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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the president\u2019s press conference. The first question I want to play for you is from David Gregory, who I have a new nickname for: Brave Dave. Here is the question from David Gregory. It\u2019s about Iraq, that happened mere moments ago at a Rose Garden press conference.<\/p>\n

GREGORY: Mr. President, after the — mistakes that have been made in this war, when you do as you did yesterday, when you raised two-year-old intelligence talking about the threat posed by Al-Qaeda, it\u2019s met with increasing skepticism. The majority in the public, growing number of Republicans appear not to trust you any longer to be able to carry out this policy successfully. Can you explain why you believe you\u2019re still a credible messenger on the war?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we have Brave Dave, Brave Dave Gregory, a man who supports the troops as much as he supported Don Imus. Imus helped make him a star. When Imus got in trouble, there was Gregory running for the hills. Now, we talked about this yesterday. This business that the two-year-old intelligence dump that the president referenced yesterday is received by the American people with skepticism is absurd. It\u2019s received with skepticism by people like David Gregory in the media. Here\u2019s the president\u2019s answer to the question.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I\u2019m credible because I read the intelligence, David, and make it abundantly clear, in plain terms that if we let up, we\u2019ll be attacked. And I firmly believe that . You know, look, this has been a long, difficult experience for the American people. I can assure you, Al-Qaeda, who would like to attack us again, have got plenty of patience and persistence. And the question is, will we? Yeah, I talked about intelligence yesterday. I wanted to make sure the intelligence I laid out was credible, so we took our time. Somebody said, ‘Well, he\u2019s trying to politicize the thing.\u2019 If I was trying to politicize it, I\u2019d have dropped it out before the 2006 elections. I believe I have an obligation to tell the truth to the American people as to the nature of the enemy. And it\u2019s unpleasant for some. I fully recognize that after 9\/11, the calm here at home, relatively speaking, you know, caused some to say, ‘Well, maybe we\u2019re not at war.\u2019 I know that\u2019s a comfortable position to be in. But that\u2019s not the truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We talked about this yesterday, too. I\u2019m still stunned that more people — I can understand the media. The media, by virtue of the number of questions they asked on Iraq today, is still interested in forcing the president\u2019s surrender and defeat. They just want to blow this up prior to the 2008 elections. We talked yesterday about the fact that the people after World War II, our generation, the baby boom generation today, said, ‘How could the German people have let that happen? What went on?\u2019 You could ask the same question of what\u2019s going on today in America. How could the American people not understand what\u2019s going on? It\u2019s not as though 9\/11 didn\u2019t happen. It did, and you\u2019ve got Ahmadinejad, who today again has threatened Israel, threatened to wipe them off the map. He\u2019s done this frequently. <\/p>\n

Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, al-Zawahiri, it matters not who is on the enemies list. They\u2019re telling us plain as day what they\u2019re going to do. We\u2019ve got intelligence here that backs it up, and people in the Drive-By Media just don\u2019t want to believe it. It\u2019s stunning. You know my theory on this. We know the media is who they are. But in this country, why are so many of the American people — I\u2019m not sure what the percentage is — why are they so seemingly removed from this? The answer is, we\u2019ve got so much prosperity; we have so much affluence that people don\u2019t have pay attention to this if they don\u2019t want to. It\u2019s tough to pay attention. You pay attention to it and act like something\u2019s wrong, it requires you to take action or be vigilant or what have you, and some people just don\u2019t want to think of it as themselves or their neighborhoods or their country or various cities being threatened on a daily basis. I\u2019ve always thought it\u2019s going to take a couple more attacks to wake everybody up. The president continued, by the way, the answer to David Gregory with this.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: They are a direct threat to the United States. And I\u2019m going to keep talking about it. It\u2019s my job as the president is to tell people the threats we face and what we\u2019re doing about it, and what we\u2019ve done about it is we\u2019ve strengthened our homeland defenses; we\u2019ve got new techniques that we use that enable us to better than determine their motives and their plans and plots. We\u2019re working with nations around the world to deal with these radicals and extremists. But they\u2019re dangerous. And I can\u2019t put it any more plainly, they\u2019re dangerous. And I can\u2019t put it any more plainly to the American people and to them, we will stay on the offense. It\u2019s better to fight \u2019em there than here. And this concept about, ‘Well, maybe, you know, let us kind of just leave them alone and maybe they\u2019ll be all right,\u2019 is na&iuml;ve. These people attacked us before we were in Iraq. They viciously attacked us before we were in Iraqi. And they\u2019ve been attacking ever since. They are a threat to your children, David. And whoever\u2019s in that Oval Office better understand it and take measures necessary to protect the American people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Throwing down the gauntlet to the American people; throwing down the gauntlet to the Democrat Party; throwing down the gauntlet to David Gregory, ‘Your children are threatened, David.\u2019 Now, as to this notion that the November elections expressed the will of the people and, by the way, the kook fringe of the Democrat websites is going nuts today. MoveOn.org has finally gotten in gear. A number of people are suggesting Reid and Pelosi are total failures. Exactly what I knew was going to happen because they retreated from retreat; they surrendered from surrender by removing a definite time frame for withdrawal of US troops. So there\u2019s all kinds of problems out there on the Democrat side and the Drive-Bys are not going to tell you about. This notion that the November elections were about the will of the people or the will of the people wanted us out of Iraq, I\u2019ve had this in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers for a couple days, sitting on this. It\u2019s a poll from the Investor\u2019s Business Daily. Great, great publication. There are nine simple questions here. <\/p>\n

Question one: How important is a US victory in Iraq? All Americans — this is this month — 61% say it\u2019s important. Democrats, 44% say it\u2019s important. Republicans, 84% say it\u2019s important. How hopeful are you the US will be able to succeed in Iraq? All Americans, 56%. Break it down by party, Democrats 42%, Republicans 80% think that. Who would you like to see the president rely more on for advice on the conduct of the war? Field commanders 72%; the Congress 21%. Now, what is this? How can this possibly be, if the results of the election in November were that the will of the people was expressed to get out of Iraq? They don\u2019t want the Congress involved in this. Which of the following must be a higher priority for the United States: immediate trop withdrawal, 46%. Winning in Iraq, 40%. Now, that doesn\u2019t make sense with any of the other questions, but it\u2019s in there. Would you agree that the war is lost in Iraq? Percentage who disagree, all Americans, 54% disagree that the war in Iraq is lost. Would you agree the US is fighting a global war on terror? All Americans: 64%. Even 52% of Democrats say so. 81% of Republicans. A couple other questions here. But you get the drift. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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