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Dec. 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 2, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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There are times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, disaster, economic collapse, and even, when they happen, the good times.
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Bob Schieffer.
Bob Schieffer said, I don't understand it.
I do not understand how you can do this.
You go out there.
It's not a football game where there's a time limit, and when the time limit's over, that's a good point.
And think of the speech.
Look at it in light of a pregame pep talk.
Imagine Obama as a coach of a football team with that speech.
It's brutally bad, folks.
It was horribly incoherent, and it was so narcissistically self-absorbed that it was, to me, it was an abomination.
And I am not trying to be overly critical.
Now, in the context of the speech, Obama said last night that, again, bashing the Bush administration, that requests by commanders on the ground in Afghanistan for five years for more troops were never answered.
Donald Rumsfeld has put out a statement.
In his speech to the nation last night, President Obama claimed that commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.
Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as Secretary of Defense, deserves a response.
I'm not aware of a single request of that nature between 2001 and 2006.
If any such requests occurred, repeated or not, the White House should promptly make them public.
The president's assertion does a disservice to the truth, and in particular, to the thousands of men and women in uniform who have fought, served, and sacrificed in Afghanistan.
In the interest of better understanding the president's announcement last night, I suggest the Congress review the president's assertion in the forthcoming debate and determine exactly what requests were made, who made them, and where and why in the chain of command they were denied.
So Rumsfeld's calling him out here.
Rumsfeld says he's lied in the speech.
Such bald misstatements.
Almost demanding an investigation by Congress.
Okay, I mean, if these requests were made, I didn't turn them down.
I never even saw them.
Who did?
Now, investigations probably will not happen.
And Rumsfeld's statement will probably not go much beyond this programmer Fox News.
But nevertheless, he said it, and I wanted you to know.
Now, back to some audio soundbites.
Ladies and gentlemen, we just heard from David Brooks struggling to accept a nonsensical strategy from his intellectually superior and nuanced president.
Here is Howard Feynman, post-speech, MSNBC.
Question, how did the speech go?
Could it have changed minds in any direction?
Not based on the soundings that I've taken, emailing with people, talking on the phone, checking out the blogs.
I don't think he changed many minds one way or the other.
I think it'll be viewed realistically by everybody all across the spectrum.
Dick Cheney's already sounded his notes.
People like McCain sounded theirs.
Senator Dick Durbin, one of Barack Obama's earliest supporters, issuing a very terse statement tonight saying, you know, it took the president a long time to decide this strategy.
It's going to take me a while to decide what I want to say.
Yet on the blogs, at least the ones that I looked at right away, a kind of grudging understanding that he was making a grim, calculated defense of the existing strategy.
A grim, minimalist defense of strategy.
And Feynman says it did not satisfy the base.
He's going to have the base when he needs them.
He's going to have the base.
Here's Maxine Waters again on MSNBC post-speech.
She was asked if she was for or against or both the new strategy.
I'm terribly saddened.
After having listened to the speech, I felt bad for this young, bright, articulate president who wants to do the right thing, but made commitments during his campaign that he was going into Afghanistan.
He was going to get Osama bin Laden.
And now he's backed against the wall with a strategy that I think has no end.
It doesn't really resonate for me.
I'm saddened because 30,000 new troops are going to go into Afghanistan.
I guess they're going to be fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda and Taliban.
And where does it end?
And what do we do?
We have to kill all of the Taliban and we're going to try and transition that government into a democracy.
I don't get it.
It doesn't work for me.
So, Maxine Waters, who we are so honored, ladies and gentlemen, to be alive to share in the raw intellect of so many members of the Democrat Party, Maxine Waters especially.
I hope you take a moment to give thanks to whoever you think that you happen to be born at a time when you lived on the planet at the same time as Maxine Waters so that you and all of us could benefit from the brilliance, the articulation that we just heard.
It's so rare to be in the midst of this kind of blinding smartness.
She's just saddened at the young bright president forced to keep his campaign promise, which we all know was just a campaign promise.
Last night on CNN, after Obama spoke, the Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.
What the president did tonight is he put boundaries around what the military will do.
He spoke right here about what we can achieve at a reasonable cost.
He has put boundaries around it.
This is not overwhelming force.
This is not overwhelming diplomacy, not overwhelming economic aid.
