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And that\u2019s what we\u2019re hearing: So why don\u2019t we put more troops in there? There is an answer, my friends. And it\u2019s this: When you are fighting terrorists and people who have adopted terrorist tactics, victory is not assured, by the volume or number of troops. Victory over terrorism is really a function of your intelligence. If you know where to hit them. You got plenty of troops. We don\u2019t need any more troops than we have now, if you know where they are, you know how to wipe them out. If we don\u2019t know where they are, we\u2019ll never have enough troops to deal with it. General Abizaid, who took over for Tommy Franks put it this way yesterday. <\/line>He said, “[W]e have over 1 million people under arms in the United States of America and it didn\u2019t protect us from what happened on 9\/11. And the Israeli army, for all of its strength, was not protected from what happened in Jerusalem the other day in that bus attack. I mean, terrorist attacks can happen regardless of the strength of the military commitment.” And he\u2019s right. By the way, if anybody would want more troops or would be in a position to say, “Yeah, I could use them,” it would be Abizaid, and that\u2019s not what he\u2019s saying. You have to listen to him. “Hey, Rush, he was appointed by Bush. He was elevated by Bush. He\u2019s just a shill.”<\/line> No, he\u2019s a responsible military commander – and he\u2019s right. If you stop to think about it, the Israelis knocked off a huge Hamas leader, one of the meanest, nastiest, slimiest Hamas leaders. They nabbed him while he was driving in his cheap Volkswagen station wagon in the Gaza Strip with two of his bodyguards, and they did it with a couple of Apache helicopters firing rockets. There\u2019s a picture of it in the New York Post. [at right] I looked at it while driving in. (No, I don\u2019t read while I\u2019m driving. I was riding in; I wasn\u2019t driving in. I was in the back.) And this station wagon is up in flames, and it didn\u2019t take in more troops than Israel already has. <\/line><\/p>\n

It took good intelligence to know that that\u2019s where the slimy SOB from Hamas was going to be along with his two, as it turns out, worthless bodyguards. The Israeli army, same thing, it proves the case. I\u2019ll tell you this, if Abizaid – if General Abizaid – requested more troops, he would have them, and he hasn\u2019t asked for them, and the White House administration trusts his judgment. I mean, the commanders in the field know best what troop strength they need. The last thing in the world we need to be listening to right now is the U.N. – in this case de Villepin and Kofi Annan and a number of others from around the world – telling us how many troops we need or we don\u2019t have enough. <\/line>I know there are Americans saying so – decent Americans, great Americans that are offering this opinion, but the, you know, the firefights…I mean the daily massive hand-to-hand combat of war is over. It\u2019s terrorist actions that are taking place now. Intelligence is the answer. You know, there\u2019s another criticism that we\u2019re getting, too, by the way. “Why don\u2019t we internationalize the war? Why do we insist on doing this more or less alone, Mr. Limbaugh, hmm? Why can\u2019t we bring in other nations?” The answer is this: We are currently working to internationalize the war but we don\u2019t want to lose control of events. <\/line>I\u2019m sure we would welcome all kinds of assistance but we\u2019re not going to cede control. There\u2019s no reason we should. Why should we turn control over this to anyone else, from the French to the Germans to the UN to whoever? And you can\u2019t share this kind of command. That is not going to work. You don\u2019t want to bring in troops from other countries and in so doing cede control over the future of Iraq to those who were never in favor of its liberation to begin with. What kind of sense does this make? The French were never in favor of this. Now they want to come in, or the Germans, or whoever else we\u2019re talking about?<\/line>Why bring in people who had no interest in this taking place – who in fact were opposed to it – why bring them in now, under their terms and give them some say-so in the decision-making? We don\u2019t want the likes of Dominique de Villepin playing a key role in the future of Iraq. Keep in mind, too, that Secretary Powell said yesterday that some 30 nations are now participating. He said, “It is an international coalition.” I think there\u2019s something like 22,000 troops from these 30 nations – not a big number, but they are there, and five other nations are in the process of sending troops from what I\u2019ve heard and 14 other nations are in conversations with the coalition on troop contributions.<\/line>So, as usual, the critics are a day late and a dollar short. But when it comes to the strategy they\u2019re asking for, they\u2019re not going to be given command, they\u2019re not going to be given shared command – and they shouldn\u2019t be. I mean, again, just to cement the thought: All these nations that now want in there, want in there for one reason and that\u2019s to have some say-so in the commercial activity of the aftermath because this is going to end at some point, and they want a foothold now. They were opposed to all this and did everything they could to stop us from getting where we are. Why in the world would we want people like them, like de Villepin or Chirac, to come in and start sharing command decisions about what happens now? Silly! We can handle it. We\u2019re the United States of America.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And that\u2019s what we\u2019re hearing: So why don\u2019t we put more troops in there? There is an answer, my friends. And it\u2019s this: When you are fighting terrorists and people who have adopted terrorist tactics, victory is not assured, by the volume or number of troops. 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