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RUSH: I mentioned in our last call the good neighbor meetings, the good neighbor policy between the Iraqis, the Iranians, the Syrians, and us. I have a few items on this today. I caught hell last night from people in the e-mail. ?I\u2019m sick of you bashing Bush! It\u2019s bad enough when I have to listen to other Republicans bash Bush on cable TV. You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about! Fallujah? You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about in anything! Sadr? Now here you are, ?It\u2019s not going to affect the policy at all if we talk to them.? The war plan is still the same. Why are you so upset? I?m sick and tired of you bushing Bush!? They were all over the place. (interruption) No, no, no, no. I\u2019ve not heard from the White House. I don\u2019t expect <\/emphasize>to hear from the White House to get my mind right on this. I wrote a couple of these people back last night. <\/line>I said, “Look, you have to understand where I\u2019m coming from. I want <\/emphasize>to back these guys. But six weeks ago they say this has no chance, and I applaud them to the roof.” The e-mail said, ?We talked to the Germans in World War II. We talked to the Japanese in World War II.? It isn\u2019t the same. We didn\u2019t go out there and say we weren\u2019t going to, and the level of talks that we had with the Germans? We didn\u2019t get together with the Germans to figure out how to solve the problem with Japan, and we didn\u2019t get together with the Japanese and ask them how we can solve the problem with Hitler. This is what I mean when I say I am the bulwark and the rock. None of this moved me, <\/emphasize>ladies and gentlemen. I\u2019m just sharing with you the criticism and the grief and the veritable shouting. Some of this stuff was in all caps, which means people are shouting. <\/line>I want to support these guys. You people gotta know this. But six weeks ago, two weeks ago, they tell us this is never going to happen<\/emphasize>. “We isolate our enemies. We don\u2019t sit down with them and break bread and have tea and play the State Farm good neighbor jingle,” and then, lo and behold, they do it — and then they slough it off on the Iraqis and they say it\u2019s the Iraqis. ?Well, the Iraqis told us — Maliki told us — they\u2019re going to talk to them regardless so we\u2019re going to go along.? I\u2019m just saying, from my standpoint, six weeks ago they say they\u2019re not going to do it. I praised the move. I defended it. I supported it. What am I supposed to do now, just cast away what I really think in order to be a cheerleader? Apparently that\u2019s what some people in the audience want. But that\u2019s not me. <\/line>Now, let\u2019s look at the stack here. First up is a New York Times<\/a> story: ?Iran to Take Part in Iraq Security Conference.? The good neighbors meeting. ?The top Iranian national security official, Ali Larijani, indicated Wednesday that Iranian officials would probably take part in a regional security conference on Iraq next month, which would include the first high-level diplomatic contacts between American and Iranian officials in more than two years.? Yeah, and prior to that we talked to them all the time. Carter talked to them \u2019til he lost his voice and his cardigan got holes in it. The EU\u2019s been talking to the Iranians about nukes, and the nukes are growing, and the UN\u2019s been talking to them and so forth. Yeah, a great track record out there on talking to them! Well, what harm could come of it? What harm could come from talking to them? Doesn\u2019t mean the war plan is going to change. <\/emphasize><\/line>Well, I\u2019m not sure about that. <\/line><\/p>\n

One of my fears is that the decision to throw in here might mean that somebody up there thinks, Ah, we\u2019re at the end of our rope. We gotta find a new way out of this.<\/emphasize> It\u2019s a genuine fear that I have. ?The Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, set a date on Wednesday for the conference: it is to be held March 10 in Baghdad.? Let me call up the calendar here. I need to find out what\u2019s happening on March the 10th. It\u2019s a Saturday, a slow news day. So Maliki is deciding when it\u2019s going to happen, and it\u2019s going to happen in Baghdad. ?The agenda will be how to rescue Iraq from a civil war that claimed about two dozen more lives.? Now, this is the New York Times, and I\u2019m naturally skeptical. But for the sake of discussion, let\u2019s assume that this sentence is accurate. ?The agenda will be how to rescue Iraq from a civil war that claimed at least two dozen more lives.? A civil war is what will happen if we leave. There is no civil war in Iraq.