{"id":9076,"date":"2014-06-24T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-24T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T18:11:43","slug":"obama_s_purposeful_mess_in_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/24\/obama_s_purposeful_mess_in_iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Purposeful Mess in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I want to thank Vice President Cheney and Liz Cheney<\/a> for their time mere moments ago. One little addendum to something that Liz was addressing vis-a-vis the status of force agreement. One of the things that Obama was offering as a reason for us skedaddling was that he couldn\u2019t secure any immunity for US troops from prosecution for war crimes and this kind of thing, and he wasn\u2019t gonna put our troops in that kind of circumstance.<\/p>\n

He was using that as an excuse to get out of there and to hightail it. Because what Obama wants in Iraq is essentially the same thing that he got with the death of bin Laden. He wanted to be able to say, “Okay, we got Saddam, and so it\u2019s over, and Iraq\u2019s done, and we\u2019re out of there, and I\u2019m coming home for a jobs summit” or whatever. Same thing he did with bin Laden.<\/p>\n

“Okay, we got bin Laden, so Al-Qaeda is decimated, on the run,” and of course none of this is true. So the latest is from The Daily Beast: “Obama Flips on Immunity For US Troops in Iraq — Obama will take Iraq\u2019s word for it,” i.e., Nouri al-Maliki is verbally assuring Obama “that US soldiers will not be prosecuted by [Iraq]\u2019s courts as they defend Baghdad.”<\/p>\n

Now, “President Obama pulled US forces out of Iraq in 2011 because he couldn\u2019t get Iraq\u2019s parliament to offer US soldiers immunity from Iraqi prosecution,” you know, should they rape and terrorize and this kind of thing and all this stuff that John Kerry readily believed our troops capable of doing. “But now Obama is promising to send in hundreds of special operations forces based on a written promise that these soldiers will not be tried in Iraq\u2019s famously compromised courts for actions they are taking in defense of Baghdad.”<\/p>\n

We had that last time, and this is nothing new. It\u2019s just that Obama is deciding to accept it now. The bottom line is that while Obama has said that he\u2019s just sending… What he said here is absolutely ridiculous. We\u2019re gonna send in “advisors.” I had this in the Stack yesterday, but I didn\u2019t get to it. Now, imagine this. He actually said, “We\u2019re going to send in advisors, but both sides have to listen to \u2019em.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, how asinine is that? Both sides? Meaning, ISIS (i.e., Al-Qaeda) and the Iraqi government have to listen to our advisors! You know, I was joking when Obama announced that we\u2019re gonna send in 300 military advisors but that we\u2019re not gonna do any military action. I said, “Well, that\u2019s not fair. I mean, 300 military advisors for Iraq? What about the bad guys? Shouldn\u2019t we give 150 advisors to them?”<\/p>\n

And, lo and behold, in effect it\u2019s what Obama was demanding, that both sides had to listen to our advisors! I think the upshot of this is that US troops are now going to be defending Baghdad. They\u2019re not just gonna be supervising the helicopters leaving the embassy, which was the original purpose. Well, they\u2019re military advisors, but there\u2019s no military action.<\/p>\n

Remember we did this whole song and dance last week. He was saying we\u2019re gonna send in 300 military advisors but there\u2019s not gonna be any military action in Iraq. (interruption) Well, yeah, 300 doesn\u2019t sound like it\u2019s enough to do anything. But 300 could become 500. That 300 could grow. (sigh) That\u2019s the way these things work, particularly with somebody who doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing or doesn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, upshot is that, for now, these advisors, these units will be protected against potential prosecution based on the promise of the Iraqi government, which may not stay as constituted as it is. It probably will change as they choose a new prime minister and get rid of Nouri al-Maliki. Still, it is thought by people in the know that risks for US soldiers remain potentially high.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve got — I don\u2019t know — a continued mess, essentially. Now I owe some phone calls here because we haven\u2019t taken any. That\u2019s why I\u2019m gonna start on the phones. We\u2019ll start with Westin in Philadelphia. Westin, I really appreciate your holding, and welcome to the program. Hello.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, nice to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, you and I think very much alike. But, you know, it\u2019s apropos that Vice President Cheney was on. We all know that during the Bush-Cheney years we had to hear that the Iraq war was all about oil, about us getting cheap oil. Of course the truth be told, it would have been far cheaper for us to have just worked out a deal to buy the oil than to have sent troops over.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. We didn\u2019t get any of the it!<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. Nothing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We gave it away!<\/p>\n

