Posted on 08/18/2005 2:35:56 PM PDT by StudentsForBush
![]() World War II was not won by Eisenhower. World War II was not won by FDR. World War II was not won by any particular leader. World War II was not won by Patton. Everybody played a role. But without the sons and daughters of the American people, this country wouldn't amount to anything. It is the people who make this country work, and the ease with which those of you on the left disparage the people in this country while you seek to focus all attention on government, is a sight to behold, and it is why you are losing elections; it is why you are losing favor; it is why you are becoming more fringe and extreme and kooky, because you've lost touch. You've lost contact. You've lost all ability to understand who it is that comprises the heart and soul of this country. You have no clue who the backbone of this country is; but I will tell you this: it's not Cindy Sheehan and it's not one member of her entourage in a ditch in Crawford, Texas. Those people are a bunch of squatters. Those people right now are contributing nothing to the greatness or future of this country. Neither are the members of the media who are down there trying to elevate all those people in the ditch to be superheroes. There's not one of them that comes anywhere near rating the title of hero. They are nothing but a bunch of squatters who are miserable and unhappy for who knows whatever reasons and deciding to take it out on people who they think have control over their lives. In this case, with a bunch of liberals, it's government. You want government to have control over your life, you want government to be able to do this and that for your friends and neighbors and help you, but the simple truth of this country is that it's the people who make this country work. It is the people who comprise the economy. It is the people who comprise the morality. It is the people of this country who determine the ethics. It is the people of this country, and that's what you're upset about because you're in the minority. The people of this country, the people who make this country work differ from you in tremendous ways. They are religious. They are God-fearing. They respect values and morality. They know what's right and they know what's wrong, and they do their best to abide. You are offended by all that, claiming they don't have the right to make such decisions, while you sit around and make no decisions whatsoever because you're willing to totally put your life in the hands of some liberal politician and that will take you off the hook for having to make any decision about your life or anybody else's. Well, that's not how the country works. This country works on the basis of an educated and informed public seeking excellence in their own lives to whatever degree they wish it. People pursuing life the best they can, using freedom, God-given freedom -- and for you to call here and to come up with something as irrelevant as to say this war is not worth it because the president's kids aren't there or because nobody from Washington's kids are there doesn't say a thing about the war effort, doesn't say one thing about it, doesn't make it noble, doesn't make it ignoble, doesn't make it anything, because the war is taking place. Whether you agree with the fact that it's going on or not, we all have come to the decision that it's best that we win it. You haven't even joined us on that. You hope we lose it. You want to lose it because you want to embarrass the leaders of the country. What must your lives be like? |
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![]() If it were up to you people we wouldn't exist as a country today, you would have given in to the Soviets long ago, you would have appeased the Soviet communists. You would appease Iran right now, you probably wouldn't have cared about the war on terror or the bombing on 9/11. You would have sought out bin Laden and tried to make a deal with him, and this country exists today only because we have been able to prevent you from gaining power to do that kind of thing. We've had our run-ins with Neville Chamberlain types and you're the modern incarnation. To sit here, to actually have the gall to call this program and advance something you think as an intellectual argument that Cindy Sheehan's cause is noble, because the president's daughters aren't in Iraq, or congressmen's sons and daughters aren't in Iraq, have you no shame? Do you realize whose sons and daughters are? Do you understand it's voluntary? Do you understand these are people who are offering their lives in sacrifice for things they believe in? And what do you do? You come along and you try to disabuse them of their belief by telling them that they're wrong and that their country sucks. Well, to the extent that they think their country sucks it's because of you and your efforts to constantly undermine this country's best interests and our desires and efforts to protect the people of this country and to bring freedom to as many others in this world as possible. You people on the left used to be the ones that were all for civil rights around the world. You were all for human rights. Now all of a sudden you couldn't care less about the status of Iraqis. You couldn't care less. It's gotten so absurd, now that Howard Dean said on TV that if this new constitution is enacted as written, that the women of Iraq are going to be worse off than they were under Saddam Hussein. Do you realize how patently absurd and bordering on insane that comment is? No, you don't. Because you think so little of your own country, you think so little of this president, you have such little faith in the ideals that have combined to make this a great country, that you assume it's worse here than anywhere else, and the places that it is bad is because of us, either through environmental