All of this is boundaries.
Not to be flip about it, if there's any good news tonight, maybe it's that there weren't any gate crashers at West Point, as far as we know.
Oh, ladies and gentlemen, the long knives are out in the state-controlled media.
From Bob Schieffert to David Brooks to David Rodham Gergen to Howard Feynman and now Barbara Starr at CNN.
The only good news, there weren't any gate crashers at West Point.
But we can always count on F. Chuck Todd.
You got to say this about the president.
By putting this July 2011 date out there, he's basically saying, look, judge me in the first term.
I'm making this Afghanistan policy part of the referendum on my presidency.
That's a gutsy move.
F. Chuck Todd, a gutsy move.
No, F. Chuck, it's a purely calculated political move.
We want to do something.
Rather than just play bites in a speech last night, we want to play bites from the president's March 27th speech at the executive office building when he made a speech in Afghanistan and contrast that with a similar area of the speech last night at West Point.
So in March, he was convinced of the danger of letting the Taliban, as he says, have the country.
Al-Qaeda and its allies.
The terrorists who planned and supported the 9-11 attacks are in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Multiple intelligence estimates have warned that Al-Qaeda is actively planning attacks on the United States homeland from its safe haven in Pakistan.
And if the Afghan government falls to the Taliban or allows Al-Qaeda to go unchallenged, that country will again be a base for terrorists who want to kill as many of our people as they possibly can.
Last night, he sounded less convinced, even though he said he was convinced.
I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
This is the epicenter of violent extremism practiced by Al-Qaeda.
It is from here that we were attacked on 9-11, and it is from here that new attacks are being plotted as I speak.
This is no idle danger, no hypothetical threat.
In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror.
And this danger will only grow if the region slides backwards and al-Qaeda can operate with impunity.
Okay, so one of the things you're going to conclude as you listen to these side-by-sides is no wonder he sounded so bored last night.
He's given the speech before.
He gave it before.
Now, March 27th, 2009, here's another side-by-side comparison.
For six years, Afghanistan has been denied the resources that it demands because of the war in Iraq.
Now we must make a commitment that can accomplish our goals.
All right, so it was bash Bush time in March.
Here it is from last night.
The Iraq war drew the dominant share of our troops, our resources, our diplomacy, and our national attention.
And that the decision to go into Iraq caused substantial rifts between America and much of the world.
So he's given the speech before.
And then here are the final two.
March 27th, 2009, we had a clear and focused goal.
We have a clear and focused goal to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to prevent their return to either country in the future.
That's the goal that must be achieved.
That is a cause that could not be more just.
Now, last night.
Our overarching goal remains the same.
To disrupt, dismantle, and defeat Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies in the future.
All right, now, here's the question that occurs to me.
Ladies and gentlemen, the speeches are identical, as you've just heard.
They are identical.
Same amount of passion, same strategy, same words.
And so the question that occurs to me, your host, is what took 100 days to figure out strategy?
It's the same speech, almost word for word in sections from last March.
So what took 100 days from the request by General McChrystal?
And I'll tell you what took 100 days.
It's exactly what we were told by Richard Benedetto in USA Today.
He was making it look like he was studying the issue.
Deliberating, taking comments from all sides, listening to every bit of advice.
It's so crucial Obama was seeking the best and brightest he had access to.
He gave the same speech.
Same speech last night that he gave in March.
It didn't require 100 days.
The strategy last night was no different than the strategy in March.
And in fact, there was no strategy.
There are a couple of objectives, but no strategy.
The only thing different about last night from March was we got a withdrawal date of summer 2011.
Phone calls next.
Well, it's on multiple pages.
I keep flipping pages and the numbers keep going.
I'm sorry.
You know, it's bad when the engineer starts complaining and getting instructions.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Folks, at the conclusion of yesterday's broadcast, we always do have a conversation with H.R., the trusted loyal aide-de-camp and chief of staff.
And he advises me of all of the requests that he said no to during the day.
That's his job.
He says no.
And no again.
That's what he's paid to do.
And we got, get this.
Al Jazeera wants to talk to me to do, get them to get my take on a year-end review of Obama's first year of his presidency.
Al Jazeera.
And you told him no, right?
No, he hasn't told him no.
