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Aug. 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 11, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Folks, I have a giant C I told you so today.
I mean, it's huge, but I don't know how much anybody's going to really, well, you will care because you are loyal, devoted members of the largest audience in American media.
But it's about Syria, but I have to do it.
I was maybe the only person in major American media who warned everybody that Assad was not the bad guy in those uprisings.
Obama drawn the red line, and Hillary has spilled the beans on it.
It's just amazing, but it's not the top of the list today.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting.
I could easily make it the top of the list because it's about me, but I'm not going to do that.
It's near the top.
As is the situation in Fenton, Missouri.
I don't know.
Here we go again.
The Trayvon Martin family attorney has been hired by the family in Fenton, Missouri.
What happened there, Snerderly?
What is the news?
Right.
Right, that's right.
Young man was killed by the cops, and now it's turned into a full-fledged, full-scale riot.
Right.
Of course, the riots, the shouts of kill the police from the crowd, and so forth.
So history repeats.
Chaos continues.
Gave everybody all just worked up into a frenzy continues.
I was watching MSNBC this morning by accident.
I'm going to assure you by accident.
For some reason, the monitor on here came on MSNBC instead of CNN.
So I was in a state of disbelief.
And I have to tell you, folks, it was actually, it was funny.
I mean, they just, you know, these are all Obamaites.
And they looked like a family in the waiting room at a hospital when the situation is dire.
I mean, it looked, it was funny.
It was funny.
They're clearly like the family in the waiting room of the hospital worried about the patients.
I can figure doctors went in trying to remove Obama's foreign policy, the latest cancer in the administration, and they couldn't find the doctrine.
And then they couldn't find the Obama doctrine.
They came out and they told a patient, the family of the patient, which is the MSNBC people, and they were just totally depressed.
What an stop and think about this for a second.
This is almost indescribable.
And yet, it is the reality we face today.
Starting in 2004, barely a year after George W. Bush invades Iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussein, starting in 2004 and continuing all through 2008, the media and the Democrat Party launch a multiple times a day assault.
I mean, it's all we heard on Bush about Iraq, about how it was wrong-headed, it was immoral, it was unnecessary.
We should have been in Afghanistan.
What business do we have in Iraq?
They did everything the Democrats, Obama, even before 2000, Obama's speech in 2002 that put him on the map was about Iraq and how dumb it was and how silly it was that we ought not ever be there and we shouldn't ever go there and he was never going to vote for it and blah, blah, blah.
Then we started with the body counts.
And in the midst of all this, there were other scandals supposedly surrounding Bush.
But for essentially five years, the American media and the Democrat Party set out to summarily destroy the George Bush administration and primarily the second term, obviously.
They were filled.
The news was filled each day with multiple stories about a supposedly plunging economy.
Now we were headed into a recession while employment was almost full, 4.7%.
While the job situation looked good, the gross domestic, the economy was fine, everything, it was soaring.
We were coming out of two recessions in 9-11.
And yet the media, every day, every network beating Bush up, beating Cheney up, no blood for oil.
Every day, it seemed, we got a story on how our troops in Iraq were nothing but terrorists, John Kerry and John Murtha.
You name it, it was never ending.
It was a drumbeat about how no way, no how should we ever be in Iraq.
When it came time for the surge from General Petraeus, moveon.org runs an ad in the New York Times called General Betraeus, and they accuse him on the morning of testimony about the surge before a Senate committee of lying.
He hadn't even opened his mouth.
The media picked that up and accused Petraeus of lying.
And Hillary Clinton was right there accusing Petraeus of lying before he even said a word.
Then the presidential campaign of 2008 kicks up and it's all about Iraq.
And then there are debates and it's all about Iraq and it's filled with Obama saying he's going to get us out.
If it's the first thing he does, the left wing, the American media, totally absorbed with Iraq.
Iraq was in every way representative of the worst of the United States of America.
And we've got to get ourselves out.
In fact, in Obama's, one of the first things he ever said as president was how he was going to get us out.