pollution, or whatever cockamamie, asinine, stupid, ignoramus idea you can come up with. It's gotten to the point now where it is common to go on Democrat websites and read about the pleasure it would bring if the president were assassinated. It is now common to read letters to the editors in newspapers which say it would be fun if bin Laden actually came over here and slit Bush's throat, which is what a supporter of Sheehan wrote to a letter of the editor in one of the newspapers in this country. Yes, it would have been better if bin Laden would have just come here and slit Bush's throat. Do you have any idea how you people are perceived? Do you have the slightest idea how the decent people who make this country work perceive you? It is not with any respect. It is with contempt and it's with sorrow. But it's also with this realization: This country, if it is to survive, cannot be turned over to you people to lead and to run, because we will cease to exist as the United States the day that happens, and mark my word. It ain't going to happen. BREAK TRANSCRIPT |
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RUSH: I have a story here from the San Diego Union Tribune on September 13th, 2004. "On a visit to Iraq in June, Rep. Duncan Hunter [R-CA] gave a short speech to Marines in a Fallujah mess hall and told them how important they were in the war on terrorism. One Marine in the audience found the congressman's talk so inspiring that he wrote about it in an e-mail to his mother. He said it lifted everyone's spirits and 'erased all doubts I had about being here.' 'I got chills and thought about how proud I am to be fighting for America in my capacity,' he wrote. The Marine who sent that note was 1st Lt. Duncan Duane Hunter, Hunter's oldest son and one of a handful of troops in Iraq whose father or mother is a member of Congress." He's got one son that's there on his second tour. But it's absurd, folks, on the face of it. It is absurd to say that this is somehow a definition of whether something noble or not, whether something's got any integrity or not. It ignores the role we all play as a people together in whatever national cause we undertake, and I wouldn't expect too many people on the left to understand that. Paul in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, welcome, nice to have you on the program.
CALLER: Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. Yeah, I just wanted to say, especially after that one caller, I mean I didn't volunteer because the president's daughters were doing something or some senator's son was joining or anything like that, and I didn't join because I was coming from the ghetto and I wanted to get out. You know, I joined because it was a career choice, and I wanted to do it, and I really feel that if her son was here today -- and I understand her grief. I mean, I'm a father as well, but I served in Iraq. I've served in Afghanistan. I've been over there many times, and, you know, I've had friends lost right next to me in battle, and I can understand the grief, but, you know what? At the same time they're doing what they wanted to do. So many of these people are stuck back in the Vietnam days, and the days of the draft, that I used to get e-mail saying, "Boy, I'm sorry that you're over there." I would e-mail back and say, "What do you mean, you're sorry? I put myself here on purpose. This is what I want to do." RUSH: It's no more complicated than the fact that the people who are engaged in all this simply don't like this country, and they haven't liked it since the sixties. They haven't liked it their whole lives. Thankfully there aren't that many of them. There are only a hundred people down there with her, but she's gone beyond grief, this is not about grief for her, this is not a woman grieving, this is a woman reveling this attention, this is a woman soaking it all up. This is a woman thinking she matters. Which we all want to do. Everybody wants to matter. Everybody wants their life to have meaning. Unfortunately, hers has taken on this direction that the meaning she thinks she's deriving is actually empty. There's no meaning to what she's doing. She's a pawn, she's a tool of a bunch of fellow crackpots upon whom we couldn't depend if our lives were at stake, and that's why they are so few and far between. Thankfully, they are not anywhere near the majority of people in the country. END TRANSCRIPT |
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I thought he did answer the question:
"Why didn't the president's daughters go? It's a volunteer force! The president didn't "send" Cindy Sheehan's son over there; he volunteered."
Our legislators have made the armed forces a volunteer effort. Perhaps the question might be better phrased: Why don't more 'senator's sons' volunteer for military service as a career choice?
And now I'm wondering just how many young adult children we are talking about? I doubt Ted Kennedy or Pat Leahy have kids that are the usual age for military service.
It's easy to put a yellow magnet on your car and say "I support the troops." But for too many people that's as far as it goes.
Agreed. One thing I've noticed on the show, and it has happened to me when I've called in, when it's a chance to make a point, and one that is uncomfortable for him to handle or he's left himself open, he's dispatched the caller into neverland.
While this caller may have been your typical liberal lefty, there are some questions that in a give and take dialog could be discussed, explored and dealt with that would be interesting and educational. Instead, we get a slam dunk one sided close. There are some real loons that get on his show and there are some "seminar callers". But then again, listen to AAR and the same thing happens, loons and seminar callers from the right. But there are questions that need or should be dealt with in a dialog.
