{"id":29483,"date":"2008-06-02T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:45:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:45:28","slug":"obama_07_iraq_surge_won_t_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/06\/02\/obama_07_iraq_surge_won_t_work\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama \u201907: Iraq Surge Won\u2019t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Obama. We were talking about Iraq and the surge, and &#8216;it doesn\u2019t work,\u2019 and my brilliant prognostication of a year ago in which I asked: What happens if this all turns around? Do you realize how they\u2019ve pigeonholed themselves? And after all, folks, we\u2019re talking about the United States military, which does not lose (unless the Democrats are in charge) and the Democrats tried to secure defeat but they couldn\u2019t, because on this George W. Bush hung tough. Last Friday on PMSNBC (otherwise known as DNCTV) Morning Joe, Obama campaign strategerist David Axelrod was asked by Mike Barnicle, &#8216;Do you know whether Senator Obama thinks there\u2019s been progress made in Iraq?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>AXELROD: I &#8212; think w-w-what he\u2019s &#8212; what he\u2019s said is that there\u2019s been, uh&#8230; I mean he never disputed the fact that if you throw a &#8212; a surge of American soldiers in an area that you can, uh, make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Really? &#8216;He never disputed the fact\u2019 never? &#8216;that if you throw a surge of American soldiers in an area that you can make a difference?\u2019 Let\u2019s go back to January 14th of 2007, about a year and a half ago, Senator Barack Obama is the guest and says this about more troops in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125115.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignright\"\/>OBAMA: We cannot impose a military solution on what has effectively become a civil war. And until we acknowledge that reality, uh, we can send 15,000 more troops; 20,000 more troops; 30,000 more troops. Uh, I don\u2019t know any, uh, expert on the region or any military officer that I\u2019ve spoken to, uh, privately that believes that that is gonna make a substantial difference on the situation on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He\u2019s an idiot. He is a lying idiot! He says he can\u2019t find a general who will tell him it worked? Have you ever heard of David Petraeus, who is a general? It is working. A year and a half ago, he is dead wrong. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. When he\u2019s put on the spot like this, and he doesn\u2019t have an answer prewritten that he has memorized, he is wandering aimlessly in search of a thought. Axelrod said, &#8216;Well, of course going to throw soldiers at something, it\u2019s going to work.\u2019 No! Just the opposite. Obama, in his own words: the surge is impossible. We will hold onto this bite, and we will continue to play it at the appropriate strategic times to clearly illustrate: This man knows not at all from what he is saying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Obama. We were talking about Iraq and the surge, and &#8216;it doesn\u2019t work,\u2019 and my brilliant prognostication of a year ago in which I asked: What happens if this all turns around? Do you realize how they\u2019ve pigeonholed themselves? 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