It was as though they had succeeded in their own minds of convincing everybody in this country that the absolute worst thing this country has ever done outside of slavery was Iraq.
Remember all the stories of torture, Abu Ghraib.
Remember all the stories of Klub Gitmo and Korans flushed down the toilet that didn't happen.
Remember all of the lies, all of the in-your-face lies, all of the effort to saddle this country with a defeat in Iraq and hang it around the neck of George W. Bush.
Everything they could do to destroy this country's morale on Iraq was done daily, multiple times a day, including impugning military personnel, uniformed military personnel.
I remember such stories as John Kerry in Pasadena, California, making a speech at some school or something and said, you either get smart or you end up in Iraq.
Where is he?
Remember all of the stories about the American military and all how bad must America be if all of these young men and women are joining the military.
It must be that there's no future in this country because of Bush.
They can't get an education.
They can't get into a school.
They can't get a job because of the recession, which didn't exist.
And so the only option they had was to join the military.
The Democrat Party went so far as to discredit volunteers.
I mean, I'm just trying to remind you, and I'm leaving out 90% of it.
I'm trying to remind you of what we lived with, what we as citizens had to put up with in this country for five years, multiple times a day, 24-7, 365.
And now where are we?
Where are we now?
We're back because the smart people told us they were going to fix it.
The smart people told us it should have never happened.
The smart people told us it was never worth a single American life.
It was never worth a single American defense dollar.
It was never worth an ounce or a moment of our time.
It was the worst boondoggle ever.
And it was typical of right-wing conservative warmongers.
They just love war and they just love killing people and they can't wait.
And they showed us the pictures of the torture with the underwear and the heads of the terrorists at Abu Ghraib.
And they literally had conniption fits and near strokes over the meanness of the United States and our torture regimen and the waterboarding.
And the Democrat Party promised everyone that that would come to an end when they came to power.
There would be no more torture.
There would be no more war.
There would be no more Abu Ghraib.
There would be no more anything that George W. Bush did.
Because they were the smart people and they were going to get us out of there.
And they were going to close Gitmo.
And then they were going to get us out of Afghanistan because none of it was worthwhile.
None of it made any sense.
None of it was what the United States is really all about.
It was all illegitimate.
The Democrat Party and its willing accomplices in the American media spent five years poisoning and polluting the minds of as many Americans as they could reach on how ill-legitimate the entire Iraq and war on terror enterprise was, in essence.
The only thing they did when it became clear that the war in Iraq was part of the war on terror, then they tried to distance.
Oh, no, no, no, no, Iraq's not.
That's a sideshow that Bush did for whatever stupid reasons.
A war on terror is in Afghanistan.
Well, how is that working out for the really smart people?
I am sitting here in total amazement.
Actually, I'm not, because I know these people, but it's still, it is surreal after five years of hearing how incompetent and inept and foolish and stupid and dumb George Bush was, the cowboy and Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, and Rumsfeld.
Remember, they tried to destroy all three of these men.
And Cheney and Rumsfeld have devoted most of their lives to serving this country.
And they attempted to destroy the scooter Libby, outing Valerie Plain.
Remember all of this?
It's all part of the Iraq situation.
Remember Valerie Plain's wonderful Playboy husband, Joe Wilson, who goes over there to Niger and tries to find yellow cake and thinks it's a Betty Crocker dessert and says there isn't any?
After he had first said there was, it was one of the most coordinated anti-American military efforts I have ever seen.
And the smart people got elected to office in part because they successfully blasphemed everybody involved in it and promised that it would never happen again and promised that the world would be a place of peace and promised that the world would once again love and respect the United States.
Now the world is on fire and the true incompetent, totally clueless, egghead, stupid theoreticians from the faculty lounge are finally in charge and voila, look where we are.
Barack Hussein Obama, B. Hussein Oh, just said that the bombing of Iraq is more and more looking like a long-term project.
B. Hussein O, who was elected to see to it that this never happened again, because this was never worth it in the first place.
