June 17, 2004
Listen to Rush…
(…explain how Democrats will use the prison photos in Bush's 2nd term)
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: The point isn't whether the Democrats succeed in impeaching Bush, which they won't. The point would be to destroy him and his presidency through the impeachment process and drag it out and keep it dragged out for as long as they can. There's a little bit of Clinton reciprocity in this as well, combined with their sheer, unadulterated hatred for Bush. They want to derail the war on terrorism. They want to derail American leadership in the world. They want to derail the economic progress that we are making. In short, they want to harm the country, they don't care how much, in order to be able to rebuild it in their own image. This is all about ideology to them.
If you listen to John Kerry, if you listen to what they say about how they're going to fight the war in Iraq, it is clear, they don't want America to be a leader. They want us to be an equal member of a bunch of nations of wimps, all getting together on consensus. And as Lady Thatcher once famously said, "Consensus is the absence of leadership." And she is exactly right. They want to make sure this war doesn't succeed because if it does, Bush succeeds, and they are not going to permit that if they can help it. They don't want American leadership in the world when George Bush is the leader of America. And they don't like the economic progress we're making, and you know this because they're not talking about it. And in fact, when John Kerry talks about it, it is to complain about it and say it's not real.
I'm not just throwing darts up against a wall here and seeing what sticks. I'm telling you who these people are. They want to derail the war on terror. They want to derail American leadership in the world because they don't want Bush getting credit for any of this, and they want to derail the economic progress that we're making. All because of Bush and all because it's not in their agenda. They want to rebuild this country in their own image and that's why they will, if Bush wins, use these prison photos to commence impeachment hearings. I'm just telling you now that that's what I think this is all about.
Here's Robert in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Yes, hi, Rush. Good to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Yes, I wanted to comment on the 9/11 commission, and I guess there are some calls somewhere for Bush's impeachment, but I think that would be appropriate. You know, we did impeach President Clinton for lying about his definition of sexual relations but when the 9/11 commissions tells us that two of the main premises, which are the linked to Al-Qaeda and that Iraq not being involved in September 11th --
RUSH: Robert?
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: Hang on here, my friend. The president hasn't lied about any of this.
CALLER: Well, he has conveyed a false impression --
RUSH: No. No.
CALLER: Well, yes. And he's fostered these false beliefs and he's taken advantage of those --
RUSH: Ah. No.
CALLER: -- of the opinion that he has created. Yes.
RUSH: Created an opinion? It's your opinion. He didn't create opinion. He stated opinion. If you created an opinion, you formed it on your own based on your bias.
CALLER: Well, I mean Vice President Cheney, even this week said that there are long-standing links between Al-Qaeda and Iraq --
RUSH: There are.
CALLER: Yeah. Well, that creates an impression that there's a strong relationship or that there's a relationship, and the 9/11 commission said categorically --
RUSH: The only problem with that, Robert, is the president himself has always denied a connection between Iraq and Qaeda on 9/11.
CALLER: Well, but he has --
RUSH: So if you want to impeach him for telling the truth about that, I guess you can try it.
CALLER: Well, he has misinformed the American public --
RUSH: No. On what? What did he misinform us about?
CALLER: About weapons of mass destruction, about --
RUSH: Robert. Robert. The British intelligence, the United Nations Security Council, there were something like ten resolutions about weapons of mass destruction. And Bill Clinton in 1998, my man, said the exact same things that George W. Bush said in 2001 and 2002, and John Kerry and Tom Daschle endorsed Clinton in '98 when he said them and wanted to sign a resolution authorizing force against Iraq.
CALLER: The weapons of mass destruction -- I'm just talking about the false claim of uranium from Niger, that one, that was very specific --
RUSH: That was a British government claim, and Bush disowned it in the State of the Union speech.
CALLER: Well, I mean there are many reasons Bush should be impeached, you know, including the torture situation going on --
RUSH: Ah, now we get to it. I can sit here and tell you, Robert, gently and kindly, that every assumption that you've made is erroneous. You are wrong. I'm not going to blame you. I think you're a student of the mainstream press, and they are making things up about this.
Bush has never, ever, nor has Cheney, ever linked 9/11 to Iraq and Al-Qaeda. There are countless bits of evidence of connections between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. But nobody's ever said there was about 9/11, not in the administration. There has been no misleading. There has been no lying. There has been no false assumption. You have accepted these on your own because that's what you want to have happen. The prison photo thing, yeah, that's what they're going to try to impeach Bush on, but they're going to do it only to destroy him, not because it's something that's actually impeachable, because Bush didn't do it, didn't authorize it, trying to prove that case.
It's a sad thing to you hear you, Robert. You live in Wilkes-Barre. I own Wilkes-Barre. I thought everybody there was a dittohead, and loved this program. You may like the program, but the fact of the matter is we have serious, serious threats facing the country, but one of them is not George Bush, and you seem to think that it is, and people who agree with you. And it really is placing us at even greater risk because you then give us two enemies to overcome, Al-Qaeda and the American left. It's tough enough to beat Al-Qaeda and beat you guys at the same time, but we will.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Articles...