CALLER: But now Iraq is all about oil, because, you know, my belief about the left is that one of their main objectives is population change, changing the demographics of the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And part of the way that they do this is by raising the cost of living on the middle class. Education, food, energy, the whole deal. The attack on traditional marriage, abortion? It all changes how many children the middle class are having. Here I believe what Obama and the left are doing is purposely destabilizing the Middle East in order for oil prices to rise higher.<\/p>\n

You know, you think about the left. I mean, Stalin had no qualms about starving seven million Ukrainians in order to help “modernize” Russia. I mean, the left, it\u2019s all about the end justifies the means. What are a few hundred thousand slaughtered Iraqis, if we can get gasoline up to $6 a gallon in the United States? I mean, this is how sick I believe these people are. And, you know, I think that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna see. I mean, if —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me explain what you\u2019re talking about to people because I understand what you\u2019re saying. We can trace your point, by the way, back to the now famous (because I made it such) Peter Beinart column that ran in The Atlantic in which he basically threw down the gauntlet and said to the middle class, “Hey, look, you know, this is a changing country, and its changing demographics mean that we\u2019re now becoming a country of tolerance.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>Because of demographics, we were becoming a country of “tolerance” and “social justice,” and what he meant was that all of these disparate minority groups — whatever it is that makes \u2019em a minority, their gender, their gender orientation, their race, their whatever. These people have been stepped on for so long — they\u2019ve been maligned, impugned, disregarded — but they are rising to power now. And if you don\u2019t realize it, you better, because it\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n

And you are the one that\u2019s gonna have to give up some power in order for them to have it, and that\u2019s gonna require you to be tolerant. He was speaking to the middle class and the Republican base, and his basic point was that those in the Republican base (in his view, they are the Tea Party), the more you oppose this, the more you\u2019re going to fuel the rapidity with which this happens.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t essentially saying that you guys had better accept this, i.e., become Democrats. You had better sign on to this changing America or you\u2019re going to be left out. So what Westin is saying here is that in order to effect that, you need to destabilize the middle class, and the best way to do that is economically, by raising their cost of living.<\/p>\n

It dispirits them. It depresses them. They will start having fewer children; they will raise them in different ways. His theory is that what\u2019s going on in Iraq is gonna cause so much instability that the price of oil is gonna rise, and this is gonna lead to gasoline prices soaring, and that has a profound impact on everybody, but particularly the middle class.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not gonna have an impact on people who don\u2019t buy it anyway. The poor who have no cars don\u2019t buy gasoline. Immigrants that have no place to live don\u2019t pay utility bills; we do. We\u2019re paying for all of that, and Westin thinks that the pressure of paying for everybody else plus yourselves is part of the destabilization effort that Obama is attempting to effect. Now, Iraq is the fourth largest oil supply in the world, or exporter, let\u2019s put it that way, and we never have taken the oil.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s exactly right. The critics call this a blood-for-oil war and that we were simply engaging in this for cheap oil for Halliburton and so forth. Of course Halliburton, they\u2019re not an oil company. But none of that mattered. The truth was a distant stranger to the left and all of these allegations that they were making. Anything they could do to delegitimize American activity in Iraq, they did, and just simply reduce it to it was a bunch of greedy capitalists trying to get cheap oil for themselves so they could raise prices and screw you. That was their theory.<\/p>\n

But we never did. We let the Iraqis keep some oil; we let them sell some oil. We should have been paid back for everything that we did by virtue of getting that oil. It should have become ours as a thank-you if nothing else for what we had done for Iraq. But we never took a barrel.<\/p>\n

