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RUSH: Now, Dick Cheney addressed Republicans behind closed doors in Washington. <\/p>\n

The reason he did… I think he was invited, but one of the reasons why is there are some House Republicans who are reluctant to take military action against ISIS. They\u2019re afraid of being dragged into it and being blamed if it doesn\u2019t work. And of course for the Republicans, you see, going back in there just revives Iraq.<\/p>\n

Republicans in large numbers believe that George W. Bush and the Iraq war are one of the reasons why they are hated by the people of this country and by the media. And, by the way, there\u2019s an interesting poll I have here. The Republicans ought to look at this, because it\u2019s a curious poll. It clearly says that something like 70%, 72% of voters do not have a favorable view of the Republican Party.<\/line><\/p>\n

But on the other hand (chuckles) the same respondents say they\u2019re gonna vote for Republicans in November. You can look at it if you wanted to do so in the right perspective and take it as a positive. But I\u2019m telling they\u2019ve got PTSD over Bush and Iraq and what the Democrats and the media did with that, and they\u2019ve got shell shock over the fact they\u2019re still blamed for the economy, Bush is and the Republican Party is. <\/p>\n

So any idea of going back in there has a lot of Republicans recalcitrant and not willing to go, and they also have total confidence in the fact that Obama could end up having them blamed for whatever goes wrong. They really believe this stuff. They really are shell-shocked. Plus they\u2019ve got other things they want to take care of, which we\u2019ll get into before the program ends today.<\/p>\n

So Cheney was invited to go in and talk to them to try to sell these reluctant House Republicans on buying into comprehensive action against ISIS — and, of course, Cheney is trying to tell them how this must be done, but it\u2019s all Obama\u2019s fault. Now, Cheney, to nobody\u2019s surprise, is a believer in military action, because it relates to American national security. <\/p>\n

If you want know one thing about Dick Cheney, the first thing you have to do is forget everything you think you believe about Cheney that you have been told by the Drive-By Media. Dick Cheney is not Darth Vader. Dick Cheney is not evil. Dick Cheney is not even mean. Dick Cheney is serious. Dick Cheney is fearless. And he will say what many people won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

But he is not evil. He is not mean. He is not a totalitarian, authoritarian. He\u2019s nothing like Darth Vader. He has nothing in common with any of the images that have been built for him and about him by the Drive-By Media. Dick Cheney is, first and foremost, an American patriot and he cares — besides his family– about one thing, and that is the security of this country and its people, the security and safety of the people of the United States. <\/p>\n

Dick Cheney is unabashed in his view of the threats that we face. <\/p>\n

Dick Cheney accepts those threats as real. He does not accept those threats as real as an excuse to wage war. Neither did Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney\u2019s not a warmonger. He does not profit from war. He does not seek to profit from it. He\u2019s strictly a patriot. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, if you don\u2019t know any of this, and if you happen to be a low-information voter, you\u2019re gonna believe the exact opposite about Dick Cheney. I\u2019ve always been amazed how they\u2019ve been able to construct an image of this guy as Darth Vader. Cheney doesn\u2019t say enough. He never raises his voice. He never calls anybody names. Well, he did Patrick Leahy one day, but Leahy deserved that. He told Leahy to go, you know, F-off. Everybody loved that. ‘Cause Leahy was taunting him, a bunch of garbage, trash talk, and Cheney told him what to do. Some in the Drive-Bys heard it and that contributed to the image, as though nobody talks that way, of course, but Dick Cheney. <\/p>\n

