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RUSH: To Obama now and his interview with the World News Tonight last night with Jake Tapper. Now, this next question and answer, this is just unreal, and it\u2019s highly offensive to me. Jake Tapper says, ‘You are about to make a final decision about the new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. What variables play into your decision making that would cause you to not just take General McChrystal\u2019s recommendation and implement it?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: These are not only eh, enormous burdens that we\u2019re placing on our y-young men and women — and that\u2019s the thing I think most about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: It\u2019s also expensive.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ohhhh!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Every thousand troops we spend that\u2019s costing us a billion dollars. Uhh, i-if you send 40,000 troops you\u2019re looking at maybe $50 billion per year above and beyond the costs that we\u2019re already spending.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Suddenly Obama is worried about money? He\u2019s worried about 50 measly billion dollars to win a war? After $750 billion this TARP money, after a $1 trillion stimulus bill that\u2019s bombing out, on top of $1.2 trillion to $2 trillion for his health care plan and he says it\u2019s expensive to send more troops over there? It\u2019s a billion dollars for every thousand troops, and that\u2019s expensive? All of a sudden this guy is worried about the ‘expense\u2019 of something? Let me tell you what this means. They get all this stuff — health care, another stimulus, all this stuff — we\u2019re going to be in such debt that the pressure is going to be made to cut the budget. Now, you can\u2019t cut entitlement spending because that\u2019s mandated spending. Some might even say that\u2019s unconstitutional. <\/p>\n

And this health care bill is going to be mandated spending. You can\u2019t cut it, regardless of the budget circumstances, regardless. You can\u2019t cut it. You watch. These guys are going to go to the military budget, and they\u2019re going to slash it — and we see it in the lack of concern in Afghanistan, the lack of concern in Iraq, the lack of concern over Major Hasan. These guys that run this country are going to pare the military down to the bare minimum size they think we can get away with, which will be too small. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: David in New Orleans, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Thanks for letting me speak on your show. I heard you speak earlier about President Obama\u2019s consideration of the amount of spending when he said about a billion dollars for every thousand troops, or $40 billion and you kind of made it sound like that was nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no. What I said was, ‘I don\u2019t believe Obama cares a whit about the spending or the expense of it. If he did, he wouldn\u2019t be doing any of his other agenda.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is a phony excuse to not fulfill the commitment over there or to give some out for it — and to placate his left-wing base, by the way, which hates the military, hates these wars, doesn\u2019t want to go there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s not true. I mean, the fact that the military is there and that he is supporting them and not done anything to remove it I think there\u2019s a lot of people who disagree with him as to what he has done so far.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, he\u2019s not supporting them. No, no, no. He\u2019s not supporting it. He\u2019s dithering on whether or not to send troops over there. He hasn\u2019t decided yet. It\u2019s been three months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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