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RUSH: I want to go back to September 29th, 2009, on this program. I was hosting the program that day. We would not go back for a sound bite when I wasn\u2019t hosting, just so you know. September 29th, 2009, I had this exchange with a caller, Bob from Chicago, about the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

CALLER ARCHIVE: I was just wondering, Rush, if you were president what would you be doing right now in Afghanistan? What do you think we should be doing? Do you think we should be doing more anti-insurgency or more anti-terrorism, more or less troops, different troops, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Well, I\u2019m not a commanding officer. I would listen to those who are. It\u2019s very simple: we win; they lose. I\u2019d listen to what the generals say, but the bottom line is what would I do in Afghanistan? I\u2019d win.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Yeah, we win; they lose. And, by the way, I didn\u2019t really invent that. I stole that. That\u2019s something I heard from Ronaldus Magnus in talking about the Soviets and the communists. We win; they lose. But really it shouldn\u2019t be anything that anybody should have to steal. Okay, Steelers playing the Buffalo Bills this week, Steelers fan, what\u2019s the objective? We win; they lose. Okay, we\u2019re going into Afghanistan to get the bad guys, what\u2019s the objective? We win; they lose. But for guys like Obama and the left, no, no, no, no. Far more nuanced than just who wins. Don\u2019t bore us with that kind of simplicity. In fac.t here\u2019s Obama, July 23rd, 2009, on Nightline. The host, Terry Moran, they\u2019re having a discussion about the war in Afghanistan. Terror Moran says, “Define victory for me in Afghanistan,” and he actually said, Terry Moran said, “Maybe victory isn\u2019t the right word. Mr. President, would you define it for me.”<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I\u2019m always, you know, worried about using the word victory because, you know, it evokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I remember playing this sound bite when it actually happened and I was stunned on two levels. A, Emperor Hirohito did not come down and sign a surrender. You let George Bush say something like this, all bets are off, they\u2019re gonna send the guys with the little yellow bus and the white coats and have him taken off to some little insane asylum. Obama, 57 states, Emperor Hirohito, “you know, I\u2019m worried about using the word victory. It evokes this notion of the emperor.” What he\u2019s saying is, “That embarrassed me. I felt so embarrassed for the losers. This poor little Japanese guy, they drag him up to the USS Missouri –” I\u2019m not saying Obama knows it was the USS Missouri. He just knows that Emperor Hirohito came down there, wherever it was. But it just made him nervous. I don\u2019t like this whole concept of victory. December 1st, 2009, at West Point, New York, United States Military Academy, Barack Obama laying out his Afghanistan goals.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Our overarching goal remains the same: To disrupt, dismantle, and defeat Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and to prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies in the future. We must deny Al-Qaeda a safe haven. We must reverse the Taliban\u2019s momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow the government, and we must strengthen the capacity of Afghanistan\u2019s security forces and government so that they can take lead responsibility for Afghanistan\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, he\u2019s gonna give a speech tonight in which he\u2019s going to say that a lot of that stuff\u2019s happened, and that\u2019s why we can begin an immediate draw down of 10,000 troops. Now, it\u2019s up in the air. Is he really going to say tonight that all of this has been accomplished and so we can begin this draw down? No. No. You know what\u2019s really bottom lining this is he got Bin Laden.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama has an eight o\u2019clock speech tonight from the Oval Orifice announcing defeat in Afghanistan. “Mr. Limbaugh, that\u2019s outrageous, that you would say that the president of the United States is announcing defeat!” Well, if he starts announcing we\u2019re taking the troops out, that\u2019s what it means. It\u2019s election time. It\u2019s reelect time. His reelect numbers, the polling data in the White House is not good — and that kook-fringe base of his doesn\u2019t want to be in Afghanistan in the first place. He promised \u2019em that he wouldn\u2019t be there. Hell, he promised he\u2019d get us out of Club Gitmo, he\u2019d get us out of Iraq, and he would never expand Afghanistan. He\u2019s done the exact opposite. We\u2019re still in Iraq. We are just as big a footprint at Club Gitmo. Our thriving merchandise business is still thriving, Club Gitmo.<\/p>\n

\"\"Of course, he went to the US Naval Academy, West Point, and announced an increase in troop levels to Afghanistan, but at the same time he said that beginning in the Summer of 2011 we\u2019re gonna start bringing \u2019em home and everybody said, “You can\u2019t say that!” He said, “I don\u2019t care what you say, I\u2019m gonna say it. I\u2019m not gonna listen to generals. The generals don\u2019t know any more than I do about this, and besides that I don\u2019t trust the generals. The generals are military people and I\u2019m Obama, and I don\u2019t like military people.” He didn\u2019t say that but we know that\u2019s what he thinks. So the theory is he\u2019s gonna announce 10,000 troops start returning home and so forth.<\/p>\n

That does add up to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. That\u2019s what he plans to do, and the speech is at eight o\u2019clock Eastern Time. I have been asked if I\u2019m going to be watching it. Unfortunately, if the speech were at eight o\u2019clock here on the Left Coast I\u2019d be able to see it. I\u2019m not gonna be able to. You\u2019re on your own tonight. Normally I would watch the speech so that you don\u2019t have to, and then I would come in here tomorrow and tell you what, if anything, about it you should know — and, as an added bonus, what you should think about it. Sadly, ladies and gentlemen, I myself will be unable, at least to see it live. Now, it\u2019s quite possible that later tonight someplace could have a replay of it, or there will be highlights.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll see some of it, enough to know. But dear old Cookie will be rolling tape. I\u2019ll have sound bites on this tomorrow. Look, I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body. I know what they\u2019re gonna say before they say it; I know what his rationale is gonna be. The fun thing is the drinking game. How many times does he mention Bin Laden tonight? You could get drunk. You could get drunk or you can make sure somebody else gets drunk. Every time he mentions Bin Laden tonight, take a swig — or take a swig of Two If By Tea. Seven-ten? Oh, that\u2019s…? Brian, that 7:10 is not for me in terms of Obama, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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