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RUSH: Here\u2019s Wayne in Killeen, Texas. Wayne, glad you called, nice to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s a great thrill to talk to you. I\u2019ve been listening to you since I was a young sergeant in the Army and now when I\u2019m retired, a warrant officer, and working for the government again in support of our military. It\u2019s an absolute thrill. You\u2019ve always been there for us. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, as your screener probably told you, I am supporting John McCain, and I would like to just say why for a second and I hope you\u2019ll hear me out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Go right ahead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. John McCain represents an opportunity for us I think to unite the country on the premiere issue of our times, and that is the international war on terror which Iraq is definitely part of. We can\u2019t possibly risk having a Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama pull our troops out of there when we are so close to winning. John McCain represents an opportunity for us to win the election, and we\u2019re all on the same team here, Rush. Romney would definitely have my vote, should McCain not win the election. But I think McCain represents a possibility, although not likely with the Democrats the way they are, a possibility of unity, at least for a brief period of time, and that\u2019s what I have to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, interesting point. Two things. I\u2019m going to write down ‘unity\u2019 so I don\u2019t forget to go back to this. All right, it\u2019s McCain and Romney, but let\u2019s include Huckabee here. Do you have any doubt that Romney or Huckabee would not stay the course in the war on terror and the war in Iraq?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have little doubt of that no, I think they would.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No doubt. Okay. But you do have some doubt about Obama and Hillary?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019ve stated it, Rush. I mean, they\u2019re clear about it. They\u2019ve stated their intentions, and I take them at their word.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019ve stated both sides of it. In a debate back in December, it might have been November, but they were asked point-blank, ‘Can you pledge that all the troops will be out of Iraq by 2012,\u2019 in other words, four years after you take office, neither Edwards nor Hillary, none of them, except Kucinich, none of them said, ‘I\u2019ll make that pledge,\u2019 because the dirty little secret — I know I overuse that phrase — the dirty little secret is, there is no Democrat presidential candidate who is going to saddle himself or herself and their party with defeat in the war in Iraq and the war on terror while they\u2019re in the White House. They would love to have been able to pressure Bush. They\u2019re not going to be able to do that. They would have loved to have been able to pressure Bush to get the troops out so they can say Bush lost the war, Bush admits it\u2019s horrible, it\u2019s a big mistake, but when they\u2019re in power, they\u2019re in the White House, I\u2019ll guarantee you they are not going to pull troops out of there unless they can claim that victory has been had. Guarantee you. So there\u2019s no candidate, other than Kucinich — Huckabee, Romney, McCain, Hillary, Obama, all five are going to leave troops where they are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, I understand your point there, and you may be correct. I won\u2019t challenge that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — but the message they\u2019re sending is surely one of doubt. The people that are voting for them —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not saying there\u2019s no difference here between Hillary and Obama and McCain and Romney on this. I\u2019m just suggesting —<\/p>\n

CALLER: That heartens our enemies, Rush, that strengthens our enemies, that gives them hope when they hear that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. The Democrats are the party of Al-Qaeda, I understand this. The Democrats are the party of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I understand this. Let me go, because time is drifting by here quickly. I want to go back to your unity comment, a question. Because you\u2019re obviously a very serious guy, you\u2019re a member of the US military, been on the front lines, you\u2019ve been in harm\u2019s way, we all have, most of us in this country, profound respect and awe for you, and you and your comrades are owed a debt that most of us will never be able to repay. You sound like a serious guy. This concept of unity, are you speaking of it strictly in terms of unity in the war on terror, war in Iraq, all of the issues that face us on national security? Do you really think that\u2019s important and that McCain is the only guy who can take some of these fringe kooks on the left and some of these Democrats who have made their lives famous on the basis of being anti-war and turn them to unity with the national security crowd such as yourself, McCain\u2019s the only guy that can do that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sir, I\u2019m not saying he\u2019s