He thought, I might want to do that.
Al Jazeera.
Oh, yeah.
It's not just Al Jazeera.
There's a German network that wants me to do a year-end review of Obama.
You did say no to that.
And was the BBC?
Was that?
Oh.
Oh, okay.
There's a twice in the BBC.
We've only said no once to them.
Sometimes we hold out hope.
By the way, I'm sending out emails to every woman I know asking them if they had an affair with Tiger Woods.
Is it just, I mean, this is a floodgates here are opening up.
Okay, to the phones, Chris in Waynesboro, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, sir.
Hey.
Honored to finally speak to my political science and life professor after nine years.
Thank you, sir, very much.
The thing I took away from that speech last night was the politicalness of it.
We're putting troops in and we're pulling them out 18 months from now, just before the election.
And in my opinion, from now on, we're starting with the end of that speech last night through to the election, every American life lost in Afghanistan from here out is not lost in the defense of our freedom and our way of life.
It's more lost in the defense of or the pursuit of getting Barack Obama re-elected.
That's quite a serious charge you're leveling there, sir.
Well, you have called the most listened-to radio talk show in the world, and you have suggested that every Afghanistan military death be charged to Obama's re-election campaign.
Yes, sir.
Well, it's obvious he doesn't want to win.
As you said earlier, it's a war.
You go to war, you go to war with everything you have, and you win it.
He doesn't want to win it.
I'm just going to give 30,000 troops and help him out a little bit, but in 18 months, we're going to take it.
Reason that I will consider this is because never forget the Democrat Party and the state-controlled media gave us the daily body count from Iraq as a means of ginning up public opinion against George W. Bush and the war.
Speaking of this date of mid-2011, good morning, America today, Diane Sawyer talked to Plugs Biden.
She said, look, president talks about withdrawals beginning July 2011.
But if the Afghan troops are not ready to take over, will he start withdrawing anyway?
Look, we put together a strategy that's narrowed in focus that our allies and our military and our civilian leadership thinks will work, and I'm assuming it's going to work.
And the fact of the matter is, in July 2011, there'll be an awful lot of American troops there, and the only question is the gradual, how steep the slope will be to begin to withdraw.
So, you see, they're kind of walking back from this now.
When Obama says it last night, it sounds hard and firm, 2011, we're going to get out of there.
But Gates is running around saying, it depends on the conditions on the ground.
And here's Plugs saying, look, be an awful lot of American troops here 2011.
I mean, the only question is a gradual, how steep the slope will be to begin withdrawal.
And Plugs' basic message here is, look, shut up.
This strategy is going to work.
So just back off.
Plugs wasn't through.
Diane Sawyer then said, well, Senator McCain and the Republicans and many others have been saying to set a targeted withdrawal date only emboldens enemies and dispirits allies, does it?
I don't know how it does either of those things.
First of all, embolden the enemy how?
There'll be over 100,000 American troops, 135,000 NATO and allied troops in the region.
How are they emboldened, knowing that by the time we train up the Afghanis, we're going to be gradually handing off beginning in 2003?
This idea that somehow they're going to lay low and all of a sudden come racing back when we only have 98,000 troops there, it's just not logical to me.
He meant 2011, but he said he said 2003.
John in Cape Coral, Florida, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
You're next.
Thank you, Rush.
And good afternoon.
Hello.
Yes.
Good afternoon.
Good afternoon.
I've been a listener for 20 years.
Appreciate that very much, sir.
Thank you.
I just about vomited when I heard this speech last night.
I called and told your man, what has happened to the general of the first, of the World War II, who say Americans will not permit a defeat.
They want winners.
I hate to tell you, we've had a bunch of military people call last week, sir.
And they said it's not the military you think it is, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's not the World War II military.
It's been taken over by political correctness.
And with this president, I say this purposefully, with this president, our enemies have a point in not liking us.
They have a point.
That is Obama's message to the world when he apologizes.
They have a point.
And sometimes, you know, we deserve a come-up, he believes.
We'll be back.
Okay, starting to get replies to the emails I've sent out to some of the women I know asking them if they have had an affair with Tiger Woods.
Here's a reply.
From what I can tell, I have too many years and too many brains to pass his putter test.
So the denials are pouring in.