Again, I've heard too many interesting callers be gone once Rush goes into his "I will have the final word rant."
My thoughts exactly. I was thinking today that these people love death, killing innocent unborn, destroy everthing good about America, including our brave young men and women that fight for us every day. They are no different than the terrorists (which includs ALL groups that want death and destruction of people that refuse to goose step behind their mindless ideology.
There is a cult in the world today. It is so massive and deadly that it can only be masterminded and driven by the evil one himself, Satan. anyone that thinks this is about some pathetic woman in Crawford is sorely misguided. This is world wide and very dangerous.
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I see your point and I think he answered it by repeating that the military is a voluntary service - it has less to do with who the parents are than it has to do with the actual person joining.
I wonder if we go by straight percentages would the numbers come out the same? I mean, take the total US population and what percentage of families have children serving in the armed forces. THEN, take the total number of whatever group your targeting (CEO's and/or politicians) and what percentage of those have children serving in the armed forces. I'd venture to guess the percentages are similar, but I'm no statistician or anthropologist.... Maybe someone somewhere has done this math?
>>> Impressive rant, but Rush neveer answered the guy's question. Why DON'T more CEO's politicians, etc. have kids in uniform? A few do, but most don't. No matter what your position on the war, that's a valid question IMHO. <<<
How many families in your neighborhood have a son or daughter in Iraq? What is the ratio of congressmen with sons/daughters in the military to the general population? Do you have a son or daughter in Iraq?
Frankly, the question was typical left-wing, anti-war rhetoric from the same mold as CCR's whiny "Fortunate Son". I am surprised you cannot see it.
I heard several days ago on another radio program that 1% of legislators have sons and daughters in the military which is twice as much as the general population (.5%). Sorry don't remember the program and can't verify that info.
Yes, he speaks English quite well.
Love Rush.
He has crystalixed the phoneyness of Osama Cindy and her cabal.
Osama Cindy ? Thats just cruel to out friend; Comrade Cindy. Get it right.
Yup. There's nothing in that speech that's really going to help anyone here answer hostile questions like the one he was asked, stuff along the lines of "When I watch the news from Iraq, where are the children of people like Hillary Clinton and George Bush?" - talk about a "volunteer army" just dodges the question, I expect an Arny recruiter would be delighted if Chelsea or Jenna walked through the door.
Osama Cindy ? Thats just cruel to out friend; Comrade Cindy. Get it right.
RUSH KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK!! WAY TO GO EL RUSHBO!!!
Pure unadulterated crap!
A "volunteer" Army does not equate to volunteering to go to Iraq.
How many "volunteers" are we getting these days?
Why are there efforts afoot to raise the recruitment age for all services to AGE FORTY-TWO?
Just saw this quite on drudge by Osama Cindy:
"We are not waging a war on terror in this country. Were waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!"
Full transcript: WARNING: Extreme Liberal Profanity !
"We are not waging a war on terror in this country. Were waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!"
So declared Cindy Sheehan earlier this year during a rally at San Francisco State University.
Sheehan, who is demanding a second meeting with Bush, stated: "We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now."
Sheehan unleashed a foul-mouth tirade on April 27, 2005:
"Theyre a bunch of fucking hypocrites! And we need to, we just need to rise up..." Sheehan said of the Bush administration.
"If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his bullshit, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he is spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free?"
"The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that its so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go to this war."
"We want our country back and, if we have to impeach everybody from George Bush down to the person who picks up dog shit in Washington, we will impeach all those people."
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Osama and Cindy to the rescue !
Touche, Marty!! Oops, excuse me. Make that, way to go, Marty!
Wait a minute here. One of my friends was a colonel in Iraq, another friend's son is a Navy SEAL stationed who knows where, a third friend's son is a Marine sniper just finishing his second tour in Iraq. My 16 year old son is not in Iraq, neither is my 35 year old police officer son, but I am mighty offended at your assertion that all my friends and I do is put a yellow magnet on our cars.
If they walked through the door, with them would be Secret Service agents along to protect them from being kidnapped and held hostage, being taken and tortured(including raped) on video, ditto having their heads chopped off, or being assassinated on the spot, because of who their parents are and what they mean to America. Wake up. So they could just join the military and bop over to serve in Iraq??? I don't think so. In fact, I KNOW not so.
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