{"id":32733,"date":"2009-06-18T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:15:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:27","slug":"what_role_has_iraq_played_in_iran2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/18\/what_role_has_iraq_played_in_iran2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Role Has Iraq Played in Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Debbie in Jacksonville, Florida, hi, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I\u2019m a longtime listener.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I just… Over the past few days, with the uprising in Iran, I have heard nobody even mention that this could probably be because Iraq is free and that the people in Iran want the same freedoms. And of course no one wants to give George Bush any kudos for that, but I really believe that that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you may have a point that there partial consideration has to be given to it. But I must tell you the Iranian population has long been simmering — and a large percentage of it long simmering — with opposition to the mullahs, the ayatollahs, to Ahmadinejad. That opposition has grown and grown and grown, and as the mullahs try to make the world think that they\u2019re engaging in a democracy by staging elections — which are just fraudulent as they can be; they\u2019re just totally irrelevant elections; they\u2019re just for show for the rest of the world — the Iranian people think, ‘Okay, well, we got a chance here,\u2019 and then when they find out they\u2019ve just been duped and they\u2019re participating in a fraud, they erupt, because they\u2019ve been simmering for many years. I don\u2019t doubt that the situation in Iraq plays a role, here. That\u2019s a good point. I wish I could say it\u2019s big, but I don\u2019t know what Iranian media allows in. So whatever the Iranian population knows about Iraq has to be from word-of-mouth, people going with back and forth. I don\u2019t think the Iranian media is touting Iraq and freedom there. I know they\u2019re not. The mullahs are not going to do that. <\/p>\n

I gotta take another brief break, ladies and gentlemen, the fastest three hours in media. I can\u2019t believe how fast time is flying today, but it is. So we\u2019ll take a brief time-out, we will continue straight after this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Brian in Kalamazoo, Michigan, great to have you. What\u2019s the population there, Brian?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I think combined between Portage and Kalamazoo it\u2019s roughly a hundred thousand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What was it ten years ago?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Probably about the same, quite frankly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, congratulations.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we so far have escaped a lot of the wrath of Granholm, but I\u2019m not holding my breath. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Congratulations.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much. Hey, Rush, just real quick. I have a nine-year-old stepdaughter and a son who was born two months ago Tuesday, and what an honor it will be to tell both of them that I got to speak to Rush H. Limbaugh III. Sir, I appreciate you taking my call, and I thank you very much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the point I wanted to make, and after I make a point, I have one more quick thing, if you\u2019ll indulge me. But my point is about the criticism of Obama\u2019s silence on the Iranian election. And I look at it as he really doesn\u2019t have any other choice, and the reason is, is, what you\u2019re asking him to do is to condemn voter intimidation and voter —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — fraud and election theft —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — but, wait —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sir, sir, but when you look at the way Holder and his Justice Department handled the Black Panthers in Philly, when you look at the fact that he\u2019s a product of the political machine in Chicago, and you look at the ACORN fraud, this is consistent with what he was raised on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but nobody\u2019s going to call him on that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I know, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The State-Run Media is not going to say, ‘Hey, wait a minute, you hypocrite.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they should, though.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They won\u2019t. That\u2019s not the reason. That\u2019s not why he\u2019s not doing it. He doesn\u2019t want to offend the Muslim world. What do you think the Cairo speech was about? He does not follow in the tradition of every American president standing up for liberty. This guy doesn\u2019t want to offend the Muslim world. I really think that\u2019s part of the reason why he\u2019s dissing his gay supporters right now because homosexuality is kind of frowned on in the Middle East, the Muslim community. Remember Ahmadinejad, when he came to Columbia to do his version of Obama\u2019s Cairo speech, you remember that, folks? And what happened? He got a question about gay rights and he said, ‘Well, we don\u2019t have any of those in Iran.\u2019 And the students in the audience started chuckling. He said, ‘What, you know something I don\u2019t? Where do they live?\u2019 Remember that? So Obama went over there, this big speech in the Muslim community, he made a big deal of his Muslim background, his background on Islam, he even had a mustache for one day, had a mustache. He didn\u2019t have his wife there, either. Women in the Muslim world are not on stage with their husbands when their husbands are leaders, and look, folks, I know this may sound a little harsh. This guy is doing more than he can to destroy Israel and the settlements than he is trying to hold to account a bunch of tyrants rigging an election. He\u2019s not standing up for freedom and liberty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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