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RUSH: Our previous caller made a point responding here also to David Bell\u2019s piece in the LA Times Sunday, &ldquo;Was 9\/11 Really That bad?&rdquo; The caller says we could have lost 45,000 if those planes had hit at a later time of day, if those towers had been more populated, had they not been able to extricate as many people from the second tower and the first after the first hit. The death toll could have been much, much higher. Then the Pentagon, had that plane hit in a different location, different angle, the Pentagon could have been a lot more death and damage there than was done, and we don\u2019t know what else was in the works because air traffic control grounded every airplane shortly after the second attack, and it didn\u2019t take them very long to get every airplane in US airspace down, every airplane coming from a foreign destination was diverted, and we shut down the air traffic system for four or five days. <\/p>\n

Now, his point here is that Mr. Bell, 3,000, and 6500 total, no big deal. That damage was wrought by probably less than a hundred people that planned it, and it took no soldiers. It took 19 hijackers. Now, the cynical reaction to this would be to say to the caller, &ldquo;But, sir, you\u2019re missing Mr. Bell\u2019s point. You are looking at what could have happened. We are looking at what did happen, and we are overreacting to it. You can\u2019t say this could have happened or that could have happened, just like we can\u2019t respond to what they say they want to do to us. We have to respond to what they actually can do to us.&rdquo; And his point is they don\u2019t have the ability to set off a nuke in this country yet, they don\u2019t have the ability to wipe us out. Of course, to me, that is the ultimate sophistry, and we have, if you remember earlier this month, mimicking the hijackers who executed the 9\/11 attacks, insurgents in Iraq reportedly tied to Al-Qaeda there considered using student visas to slip terrorists into the US to orchestrate similar but new attacks on American soil. <\/p>\n

The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency testified to this because he captured documents, coalition forces captured documents during a raid of a safe house believed to house Iraqi members. So you\u2019ve got the American left now building up the notion that we\u2019re not a threat, we\u2019re not really at great risk, let\u2019s put it that way, we\u2019re not at great risk. Yeah, a lot of people are threatening us and saying they want to wipe us out, but they can\u2019t really do it, so we\u2019re just really overreacting here. So the conclusion, we have to wait until they can pull it off to deal with them? You know, ladies and gentlemen, I was having a conversation over the weekend with a friend of mine about all this, and this friend of mine is really gung-ho. This friend wants to just deal with the enemy right now, not waste any time, thinks that we\u2019re just really botching this in Iraq with the strategy, and by leaving Syria and Iran alone, that we are just totally blowing things sky high. I said to him, &ldquo;The theory is that we would have to obliterate too many countries to wipe the militant Islamists off the face of the earth because they\u2019re everywhere. They\u2019re all over the place, and we can\u2019t wipe out every country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n

