{"id":215148,"date":"2016-12-12T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T23:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/12\/did_trump_make_a_tactical_error_\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:04:28","slug":"did_trump_make_a_tactical_error_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/12\/did_trump_make_a_tactical_error_\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Trump Make a Tactical Error?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: One of the things that Trump did was he took some shots at the intelligence community in his initial reaction to this.<\/p>\n<p>And that may be &#8212; and I\u2019m not totally decided yet on this, but that may be his first big mistake.&nbsp; Let\u2019s review some things we know or think we know about the intel community.&nbsp; Now, this next&#8230; I was thinking of this walking back in the studio here from the break the top of the hour.&nbsp; I may have this one 180 degrees out of phase.&nbsp; The Central Command which runs Afghanistan and the Middle East, the War on Terror region, the war with ISIS. Obama\u2019s out saying one thing or another about ISIS.&nbsp; Somebody revealed that the intelligence on ISIS had been cooked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_131821\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Trump-CIA-1.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Do you recall this?&nbsp; Obama was out saying we were containing ISIS, that they were losing badly. We were winning! We were driving \u2019em back; they were disintegrating, and then somebody came out and said, &#8220;No, no, no, no, no.&nbsp; That intel was cooked,&#8221; meaning it was modify to make Obama look good.&nbsp; Now, I happen to believe that the intelligence community under Obama has been politicized, because I think everything under Obama has been politicized.&nbsp; One institution after another that the American people used to be able to rely on or trust have all fallen, I think, and have all become populated by extreme leftist radicals who are the mainstream of the Democrat Party.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care what agency &#8212; FDA, EPA, Department of Education, Homeland Security, you name it &#8212; Obama has people there who think exactly like he does.&nbsp; And in this sense, that means he\u2019s got people in there who think America\u2019s the problem in the world and who think America needs to be chopped down in size, that America needs to learn a lesson or two, that America deserves some reciprocity! America needs to find out what it feels like to lose. America needs to find out what it feels like to have people just walk all over you, trample you. Because in Obama\u2019s worldview, this is what the United States has been guilty of since our founding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s examine weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.&nbsp; George W. Bush spent two years, ladies and gentlemen, traveling this country, speech after speech after speech explaining his policy, the run-up to war with Iraq, what it would take for Saddam Hussein to avoid war.&nbsp; Two years.&nbsp; He went around the country explaining it to the American people.&nbsp; He gave them his options.&nbsp; He told them what would trigger it, what could stop it or pause it.&nbsp; And it was all Saddam Hussein.&nbsp; It was up to him.&nbsp; If Hussein came clean with his stocks of weapons of mass destruction, if Hussein came clean, we could all avoid all of this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But following 9\/11, Bush said we\u2019ve got no choice.&nbsp; When we have intel that bad actors around the world might be planning attacks against us, we\u2019re not gonna wait anymore for the attacks to happen.&nbsp; We\u2019re gonna take preventative action.&nbsp; And part and parcel of this was that intelligence agencies all over the world, folks, not just ours, MI6 in the U.K., the CIA, the DIA, the State Department IA, all of these intelligence agencies, Pakistani, allied security agencies, intel agencies around the world, all, every one of them, concluded that there were weapons of mass destruction and Hussein was lying to the weapons inspectors from United Nations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_131823\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TrumpShortPoint_large.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Recall this?&nbsp; And then that ill-fated day when Colonel Colin Powell, went to the United Nations complete with spy satellites, photos, showing the installations.&nbsp; Everybody believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.&nbsp; And Saddam Hussein was not denying it.&nbsp; Saddam Hussein would say, yep, I got \u2019em, and I\u2019m gonna take you out, it\u2019s gonna be the mother of all battles.&nbsp; Hussein reveled in being the leader of anti-U.S. sentiment in the Arab world.&nbsp; Hussein never thought we would actually invade. Even after the Gulf War, he never thought Bush would do it.