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RUSH: An amazing thing happened on Hardball last night. Heather Wilson, Republican congress-babe from New Mexico, was a guest on Chris Matthews\u2019 show and the other guest was Robert Wexler, the representative from Congress from down in Boca, although he doesn\u2019t have a house there. We just learned this. He lives in Maryland. His official residence is his mother\u2019s house where they don\u2019t allow kids. He\u2019s got three kids. Nevertheless that\u2019s not the story. They were on discussing the Obama speech in Germany and Chris Matthews said, ‘Congresswoman Heather Wilson, what do you make of those remarks by Barack Obama today?\u2019 <\/p>\n

WILSON: Saying something like there\u2019s a wall between the United States and Europe? I mean, we\u2019ve been allies with Western Germany and Germany as a whole since the end of the second world war. NATO is one of our strongest alliances and so what is he talking about? What\u2019s the substance behind that? <\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: He\u2019s talking about the fact that Europeans hate George Bush. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

WILSON: — assure Americans that the mistakes that he made with respect to Middle East policy because of his experience, maybe they shouldn\u2019t be concerned about that. He went there because of his inexperience to try to give himself some kind of patina of credibility. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Matthews said, ‘Are you saying the United States has a good relationship with Europe in the last seven years?\u2019 <\/p>\n

WILSON: Absolutely, yes. The U.S. relationship with NATO, with the U.K., our relationship with the United Kingdom has never been closer and that\u2019s been spurred by common mutual interests. I used to serve at NATO when there were 16 NATO countries and we were facing the former Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. We have very close relationships with our Western European allies and I think that continues, with Angela Merkel or with President Sarkozy or with the Brits, I think very close relationships. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Matthews says ‘Congressman Wexler, do you agree with that, the Europeans have liked the Bush administration? I haven\u2019t seen that love affair at all.\u2019 <\/p>\n

WEXLER: Transatlantic relations have suffered greatly under the Bush administration and what does that mean to Americans? What it means is we were not effective in engaging a coalition of countries to participate with us in the Iraq war, the tragedy of the Iraq war. This president unfortunately — excuse me. (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

WILSON: The Brits are there fighting and dying alongside American troops in Iraq.<\/p>\n

WEXLER: Yes, and I applaud the British. <\/p>\n

WILSON: The Canadians, Germans, the British are there in Afghanistan, and you know it.<\/p>\n

WEXLER: This President has been ineffective in convincing our allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, the fight we need to win. But let me tell you where Senator Obama where — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

WILSON: The Germans are increasing by 1,000 troops this year, Robert, and if Barack is so effective, did he convince Angela Merkel today to reduce the restrictions on the German forces there?<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Let me tell you something. I\u2019ve never heard anybody shut up Bob Wexler, but she did and she did so brilliantly and effectively. See, this is another one of these media narratives, that the Europeans hate us. Tony Blair and George Bush were inseparable. Sarkozy and Merkel, big time on board. This is just a continuation of the myth. And Heather Wilson is very reserved here and she\u2019s very on point. Germans increasing by 1,000 troops this year, Robert, if Barack is so effective, did he convince Angela Merkel today to reduce the restrictions on the German forces there? Finally, Matthews says to Wilson, ‘But the French, the Germans, so many other countries in Europe, they did not support our war in Iraq.\u2019 <\/line> <\/line> WILSON: We have British troops with us in Iraq. There\u2019s no question that there were differences on policy. But to say that somehow there is a wall in NATO that\u2019s running somewhere down the Atlantic shows Senator Obama\u2019s inexperience when it comes to understanding where we are. You see that in a number of other things. I mean, look at his platform. He has these kind of message-tested, poll-tested things like we should — Barack Obama will make sure that we take, he will negotiate with the Russians to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert? It\u2019s a great idea. It was done 20 years ago. He seems to be unaware of American history, and that\u2019s inexperience which causes people some real concern about whether he\u2019s ready for the Oval Office. <\/line> <\/line> RUSH: I guarantee you Matthews was blindsided because he\u2019s got this notion the Europeans hate us. Heather Wilson: ‘No, no, no, you\u2019ve never been right about this. The French may not have been our friends early on in this.\u2019 But Matthews is sitting there — it\u2019s kind of like — I can imagine what went through his head when he\u2019s hearing all this. Remember after Vaclav Klaus came to the National Press Club and gave his dissertation on global warming and Juan Williams said, ‘I\u2019ve never heard anything like this, I\u2019ve never… I didn\u2019t know. I\u2019ve never questioned the environmental movement, I\u2019ve never heard this.\u2019 And his eyes were opened, even though it\u2019s all over the place, the environmental movement gets questioned. So the same thing here with Matthews. Europeans hate us, that\u2019s it, period. Wexler says yeah, they didn\u2019t help us out, Bush didn\u2019t have a coalition, Bush screwed up, Bush is horrible. Heather Wilson says it\u2019s not true and here\u2019s the reason why and here are the facts. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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