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RUSH: So I checked the e-mail again, and I can guarantee what\u2019s gonna happen. When I quote an e-mail asking me, “Why aren\u2019t you doing X?” then the, “Why aren\u2019t you doing Y?” crowd shows up, and the next crowd asks, “Why aren\u2019t you spending more time talking about what Obama\u2019s doing in Syria with ISIS and ISIL?” I\u2019ll tell you why. Because I don\u2019t think he even cares what he\u2019s doing! <\/p>\n

This is an absolute joke. John Kerry gets up there and says absolutely inane things<\/a>. He was taken to down by Bob Corker yesterday, sent Boxer shuttering away in tears. We got the sound bites coming up. Kerry doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. Hagel doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. The generals know what they\u2019re talking about, and they\u2019re actively being ignored. <\/line><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t about beating ISIS, is why.<\/p>\n

This is all because Obama\u2019s poll numbers are falling<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not gonna get roped into talking about this the way the soap opera writers demand that it be talked about. “Can this revive the Obama presidency?” Screw that! That\u2019s not what this is about. We\u2019re sending 3,000 troops to fight Ebola? We won\u2019t send 3,000 troops to protect our border! We won\u2019t send 3,000 troops there — we won\u2019t admit that that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing — to stop terrorists that want to wipe us out. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re gonna send the Iraqi army and the Syrian army, who are supposedly somehow gonna become loyal to us? What the hell? It\u2019s stupid, folks. It is asinine. The generals know it\u2019s stupid, but they can\u2019t just out and say it. They\u2019re getting as close to try to tell everybody how literally wacko this is out actually saying it because they can\u2019t be insubordinate. But, for crying out loud, Barack Obama, commander-in-chief?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s scary. John Kerry has already demonstrated that he is clueless. Chuck Hagel, ditto. We knew that back when he was a proud Republican. But the whole motivation behind this is once again to improve Obama\u2019s chops in the polls. That\u2019s why we\u2019re doing this. Three weeks ago, he didn\u2019t have a strategy. Three weeks ago, they were the JV team. Now we\u2019ve done a 180.<\/line><\/p>\n

When there\u2019s something relevant, really important about this to talk about, you can count I\u2019m gonna be right there. But I\u2019m not gonna get roped in to talking about this in identically the same way you see it on cable news or standard news, wherever you see it. Because it\u2019s all being talked about in the same way. The same questions are being asked by the same people about the same people.<\/p>\n