the only guy that can do that, but what I am saying is when you\u2019re in a fight, any hesitation by your enemy is an opportunity. If McCain is elected president, there will be pause, there will be a moment in which we can seize the pause to gain some measure of unity in our effort to extract this war and win it. And all I\u2019m asking for is that opportunity. We don\u2019t need the divisiveness that is giving our enemy hope; that is my point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I certainly understand where you\u2019re coming from because I know how irritated I am at the left and have been. If I wore the uniform like you do, I can\u2019t imagine how literally angry and disgusted I would be with having to put up with some of the anti-war, anti-military, sabotage attacks that have been made against you, your comrades, and your commander-in-chief. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand that, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m taking you very seriously here. But at the same time, I think — well, this is just my opinion. I\u2019m not going to predict it, but I think that no matter who the president is, whether it\u2019s Hillary, whether it\u2019s Romney, Obama or McCain, that group of people that has been so disgusting — the Cindy Sheehans, she\u2019s sort of a cartoon now, but these people out there who have done everything they can to sabotage victory, they are anti-war by virtue of DNA, by virtue of blood. I\u2019ll tell you, they are going to turn on McCain just as they would turn on their own president, their own party, or George Bush. They\u2019re always going to be with us. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, we just had an interesting call, a conversation with a decorated military man, and I understand where you military guys are coming from. You\u2019re fed up with all of this division in the country, people attacking you, the mission, the commander-in-chief and so forth. In fact, I know it\u2019s a secondary concern. The concern is winning the war, sticking to it, and you think McCain is really the best guy for that. The secondary thing is this unity business. I would punt the unity. It isn\u2019t going to happen. These people, they\u2019re liberal Democrats, and when the rubber meets the road, they hate Republicans, even if they\u2019re McCain. Folks, you wait, if McCain ends up being the nominee, you\u2019re going to see the Drive-Bys and the Democrat opposition research people releasing stuff about this guy that\u2019s being held back now because they want to be the nominee. If you think that this unity business is going to take place, you do not know the left in this country. You do not know the enemy. Did Eisenhower get unity? No. Did Nixon get unity? No. Reagan get unity? No. Bush 41 get unity? No. Bush 43 get unity? No. Did Kennedy get unity? No. Did LBJ get unity? No. When the country is at war, the anti-war crowd is going to perk up, and a lot of them in the media. <\/p>\n

But one other thing that I would like to ask those of you who are military — and you know of my profound, deep respect and awe for you in the decades of support on this program, but I would like to ask you about McCain\u2019s support for closing Club Gitmo. Senator McCain wants to shut down Guantanamo Bay because of abuses that the Europeans are accusing us of committing, and so he wants to appease the Europeans and whoever the hell else around the world who thinks that we are committing torture. These are the people with whom we are at war. We have gleaned operational intelligence from people at Guantanamo. Waterboarding gave us everything we needed to know about the 9\/11 mastermind and hijackings and the strategery and the operations of it. Waterboarding, not torture. The attorney general was put on the spot yesterday in hearings and he told the guys at the committee, screw you — he didn\u2019t use those words. He didn\u2019t back down. Waterboarding is not torture. I\u2019m not going to tie my government\u2019s hands. He said, (paraphrasing) ‘I would love to institute my personal preferences on these kind of things, gentlemen, but I am the attorney general of the United States, and my first duty is the defense and protection of the Constitution here. I am not going to just by fiat tie my country\u2019s hands dealing with this enemy.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Senator McCain wants to do that. He wants to bring these prisoners of war into the United States, give them constitutional rights and lawyers, and basically fight the war in the court system. So on the one hand Senator McCain sounds all gung-ho, I\u2019m for the surge and this sort of thing, but if you look at some of the other things that he\u2019s trying to do, like cut down on the interrogations that take place. I mean, isn\u2019t that part of the war, the internal security of the country? We were attacked here on 9\/11, after all. I don\u2019t think we need to close Club Gitmo. Senator McCain says that if we waterboard these clowns we\u2019re no better than our enemy. What do the troops think of that? I\u2019m just throwing some questions out there, not trying to agitate, not trying to stir the pot. That happens naturally. Don\u2019t have to try. Just throwing some questions out there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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