{"id":13400,"date":"2013-01-25T19:27:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:27:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-25T19:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:27:51","slug":"didn_t_we_do_women_in_combat_in_the_90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/25\/didn_t_we_do_women_in_combat_in_the_90s\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn\u2019t We Do Women in Combat in the \u201990s?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I need to share something with you here. It\u2019ll be 25 years in August that I\u2019ve been doing this show. And that\u2019s long enough to notice things that you can\u2019t possibly notice in your first five years or even ten. For example, I am now able to see how a whole bunch of things simply repeat themselves — issues, battles, political fights — how they repeat themselves, how a lot of this is just cycled and recycled.<\/p>\n

I have to confess, when I first became aware of women in combat as a political issue this week my first reaction was, “What? No, no, we did that back in the nineties.” It really was. We did that. What are we doing that again for? And I had to stop myself and this was the learning experience. We\u2019re simply recycling liberalism. We\u2019re simply putting it through the grinder again. We\u2019ve done women in combat. We\u2019ve had the argument about it, just like we\u2019ve had the argument over tax cuts versus tax increases. We\u2019ve had the argument over deficit spending over balancing budgets. We\u2019ve had all that, and yet they just recycle. And the thing that keeps the cycle going, obviously, is an infusion of young people into the process who don\u2019t know about any of this stuff, they\u2019re not old enough.<\/line><\/p>\n

To a lot of people, the women in combat issue is the first time they\u2019ve ever heard of it, even though we dealt with it back in the nineties. Every which way from Sunday we dealt with it. Every argument pro and con was made. This kind of came out of nowhere because we have a president here who — well, actually it doesn\u2019t come out of nowhere. We have a president who is trying to essentially eliminate the defense posture of this country, really wants to downsize it, really does want to cut the defense department, all of the spending, various budgets, that\u2019s where he really does want to cut.<\/p>\n

We know that liberals always use the military as a social laboratory. As long as I\u2019ve been alive, that\u2019s what the military has been for, primarily, social experimentation. And women in combat is social experimentation. It\u2019s where you try out new things that go against the norms. Clinton did it with “Don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell,” gays in the military. It\u2019s just a social playground. Late yesterday afternoon on CNN\u2019s Newsroom, the anchor Don Lemon, who I don\u2019t think was on CNN back in the nineties, so this may be his first go at women in combat. To him it may be the first time it\u2019s ever come up, and it may be a great thing to him. He was talking to an Iraq war vet, Tulsi Gabbard, and they\u2019re discussing women in combat, and Don Lemon said…<\/p>\n

LEMON: Men and women are different, we know that. How should the military handle pregnancy, for example, for women in combat units? Should a combat unit leader be able to direct a woman member not to get pregnant?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so there\u2019s assumptions made in this question. Men and women are different. This guy must have read the TIME Magazine cover. As a good liberal, Don Lemon knows that men and women are different. He probably knows that they\u2019re born different and he probably read that in TIME Magazine because they had a cover story on that back in 1998, or something. So he\u2019s asking this Iraq war vet, “How should the military handle pregnancy?” See, it doesn\u2019t occur to him that pregnant female soldiers in combat units may not actually be a good thing. He just assumes it\u2019s going to happen with women in combat, you\u2019re gonna have women pregnant. And how are we gonna deal with that, Tulsi? And here is Iraq war vet Tulsi Gabbard. She is a member of Congress now, a Democrat from Hawaii. This is what she said.<\/p>\n

GABBARD: Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it\u2019s not in their best interests to get pregnant overseas; but if it happens, it happens, and we take care of each other. We have a highly trained, highly skilled, very motivated force, and by opening these doors to women, we will only be stronger, because of the unique capabilities that women bring to the table.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that\u2019s not what\u2019s gonna happen. We\u2019ve been there and done that. The only way… Look, let me dial back my passion because I know it\u2019s scaring 24-year-old girls. I\u2019m probably threatening. I don\u2019t want to threaten anybody. But I\u2019m just gonna tell you that in order to have women in combat, you are going to have to lower qualification standards. There\u2019s simply no way around that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s precisely because of what the brilliant Don Lemon said in the question: Men and women are different. There\u2019s no way around it. So she can sit here and talk about, “We take care of each other. We\u2019re a highly trained, highly skilled, very motivated force. By opening these doors to women, we\u2019re gonna be stronger,” but no. I thought Dianne Feinstein and other people were saying the problem with Washington is too many men, too much testosterone?<\/p>\n