Because this only happened because of incompetent, stupid idiots like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and George W. Bush.
No, America was going to be a better place.
America was going to have a bigger heart.
America wasn't going to torture again.
And America certainly wasn't going to defend people who didn't deserve to be defended.
And America was never going to once again engage in silly foreign affairs follies because the truly smart people were now in charge.
I wonder if the media will look into the Obama investment portfolio and start asking if he has any Halliburton stock.
Remember all of that.
The Iraq war was illegitimate because of Halliburton, which Cheney had once been the CEO.
And Halliburton offers support services like food for the troops.
Halliburton also was evil.
Profiteers on death and mayhem.
It was blood for oil and none of it was worth it.
And if we only elected the smart people, why peace would break out.
White doves would escape the Olympic flame without being baked alive.
And once again, the U.S. would be loved and respected.
All it would take is a presidential apology tour and a presidential tour on getting us out of every conflict in the world.
Now it's been reduced to the point that the President of the United States bold-faced lied Saturday in front of God and everybody When he refused to take responsibility for the lack of troops in Iraq, hey, you know what?
Wasn't my idea.
Get out of there with no troops left.
The one blatantly bold-faced lying because he's rolling the dice that his sycophant, soon to die of anal poisoning, and by the way, that has nothing to do with, that's just ass.
That's just butt-kissing.
When you die of anal poisoning because of butt-kissing, don't let your mind run away from you.
I've had people think, you really, that's the most insulting thing.
Why?
It's not anal poisoning has to do with butt-kissing, and that's what the media does.
And did you know that I am from the Balkans?
Did you know?
I didn't know.
I must have been born in the Balkans because Obama says the reason none of what he's doing is working is because the media has been balkanized.
And what he means is me talk radio and Fox News.
Anyway, there's a lot to do here today, folks.
I'll be back and continue with all of it after this.
So how long is it going to be before the media starts asking Obama about the exit strategy?
Hmm.
Didn't we start hearing about the exit strategy before George W. Bush even committed troops to Iraq in 2003?
Yo, yeah, what's going to be the exit strategy?
George W. Bush went around this country for a year building up support for this.
United Nations, remember that?
General Powell still holds all that against him.
Oh, have you heard the way?
Oh, Obama and Hillary, have you right?
Have you heard this?
Well, that's a different Hillary criticizing Obama.
I'll get into that.
That's about Syria, too.
And this is, this is, look, it's going to, it's going to be a huge El Rushbo self-backpat.
I mean, I was right about this.
It was not.
We were supporting ISIS.
We were anti-Bashar Assad.
We were supporting ISIS.
I was the one who raised the possibility.
And I remember being ridiculed about it elsewhere in the drive-bys.
But no, Mrs. Clinton is, she's saying that now.
She's agreeing with a general on Fox.
They said we supported the wrong side in Syria.
I'll get to that.
No, no, no.
Obama and Hillary.
Look, wait for it here, folks.
They are blaming bad intel for not being prepared on ISIS.
I am not kidding you.
I've got it here in the Obama-Iraq stack.
They are blaming bad intel.
Now, we've heard that before, right?
We heard that bad intel was responsible for the lack of discovery, weapons, and mass destruction.
And when that excuse was offered, who was in there ridiculing it?
Well, I think it was Barack Obama.
And I think it's Hillary Clinton and John Kerry and all of the rest of the wizards of SMART in this unfortunate regime.
But yes, they fixed this, I thought, with Panetta at the CIA.
It was all going to be fixed, remember?
This race, whatever you want to call it in Ferguson, Missouri.
Wasn't Obama supposed to mean that this kind of stuff was a thing in the past?
Wasn't the election of Obama supposed to mean?
There wasn't going to be any more of this.
And after his, if he had a son, Trayvon Martin, after that, didn't we deal with that in such a way that wouldn't happen anymore?
I mean, didn't the election of Obama mean that none of this stuff was supposed to be, I got an email.