He came back and said, ?Well, would FDR and Truman have thought that way during World War II? Why did they call it a world war? If we aren\u2019t on offense, we\u2019re on defense, and this enemy will not stop.? And I said, ?Yeah, but for all the talk about World War II, there were basically three countries: Japan, Germany, and Italy. Now we\u2019re talking about the whole of the Middle East, Indonesia, parts of the Philippines, Chechnya, Bosnia, Turkey, they\u2019re all over the place.? <\/line>He said, ?Okay, so I hear what you\u2019re saying.? He knew I was playing devil\u2019s advocate. ?I hear what you\u2019re saying and that unfortunately is our strategy.? We can\u2019t use our overwhelming firepower. We can\u2019t take out Iraq. We can\u2019t kill civilians. We would have lost World War II had we tied our hands the way we\u2019re tying our hands now. <\/line>He says, ?By the way, I\u2019m not saying attack all the countries where Muslims are or even where radical Muslims are. Iran and Syria are regimes that are giving safe haven to the enemy and attacking us, and, by the way, it wasn\u2019t just three countries in World War II. It was scores of countries. I\u2019m not aware of anybody saying that we should attack Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Yemen, all that\u2019s baloney, but we can cut the heart out of the militant Islamist movement as it\u2019s aimed at us by dealing with Iran now rather than waiting.? <\/line> The theory is that if we take Mr. Bell\u2019s approach, too: Just wait! Just wait until they are a threat or wait until they are powerful enough to deal with the threat, and then we\u2019ll have to deal with it. And his point is: Why wait \u2019til then? <\/emphasize>We know what they\u2019re committed to. Would FDR and Truman have sat around and waited? So they\u2019re continuing to be raging arguments over the way we\u2019re prosecuting this and whether or not we\u2019re deadly serious. The left, of course, is doing everything in its power to tame us and to prevent us from being able to protect ourselves in a preemptive fashion. All they\u2019re doing, as they succeed, all they\u2019re doing is delaying the day of reckoning. There will be one. It\u2019s going to be much, much worse then, whenever it is, than if we dealt with it now. We\u2019re not dealing with it now in a blunt-force manner that is similar to the ways in which we have in the past. Steve in Canton, Ohio, welcome to the EIB Network hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hello, Rush.<\/line>RUSH: Yes.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, I want to let you know this war is a complete and utter disaster, and I don\u2019t know why you keep pushing — the troops, there\u2019s over 3,000 died, and the Iraqi people are really suffering and losing their lives, too, for these neocon shills that is just absolutely ridiculous, they don\u2019t understand that this is no big deal that these people lost their lives?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: No, wait a second. I am not saying that. One of your buddies is saying that in the LA Times, ?Was 9\/11 really that bad?? He\u2019s the one that\u2019s now saying 3,000 soldiers not a big deal, 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, is not a big deal. You ought to be heralding this piece. He\u2019s saying it\u2019s no big deal now, after all of you guys and your clown buddies have been running around talking about how 3,000, it\u2019s unacceptable and so forth. By the way, if any more of you liberals call here and start whining and moaning about Iraqi deaths I\u2019m going to get really mad because you don\u2019t care a whit about Iraqi deaths. You didn\u2019t care when they were dying by the hundreds of thousands when Saddam ran the place, you don\u2019t care about them now. You just want your country defeated. You want your country taught a lesson. You have this silly idealistic, pansy little notion in your head that war is bad and that somehow everything associated with it is bad, and you think it\u2019s being done in your name. You personalize everything. You haven\u2019t the slightest understanding of history. You have no concept of what peace really is and how it is achieved, and that is why this country dare not put people like you in real positions of power. If we ever do, and this threat hasn\u2019t been dealt with, we\u2019re cooked. Ed in Havelock, North Carolina. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, Rush. How are you?<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m fine and dandy.<\/line>CALLER: Sea turtles dittos, first thing. I\u2019m a long-time listener and a first-time caller, but this morning I was surfing the news, and I heard Chuck — Chuckle Schumer, you know Chuckles for brains, Schumer for brains rather say the dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever heard the liberal politician say.<\/line>RUSH: No, it can\u2019t be, I don\u2019t care what it was, it can\u2019t be. That has not been officially recorded yet.<\/line>CALLER: Well, it was totally dumb, in any case. By what degree, somebody else will have to decide, but he was talking about the surge, he described it and said that we had no business patrolling the streets to prevent the Sunnis and Shi\u2019as who have been hating themselves for centuries from fighting with each other and that we ought to be fighting terrorists, not Islamofascists. Well, excuse me, who does he think those terrorists are? Wow.<\/line> RUSH: Well, you have to put this in the context in which Senator Schumer meant it, and that see, you know, the left is pounding this. This is a sectarian civil war, this is neighborhood violence, and this is not terrorism, these are not the people that attack us. They\u2019re trying to discredit the whole operation with that by drawing analogies to Vietnam, the civil war aspects and characteristics of that. But every time they open their mouths on things like this they do illustrate just as Sylvestre Reyes, the new chairman of the House intelligence committee has no clue whether Al-Qaeda is Sunni or whether it\u2019s Shi\u2019a. They don\u2019t know who these people are. They think they can draw a distinction between people committing terrorist acts in Iraq and people like Al-Qaeda who commit terrorist acts against us and so forth. But terrorism is terrorism. And the insurgents are terrorists as well. I agree with you, it is apparent ignorance, but he\u2019s not ignorant. He knows exactly what he\u2019s doing. <\/line>Look it, folks, when you hear these Democrats and Hillary now talking about this, there\u2019s something that you can never forget, and that is, they cannot afford now for the US to be victorious in Iraq. They politically cannot afford it. Take yourself forward to 2008. Let\u2019s speak hypothetically. Let\u2019s say in the next 18 months that there is an overwhelming success in Iraq, that the insurgents and the terrorists are quelled, and that there is peace and so forth, imagine the books and the articles that will be written about this dramatic come back, the great valor of the US troops, the stick-to-itiveness and toughness of President Bush, do you think any Democrat wants that kind of stuff being written in a presidential election year? They cannot, cannot permit it. The new commander, General Petraeus says we\u2019ll know by May whether or not the new surge, reinforcements are working. Isn\u2019t it interesting that Democrats are now beginning to say we need to start pulling troops out in May, and if they chose that month coincidentally or at random? <\/line>They cannot afford for us to win this. They are so politically exposed on the impossibility of victory, they have already concluded that we\u2019ve lost, there\u2019s no way that they can claim credit for victory, if it happens, not with — well, they could try, but I mean they\u2019re not going to be able to do it with any credibility. Then you\u2019ve got Pelosi traveling in the Middle East this weekend, which we\u2019ll have more on that as the program unfolds. But never forget that, when you listen to these people talk about we shouldn\u2019t be there fighting an insurgency and so forth, you understand, they\u2019re trying to get inside your head and cause you to have doubts about this so that you will eventually support them when they de-fund this, because they will have to do that at some point. They will do that. They will make every effort to de-fund the troops, if it takes that to prevent victory. Because victory is the one thing politically that would ruin them. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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