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RUSH: There is beginning to be a split in the Democratic Party. It\u2019s becoming pronounced now and obvious — and, by the way, this is a See, I Told You So. I was able to predict after a presidential press conference that the Iraq Study Group, the Surrender Report, was doomed for the ash heap of history. I said, “If you ask me, I\u2019m hearing from experts everywhere — military, civilian — we need more troops in Iraq.” Now Hillary\u2019s come out opposing it; Dingy Harry\u2019s come out in favor of a temporary <\/emphasize>ratcheting up of troops. The president appears for it. Senator McCain is still making that a hallmark of his policy on what to do in Iraq. Teddy Kennedy has come out against more troops, saying he doesn\u2019t agree with Senator Reid.<\/line>He has profound respect for Senator Reid, of course, but he doesn\u2019t really agree with him about any of this. Let us go to the audio sound bites. This makes me wonder what the Democrat base, the kook-fringe base thinks now of the Senate majority leader in favor of a temporary increase, because you know how they\u2019ll interpret that: “There\u2019s nothing temporary in troop increases! Why, that\u2019s going to be permanent! Why, we\u2019re supposed to be getting out of Iraq.” Here\u2019s Mrs. Clinton. She was on the Today Show today with Meredith Vieira, and she was asked if she thought we should send more troops to the region.<\/line>HILLARY: I am not <\/emphasize>in favor of sending more troops to continue doing what our young men and women have been told to do, with the government of Iraq pulling the rug out from under them, when they actually go after some of the bad guys. I am not in favor of doing that unless it\u2019s part of a larger plan. Let\u2019s see the plan. You know, I\u2019m not, um, going to believe this president again. I did that once. (fake laugh)<\/line>RUSH: A-ha-ha-ha! It\u2019s time now to make the break, Mrs. Clinton. If anybody doubts that she is running, that\u2019s it. That little bite right there is all I need to know that she is running. That <\/emphasize>is a direct statement to the base of the Democratic Party. Fox News Sunday, Ted Kennedy. Chris Wallace says, “Let\u2019s start with Iraq. The president reportedly is considering an option to send another 50,000 troops, as he wants nothing less than victory. If that\u2019s what it takes to stabilize the country and protect us from terrorism, isn\u2019t that worth it?”<\/line>KENNEDY: I don\u2019t believe that that would stabilize, uh, the country, nor do I think it would bring victory. Since the Hamilton report has been issued, we — 40 Americans have been killed.<\/line>RUSH: So what? Hold it, hold it a minute. What does one have to do with another? Nothing! Here\u2019s the rest of the bite.<\/line>KENNEDY: Our military has been in Iraq longer than World War II, World War I, uh, longer than the Vietnam War.<\/line>RUSH: Stop the tape. Stop the tape, sorry. Yeah, let\u2019s see, World War II didn\u2019t quite go as long as this war, but what was the total casualties, American casualties, deaths and so forth in World War II? I know the number. Does it just pop up into your mind? Try 300,000. It was a world war, Senator Kennedy, 300,000 Americans died. What\u2019s the death count in Iraq? Because you guys are just keeping a score of this. You can\u2019t wait. It\u2019s around 2,954 but I don\u2019t know if that includes the 40 that Senator Kennedy\u2019s talked about died since the Iraq Surrender Goup\u2019s report. We\u2019ve fought in Iraq longer. We\u2019ve lost basically 3,000 troops. Shorter period of time for World War II and what\u2019s the point? This is meaningless. Is war a football game and the clock\u2019s ticking and if you don\u2019t get it done within a certain time frame you leave? Apparently so, to the Democratic Party. Uh, sorry, Democrat Party. Here\u2019s the rest of this inane sound bite.<\/line><\/p>\n

KENNEDY: On everything that they possibly could. This country is in chaos! There are now a hundred thousand refugees that are leaving Iraq every month. Uh, Jordan has sealed its borders. Lebanon has sealed its borders. Uh, they\u2019re rushing into the Middle East. Uh, we have, uh… We have 700,000 refugees that are coming into Jordan. It\u2019s like 30 million people entered the United States over the last two to three months!<\/line>RUSH: This is inane. These are non sequiturs. By the way, if Jordan has sealed its borders, how do 700,000 refugees get in there? If a hundred thousand refugees are leaving Iraq every month, then pretty soon there\u2019s not going to be an Iraq — and that may be the way to win the policy. Drive everybody out of there go in there and take over the oil and establish Halliburton government and be done with it. I\u2019ll tell you, these people are dangerous. Now here\u2019s Senator Kennedy, The Swimmer, splitting from Dingy Harry. He was asked to comment on Dingy Harry\u2019s remark which you\u2019ll hear in a moment that he supports a temporary increase in the number of troops.<\/line>KENNEDY: I respect Harry, uh, Reid on it, but, uh, I — I — Uh, that\u2019s not where I am. I, uh, agree with the generals who have appeared before our Armed Services Committee and think that what the — wooah — what an enhanced — just as we saw the enhanced troops in Baghdad didn\u2019t quiet Baghdad down, the — the generals have testified before, uh, the Armed Services Committee think that we would add to being a crutch for the Iraqi civilian government in not making the right judgments, decisions.<\/line>RUSH: You know, there\u2019s another way to look at this, and it\u2019s just another way to look at it, but how long has this been going on? Three years, and the general consensus is even though there are arguments about this, the general agreement is that it\u2019s chaos and we\u2019re not doing well over there. We could have done much better than we\u2019re doing. Now, the president has said throughout that he\u2019s been listening to the generals, and it was the generals that came up with the policy, and the generals that said, “No, we don\u2019t need any more troops right now. It was fine and so forth.” Could it be that maybe the generals have screwed up? I don\u2019t know. Maybe it is time for a new direction. Maybe we\u2019ve been listening to the wrong people for enough time now that changing strategery and changing policy might make sense, and you get some input from some different people. Not the think tank crowd! You don\u2019t want that. Ted Kennedy, here\u2019s a guy who despises <\/emphasize>the military but can\u2019t wait to sign on to \u2019em when they happen to say something before his committee that he happens to agree with. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: All right, audio sound bite #10 just to wrap this up. This is Dingy Harry on This Week with George Stephanopoulos yesterday, and he was asked if he would oppose an increase in troops in Iraq.<\/line>REID: If it\u2019s for a surge, that is for two or three months, and it\u2019s part of a program to get us out of there as indicated, by this time next year, then sure I\u2019ll go along with it.<\/line>RUSH: All right, well, it has caused some — I wouldn\u2019t say rifts — in the Democrat Party, but let\u2019s not be under any false illusion here that these clowns are totally unified.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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