Posted on 01/28/2005 3:18:52 PM PST by LaserLock
RUSH: I am certain that Al-Jazeera got the tape. What I don't know is how many times Al-Jazeera has aired the tape. Yesterday a senator from the United States of America, ladies and gentlemen, pulled an Osama bin Laden: A last-minute attempt to manipulate a national election. Only this was worse than what Osama bin Laden did because this effort by this United States senator not only was an attempt to manipulate a national election, it was an attempt to sabotage the policy of his own country.
SENATOR KENNEDY: We have reached the point that a prolonged American military presence in Iraq is no longer productive for either Iraq or the United States. The US military presence has become part of the problem, not part of the solution. No matter how many times the administration denies it, there is no question they misled the nation and led us into a quagmire in Iraq. Despite the clear lesson of history, the president stubbornly clings to the false hope that the turning point is just around the corner.
RUSH: You remember, ladies and gentlemen, shortly -- by the way, you know where this term "quagmire" started? It's Walter Cronkite's word for Vietnam, and it is that expression of Cronkite's which is seen in the mainstream media to have turned the public opinion against the war. Thus, the use of "quagmire" as a word to describe Iraq by Senator Kennedy is no accident. Now, you'll recall that shortly before our election in November, Osama bin Laden tried to influence our election with a statement aired on Al-Jazeera. Yesterday, three days before the crucial election in Iraq, Senator Kennedy tried to influence the Iraq election and the demoralization of US troops and the undermining of US policy with a statement that he hopes will influence the election in Iraq. Among other things, Senator Kennedy said this as well:
SENATOR KENNEDY: The ending of the rule of Saddam Hussein was supposed to lessen violence and bring an irresistible wave of democracy to the Middle East. It hasn't. Saddam's capture was supposed to quell the violence. It didn't. The transfer of sovereignty was supposed to be the breakthrough. It wasn't. The military operation in Fallujah was supposed to break the back of the insurgency. It didn't. We have the finest military in the world, but we cannot rely primarily on military action to end politically inspired violence.
RUSH: The man is insane. He has lost his mind. None of what I have aired for you so far from his speech bears even a resemblance to the truth. None of what you just heard Senator Kennedy say has been stated by anyone. The ending of the rule of Saddam supposed to lessen violence? Not true. We were told just the opposite. Supposed to bring an irresistible wave of democracy to the Middle East? The downfall of Saddam was not what was going to bring that about. What will start that process will happen Sunday, the elections, which Senator Kennedy seeks to undermine. No one said that Saddam's capture would quell the violence. Quite the contrary. Everyone knew that Saddam's Ba'athists were still hanging around, plotting an insurgency, working from Syria and elsewhere -- and the president himself has warned the American people of this from the get-go. The military in operation in Fallujah was supposed to break the back of the insurgency? No, it was supposed to take Fallujah away from the insurgents. It did. We have the finest military in the world. That doesn't matter to Senator Kennedy. He's doing his best to demoralize that military and make them feel worthless and useless and pointless.
What's happening in Iraq today is not a political inspired act at all on the part of the insurgents. They do not represent an ideology. They do not represent a political movement. They do not represent a political party. They are simply savages. They're just beasts. They are murderers and thugs, and there is no other way to deal with them other than to kill them. We can't make treaties with them. We can't talk peace with them. We can't give them an island off the coast of Kuwait or anything else to appease them. The only thing that will appease them is actions such as that which Senator Kennedy wants, and if Senator Kennedy's ideas were to prevail, these insurgents would then expand their operations to other nations and then Senator Kennedy would force us to give in and cave in to them in those places until they were rightfully established as a dominant world power. Now, in this next bite, sounds to me like Senator Kennedy actually went out and hired a speechwriter for Zarqawi. He says here that terrorists "have won the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people" that we're losing and we should leave now.
SENATOR KENNEDY: We can't defeat the insurgency militarily if we don't effectively address the political context in which the insurgency flourishes. Our military and the insurgents are fighting for the same thing. The hearts and minds of the people, and that is a battle we are not winning. At least 12,000 American troops -- probably more -- should leave at once, to send a strong signal about our intentions and to ease the pervasive sense of occupation.
