{"id":24161,"date":"2007-01-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:10:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:10:22","slug":"let_s_hope_we_fix_the_rules_of_engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/01\/11\/let_s_hope_we_fix_the_rules_of_engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Hope We Fix the Rules of Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>Chuck in Snoqualmie, Washington. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Good morning, Rush, I appreciate all you do each and every day.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. I appreciate that you appreciate it. I\u2019m glad somebody does.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Two really quick comments.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yes.<\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/fruited_plain_2.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignright\"\/>CALLER: My first one is a question for you. I don\u2019t understand, because the Democrats, right up until the election and even afterwards, were accusing President Bush much being a buffoon because he was losing so much respect around the world and he couldn\u2019t lead the nation\u2019s superpower in building this great coalition to go in here and help us in Iraq. So now since the election, they changed 180 degrees, and now they\u2019re saying, well, the Iraqis don\u2019t need anybody else\u2019s help, we\u2019re all free to pull out and to let them handle this on their own. I don\u2019t understand.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yes, you do. Tell me what you think they\u2019re really saying.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Cut-and-run. It\u2019s all politics. It\u2019s just shows &#8212;<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Of course. Whatever Bush does, they\u2019re going to disagree with.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: That\u2019s right. And you had a caller before, Mike, who just came back from Iraq, and I can tell you it was the same in Vietnam because I flew around in a helicopter gunship while they were shooting at us. I\u2019m mounted on a 75,000 (unintelligible) light with an infrared scope mounted with twin 50-caliber machine guns, and there\u2019s nothing worse than when those tracers are coming up at that damn helicopter, you\u2019re calling in for permission to fire, and they\u2019re telling you to wait one-zero to see if friendlies are in the area. That\u2019s not how you fight a war. You go in there and take them apart, that\u2019s why they call it gunship. It\u2019s just so frustrating. You know, they put all these rules and regulations, ?Well, we\u2019re going to fight a war according to the way that the peaceniks want us to fight it.? That\u2019s not how it happens, you know. It\u2019s just ridiculous.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, you know, I hear these stories and I hear them frequently about the political correctness, the politically correct handcuffs that are placed on our troops, and you\u2019re describing them as they existed in Vietnam, and it doesn\u2019t surprise me. In fact, it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if you told me that you had a straight line to the Oval Office and had to get permission from LBJ to return fire, that\u2019s how micromanaged that war was, or McNamara. But while we got all these politically correct handcuffs on our troops, we still hear all these stories about how they rape and murder and pillage. They go in, as John Kerry said, and terrorize women and children at home during religious ceremonies and so forth. These two things don\u2019t go together and it sounds to me that the kinds of things that these guys get accused of are just the things that happen in war, and that we are trying to eliminate with our guilt laden political correctness. <\/line><BR\/>You know, even in the middle of fighting a war, the predominant concern is that the enemy like us. How ridiculous is that? Well, they must like us and they must appreciate us and they must understand that we\u2019re Americans and that we have ideals, and we\u2019re doing everything we can to make sure that we end up as the targets. I know it\u2019s absurd. But, the president last night said that some of these restrictions are going to be lifted, and I certainly hope they are. I\u2019ve been hearing these stories long enough and it\u2019s frustrating to hear. Thanks very much for the call, Chuck. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck in Snoqualmie, Washington. 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