{"id":25103,"date":"2007-03-28T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:45:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:45:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:45:19","slug":"the_idiotic_senate_iraq_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/03\/28\/the_idiotic_senate_iraq_debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idiotic Senate Iraq Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Up next, Dingy Harry Reid late yesterday on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

REID: Mr. President, this war is not worth the spilling of another drop of American blood. As it stands, this emergency legislation before this body tonight will send a signal to our president that it\u2019s time for a new direction.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I heard the president, Dingy Harry. I don\u2019t think he got that message. I don\u2019t think he thinks it\u2019s time for a new direction. I think he thinks that you people own<\/emphasize> defeat. I think he thinks that you Democrats are trying to secure defeat for your own country. You are trying to guarantee we lose this war. He knows that you probably don\u2019t care about that. He knows all you want is him. Have you heard this? The Democrats have gone out and hired a whole bunch of outside law firms<\/a> to handle all the investigations of this administration that they have planned because their own counsel inside House committees is not going to be enough. They\u2019re going to spend. Each lawyer is going to cost them $225,000. <\/p>\n

Have you ever paid legal fees? You go out and hire these top dog lawyers from these big-time law firms. They\u2019re not going to come in there and work for government salaries. They\u2019re going to charge $225,000 is what they say. Yeah, right! That\u2019s like we\u2019re only going to spend five bucks for the spinach farmer. It ends up being $24 million for the spinach farmer out in Carmel, California. At any rate, Dingy Harry is letting the world know and letting our enemies know he\u2019s on their side. The biggest allies that Al-Qaeda has are the Democrats in the United States House, the Democrats in the United States Senate, and the poor, deranged, misguided leftists and Democrats\u2019 average citizens in this country. Now, McCain on the Senate floor yesterday with a bit of a Limbaugh echo here.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: Supporters of this provision said they want a date certain for a US withdrawal from Iraq. But what they have offered us is more accurately described as a date certain for surrender<\/emphasize>, a date certain for surrender (with) grave consequences for the future of Iraq, (the) stability of the Middle East, and the security of Americans at home and abroad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, these are the people, don\u2019t forget, that say they care about human rights and so forth. They couldn\u2019t care less<\/emphasize> about the people of Iraq. They couldn\u2019t care what the people of Iraq are going through then or now or in the future. This is all about their political future, and their calculation is that this action in the House and Senate has launched them to the White House in 2008 and a perpetual majority. That\u2019s what they think they\u2019ve accomplished. They are giddy. They\u2019re very happy. They love it when this country loses. They love defeat. They love the United States surrendering<\/emphasize>. You know, not even the two senators from Maine — Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins — changed their votes on this. They stuck with the Republicans. If you\u2019d expect two to infiltrate the other side, you\u2019d expect those two to be among the list. But it\u2019s Chuck Hagel and Ben Nelson, who is a Democrat anyway but they both changed their minds. Here\u2019s more McCain. He was on the Today Show this morning. Meredith Vieira said, ‘Your thoughts this morning, Senator McCain?\u2019<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: Fifty of my colleagues made a very bad decision yesterday, and I believe that there\u2019s no doubt that the president, who is the commander-in-chief, will prevail. We will fund whatever is necessary for these brave Americans that are fighting in Iraq to succeed. Senator Reid said it\u2019s ‘not worth one more drop of American blood.\u2019 If that\u2019s true, then why doesn\u2019t Senator Reid and the Democrats propose cutting off funding and ‘bring \u2019em home\u2019 tomorrow? Why wait 18 months?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a good question, but I\u2019ll tell you why they want \u201908. They want it done before the election. They want the withdrawal taking place in the election year during the presidential campaign. He\u2019s actually raised a very good point. They say they\u2019re concerned about the troops, not one more drop of American blood should be lost. ‘Oh, we can lose a lot of Americans, we can lose a lot of blood, but we don\u2019t want this to happen \u2019til 2008<\/emphasize> because these troops and their withdrawal are nothing but a pawn for our political ambitions.\u2019 That\u2019s what the Democrats are saying. They said it loud and clear. Senator Durbin yesterday on the Senate floor…<\/p>\n