Now, the battle in Iraq is indeed in part about that oil. Terrorists need it to be able to sell it to finance their operations. It\u2019s more legitimate than opium, heroin, which is one of their primary funding tools out of Afghanistan. So I\u2019m drawn back to a point that I made earlier, and that is what is never talked about, very seldom mentioned in talking about the projection of American military strength and power is the impact it has on global trade. We keep shipping lanes open, we keep prices down. We keep oil flowing at market prices rather than exorbitant, high prices that are punitive and not related to market forces. We\u2019re the only nation that can do this. The point is that there are far more benefits than just military, to military success, and we have a president who is not interested in military success for any reason. And that\u2019s what the Cheneys are finally speaking up about and are admitting.<\/p>\n

So many people — I have to tell you — I don\u2019t mean to beat a dead horse here, but I really was alone on an island in January of 2009 when I said, “I hope he fails.” And I\u2019ll let you in on something else. I thought I\u2019d have a lot of people joining me once I broke the ice. I thought a lot of people would join me, and particularly elected Republicans. I thought there would be push-back because of who Obama is. He\u2019s a strident leftist and everything that entails vis-a-vis his view of this country.<\/p>\n

<\/a>It was no mystery to me what Obama was gonna do. I had listened to interviews that he had given throughout the 2000s on health care and the Supreme Court, any number of things. I listened to Reverend Wright. I listened to what these people say. They told us what they were gonna do. They told us what they thought. I thought that I would have some people join me in this, and instead, everybody was frightened away by the historical aspect of Obama\u2019s election, first black president, therefore we can\u2019t be critical. I\u2019m saying, “For crying out loud, it\u2019s the president of the United States. It\u2019s not an African-American. It\u2019s the president of the United States! Policies matter, ideas matter. Where\u2019s the opposition?” And there wasn\u2019t any.<\/p>\n

Eric Holder\u2019s nominated, same thing happened, “Oh, what a great nominee.” It was a disaster for the premise of justice. Well, now in six years, now some people are finally seeing that this is not accidental or the result of incompetence or inexperience. This is not managing a decline. This is shepherding it, in essence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Gibbon, Nebraska. This is Jeff. Thank you for calling, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, I just wanted to make a point that Liz Cheney made, just a little different. Regarding the SOFA agreement, we weren\u2019t exactly invited into Iraq. So generally what you do in a situation like that is you dictate the terms to your defeated enemy and then tell the public that you\u2019ve negotiated a situation, amicable end to the war.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We weren\u2019t exactly invited into Iraq?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, if they told us to leave we could say, “Well, no, we\u2019re not leaving until you sign this agreement,” or, you know, “We\u2019re gonna leave troops behind. What are you gonna do about it?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I see. Okay. So what was the point you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the point is, behind the scenes, you dictate to the Iraqi government, “This is how it\u2019s going to be” and tell them to accept it and in public you say, “Well, we negotiated an agreement on the status of forces.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you talking about the Bush administration or Obama?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Obama. Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I thought you might have been saying we weren\u2019t invited in there in 2003, and I\u2019m trying to figure out —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, no, that\u2019s the big point, we weren\u2019t invited. It\u2019s not as though we negotiated an invasion, nor should we negotiate status of forces. I don\u2019t think we negotiated with the Japanese or the Germans on how many forces we\u2019re gonna leave behind.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, that\u2019s true, absolutely.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The other point I\u2019d like to make is I don\u2019t know how the soldiers are continuing to fight in Afghanistan. I can\u2019t imagine what their morale must feel like at this point, watching the situation unravel in Iraq.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, since you bring that up, I forget the year, but I did a troop visit, part of a State Department tour in Afghanistan, and was during a period of time where success was profound in Afghanistan. There was a lot of success and none of it was being reported because all the attention in the media, which our troops in Afghanistan had access to and all the commissaries who got all the cable networks brought in by satellite, were watching the American media trash our effort in Iraq while they were having success.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I can\u2019t tell you the number of guys in Afghanistan, “What about us? Why don\u2019t they talk about the great success we\u2019re having here?” There was already some related morale problem like you\u2019re describing there, but just look at one of his speeches at West Point if you want to question morale. You\u2019re absolutely right. Even the cadets at West Point at their own commencement didn\u2019t know what they were hearing. It didn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense.<\/p>\n

