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RUSH: All right, let\u2019s see, you got audio sound bite 16 up there ready to go, Mike? Keep it standing by because it\u2019s coming up soon. Mrs. Clinton beginning to moderate her position on this now, and I\u2019ll tell you why. We\u2019ll get started with the process with this phone call. Dave from Mission Viejo<\/a> in California, hi.<\/line>CALLER: Mega dittos since 1989, Rush.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/line>CALLER: Good. The reason I called, just want to let you know, Bill Clinton goes down to University of Dubai almost once a year, gives a speech, promote his books, makes millions of dollars, and then on his speech he says like what a great ally Dubai is — <\/line>RUSH: Yes.<\/line>CALLER: — what a great country it is. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton, God save us all from her, gets behind the blow horn and then contradicts her husband.<\/line>RUSH: All right, let\u2019s put all this together. Dave, thanks for the call. Audio sound bite 16: this is from this morning in the Senate Armed Services Committee as they\u2019re doing hearings, congressional hearings into the secret port deal. An unidentified reporter says, “Senator Clinton, after the hearing today, do you anticipate bipartisan legislation to block the consummation of this deal by March the 2nd?”<\/line>HILLARY: There will certainly be legislation to require the 45-day investigation. It seems to many of us that on the face of the statute, and given the circumstances of this transaction, that should have been undertaken, but in the absence of it, it should now be ordered. That may be the first step in trying to resolve this matter.<\/line>RUSH: Whoa! Resolve this matter? I wonder what she means when she says “resolve this matter.” You know what I think it means? I think it means, “All right. Let\u2019s do the investigation and let\u2019s find out how this deal got put together. Let\u2019s do all the fact finding we can, and then we\u2019ll approve it,” because what upsets a lot of people about this is the AP\u2019s got this totally misleading story today about the Bush administration engaged in a “secret deal” with the government of United Arab Emirates, and this company or whatever. There is a government agency that does this. They\u2019ve been doing it since 1988. They\u2019ve investigated 1,500 such deals since then, and they\u2019ve rejected one, and it was a deal owned by a questionable ChiCom concern out in California. <\/line><\/p>\n

You know, a lot of people saying, ‘After 9\/11, why is this process still taking place without anybody knowing about it? If this would have just been subject to public knowledge, if we\u2019d have been told UAE wants to buy the six ports…” Wait a minute! People still have the reaction they have. “That\u2019s silly! That\u2019s stupid! Why? Why sell to terrorists?” But then the whole process is open, sun shining on it, and none of this would be taking place here. It wouldn\u2019t have been sprung on anybody as a surprise. That\u2019s probably what needs to change, particularly in the aftermath of 9\/11. I distinctly hear Mrs. Clinton backing away, and I think she\u2019ll hear from the longshoreman union this afternoon, backing away from blanket opposition to this. She doesn\u2019t want to stop it now. <\/line>She wants the 45-day investigation. Now, let\u2019s go back to the guy from Mission Viejo because I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a copy of Arabian Business. Our research tentacles know no bounds, folks, and it\u2019s published Sunday, December 4th, 2005, so it was just late last year. “&lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/www.itp.net\/business\/news\/details.php?id=18919&amp;category=arabianbusiness”>Clinton Leads Dubai Praise&lt;\/a> — Former US president Bill Clinton praised Dubai\u2019s leaders last week, telling them the way Islamic and Western values and cultures are being merged is ‘wonderful.\u2019 Speaking via telecast at the Leaders in Dubai conference on Monday, Clinton was quick to highlight the work done by the emirate?s rulers, in particular Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Minister of Defence of the United Arab Emirates. Clinton said: ‘Dubai is a role model of what could be achieved despite the other negative developments in the region.\u2019 When I went to Dubai for the first time…”<\/line>And he talks about his reaction when he first went there and saw all this technological advancement. He had no idea what was going on in the Middle East. He had the same reaction I had. Now, Clinton also — let\u2019s not forget. Back in 1998, the Clinton administration sold 60 F-16s to the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates funded a course on Muslim studies at Columbia University set up, endowed at $200,000. They have a lot of involvement in this country already. They\u2019ve been able to infiltrate this country with terrorists easily. If they to fly one of they see F-16s and drop a bomb someplace… Well, they probably couldn\u2019t penetrate our airspace. Well, you never know, Cessnas have gotten close to the White House. <\/line> The point is here that now you\u2019ve got Clinton with his past, as president, big ally. He does make these speeches, collects money from Dubai, talks about them with great, great praise, and here\u2019s Hillary, with her knee-jerk reaction earlier in the week. “We can\u2019t do this! Why, this is crazy! Why, terrorism in our ports, why, we\u2019ll not stand for it,” because of course that\u2019s what her constituents want to hear. She just can\u2019t agree with Bush. I will guarantee you what happened is that I don\u2019t know how often the Clintons see each other, and I don\u2019t know how often they talk to one another, but I\u2019ll guarantee you that somebody talked to somebody here. <\/line>Clinton got hold of Hillary said, (doing Clinton impression) “Hey, hey, babe. Can I remind you of some things here? You know how much money I\u2019m making from — we talk about how rich we are. You know how much money I\u2019m making from these people? These people are cool, they\u2019re okay. I sent them jets. Don\u2019t you remember that, we did that back in 1998? If you want to be consistent, if you don\u2019t want people throwing mud at you because you\u2019re being inconsistent, you\u2019ve got to moderate your position on this, because it\u2019s not a bad deal,” blah, blah, blah. <\/line>I guarantee you that one of the reasons is that, because there has to be something, because the pull and the tug of unions on Democrats, folks, is tight. It\u2019s almost a hangman\u2019s noose and Hillary is moderating her position on this since the first of the week and in doing so she\u2019s going to make angry the longshoremen\u2019s union and other AFL-CIO unions that donate to her campaigns. So she\u2019s walking a little bit of a tightrope here. I\u2019m telling you that as people start looking at just the economics of the deal and ignore the politics of it, just look at the structure of the economics of the deal, there\u2019s not much to find to have a problem with, which has been my dilemma all week. There just isn\u2019t much to have a problem with here. All the problems are on the political side, and that\u2019s where she appears to be moderating her tone a little bit at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings today. Mary in Madison, New Jersey<\/a>, nice to have you on the program.