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RUSH: Here is John in Dublin, California. John, welcome to the program.<\/line>CALLER: Megga dittos, Rush.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line>CALLER: You don\u2019t puff yourself up. That\u2019s for us to do.<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s exactly what I told the guy<\/a>.<\/line>CALLER: Absolutely.<\/line>RUSH: Exactly what I told the guy.<\/line> CALLER: Doing a great job. Hey, just a quick one, in reference to — I\u2019m a retired military officer, 22 years in the Army, fought in Desert Storm, trained many of these troops which have gone over for this current conflict, but right from the beginning, this is in reference to your cut-and-run seminar callers from last hour, right from the beginning I\u2019ve been for this war, I\u2019m still for it. Yes, I would like to see some changes. I\u2019d like to see us untie the hands of the troops who are over there. They have to go through a seven step process to be able to engage somebody. Unless they\u2019re being fired on directly, even then these guys are going to hesitate because of the political correctness that we have injected into our military. It is absolutely abominable what we\u2019ve done to them. But also I want to mention, if this is becoming a Vietnam, Rush, it\u2019s not because of George W. Bush, it\u2019s because these liberal Democrats and their lap dogs in the media that have turn it into Vietnam.<\/line>RUSH: Yes, and that has been an objective of theirs.<\/line>CALLER: Absolutely. It\u2019s like they want the terrorists over here blowing up our people instead of going after our troops who are ready and willing and able to take them out. We just won\u2019t let them.<\/line>RUSH: Wait a minute. I want you to stop and think about this. Do you really think that the liberals both in the Democratic Party and the Drive-By Media actually want terrorist attacks in this country?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, I don\u2019t, I don\u2019t think they consciously want it, but with what they do, the way they are just putting out — I think you said it yesterday, that all you hear is all the bad that\u2019s going on, you know, another car blown up, you see that on the news, you see all this about how bad our troops are over there. You never see, well, how many are we killing? We\u2019re killing a lot of them over there. I still have friends who are there, I get e-mails from these guys, I hear what\u2019s going on. Plus you can see all the websites out there that are supporting the troops, that we have troops talking about what\u2019s going on, and it\u2019s positive. We are rebuilding that country. The Iraqi people like having us over there. Sure, they want us to go eventually, but they know that we\u2019re a necessity there right now.<\/line> RUSH: Yeah, I think that\u2019s a given, it\u2019s just up to people to believe or not, and a lot of people are not going to choose to believe it on the left because they don\u2019t want to believe it. You said something — you said that the Democrats and liberals are content for there to be attacks in this country as a result of pulling out of Iraq and maybe Afghanistan and not doing anything in Somalia any further.<\/line>CALLER: You know, Rush, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s — like I said, consciously I don\u2019t think they want that to happen, but by everything they are doing, that\u2019s what it\u2019s going to lead to. Therefore it seems — oh, can I say therefore? You got kicked off the radio station for that one.<\/line>RUSH: Yes, you can.<\/line>CALLER: Therefore it seems like that\u2019s what they want to do, and it drives — I mean they\u2019re just absolutely nuts, in my book, for taking this position. They are tearing this country apart.<\/line>RUSH: I wanted to give you a chance to clarify that, because that\u2019s a serious charge, to say that they want terrorist attacks in this country. (interruption) Oh, yeah. Well, I know the Clinton reaction was — some of the Clinton people, after 9\/11 happened, were all upset that this didn\u2019t happen on their watch because it would have given their guy, Bill, a chance to really define himself as great. Clinton didn\u2019t get the big issue, Bush did get the big event to mold his presidency around. There were Democrats that said that. But that\u2019s still different than saying that they actively want to pull us out of Iraq so that we will have terrorist attacks in this country. When you say that, I wanted to give you a chance to deny it because that\u2019s a pretty serious charge. I think rather the case is they\u2019re just not trustworthy with national security. <\/line><\/p>\n

They do not see the threat. They see us, they see their own country as creating the circumstances that lead to the threat and the terrorism. They don\u2019t have any idea. They have no concept that we are hated and despised. Tto the extent that they will acknowledge that we are hated and despised by people around the world they will agree to a certain length that we deserve to be hated and despised because look what we do. We plunder the earth, we pollute the planet, we cause global warming, we steal all of the resources of all of these great nations and continents around the world and convert it to our own selfish use. We have so much more than our share of the world\u2019s wealth, and so they think that there are reasons to hate us because they do. And if they hate the country, it\u2019s not a stretch to imagine that others would hate the country. If they feel justified for their own hatred for the country, then how can they blame anybody else for hating the country? They\u2019ve got to embrace it. <\/line>So in the process of that, they actually see terrorism as an outgrowth of US imperialism in the postmodern, post-Pelosi era. They believe they have the ability to reverse this with the power of their elitism, the power of their, uh, shall I say intellect, and their ability to talk with these — who is it that\u2019s suggesting we go talk to these people, and who\u2019s off running around doing it? Democrat senators, running all over the world talking to Bashar Assad, let by the brilliant Bill Nelson, right after the Iraq surrender group report came out. It\u2019s like I told you once, folks, during the 1960 presidential campaign, I\u2019m nine years old, and my dad is being highly, highly critical of JFK. Of course I\u2019m this young kid, and I see my dad animated like this, and I\u2019m nine years old, I\u2019m on the fringes of starting to pay attention to politics. I said, ?Why are you getting so upset about this?? He proceeded to tell me it was all about my and my brother\u2019s future. <\/line> He said, ?Son, I\u2019m afraid that this guy is too young, and he\u2019s going to start a war.? I said, ?You think he\u2019s doing it on purpose?? He said, (paraphrasing) ?No. Imagine if I got up on a chair underneath the kitchen lightbulb there and started swinging a baseball bat around, I might accidentally hit the lightbulb and break it. I think that\u2019s he\u2019s going to do it. I think he\u2019s going to start some, not intending to, not understanding the ramifications or consequences. I just don\u2019t think he\u2019s competent.? Those are my words. I don\u2019t remember the exact words. Those are not exact quotes from my dad. But I?ll never forget the analogy of somebody standing on a chair to get closer to the lightbulb, swinging a baseball bat around. Obviously, if you?re going to swing a baseball bat around and don\u2019t want to break the bulb, stay on the floor. You get on a chair and do it, you\u2019re putting yourself in a risky situation.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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