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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here is Ron in Bend, Oregon. Great to have you, Ron. Welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir. Military-and-police retired dittos. Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much, sir.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Hey, you know, the reason that I and so many other Republicans and conservatives are upset with the president is… I\u2019m not upset with him personally. I\u2019m with him to the end. I\u2019m gonna vote for him next year, and I\u2019m well aware of how evil the people opposing him are. The problem with this is I think this is a terrible mistake, leaving the Kurds behind because there\u2019s a matter of military honor here. You just don\u2019t leave people who fought faithfully with you behind.<\/p>\n
I wish the president would have withdrawn from Afghanistan. That\u2019s a pointless war. I wish he had left the faithless Saudis to take care of themselves instead of sending another 2,000 soldiers there. It\u2019s just… (sigh) You stand with the people who fight with you, and I think our president\u2019s made a mistake. He\u2019ll get by this. I\u2019m not gonna believe the lies of the Democrats and I\u2019m gonna vote for him next year, but I\u2019m just very sad at this mistake. But we\u2019ll get past it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, this is also illustrating — and I\u2019m gonna respond to you in the monologue segment next hour \u2019cause I\u2019m down to it on time. But I wanted to get your call in, and I\u2019m glad that you are able to practice the art of brevity. It is the soul of wit. You made your point, and I\u2019ll respond to it. But this is illustrating something. From the get-go — from the first Trump rally in 2016 — I told you that the only person who can damage Trump is Trump. The media can\u2019t take him out \u2019cause they didn\u2019t make him. The only person that can cause himself any harm is Trump — and this is a small, little microcosm of how it could happen be. Like Ron said, it\u2019s not gonna cost his vote, but it could others.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, yesterday during his press availability with the president of Italy, Trump made a number of excellent points that the media are ignoring. He did not give the Turkish thug leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a green light to invade the Kurdish region of Syria — and the letter that he wrote proves it! This is the letter Pelosi refused to read yesterday.<\/p>\n
She got the letter when it was being passed around. She turned it face down, stood up, pointed at the president, “You\u2019re losing your mind! You\u2019re melting down! We\u2019re outta here!” She didn\u2019t even read the letter. She knew what the letter said. The letter makes it clear that Turkey was not given a green light to move in on the Kurds. The second point the president made was that the Syrians and the Kurds and the Turks have been fighting for hundreds of years, which is true. He says maybe we should “let them fight their own wars.”<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s the third point. I\u2019m sure many of you are not gonna believe this. What do you think is the number of soldiers that we have pulled out? What is that number? Brian, top of your head, what\u2019s the number of troops? What are they making it out to be? (interruption) How many thousand? Two thousand. Right. They want you to believe that we\u2019ve pulled out divisions, that we\u2019re pulling up stakes and we\u2019re pulling everything out.<\/p>\n
Fifty.<\/p>\n
All of this is about withdrawing 50 soldiers. I don\u2019t expect you to believe me because it sounds so incredible. Why would anybody have a conniption over this? It may actually be only 28. But we\u2019ll go with the number 50. As Trump noted, the troops that he\u2019s pulling out were only supposed to be in Syria for one month. They\u2019ve been there 10 years! Their original deployment called for them to be there a month. This is the original Obama deployment, and Obama sent thousands over there.<\/p>\n
This all goes back to Obama\u2019s drawing a red line and then flinching when people crossed it. These troops that Trump has withdrawn were supposed to be on the ground for one month. They\u2019ve been there 10 years — and the final point. The Kurds have been a very helpful ally in some of the battles. They were paid. They were paid very well. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m brokering no attacks here, criticism of the Kurds. Again, I just want you to get the truth of this.<\/p>\n
It is stunning how there is always an alternative version of from the media narrative that is always true — and it\u2019s so stark that people don\u2019t believe the truth. Fifty soldiers have been there 10 years. They were only supposed to be there a month. The Kurds have been very helpful, but they were paid handsomely. Trump noted, “Hey, you know what? These are good guys, but they\u2019re not angels.” He could have gone much farther.<\/p>\n
The Kurds that we\u2019re talking about here… You know, this is the friend of my friend of my enemy is my enemy or enemy of my friend or whatever. These particular groups, these Kurds, are radical communist terrorists. They\u2019re officially listed at a terrorist organization by the United States and 28 European countries, including the U.K. and Japan. But they happen to be on our side just like we got together with the communists in World War II to oust Hitler, then all hell broke loose when we started divvying things up.<\/p>\n
So we have a story here from the Cybercast News Service. The headline: “Trump: \u2018Let Them Fight Their Own Wars\u2019<\/a> — President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that his decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria was not giving a ‘green light\u2019 to … Erdogan. In fact, it was the opposite, he said. During a joint White House press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Trump called out ABC White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl for his question, calling it ‘deceptive,\u2019 adding that it was ‘almost as deceptive\u2019 as ABC showing a bombing in Kentucky and misreporting it as bombings in Syria.”<\/p>\n And in fact, grab audio… I don\u2019t know what the number is on today\u2019s roster, but we have this sound bite, and I want to play it for you. It might be number 8. Is it…? Yeah. Grab that sound bite. This is yesterday. This is what the story\u2019s talking about. This is ABC\u2019s Jonathan Karl. “Mr. President, even after all you\u2019ve seen, ISIS prisoners freed, all the humanitarian disaster, you don\u2019t have any regret for giving Erdogan the green light to invade the Kurds?”<\/p>\n THE PRESIDENT: I didn\u2019t give him a green light. No.<\/p>\n KARL: Well, did you tell him and he defied you?<\/p>\n THE PRESIDENT: The same thing as you just… You know, when you make a statement like that, it\u2019s so deceptive. Just the opposite of a green light. And when you ask a question like that, it\u2019s very deceptive, Jon. It\u2019s almost as deceptive as you showing all of the “bombings taking place in Syria,” and it turned out that the bombing you showed on television took place in Kentucky. So, you know — and I\u2019m not even sure that ABC apologized for that. But certainly, it was a terrible thing. I\u2019m looking at this and I say, “Wow, that\u2019s pretty bad,” and it was in Kentucky. It wasn\u2019t in Syria.<\/p>\n “Read the letter I wrote to Erdogan. There\u2019s no green light on this.” Folks, you cannot believe a single damn thing that you read or hear in the media today! You just… It\u2019s stunning! I mean, it\u2019s not even close! It doesn\u2019t take line-by-line parsing and interpretation. It\u2019s just bold and blatant, in-our-faces BS. Now coupled with fake video! Now, the next sound bite, Jonathan Karl says, “You said you withdrew 28 troops.”<\/p>\n THE PRESIDENT: Twenty-eight. They say it was 28. We thought it was 50 but it was 28, 26 to 28 troops.<\/p>\n KARL: (crosstalk) A-a-a-nd look at what\u2019s happened since then —<\/p>\n THE PRESIDENT: All accounted for, nobody injured… Listen. All accounted for, nobody injured, nobody missing. It\u2019s really nice.<\/p>\n KARL: But — but look what\u2019s happened since those troops were withdrawn and since you had that conversation with President Erdogan!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-Fake-Syria-ABC-Video-Kentucky.jpg\")
<\/a>RUSH: Right. It was at Knob Creek farm. They played video of an uprising in Knob Creek farm on ABC and tried to pass it off as bloodshed in Syria!<\/a> And here\u2019s the ABC reporter (sniveling), “You think it\u2019s really right, you giving a green light to go in there and wipe out the Kurds? How dare you! Who do you think you are!” “Wait a minute, Jon. It\u2019s very deceptive question. I didn\u2019t give anybody green light. Right there.<\/p>\n