&nbsp; So he was huffing and puffing. And then of course we invaded and didn\u2019t find any weapons of mass destruction.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>But intelligence agencies all over the world confirmed they were there.&nbsp; Bush didn\u2019t make it up.&nbsp; Colin Powell still hasn\u2019t gotten over the humiliation, I don\u2019t believe.&nbsp; Okay, so what happened?&nbsp; Do we know?&nbsp; Who lied to who?&nbsp; Did the intelligence agencies not tell Bush there were weapons of mass destruction and Bush ignored \u2019em and said there were. Or did the intelligence agencies tell Bush, assure Bush over and over for two years, yep, they\u2019re there, were they there and are they in Syria now?&nbsp; We still don\u2019t really know.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What we do know is that George W. Bush\u2019s approval numbers ended up around 30% as a result of all of this.&nbsp; My understanding, my theory is that, quote, unquote, intelligence people who, by definition, are unknown and work in secret can undermine anybody if they set their mind to it.&nbsp; They can promote anybody.&nbsp; They can make anybody they want look good.&nbsp; They can undermine.&nbsp; They can lie to a president.&nbsp; &#8220;Mr. Limbaugh, I can\u2019t believe you\u2019re saying that.&nbsp; These are some of the most patriotic people.&#8221;&nbsp; I know.&nbsp; I totally get it.&nbsp; But don\u2019t tell me that the CIA isn\u2019t politicized when everything the hell else is, particularly with this administration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after an election where a major upset happens and the Democrat Party cannot yet come to grips with it, we have two newspapers, the Wash Post, the New York Times, we have the Watergate reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, and we\u2019ve got leaks from unknown people in the intelligence age that the Russians hacked and the Democrats have been pushing this narrative since the summer.&nbsp; The Russians were out there hacking ever since Podesta\u2019s emails ended up at WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Assange of WikiLeaks said the Russians are not the source.&nbsp; John Bolton is out there saying, you know what, these things could all be coming under a false flag.&nbsp; Bolton, who Trump really likes, by the way, I understand, Bolton is thinking that, hey, we can\u2019t rule out that all of this is coming from the Obama administration.&nbsp; We can\u2019t rule out that this is a false flag.&nbsp; In other words, &#8220;Investigators claim that they have found Russian fingerprints in the DNC computers.&#8221;&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; Why would the Russians leave evidence?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_131848\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"original\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-Hackers-Election-iPhone-Reuters.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">If the Russians go phishing in their hacking why leave evidence?&nbsp; Doesn\u2019t it make sense that if you find Russian fingerprints as evidence of a hack, that it\u2019s not the Russians?&nbsp; Or, are you deranged and a leftist, you think, no, the Russians did it, and they want us to know they did it.&nbsp; They\u2019re taunting us.&nbsp; Putin hates us.&nbsp; People will twist themselves into all sorts of positions to have what their biases are confirmed.&nbsp; But aside from all that, the weapons of mass destruction and Bush and then whatever was the &#8212; it was a bunch of whistleblowers about what happened to Central Command.&nbsp; I\u2019m just confused.&nbsp; I\u2019m gonna have to double-check this.&nbsp; Either the intel was cooked and Obama was told ISIS was no big deal or the intel was cooked and Obama was told it is a big deal and we\u2019re beating it back.&nbsp; I\u2019m gonna have to refresh my memory on it.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>But Comey said, James Comey said that Hillary\u2019s server was hacked by foreign operators, but the Russians didn\u2019t leave behind any fingerprints in any of their other hacks.&nbsp; They only left fingerprints supposedly in the DNC hack.&nbsp; Again, the bottom line, folks, this is total fake news.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: One of the things that Trump did was he took some shots at the intelligence community in his initial reaction to this. And that may be &#8212; and I\u2019m not totally decided yet on this, but that may be his first big mistake.&nbsp; Let\u2019s review some things we know or think we know about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Did Trump Make a Tactical Error? - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/12\/did_trump_make_a_tactical_error_\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Did Trump Make a Tactical Error? - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: One of the things that Trump did was he took some shots at the intelligence community in his initial reaction to this. 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