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Saddam uses Democrat Words in Trial Defense

        -- part of Rush Limbaugh 10/5/05 radio transcript:

Now, back to this business of Ramsey Clark, because it is clear to me now, and I was half joking, but I was half warning you when I said, "Get ready because Saddam's best defense is to simply repeat in this court in Baghdad exactly what people like John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and Dick Durbin have been saying about Bush lying, about the war being unnecessary, unjust, there were no weapons of mass destruction, and Bush knew it. The intelligence was cooked," all these things, that's Saddam's best defense. All he's gotta do is just quote these guys, maybe ask them, subpoena them, come over as character witnesses. And we got the first inkling that this is the way Ramsey Clark is thinking, from this story from The Times online. "Saddam asked Clark to pass on his greetings to the American people, telling the former attorney-general, ‘We must distinguish between the people and the leadership. The majority of the people now know the truth about their leadership and how it lied to them’." This was taken as a reference to pre-war claims — which later proved unfounded — that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction." Oh, it's only the starting point. Now, let me tell you something, folks. Deliberately lying, deliberately lying by saying that President Bush lied about prewar intelligence has created an intolerable situation. Saddam Hussein was listening, and so is his lead attorney, Ramsey Clark. They're going to use the Democratic Party's words to bolster Saddam's case, that his country was illegally invaded and that Saddam's regime was the victim of American imperialism and cowboyism.

You know it's coming. This is just the first little indication of it. Now, what we have here is a Democrat Party political stunt that's gone wild. It's out of control. It was a clever little ploy. They wanted to drive down Bush's poll numbers to weaken his credibility, which is his strongest asset. It would have been a Hall of Fame political stunt had Saddam not been waiting for his trial. Democrats could have laughed themselves silly about pulling a fast one on the American people as to what really happened as we prepared to remove a truly grave threat to Iraq, the Middle East, our own country, and the world. And yet here they have the Democratic Party wittingly or unwittingly, I'm not sure which yet, provided a very powerful yet false theory of defense to the incarnation of Adolf Hitler, Jr. Let's go back and listen to some quotes. John Kerry, February 23rd, 1998. "Saddam's already used these weapons and has made it clear that he has the intent to continue to try by virtue of his duplicity and secrecy, to continue to do so. That is a threat to the stability of the Middle East. It is a threat with respect to the potential terrorist activities on a global basis, it is a threat even to regions near but not exactly in the Middle East." John Kerry, February 23rd, 1998. Bush was still in Texas, holding barbecues, roasting Ma Richards, and drinking Lone Star longnecks. He wasn't even in Washington. Here's John Kerry, October 9th, 2002. "I'll be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force if necessary to disarm Saddam because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our country."

Three months later, January 23rd, 2003, John Kerry, "Without question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an impressive regime. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. Now he's miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction. His consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction must not be allowed to continue." January 31, 2003, just eight days later. "If you don't believe Saddam is a threat with nuclear weapons then you shouldn't vote for me." Here's John Kerry yesterday on Face the Nation. When asked about all of this, Bob Schieffer says, "At one point you did vote for the resolution authorizing the president to take military action. If you knew then what you know today, would you have cast that vote?"

KERRY: No.

SCHIEFFER: And what changed your mind?

KERRY: Assuredly not.

SCHEIFFER: Why did you do that and what has changed since you did that?

KERRY: Well, so much has changing since I did it -- you know, I did it for the simplest of reasons. I believed the evidence that we were given, number one. I believed the word of the president of the United States when he said he would do what he promised us with respect to how he'd take us to war if he did. The exhaustion of the remedies of the United Nations, the inspections, the planning, of caution, all of those things, he did nothing.

RUSH: You know, this is why I think the man is demented. I really wonder if he's got dementia. First place, he said in 1998 Saddam Hussein has already used these weapons. So how in the world can anybody have lied to him if he already knew five years ago that Saddam Hussein already used these weapons? He further said, "Saddam's made it clear that he has the intent to continue to try, by virtue of his duplicity and secrecy, to continue to do so, meaning weapons of mass destruction. Now Kerry yesterday says that Bush lied to him. Well, Clinton had to lie to him, because Clinton was the one putting this information out; Madeleine Albright was putting it out; Sandy Burglar was putting it out; Tom Daschle bought into it; Ted Kennedy bought into it; they all bought into it back in 1998. And now all of a sudden George Bush lied. And that takes me back to this little stunt that they pulled out of, this little political stunt that's gone wild. All it was, was a clever little ploy to drive down Bush's poll numbers. And now this stunt which is not based in any truth whatsoever, the real lie is the Democrats lying about what President Bush said to them about weapons of mass destruction and all this prewar intelligence. That's the real lie. The real lie is the Democratic Party's number one talking point today. And they end up with this little stunt providing a defense to Hitler, Jr., Saddam Hussein.