So, no, that\u2019s an extremely valid point. Plus the troops in Afghanistan know there\u2019s a date certain they\u2019re getting out of there anyway. We\u2019ve already signaled that we\u2019re out of there and whatever happens afterwards we really don\u2019t have any concern about. It\u2019s a mess, big time. Jeff, I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The point was that we had all the cards. Nouri al-Maliki was not in a position to tell us what we could or couldn\u2019t do at all. We had gone in and defeated that government. That\u2019s what Rumsfeld said. Even a trained ape could have gotten a status of force agreement. Meaning, you can\u2019t sue us!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One thing about Iraq. I just want to close the loop on this. Nouri al-Maliki, who is the soon-to-be-gone, apparently, prime minister, did not want us out of Iraq. In fact, he wanted more US troops to stay and longer at the time Obama withdrew. It was Obama who wanted to complete bug out. And Obama probably knew what that would mean and that is that we\u2019re seeing what would happen now. We pull out of there and Iraq becomes defenseless, essentially, to an Al-Qaeda overrun.<\/p>\n

My tendency is still to pull up short in saying that that\u2019s what Obama wanted, but I still maintain that the Democrats\u2019 primary objective where Iraq is concerned is to continue to call it a stupid exercise and a never-ending Bush failure. And for that to be the case, you can\u2019t have anything work there. The Democrats simply have too much invested in Iraq as a failure, a Bush-Cheney failure. And I think that desire overrides any instinct or desire they might have to defend the country and to keep ISIS from overrunning it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Everything these people do is politicized. They had so much success, so much success, they drove Bush\u2019s approval numbers down into the thirties because of Iraq. That is an ongoing victory for them. That\u2019s a victory that just keeps on feeding them. And if they do anything that turns Iraq into a success, I mean, what does Obama gain by that? He doesn\u2019t gain very much. His base doesn\u2019t want any success in Iraq. They want a continuing Bush failure.<\/p>\n

This is why I go back and forth on whatever Obama\u2019s real desires in Iraq are. But at some point what is happening there nevertheless resulted in pressures being brought to bear on Obama to at least send in 300 military advisors. But I\u2019m sorry, folks. I mean, I\u2019m guided by my intelligence and experience here with Obama. And I think the idea that Iraq was a total Bush failure is far more important to Obama than a stable Democracy in the Middle East. I just do.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: To Detroit, where the United Nations might be called in to help pay water bills for customers. Here is John. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my phone call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to jump back to your discussion on Iraq and the free flow of oil. In reality you\u2019ve got ISIS fighting for the oil and you\u2019ve got the Iraqi\u2019s teaming up with the Iranians fighting for the oil, and oil wells. Either way, one of those two is gonna control the oil fields, which means they\u2019re gonna control the money and the money that\u2019s used for that will probably go to instigating terrorist attacks against us. So my question is, is it gonna be in our best interests in the future to send some Tomahawk missiles in and take out all of that oil and refineries in order so it\u2019s not gonna be used against us?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, we don\u2019t want to set the precedent of doing that. That\u2019s just not something we would do. That\u2019s something Saddam Hussein does, is light all his oil wells on fire as he\u2019s being kicked out of Kuwait or the Kuwaiti oil wells. But your circumstances here, your possibilities, you basically have said that no matter who wins the conflict, the bad guys are gonna control the oil. Either the Iraqis, in partnership with the Iranians, brokered by John Kerry, are gonna have control of the oil, or ISIS is going to have control of the oil.<\/p>\n

And there again, folks, another argument for having a relationship with the country that Obama doesn\u2019t seem interested in because Obama is busy as the conductor of decline. It\u2019s a symphony that he wrote. He\u2019s the conductor, his orchestra is playing and they\u2019re orchestrating a decline of the United States. More and more people are now finally again starting to see this and say it. And I\u2019m happy about that. I don\u2019t mind being the first, but, you know, sometimes it\u2019s lonely being the only, when it\u2019s just right in front of everybody. So I\u2019m glad others are now seeing what\u2019s going on and saying so. John, I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll close it out after this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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