{"id":25240,"date":"2007-04-09T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:40:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:40:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:40:34","slug":"the_left_has_paralyzed_us_on_iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/04\/09\/the_left_has_paralyzed_us_on_iran\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Has Paralyzed Us on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Now, about the Iranians calling today National Nuke Day, Stanley Kurtz<\/a> at National Review Online has an interesting observation about this, and I want to pass this on, because it sort of dovetails with where we are right now in dealing with genuine threats to our own national security. His basic point — I don\u2019t want to read his whole piece here, but his basic point — is this is the exact reason we went into Iraq, to find and stop the production of weapons of mass destruction. Now, according to the, quote, unquote, ‘powers that be,\u2019 there weren\u2019t any in Iraq, and of course we know that there were. I don\u2019t want to get into an argument about that. We know they\u2019re somewhere, but the point is, the country was all for it. The country was all for a preemptive strike in Iraq, 90%, 80%, to stop weapons of mass destruction from being used in the immediate aftermath of 9\/11. Stanley Kurtz says, ‘In the debate to come over Iran\u2019s nuclear capacity, there will be constant references to our intelligence failure in Iraq. The dispute will be about exactly how close Iran is to a bomb. But let nobody forget, Iran is already at a point that would easily have justified the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. <\/p>\n

‘This fact by itself doesn\u2019t decide the issue of what to do about Iran. An attack on Iran would be militarily tougher than the invasion of Iraq. Occupation seems out of the question. But there are also questions about how far an attack would actually set back Iran\u2019s nuclear program. All of these difficulties and considerations notwithstanding, the fact is that we are under a threat of exactly the sort that everyone agreed would justify action in Iraq.\u2019 Now our hands are tied. Now we\u2019re not going to do anything. It doesn\u2019t appear we\u2019re going to do anything. I know people who say that George W. Bush is not going to leave office with Iran in possession of nuclear weaponry. We\u2019ll see. But clearly — and I made mention of this some years ago that the real basic problem with what the Drive-Bys and the left have done in destroying the Iraq war effort, is they\u2019ve also destroyed any other attempt that we might need to make anywhere else around the world to accomplish the same thing. His point is, exactly what\u2019s happening in Iran is exactly why we went into Iraq. Now our hands are tied. We will not do anything about it. Well, that\u2019s not his point. It\u2019s mine. <\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s an excellent point, and when you realize that within the population of the country there probably isn\u2019t any kind of agreement that we need to stop Iran from getting a nuke. Yet there was in the immediate aftermath of 9\/11 to stop Iraq from getting weapons of mass destruction. Don\u2019t forget, there had been 14 years of ignored UN resolutions and so forth when the case was made, and the Iranians are doing the same thing. So now what we\u2019re going to get is, ‘Well, our intelligence is wrong. Bush is just manufacturing it. Bush a warmonger. Bush wants to go in there,\u2019 and we\u2019re pretty much paralyzed — which is exactly what the left wants, folks<\/emphasize>! The left precisely wants us paralyzed. They don\u2019t want us to be able to defend US national security. They do not want us involved in these things that might imperil us, and you might have to say that they\u2019ve succeeded in this, in regard to the situation with Iran. Plus you add to it the PR plus that the Iranians got one of the British hostage situation, and how bad the West looked in that, particularly the British. It was just embarrassing. Now these hostages are out selling their stories to the highest bidder. They\u2019re talking about how threatened they felt and they apologized and they confessed and so forth within hours of having been caught. Of course, the message that this will send to terrorists and people like the Iranians is that at least the Brits have gone wobbly and have linguini-spines and they probably will think the same of us, particularly once George W. Bush is out of office. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ll move to Flowery Branch, Georgia. John, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Listen, you mentioned earlier in your program again these 15 service personnel from Britain, and I just wondered if you had ever entertained the thought that they were possibly planted there as bait to entice the Iranians to do something stupid, to facilitate a war with Iran?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why not?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, where\u2019s the war? Where is the idea that the Iranians goofed up here? It\u2019s just the exact opposite. Everybody\u2019s looking at it Iranians as the big winners here and the Brits as cowed.