RUSH: Now, I have to say, folks, I'm worn out on Ted Kennedy. I'm doing this primarily because I feel a duty to, as America's leading talk show host, to report what he said and comment on it. But I'm simply worn out on him. He's a dinosaur. He's from the Jurassic Park wing of the Democratic Party. He's not persuading anybody. He's only helping the Democrat Party implosion. It makes me happy. He's only feeding that zoo full of kooks that make up the Democrat base, and all of that makes me happy. But at the same time, his comments here are extremely disgusting. They're just downright disgusting, bordering on traitorous if you ask me, and treasonous, and it is not something that we should just take lightly because we do not know what effect this will have on America's troops, who are in the line of fire. Now, don't misunderstand me. I mean, Senator Kennedy, like all of us, can say what he wants anytime he wants to. But I have to ask a question. Why yesterday? Why did Senator Kennedy open his big fat mouth three days before one of the most sensitive moments in the history of this nation's foreign policy? It's not as if he added anything new to his usual diatribes. It's just rehashing the same old theme of the Democratic Party and the John Kerry presidential campaign. So I have to ask: Why?
Why three days before the election? Why send a confusing message to the voters in Iraq three days before an election? Why aid and abet our enemies three days before an election? Why give Al-Jazeera such a gift of anti-American propaganda three days before an election? He can say what he wants. We all know what he's going to say when he says it. But the timing of when he said it, and his profile was very... Of course he speaks, the media bows down. It's like Caesar rolling into town. Why yesterday? It brings nothing new to the table. If this was before our election, you could say he's playing politics but we have no domestic election on tap. We don't even have a key wartime vote coming up. There's nothing domestically hinging on this. There's only one reason to do this, something so divisive three days before Sunday. There's only one reason to do it. That is to undermine the success of the elections to undermine the morale of the US troops. You tell me. Somebody want to say his handlers weren't watching him closely? Somebody say, "Well, he wants to be this war's Jane Fonda?" No, friends. He doesn't have any handlers. He's got no limits and he's got no editors. He's an 800-pound gorilla who can say anything he wants anytime he wants. Why did Senator Kennedy pull the an Osama bin Laden? As a corollary: Where is media responsibility on this?
You know, I was brought up by a World War II father. I have to tell you if any politician had pulled any stunt like that... if my father was alive, this might have killed him yesterday. If my father were alive, what happened yesterday, what Senator Kennedy said, might have killed my father in a rage. In fact, you don't have to go back to World War II. Can you imagine on the eve of Camp David, or the Dayton agreements, the Dayton Accords, can you imagine any high-profile senator saying, "The plan stinks. It will damage us for years and lead to a quagmire. We ought to cut and run. We ought to get out. Our troops are great but they can't do this. We are the problem. Our troops are the problem. We've got to get out." Even if some irresponsible senator would say it, not one responsible journalist would print it and air it and televise it with approval, as happened throughout our media last night. I don't pretend to know what makes Senator Kennedy tick. But as far as I'm concerned, I will paraphrase the words of FDR. "Ted Kennedy: a name that shall go down in infamy." He has just sown the seeds of a legacy that will add up to nothing but pure embarrassment. They will be writing of him in the future, asking what happened to his mind in his later years, because he obviously lost it somewhere along the trail. The answer will be: This is the mind of a defeated, old liberal in the last stages of his life, who sees only doom and gloom ahead for himself and his party personally -- and this is his effort to strike back and get even for being out of power.
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RUSH: I'd like to you hear what Charles Krauthammer had to say about Senator Kennedy's remarks. This was yesterday in the roundtable of special report with Brit Hume. We have two bites. Here's the first.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: He's talking complete nonsense. This idea that we are in a battle for hearts and minds, we are in a battle for hearts and minds and the insurgents are breaking bodies. That's how they respond to our attempt to get hearts and minds. As you indicated, they don't have a program. They have no ideology. Even Hitler had an ideology and Mussolini and Stalin and the Viet Cong. They offer nothing. The Ba'athists or insurgents call themselves the party of return. All they offer is return to the thuggery of Saddam. They're essentially saying to a minority of a minority, meaning the Sunni minority who were in the government before, "You follow us, you'll become a thug again and you will rape and pillage at will." That's not a program. That's not attractive. That's not hearts and minds.
RUSH: He's absolutely right. To establish a moral equivalence between the US military and US policy with that of the insurgents -- or the terrorists -- and to say that it's a battle for the hearts and minds? They're not battling for anybody's hearts and minds! They don't care about hearts and minds. They kill people, pure and simple. After Krauthammer made this statement, Brit Hume said, "Nobody at this desk seems to think that this speech was intellectually of substance. This speech was billed as a major foreign policy address. It was delivered to a prestigious institution."
