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You remember the e-mail that I got from the military specialist from Mosul yesterday?<\/a> Well, that letter has made the rounds now, from this program last night to MSNBC\u2019s Scarborough Country, Pat Buchanan filling in. He also had as a guest the former undersecretary of defense Lawrence Korb, and we have two bites here. The first is Buchanan playing an excerpt from this program of me reading the soldier\u2019s letter, his e-mail, and then Korb\u2019s… I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s Korb\u2019s reaction or not. I\u2019m not sure if these things happened sequentially, but, anyway, they speak for themselves. Here\u2019s Buchanan and the way he treated the excerpt of the soldier\u2019s letter from yesterday.<\/line> <\/line>BUCHANAN: I want to introduce now something Rush Limbaugh had on his radio show today. A U.S. soldier in Mosul near the attack apparently watched the news coverage of this attack and was absolutely dismayed. He wrote an e-mail letter to Mr. Limbaugh. Here is Rush reading part of that soldier\u2019s letter. The soldier we will keep anonymous.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH ARCHIVE: (Rush reading soldier\u2019s email) I am disgusted with what I am seeing. It seems to me that the liberal media is just thrilled this happened so it gives them a good headline to make Bush or Rumsfeld look bad. Don\u2019t these people get it? This is not just about politics in America. In fact, it was never about politics until liberals — notice I don\u2019t say Democrats, Mr. Limbaugh, but liberals — was never about politics until liberals made it that way.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So Buchanan then asks a question of Lawrence Korb. “As we pull out of there, aren\u2019t we pulling the plug and inviting a hellish disaster for this country, meaning Iraq?” And I guess — I didn\u2019t see the show last night — but I guess one of the discussion items was whether or not, because of this attack, and I predicted this yesterday, “We gotta get out of there. Oh, no. This is not what we bargained for. This is not the way to go, oh, we gotta get out of there,” and I guess there was this sentiment expressed last night on the Scarborough show that Buchanan was hosting. Here\u2019s Korb\u2019s answer to the question.<\/line> <\/line>KORB: Well, we were inviting a strategic disaster as well as a moral disaster. I don\u2019t think if you can go into a country, get rid of the regime and then say, “Well, gee, it\u2019s not working out. We\u2019re leaving.” I don\u2019t think this is the kind of people we are. But on the other hand, I think you\u2019ve got to start thinking about how you\u2019re going to get out. I don\u2019t see an exit strategy. The general said, “Well, we\u2019ll wait until the Iraqi security forces are stood up.” Well, we don\u2019t know how long that\u2019s going to be. One of the things that unites all of the insurgents, they have various different viewpoints, is the American occupation.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Well, of course it is! What is so worthy of guest expertise for that comment? Of course it unites them. We knew this going in. They\u2019re not insurgents. These are full-fledged terrorists and they\u2019re being paid for largely from money secreted out of Iraq prior to Saddam\u2019s leaving office, and that money probably went to Syria is on its way back funding these terrorists and so forth. But, you know, again, I have to put all this in perspective, and I just wonder, you know, even with the severity of this attack in the chow hall this week, these kinds of things were not those kind of events that forced us to consider getting out of World War II. We don\u2019t think about getting out of wars before we win them, until Vietnam. I don\u2019t recall — well, maybe Korea to a point — but, you know, World War II, World War I we didn\u2019t say, “Oh, well we got to get out of there we just had a devastating loss.” We didn\u2019t think about getting out of there until it was over. The exit strategy is victory. What\u2019s so hard about this? It\u2019s always the exit strategy. <\/line>See this is the problem with the Vietnam War, folks, and this is the problem with people who were in their young, youthful days then coming of age, and that was the formative experience of their lives and so every war ever thereafter is Vietnam to them. It\u2019s unwinnable, it\u2019s unjust, it\u2019s immoral, we shouldn\u2019t be there, and the first sign of trouble, we should go. And this is not the first time they\u2019ve said we ought to get out. This is not the first sign of trouble. But it\u2019s remarkable to me that we have such, apparently, — I don\u2019t know how large, but it\u2019s a sizable contingent of elitist leftists — actually this doesn\u2019t surprise me now that I say it this way — whose view of America is such that we can\u2019t win wars and we don\u2019t deserve to win wars because the wars we get in are unjust. And so this notion, “Well, we gotta get out of there, we can\u2019t leave now, we\u2019ve got to find a way to get out, we need an exit strategy.” None of these people ever consider victory. They\u2019re so obsessed with doom and gloom, so obsessed with negativism; they don\u2019t even factor victory as an exit strategy. And make no mistake, that\u2019s what our exit strategy is, folks.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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