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RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number two — did you see over the weekend that the war in Afghanistan\u2019s over? (interruption) Yeah. Yeah. I remember on Friday, if you recall, if you were here, you might not have been because it\u2019s a big travel weekend, but I want to revisit something. Grab sound bite number one. Let\u2019s go ahead and play audio of me last Friday as we headed into the Memorial Day weekend<\/a>, \u2019cause this sets up this Afghanistan comment.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: This, to me, is one of the most important Memorial Days, and they\u2019re all important, even that little characterization should give you an idea how tough this one is to talk about. This particular Memorial Day with everything going on in Iraq and the Middle East and ISIS now just running out of control and our leadership seemingly unconcerned, the Iranians nuking up, but Iraq and what\u2019s happening there has got to make this Memorial Day a real challenge for a lot of American families. Those who had family members who served in Iraq, who were injured and wounded in Iraq, or died in Iraq. I mean, they might legitimately be asking themselves this weekend, this Memorial Day, why, what was the point, was it worth it? And you wouldn\u2019t blame \u2019em if they did. It\u2019s a toughie. It still needs to be acknowledged.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and I can\u2019t help but remember as I listen to myself say that — boy, every time I do that I\u2019m reminded how lucky you people are that you actually get to listen to me. I never do. Not live. I can\u2019t. I\u2019m too busy doing it, because I am me. The only time I get to hear me is like this. Audio sound bite or something. It just strikes me how fortunate you are. Anyway, as I listen to this I\u2019m also reminded about how Obama and Biden are out there claiming victory in Iraq. Iraq was a success story. Shortly after Barack Obama\u2019s been inaugurated and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, is that not an ongoing joke, a poor joke, a bad joke, but isn\u2019t it typical? <\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, they\u2019re out there claiming credit, they wanted to claim credit for the victory in Iraq. It was so good, things were so stable, it looked like such a success, and now look. Ramadi falls, and now we\u2019re told by our Department of Defense wizards of smart that, yeah, well, the Iraqis are getting ready to fight back. The Iraqis know that they\u2019ve gotta defend themselves. The Iraqis know they\u2019ve gotta take all the training we\u2019ve gave \u2019em and they\u2019ve got to act in their own interests now. The Iraqis are gonna be preparing to take Ramadi back. Right. Exactly. You gotta get \u2019em back first. They\u2019ve all split. I mean, and here\u2019s Obama. This is yesterday in Arlington, Virginia, at the Arlington National Cemetery, just a brief little 16-second sound bite here.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: For many of us this Memorial Day is especially meaningful. It is the first since our war in Afghanistan came to an end. Today is the first Memorial Day in 14 years that the United States is not engaged in a major ground war.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There wasn\u2019t any applause there. Why do you suspect there wasn\u2019t any applause? I mean, you would think that a line like that, “Yay, right on, dude, yes siree bob.” But when he said today\u2019s the first Memorial Day in 14 years the United States is not engaged in a major ground war, why wasn\u2019t there any applause? Take a stab, Mr. Snerdley. (interruption) Exactly. We\u2019re losing them, is why. They don\u2019t like losing.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The website Vox, which is a relatively new website. It\u2019s the home of I say the young whippersnapper, young liberal journalists who were working at the Washington Post like Ezra Klein, some other places. And they just, you know, felt constrained even there, so they formed their own place here called Vox. A bunch of young, hip Millennial journalists of all stripes swear by it. They have a story, to give you an idea of what happens on Vox<\/a>, this actually ran on Memorial Day: “It\u2019s Time We Have a Holiday to Honor Those Who Try to Stop Wars, Too.”<\/p>\n

Ah, yes. It\u2019s not enough that we have a Memorial Day where we remember American military veterans who died preserving freedom for the United States. No, no, no. Now we need a holiday to honor those who try to stop wars, too. I don\u2019t know what they want to call it.<\/p>\n

It starts out by saying: “Memorial Day and Veterans Day often get equated, but there is an essential distinction between the two. Veterans Day honors all who have served the American military in wars. Memorial Day honors those who\u2019ve perished. It\u2019s an annual reminder that wars have grave human costs, which must be both recognized and minimized.<\/p>\n

“Those costs are not inevitable. We ought to also set aside time to remember those throughout American history who have tried hardest to reduce them, to prevent unnecessary loss of life both American and foreign: war resisters.”<\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what we need, especially on this Memorial Day, where the families of American uniformed military personnel who were injured or perished in Iraq, you really — you know, you try to put yourself in their shoes and imagine how tough this Memorial Day was. Every day\u2019s gotta be tough for them, but now particularly when you see ISIS on the run and these families are asking — you know they are. They\u2019re asking themselves, was it worth it? <\/p>\n

They\u2019re all volunteers. These people signed up. I mean, I\u2019ve done a troop visit to Afghanistan, I\u2019ve talked to these guys, and these women, too. This is what they did to save their country. This is what they did to protect their country. It\u2019s all they knew to do. They joined the military after 9\/11. They wanted to serve. They wanted to protect. They wanted to defend America. They didn\u2019t want to ever see that happening again. That\u2019s the only reason they did it. Some of them got shipped out to Iraq. Some of them got killed. Families well aware. <\/p>\n

And now there\u2019s Obama celebrating the first Memorial Day in 14 years that we\u2019re not at war and everybody knows, yeah, because we\u2019re cutting-and-running and losing them. And Americans don\u2019t like celebrating that kind of stuff. And now heaped on top of that we need to set aside a national day for war protesters? You mean people like Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman, the Chicago Eight or whoever? People like Neville Chamberlain, a national holiday for people like that? All over the world, by the way. War protesters all over the world. Yeah, that\u2019s exactly what we need, folks. Exactly. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Robert in Coronado, California, really glad that you called, Robert, great to have you with us today. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I share a hometown with Paul Tibbets, Quincy, Illinois, who was the pilot of the Enola Gay. And I think in that vein, if we\u2019re gonna try to honor people who ended wars, I would start with probably Harry Truman as the first honoree, and then maybe even like the crew of the Enola Gay would be right up there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is great. Robert, I have to applaud you. This is great thinking. What he\u2019s reacting to, folks, is there\u2019s a story in a relatively new left-wing child left-wing website called Vox. They ran it yesterday, Memorial Day: “It\u2019s Time We Have a Holiday to Honor Those Who Try to Stop Wars, Too.” They\u2019re not thinking of guys that drop bombs on the enemy to win the war. That\u2019s be great though. Just throw Harry Truman at \u2019em and Paul Tibbets, the guy that flew the Enola Gay, exactly right. <\/p>\n

And then the whole team that worked on the development of the nuclear bomb. You know, put them up there, too, honor them. I mean, just go whole hog with this. But that\u2019s not what they\u2019re thinking, as you know. They\u2019re thinking of people like Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman and the anti-war, global peace march, anti-nuclear disarmament or what have you. But they mean war protesters, and I don\u2019t think that they would think of Harry Truman as a protester, but I love your idea.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. See, he was speechless. I know this happens. A caller calls and the host praises them and agrees with \u2019em, and they don\u2019t know what to say. They\u2019re just so moved. I totally relate and understand it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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