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It's a major address --
BRIT HUME: Major address.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: -- of a washed-up has been who cannot make a major address. There is no coherent about that argument. He simply is arguing we'll get out because it's a Vietnam all over again, without making any case to show how that analogy holds.
RUSH: This prestigious institution where Senator Kennedy spoke, by the way, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. If this is what the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies thinks is advanced, then this is an institution we could also ignore and perhaps do without. So as Charles Krauthammer said, "A major address from a washed-up has-been who cannot make a major address. There was nothing coherent about the argument. He's simply arguing we'll get out because it's Vietnam all over again," and he's right about that, because the use of the word "quagmire." Remember, that's the word that Walter Cronkite used, and remember, it was Senator Kennedy's own father, Joseph P. Kennedy, who, while in Great Britain, sided with the Nazis, pre-World War II, which, among many other infamous things, is what Joseph P. Kennedy is remembered for. It seems the father seeks the same legacy for his son from the grave, and the son is dutifully following orders from the grave to achieve the same notoriety.
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When are the media going to ask him how he "feels" about Mary Jo?
He's just throwing red meat to the DU crowd. What a maroon.
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
Makes me happy too Rush! If only it could implode faster!!
I wish he would just go ahead and die. Why the MSM continues to salivate over this bloviating piece of dog turd is beyond me.
The last bit of honor in the 'Rat party might belong to Zell Miller, and he's retired. What a sad, despicable "party."
The liberals believe that the only group that can touch them is the United Nations.
At some point, one of them is going to go too far and get some unwanted attention by the FBI.
Let that resonate.
Kennedy crossed the line from a liberal irresponsible aging playboy responsible for the death of a young woman many years ago with this speech.
He's sided with the terrorists. As his father sided with the Nazi's.
Senator, join your father in Hell.
"YOU WANNA BRING UP VIETNAM, TUBBY?!? ALL RIGHT! LET'S BRING IT UP! WHO GOT US INTO THAT QUAGMIRE IN THE FIRST PLACE? DON'T REMEMBER? WELL, IT WAS YOUR OWN DEAR BROTHER JACK WHO GOT US INVOLVED!
"You remember him, don't you, Senator? John Fitzgerald Kennedy? The martyred President on whose coattails you've ridden for all these decades?"
And then give him a couple good slaps in the mug.
.....because he is a "Kennedy"......they still live in that never was mythical place called "Camelot".
I will second that!!
The Vietnam war was the longest in our nation's history.
1st American advisor was killed on June 08, 1956,
and the last casualties in connection with the war occurred on May 15, 1975, during the Mayaquez incident. Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in the war zone; 300,000 were wounded and approximately 75,000 permanently disabled. Officially there are still 1,991 Americans unaccounted for from SE Asia.
Vietnam was a savage, in your face war where death could and did strike from anywhere with absolutely no warning. The brave young men and women who fought that war paid an awful price of blood, pain and suffering. As it is said: "ALL GAVE SOME ... SOME GAVE ALL"
The Vietnam war was not lost on the battlefield. No American force in ANY other conflict fought with more determination or sheer courage than the Vietnam Veteran. For the first time in our history America sent it's young men and women into a war run by inept politicians who had no grasp of military strategies and no moral will to win. They were led by "top brass" who were concerned mainly with furthering their own careers, most neither understood the nature of the war nor had a clue about the impossible mission with which they'd tasked their soldiers. And the war was reported by a self serving Media who penned stories filled with inaccuracies, deliberate omissions, biased presentations and blatant distorted interpretations because they were more interested in a story than the truth! It can be debated that we should never have fought that war. It can also be argued that the young Americans who fought so courageously, never losing a single major battle, helped in a huge way to WIN THE COLD WAR.
Tax cutting Jack
Chappy Kennedy should stick to his acknowledged areas of expertise: vehicular manslaughter and alcoholism.
Rush has "moved on" from Hanoi Kerry
He's "cherry picked" loser dems
but is afraid of the traitor.
I'm haven't "moved on".
I was in Viet Nam when the traitor was there.
Rush was not.
Rush needs to "get it" and demand justice for the 58,000 names on The Wall.
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