There's other news out there, and we're going to get to it, folks.
Fear not.
Ralph Peters, though, in the New York Post today, setting up our military to fail.
Just plain nuts.
That's the only possible characterization for last night's presidential declaration of surrender in advance of a renewed campaign in Afghanistan.
Obama will send 30,000 more troops in, but he'll begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.
So why send them?
If you're going to tell a Taliban to be patient because we're leaving, what's the point in upping the blood ante for what will come down in a single year by the time the troops hit the ground?
Our president is setting military up to fail.
But he'll be able to claim that he gave the generals what they wanted.
Failure will be their fault.
Nor did Obama miss a single chance to praise himself, insisting that he's already transformed our relationship with the Middle East.
Please notify the Iranians, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
And that all of his dithering demonstrated wisdom.
How do the Marines and soldiers slated to go to Afghanistan feel today, knowing that their commander-in-chief has already declared defeat?
At West Point last night, President Obama's delivery was superb.
But what he was delivering was a funeral oration for his promised strategy.
Ralph Peters in the New York Post today, Nashville, Tennessee.
Peter, thank you for waving, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, it's so great to talk with you, and I'll get right to it.
I'm going to tell you about the impact you're having on our son, and you continue to have, who's in junior in high school, is applying to West Point next year.
And two years ago, we gave him a subscription to 24-7 for Christmas, and you equipped him in facing down his liberal teachers.
And I wanted you to hear what he said to one of his most outrageously liberal teachers who found out he was going to apply to West Point and asked him, this is what he actually asked our son.
He said, why would you want to become a mindless killing machine when your parents run a Christian mission organization?
We put artificial limbs on amputees in developing countries.
And he knows this.
And by the way, we could use the help of your listeners, but out of respect, I won't mention our website unless invited to.
But our son looked at this guy in the eye and said, sir, there are people out there who want to kill us, and I feel like I'm called to keep that from happening.
And I'd like to add that it only took him about two seconds to identify the mission, not three months.
And he's only 17.
And you'd imagine how much pride I feel in him for making such a statement, how outraged I was his teacher would even ask him that.
What class?
What class does this happen in?
Latin.
Latin?
Latin.
He's an honors Latin student.
He's also a nationally recognized inventor who has had, he's done some amazing things, but he wants to go to West Point.
He's wanted to for four years.
And he had one teacher, by the way, that went around the room.
And the night before the president spoke to, I had used Congress as the backdrop for his healthcare speech.
The teacher went around the room and asked all the students to identify their most charismatic speakers, favorite speakers, and so forth.
And she kind of went on and on about praising Obama's speech of making ability.
And our son proudly stood up and said, Rush Limbaugh's address to CPAC was the best speech I've ever heard.
And most of the kids there didn't even know what CPAC was, but he knew, and he is well informed.
And he often says that he gets into a battle with wits with votes and finds that they're unarmed.
And because he listens, and he pays attention, and he knows things.
He can quote from stuff.
What a great young man you have.
Well, Rush, I need you to keep the country together as fast as best as possible because I'm raising this kid as fast as I can.
And because now, granted, the nice thing about it is that the president, the current president, will not be my son's commander-in-chief when he graduates from West Point.
That's our goal.
But he knew the mission.
And, you know, we're very proud of him.
And I just am just appalled by what's going on.
And he's been over to Africa with us and our work there with amputees a couple times.
And that's what his invention was.
He came up with a pretty amazing way to help amputees in developing countries.
A Latin teacher asks your son, why do you want to become a killing machine?
Exactly.
And which is, I think, is just a horrendous thing for any teacher to ask any kid.
And, you know, your parents were in a Christian missionary organization.
Why would you want to do this?
Well, it represents a total lack of respect, understanding what the purpose of the United States military is.
Well, and its role, its purpose.
Well, that's what I thought.
He's 17.
And actually, he was 16 when he faced him down.
And he said, you know, there are people that want to kill us.
I'm called to keep that from happening.
I mean, what an amazing phone and call over to the school, I asked him, I said, what did you say?
And when he told me, I said, well, I don't need to step into that.
He's handled that fine.
And the guy, the teacher, stopped talking, said, good answer, and walked away.
All right, what's your website?
It's standingwithhope.com.
