{"id":24160,"date":"2007-01-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:10:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:10:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:10:23","slug":"president_bush_can_t_attack_iran_syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/01\/11\/president_bush_can_t_attack_iran_syria\/","title":{"rendered":"President Bush Can\u2019t Attack Iran, Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Just a couple more things that I want to mention here in reaction to last night\u2019s program, and particularly something <a href=\"\/\/\/home\/daily\/site_011107\/content\/eib_interview.html\">Tony Snow<\/a> just said, he reiterated &#8212; we all know this, though &#8212; he reiterated that whatever action that we plan against Iran and Syria does not involve invasions, does not involve troops or any other kind of military movement into either Iran or Syria. A lot of people are asking, why? If this is the focal point of the war on terror and this is a wider war that we\u2019ve gotta actually deal with these countries at some point, why not do it now? <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/elections_have_consequences__.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignright\"\/> Folks, there are some realities here that we have to face. Elections have consequences. They mean things. All of you people who thought it would be best for the Republicans to lose to learn a few things, keep this in mind. Elections have consequences. Bush is in a position now where he just simply can\u2019t launch attacks against these regimes. The Democrats just took the Congress. The Democrats are threatening to cut off funds even for a relatively small increase in troop levels. They are threatening to cut off funds for reinforcements. What do you think they would do if Bush launched attacks against Tehran and Damascus? How many congressional Republicans do you think the president could count on to stick with him to prevent the cutting off of funds? I can tell you right now, overboard would go Chuck Hagel, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, John Warner, any number of them would go overboard. Then we\u2019d get impeachment proceedings, after they de-funded Iraq. <\/line><BR\/>You can say this is something should have been done a couple years ago, but you have to deal with the here and now. You can go back and play TiVo all you want, but all we can do is deal with what exists to now. You might want to be able to criticize the president for not taking action or talking about these external threats, Iran and Syria more often and over a long period of time. He hasn\u2019t done that. He started last night. I haven\u2019t heard any other politician in Washington doing it either, including McCain. Ah, there have been a couple, but I mean they\u2019re not prominent. I know this is what\u2019s so frustrating, because we have the military power to stop all this right now, but we don\u2019t have the political will.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>Look it, folks, can we be honest again? The Democrats today are so craven in their demand for defeat, it is an incessantly, increasingly loud demand for defeat. They won\u2019t even support the president sending reinforcements to the troops on the ground, and they all at the same time claim that they support the troops. Frankly, not enough has been done outside of talk radio to expose their sabotaging and that\u2019s exactly what has been going on. The Democrat Party has been sabotaging this war effort as soon as they felt comfortable making the move. They were always going to. It just required a little work in advance on the part of their buddies in the media to start ginning up anti-war support, and they could make it look like they were reacting to the American people. That\u2019s what all those polls way back in 2002, &#8216;3, &#8216;4, and &#8216;5 were all about. Creating enough anti-war sentiment, Democrats could pretend that they were listening to the will of the people, when in fact it was all a strategy designed to give them the freedom and opportunity to make statements which are, for them, honest and who they really are, no matter what the time frame. <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/elections_have_consequences__.Par.0007.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft\"\/> So there has been an effort here to sabotage victory, and nobody talks about it. They drew the line in Iraq years ago, and they drew the line in Iraq because they don\u2019t want us to win this war at any level, because they don\u2019t want us to win a war at any level. They draw the line on Iraq because any successful military incursion, while George Bush is president, just dooms them in the future in one of their fundamental beliefs, and that is the US military is the focus of evil of the modern world. They\u2019re doing the same thing when it comes to internal security from external threats. That\u2019s why they\u2019ve taken the ACLU\u2019s litigation agenda, adopted it as their own policy. So, anyway, I totally agree, I understand we need to take out the Iranian and Syrian regimes, but it\u2019s hard to see how that\u2019s done when the Democrats, who would most certainly be joined by Lugar and Warner and Collins and Hagel and Snowe and Specter and several other Republicans would cut the executive branch off. <\/line><BR\/>That\u2019s the problem that we need to overcome now. I think I\u2019ve got this