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s wonderful listening to you, the king of radio and of logic.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m on your side on this, and I wonder why there\u2019s so few of us, but it seems to me that if we trust President Bush to wage war on terrorism and to make all these significant decisions, decisions from day to day, how can we dispute what seems to me like a trivial trade deal?<\/line>RUSH: Well, I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s trivial, but —<\/line>CALLER: Compared to where we land our planes. Yeah, we can swim the channel practically from Dubai to Iran. I mean, they\u2019re a strategic partner.<\/line>RUSH: Look, our Navy — our own Navy — uses the ports in Dubai to restock, to refuel. It\u2019s where they most like and feel safest. They most like to go and they feel safest. The security there is great. This is all absurd. But you ask a good question, because I\u2019ll take you back to Harriet Miers. And I remember all of you wanted to trust President Bush on Harriet Miers and I was opposed to Harriet Miers and you would call here and say, “I trust George Bush.” And that wasn\u2019t enough for me — and, it\u2019s not enough for me now. But let me expand on this, put it all in context. George W. Bush as president has done some things in certain areas that has dissatisfied and perhaps even angered a lot of conservatives over the years: the education bill with Ted Kennedy; the reaching out to Democrats and trying to be friends with them rather than being loyal to his own friends, the spending, of lack of attention to immigration. <\/line>There have been a lot of things, but what has caused all of these conservatives to stay aligned with Bush is his steadfastness on the war on terror and the fact that the Democratic Party is not a partner in our national security. If you wanted to invest in the security of the country after 9\/11, you had to support George W. Bush because there was nobody else out there at high levels of government in the Democratic Party willing to do so. They wanted to tear him down. They were making it impossible to wage war against this enemy. Every prison was a torture chamber. No domestic spying! No intelligence-gathering. No interrogations! No nothing. They were making Bush out to be the biggest threat. They were accusing Bush of causing terrorism. <\/line>We all know how ridiculous that is. In the process, the Democrats are making it plain they can\u2019t be trusted. So we hung with George W. Bush because of that particular issue. That issue galvanized and kept us all linked, properly so. But I do not support this deal because I trust George W. Bush. I\u2019m not saying I don\u2019t trust him, but it\u2019s not trust. It\u2019s a matter of logic to me. Here is a man who has for four years been alone at the top — other than members of his administration — but he\u2019s been alone at the top in keeping this country focused on measures to guarantee as best we can our security. What I can\u2019t believe is that one day after this four-year track record, George W. Bush could lose his sanity, could lose his resolve, could change his mind, and willingly participate in a deal that would undo practically every step he\u2019s taken to guarantee as best he can our security. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a matter of trust; it\u2019s a matter of logic. I just don\u2019t think he\u2019s stupid, and I don\u2019t think that he\u2019s not paying attention, and I don\u2019t think that he is all of a sudden less concerned about the threats that we face. If anything, I think this represents an understanding that the threat is real, and it\u2019s very consistent with his foreign policy. He\u2019s trying to spread democracy to the Middle East, everybody laughing at him. He\u2019s trying to make people around the world who are living in tyranny and in oppression free, and the world is laughing at him. So here we have a modernized little country in the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates. They want to be like us. It\u2019s apparent to me. It\u2019s obvious that\u2019s who their role model is. Their role model is not bin Laden. They\u2019re role model is not a bunch of sheiks and imams and mosques that want to take us back to the Twelfth Century. <\/line>Their role model is us. So it\u2019s an ally in the region. Economic interdependence makes them far less likely to ever be an enemy, and far more likely to join us in the security efforts in this port deal and anywhere else around the world. To ensure their investment and to ensure our safety, we become partners in this — and I think it actually fits with Bush\u2019s foreign policy in terms of modernization, freedom for individuals, economic opportunity and advancement. I think it\u2019s totally consistent. Once against, it\u2019s the Democrats who are on the wrong side of it. I want to stress this, because trust wasn\u2019t enough to make me support Harriet Miers just because he nominated her. <\/line>I thought that was an absolute mistake, and if I thought this was a mistake I would tell you the same thing. You have to know that, if nothing else about me, over the last 18 years. This is not a matter of trust. I have researched. You\u2019ve listened to the program all week. I have done the “due diligence,” as they say. I have looked at the details on the economic side of this. I know it\u2019s a time bomb politically. But that time bomb, the fuse is not lit on it yet, and Mrs. Clinton\u2019s sound bite just illustrated that. The fuse on the time bomb is not lit — and I want to just predict to you that you are going to see more and more hedging back ever so slowly and slightly from the knee-jerk position that many people took earlier in the week. Mark my words. A quick time-out. It\u2019s a great call. See, that is an example of great call. The purpose of a caller is to make the host look good, and that woman did it.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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