And my wife is a double amputee herself.
And we started putting legs on amputees in developing countries, and we teach them how to do it.
And by the way, Rush, she's had $9 million worth of health care bills and not one dime from the federal government.
Imagine that.
Imagine that.
That is incredible what you're doing.
Not even from disability, by the way.
And we don't make a lot of money.
We just simply don't use the government to meet our needs.
But I'm real proud of her.
But I was over in Ghana, and we wanted the need is so bad over there for people.
We wanted to give it away.
You know, give these lads away.
And the government says, no, no, no, you have to make them go through the program because we partner with their government and we teach them how to do it.
And he said, if you give it to them for free, they'll never value it.
Now, this is the government of Ghana telling us this.
And I thought, well, you know, what have we come to here in America?
Wait, wait, wait.
Yeah, but this is...
I can go both ways on that one.
We're talking.
We're talking limbs for amputees here.
We're not talking food stamps.
We're not.
My suspicion would be, and I don't know much about the government of Ghana.
My suspicion would be that the government of Ghana wants in on a deal so that the citizens think it's coming from them and not you.
No, to their credit, they've been a great partner with us.
And we, again, our thing is we teach them how to do it, and then we provide them with supplies.
And in doing so, we share our message of the gospel.
But we give the supplies freely and the teaching freely.
And we spend time doing this.
And we recruit prosthets around the country, not prostitutes, Rush.
We take prosthetists.
Yeah, I got it.
The people of Rio Linda got a little right about it, but I knew what she said.
They got a lot of hookers in Africa.
They don't need more.
But we take them over there and they teach these guys how to do it for their own people.
And so it's been an amazing collaborative effort.
And they have actually stepped up and really been wonderful to work with.
And we're proud to do so.
And then we're expanding into other areas of West Africa.
Well, God bless you.
You genuinely are doing the Lord's work.
Well, it's a pleasure because, you know, this is what we do here in America.
This is what we do as Christians.
But I just wanted you personally to know the impact you've had on our son.
And thank you for it.
Rush 24-7 is a great Christmas gift, if I may make a plug.
That's the RushLimbaugh.com website, ladies and gentlemen.
And included in that, of course, is the Limbaugh Letter newsletter.
And a new issue just came out.
I just got mine as the editor-in-chief.
It's the interview with Sarah Palin issue.
But you it sounds to me like you've had much more to do with shaping your son than I have.
Well, yeah, but you're right.
I'm his father, and I do, and but at the same time, it helps to have it right there.
I mean, we watched that CPAC speech as a family, by the way.
Fabulous speech.
And we're standing up cheering.
And by the way, I don't need people to tell me when I should cheer and not cheer for a speaker.
And it's just guys on a roll here.
Well, it's just ridiculous, Rush.
I mean, come on.
I mean, and our son is looking to go there.
He looked at me and said, you know, this guy's going to be my commander-in-chief.
And I said, well, no, he won't be by the time you graduate.
And so, but it was horrendous to watch.
I have a cousin that went to West Point.
Dan Limbaugh.
And he ended up in a JAGCOR, Judge Adjutant General, and he taught law there.
And he brought members of his class to my TV show back in sometime in the early 90s in New York.
And we were just, I was in the fifth grade when he got into West Point.
The family could not have been prouder.
Well, I mean, I'm just looking forward to that day.
And we go, by the way, we're not going into this thing blind here.
My wife and I are up at Walter Reed a good bit.
The military has her come up and speak and sing for the guys.
You know, she just had her 73rd surgery in September.
And that facility where they train, where all these guys are working out there at Walter Reed, she sang for the groundbreaking of that facility.
And so we know what he is looking ahead to do.
We understand from a very real and personal place.
I mean, and he's grown up to his mother's been in double amputee for all his life, just about.
And so this is not something he's going into blind and with stars in his eyes kind of thing.
This is a serious commitment to serve his country, and he understood the mission.
And this is something that he understood more than the president did.
There are people that want to kill us, and he's called to keep that from happening.
Don't think the president doesn't know that there are people that want to kill us.
He knows that.
It's just they have a point.
I don't know how else to say this, folks.
I mean, look at it is what it is.
Thank you so much, Peter, for the phone call and congratulations on your son and best wishes to for his ambition to get into the United States Military Academy.