I checked it during the break.
Rush, you're sound really angry at that opening month.
I am angry.
If I left something unclear, let me state it briefly.
For five years, this country was lied to by the Democrat Party and the media.
They were lied to about Iraq every day, multiple times a day, lied to about the economy, lied to about torture, lied to about the U.S. military, lied, lied, lied about George W. Bush.
It created public opinion, anti-Bush, anti-America as it was.
It created a false public opinion that set up the election of Barack Obama under totally false premises.
We have somebody unqualified, unprepared, not smart, not ready for this, doesn't know what he's doing, and may not even care about foreign policy.
Damn right, I'm mad.
This was not supposed to ever happen again.
I listened to what they said.
I know how they got elected.
I know how they ginned up public opinion.
I know what was done.
Let me put it this way.
I don't forget what was done.
We all know.
I am, literally, folks, practically fit to be tied over this because I had to sit there for five years, 2004 on.
I had to listen to liberals tell me what a stupid idiot Bush was.
Now he sounds like a cowboy.
Now he's dumb.
And then Obama comes on the scene.
I had a list of people tell me how smart he was.
And I had people listen to me tell me how stupid Palin was, how stupid Cheney was, how stupid Rumstow was, and how dangerous they were, and how incompetent.
And Halliburton had five years.
We all had to listen to a bunch of lies about the American military, uniformed military personnel, generals, Secretary of Defense, President, Scooter Libby, throw it all in there.
We had to listen to a set of lies, all for the purpose of destroying a legitimate military operation.
They're all legitimate once we commit to them, folks.
That's the point.
They're all legitimate once we commit.
Once we commit, we win.
They secured defeat.
They tried to secure defeat.
I haven't forgotten any of it.
They did all of that to build up the Democrat Party as the alternative.
With the Democrat Party and such brilliance as Obama and Joe Biden and John Kerry and Dianne Feinstein and Elizabeth Warner, who the hell ever else.
None of this was ever going to happen again because they were so smart.
They'd be able to talk to bad guys.
They'd be able to negotiate with the bad guys.
They'd be able to relate to the bad guys.
They'd be able to apologize to the bad guys.
They'd be able to reach the bad guys where Bush couldn't, and Bush didn't want to.
And they'd be able to reach out to him and they'd be able to speak French to him or whatever and show them we're really erotype.
We're really European.
We get it.
We're really smart.
We're smarter than that dumb hick cowboy from Texas and that blonde, bald-headed guy from Wyoming.
We're smart.
We can deal with you.
We understand your grievances against the United States.
That's another thing that ticks me off.
Obama and these guys.
Clinton, too.
Clinton's out there running around all over the world during the campaign doing this stuff.
They're all running all over the world telling our enemies, hey, look, hey, look, we understand.
But you'll be able to deal with us because we get it.
And we're no threat to you.
And we, too, agree the United States has overstepped its bounds on many occasions.
And we agree with you the United States has been X. That's what we elected.
That's what we got.
And it happened because for five years, the media ran poll after poll after poll, opinion number after opinion number after opinion number, approval number after approval number, story after story, lying about the economy, lying about foreign policy, lying about Iraq, doing all these things.
And what really ticked me off is the Bush administration didn't respond to any of it at any time.
They now acknowledge that was a bit of a mistake.
So the Democrats and the media had a punching bag.
And they just kept hitting it and hitting it and hitting it.
And the American people had no choice but to believe it.
There was no counter theory ever offered except here and on Fox News.
And that was it.
So, yeah, this does take.
Now we're right back where we are, and it's worse.
It is worse now than before we went into Iraq.
It is worse.
This bunch of ISIS and what they're doing and the free reign they think they've got to operate, it's worse.
And it's not happening over there and doesn't mean anything to us.
That's what this bunch also tried to tell us.
That what goes on, what goes on in Iraq, what goes on in Afghanistan, it doesn't affect us.
None of our business.
We need to get out of those places.
We can't impose our way.
You've heard the drill.