The same analysts are coming up with the same opinions about this or that, but nobody will tell you that this is an absolute embarrassment and that the only reason this policy is being undertaken is because of the November elections. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is John, Jefferson City, Missouri. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you very much for taking my call today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to comment on how right you are about everything you say about how you know Democrats like every square inch of your glorious naked body and everything, and it\u2019s basically based on your excellent observational skills.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: But just to put make a point about what we\u2019re seeing currently with Obama and with Hillary and the way they use the military as far as like what happened in Benghazi. The narrative was “Osama is dead and Al-Qaeda\u2019s on the run” and everything, and they would not let anything in that interrupted that narrative. If you remember back in, like, I think it was \u201993, \u201994, whenever we were pulling out of Somalia, Les Aspin was the defense secretary at the time if I recall correctly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Bill Clinton was president, and I remember the military at the time was calling for armor to help them get out of there successfully, and that was going to go against the narrative. I remember it was overruled by either Bill Clinton or Les Aspin. Right about that same time, Black Hawk Down went down or occurred, and they didn\u2019t have an M1 Abrams tank, a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle to go and rescue those guys. They were going in with unarmored Humvees, and like we\u2019re seeing today — as you say about liberals and Democrats — they are the smartest people in the rooms, they think. But they don\u2019t listen to their experts like they should, and they play a very cynical and risky game with our troops\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the Somalia thing is interesting, because Clinton actually didn\u2019t start that. That was started with George H. W. Bush.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was reacting to a single photo on the front page of the New York Times. But you\u2019re right. The public story was it was Les Aspin who refused the request for more money and armaments, weaponry, what have you, because it wasn\u2019t going well. I mean, Mohammed Farrah Aideed Skyhook was winning. It was embarrassing, and finally the last straw — and this is what Osama Bin Laden told ABC News about when he saw this. Remember the two naked Rangers, Special Forces Army people dragged through downtown Mogadishu?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s when we cut and ran.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s when Osama Bin Laden, talking to John Miller — who was at the time working for ABC — said when he saw that is when he began to believe the United States was a paper tiger and could be defeated. Clinton… I mean, I don\u2019t think Aspin called for it. Clinton made the call on that, but Aspin took the heat for it. He\u2019s secretary of defense.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But he got out of there. It wasn\u2019t Clinton\u2019s mission, it wasn\u2019t going well, and it involved black people. There was nothing in this for Clinton. At the time the US military… Remember we were getting stories already that Hillary was disrespecting the uniformed Marine guards at the White House.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Clinton had protested the Vietnam War. There was no love lost between the two, and it was cut their losses and get out of there<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. We\u2019re just seeing the same thing again, and I just fear that this mission is going to be compromised. They\u2019re gonna play it up for the public consumption.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look, it\u2019s real simple what the generals are saying. From Ray Odierno to Martin Dempsey, the generals are saying, “I don\u2019t care what you think, you cannot win this with bombs. I don\u2019t care what you think, we\u2019re not gonna wipe ISIS out — we\u2019re not gonna have what we consider a decisive defeat and victory — with air power and a ragtag ground force that\u2019s not even ours and that\u2019s advised by us. The only way this is gonna happen is with boots on the ground.” <\/p>\n

This is not what Obama wants to hear. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not what Chuck Hagel wants to hear.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not what John Kerry wants to hear. <\/p>\n

The generals, nevertheless, are saying it, but stories are replete that Obama doesn\u2019t listen to the generals. See, this is why this whole subject, to me, is really frustrating. Because in the deep, dark crevices of the White House and the defense department\/State Department, this is a political operation. It\u2019s being done out of political necessity. There\u2019s a whole different definition for victory here. <\/p>\n

The definition for victory that Obama and the rest have attached to this mission is the November election results. So the optics of whatever\u2019s gonna happen are what matter. All that really matters is that Obama is now seen as steeled and determined and committed to get ISIS. By the way, do you know why he keeps calling them ISIL and not ISIS? ISIL, Levant?<\/p>\n

That includes Israel in the equation. ISIS, as a name, doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s a real inside baseball thing. “The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.” Believe me, ISIS, it\u2019s word games that he\u2019s playing. It\u2019s along the lines of George H. W. Bush never would pronounce Saddam Hussein\u2019s name “Sah-dahm.” He pronounced it “Sad-um.” In that world, in Iraq, pronouncing Saddam as “Sad-um” was a profound insult. <\/p>\n

It was the equivalent of calling him a shoeshine guy, I think I read. If not that, it was something bad. There was a reason. (interruption) It was adog or something. It\u2019s the reason why he called him “Sad-um.” It\u2019s like George H. W. Bush never called “Pete” DuPont “Pete. ” He called him “Pierre.” (interruption) Oh, yeah, he called him Pierre, so that people would think, “Pierre? Only rich snobs are named Pierre!” <\/p>\n

He never would call him Pete. Pierre every time he mentioned his name, and “Sah-dahm” instead of “Sah-dahm.” Well, Obama\u2019s doing the same thing with ISIS and ISIL. But this whole thing is supposed to produce enough results to show Obama as ready and willing and able, and therefore the Democrats are worthy of getting votes. Look, I have sound bites on this. I\u2019ll tell you what.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t gonna do it. Cookie gave me a lot of good sound bites on the roster. I was gonna stay away from it for stuff that\u2019s interesting. But now that I\u2019ve made it interesting, I\u2019ll get to the sound bites in the next half hour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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