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As usual, ladies and gentlemen, half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, here is Thomas in Rockville, Maryland.
You're next, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
I thought it was just sadly ironic that the supposed foreign policy expert, Joe Biden, was talking about with just such indignance that what did we think that the Afghanis are going to lay low and then just come back out when there are only 98,000 troops left.
He's missing the entire point.
He's missing the point that you tried to put forth during the Iraq war when it was at its highest.
It's the lesson that the Democrats should have learned when they were fighting Vietnam.
And it's not about the number of troops.
It's about the stomach that this country has for fighting the war.
That's what we need to be concerned about.
It's about the commitment.
Yes.
And there was no commitment.
The only commitment last night was to the American left.
The American left was who Obama made a commitment to.
Yeah, I'm going to send a measly amount of troops.
Don't worry, I'm going to get them out of there in a year and a half.
You guys, I'm on your side.
His commitment was to his leftist base last night.
The Taliban, what are they going to do?
Biden's an idiot.
They're going to sit around.
It's okay.
The United States does not have the will.
They don't have any purpose here.
This is all a political show.
All we have to do is bide our time.
They might even leave sooner if we stand down.
Because the Taliban can be sure by what Obama said last night that Obama's not going to really have these troops try to do anything.
They're just going to be there.
The rules of engagement are going to be so limited.
They just have to bide their time.
And in the meantime, and this is crucial now, this mission supposedly is about training an Afghan army in 18 months.
I have been there, folks, but some of these people do not know what a pencil is.
Some of them cannot read.
The idea that we're going to train an Afghan army to deal with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in a year and a half is a joke.
All the Taliban is going to have to do is run around to any of these people that might think they're going to show up on the Iraqi security or the Afghanistan security force and say, look, you know, the Americans just said last night they're leaving.
And we're not.
We're going to be here.
And we're going to be watching between now and when they leave to see what you do.
And if you happen to try to help them out while they're here, we are taking names.
And we will know who you are.
We will track you down and we will find you.
Can you imagine?
Let's look at this from an opposite perspective.
Let's pretend, well, we're going to have to pretend they do.
Let's pretend that Mullah Omar went on Al Jazeera TV in prime time last night to make an announcement on his intentions in the war in Afghanistan.
And imagine if Mullah Omar, maybe a joint appearance with Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who is Bin Laden's right-hand man.
Imagine if they both went on television, prime time, worldwide TV, and announced that they're going to train a whole bunch of new mujahideen.
They're going to train a whole bunch of new terrorists.
But in 18 months, they're leaving for Somalia.
Or they're leaving for the caves in Pakistan.
Sorry, Pakistan.
What would the reaction be?
We just had the leader of the free world on worldwide television last night say that we are leaving Afghanistan beginning in the summer of 2011.
Now, the people that are over there, our enemy, they look at that as a concession speech.
They look at that as a surrender speech if they believe Obama means it.
And they probably do.
That's how we would take it.
If Mullah Omar showed up on our TV sets last night and said, in 18 months, after we upstaff with more terrorists, we're going to move out of here.
And we're going to go back home to Pakistan.
What would we do?
We would applaud.
All right, these guys are giving up.
All right, we beat them.
That's what we would be doing.
So, what do you think they're doing?
What do Imola Omar and the boys are doing?
They're thinking, okay, Obama has just signaled that we won.
That's what that speech was.
That's why the cadets looked sleepy.
That's why they were nodding off.
It's why they look bored.
It's why all the media today is running, I've never seen this done before.
I've never seen it.
I've never, you announce an uptick in war, and then you say it's over in 18 months.
Two years.
They can't figure it out.
Never seen it done before.
So the winners here, I mean, this is clear.
This is the policy statement Obama delivered to the kook fringe left out there.
But just again, imagine if our enemy goes on TV and say, okay, we're quitting in 18 months.
What would our reaction be?
You know, the next president, ladies and gentlemen, might want to create a new memorial.
The Tomb of the Unknown Hacker.
Whoever this hacker was blew the whistle on these phony climatologists must be rewarded.
The Tomb of the Unknown Hacker.
They got a whole bunch of stuff in the news that has nothing to do with, well, I was going to say Obama.
It all has to do with Obama, but Afghanistan.
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