Limbaugh in a Fit of Attack It is amazing that anyone takes Rush seriously. Conservatives like to assert that liberals are the ones guilty of caustic rhetoric and name calling yet they tune in to Rush's show and reward him for making wild, bizzare comments like those contained herein. 1/27 : BEGIN TRANSCRIPT This was all in the New York Times yesterday as well, and so you liberals are out there want to try to make a case the weapons of mass destruction is an intelligence failure and Bush isn't going to criticize them because they'll just leak against him and so forth, you know, it is a scary prospect to think that someone like you liberals are going to end up in charge of the intelligence agencies someday, is going to end up in charge of this country someday, is going to be responsible for defending this country someday because it's clear you have no interest in it, you're not oriented in it, and you don't understand it. You are so obsessed, the rage and the seething hatred that you have for Bush has caused all of you libs to totally abandon any rational outlook on the risk this country faces every day in a dangerous world. And you seemed to think even though you haven't found a way to get along with anybody but yourselves, you liberals seemed to think you can get along with the world's tyrants just by treating them nicely or whatever. You can't even get along with fellow Americans. You hate fellow Americans more than you hate America's enemies. You liberals think that Americans who you disagree with are posing a greater threat and are greater enemies than the people who drop bombs on our soldiers and fly airplanes into our buildings. You people have the wrong idea and a polluted, corrupted version of just who America's enemies are. You really do believe that Bush is the foremost enemy we have, and you've got to do anything to get him out of power so you can start making deals with people like Osama, so you can start making deals with people like Kofi Annan, so you can start making deals with all of these ragamuffin tyrants around the world because, frankly, you're scared to death of them. You're afraid of confronting them. You're afraid of defeating them. You're afraid what people might say about you, you're afraid that they might fight back, you're afraid that somebody might get hurt, you're afraid that somebody might die, you're afraid that something might go wrong, you are afraid to defend the country because you don't have the guts to stand up for this country. You want to give it up in order to get along and make yourselves feel happy. And you won't even make one effort to get along with your fellow citizens who disagree with you, and yet you want to hold them out as being more dangerous than the people who actually take action a gainst this country. You people are dangerous and cannot be trusted. And it's your own words and it's your own actions that make this obvious and conclusive. END TRANSCRIPT Rush never lets facts get in the way. He ignores the fact that miliatry action in Afghanistan was pretty much unanimous. Nobody was suggesting we "make deals with Osama". Rush's bit about who liberals enemies are is ludacris and bizarre. It is amazing that Rush thinks he is in a position to condemn those who disagree with Bush as unable, unwilling, unmotivated, etc. when it comes to defending this country. John Kerry, David Bonior, Tom Daschle, Max Cleland, Daniel Inouye, Charles Rangel, Tom Harkin and many others all know quite a bit about defending their country having served in the military. On the other hand there is Rush who used a pilondial cyst (boil) on his keister to avoid serving his country. The Bush administration told us Iraq posed a threat to our country. This was based on allegations of stockpiles of WMD, collusion with Al-Queda, etc. Cheney even insisted that Iraq had a nuclear weapon. The administration's rhetoric repeatedly put Sadam and Ossama in the same sentence, implying Sadam had somethting to do with 9/11. Thing of it is, no substantive evidence has been offered to justify any of this. The Iraq survey group has found no WMD, Colin Powell stated he doubts there were any weapons and doesn't believe Sadam and Al-Queda were in collusion. The "evidence" offered by Powell at the UN Security presentation broke upon scrutiny. General Zinni who led Centcom and immersed himself in the intelligence about Iraq stated, "not once did any of it say Sadam had WMD". We now have the situation where the president who campaiged against nation building, led the country into a unilateral invasion of a country that posed little threat and now we find ourselves in the biggest nation building effort since the Marshall Plan. The tax payers are spending 1 billion per week and over 500 American's have died. And we are still counting the blood and money. Questioning the legitimacy of the Iraq invasion and the wisdom of this administration's policy is logical and patriotic. Rush knows nothing about fact based debate. Instead he uses demagoguery and wild allegations to affirm the prejudices of his listeners. It is unfortunate they cannot seem to understand that Rush short circuits debate. And in so doing, we are all paying the price.
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