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<\/a>RUSH: The Woodward book is out. Folks, where do you begin with the Woodward book? This is so jumbled. This is so cockamamie you don\u2019t know where to begin with this. What you know is, at least the excerpts that have been published in the New York Times, this is raging incompetence, dangerously so. Obama not even talking about victory, ignoring the generals when promising parents of the troops that he would listen to the generals. He\u2019s ignoring them, coming up with his own timeline to get out of there for political expediency. Every Woodward book on Bush he got a full hour, at least two segments on 60 Minutes. Guess where Woodward\u2019s not going with the Obama book? 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes is not having Woodward on. <\/p>\n

Now we can interpret this any number of ways. They\u2019re trying to hide it. Diane Sawyer gets Woodward here. She gets the runner-up honors on this. 60 Minutes, The Today Show are taking a pass on Bob Woodward\u2019s book. And they pushed all of his Bush books. If you look at this book, I think the attempt here — I mean Woodward\u2019s Woodward — the attempt here was to make Obama look good. The attempt has backfired. Just like that town meeting at CNBC a couple days ago. That was meant to make Obama look good but it backfired because he backfired because he stumbled. This is meant to make Obama look good because they know going in this guy\u2019s not competent, he hates the military, doesn\u2019t know anything about it, and now he\u2019s commander-in-chief. <\/p>\n

So they\u2019re portraying him as a real tough guy; he knows more than the generals; he\u2019s not going to pay any attention to the generals, he\u2019s going to do what he wants to do, and he\u2019s gotta do it for the Democrat Party. This is supposed to make him look good, but, instead, raging incompetence. I\u2019m going to go through this, not quite line by line but it\u2019s interesting, folks, and we must do it because it\u2019s an eye opener and it confirms pretty much every instinct that we had about this guy, raging incompetence. After what I\u2019ve read of this Woodward book, the way it describes Obama and his whole regime, you have to ask, do they even care? It\u2019s meant to make Obama look strong and tough on Afghanistan and at the end of the day you don\u2019t even get the impression that they care, either about Afghanistan or how this book is being interpreted. The Woodward book, I think, is meant to explain to the Democrat base that Obama really is and always was trying to get us out of Afghanistan as soon as possible. That\u2019s what the purpose here is, and in doing that they have portrayed this guy as out of touch, unconcerned, and incompetent. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the Woodward book for a second, shall we? A lot of people are making comparisons now — after I did it. You know, I made the comparison to Jimmy Carter long ago saying that Obama would be Carter\u2019s second term, only worse. Where Carter was a bumbling old fool, this guy\u2019s doing it on purpose. So now you have people making the comparison and finding it to be a good thing. Now, I want to ask you if you remember something. The issue of capital punishment came up at the October 13, 1988 debate between the presidential nominees, George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis. Bernard Shaw, the moderator of the debate and the (at that time) face of CNN, asked Dukakis: ‘Governor, if ‘Kitty\u2019 Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?\u2019 <\/p>\n

And Dukakis didn\u2019t bat an eye. Dukakis did not betray one ounce of emotion in his reply. He said very coolly, ‘No, Bernard, I don\u2019t — and I think you know I have opposed the death penalty during all of my life.\u2019 So it was more important… Here\u2019s a personal question: ‘Governor, your wife has been raped and murdered. Do you favor the death penalty for the killer?\u2019 ‘No, no, Bernard, and let me tell you something else: You know…\u2019 Except he wasn\u2019t this passionate. ‘You know I\u2019ve opposed the death penalty during all of my life.\u2019 It was more important for him to be very cool, calm, and collected in the face of that example, and everybody after the debate was over, was kind of curious. ‘This guy\u2019s so cool. This guy\u2019s so calm. He had no emotional attachment to the question whatsoever.\u2019 Well, let\u2019s go to the Woodward\u2019s book. <\/p>\n

A response to you question from Woodward by Obama. Woodward asks about terrorism, terror attacks, and so forth. Obama says, ‘We can absorb a terrorist attack. We\u2019ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9\/11, even the biggest attack ever, we absorbed it, and we\u2019re stronger.\u2019 That, to me, is the equivalent of Dukakis being asked, ‘If your wife were raped and murdered, would you favor the death penalty?\u2019 So Woodward says, ‘What about terrorism?\u2019 Obama figures, ‘Ah, we can handle it. We can absorb it. We\u2019re even stronger.\u2019 That\u2019s not cool. That is cold, and it reminded me of something. One of my all-time favorite movies is Dr. Strangelove. A Stanley Kubrick movie. And one of the characters in this movie is General Buck Turgidson. <\/p>\n

