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RUSH: Mark in Ann Arbor, Michigan, you\u2019re next on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, Rush, 18-year-listener, first time caller. Giga dittos. Mega dittos are no longer enough.<\/line>RUSH: Thanks very much.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, I want to know about the dynamic, what you think. I don\u2019t hear the media talking about this, but what is the dynamic — now that Al-Qaeda is bombing all these Shi\u2019ite shrines — what is the dynamic between Al-Qaeda and Iran right now, and what does al-Sistani feel about Iran? He seems to hold them at arm\u2019s-length but what\u2019s the relationship there? I don\u2019t hear the media talking about that very much.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, the president came out in his most recent press conference and nailed Iran for meddling in Iraq, and it was shortly after that that Iran said, “Okay, let\u2019s talk.” Sort of like when the president pointed fingers at the media and said, “You guys are helping the enemy spread their propaganda with your incessant focus on negative news coming out of Iraq.” They went, “The president criticized us!” <\/line>They\u2019ve been in a tizzy ever since, and Iran, you know, being called on it by the president? Everybody knows that Iran\u2019s involved, and Syria as well. The dynamic is obvious. Iran doesn\u2019t want a democratic Iraq. They don\u2019t want any part of it. They have no desire for it. None of the terrormaster regimes over there do, Syria, Egypt. They\u2019re scared to death. But I\u2019ll tell you, your question focuses me on something else. Yeah, Iran\u2019s working on this with Syria and they\u2019re meddling in Iraq, but let me give you some numbers here. These are numbers just today from the Brookings Institution\u2019s Iraq index. Now, the Brookings Institute is a think tank. They\u2019re not, you know, a right-wing bunch. <\/line>Brookings has its share of moderates, centrists and leftists, and they have something called the Iraq Index, tracking variables of reconstruction and security in post-Saddam Iraq — and listen, they got four items here. “US troops killed in hostile action in Iraq last six months from October 2005 to March 2006, in order: 81, 76, 50, 49, 43, 25.” That\u2019s the last six months, in reverse order, US troops killed in hostile action. That\u2019s a big improvement. “Iraqi military and police killed in Iraq in the last six months, in order: 215, 176, 193, 189, 158 and 193. The three months before that were 304, 282, and 233.” So September, August, July, you see an even huger trend. <\/line>“Car bombings in the last six months, from October to March, in order: 70, 70, 70, 68, 30, 30.” Now, let me ask you a question here. Given that the US troops killed in hostile action last October was 81 and in March was 25, and given that car bombings the last six months, October to March, 70 last October, 30 in March, have you seen corresponding media coverage that would lead you to believe that fewer US troops are killed in hostile fire and that there are fewer car bombs? My guess is you don\u2019t see anything of the sort. <\/line><\/p>\n

My guess is you don\u2019t see anything that makes you think it\u2019s getting worse. You probably think there are more car bombs. You probably think that there are more deaths taking place. There\u2019s one other category here. “Civilians killed in Iraq, last six months, October 2005 to March 2006 in order: 527, 826, 532, 732, 950, 446 in March,” and in fact the two months before, so looking at August and September of last year — 2,849 and 1,129. So last August, 2,489 civilians killed in Iraq; in March, 446. So in every one of these categories there is a demonstrable, dramatic trend toward the better — and I just know that there\u2019s no corresponding reporting out there. <\/line>So it tells me that the military side of this is showing great success. The holdup in Iraq right now — you\u2019ve heard this — is, “Well, they better get their act together over there, better put together a government!” The Democrats want to put a timeline on them getting a government or we pull out. It\u2019s asinine. It\u2019s just lunacy — and that\u2019s good old John Kerry (who, by the way, served in Vietnam). I\u2019ll tell you what needs to really be focused on now, with these numbers especially this way: Let\u2019s just go destroy the enemy. You know, there\u2019s this thing called the Limbaugh Doctrine<\/a>, ladies and gentlemen. I made this famous when first discussing the Israeli-Palestinian snafu many, many moons ago — a little Indian lingo there – and it is this. <\/line>Peace follows victory. You don\u2019t put peace together in the midst of fighting a war. By definition it\u2019s not possible, and all of this pressure to force the Iraqis to come up with a government while a war is going on is a bit mistaken. Let\u2019s go beat the enemy. Let\u2019s focus on defeating the enemy. I\u2019m not saying that we\u2019re not focusing on that exclusively, but let\u2019s make it the real point, not the Iraqi government, as the definition of success, because that will only happen in full-fledged peace. You know, this country\u2019s history, how many decades did it take us to figure all this out ourselves? Trying to force it on these people and then claim, “Well, haven\u2019t had any brilliant leaders surface over there.” Give \u2019em time. In the meantime, continue to focus on defeating the enemy, that\u2019s victory, and peace will follow that.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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