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RUSH: I have gotten to know via e-mail a couple of great friends in the US Military, the US Air Force. I\u2019ll take you back, with a very brief lead-in here. This has to be three years ago now, maybe four. I walked home one day, got home one day, and there was a FedEx, and I opened the box, and it was an American flag in a Ziploc bag and a number of certificates validating that the flag had been flown on all those aircraft in the original invasion of Iraq, in my honor. It brought tears to my eyes. The letter explaining this was handwritten on legal pad from Mark Hasara, who flew the DC-10 or the KC-10 tanker that refueled all these attack jets on the original bomb run, and, in the process of my getting to know Colonel Hasara, he told me about his good friend Tazz, Joseph Katuzienski, who is all over (laughs) the Middle East wreaking havoc on the enemy. We last heard from Tazz in an e-mail when he threw the French refrigerator off the top of the Baghdad International control tower; the refrigerator made in France, it continued to fail. And I\u2019ve become e-mail buddies with Tazz, and he\u2019s been wanting to come on the program and describe for the American people the success they\u2019re having. So we have with us from somewhere parts unknown in Iraq, Joseph Katuzienski. Welcome, Tazz, to the program. It\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n

TAZZ: Rush, it\u2019s an honor to speak with you. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, what is it, Tazz, that you wanted to tell everybody? Let me say this. The e-mails that I get from you are constantly describing victory. You\u2019re describing great success in what you\u2019re doing. Are you directly involved in the so-called surge with your Air Force guys?<\/p>\n

TAZZ: Absolutely, Rush. The Air Force has been surging to, you know, conduct our combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we\u2019re doing one heck of a great job. It\u2019s inspiring, Rush, to see the looks on these airmen and these soldiers\u2019 faces when you\u2019re out there with them, working with them every day, and it\u2019s not just Americans. The three-two Georgian Brigade out there in Iraq is doing just a great job, and the Iraqi army themselves, I had personal experience with. Rush, if you see it on their faces, it\u2019s inspiring, and some people may think, ‘You know, we\u2019ve been at this war for so long right now.\u2019 People just want to throw in the towel and, you know, hang up their efforts and just go home, but not so. Victory is in the air. These guys are working hard, the airmen are flying every day, 24\/7, you name it. You mentioned Sluggo, my friend, my close personal friend. We\u2019re out here, Rush. We\u2019re taking it to the enemy, and it\u2019s an honor and a privilege to do this on behalf of the American people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you able to watch daily newscasts from the United States?<\/p>\n

TAZZ: Well, we get CNN and we get Fox and all those things. Yeah. I don\u2019t personally watch them that much, Rush. We\u2019re so busy, you know, keeping our nose to the grindstone in the fight, but, no, we\u2019re able to watch all those shows. Yeah, we do, but not as much as you\u2019d think we would. We\u2019re so busy just keeping at it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you noticed —<\/p>\n

TAZZ: — 24\/7, you know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you noticed, Tazz…? Well, you haven\u2019t probably been able to watch enough to notice, but the Iraq war is not really being covered much on CNN or PMSNBC or ABC, NBC, CBS. You really can\u2019t find a whole lot about the Iraq war going on the news these days, and there\u2019s a simple reason for it: You are succeeding! You\u2019re having immense success. The enemy is being shellacked and they\u2019re retreating and they\u2019re in many cases heading to Afghanistan or even Pakistan, and it\u2019s noticeable. I made the prediction not long ago: the Iraq war is not even going to be a feature of this presidential campaign, barring some other new event that comes up. But I think the efforts by the American left in this country to secure defeat have themselves been defeated and they\u2019re now into retreat. So the stamina and the staying power of all of you people in uniform — knowing full well that too large a percentage of this country has been invested in your defeat. It has been beaten back. You guys really are a tribute to the best and brightest this country has.<\/p>\n

TAZZ: Well, thanks, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to hear you say that. It\u2019s inspiring, like I said before, to see these folks out here doing the work every day, and I\u2019m humbled by their hard work, by their courage. A lot of these guys left their families behind to fight this war, and the families back home are paying a big price for us being out here, but we\u2019re in the fight for freedom. We can see victory on the face of the people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we\u2019re keeping at it, Rush. From my perspective, it\u2019s working. But we need to keep at it. Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How many tours have you done in Iraq?<\/p>\n

TAZZ: Well, this is my third tour in the Middle East. My first tour was back in Desert Storm. I flew F-15 fighters way back then.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: How long has it been since you had leave and were back home in the United States?<\/p>\n

TAZZ: The last time I was back in the United States was in July this past year, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For how long?<\/p>\n

TAZZ: Just under a month. I went back home for a month for some family reasons, and I\u2019m back. I haven\u2019t been back since, but, you know, time flies when you\u2019re out here, and I miss my family, like we all do, and we think about them often. But we need to win this fight and that\u2019s why I\u2019m here, and all the other airmen that work beside me are as well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where\u2019s your family? When you go home here in the United States, Tazz, where do you go?<\/p>\n

TAZZ: I live in Virginia, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Northern or southern?<\/p>\n

TAZZ: Does it matter? (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

TAZZ: Southern. I\u2019m a Virginia Tech, fan, okay? I\u2019ll get it out there. I\u2019m a Virginia Tech fan, even though I graduated from the University of Kansas way back when, but we\u2019re from the Norfolk area right by the Navy base, the Marine Corps base, Little Creek, and 1st Fighter Wing at Langley.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Tazz, it\u2019s great to finally talk to you, and every time we get a call here from a member of the military serving overseas in whatever theater, I try to make it a point to tell you how much awe and appreciation there is from the majority of the many people for what you\u2019ve volunteered to do — and it\u2019s great that the audience here on this program can hear your devotion and your enthusiasm to the cause, because that in itself is inspirational and infectious. When are you going to get home? Do you have any idea?<\/p>\n

TAZZ: I should be home fairly soon, Rush. I can\u2019t really tell you the exact date. My wife knows when I\u2019m coming home. That\u2019s all that matters right now. But we\u2019re out here fighting for freedom. It\u2019s a tough fight; it\u2019s a good fight. You know, America — I think you\u2019ve heard this once before — we\u2019re the land of the free because of the brave, and we\u2019re at it. We\u2019re keeping at it, Rush, and thanks so much for supporting our troops and our airmen, soldiers, Marines out here every day out on point. It\u2019s a tough job, but it\u2019s well worth the effort.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tazz, it\u2019s an honor to know people like you, and it\u2019s an even bigger honor to be able to support you. God bless you, all the best, and a safe trip home, sir.<\/p>\n

TAZZ: Thanks Rush. It\u2019s been an honor talking to you. Take care.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Joe Katuzienski from somewhere, parts unknown, in the Air Force, in Iraq, taking it to the enemy.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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