{"id":26741,"date":"2007-09-05T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:00:24","slug":"why_dems_call_for_larger_military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/05\/why_dems_call_for_larger_military\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Dems Call for Larger Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: What do you think of this headline? This from Bloomberg: &#8216;Clinton, Obama Back Bigger Army to Blunt Soft-on-Security Slams &#8212; Michael Dukakis\u2019s tank ride and John Kerry\u2019s Iraq flip-flop still haunt the Democratic Party. This year\u2019s presidential candidates are aggressively working to avoid soft-on-security images, keeping in mind the ridicule Republicans heaped on nominees Dukakis for posing as a tank commander in 1988 and Kerry when he tried in 2004 to explain contradictory votes on funding for the war. &#8230; Hillary Clinton wants to add 80,000 soldiers to the Army; Barack Obama calls for 65,000 more soldiers and 27,000 more Marines; Biden proposes establishing local counter-terrorism units in large cities; John Edwards would double the budget for military recruiting&#8230;\u2019 All these Democrats, while striving and struggling to defeat the US Army in Iraq, now claim that they want a bigger Army! They want to pull out of Iraq. Obama wants to talk with all of our enemies (except he wants to attack Pakistan). Hillary has no idea how to use any military except for parades in her honor and how to abuse them in the White House. What are they going to use these things for? What are they going to use these new troops for? This is typical Democrat Party BS, and the headline is exactly right. They\u2019re trying to &#8216;blunt the soft-on-security slams\u2019 that they get, and they get those slams because they are soft on security. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignright\"\/>How could you conclude otherwise? They are totally invested in defeat in Iraq, and they\u2019re working on it. I\u2019ll tell you what, this Petraeus report\u2019s coming out next week, and they\u2019re already working on manipulating ways to make sure that whatever is said in that report is reported as failure. Bush is going to win, by the way. It doesn\u2019t matter what they do. Bush is going to win this again and again and again and the surge is going to continue going through next spring, but they\u2019re going to do everything they can to spin this report as irrelevant or as a bunch of lies or as influenced by the White House. There\u2019s a GAO report that\u2019s coming out first. The Democrats are seizing on that because it has a little bit different take. The General Accounting Office is coming out with a report on the surge and on progress in Iraq. It\u2019s not as upbeat as Petraeus\u2019s report is suggesting that it will be, and so they\u2019re harping on that. So they\u2019re making it plain, as clear as day that they are not interested in victory here, that they are not interested in success, even, and yet during all of this they expect people to buy the notion that they care about US national security simply because they want to add more people to the Army and the Marines. I thought, by the way, that the people that joined the Army were the dregs of our society. These people keep telling us that the members of the US Military are down on their luck, they come from rotten southern neighborhoods, out-of-the-way urban neighborhoods. There\u2019s no future there. There\u2019s no opportunity. There\u2019s no hope. The only way is to join the Army. They really don\u2019t want to join the Army, but it\u2019s the only way out of a horrible circumstance that living life in a country like America has presented them, yada, yada, yada. So why do they want to get more people into uniform? If they hate the military, if they think it\u2019s such a disastrous mission, and they think it\u2019s so inappropriately used, why in the hell do they want to expand it? They don\u2019t. They\u2019re just saying this because they know they are perceived as a bunch of losers, weak, inconsequential, dangerous people when it comes to US national security. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: What do you think of this headline? This from Bloomberg: &#8216;Clinton, Obama Back Bigger Army to Blunt Soft-on-Security Slams &#8212; Michael Dukakis\u2019s tank ride and John Kerry\u2019s Iraq flip-flop still haunt the Democratic Party. This year\u2019s presidential candidates are aggressively working to avoid soft-on-security images, keeping in mind the ridicule Republicans heaped on nominees [&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>Why Dems Call for Larger Military - 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\/09\/05\/why_dems_call_for_larger_military\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Why Dems Call for Larger Military - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: What do you think of this headline? 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