<\/emphasize> There might be some sectarian violence going on, on the part of Baghdad, one city, but it is not the country. <\/line>There\u2019s no civil war in the north. There\u2019s no civil war in the south. There\u2019s no civil war in the west. It\u2019s arguable that what\u2019s happening now is a civil war. Anyway, here\u2019s the agenda. We\u2019re going to bring the Iranians in, who are responsible for this, and ask them what we can do to rescue Iraq from a civil war that the Iranians are sponsoring and funding. They\u2019re providing personnel, and of course the bombs and explosives. All right. So the New York Times reports: ?Iran to Take Part in Iraq Security Conference.? The good neighbors meeting. The Associated Press<\/a> has a story: ?Iran\u2019s Participation at Summit Uncertain. Iran\u2019s Level of Participation at Iraq Summit Uncertain; Arab Nations Still Have Doubts — Iran\u2019s level of participation remained uncertain Thursday as Iraq pushed ahead with plans to hold a March 10 conference with its neighbors and key Western countries on the Iraqi security crisis. Some Arab neighbors like Egypt, for their part, still have grave doubts the gathering will accomplish much.? (clearing throat) They?re right.<\/line>?Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday the Iranians had agreed to participate in a meeting with Iraq\u2019s other neighbors. But he said ‘they have some questions\u2019 about a separate session that would be held the same day with the five permanent U.N. Security council members the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China. His words seemed to indicate that Iran was at least partly unhappy with the arrangements for the conference. Iran has had little public comment on the conference so far beyond saying it would weigh attending and that it generally supported regional efforts to stabilize Iraq.? Yeah, and in the meantime, in a story dated today — these stories are Wednesday — the New York Times says: Oh, yeah, Iran\u2019s going to be there, big time! Thursday: it\u2019s not certain Iraq\u2019s going to show up. Later today, this news<\/a> hit. <\/line>?Iran\u2019s president blamed the United States and Israel for the world\u2019s problems Thursday,? This is about the billionth time he\u2019s done the this year, ?in a lecture to Sudanese officials and intellectuals during his visit to Sudan. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s comments came as Iran and Sudan face mounting international criticism – Iran over its nuclear activities and Sudan over the conflict in Darfur. In his lecture Thursday titled ‘Iran and the World,\u2019 the hardline president reiterated arguments that he has made repeatedly throughout the standoff with the United States and its Western allies over Iran\u2019s nuclear activities. ‘There is no place in the world that suffers from divisions and wars unless America or the Zionists\u2019 fingerprints are seen there,\u2019 Ahmadinejad told his audience in Farsi translated into Arabic. He urged Muslims to rally behind Iran and accused detractors of Iran\u2019s nuclear program of trying to prevent a developing country from making scientific advances.?<\/line>All right, this is nothing new for Mahmoud to run around and say that the world\u2019s problems are caused by the Israelis and by us, the Americans. So I do remain skeptical of the good neighbors thing. I know a lot of you think that it\u2019s a tripwire; that it\u2019s a gimmick; and if it\u2019s tactical, then I will back off. As I said yesterday — I was very clear about this — if this is just a tactical move, and it doesn\u2019t affect any other aspects of the policy, the war plan or whatever, then fine. Go out and have your tea and crumpets (singing) “Like a good neighbor…” H.R. says, ?A lot of neighbors t don\u2019t like Iran but they get together.? Guess who\u2019s going to Saudi Arabia? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is going to make his first official state visit to Saudi Arabia! He?s going to go up there and he\u2019s going to go talk to the royal family about whatever. Well, you might say, ?I would, too,? if you were Mahmoud, because the Saudis are afraid. Everybody there is afraid of the Iranians. So why buckle to them? Everybody is afraid of them. So we\u2019re going to buckle to them. If this is not tactical, if this is strategic — if we\u2019re really, really, really serious about having the Iranians solve this problem — count me out.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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