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RUSH: You know one of the funniest things in Harry Reid\u2019s comments on the floor of the Senate yesterday was this. He said, ‘I can\u2019t help but wonder how my Republican colleagues would have reacted if the tables were turned, if a well-known Democrat radio personality had used the same insulting line of attack against troops who support the war.\u2019 What\u2019s funny about that is, what ‘well-known Democrat radio personalities\u2019 are there? The fact is, there are several Democrat radio personalities who do just what Senator Reid said. They trash the troops daily and have been for four years. It\u2019s just that nobody hears it because their audiences are minuscule. You could put the totality of their audiences in a thimble and still have room left over for some scotch, or rum, vodka, whatever your preference. Even Diet Coke or Snapple. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Leon. Leon\u2019s in Frederick, Maryland. Great to have you, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I\u2019m going to give you old-fashioned traditional liberal dittos from Jefferson and Locke, the people who really understood what liberalism was, the inventors of the concept — which is individual rights, individual values. The basis of the Democratic Party; supposed to be the basis of our democratic country. I\u2019m appalled at the contemporary anti-war movement. I was a leader of the anti-Vietnam War movement. You could argue the differences and they\u2019re appallingly easy to see. Vietnam, we were sticking our nose in somebody else\u2019s business. Here, we were attacked. You can\u2019t argue that. You can argue everything else, but you can\u2019t argue — we were attacked. These idiots that are our competition in America don\u2019t have any concept that the people we\u2019re fighting want to kill us, and the first ones they\u2019ll put against the wall will be Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of them. We have absolutely no way to argue the war because there is no conscious, competent other side to talk to. They offer nothing, and I am broken-hearted by it because it totally destroys the concept of a balanced conversation — and I\u2019m just tongue tied.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is way cool! You are a leader of the Vietnam War anti-war movement, and you are saying that the current crowd of anti-war people is embarrassing and doing your cause, your reputation great harm, correct?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Horrible harm. It\u2019s atrocious. My specific job in the anti-war movement was to run the marshaling program in DC to make sure that the crazy people did not embarrass us by attacking the police or doing anything stupid, and we succeeded because we cared about a civilized discourse. There\u2019s no civilized discourse now. It\u2019s all the attempt of one-upmanship without any understanding about what the issues are! You and I could argue domestic policy between now and when the cows come home but if the tower bomb or Al-Qaeda or any of these people win, you and I are both out of business — and they don\u2019t have a clue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you hit the nail on the head with that. You are so right on the money. Not only that, this current crop has to lie and they have to prop up phony soldiers in order to make their anti-war case.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. It breaks my heart. The first anti-war movement demonstration I was involved with was in 1966 in Baltimore. The first of ten people were in wheelchairs. They were real soldiers. I don\u2019t see anybody today who would even announce what they truly did! Now, it would be okay to be a soldier and be against the war. You could be an honorable person and be against the war. But when you are a liar and then you prove it, all it does is diminish the position that you\u2019re supposed to be supporting. They haven\u2019t a clue. It makes them even weaker.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, here\u2019s another big difference. You guys succeeded in turning public opinion. They haven\u2019t, and so now they\u2019re desperate, and they have to resort to lies and false pictures and false images in order to try to convey the notion that they have succeeded in converting public opinion on a majority basis to defeat, to get out now, to lose.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely, because the basis of their argument is false. ‘If we walk, we can still survive.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t work!<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) All right, look, thanks. I appreciate the call so much, Leon. I really do. All the best to you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nice to talk to you. <\/p>\n

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