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RUSH: Grand Rapids, Tim, you\u2019re up first today. Nice to have you on the EIB Network hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir. You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question for you is why more Republicans aren\u2019t, you know, staying on the mountaintops, screaming about all the yellowcake that we successfully removed from Iraq. This goes a lot deeper than that. It appears Joe Wilson was wrong when he went to Niger. It appears Barack Obama was wrong in his reasoning behind voting against the war in Iraq, and it appears that this does, if not exonerate the Bush administration, certainly goes a long way to at least dismissing a lot of the reports that have been coming out about how he lied to go to Iraq.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. There\u2019s a simple answer for this that\u2019s not satisfying, but one of the reasons that Republicans aren\u2019t standing up and shouting from the mountaintops is that the White House isn\u2019t, and the White House happens to be leading the Republican Party. The White House doesn\u2019t — you know, when there were chemicals and other weapons of mass destruction found, they didn\u2019t want a big deal made of it, and back then (now, this was just a rumor) one of the explanations was that we didn\u2019t want to announce it, the White House didn\u2019t want to make a big deal out of it because some of the weapons of mass destruction had been spirited out of there by the Russians, and we were trying to normalize or improve our diplomatic relations with the Russians. Correct me if I\u2019m wrong on this, but I think these 550 tons of yellowcake are from the Gulf War One back in the early nineties. Now, that\u2019s still big news, and the stuff\u2019s outta there. It\u2019s either in Canada or it\u2019s on its way to Canada, but it proves that Saddam was trying to nuke up. You\u2019re exactly right. Now, yellowcake by itself is worthless, you need centrifuges, but he was trying to buy those, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Joe Wilson was proclaimed a liar by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The number of people in the Senate and in the media said that Wilson\u2019s report from Niger actually confirmed what Saddam was doing. This whole Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame thing with the yellowcake and the leaking of his wife\u2019s name, that was one of the biggest travesties of the American legal system, and it was a giant, giant media hoax, because Joe Wilson was carrying the water for ‘Bush lied. People died.\u2019 They didn\u2019t care about the truth of it, and today they\u2019re not going to care about it. It\u2019s over. It\u2019s old news. The war in Iraq is being won. The surge is working. They\u2019re not talking about that. I\u2019ll tell you where this stuff that you want to hear — that we all want to hear — needs to come from is the McCain campaign. Now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s where it needs to come from.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The silence is deafening. It almost seems like he\u2019s not trying to win, the way he\u2019s campaigning. This goes right to Barack Obama\u2019s credibility on key issues, and his experience is showing through that he didn\u2019t know what he was talking about, and McCain is silent. I can understand why George Bush is silent. He\u2019s never been one to answer to his critics, but McCain is actually supposed to be trying to win.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have a different theory here about McCain on all this. I\u2019ll explain it very briefly. You know, we jokingly call Obama The Messiah, and I actually think that\u2019s how he thinks of himself. His campaign pictures always have him in a halo of light. But I think there\u2019s a part of Senator McCain that is similar to that, that he thinks the power of his being there, the power of his existence — coupled with everybody, in his mind, the fact that everybody — knows his story, it leads to valor and honor and integrity. I think he expects a lot of that to carry the day. I think Senator McCain might be running around thinking that America loves him just as much as they did three or four years ago when he was on Hardball every night playing the maverick role. I don\u2019t want to get into psychology. I\u2019m not a shrink. But I think people\u2019s attitudes are interesting to me, because their attitudes can lead you to discover motivation. Now, clearly, Obama has no experience. He\u2019s got limited experience. He\u2019s incompetent. Things that he has said about crucial national issues are dead wrong. He doesn\u2019t understand the economy. Now, it\u2019s still early. I hope that the Republicans are loading both barrels to go after this at the appropriate time. There\u2019s no time like the present, when Obama\u2019s here trying to shift his image with all these moves to the center. They\u2019re just phony, fake moves. He\u2019s still going to be the leftist that he actually espoused during the primaries. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s a frustrating thing. The war in Iraq is demonstrably now a success. I had dinner with some people last night and they always bring up politics when we talk. I don\u2019t understand, like I said last Wednesday before I got outta here, I just don\u2019t understand how the Democrats have a chance. In a sane political environment, they ought not be able to carry but two states, maybe three — New York, Massachusetts, and California, because there are just as many kooks in those three states as there are anybody else. But everything they\u2019ve done they\u2019ve botched. They are actively promoting the decline of America. They are actively promoting economic disaster. They are actively promoting and sought to secure defeat of the United States military in Iraq, and throughout the war on terror. They have impugned the reputations and intentions of the US military and Armed Services personnel all over the world. And that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. They\u2019ve made it very clear that they wish the Constitution were not in their way. In a sane political world (which we don\u2019t live in, of course) they wouldn\u2019t stand a chance. They would be a laughingstock, they would be a joke, and they would be in the process of rebuilding themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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