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RUSH: We\u2019ll start with Perry in Madison, Wisconsin. I\u2019m glad you called. Thank you, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for having me, Rush. First-time caller. I\u2019ve been listening to you from day one that you\u2019ve been on the air in Madison.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The People\u2019s Republic of Madison. Yesterday you reported on the Eyewitness 8 News dude<\/a> who commented how we don\u2019t have people come into our country to inspect our nuclear facilities. Well, I was just screaming yesterday. We are not threatening to kill China. We are not threatening to blow up Russia. You know, we are the peacekeepers in the world. And I was really surprised you didn\u2019t bring that up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I did.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it just… It made me livid that there are people out there that think that way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I did it in a different way than you did, and, you know what? I\u2019m glad you called. I\u2019m glad you told me that you didn\u2019t understand the way I said it, \u2019cause I was trying to say it in a way differently than it\u2019s always stated. So let me repeat what I said, which is exactly what you just said with entirely different words. What happened was we had a sound bite yesterday from some guy that works at Eyewitness 8 TV news in DC, in Washington.<\/p>\n

He was talking about me and how unreasonable I was in being critical of this Iran deal\u2019s lax standards inspecting suspected violations committed by the Iranians. So we pointed out, it\u2019s a 24-day delay! From the moment we suspect something until we can get in there (if we get in there at all) it\u2019s a 24 day delay. It\u2019s written into the deal. Obama and his acolytes are trying to deny it, but it\u2019s in there. We\u2019ve learned it\u2019s even more difficult than that. And this guy at Eyewitness 8 News — “the Eyewitness 8 News dude,” as you said — says, “Well, wait a minute, now!<\/line><\/p>\n

“What\u2019s wrong with the Iranians not wanting to be inspected? If somebody demanded to inspect our nuclear program, we wouldn\u2019t let them,” at which point I launched into what I thought was a pretty effective monologue on how this guy doesn\u2019t understand the differences between the good guys and the bad guys, that there\u2019s a moral equivalence that\u2019s set in on the left, that we\u2019re no better than Iran. “We\u2019re just like Iran! We\u2019re not special. There\u2019s nothing exceptional about us.” There\u2019s no concept that the United States is the good guys and they are the bad guys. <\/p>\n

We just equate everybody. We just equate everything. And, as a means of understanding… This is, by the way, the Ron Paul rationale for not even doing a deal with Iran. Ron Paul has said countless times, “Well, nobody told us that we could or couldn\u2019t do nuclear weapons, and if somebody did tell us we couldn\u2019t, we wouldn\u2019t listen to \u2019em. So I don\u2019t blame the Iranians. We don\u2019t have any right to tell them! Especially if we have one, we can\u2019t tell other countries they can\u2019t.” Now, that\u2019s a strict libertarian view. <\/p>\n

But even at such, I think Ron Paul realizes the US is the good guys. I went into quite an impassioned monologue at that point, Perry, on the differences in the good guys and bad guys and what the United States stands for and that we are the defenders of liberty. But if we\u2019re not gonna defend our own liberty, then defending other people\u2019s liberty is never gonna occur to us. And because we are the leaders of the world, and because we are the lone exception to the human existence on this planet…<\/p>\n

<\/a>The United States of America is alone among nations which have been founded on the premise that the citizens are free and that the government is subservient to citizens. There\u2019s no other nation that\u2019s ever done this, and as such we have become the lone outpost and the bright, shining beacon of individual freedom and liberty. Iran is not even in the same ballpark. Iran\u2019s not even in the same universe. It\u2019s incumbent on us to keep the bad guys in the world in check, because this government has that as a constitutional duty.<\/p>\n

These people swear an oath, Obama, elected official, they swear an oath: Defend and protect the Constitution, defend and protect the people. Well, Iran, as a state sponsor of terrorism, is a threat to people all over. For this guy in Washington to equate the United States with Iran is classic. He\u2019s obviously a product of the public education system, which has been dominated by multicultural curriculum, which states that not only is the US not exceptional, the United States actually may be more guilty of human rights violations than even nations like Iran!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what kids today, and for the last couple generations, have been taught. “I mean, who are we to tell Iran what they can and can\u2019t do? We\u2019re the nation of slavery, and we\u2019re the nation of women\u2019s violations, and we\u2019re the nation of” whatever other condemnation they want to come up with. So, as far as they\u2019re concerned, we don\u2019t have any moral right to tell people what they can and can\u2019t do. <\/p>\n

I said, “It\u2019s not a right; it\u2019s a responsibility! The United States has a responsibility to itself, to its people, and to free people the world over.” This guy in Washington, and he\u2019s not alone, doesn\u2019t even understand. I mean, that is a foreign language to him when he hears people say things like I just said. So I said the same thing you did, Perry, just in different words. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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