Now that we've had to go back in, it's insult to injury with the way Obama's explaining this.
Let's go to Soundlight 7.
This is Saturday morning at the White House.
The president speaking about the Iraq airstrikes before getting on the helicopter to fly to Martha's Vineyard.
Oh, yeah.
And the media all hot to trot about that.
Oh, wow, it's so cool.
Barry's going to the vineyard.
Yeah, we get to go to the vineyard.
Think we'll see Skip Gates?
Wow, how cool.
You think we'll see Larry David?
Man, we get to go to the vineyard.
Obama's going to the vineyard.
You think we'll run into William Styron?
Oh, wait, he died.
What about his wife?
Think we'll run into William Styron's wife?
Oh, man, cool.
Do you think we'll run into Dershowitz?
Dershowitz hangs out there.
Wow, this is cool.
Barry's going to the vineyard.
He's got to make a speech here first on Iraq.
After he finishes, after we get on the helicopter with him or Air Force, we go to the vineyard.
Yeah, man, we're going to the vineyard because Obama's going to the vineyard, man.
It's cool.
Yeah, it ticks me off.
This is nothing but a bunch of frat boys.
Hell, I wouldn't even give them that credit.
Anyway, here's Obama before getting on board Marine 1 and heading off to the vineyard.
What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up as if this was.
Wait, just a second.
Stop that a second.
My bad.
He's answering a question here.
And I should have read the question.
Here's the question he was asked by a reporter who couldn't wait to get to the vineyard with him.
Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling out all ground troops from Iraq?
Key question.
Do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq?
Because hint, hint, he did.
Folks, he got elected in large part because of that promise.
Because by the time he was elected, the American people had been talked into hating everything about Iraq.
And getting us out of Iraq was going to restore us as a whole nation.
And we could party again.
And we could get down.
And we could get back to living as we did without listening to body counts and George Bush and Cheney in the news every day.
And America could be loved.
And it was key.
And Obama was going to do it.
And he promised to do it.
And close Gitmo, too.
All of this stuff.
So, Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq?
And does it give you pause as the U.S. is doing the same thing in Afghanistan?
What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up as if this was my decision.
Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government.
When you hear people say, Do you regret, Mr. President, not leaving more troops?
That presupposes that I would have overridden this sovereign government that we had turned the keys back over to.
You hated them.
Said, you know what, you're Democratic, you're sovereign, except if I decide that it's good for you to keep 10,000 or 15,000 or 25,000 Marines in your country, you don't have a choice.
He stood right there.
That's on the White House lawn.
He lied in front of God and the country and the world, saying that, well, you know what?
It was my decision to pull out of Iraq.
You know, there's a sovereign government.
You hated the sovereign government.
You hated Maliki.
You hated who's the other guy?
They hated.
They all hated this other guy.
Preceded Maliki and having a mental block.
I'll think of things.
Cheney's buddy.
Can't remember his name, Mendel Block.
He was the guy in line to say he was trying to take over Iraq or become its president before Maliki slithered in there.
Anyway, so he says, we had to get up because Iraq made us.
We've had this back and forth on the status of forces agreement, I don't know how many times, and Obama hasn't found the truth on this yet.
Let's go back.
Well, here he is again, same Saturday morning, repeating this lie.
So let's just be clear.
The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis were, a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there.
And politically, they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq.
That entire analysis is bogus and is wrong, but gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.
This is just psycho-something.
Still blaming Bush.
This man got elected promising to get every evidence of any American presence out of there.
And he did.
And when he did, he very proudly proclaimed.
And now he's blaming the Iraqis and Bush for what he did.
And I can understand it.
It's worked for him for five years.
Why stop now?
Nobody's going to defend the Iraqis, and there aren't too many people who are going to defend Bush.
So if people still blame Bush for the economy, let's go ahead and blame Bush for this.
Yeah, Bush screw it up.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
The Iraqis, they so hated America, they didn't want any American troop presidents, and they wouldn't agree to us on the status of forces thing.
