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RUSH: Look at this headline: ‘House Democrats\u2019 New Strategy: Force Slow End to War.\u2019 Now, much is being made about this resolution that is coming up. The president talked about this in his press conference today and this is one of the things that is mystifying to people like me and a number of others. He had numerous questions from the press, ‘What do you think about the Democrats?\u2019 He said (summarized), ‘I respect \u2019em. They\u2019re patriotic people. You can certainly disagree with my policy and still be patriotic, but they gave me a warm greeting at the State of the Union. They allowed me to express my views,\u2019 and I\u2019m going (long sigh). Frustration is setting in. They tee him up, they give him a chance to destroy these people and he won\u2019t do it. It\u2019s just not who he is. He\u2019s never done it. He\u2019s not going to do it. He\u2019s not going to get partisan. <\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t buy him anything, at least in his battle with them. It might buy him some goodwill with certain Americans, but for what now, who knows? He\u2019s not running for office again. He can\u2019t do that. At any rate, in this resolution, the Democrats have told the Republicans to go to hell. They\u2019re not going to get an alternative resolution. They\u2019re not going to get a resolution in support of the troops or any of that. The Democrats are hell-bent on having a nonbinding resolution. Now, there will be a binding resolution come up soon and that\u2019s for emergency funding for the troops, and that\u2019s where the truth will emerge as to what they\u2019re really all about here. This story is from a new website, Politico.com. It de-butted in January. (I know it\u2019s de-bewed<\/emphasize>, but it\u2019s media guys, so to me it\u2019s de-butted.<\/emphasize>) In January, some reporters that have left the Washington Post and other print publications, have gone to where the action is, and that is the Internet and this new website\u2019s called Politico.com. <\/p>\n

Jim VandeHei is over there with John Harris and guys from the Washington Post. This story is by John Bresnahan. ‘Top House Democrats, working in concert with anti-war groups…\u2019 I\u2019m going to tell you something, folks. They are setting themselves up to be McGoverned all over again, and they don\u2019t know it. This is almost a replay. They\u2019ve been wanting a replay of Vietnam, and by golly, they are going to get it! Do you know that Mookie al-Sadr has fled Baghdad? Muqtada al-Sadr has fled the scene! He\u2019s gone to Tehran. He\u2019s got family, I guess, in Iran, and he got the hell out of Dodge, on the verge of the surge. Now, that\u2019s a pretty good indication here of what Mookie thinks the chances are. He knows he\u2019s targeted. By the way, he took his upper echelon, his so-called leaders and generals with him. That\u2019s a pretty good indication of Mookie\u2019s impression of what might be in store. I keep sidetracking myself here. This is key: ‘Top House Democrats, working in concert with anti-war groups, have decided against using congressional power to force a quick end to U.S. involvement in Iraq, and instead will pursue a slow-bleed strategy designed to gradually limit the administration\u2019s options.<\/p>\n

