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RUSH: In the meantime, Tina in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Nice to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, 24\/7 football dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, my comment\u2019s about the latest resolution in Iraq. Harry Reid sounds really like a spoiled brat, saying that he is not going to — you know, going to be the last one this year, they already know this, the president\u2019s going to veto it, so what\u2019s his point?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m going to tell you what his point is. I\u2019m going to tell you exactly what it is. Hang on here just a second. Grab audio sound bite number 20. We have Dingy Harry yesterday, he had a press conference on Capitol Hill, and a reporter said to him, ‘[Dingy] Harry, do you have expectations that you\u2019ll be able to get 60 votes for this latest anti-war resolution of yours?\u2019 and Dingy Harry says, ‘I always have expectations to get 60 votes,\u2019 and then added this.<\/p>\n

REID: I would hope that the Republicans have gotten the message the American people have had enough of this war and we\u2019ve gotta bring our troops home. Bringing our troops home will be good for our military, but it will also be good for the American taxpayer. We cannot afford this war $12 billion dollars a month? We just can\u2019t — we can\u2019t continue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, this man has literally taken leave of his senses. We\u2019re not spending $12 billion a month on the war. We\u2019re not spending $1.5 trillion dollars on the war, like the Democrats are saying. And here, Tina, the reason he wants out is because we are winning!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. <\/p>\n

RUSH: The surge is working, and they can\u2019t withstand that politically. There has never been — well, this is hard to say — I think there\u2019s been very clear illustrations of the Democrat position on prior occasions, but this shows how invested in defeat that they are. We have stability in Baghdad.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Al-Qaeda has been run out of there except for 13% of it. We have Petraeus representatives that are going to sit down with Mookie al-Sadr, other provinces, it\u2019s all going great. The word ‘victory\u2019 is starting to show up on certain people\u2019s lips, and this scares Harry Reid all to hell. This is sabotaging victory, pure and simple.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I have a soldier in Iraq who writes me, and she honestly has commented, people are telling them things, where people are. I mean, they are sounding nothing but upbeat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, get this story. This is from the blog at TIME Magazine, it\u2019s by Joe Klein. ‘Are We Winning in Iraq?\u2019 Wait, no, he\u2019s worried. Winning in Iraq, in the Drive-By Media. It\u2019s a blog, it\u2019s not the magazine, it\u2019s Joe Klein. ‘And yet: the reduction of violence is real,\u2019 he says. ‘Also obvious: There are fewer votes now in Congress — and less cause — to cut off funding for the war than there were last Spring. A renewed campaign on the part of the hapless Democratic leadership to cut off the supplemental funds will only increase the public sense of Democratic futility. It will also play into the very real, and growing, public perception that Democrats are too busy wasting time on symbolic measures (like trying to cut off funds for the war) and shoveling pork (the water projects bill) to pass anything substantive for the public good. Too much time, and political capital, has been wasted fighting Bush legislatively on the war. I\u2019m sure the President and the Republican Party are salivating over the prospect that Democrats will waste more time and capital over it this month…especially at a moment, however fleeting, when the situation on the ground seems to have improved in Iraq. Democrats need to think this over very, very carefully before they proceed.\u2019 Joe Klein, TIME Magazine, sounding a warning. This is the second. Richard Benedetto at The Politico.com yesterday issued the first warning to the Democrats, don\u2019t do this again, you\u2019re 1-and-40 on this, you\u2019re not going to win this one. But I predicted this. They have no way they can claim partial credit for the victory, folks, because they had us losing this two years ago.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Republicans are seeking a retraction from the Democrats of a report on the hidden costs of the war. ‘Senior Republicans on Congress\u2019s Joint Economic Committee called Tuesday for the withdrawal of a report by the committee\u2019s Democratic staff that argues that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost more than $1.5 trillion. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, and Rep. James Saxton, R-N.J., attacked the report on ‘hidden costs\u2019 of the wars, calling its methodology flawed and asserting factual errors. The report, issued Tuesday, said the war has cost nearly double the $804 billion in appropriations and requests for war funding thus far. It estimated that the wars have cost the average American family of four more than $20,000.\u2019 Folks, if this war had cost $1.5 trillion, that\u2019s half of the federal budget. But more importantly, every social program that the United States Congress has introduced has never met, never been constrained by its actual proposed cost. Social Security, Medicare, you name it, Medicaid, they all balloon beyond what we are told they are going to cost. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what this is. It\u2019s just more of the same, of the Democrats trying to sabotage victory here, because they can\u2019t afford it. They are so invested in defeat. The surge is working. Baghdad\u2019s calm. People are moving back to Iraq. Entrepreneurial capitalism is starting to break out in the place. This is the worst thing that could happen to these people, particularly going into a presidential election year. I warned \u2019em, and I tried to help \u2019em. You know, you guys in the Democrat Party, we\u2019re going to win this! We are the United States of America. We\u2019re going to win it despite your attempts to secure defeat, and you haven\u2019t done anything that will allow you to lay claim to helping win this. They haven\u2019t done anything. The only way they could do that would be to come up and lie and obfuscate and say that their protests and their resolutions and their clamoring for change forced Bush into a policy that worked. But they can\u2019t even do that, and they\u2019ve opted out of that. They are still trying to sabotage this, and the latest business here, Dingy Harry suggesting lying, that the Republicans had better understand where the American people are on this. The American people are nowhere near on the war in Iraq where they are on illegal immigration. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Sandy in East Aurora, New York, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. First-time caller.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Longtime listener! I think a very good comparison for you to make would be, take all the pork-barrel spending from the beginning of the war and compare it with war costs, and I think it would be very interesting.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pork barrel, earmarks and so forth? I agree with you. It would be very interesting. You don\u2019t even have to do that in order to illustrate this. That would be a good way to do it. But, here we have a war that is being fought in the interests of US national security.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely!<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is one of the legitimate responsibilities of government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you start placing a cost on freedom, you\u2019re going to lose it. If you put a limit on how much you will spend on freedom, you are going to lose it. All you have to do is go find not just the pork, find the waste, the fraud, the multiple redundancies of programs in the federal government and point out positive people like Harry Reid, ‘Senator, how is it that you never complain about cost overruns on any other government program other than the war in Iraq?\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: No matter how frivolous. Absolutely. It makes me want to climb out of my skin.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you should want to feel that way. But I think even fighting this comparing dollars to dollars, accepts their premise, and I think that\u2019s where so many of us get wrong in arguing with these people is accepting their premise. When we accept the premise and argue on their terms, it\u2019s a waste of time. What we need to point out is why they\u2019re making the argument and what the purpose of it is. They are attempting to engage this country in defeat. They are trying to secure it. They\u2019re doing everything they can to turn public opinion against it because we\u2019re winning. The word ‘victory\u2019 is coming out of more and more mouths now about what\u2019s happening in Iraq, and that\u2019s the worst political outcome for the Democrats possible. So comparing dollar amounts would be interesting and so forth, but just accepts their premise. I hate accepting the premises of all these liberal arguments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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