{"id":27596,"date":"2011-05-19T04:35:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:35:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-05T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:53:40","slug":"it_is_never_too_late_for_victory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/it_is_never_too_late_for_victory-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Never Too Late for Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Here\u2019s Lane in Chicago. Lane, welcome to the EIB Network. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

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

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

CALLER: Let me tell you what position I\u2019m operating from. I am a Democrat with a big D, socially liberal, but I do not always agree with them when it comes to foreign policy, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m calling you today. I originally supported going to war in Iraq, of course, Afghanistan as well. And I\u2019m just simply not convinced that a unilateral withdrawal is the right thing to do. Now, I don\u2019t know if the current course is really working out, either, but I wanted to get on your opinion on that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you know that this is the first day that the surge is at full force?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, why is it taking so long to get there? I just want to know, what do you think, number one, this is winnable by realistic —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Absolutely. We\u2019re in the process of winning it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the thing is, I don\u2019t see leaving Iraq and leaving a terrorist stronghold as a great thing. Now, the fact is they weren\u2019t there to begin with, and now they are there —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, things are what they are. We gotta live in the moment. You and I could have a discussion about whether it was right or wrong to go to Iraq, whether there were terrorists there or not, all of it\u2019s meaningless now, because they are there, and the Al-Qaeda people admit it\u2019s the number-one front in the war against the United States. They\u2019re flooding Iraq with terrorists all over the place. Better we fight them there than over here. But regardless whether it was a mistake to go, whether you think it was or not, the reality is, what is, is, and they are there. And we cannot lose to them. We just can\u2019t. We\u2019re the United States of America. This would be the biggest mistake in the world to lose. This is something that has to be seen through for the future of the country, for the future of our developing future allied relationships, and, believe me, if we get out of there without finishing this job, we\u2019re just going to have to go back at some point and do it, Lane. This is something that cannot be left undone.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, I kind of agree with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s good, because I was right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would like to see more success in Iraq, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — but I will say this, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re having all kinds of success now, and even the Democrats are admitting it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Who admitted it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hillary Clinton, surge is working. Stand by for the audio sound bites. Carl Levin, just got back, surge is working. Nancy Pelosi\u2019s steering committee chairman, a guy named Baird, California Democrat, surge is working. Two guys at the Brookings — where have you been? Everybody is admitting the surge is working. It\u2019s bipartisan.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am glad to hear that. I am. I must say on another note, as a guy that agrees with you, oh, less than half the time, if that, you\u2019ve got style, Rush. I\u2019ve listened to you for a long time, and my friends are bewildered by it. They really are. But you\u2019re an entertaining guy to listen to and you\u2019ve got a great program.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ll tell you this, your programs are a hell of a lot better than the stuff on Air America, even though I agree with what they\u2019re saying more so —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You gotta be kidding! The fact that anybody would agree with anything said on that network makes me worried for you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I am democratic and socially —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s no excuse. You\u2019re an American. How can you listen to that and say you agree with any of it? I don\u2019t mean to yell at you. I\u2019m just passionate about this. Don\u2019t take it personally.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not yelling at you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t, Rush. I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lane, let me tell you something. I\u2019m serious about this. Iraq is just one front in the whole war on terror, and we need you. We need as many people in this country as possible supporting the effort. You want to get rid of the partisan divide in this country; you want to get rid of all the bickering — and I know people on the left and some independents are made uncomfortable by this — can you imagine what this country would be like if we were unified behind this? After all, what\u2019s not to be unified on this? This is the United States of America trying to beat back an enemy and prevent another attack like we had on 9\/11. What in the world is there to oppose here? The opposition to this is based strictly on a deranged, irrational hatred of a single man that nobody knows, George W. Bush, and maybe Dick Cheney thrown in there as well. But it\u2019s irrational. It makes no sense. This is your country. You live here. We were attacked on 9\/11. This is something that has to be done, at some point.<\/p>\n

