Al-Qaeda's Election Strategy Worked in Spain

rushlimbaugh.com ^ | October 23, 2006 | Rush Limbaugh

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

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RUSH: From UPI: "Senior US government officials, military officers have suggested that Iraqi insurgents are trying to influence the US midterm election." Really? Who told you this last week? Who told you this in September? "A U.S. military spokesman in Iraq last week attributed the increase in violence at least partly to terrorists who want to influence the American vote.... Brig. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad..." Oh, I can't leave out this paragraph: The military spokesman's "comments Thursday echoed those made by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney two days earlier on conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh's radio show, which is carried on the Armed Force Radio network in Iraq."

So Cheney was sending talking points to the military spokesman via this program, ladies and gentlemen! Ye-e-e-es. Now, folks, as I mentioned to you in September (as I mentioned to you on Friday), the greatest bloc of undecided voters leading into this election is the terrorists all around the world, predominantly in Iraq. On whose side will they decide to come down on? The terrorists have obviously made their choice. The early voting is going on. The terrorists are voting Democrat. They are trying to create chaos. They are trying to create as much lack of will among the American people as possible.

They are hoping that with all this increased violence that you'll say the Bush administration is blowing it, and you'll get rid of Republicans and get rid of Bush in '08, put Democrats in charge. Now, I want to go through this again since UPI has brought this up. They tried this in Spain and it worked. The terrorists tried this in Spain, and it worked, and they tried it in Great Britain -- and it hasn't worked there yet, but you never know. I just want to ask you a question. I want to speak to you as a terrorist leader. I am the leader of terrorists in Iraq. Call me the leader of Al-Qaeda. It doesn't matter who I am. I'm just the Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, and as I listen to the campaign being waged in America...

I hear the president of the United States saying (paraphrased), "I'm never getting out. I will not cut-and-run. I don't care if my last two supporters are Laura Bush and my dog Barney. I'm in it until we win." On the other side you have the Democrats who are saying (paraphrased), "We can't win. We need to get out now. We have no hope of winning. We need to redeploy! We need to cut-and-run. Bush is creating more terrorists! Bush is causing the violence!" So I'm the leader in Iraq, and I weigh these two sides. Now, I listen to what the Democrats are saying. The Democrats are saying the Americans can't win. The Democrats are trying to sabotage every effort, in fact, for the Americans to win, with the spy program, foreign surveillance program, any number of things, the Patriot Act.

The Democrats doing their best to subvert victory, and yet I listen to them as the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and I hear them saying that Bush is causing us to lose and that Bush is creating more terrorists for me. Well, I want more terrorists, because I don't want to have to go kill myself to meet the 72 virgins. I need more schlubs to join my cause who are idiots who will go do that for me! I need system recruits as I can get and I'm listening to the Democrats say that Bush is accomplishing that. So I look around, as the leader of Iraq and Al-Qaeda, and I ask myself, "Have I got more recruits? Have I got more people flowing into Iraq wanting to join my jihad? Have I got more people willing to blow themselves up and everybody else in order to get to heaven, with their 72 virgins," or whatever it is?

If so, and if I'm winning this war with Bush in the office, I don't care what Bush says! The Democrats say that America can't win and that we're going to pull out of there, and that we shouldn't have gone in there in the first place. Why would I side with the Democrats? If Bush is creating more terrorists for me, and if Bush is enabling my victory as the Al-Qaeda leader, why do I vote Democrat? Why do I cause all kinds of havoc that will put the Democrats in office, when I don't want them in office! I want Bush to stay because with Bush in office America loses and I win, and I get more terrorists. Why would I want to change? What I ought to really be doing if what the Democrats are saying is true, is I ought to be standing down! I mean, I ought to cut back on the violence!

I ought to cut back on the chaos. I ought to cut back on the car bombs. I ought to make sure that, why, these next two weeks are as peaceful as they've ever been, because if I want Republicans reelected and I want Bush in power because Bush is going to see to it that we (the terrorists in Iraq) win the war, and the Americans are going to lose it. Yet I don't make that decision as the Al-Qaeda leader. I'm voting Democrat. I'm creating hell on earth in Iraq, at least as defined by the American media, because I want no one near this place led by Bush. So what it tells me, ladies and gentlemen, is that the leaders of Al-Qaeda in Iraq clearly fear Bush, and it tells me that the leaders in Iraq clearly don't think they're winning.

It tells me that the leaders in Iraq clearly are not happy with all these "new terrorists being created," because if everything the Democrats were saying is true, and if Bush is guaranteeing my victory as Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq and guaranteeing me more terrorists, to join my ranks, I gotta keep Bush there. I gotta keep the Republicans there. But what do I do? Why, I raise hell! I'm trying to make sure that Bush is nowhere near this place, and no Republicans near this place, I want Democrats in charge. Why? Because they'll pull out! They'll get outta here real fast, and I will win. So when you stop and think about this and just watch the Al-Qaeda guys, they'll tell you right now who they're voting for: they're voting Democrat -- and ask yourself if it doesn't outrage you just a bit that the current #1 enemy of the United States of America is attempting to secure victory for the Democrat Party in these upcoming elections.

Moving on to the Middle East and another country (story): "Iran's nuclear capability has increased tenfold despite Western pressure to roll back its atomic program, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today. He didn't elaborate, and the remarks appeared aimed primarily at rallying public support as the UN Security Council prepares to consider a draft resolution imposing limited sanctions on Iran because of its refusal to halt its uranium enrichment," and furthermore, from Vienna, Austria: "Iran is expanding its uranium enrichment program even as the UN Security Council focuses on possible sanctions for its defiance of a demand to give up the activity and ease fears that it seeks nuclear weapons." So other diplomats are saying that Iran is expanding its enrichment. Ahmadinejad says our nuke capability has increased tenfold -- all in anticipation of sanctions being placed on the country. I don't know what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is trying to do in terms of affecting the outcome of elections, but none of this stuff is redounding well to Democrats and their diplomatic approach.

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

(UPI: Analysis: Insurgents target U.S. will)
(AP: Diplomats: Iran Expanding Enrichment)
(Jerusalem Post: 'Capability of our nation has grown')

[Brilliant]

Yup. And it might be working in the US, too.

[tomnbeverly]

MIGHT be... Haha... What is the only possible way for the terroists to win... Can they defeat us militarily.. NO... So they have to use division in our politics to get their job done and the MSM and Liberals are but pawns to the ideology of hate. In other words only Suckers vote Democrat.

[sageb1]

Don't forget this

[rbudd]

[Dinah Lord]

'm afraid it's working here too.

[SpinyNorman]

"So when you stop and think about this and just watch the Al-Qaeda guys, they'll tell you right now who they're voting for: they're voting Democrat -- and ask yourself if it doesn't outrage you just a bit that the current #1 enemy of the United States of America is attempting to secure victory for the Democrat Party in these upcoming elections."

That's the money line. My only disagreement would be with exactly who is really the "current #1 enemy of the United States of America." My money is on the liberals and their cronies, like the World Workers Party, MoveOn, the BBC, the American drive-by media and the foreign terrorists like Al Qaeda. You might rewrite the sentence "-- and ask yourself if it doesn't outrage you just a bit that the current #1 enemy of the United States of America is attempting to secure victory for itself, the Democrat Party, in these upcoming elections."

If it walks like a duck...

[Alfonso1000]

I'm sure the elections have something to do with the violence, but most US casaulties in Iraq seem to coincide with Ramadan.


http://icasualties.org/oif/

[Alfonso1000]

Make that the deadliest stretches seem to coincide with Ramadan. I expect the attacks to lessen over the next couple weeks.