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AMANPOUR: You talk about a duty. You\u2019re a military man. Duty and honor are very important in your life and in your career. Do you believe it\u2019s your duty to speak about what you know from the inside before the next election?<\/p>\nRUSH: James Mattis, who was defense secretary for Trump, has got a new book out. And in this book Mattis savages Biden and Obama and their lack of experience and their total bumbling of the Iraq aftermath leading to the creation of ISIS. He just rips them to shreds in a very classic way. He does it unmistakably but with dignity — and the Drive-Bys are ticked as hell that he won\u2019t talk about Trump. Grab sound bite number 14. Christiane Amanpour talking to James Mattis yesterday.<\/p>\n
AMANPOUR: You talk about a duty. You\u2019re a military man. Duty and honor are very important in your life and in your career. Do you believe it\u2019s your duty to speak about what you know from the inside before the next election?<\/p>\n
MATTIS: Duty and honor, absolutely, are important. And you don\u2019t surrender your oath to support and defend the Constitution when you leave active duty. But, that said, I don\u2019t think right now — for a person steeped in the military tradition in the Defense Department — that I should be speaking up upon things that are political assessments.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (impression) “Is it your duty? Is it your duty to destroy Trump since we can\u2019t? We\u2019ve been trying since 2015. You were there. Isn\u2019t it your duty?” Christiane Amanpour. Wait \u2019til she finds out what the guy said about Obama and Biden. See? She probably doesn\u2019t even know that — or, if she does, she\u2019s in denial about it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Yeah, you gotta love Christiane Amanpour (doing impression), “Isn\u2019t it your duty, isn\u2019t it your duty to destroy Trump since we haven\u2019t been able to. You were there. You saw it all.” Well, Mattis has a book, and the Washington Examiner got an advance look at the thing. Mattis was the secretary of defense for Trump. The new memoir is called Call Sign Chaos.<\/p>\n
Mattis thought it was a big mistake to pull out of Iraq in 2011. Most people did. People have forgotten this. Well, you haven\u2019t. Pulling out of Iraq in 2011 is what gave us ISIS, ISIL, however Obama used pronounce it. Without question Mattis was dead set against it. And listen to this little excerpt that the Washington Examiner published.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019I found him an admirable and amiable man. But he was past the point where he was willing to entertain a \u201cgood idea.\u201d He didn\u2019t want to hear more; he wanted our forces out of Iraq. Whatever path led there fastest, he favored,\u2019 Mattis writes. \u2018He exuded the confidence of a man whose mind was made up, perhaps even indifferent to considering the consequences were he judging the situation incorrectly.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s talking about Biden here. \u201cBiden reassured Mattis that Maliki,\u201d the guy running Iraq at the time we pulled out, \u201cwouldn\u2019t eject all American troops from the country.\u201d Everybody knew Maliki was gonna do just that. The Iraqis that were running Iraq, you know, the invasion was 2003. Eight years later and an Obama election to president in 2008 changed the Iraqi government profoundly. And remember the Democrats went to town on trying to destroy the Iraq war. They went to town trying to engineer us losing the Iraq war to get rid of Bush.<\/p>\n
So they win, Obama wins, and whatever successes that there had been in Iraq were quickly being dismantled. It was part of Obama\u2019s agenda in his campaign in 2008. So this Maliki guy was running the country. Everybody knew that when we got out that they were gonna kick the rest of us out. But Biden knew more than Mattis. Mattis was CENTCOM at the time.<\/p>\n
Biden said to Mattis, and Mattis quotes this in the book, \u201cMaliki wants us to stick around, because he does not see a future in Iraq otherwise. I\u2019ll bet you my vice presidency,\u201d and I got the word of a Biden. He didn\u2019t say that, but he said it yesterday so I thought I\u2019d throw it in there.<\/p>\n
\u201cMattis doesn\u2019t say whether he tried to collect on that bet. As he writes, \u2018In October 2011, Prime Minister Maliki and President Obama agreed that all U.S. forces would leave at the end of the year.\u2019 Mattis\u2019 warnings proved prescient, as Maliki, free of American influence, went after Sunni politicians and districts, alienating a third of the country. \u2018Iraq slipped back into escalating violence. It was like watching a car wreck in slow motion,\u2019 Mattis writes.\u201d<\/p>\n
And so while Christiane Amanpour (doing impression), “It\u2019s your duty, isn\u2019t it, your duty to tell us what a fool Trump is?” Mattis is out there writing about what an idiot Biden is in a very, very dignified fashion. And Mattis is only holding back because Trump\u2019s in office. The expectations are that Mattis is not a big fan of Trump. I don\u2019t want to give anybody the wrong assumption here. He told Christiane Amanpour that he\u2019s not going to judge somebody sitting in office at the moment. That\u2019s not the school he\u2019s from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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