If we don\u2019t finish it now — and I\u2019m not just saying Iraq, but the whole thing — we\u2019re going to have to deal with it at some point. We\u2019ve got Iran nuking up. We\u2019ve got terrorists all over the world, Al-Qaeda and others launching attacks constantly. We have not had one here since 9\/11. Don\u2019t think that\u2019s an accident, either. I think it\u2019s because we\u2019ve engaged them and we\u2019ve weakened them. But to get caught up in all of the prefaces: Well, we shouldn\u2019t have gone there; well, we just created more terrorists. All of that\u2019s bunk and is irrelevant now anyway. You didn\u2019t know about the surge and the people who were supporting it and coming back and saying it\u2019s working. Keep your radio on. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is last night in Kansas City at the VFW convention, the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, speaking about the Iraq war and the surge.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: We\u2019ve begun to change tactics in Iraq and in some areas, particularly in al-Anbar province, it\u2019s working. We\u2019re just years too late changing our tactics. We can\u2019t ever let that happen again. We can\u2019t be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pure inanity, literal incompetence on display. It\u2019s working, but it\u2019s too late? It\u2019s working, we\u2019re just too late in changing our tactics? This is the woman who wants to be the commander-in-chief? It\u2019s never too late for victory. See, this is the politicization of this, like I was just talking to Lane about. All of this stuff is irrelevant now. If you\u2019re an American and you love your country and you understand the threat that we face, whether you dislike Bush for irrational reasons or whether you think they made mistakes in the first three or four years, is irrelevant. They fixed it. We\u2019re doing it the right way now. It\u2019s never too late for victory, Mrs. Clinton. ‘We can\u2019t be fighting the last war, we have to be preparing to fight…\u2019 I don\u2019t even know what she\u2019s talking about. Here\u2019s the next bite where, after getting it on the record that the surge is working, especially in Anbar province, then the caveat.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: As we move forward in these next months, awaiting a report from General Petraeus, we\u2019ll have some very hard decisions to make.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, we won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: One decision I know we will make is to continue to honor the service of our own American troops —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not your party.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: And make sure that they are given the respect that they so richly have earned. Some of us will disagree. I think the best way of honoring their service is by beginning to bring them home.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Again, the woman who wants to be commander-in-chief admits the surge is working, but now let\u2019s bring \u2019em home. The best way to honor their service is to bring \u2019em home. These are warriors. These are people who joined the US military in order to engage in operations just like this. So, the woman, the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, wants to be the next commander-in-chief, let me translate what you just heard. ‘We\u2019re winning. So let\u2019s quit.\u2019 That\u2019s what she said. We\u2019re winning; let\u2019s quit. The no-onions strategy from the woman with the testicle lockbox.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: One more Mrs. Clinton sound bite, and his kind of dovetails with something that her husband, Bill Clinton, said the other day that raised some eyebrows. He said something to the effect that he\u2019d been talking to some world leaders and they hoped that his wife wins so that they can love and respect America again. It is strangely similar to John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, during the 2004 presidential race saying he had talked to world leaders, saying they hoped he won so that they could respect and love America again. Clinton is out there saying this, and I don\u2019t have any doubt that he talks to these world leaders. Anyway, here\u2019s a sound bite. This is, again, the VFW national convention last night in Kansas City.<\/p>\n

HILLARY: I want to get back to a point where people respect and admire the United States again, not just because that would be a good thing, but because that\u2019s critical in our fight against terrorism. People have to root for America. They have to want to be on our side.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, Mrs. Clinton, this is the thing that puzzles me about what you just said here and what your husband is out there saying. How in the world do you expect anybody to root for America when the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee is not rooting for America? If you have people around the world who are telling your husband that they want to like America again, and they want you to win, it must mean they don\u2019t want to root for America. They want America to be a sideshow. They want America to be a lap dog. They want America, in other words, to have to go out and fight wars as though you write books about ‘It Takes a Village.\u2019 We can root for ourselves, Mrs. Clinton. It doesn\u2019t take a village to win a war, and it doesn\u2019t take the world to win a war. It takes the United States to win a war. If the rest of the world doesn\u2019t care or is not interested in our self-interest, and our national defense — they ought to be because the United States, being what it is, protects the rest of our allies. If they want us to go south, then you are the last person we need to have running the country because you\u2019ll take it south. This makes no sense. Root for America by hoping America loses! It\u2019s exactly what she said. How do you expect other countries to root for us, Mrs. Clinton, when you don\u2019t and your party doesn\u2019t? And if they are rooting for you to win, it must mean they want us to be wiped out, in a sense. You have to know how to read the stitches on a fast ball, folks. You have to know how to read between the lines with these people. You have to know how to translate what they\u2019re actually saying.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We\u2019re going Curt in Arcadia, Florida. You\u2019re next, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My name is Curt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: From Arcadia.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know, I just introduced you to the audience.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, hello.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wasn\u2019t aware I was already on the air.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you\u2019ve been on the air here about 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, sorry, sir. I\u2019m just calling in reference to the gentleman last hour, the Democrat with the big D. He said he couldn\u2019t understand why we were still in Iraq for so long.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just came back from Iraq back in October, and I can tell you one of the reasons — actually two reasons why I think it\u2019s taken so long to get out of Iraq. Our soldiers over there are not only soldiers, but we\u2019re playing correctional officers and police officers over there. And one of the reasons is the language barrier. People like me are training the Iraqis over there —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that may have been the case, but what I\u2019m reading is that the tribal leaders, we\u2019ve broken the language barrier in a number of these areas where the surge is taking place, they\u2019re joining our side but they\u2019re sick and tired of the brutality they\u2019re seeing from Al-Qaeda. I\u2019ll tell you something else. You know what I think is another problem with why this has taken so long? We\u2019ve got a major political party in this country for the last four years that has been trying to engineer defeat and demoralize the members of the military. You can\u2019t take that out of this equation.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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