What are they going to do now? Pretend this isn't a story? Are they going to minimize the fact that Saddam's Democrat attorney general, Ramsey Clark, or attorney, has adopted the words of American Democrats to use against Saddam's prosecutors? I mean, they've really put themselves in a hell of a position here. Are they going to lie again about what they said? Will they defend Saddam? Some of them already are. Some of them are already saying that Iraq would be better off with Saddam still in power. The next thing for them to say is give Saddam his country back when we get out. If they want to be consistent, if these Democrats want to stop their lies, what they need to do now, instead of demanding Iraqi control, like Kerry in his demented state is doing, just go all the way, Democrats, go all the way, libs, and say that when we pull out of there, we let Saddam out of jail and let him have his country back. Maybe we even go in and redecorate his palaces for him as a show of apology, for all of the horrors that we've committed, all the terrorist acts that the US has committed. Because US soldiers are brutalizing and terrorizing Iraqi women and kids, according to John Kerry yesterday, the least we can do is call up the Durbin plan, the Durbin-Kerry plan: We rebuild Saddam's palaces, we give him some new limousines. Hybrids! Hybrid limousines for John Kerry and Dick Durbin to personally present to Saddam Hussein so that he can protect the environment over there at the same time he goes back and assumes his rightful place as president and leader of Iraq. Oh, and let him start the oil-for-food program back up. Let him do that, let him bring the United Nations in. We were evil to stop that. We were evil to investigate that. This has all been a Bush campaign to try to smear the great reputation of Saddam Hussein, one of the great magnanimous leaders in world history, a man who did more for his people than Bush wants to do for the people of United States. Bush only cares about the rich. Saddam cares about everybody.

So we redecorate his palaces. I'm sure the Democrats have plenty of left coast interior designers that can go over there and do a bang-up job. And let's get those people that we put in the mass graves, because everybody knows Bush faked that. Saddam didn't rape anybody, Saddam didn't have these mass torture rooms. We did that, we produced all that, just like Abu Ghraib. That's who we really are. Let's go have proper burials for these people in mass graves put there by George W. Bush, all because he lied about weapons of mass destruction. And then we can even televise on the Today Show before Katie Couric leaves to go anchor the CBS Evening News, we could put on the Today Show, send her over there to have a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade type coverage of Saddam being reinstalled as president. And we could have Durbin over there, we could have Kerry over there, we could have the whole Democratic Party, Ramsey Clark will become the official attorney general of Iraq, while maintaining his American citizenship. Folks, this is the only thing we can do, this is where the Democrats' little stunt now requires them to go. Saddam's the hero, Saddam's the victim, Saddam's the good guy. The prosecutors are just agents of Bush and probably that Chalabi guy. Who needs to be on trial? Cheney. Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bush. And that's what we need to do, to continue the process after we reinstall Saddam in power, and we redecorate his palaces, and we give him a fleet of hybrid limousines. We then take Bush and Cheney over to the same jail and put them on trial. That's where this Democrat stunt is going. Because if they are being truthful now, with themselves, this is where it has to be go. Bush is the evil guy. Saddam's the good guy, Saddam heard it, Saddam is going to start using Democratic words more frequently in his defense. They have really stepped in their own excrement. You put a bag of excrement in front of them and they will step in it! And to get out of it, they will have to zigzag out and they'll step in another bag, if you put it in the right place.

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RUSH: As long as the Democrats are at it, why stop with just putting Saddam back in power in Iraq? I mean, if you get them to admit it everybody wants to get rid of Kofi Annan, he's the real culprit in the oil-for-food program. Let Saddam be the secretary general of UN and run Iraq. The UN just lost some election babe, I've got that story somewhere here in the stack. After all, in the last election before Bush's unjust lied-about-war started, before Saddam was illegally deposed and thrown out of power, he got 99% of the vote. Who is more popular than Saddam Hussein? The Democrats, I mean they owe it to us to follow this policy out as they have articulated it. If they're being honest with us, if they're telling us the truth, that Bush lied, that none of this was necessary, that American soldiers are terrorists, that they're brutalizing women and children, we need to put this man in power now, dispense with this whole trial. The trial is nothing more than a continuation of Bush lied. It's nothing more than a sham. Saddam Hussein needs to be taken out of jail this afternoon, put back in power in one of his palaces, and we need to get the hell out of there. That's where this Democrat policy is going if they're to be honest about it. How can a Democrat -- and we know who these liberals are -- how can they, in good conscience, think that Bush lied, the war was unjust and illegal, we had no business kicking Saddam out because he had no weapons of mass destruction, and yet they're allowing elections to determine some new form of leadership, leaving Saddam out? Well, none of this is just, none of this is legal, if everything else they're saying is true, Saddam needs to be put back in power now. And this whole Democratic process, wherever they are in the constitution, wherever they are on everything else they're voting on, scrap it. It's all a sham. It's all a Bush show, isn't it? Bush lied about everything.

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