November 07, 2006

Rush Interviews Tony Snow.

I have to say that Tony is right on top of things today. Great interview. I have a portion here but go over to Rush's site and read it all. You'll be glad you did.

Via Rush: RUSH: Yeah. An opinion on whether or not John Kerry is contributing to this shift at all?

SNOW: Look, I think what he did is he reiterated those comments, and maybe the refusal to respond to them. Now, keep in mind, I may not be an objective observer because I'm a 'stuffed suit White House mouthpiece'.

RUSH: Yeah. And I'm 'doughy'. We're on the same team here.

SNOW: (Laughing.) Exactly. But, look, I think a lot of people are trying to figure out when Democrats say they support the troops but they think the troops are on a fool's errand or they support the troops and they think the troops are losing, the Washington Post had a really interesting piece today. When a reporter finally did something I've been challenging him to do for weeks which is, "Hey, why don't you talk to the troops," and the troops said that what Democrats would be proposing would be absolute disaster. You know, again, so I think what John Kerry's comments did was reiterate the fact that Democrats tend to have a view of the military that is not always fully respectful and even when they say they're supporting them, they're undercutting them....

...RUSH: The headline alone is all I need to tell you about. "As Race Gets Tighter, Iraq Still the Focus." Well, now, what does that tell you? If the race is getting tighter... I thought Iraq was supposed to cause Democrats to show up in droves and depress the Republican turnout, but if the polls are tightening and Iraq is still the focus, what's that tell us?

SNOW: That tells us the people are finally starting... What they constantly get on television and newspapers is a failure narrative. They hear body counts, they don't hear about successes. But despite all that, Saddam verdict, you've got Nouri al-Maliki who is the prime minister of Iraq be very assertive about one thing to have control of military operations. You have Iraqi police the other day, police who have been the last to be trained up and they're still the most difficult challenge, going in and taking out something like 69 Al-Qaeda members the other day, killing 53 and capturing 16. There's important progress being made, and all of a sudden what's happening is we talk about it in a more comprehensive way, and also as people realize that if we lose this and terrorists get hold on of Iraq, they'll have access to the world's second largest oil reserves.

They'll have untold wealth, they'll be able to buy whatever weapons they want, they'll be able to go after governments in that region including on the Arabian peninsula, they'll be able to control an enormous amount of the world's oil supplies. They'll be able to pit us against the Europeans and the Asians and, meanwhile, they'll be able to export terror more effectively than ever. In other words, we do, quote, phased redeployment; what we do is we invite a whole lot more September 11ths.