Rush Calls Troops Who Disagree With Neocons "The Phony Soldiers" TRANSCRIPT
The Lone Weasel
From the September 26 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks'
The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Mike in Chicago, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
CALLER 1: Hi Rush, how you doing today?
LIMBAUGH: I'm fine sir, thank you.
CALLER 1: Good. Why is it that you always just accuse the
Democrats of being against the war and suggest that there are
absolutely no Republicans that could possibly be against the
war?
LIMBAUGH: Well, who are these Republicans? I can think of
Chuck Hagel, and I can think of Gordon Smith, two Republican
senators, but they don't want to lose the war like the
Democrats do. I can't think of -- who are the Republicans in
the anti-war movement?
CALLER 1: I'm just -- I'm not talking about the senators.
I'm talking about the general public -- like you accuse the
public of all the Democrats of being, you know, wanting to
lose, but --
LIMBAUGH: Oh, come on! Here we go again. I uttered a
truth, and you can't handle it, so you gotta call here and
change the subject. How come I'm not also hitting Republicans?
I don't know a single Republican or conservative, Mike, who
wants to pull out of Iraq in defeat. The Democrats have made
the last four years about that specifically.
CALLER 1: Well, I am a Republican, and I've listened to
you for a long time, and you're right on a lot of things, but
I do believe that we should pull out of Iraq. I don't think
it's winnable. And I'm not a Democrat, but I just -- sometimes
you've got to cut the losses.
LIMBAUGH: Well, you -- you --
CALLER 1: I mean, sometimes you really gotta know when
you're wrong.
LIMBAUGH: Well, yeah, you do. I'm not wrong on this. The
worst thing that can happen is losing this, flying out of
there, waving the white flag. Do you have --
CALLER 1: Oh, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying anything
like that, but, you know --
LIMBAUGH: Well, of course you are.
CALLER 1: No, I'm not.
LIMBAUGH: Bill, the truth is -- the truth is the truth,
Mike.
CALLER 1: We did what we were supposed to do, OK. We got
rid of Saddam Hussein. We got rid of a lot of the terrorists.
Let them run their country --
LIMBAUGH: Oh, good lord! Good lord.
[...]
CALLER 1: How long is it gonna -- how long do you think
we're going to have to be there for them to take care of that?
LIMBAUGH: Mike --
CALLER 1: How long -- you know -- what is it?
LIMBAUGH: Mike --
CALLER 1: What is it?
LIMBAUGH: Mike, you can't possibly be a Republican.
CALLER 1: I am.
LIMBAUGH: You are -- you are --
CALLER 1: I am definitely a Republican.
LIMBAUGH: You can't be a Republican. You are --
CALLER 1: Oh, I am definitely a Republican.
LIMBAUGH: You are tarnishing the reputation, 'cause you
sound just like a Democrat.
CALLER 1: No, but --
LIMBAUGH: The answer to your question --
CALLER 1: -- seriously, how long do we have to stay there
--
LIMBAUGH: As long as it takes!
CALLER 1: -- to win it? How long?
LIMBAUGH: As long as it takes! It is very serious.
CALLER 1: And that is what?
LIMBAUGH: This is the United States of America at war with
Islamofascists. We stay as long -- just like your job. You do
everything you have to do, whatever it takes to get it done,
if you take it seriously.
CALLER 1: So then you say we need to stay there forever --
LIMBAUGH: I -- it won't --
CALLER 1: -- because that's what it'll take.
LIMBAUGH: No, Bill, or Mike -- I'm sorry. I'm confusing
you with the guy from Texas.
CALLER 1: See, I -- I've used to be military, OK? And I am
a Republican.
LIMBAUGH: Yeah. Yeah.
CALLER 1: And I do live [inaudible] but --
LIMBAUGH: Right. Right. Right, I know.
CALLER 1: -- you know, really -- I want you to be saying
how long it's gonna take.
LIMBAUGH: And I, by the way, used to walk on the moon!
CALLER 1: How long do we have to stay there?
LIMBAUGH: You're not listening to what I say. You can't
possibly be a Republican. I'm answering every question. That's
not what you want to hear, so it's not even penetrating your
little wall of armor you've got built up.
[...]
LIMBAUGH: Another Mike, this one in Olympia, Washington.
Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER 2: Hi Rush, thanks for taking my call.
LIMBAUGH: You bet.
CALLER 2: I have a retort to Mike in Chicago, because I am
a serving American military, in the Army. I've been serving
for 14 years, very proudly.
LIMBAUGH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER 2: And, you know, I'm one of the few that joined
the Army to serve my country, I'm proud to say, not for the
money or anything like that. What I would like to retort to is
that, if we pull -- what these people don't understand is if
we pull out of Iraq right now, which is about impossible
because of all the stuff that's over there, it'd take us at
least a year to pull everything back out of Iraq, then Iraq
itself would collapse, and we'd have to go right back over
there within a year or so. And --
LIMBAUGH: There's a lot more than that that they don't
understand. They can't even -- if -- the next guy that calls
here, I'm gonna ask him: Why should we pull -- what is the
imperative for pulling out? What's in it for the United States
to pull out? They can't -- I don't think they have an answer
for that other than, "Well, we just gotta bring the troops
home."
CALLER 2: Yeah, and, you know what --
LIMBAUGH: "Save the -- keep the troops safe" or whatever.
I -- it's not possible, intellectually, to follow these
people.
CALLER 2: No, it's not, and what's really funny is, they
never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers
that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.
LIMBAUGH: The phony soldiers.
CALLER 2: The phony soldiers. If you talk to a real
soldier, they are proud to serve. They want to be over in
Iraq. They understand their sacrifice, and they're willing to
sacrifice for their country.
LIMBAUGH: They joined to be in Iraq. They joined --
CALLER 2: A lot of them -- the new kids, yeah.
LIMBAUGH: Well, you know where you're going these days,
the last four years, if you signed up. The odds are you're
going there or Afghanistan or somewhere.
CALLER 2: Exactly, sir.
輸.J.W.
A.J. Walzer is an intern at Media Matters for America.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270010
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