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RUSH: I want to play these Algore sound bites again from yesterday. I know we put \u2019em up at RushLimbaugh.com and Drudge had them up for awhile yesterday. They\u2019re all over YouTube. This is just mind-boggling. It\u2019s September 29th, 1992, Algore at the Center for National Policy. Now, he\u2019s the vice presidential nominee at this point. This is in the middle of the campaign. The Gulf War is in the past. We won the Gulf War. But, they\u2019re trying to attack Bush. It was ‘the worst economy in the last 50 years. Bush is incompetent. He should have taken Saddam Hussein out. He stopped halfway there.\u2019 <\/p>\n

<\/line>These guys are trying to overcome the image of liberal Democrats as soft on use of the military and this sort of thing. But the point of this is Algore is out there talking about how Bush lied. He\u2019s joining the Democrat chorus. ‘Bush lied! There were no weapons of mass destruction. He fudged the intelligence. The whole thing was made up as an excuse to go into Iraq for whatever conspiratorial reason, to get oil or to have some opportunity to go into Iran later, or to cover up for the fact that we aren\u2019t going to get bin Laden,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You\u2019ve heard it all. On the basis of that and Algore\u2019s, um, (sigh) exhaustive work on global warming, he, of course, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, as have I. My sponsors are seriously considering sending these three bites to the Nobel Committee. We don\u2019t trust that they know how to use YouTube to see these, because this ought to disqualify and discredit Gore any time in the future on whatever he says. Here\u2019s the first of three bites. It\u2019s nine and a half minutes long. We just culled the three that make the case here from this speech on September 29th of 1992.<\/line><\/p>\n

ALGORE: Bush deserves heavy blame for intentionally concealing from the American people the clear nature of Saddam Hussein and his regime and for convincing himself that friendly relations with such a monster would be possible and for persisting in this effort far, far beyond the point of folly. Throughout this period, Saddam\u2019s atrocities continued. In March of 1988, Saddam used poison gas on the Kurdish town of Halabja, brutally murdering some 5,000 innocent men, women, and children — and none of us can ever forget the pictures of their bodies, of parents trying to shield their infants, even in death that were in our news media and around the world. The Iran-Iraq war then ended in August of 1988, and Iraq had not prevailed, but neither had it been defeated. As a result, you would think that the administration would give our policies a second look to see if they should be altered. But the Reagan-Bush administration never hesitated even when the news became much, much worse.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Keep listening, folks. It just gets better with each bite.<\/p>\n

ALGORE: In January 1989 President George Bush was sworn in. Based on plentiful evidence, he had reason to know that his ongoing policy regarding Iraq was already malfunctioning badly. Just last week we learned of a memorandum written in March of that year, just two months after his inauguration, to Secretary of State James Baker, as Baker prepared to meet with a senior Iraqi official in which the author of the memorandum noted that Iraq continued to cooperate with terrorists, that it was meddling in Lebanon, that it was working hard at chemical and biological weapons and new missiles. These are exact quotes from the memorandum to the administration. And most significant of all, in the same month, September of 1989, the CIA reported to Secretary of State Baker and other top Bush administration officials that Iraq was clandestinely procuring nuclear weapons technology —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! 1992, CIA credible. The CIA told Bush he\u2019s working on nukes! They have wanted to effectively impeach Dick Cheney over this. They say there was never any ties to Saddam and terrorism, Al-Qaeda was everywhere, even in the United States. Al-Qaeda was in Minnesota, was in Florida. It was never in Iraq. This is just mind-blowing to me. Here\u2019s the rest of this bite.<\/p>\n

ALGORE: — through a global network of front companies. Did all of this make any impression at all on President Bush? Did his judgment on foreign policy come into play when he was told that this nation with a record of terrorism, continuing, was making a sustained, concerted effort to acquire weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, and biological? Well, evidently not. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, apparently it didn\u2019t make much of an impression on you guys, either, because you dropped it like a hot potato the moment you were inaugurated because you didn\u2019t have the guts to deal with hard issues. This is irresponsible. These people ought to be disqualified. Algore ought to never be on television talking about this again. The media ought to be embarrassed to have him on talking about this. They ought to be embarrassed and every Democrat ought to be embarrassed, listening to this: 1992, 15 years ago, Algore trying to warn this country over the danger we faced from Iraq and the fact that George Bush 41 was doing nothing about it. Of course these guys were inaugurated; they serve eight years. They don\u2019t do anything about it, either — except when impeachment came up, Clinton did give a speech in 1998 that\u2019s almost verbatim what George W. Bush has said about this since 2002. But the Drive-Bys who all know this, want to forget it, want to pretend it didn\u2019t happen because the action line is: ‘Bush sucks. Bush irresponsible. Bush lied.\u2019 Anything that doesn\u2019t move that action line forward for the Drive-By Media is going to be ignored, just like this will be ignored. He will not be asked about this by anybody. If he cares show up on a cable news show, he will never, ever be asked about this. Here\u2019s the third bite to wrap it up.<\/p>\n