DURBIN: We have spent $500 billion of our treasure in the Iraq that could have been spent in the United States for the betterment of our people in our country. We have given to the Iraqi people more than any other nation could ask for in the world. We have stood behind them. We have deposed their dictator. We\u2019ve given them free governance. We\u2019ve given them a chance at a constitution and free elections, and now it\u2019s time for us to make it clear to the Iraqis (that) it is their country; it is their war; it is their future.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the plan! That\u2019s what the surge is all about, you dingbat! That\u2019s precisely what the plan is. By the way, has he ever heard the Marshall Plan? What did we do for Germany? What did we do for France? What did we do for the UK? What did we do for Japan? This is pure idiocy, and it\u2019s owned by the Democrat Party just as they own surrender and just as they own defeat.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: David in Stanfield, North Carolina. You\u2019re up first. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I\u2019m about fit to be tied here. Yesterday I heard Senator Reid on C-SPAN mention that the Iraqi prime minister asked President Bush to remove the troops from Baghdad and that the majority of the Iraqi people wanted us out of Baghdad. What is going on? What is the truth? I am so tired of this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that\u2019s something that Jack Murtha has been spouting for a couple of years, that there are polls showing the Iraqi people want us out of there. It\u2019s the exact opposite<\/a><\/emphasize>. The Iraqi people do not want us to leave yet. We had a picture on Friday. (photo gallery)<\/a> We put it on my website. The Iraqis are coming back to Baghdad now that the surge is working, and they\u2019re having carnivals. You can see pictures of them eating their version of snow cones and riding on Ferris wheels and so forth. As for Maliki, yeah, he\u2019s gone back and forth. Eventually he wants us out of there, there\u2019s no question. But right now, no. It\u2019s just the opposite. We\u2019re the ones telling Maliki the way it\u2019s going to be. We\u2019re the ones telling him<\/emphasize> what he\u2019s got to do in order to get control of his country, and that is join forces with us against his own buddies who are the Shiites.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: What if the sovereign government — this is supposed to be a sovereign government. They don\u2019t want us there. Why are we there? I\u2019m all for taking care of the situation. It\u2019s very complicated. But it makes it even worse when you got the prime minister who can\u2019t get his act together. I\u2019m just really fit to be tied. I\u2019ve got so many thoughts about this whole thing, but you don\u2019t have time to hear it, so I just want to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me try to explain. I know what your menagerie of thoughts are. There are many things at work here — and don\u2019t forget, this whole thing is not just about the stability of Iraq. If you think it is, we would have never gone to war just for the ‘stability\u2019 of Iraq. This is about United States national security. This is about protecting us. The president said today, ‘Don\u2019t let the images of 9\/11 in your mind die.\u2019 It\u2019s amazing that so many people have forgotten it. I know why it is. It\u2019s easy to forget it. There hasn\u2019t been an attack since. (Bush is so rotten, there hasn\u2019t been an attack since 9\/11.) Muslims are at war with us, Chuck Hagel says, yet there hasn\u2019t been an attack since 9\/11. I wonder why that is? And because there hasn\u2019t been an attack, because the economy is doing well, we\u2019ve got a bunch people here who, if they choose, can pretend that nothing\u2019s wrong in the world. They can go about their lives, and they don\u2019t have to be concerned about it at all, because other Americans are taking on the responsibility. Fine and dandy. This is no criticism. <\/p>\n

But it is an explanation for why people are able to put 9\/11 out of their minds and forget that this is all interrelated. The war on terror is going to take us many places: Iraq, Afghanistan, and probably other places eventually. Look at what Iran\u2019s doing with the 15 Brits. Chuck Hagel says that we\u2019re ‘perceived to be at war with the Muslims\u2019 around the world. The whole point<\/emphasize> here is to create a stable Iraq, an Iraq that is sovereign and governing, and we want that as quickly as possible. Everybody running this war wants that as quickly as possible. But you don\u2019t lie to yourself and say it\u2019s been achieved when it hasn\u2019t been! The problem with Maliki has been that his sect is the Sunnis, and that happens to be what the Iranians are, and he\u2019s been buddy-buddy with Muqtada al-Sadr. <\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t had any guts to go after al-Sadr. We read him the riot act, and he\u2019s done a 180 on this. Al-Sadr is still out of the country. He\u2019s in Iran. Al-Sadr and his Mahdi ‘army\u2019 have sort of fled the scene. Everybody\u2019s waiting for them to come back when they think the time is right. But we can do as much as we can to prevent their return being the day of disaster that everybody expects that it is going to be. If you\u2019re going to listen to people like Dingy Harry as your source authority on this, you\u2019re just going to have to accept the fact that you\u2019re listening to a bunch of political partisan lies in order to advance his (and his party\u2019s) political advantage in 2008. Do you want to sign up for that? It\u2019s your right. Feel free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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