Greetings, my friends, and welcome. Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB Microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. The telephone number today has not changed, ladies and gentlemen: 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address if you want to send an e-mail is Rush@eibnet.com. Got lots of great audio sound bites today. Dick Cheney yesterday, masterful on Meet the Press. Russert assumed the role of a prosecutor yesterday, and Cheney held up well. I watched The Path to 9/11 last night on the plane ride back home from Los Angeles. I wanted to watch the Manning bowl which was on at the same time. So I intended just to watch the parts of the movie I knew where there might be edits, and I couldn’t tear myself away from it, even a second time, ladies and gentlemen. We’ll talk about it in greater detail here in just a moment. But the edits were not that severe. They really weren’t.
You know, we’re civilized people. We have civilized rules of warfare. By the way, have you seen what happened to Abu Ghraib? The Americans have turned it over to the Iraqis and apparently there are screams and shouts coming out of the place now, “Bring back the Americans!” Abu Ghraib’s under new management. We practice civilized rule of warfare, and our own political considerations keep us from showing images of carnage inflicted upon civilian populations in Afghanistan and Iraq, all over the world, Bali, Spain, Kenya. Most people will never see recordings of the beheadings that the terrorists employ because that’s too graphic for our sensibilities. Those who insist that these barbaric acts they commit are on a religious mission are confronted in battle zones far from New York and the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. Our military and the civilian victims of terrorism are the only people who see this daily horror up close.
So here we are five years later, some Americans who have never been deprived of personal liberty at all view the war as a political game. Partisan journalists who abuse First Amendment privileges routinely leak national defense secrets. An entire political party solely intent on regaining its power has lost all clarity and has descended into the early stages of utter madness. Those who recognize that the Islamofascist threat to western civilization is real are themselves under attack from a spoiled, na?ve, leftist ideology and a template of moral relativism incapable of distinguishing good from evil. Even today, the Boston Globe, I kid you not — I’m going to paraphrase it — actually, I don’t know why I’m surprised, because I have been telling you this is what the left thinks all along. The Boston Globe has an editorial out today, Boston Globe owned by Little Pinch and the New York Times company, which honestly says that President Bush has done more harm to America than the 9/11 terrorist attacks themselves. They actually said it. They’ve always thought it, and I’ve known they always believed it. Bush is the terrorist.
I mean, it’s one thing to be flexible and able to adjust to a temporary situation, but do you really expect you, your children, and their children to continue on this legacy, remembering it one day a year? You’ve been complaining, the American left’s been complaining all along that everybody should sacrifice. What they really mean by that is that the rich should be hit with higher taxes. You want to sacrifice? Support the war effort instead of undermining it. Because there’s a hard, cold reality out there, ladies and gentlemen, that we must face. America is at war with Islamofascism, and American liberals are at war with America. And there is no doubt, make no mistake about it.
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