ALGORE: The text of NSD 26 blindly ignores the evidence already at the administration\u2019s disposal of Iraqi behavior in the past regarding human rights, terrorism, the use of chemical weapons, the pursuit of advanced weapons of mass destruction. Instead, it makes an heroic assumption of good behavior in the future on the basis of an interesting theory, namely, that Iraq would suddenly and completely change its ways out of a fear of economic and political sanctions. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. I can\u2019t let this go. These are ones that are advocating sanctions now against Iran. These are the ones that advocate the ‘global test,\u2019 bring the UN in, and let\u2019s talk to our allies and make sure we get permission from them and let\u2019s do sanctions. We must do sanctions, never military strikes! Listen to what he\u2019s calling for now. He\u2019s pooh-poohing sanctions. They don\u2019t work. Bush is stupid for thinking they will, against such an evil guy.<\/p>\n

ALGORE: Well, it leaps from the page that George Bush, both as vice president and president, had done his utmost to make sure that no such sanctions would ever apply to Saddam Hussein. … The question is unavoidable: Why should Saddam Hussein be at all concerned about a threat of action in the future from George Bush, the same man who had resolutely blocked any such action in the past? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. Yeah, and he probably wasn\u2019t afraid because you guys in your eight years didn\u2019t do diddly-squat but kill a janitor in a missile strike on a Saturday night into an empty building. All of a sudden we elect a guy who is going to do something about this that the UN didn\u2019t do, and now what do you guys do in the Democrat Party? Try to discredit him, in the process discredit yourself, and you end up actually seeking to secure the defeat of the United States in this and the US military, all for your own personal political gain and your party. Here\u2019s the rest of the bite.<\/p>\n

ALGORE: To the contrary, Saddam had every reason to assume that Bush would look the other way no matter he did. He had already launched poison gas attacks repeatedly, and Bush looked the other way. He had already conducted extensive terrorism activities, and Bush had looked the other way. He was already deeply involved in the effort to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and Bush knew it, but he looked the other way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) This is beyond description. Anyway, I wanted you to hear that again. We played it the first hour yesterday, and you may not have seen it on various websites out there, including mine. So I wanted you to hear it if you didn\u2019t catch it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Chris in Kansas City, Missouri — you don\u2019t have to put ‘Missouri\u2019 up there, Snerdley, Kansas City, Kansas, is a myth. You just put ‘Kansas City\u2019 up. (interruption) Well, there is one, but nobody goes there. Chris in Kansas City, Missouri, hello. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Spoken like a former resident. I like to hear that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right. (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, it\u2019s a great honor being on this show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to — you know, something I was thinking about, when you brought up the wage issue, and it just seems to me that there\u2019s a labor surplus because of the immigration, the illegal immigration —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they say there\u2019s not. What they\u2019re saying is that we\u2019ve got jobs being unfilled.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s just not true. I mean, to say that Americans won\u2019t do a certain job, it\u2019s true at a certain wage they won\u2019t do that job but if you raise that wage, they will, and you don\u2019t have a labor surplus. What\u2019s going to happen is the wages for those jobs will go up, which is what the Democrats say they want anyway. I just want to say one other thing, that Algore is a big watermelon, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Red communist on the inside, and green on the outside.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Green on the outside, red on the inside, yes, yes. (Laughing.) All right. I once had a guy in the timber industry tell me that\u2019s what he thought the environmental movement was, a bunch of watermelons, green on the outside, red on the inside.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Algore is the biggest watermelon head I\u2019ve ever seen. I can\u2019t believe anybody takes that guy seriously.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, hey, he\u2019s the Fred Thompson of the Democrat presidential field. Everybody is just waiting for him to run — and by the way, did you hear what Clinton said? Clinton was asked if he thought Algore would get in, and Clinton said (Clinton impression), ‘Oh, yeah. I think he\u2019s going to get in. I think you\u2019ll see Gore get in.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: You shouldn\u2019t mention Fred Thompson and Algore in the same sentence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, Clinton said, ‘He\u2019s got his own money. He\u2019s got a lot of money, a lot of his own money and if somebody stumbles out there, somebody slips, then I think he\u2019ll get in.\u2019 Now, who is going to slip? Somebody will (you know somebody will), so he thinks Gore is going to get in. So of the top tier Democrats you\u2019ve got Hillary, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary Clinton, you have Barack Obama and you have the Breck Girl. Who else is in? Is that pretty much the top tier, or is there a fourth that I\u2019m forgetting?<\/p>\n

CALLER: But you shouldn\u2019t even mention Algore and Fred Thompson in the same sentence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m talking about in the sense that the Democrats are unhappy with their field and Republicans are unhappy with theirs, and Thompson, in the Rasmussen poll, he\u2019s tied with Giuliani, six points behind. That\u2019s within the statistical margin of error in I think Bloomberg poll, so — and Gore, you know, he doesn\u2019t poll all that well yet, but he\u2019s the great watermelon hope. Of Clinton, Obama, and the Breck Girl, which of those will slip? Well, you know Hillary is not going to slip. So Obama or Edwards, who\u2019s going to slip?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Edwards, of course!<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Edwards, of course.\u2019 Okay. Bill Clinton\u2019s theory is that that\u2019s when Gore gets in is when one of these people slips.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Gore\u2019s got so much to lose by trying to run again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you can\u2019t factor the question of ego out of anybody who runs for president. In fact, you gotta have a strong ego. You gotta think the country can\u2019t get by without you. I think Gore could pick up the anti-Hillary vote, both the smart and the dumb anti-Hillary vote. I think there\u2019s a pining away, especially the anti-war crowd. Of course, once these sound bites of his get out there, any number of possibilities exist. Chris, thanks for the call. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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