The World is Laughing
May 7, 2004
Listen to Rush?
(...ask what these hearings are going to do to help the war effort, then answer)
(...defend and elevate our soldiers, who should still hold their heads high)
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Would somebody tell me what do these senators actually do and accomplish? These questions have provided us with nothing new. It's almost as though now Rumsfeld is supposed to go out and prosecute the case, and these guys are sitting there as judge and jury. McCain, as usual, all about the media. I don't even think these people are really interested in the facts, here. They just want to be able to show they can push Rumsfeld around and, by extension, Bush. Seriously, somebody tell me what these people are accomplishing right now.
Here we've got Rumsfeld and Myers. You know what these people are? Don Rumsfeld and General Myers -- both of whom have won two wars. They're trying to bring democracy to Iraq. They're being pummeled by a bunch of political hacks today, taking an opportunity to be political in an election year. In my opinion, these senators are making asses of themselves, but I'm prepared to be the lone voice saying that, and if Crossfire wants to ask people to condemn me for it, fine. I'll say it again! "I think they're making asses of themselves."
Carl Levin asked if those responsible up the chain will be held to account. They will be and they are being. There was no point to the question. Ted Kennedy, one of the things he wants to know about the International Red Cross: Why they weren't brought into the prison? This from the man who has opposed the liberation of 25 million Iraqis in the first place wants to know if the International Red Cross has been brought in to examine the prisoners who are people who have tried to kill Americans! (Bill Gertz: Most prisoners in Iraq jails called ''threat to security'')
He's not worried about that. He is now worried about the treatment of Iraqi prisoners -- and we're all sitting here, all concerned now about how we look in the world. Let me tell you how we look. We are being laughed at today, in the part of the world with whom we are at war. We are being laughed at today and we are being seen as weak and malleable. I ask again, "Who died here?" The gravity of this is overwhelming. You know who the luckiest person in Washington, D.C., is today? Jamie Gorelick.
Here is a woman who is directly in the "chaaaain of command" that built a wall that prevented intelligence data from being shared so we could "connect the dots" that might have given some lead notice to 9/11 occurring, and she's totally been blown off the radar screen here by this, which is nothing more than an attempt to target Rumsfeld, to get him out of the way so they can get at Bush in an election year. But the idea that Ted Kennedy wants the International Red Cross in there, "Why aren't they in there looking after these prisoners?" These are people tried to kill Americans, and he opposed the liberation of 25 million Iraqis in the first place, opposed this war. The hypocrisy here is stunning.
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[Rockin' intro music] Well, the inquisition of Donald Rumsfeld continues. The bulk of it is over. We haven't learned anything new. We're not going to learn anything new, because there's nothing new to learn here. There's just a bunch of excuse-making and a bunch of posturing by a bunch of senators who want to have some good sound bites for later on in their careers. It's... I don't know. It's just... I have to tell you, folks. It's so sad to watch this. For example, Robert Byrd just concluded his questioning, and he wanted to know, "How we will regain our respect?" meaning the country. "How in the world can we possibly regain our respect?"
Now, the premise of the whole question offends me because I don't think (we've lost it). We're in the process of losing respect doing this. If we're in danger of losing respect, it's this. The people who have struck us and target us are laughing at us today over all of this. This is all being televised, you know, on Al-Jazeera today as well as other Arab networks, and I must take issue with something General Myers said in his opening statement. General Myers -- and I realize the need when you're from the executive branch, when you go up before these guys at the Senate in Congress, you have to grovel. I mean, that's the rules. You have to go up there and you have to grovel. For example, Ted Kennedy was asking about the International Red Cross, and he's asked Rumsfeld about the International Red Cross. [Kennedy impression:] "Why wasn't the International Red Cross in there?"
Same reason the local Red Cross didn't show up at Chappaquiddick, senator! What do you mean, "Why weren't they in there?" They have been in there. What do you mean, senator, "Where was the International Red Cross?" You opposed the liberation of 25 million Iraqis, and now all of a sudden you're concerned about the Iraqis that are in prison and try to kill Americans, you want the International Red Cross? That's the answer that we all need; that's the answer we'd all love. I don't know that that's the answer Rumsfeld would like to give, but I have a thought or two on it, and then you've got "Sheets" Byrd up there -- and again, this poor guy (Rumfeld), everybody is concerned about these pictures and all these hoods in the pictures -- and I say again:
"My friends, you could have seen more hoods had a Robert Byrd birthday party 40-or-50 years ago than you see in all these pictures combined," and he's up there asking, "When will we regain our respect? How will we regain our respect?" Let me answer that for you. This is not difficult, either. If a former member of the Ku Klux Klan (story || story || story), a group that murdered, pillaged and terrorized for the thrill of it, can end up having a former member hailed as "a great senator," then anything is possible when it comes to respect. General Myers is over there saying, he said, "Well, our soldiers, it's bad over there today. Soldiers are now walking with their heads hanging a little lower than usual because of what went on in the Abu Ghraib prison."
I respectfully disagree. If our soldiers are indeed walking with their heads hanging a little lower today, it's because of this! It's because of this overreaction, this sanctimony -- and he also made mention that they're going to be impaired a bit in doing their jobs because they're not going to be impaired to do their jobs because their heads are hanging low. They're going to be impaired because, my gosh, some idiot takes a picture of something out of context and nobody understands, they get thrown out of the military! This is going to end up tying the hands of warriors -- not just prison guards, and not just interrogators and this and that and the other thing. It's just sad to see this, and it's so predictable and it's so obvious what it is. It is a political move in an election year.
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