u2019t take it. He might be thinking, “I\u2019m not going to nuke the United States. I don\u2019t have the means to do it anyway, even if I got a nuke weapon next month or next year, I don\u2019t have the transport system. Maybe I can do a suitcase nuke that nobody could trace back to me, could probably do that.” But I think they\u2019re into the mode of intimidation, just claiming or threatening that they will do it, and the world\u2019s not going to stop \u2019em from getting a nuke. That\u2019s patently obvious. Why would the world stop them from using it? If the world\u2019s not going to stop them from getting it, why would Mahmoud think that anybody\u2019s going to make any effort to stop him from using it? Even if he does use it somewhere down the line, he\u2019s probably thinking nobody\u2019s going to retaliate because they won\u2019t want to expand the conflict. He sees half the population of this country who are trying now to deny that 9\/11 meant anything more than just an isolated crime. He sees an entire political party in this country and movement, the Democratic Party and the American left, doing its best to punish its own president and members of its own military for defending this country after that attack, Abu Ghraib, Club Gitmo<\/a>, you name it. <\/p>\n

If you put yourself in the shoes or the moccasins, whatever Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wears, I guarantee the only thing that threatens you, the only thing that might give you some pause about the United States of America is George W. Bush, who is going to be gone in a couple of years. So you bide your time, and you end up with a Barack Obama or a Hillary Clinton or a John Kerry or a John Edwards or a whoever, and that\u2019s what they\u2019ll be hoping for. He\u2019s seeing that the whole country will become what half the country today is: pacifists, in denial, not wanting confrontation, not thinking it\u2019s worth it, accommodating, bending over backwards to make our enemies like us. Bin Laden has seen it ever since Mogadishu. Ahmadinejad\u2019s beginning to get his personal taste of it now. He does this “Holocaust didn\u2019t happen” convention, and all he\u2019s done is gin up more talk and conversation about it. Yeah, the predictable, “We are outraged by it,” has happened. But that\u2019s about it. <\/line>So if I\u2019m Ahmadinejad, I actually don\u2019t think in a couple of years I\u2019m going to be dealing with a president who would ever retaliate against me with a nuclear weapon if I use one of my own. And even if he\u2019s wrong, he\u2019s still got this belief that he\u2019s presiding over the end of the infidels and the arrival of the 12th imam. A nuclear Holocaust, why, the way he reads the Koran, it may just be what\u2019s in store the next two or three years. But of course we in America can\u2019t condemn that because people are free to practice whatever religion they want. Our Constitution has become a suicide pact to way too many people.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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