Þetta er sem sagt þátturinn með Joe Scarborough sem við horfðum á á miðvikudaginn, þegar allt var að verða vitlaust því að Bandaríkjamenn voru búnir að henda niður einhverri styttu. The full transcript can be found here. Hérna á eftir fylgir mikið af Copy'n'Paste svo þeir sem vilja bara lesa orðin mín verðið að bíða betri tíma...
Þátturinn hefst svo þegar Joe Scarborough kynnir:
What a great night. For the next hour, we’re going to celebrate the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime. We’re going to pay tribute to the courage of President Bush, Secretary Rumsfeld and all of those soldiers who fought so bravely. And we’re going to remember the exact words of the Hollywood leftists, the liberal pundits and the media elites who said it couldn’t be done.
Joe Scarborough tekur viðtal við repúblikana þingmann frá Georgíu:
SCARBOROUGH: With me now to discuss the political fallout of today’s events is Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia. Senator, good to see you, buddy.
SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS ®, GEORGIA: Hello, Joe. Always good to be with you, my friend.
SCARBOROUGH: Yes, sir. A great day for the president, a great day for the vice president and Secretary Rumsfeld, but most importantly, Saxby, a great day for the people of Iraq, wasn’t it?
CHAMBLISS: Well, with that question, you know, the president has talked all the way through this that there will come a day when the Iraqi people will be free, and they’ll be out from under the rule of that cruel dictator, Saddam Hussein. And, you know, like when the Berlin Wall fell, we saw that statue fall today and what a great symbol that was.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, it’s a great symbol. Now, not everybody, though, were as steadfast in their support of the president as you.
CHAMBLISS: I think the president of the United States from the very first day he was sworn in, Joe, has just done a fantastic job, both domestically and internationally. He just proved himself time and time again. And we said early on in this particular conflict that he was doing it for the right reasons, and it turns out that’s exactly why he did it. And, you know, unfortunately with politics being what they are in America and with as many people on the Democratic side in the Senate especially that we have running for president in 2004, they’re trying to separate themselves from President Bush. And, you know, when he’s on the right side, you can’t do that.
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CHAMBLISS: I mean, look at the people in the streets of Baghdad. They are celebrating. We’re not the imperialists. We’re not going after their oil. That’s not why they’re jumping up and down. Don’t you think that message is going to spread across the Middle East...
Joe Scarborough tekur viðtal við fyrrverandi aðstoðarundirvarnarmálaráðherra Bush eldri:
SCARBOROUGH: And of course, the troops were the ones who were the real heroes here, but Donald Rumsfeld was also vindicated today, wasn’t he?
BABBIN: Absolutely. The “big dog,” as I call him. If you can’t run with the big dog, you better go sit up on the porch. And a lot of these old retired generals who want to be president or want to be senator, they really better go sit up on the porch, because they just can’t cut it. Mr. Rumsfeld put the right team together, and I think that’s-when you look back in American history, particularly American military history, when you see a commander, particularly a civilian commander over the military who knows how to select the right guys, to put the right team on the field, that’s the guy who’s going to win. And that’s really what Mr. Rumsfeld did. He took the right guys. Dick Myers and Tommy Franks, these guys are real, tough warriors, and they went ahead and they kicked tail.
SCARBOROUGH: And I’ll tell you what, and then he let them do it.
Joe Scarborough kemur með nokkra gullmola:
Coming up, liberal journalists should be eating their words tonight.
Dan Goure, MSNBC herráðgjafi:
We now see that most of Baghdad is free from Saddam Hussein’s control and that of his minions.
Joe Scarborough segir aðeins meira frá ástandinu í Baghdad.
The people of Baghdad are free, and the brutal reign of Saddam Hussein has finally come to an end. And if you want to know why, here’s the real deal.
For six months now, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have been telling the world that the people of Iraq needed to be liberated from Saddam Hussein’s bloody reign. The past three weeks have shown us just how right these three men have been.
Now you and I have seen images of Hussein’s torture chambers, and we learned yesterday of a children’s prison where young kids were kept up to five years for refusing to join Saddam’s Hitler-like group. And, of course, we were witness to Saddam’s sub-human beast who used pregnant women and children as human shields on the battlefield.
Now, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld all three warned of the dangers inherent of leaving such a thug in power. All three laid out a road map for winning this war. And you know what? In each and every case, they were exactly right. And yet, these three visionaries have been the target of abuse from left-wing stooges on Capitol Hill, in Hollywood and, of course, at the United Nations.
Dante wrote that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis, and if that’s the case, then George Bush, Dick Cheney and my man, Donald Rumsfeld, have absolutely nothing to worry about.
Tonight, may God bless our soldiers, our settlers, and the free people of Iraq.
And that’s the real deal..
Gullmolar úr samtali við Dennis Prager, útvarpsþul:
Being on the left means never having to say you’re sorry.
They will not say they’re sorry. They will not recognize they were wrong. They were wrong on the Cold War. They are wrong on almost everything inside of America. Bilingual education, they thought that was good for immigrant students coming here. It doesn’t matter what the subject-domestic, international-they are consistently wrong.
And one of the reasons they’re consistently wrong is they don’t think morally. They divide the world not between good and evil. Those of us who divide the world between good and evil like the president are dismissed as simpletons. No, they’re sophisticated. They divide the world between rich and poor, white and non-white, strong and weak. The strong could never be right.
They don’t understand that there is moral violence and immoral violence. We use moral violence. God bless this president. He is truly a great man.
And, if you’ve been supporting this war, today’s images from Baghdad should have convinced you that you’re on the right side of history. Some politicians aren’t so lucky.
Hvað Donald Rumsfeld, hæstvirtur varnarmálaráðherra, hefur að segja um stríðið. Sýnir í þessari ræðu, sem sýnd hefur verið aftur og aftur í bandaríska sjónvarpinu, að Bandaríkjamenn vita ekkert um heimssöguna...
Anyone seeing the faces of the liberated Iraqis, the free Iraqis, has to say that this is a very good day. The scenes of Free Iraqis celebrating in the streets, riding American tanks, tearing down the statues of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad are breathtaking.
Watching then, one can not help but think of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu, in the long line of failed, brutal, dictators.
We still must capture, account for, or otherwise deal with Saddam Hussein and the tide is turning. The regime has been dealt a serious blow but coalition forces will not stop until they have finished the job. There’s a lot more fighting that’s going to be done. More people are going to be killed. Let there be no doubt. This is not over despite all the celebrations on the street. We’re going to go in at exactly the right moment and do a very good job.
Joe Scarborough endar þáttinn á að fagna þessari ræðu Rumsfelds og segir hvað við megum búast við eftir Írak...
All right, Rumsfeld in 2008. That’s what I say. Up next, words of warning for Syria, now that the Iraqi government is crumbling other rogue regimes are being put on notice.