figured out. I think I know what\u2019s going to happen. It\u2019s going to be left &#8212; we got a Democrat Congress now, with all the threats and all the hearings, all the investigations coming up &#8212; it\u2019s going to be left to another Republican president, maybe ten years from now, to take care of this. It\u2019s going to fester all this time. Democrats aren\u2019t going to take care of this. We know how they deal with this. After these ten years or so that we get another Republican president, the problems are going to have gotten worse, after we\u2019ve left, after we\u2019ve gotten out of Iraq, after we are attacked again, the reality will set in and not before. Then we\u2019re going to have to go back, we\u2019re going to have to go back somewhere, Iraq, I don\u2019t know where, at a far greater cost to us and our allies in the region such as they are, it\u2019s going to be far more dangerous. But right now neither the Democrats nor some queasy Republicans or the public accepts generally the enormity of what we are dealing with, despite 9\/11 having happened, which is what\u2019s so frustrating to those of us who see this clearly. In fact, it may take a Democrat president to deal with this years and years and years from now.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Now, let me explain something to you. When I said it may require a Democrat president to ultimately deal with the enormity of what we face; I don\u2019t say that because they are better. They are not. I say that because the Democrats, they will throw everything out in order to deny victory, they\u2019ll do that at all costs, they will take all costs to deny any victory to any Republican president, because they put party and power above all else. <\/line><BR\/>You think if Bill Clinton were president right now, they\u2019d be calling for pulling out? Do you think they\u2019d be conducting hearings against Clinton? Do you think the anti-war movement would be as strident as it is? Do you think John Conyers and Kennedy and all these guys would oppose supplemental funding requests for reinforcements, do you think that would happen if Bill Clinton or Hillary, or take your pick if any Democrat were president today? Of course it would not. And guess what, there wouldn\u2019t be any Republicans doing it, either, because the Republicans would join with the Democrats in facing the enormity of the problem. They would support a Democrat president under these circumstances. The Democrats simply will not do it. They supported FDR, they supported Truman, they supported Clinton. There was some talk about Republicans opposing Clinton when he used NATO to bomb the former Yugoslavia. But there were no resolutions, and there was no legislation introduced threatening cutting off funding. <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/elections_have_consequences__.Par.0009.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"156\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignright\"\/> The voices of dissent in Congress were in the minority, and there were hardly any public voices of dissent, when Clinton was bombing the former Yugoslavia. Anyway, that\u2019s my summation, that\u2019s my total analysis and the reaction I wanted to share with you after last night, watching some of the Drive-By Media. Oh, there was one more thing in the Drive-By Media. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?sourceid=navclient&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;rls=GGIC,GGIC:2006-50,GGIC:en&#038;q=George+W%2e+Bush+spoke+with+all+the+confidence+of+a+perp+in+a+police+lineup\">Howard Fineman<\/a>, I guess he filed a story about an hour on MSNBC\u2019s website last night after the president\u2019s speech. ?George W. Bush spoke with all the confidence of a perp in a police lineup.? Now, this stupid AP story last night talking about war-weary Americans, let me tell you what we\u2019re weary of, AP, you! <\/line><BR\/>We are weary of the Drive-By Media. We are weary of the Americans being deluged with a bunch of propaganda about how we can\u2019t win. We are sick and tired of being treated every night to you people telling us you\u2019re not liberal, and that you\u2019re totally objective and that you have no agenda, when in fact you\u2019re aiding and abetting the Democratic Party in securing the defeat of this country because you are so desperate to secure the defeat of George W. Bush, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re weary of &#8212; and I know, when I say that, I speak for gazillions of you people. <\/line><BR\/>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Just a couple more things that I want to mention here in reaction to last night\u2019s program, and particularly something Tony Snow just said, he reiterated &#8212; we all know this, though &#8212; he reiterated that whatever action that we plan against Iran and Syria does not involve invasions, does not involve troops or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Bush Can&#039;t Attack Iran, Syria - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/01\/11\/president_bush_can_t_attack_iran_syria\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"President Bush Can&#039;t Attack Iran, Syria - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Just a couple more things that I want to mention here in reaction to last night\u2019s program, and particularly something Tony Snow just said, he reiterated &#8212; 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