Here is some education for the mentally challenged lefty loons.
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RUSH: I said we have some audio sound bites of Hillary Clinton and Rumsfeld as Hillary makes her get-out-the-vote appearance at the Senate Armed Services Committee today. Before we get into that, you've got to hear Senator Kennedy. He was questioning Abizaid, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Marine General Pace, Secretary Rumsfeld -- and if you listen to Ted Kennedy here, it's your Democratic Party of today. Defeat, defeat, defeat, defeat...
KENNEDY: Korean War: 37 months, World War I: nineteen months, Persian Gulf War: three months, World War II: 42 months, VE Day. Forty-five months for VJ Day. The Civil War was 48 months. We have been in there now for 40 months and 13 days with the finest military that's ever been developed in basically, rathah, a third-rate military situation. How much more do we really expect our military can do?
RUSH: All right. So the table is set. It's a campaign year. It is election time in Washington and the Democrats can't decide on their agenda. Now, just last week we heard that they are going to forego making the war a big deal and they are going to stick to economics and the "It's the American dream, stupid," the American dream agenda or what have you. Now they are back as this Lamont character up there in Connecticut -- who has pulled out a double-digit lead over Senator Lieberman. Senator Lieberman is really mad and, you know, he ought to be. There was a post yesterday on Arianna Huffington's blog by some babe that hates Lieberman.
They had a picture of Clinton looking like a soul brother with dark shades and so forth with his arm around Lieberman. But Lieberman had been Photoshopped so that he was wearing black face: big, white eyes and black face. Nobody could figure it out. I read some of the comments, the libs make. The libs say, "That is racism. Why, that's hate! Why that's racist. That's what conservatives do." So the libs are writing comments to this post. "Look, I'm trying to my best to understand. Is there something I'm missing here, because this doesn't look right, but if there is a satirical point would you please tell me what it is?" Libs are feeling very guilty about seeing this on one of their own websites, one of their own blog sites.
Lieberman has demanded an apology or whatever for it, which is just going to call more attention to it. I didn't mention it yesterday until he has asked, until today actually, because actually he demanded this apology for it. There's also an analyst -- this is a Quinnipiac Poll that shows him down double digits, an analyst -- who doesn't do polls anymore but analyzes them, analyzes the way they are conducted says it's going to be worse than that, that it just cost too much money to find out who the real voter, the real likely voters, are. That is the toughest screen in a poll, he says, because they costs the most money. But he expects it's going to be even worse a defeat than what the latest poll is. Anyway, here is Hillary reading a prepared Diatribe to Secretary Rumsfeld today at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
HILLARY: There was the big, ballyhooed announcement of forward together and the commitment of the new Iraqi government to secure Baghdad. Two months into that it's clear it's not working and we are now putting in more American troops, and following the lead of, uh, Senator McCain, we're removing them from other places that are hardly stable and secure. In Afghanistan your administration's credibility is also suspect. In December 2002 you said the Taliban are gone. In 2005 attacks by the Taliban and other anti-coalition forces were up 20%, and these insurgents were a greater threat to the Afghan government's efforts to expand its authority than at any time since 2001.
RUSH: Doo-doo-doo. Ahem.
HILLARY: Further, General Eikenberry made a comparable comment with respect to the dangers that are now of going on in Afghanistan and the failure to be able to secure it.
RUSH: (silence) Soapy, do, do, do, do. Let me know what she's finished. I'm not listening. Doopy, do, do. (humming) Okay. Here's the next one.
HILLARY: Obviously, I could go on and on.
RUSH: (groans.)
HILLARY: So, Mr. Secretary, when our constituents ask for evidence that your policy in Iraq and Afghanistan will be successful, you do not leave us with much to talk about. Yes, we hear a lot of happy talk and rosy scenarios, but because of the administration’s strategic blunders and frankly --
RUSH: Let me know when she is through on this one too because I'm not listening.
HILLARY: -- the record of incompetence in executing --
RUSH: I've got the television on.
HILLARY: -- you are presiding over a failed policy.
RUSH: (Israeli ambassador to the UN) Dan Gillerman's on and I'd rather hear him.
HILLARY: Given your track record, Secretary of Rumsfeld--
RUSH: (Singing)
HILLARY -- why should we believe your assurances now?