(UK Guardian: Kennedy Sidesteps Impeachment Endorsement)
Listen to Rush…
(…explain how Democrats will use the prison photos in Bush's 2nd term)
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: The point isn't whether the Democrats succeed in impeaching Bush, which they won't. The point would be to destroy him and his presidency through the impeachment process and drag it out and keep it dragged out for as long as they can. There's a little bit of Clinton reciprocity in this as well, combined with their sheer, unadulterated hatred for Bush. They want to derail the war on terrorism. They want to derail American leadership in the world. They want to derail the economic progress that we are making. In short, they want to harm the country, they don't care how much, in order to be able to rebuild it in their own image. This is all about ideology to them.
If you listen to John Kerry, if you listen to what they say about how they're going to fight the war in Iraq, it is clear, they don't want America to be a leader. They want us to be an equal member of a bunch of nations of wimps, all getting together on consensus. And as Lady Thatcher once famously said, "Consensus is the absence of leadership." And she is exactly right. They want to make sure this war doesn't succeed because if it does, Bush succeeds, and they are not going to permit that if they can help it. They don't want American leadership in the world when George Bush is the leader of America. And they don't like the economic progress we're making, and you know this because they're not talking about it. And in fact, when John Kerry talks about it, it is to complain about it and say it's not real.
I'm not just throwing darts up against a wall here and seeing what sticks. I'm telling you who these people are. They want to derail the war on terror. They want to derail American leadership in the world because they don't want Bush getting credit for any of this, and they want to derail the economic progress that we're making. All because of Bush and all because it's not in their agenda. They want to rebuild this country in their own image and that's why they will, if Bush wins, use these prison photos to commence impeachment hearings. I'm just telling you now that that's what I think this is all about.
Here's Robert in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Yes, hi, Rush. Good to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Yes, I wanted to comment on the 9/11 commission, and I guess there are some calls somewhere for Bush's impeachment, but I think that would be appropriate. You know, we did impeach President Clinton for lying about his definition of sexual relations but when the 9/11 commissions tells us that two of the main premises, which are the linked to Al-Qaeda and that Iraq not being involved in September 11th --
RUSH: Robert?
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: Hang on here, my friend. The president hasn't lied about any of this.
CALLER: Well, he has conveyed a false impression --
RUSH: No. No.
CALLER: Well, yes. And he's fostered these false beliefs and he's taken advantage of those --
RUSH: Ah. No.
CALLER: -- of the opinion that he has created. Yes.
RUSH: Created an opinion? It's your opinion. He didn't create opinion. He stated opinion. If you created an opinion, you formed it on your own based on your bias.
CALLER: Well, I mean Vice President Cheney, even this week said that there are long-standing links between Al-Qaeda and Iraq --
RUSH: There are.
CALLER: Yeah. Well, that creates an impression that there's a strong relationship or that there's a relationship, and the 9/11 commission said categorically --
RUSH: The only problem with that, Robert, is the president himself has always denied a connection between Iraq and Qaeda on 9/11.
CALLER: Well, but he has --
RUSH: So if you want to impeach him for telling the truth about that, I guess you can try it.
CALLER: Well, he has misinformed the American public --
RUSH: No. On what? What did he misinform us about?
CALLER: About weapons of mass destruction, about --
RUSH: Robert. Robert. The British intelligence, the United Nations Security Council, there were something like ten resolutions about weapons of mass destruction. And Bill Clinton in 1998, my man, said the exact same things that George W. Bush said in 2001 and 2002, and John Kerry and Tom Daschle endorsed Clinton in '98 when he said them and wanted to sign a resolution authorizing force against Iraq.
CALLER: The weapons of mass destruction -- I'm just talking about the false claim of uranium from Niger, that one, that was very specific --
RUSH: That was a British government claim, and Bush disowned it in the State of the Union speech.
CALLER: Well, I mean there are many reasons Bush should be impeached, you know, including the torture situation going on --
RUSH: Ah, now we get to it. I can sit here and tell you, Robert, gently and kindly, that every assumption that you've made is erroneous. You are wrong. I'm not going to blame you. I think you're a student of the mainstream press, and they are making things up about this.
Bush has never, ever, nor has Cheney, ever linked 9/11 to Iraq and Al-Qaeda. There are countless bits of evidence of connections between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. But nobody's ever said there was about 9/11, not in the administration. There has been no misleading. There has been no lying. There has been no false assumption. You have accepted these on your own because that's what you want to have happen. The prison photo thing, yeah, that's what they're going to try to impeach Bush on, but they're going to do it only to destroy him, not because it's something that's actually impeachable, because Bush didn't do it, didn't authorize it, trying to prove that case.
It's a sad thing to you hear you, Robert. You live in Wilkes-Barre. I own Wilkes-Barre. I thought everybody there was a dittohead, and loved this program. You may like the program, but the fact of the matter is we have serious, serious threats facing the country, but one of them is not George Bush, and you seem to think that it is, and people who agree with you. And it really is placing us at even greater risk because you then give us two enemies to overcome, Al-Qaeda and the American left. It's tough enough to beat Al-Qaeda and beat you guys at the same time, but we will.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Articles...
(UK Guardian: Kennedy Sidesteps Impeachment Endorsement)