General Buck Turgidson is played by George C. Scott. And if you haven\u2019t seen the movie, if you\u2019re relatively young and haven\u2019t seen this, this is worth renting and looking at because it\u2019s from 1962, \u201963, somewhere in that era, where we were in the height of fear over a Soviet nuclear attack, and we accidentally send a B-52 over to Moscow to bomb \u2019em to nuke \u2019em, and we can\u2019t call it back. So we\u2019re having a meeting in the War Room, The Situation Room of the White House with the president. Peter Sellers plays three or four different characters, including Strangelove and the president. And they bring in the Russian ambassador to explain what\u2019s happened. They\u2019re trying to convince the Russians not to retaliate \u2019cause it\u2019s a horrible mistake.<\/p>\n

And Buck Turgidson is one of these stereotypical generals. He just wants to nuke the world. He just loves war and hates the Russians, hates the commies. He just wants to nuke everything. And Buck Turgidson said, ‘Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching the moment of truth, both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always pleasant thing. But it\u2019s necessary now to make a choice: To choose between two admittedly regrettable but nevertheless distinguishable postwar environments, one where you get 20 million people killed, the other where you\u2019d get 150 million people killed.\u2019 Turgidson was saying, ‘Let\u2019s send more B-52s! Let\u2019s just wipe these people out while we\u2019re at it, since we can\u2019t call this one back. Let\u2019s just be rid of them. We\u2019ll kill 20 million of them and that\u2019s it. They can\u2019t kill any of ours. It\u2019s a livable situation, Mr. President.\u2019<\/p>\n

Peter Sellers playing President Merkin Muffley says, ‘You\u2019re talking about mass murder, general, not war,\u2019 and Turgidson replies, ‘Mr. President, I\u2019m not saying we wouldn\u2019t get our hair mussed but I do say no more than ten to 20 million killed tops, depending on the breaks.\u2019 Here\u2019s a guy totally cold and unaffected by the possibility of ten to 20 million people being killed in an accident and wants to say, ‘Let\u2019s go wipe \u2019em out even further.\u2019 The president can\u2019t believe what he\u2019s hearing. You have Dukakis, ‘If your wife was raped and murdered, would you favor the death penalty?\u2019 ‘No, Bernard. As you know, I\u2019ve long and consistently opposed the death penalty during all my life.\u2019 Obama is asked, ‘Mr. President, what is your attitude on terrorism?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, we could absorb one of those, a terrorist attack. We\u2019ll do everything we can to prevent it but even a 9\/11, but even the biggest attack ever we absorbed it and we\u2019re stronger. We can deal with it.\u2019 All these examples are of leftists, and they are cold, removed, unemotional, unaffected, uninvolved — and when you go through the excerpts that we have of the Woodward book, which we\u2019ll do here in due course, you\u2019ll find detachment. You find a lack of interest. You find resentment of the generals; Obama resents them. After he\u2019s promised parents that he will do whatever it takes to win this thing, you find he doesn\u2019t care about victory — which we\u2019ve known. I mean, he\u2019s said that previously. He doesn\u2019t even like talking about it. This Afghanistan thing is a purely political event. <\/p>\n

At one point Petraeus tells another general, General Lute, ‘Look, all we have to do in Afghanistan is show some progress, and then we can get the president to relax this withdrawal timeline.\u2019 General Lute says, ‘No, General Petraeus. We\u2019re not dealing with that in this president.\u2019 Meaning he\u2019s going to pull us out of there no matter what\u2019s going on because he\u2019s gotta save the Democrat Party. It\u2019s a political calculation. It\u2019s not about victory, it\u2019s not about wiping out the enemy, none of that. Just as, ‘Ah, we can absorb a terror attack. We\u2019ll do everything we can to prevent it. Even in 9\/11, even the biggest attack ever, we absorbed it and we\u2019re stronger.\u2019 Yeah, we\u2019ll put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in New York City. We\u2019ll show what a great country we are! Folks, this is a beanbag. We really are faced here with dire, dire consequences. We\u2019ve got enemies around the world that hate our guts and want to wipe us out. He doesn\u2019t care! Now we compound that or add to it with internal enemies which for the first time pose a significant threat because they have power. In our own government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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