But Dick Cheney doesn\u2019t want to force you to come under the control of government. Dick Cheney doesn\u2019t want to raise your taxes. He doesn\u2019t want you to lose your job. Dick Cheney is not all in favor of an expansionist, growing government with power and more power over people. Dick Cheney is a statesman. He\u2019s given his life to public service and he has devoted himself to national security, and he does so seriously, and he recognizes threats. He\u2019s very serious about threats. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s fashionable in America today to downplay threats. It\u2019s fashionable to disregard them. It\u2019s fashionable in America today to react to, “Oh, come on, you\u2019re just being paranoid.” Hey, being paranoid doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not after you. You can be paranoid all day long and it could still be true, that they\u2019re out to get you. But it\u2019s fashionable to put down people who look at threats in the Middle East as real. But Dick Cheney, he doesn\u2019t care. Another thing that angers people about him is that he does not care what leftist media or Democrat politicians say about him. <\/p>\n

If you want to know anything about Cheney, just know that he desperately cares about national security, and he\u2019s very worried about it, I might add. I don\u2019t know that I should use the word “scared,” but he is extremely concerned and worried about it, because he doesn\u2019t think the current leadership recognizes the threat, and in fact may be even worse than that. And so he\u2019s simply trying to sound the alarm bell. So he goes to the closed-door session to meet Republicans in Washington who, for whatever reasons, are also afraid to do anything \u2019cause of politics.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re afraid they\u2019re gonna get tarred and feathered with going back into Iraq when that was such an albatross around their necks. Well, what Dick Cheney spoke about behind closed doors to the House Republicans was the need for military action in Iraq, which of course is a politically incorrect thing to say as needed. Why, President Obama, a couple weeks ago, three weeks ago, and all of last year, Iraq\u2019s finished, major victory, we got out of there. They\u2019re self-sufficient, government, everything\u2019s hunky-dory and we vanquished Al-Qaeda.<\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, that was the Regime\u2019s line. And in the midst of all that, here comes Cheney, nope, we gotta go back. We should never have left the way we did. Very politically incorrect to say that. Everybody wants to feel like Iraq is over and it was successful, to the extent that it could be, and then we\u2019re gone. Now Obama\u2019s gonna take us back in and Cheney wants to go back in. <\/p>\n

So, “With President Obama poised to give a major speech on Wednesday about military action against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Cheney spoke to the assembled Republican congressmen about the situation in the Middle East at their weekly caucus meeting. And while the GOP has been fiercely divided over foreign policy in recent years,” again, because of the aftermath of Iraq. “Cheney didn\u00c2\u2019t wade into that debate, instead opting to pillory Obama in front of an audience giving him ‘rapt attention.\u2019<\/p>\n

“According to Rep. John Fleming of Louisiana, Cheney said Obama ‘has actually done things that have supported the Muslim Brotherhood.'” He did. That\u2019s not conjecture. It\u2019s not theory. He did! The Arab Spring. We got rid of Mubarak in Egypt. We empowered the Muslim Brotherhood. What were we told? They\u2019re the peaceful Islamists. The Brotherhood is the moderates. The Brotherhood we can deal with. The Brotherhood, yeah. We put them in there and we send CNN\u2019s Nic Robertson over to Egypt to ask citizens, “Are you happy with what President Obama is doing?” Citizen, “Obama schmama.”<\/p>\n

But Cheney\u2019s exactly right. We\u2019ve done things to actually support the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood ruined Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood is Hamas. They are Hezbollah. They are very close to ISIS. They\u2019re all related, and this Arab Spring is all about the new caliphate. The Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s right in there. Cheney went and told the Republicans, “Hey, it\u2019s President Obama who has done things that have helped them accomplish this.” <\/p>\n

Cheney went on to name the Muslim Brotherhood as the beginning of all the Islamist groups that we\u2019re dealing with now, like Hamas and ISIS and Hezbollah. “In Fleming\u00c2\u2019s account, Cheney said that by ‘facilitating the Muslim Brotherhood … our policies have been exactly opposite to where they should be.\u2019 … Fleming\u00c2\u2019s description of the meeting was echoed by Rep. Peter King of New York, who said that while Cheney didn\u00c2\u2019t criticize ‘the Rand Paul types\u2019 in the GOP,” the isolationists, “but he called for ‘comprehensive\u2019 action that is even more aggressive than what Obama has in mind.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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