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what happened, yes. Those kids opened their mouths and made fools of themselves, and I think, you know, if that were the idea, that it blew up in our faces and in Britain\u2019s faces, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a sec. This just falls under the conspiracy umbrella. For this to have been a conspiracy —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — somebody would have had to say, ‘Okay, look, you 15 go out there and stay in Iraqi waters,\u2019 because they were in Iraqi waters when they were captured —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and somebody would have to arrange for the Iranians to go capture them. How do you do that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. I just can\u2019t understand why they didn\u2019t defend themselves, and why they would go out there with no cover. They had to have some sort of cover. You know, 15 guys are not just going to go out in the ocean in a little boat and float around. (laughs) I mean it just doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But they did!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I find it so hard to believe. It just seems like a setup, because we have such a problem with our reputation in the world (sigh) I don\u2019t see how —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It wasn\u2019t us. It wasn\u2019t us. This is the Brits. They practically mothballed their whole navy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: People asked me last week, ‘How can they do this?\u2019 I said, ‘Just listen to this story and you\u2019ll understand what\u2019s happened to Britain and multiculturalism.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, the root of multiculturalism is not offending anybody.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know if you heard this last week, but the Brits, in their public school system, have stopped or are going to stop teaching the Holocaust<\/a>. Do you know why?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because Muslim students don\u2019t believe it and they don\u2019t want to offend them.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Unbelievable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Unbelievable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this has been building. This didn\u2019t just happen overnight.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This culture has obviously affected their military, too, so when you go out not to offend anybody, and that\u2019s what multiculturalism does, and here come the Iranians, ‘Oh, we can\u2019t fire on them. Oh, we can\u2019t offend them. We can\u2019t cause any problems here.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, that\u2019s pretty awful when you\u2019re in the middle of a war and you have to kowtow to people who are —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but we\u2019re not in a war with Iran, officially<\/emphasize>.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct, correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, the real downside is… This was not an excuse to start a war. You wouldn\u2019t do this with 15 Brits. You wouldn\u2019t use 15 Brits as an excuse to start a war, unless — well, the war hasn\u2019t started, and it didn\u2019t start. Look at the way the Europeans handled this. They ran off to the UN. They ‘deplored\u2019 it. They ‘condemned\u2019 it. Yip yip yip yip yahoo! It\u2019s the New Castrati way of dealing with things. Right now, the Iranians are the clear winners. Here\u2019s Ahmadinejad giving a them going away gifts. There\u2019s video of them playing ping-pong and eating fine food. They\u2019re telling stories about how they were scared to death, guns cocking, a woman soldier, Marine thought a coffin was being built for her. But the Iranian video shows people wearing the favored leisure suit of Ahmadinejad. They outfitted them for that. They let them go, and a few days after here comes Ahmadinejad announcing today, ‘This is national nuclear day in Iran, and nobody\u2019s going to stop us, and we\u2019re going to defy all this,\u2019 and why shouldn\u2019t they say this? What they learned is — if anybody conducted an exercise here, it was the Iranians — ‘Hey, let\u2019s go over and grab these 15 and see what happens. Let\u2019s really test the mettle of these people.\u2019<\/p>\n

They found out that not only the 15 sort of apologized, confess and all this, their country didn\u2019t do anything, really, didn\u2019t talk tough, didn\u2019t do anything. The world didn\u2019t do anything about it. It goes back to an earlier story in the program, purpose of war is to kill people and break things, and to defeat the enemy\u2019s will to fight. And I guarantee you, bin Laden said this on ABC TV in an interview with Jon Miller<\/a>, after the opened in Mogadishu that led to the book and the movie Black Hawk Down. He said, ‘We learned the Americans won\u2019t take casualties anymore. They have no stomach for it.\u2019 Ahmadinejad has probably learned the same thing. They just think that we don\u2019t have the will to engage in real warfare with anybody. They do think this about George Bush. That\u2019s why they\u2019re doing everything they can to endorse as many Democrats as possible. Aside from Bush, I think the lesson learned here was the lesson learned bay Iran, and the lesson they\u2019re going to take from this is that nobody\u2019s going to stop them and nobody\u2019s going to do anything to them, so why should they stop on their own? Why shouldn\u2019t they get nukes? And again, just to remind you what Stanley Kurtz at National Review Online said, folks. What\u2019s happening in Iran is the exact reason we went into Iraq. Now there\u2019s no gumption or desire for that, obviously, because of what\u2019s happened in Iraq or what we\u2019ve been told has happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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