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KEN: I don\u2019t know if you heard earlier today — or it was yesterday actually, technically. Remember when President Donald Trump said we need to get all the troops out of the Middle East; what are we even there for? Well, now Joe Biden\u2019s saying it, and he\u2019s a hero. Yeah. The full withdrawal of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by September 11th — and, again, we have to go to a See, I Told You So from Rush back in the day. Here he is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to me on this program April 7th of last year. We\u2019re in the midst of the Democrat primaries, smack-dab in the middle of Operation Chaos, and this, my friends, is what I said last April.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I guarantee you this is what\u2019s going to happen, if either of these two win. We\u2019re not pulling out of Iraq, despite what they say during their campaign. I know a lot of you liberals religiously listen to this program, while never admitting it. Is this clear to you, pulling out in the Obama campaign means leaving 60 to 80,000 troops on the ground in Iraq? It doesn\u2019t mean total withdrawal.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, do you realize what you just heard? I mean not only was that prescient, but it was brilliant. Obama is announcing at this very moment a specific pullout date, an end to combat operations, but there will remain 50,000 uniformed personnel. I said 60 to 80, but it\u2019s not a total pullout. His own party is upset with him \u2019cause this is a 19-month troop withdrawal reduction, not the 16 months he promised, plus, don\u2019t forget, every statement he makes has an expiration date. This whole thing is back loaded. This whole speech today is just designed to get the left off his back because they\u2019re out there starting to complain about him on the cable shows.<\/p>\n

Obama just wants to keep these people off his back so he\u2019s following through on his so-called promise to get out of Iraq. Now, announcing this date is absolutely silly because all the Mohammads and Abdullahs and Zawahiris, they sit back now, wait \u2019til the date, see if it actually happens — Want to take bets on whether this actually happens? If you were a terrorist in Iraq, what would you do now?<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got a date certain that supposedly all combat operations are coming out, what would you do? I\u2019d pull back. I\u2019d start building barbecue joints, little mall, sell flowers and so forth, build schools, bring the kids in there, and then when the Bamster pulls everybody out, unveil that all of that is just a bunch of phony fronts and open fire with the machine guns and the RPGs. Date certain is silly. David “Rodham” Gergen on CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper 180.<\/p>\n

GERGEN: In contrast to the Democrats on the Hill who can stand up and say, “Pull everybody out,” he, after all, at the end of the day has to be the president who does not lose Iraq. He does not want to pull out so precipitously against the wishes —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Not a Santa Claus impersonation, I\u2019m asking the broadcast engineer to stop. Did you just hear what David “Rodham” Gergen said? He doesn\u2019t want to be the Democrat that loses Iraq. Where did you first hear this? And you thought that I was nuts when I said it a year ago, two years ago. I said, “They\u2019re not pulling out. They\u2019ll be glad to saddle Bush with defeat. They wanted Bush to fail. They wanted the U.S. military to fail.”<\/p>\n

If I\u2019m in that audience at Camp Lejeune, I gotta bite my tongue. If I\u2019m a member of the military, I\u2019m in uniform, and I\u2019m listening to my president who during his campaign actually sought my defeat, sought the defeat of my military, sought the defeat of our forces in Iraq. He was part of it, along with Hillary, long with all the Democrats — Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi. They owned it. They attempted to secure defeat in the midst of that war.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They were happy to try to saddle it around the neck of Bush. But now that they\u2019re in charge, I said, they\u2019re not going to supervise defeat. They\u2019re not going to preside over it. And here\u2019s David “Rodham” Gergen once again concerning my comments, doesn\u2019t quote me, but he is confirming what I said. Here\u2019s Chuck Todd on MSNBC this morning, Morning Joe. It\u2019s a tortured bit of reporting. Chuck Todd saying Obama wants to declare the Iraq war is over, sort of.<\/p>\n

TODD: He is going to announce the exact date of when the war is over. I was talking to a senior official last night about this, and I said, “Okay, you\u2019re talking about how many troops now and when you\u2019re pulling \u2019em out?” I said, “Are we at war now, is this an active war?” He said, “Well, there\u2019s active combat missions.” I said, “Okay. Well, then what\u2019s happening on August 31st, 2010?” “No more combat missions.” Well, that means the end of the war.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s announcing the end of the war, but he\u2019s not going to say that the war is ending. He\u2019s going to say combat missions have ended and there\u2019s a reason for the choice of those words and he\u2019s not going to declare mission accomplished, he\u2019s not going to say the V-word for victory. So it is a weird — in some ways it\u2019s kind of odd because I think history will record this moment as the day the president of the United States declared the end of the war.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Chuck is really tortured there because it\u2019s over but it isn\u2019t over. He\u2019s not going to declare victory, just gonna get out of there. Folks, it\u2019s called resetting the table to September 10th, 2001. That\u2019s what this is. The Iraq war never happened. The Iraq war is just a nightmare, a bad dream. He certainly is not going to announce it as defeat and may yet, I think, proclaim it as a victory.<\/p>\n

KEN: Absolutely amazing, the way Rush had the ability to see the landscape then, put the pieces together, and predict especially how the media would behave. And I love any cut that has the media in it scrambling to protect Obama or scrambling to protect Biden, always scrambling to protect people that they voted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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