Let's just, there are one of many sound bites that I could play for you of Obama bragging about getting out of Iraq single-handedly, forecasting that he was going to get out of Iraq single-handedly, promising he was going to get out of Iraq single-handedly.
Sound bites of him bragging about it.
But here, let's go to Boca Baton, Florida, October 22nd, 2012.
The third presidential debate between Obama and Mitt Romney.
And this goes by kind of quickly, 14 seconds.
You and I agreed, I believe, that there should have been a status of forces agreement.
Did you?
Oh, you didn't?
You didn't want a status of forces agreement?
What I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down.
That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.
He's running for reelection in 2012, and he's still, he's got to tell this deranged base of his that he got us out of there.
There wasn't going to be any remaining American troops.
10,000, 2,000, 1,000, no status of forces agreement because there weren't going to be any troops.
And he's making this point, running for re-election because his base is out there.
They've got to hear it.
They've got to hear we're totally out of Iraq.
They've got to hear we're not going back.
This Iraq business is as fundamental to Obama as tax cuts is to a conservative candidate.
He's got no wiggle room.
He can't do a George H.W. Bush, say, read my lips.
He's got to stick to it.
And even in this debate, nope.
I would not have done it.
I wouldn't have left 10,000 troops.
And now he's blaming it on everybody, taking credit for it here in the debate, taking credit for leaving no troops there.
I've got to take a break.
I'm way long.
Don't go away.
The name I was trying to think of was Ahmed Chalabe.
Ahmed Chalabe.
He was, he goes way back as one of the early allies, well, quote unquote.
Allies are strong word.
But back in the early 2000s, he was one of the potential future Iraq leaders who would happily be allied with the United States.
He never ended up being corrupt like everybody else over there is.
And it didn't work out.
But, ladies and gentlemen, let me go back to this business of Obama.
We talked about this last week.
How do you deal when somebody's lying right to your face?
And you want so desperately to demonstrate that to other people.
I think the best thing I could do, I sandwiched two stories here.
The first one is from the Cybercast News Service, but this story is everywhere.
Obama pulling all troops out of Iraq was not my decision.
He got elected promising to do it.
He got re-elected affirming that he did it.
He has sought credit for this every which way but Sunday.
And now all of a sudden it's Bush's problem.
And he also says, well, he couldn't get the Iraqis to guarantee security for American troops.
That's what he just told Romney.
He said, I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down.
That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.
Romney said, you and I agreed there should have been a status of forces agreement.
And Obama did say that, but he couldn't let Romney get away with it because that would have meant Obama agreeing with some troops staying.
And Obama's base would not tolerate even a uniform staying.
So he had to tell Romney he was on.
No, no, no.
I never signed on for a uses of status of forces agreement.
Never, never, never.
I would never leave 10,000 troops.
New York Times, June 23rd, this year, a little over a month ago.
Diplomatic note promises immunity from Iraqi law for U.S. advisory troops.
Now, this status of forces agreement, what it really is, what Obama's trying to say is, I'm not going to leave American troops over there if they aren't granted immunity from Iraqi law, meaning I don't want our troops charged with war crimes or whatever trumped-up phoniness unless the Iraqis give us immunity in the status of forces agreement.
Well, the New York Times ran a story a little over a month ago that says the Iraqis did indeed promise immunity.
Obama rejected it.
And the reason is Obama didn't want Bush's war in Iraq to have resulted in a stable democracy there.
This wasn't supposed to happen either, but Iraq was never supposed to be secure.
That's why Obama didn't want to leave any troops there.
So he used this phony status of forces agreement, but the Iraqis did promise immunity.
And the New York Times reported that in June of this year.
Obama's just making it up or lying about, I don't know how to say this.
But he didn't want to stable Iraq because he couldn't afford for anything Bush did to look like it worked.
Ergo, Bush is responsible for this is how it all flows together.
Okay.
Folks, sit tight.
The barn burner continues.
The doors are open.
The horses are out.
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