RUSH: Do-doo-doo-doo-doooooooooo. Okay. Is she through? (coughing) Excuse me. Okay. As I say, it is an election year. She's just trying to get this statement out for the blogs and the kooks and the fringe and whoever else in the party that she thinks wants to hear this. Rumsfeld answered and we've got it. His answer, actually, was great. I did see that. We've got three bites here that pretty well sum up the way he dealt with it. Here's the first.
RUMSFELD: My goodness. First, I tried to make notes and to follow the prepared statement you have presented. First of all, it is true. There is sectarian conflict in Iraq and there is a loss of life and it is an unfortunate and tragic thing that that's taking place -- and it is true that there are people who are attempting to prevent that government from being successful, and they are the people who are blowing up buildings and killing innocent men, women and children and taking off the heads of people on television, and the idea of their prevailing is unacceptable. Second: You said the number of troops were wrong. I guess history will make a judgment on that.
RUSH: You know, one thing. I don't understand how it is that the Democrats do not see that the people Rumsfeld just described -- blowing up buildings, killing innocent men and women and children, taking off the heads of people on TV -- are the same people, the same type of people, same objective, same mind-set as the Hezbos, and their action against Israel today. Do you note, there are seven Democrats who say, "We ought to get out there. Declare victory, defeat, whatever it is to get out of there," but most of the Democrats publicly are backing Israel. Same people! The Hezbos, it doesn't matter. They have the same objective. Same people. But somehow in Iraq, "We have to get out of there! This is horrible! This is terrible!" Rumsfeld continued.
RUMSFELD: Does the enemy have a brain and continue to make adjustments on the ground, requiring our forces to continue to make adjustments? You bet. Is that going to continue to be the case, I think so. Is the problem going to be solved in the near term about this long struggle against extremism? No, I don't believe it is. I think it's going to take time. Some wars have lasted three years, some four years, some wars lasted five years, the Cold War lasted over 40-plus years -- and the struggle against violent extremists who are determined to prevent people from exercising their rights as free people, is going to go on a long time and it is going to be a tough one. That does not mean that we have to spend the rest of our lives as the United States Armed Forces in Iraq.
RUSH: Rumsfeld cannot respond the way I'm sure he would like to. Neither of these witnesses can when they are peppered with questions and comments, by these blowhards who could stop all of this if they just de-fund it. You know, Ms. Clinton, just take the money away! Mrs. Clinton, make a proposal! You Democrats have proposed I don't know how many resolutions in the last three months to get out of there at certain times -- end of the year, next year, six months from now or what have you -- and they go down to stinking defeat. When are you going to get the picture? You bring Rumsfeld up here and say, "Why aren't you out of there yet? How long are we going to be there?" Democrats, are you going to tell me, is that how you are going to judge if a war is just and worth it by how much time it takes? "If a war goes over three years, oh, get out! I mean, that's our deadline." Well then defund it! Thank God these people aren't leading the effort. In fact, that's a good point. Hey, Democrats how long have you been at war with Bush? Let's see, 2000, the 2000 campaign, we're seven years almost here that you've been at war with George W. Bush -- and you haven't won diddlysquat! Why don't you give up? Why don't you quit? You have been at war with Bush for six years, you haven't been able to beat him. Stop it! Quit! Get out! It's tearing the country apart. Don't you understand? The Civil War didn't go on this long! Senator Kennedy. Boob. All right. Here is Hillary in a reply.
HILLARY: Mr. Secretary --
RUSH: Tell me when it is over because I'm not listening.
HILLARY: -- I know you would and I know you feel strongly about it, but there is a track record here.
RUSH: (humming)
HILLARY: This is not 2002, 2003, 2004, 05, when you appeared before this committee and made many comments --
RUSH: Wave at me. I'm listening to music.
HILLARY: and presented, you know, many assurances that have, frankly, proven to be...unfulfilled.
RUMSFELD: Senator, I don't think that's true. I have never painted a rosy picture.
RUSH: Is she through? Okay.
RUMSFELD: I have been very measured in my words and you'd have a dickens of a time --
RUSH: Oh!
RUMSFELD -- trying to find instances where I have been excessively optimistic. I understand this is tough stuff.
RUSH: Yeah. They do, too. They're just campaign statements here. That's why... This is a war. I can understand if this is Social Security hearing, or if this is Medicare or some such thing, taxes, minimum wage, all that sort of stuff. We are at war. One of our allies is at war and the Democrats?
It's just another campaign issue!
So I give it the respect it deserves: zilchhhhhh.
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