So, anyway, “It\u2019s a very motivated force and by opening these doors we\u2019re gonna be stronger because of the unique capabilities that [pregnant] women,” that\u2019s the question, “bring to the table.” That\u2019s gonna make us stronger? It\u2019s not going to make us stronger. But if that\u2019s not the objective, then it doesn\u2019t matter. If the objective is social engineering, to create a social laboratory, a payoff to the feminists for their votes and their donations, then it\u2019s perfectly fine.<\/p>\n

Women in combat. If you\u2019re trying to please women who voted for you and fulfill the dreams of feminism, then fine. But in terms of making the military stronger, it actually doesn\u2019t do that. Not in combat. Don\u2019t anybody misunderstand me here. I have been through this. That\u2019s the great thing about having done this for so long. We dealt with this problem way, way back in the nineties. The key, and Tulsi actually said it, is not getting pregnant when you\u2019re a woman in combat.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the key.<\/p>\n

There are times to get pregnant, and that\u2019s not one of them. So if you want women in combat and you don\u2019t want \u2019em getting pregnant, what do you do? Well, many of you have heard this if you\u2019ve been here a long time, but for those of you new to this, we\u2019ll take you back to an idea that we had before. We came up with it back in the early nineties when there was a military operation to get Pineapple Face out of Panama.<\/p>\n

That would be Manuel Noriega. If you look at his face, he looks like a pockmarked Pineapple. That\u2019s why they call him Pineapple Face. Here\u2019s what you do. We all know there are some assumptions here. Now, everybody knows these assumptions are true, but this is one of those times where if you mention them and you\u2019re right, you offend people. So look, I\u2019m just gonna tell you up front:<\/p>\n

You might get offended by this. But that\u2019s not the point here. I\u2019m being factual. If you\u2019re trying to avoid pregnancy among women in combat, there\u2019s a way to do it — and it\u2019s not, by the way, to prohibit sex, because you can\u2019t do that. You can\u2019t stop people from having sex. They\u2019re gonna do that. It would be silly to institute a no-intercourse policy in the military. That\u2019s not gonna work. People are gonna do it, right? You can\u2019t stop it.<\/p>\n

So how do we allow that with no pregnancy, and we don\u2019t want to mess around with the pill. So if we have women in combat, there\u2019s an easy way to do it. Now, here\u2019s what we know. We know that women who live together, or who are housed together — in dormitories, for example, in sororities — after a certain passage of time… This is one of the marvels of creation. No one can explain it, but it happens.<\/p>\n

Menstrual cycles happen to synchronize.<\/p>\n

<\/a>You can get mad at me all you want for saying it, but it happens to be true. It\u2019s not a put-down, and it\u2019s not taking away from the individuality of any women or woman. It just happens. So what we do is we create a force. We call it the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion, and we segregate women enough in various bases and barracks so that you have synchronized menstrual cycles.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re timed in such a way that on any day of the year, you are guaranteed to have a fighting female force all in PMS, all during premenstrual syndrome. You can do it because they synchronize the cycles. So you house them together. It wouldn\u2019t take much of a computer program to figure this out. No matter when you need them, you\u2019re always going to have a combat-ready battalion of women on PMS. Pregnancy problem solved — and, and they\u2019re pretty damn good during combat at the same time.<\/p>\n

Talk to any man about it. I\u2019m not being sexist here. We\u2019re just dealing with reality. That\u2019s how you do it. Now, I proposed this way back in the nineties. Put Molly Yard or whoever the leader of the NOW gang is in charge of this battalion. The possibilities are limitless here, and it accomplishes everything. We get women in combat, no pregnancy, and they\u2019re ready to go on any day of the year.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re combat ready on PMS.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all made possible by that miracle of synchronization that nobody can explain, but it does happen.<\/p>\n

See? We try to help here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was just checking the e-mail and people say, “You may not have heard about this, Rush, but women in the military already have this solved. There is a shot, an injection that they\u2019re given that eliminates the menstrual cycle period for a whole year. So it\u2019s never, ever a problem,” and that may well be true, but who knows what the side effects of that are? As I say, it\u2019s a liberal laboratory, a social laboratory. Who knows what the effects of a shot are that eliminates the period for a year. I mean, what are the effects on childbirth later on? My way is au natural. It can\u2019t be beat.<\/p>\n

The reason it will never be adopted is because it\u2019s my idea, but still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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