“Led by Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa., and supported by several well-funded anti-war groups, the coalition\u2019s goal is to limit or sharply reduce the number of U.S. troops available for the Iraq conflict, rather than to openly cut off funding for the war itself. The legislative strategy will be supplemented by a multimillion-dollar TV ad campaign designed to pressure vulnerable GOP incumbents into breaking with President Bush and forcing the administration to admit that the war is politically unsustainable. As described by participants, the goal is crafted to circumvent the biggest political vulnerability of the anti-war movement — the accusation that it is willing to abandon troops in the field. That fear is why many Democrats have remained timid in challenging Bush, even as public support for the president and his Iraq policies have plunged. Murtha and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have decided that they must take the lead in pressuring not only Republicans but also cautious Senate Democrats to take steps more aggressive than nonbinding resolutions in challenging the Bush administration. <\/line>“The House strategy is being crafted quietly, even as the chamber is immersed this week in an emotional, albeit mostly symbolic, debate over a resolution expressing opposition of,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now: “…Murtha, acting with the backing of the House Democratic leadership, will seek to limit the time and number of deployments by soldiers, Marines and National Guard units to Iraq, making it tougher for Pentagon officials to find the troops to replace units that are scheduled to rotate out of the country.” This is their strategery. This is their investment in defeat. This is because they — as I have reminded you countless times here, my friends — cannot allow a victory to take place. They don\u2019t have the guts to end the war because of their fear the public would think that they\u2019re not supporting the troops. So now they\u2019re going to go around the backside, do an end run and a slow bleed by eliminating the number of troops available for rotation duty in Iraq, forcing the president to pull everybody out in that manner — and they\u2019re going to have a multimillion-dollar TV ad campaign designed to support this, in the midst of a surge which is designed to rout the insurgency out of Baghdad and bring stability to it. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. First up here is David Gregory getting on the president\u2019s case about the story that Iraq is having shipped into it IEDs made by Iran. Gregory says to the president, ‘Critics say that you are using the same quality of intelligence about Iran that you used to make the case for war in Iraq, specifically about WMD. That turned out to be wrong, and you\u2019re doing that to make a case for war against Iran. Is that the case?\u2019<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I can say with certainty that the Quds Force, a part of the Iranian government, has provided these sophisticated IEDs that have harmed our troops. I do not know whether or not the Quds Force was ordered from the top echelons of government, but my point is: What\u2019s worse: them ordering it and it happening, or them not ordering it and it\u2019s happening? So we will continue to protect our troops. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, CNN\u2019s Ed Henry followed this up later on. He said, ‘Mr. President, are you saying today that you do not know if senior members of the Iranian government are in fact behind these explosives? That contradicts what US officials said in Baghdad on Sunday. They said the highest levels of the Iranian government were behind this. It also seems to square with what General Pace has been saying, but contradicts with what you\u2019re saying.\u2019<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Whether Ahmadinejad ordered the Quds Force to do this, I don\u2019t think we know, but we do know that they\u2019re there, and I intend to do something about it. We know they\u2019re there. We know they\u2019re provided by the Quds Force. We know the Quds Force is a part of the Iranian government. I don\u2019t think we know who picked up the phone and said to the Quds Force, ‘Go do this,\u2019 but we know it\u2019s a vital part of the Iranian government. What matters is that we\u2019re responding. The idea that somehow we\u2019re manufacturing the idea that the Iranians are providing IEDs is preposterous, Ed. My job is to protect our troops.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what the root of all this is. There\u2019s a Boston Globe story today. By the way, happy Valentine\u2019s Day to those of you who will go out and perform the perfunctory duties demanded of Valentine\u2019s Day. Let\u2019s face it: most of you people out there are doing Valentine\u2019s Day stuff not because you want to, not because it\u2019s really in your heart, because if it was in your heart you\u2019d have done it yesterday. But you waited \u2019til today to do it because this is the perfunctory day that society says you go give whatever you give, show whatever affection you have. So if you\u2019re out there engaged in this, more power to you. <\/p>\n

I just wanted to acknowledge we, too, know that it\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day, although, we abstain. Well, I\u2019m speaking for myself. Dawn, did you abstain? She\u2019s abstaining. What about you? No Brian? Well, you\u2019re freshly married, you don\u2019t have any choice. Snerdley, do you abstain today from perfunctory Valentine\u2019s Day duties? You\u2019re engaging in perfunctory Valentine\u2019s Day duties! Whoa! Whoa! There must be somebody new in Snerdley\u2019s life here. Well. (ahem) Okay. So two of the four of us here are abstaining, and the other two are prisoners of convention. Now, here\u2019s a story in the Boston Globe.<\/p>\n

“Security analysts and critics of the Bush administration are questioning the quality of intelligence presented by three unidentified US officials in Baghdad on Sunday to demonstrate the Iranian government\u2019s ties to sophisticated explosives that have killed 170 US soldiers in Iraq.” This is the Boston Globe, and this is where all these questions came from today about this. “Some skeptics also say that US officials in Iraq and their British counterparts have known for more than two years that armor-piercing explosives were being smuggled from Iran, but had never displayed them to the media until Sunday,” which they did, complete with serial numbers. Now, get this: “Daniel Serwer, a specialist at the US Institute for Peace, a Washington-based [left-wing] think tank, said he was not convinced that the Iranian government had decided ‘at the highest levels\u2019 to provide weapons to target US troops, as the three US officials told reporters. ‘The question is not so much about whether there are Iranian weapons inside Iraq,\u2019 said Serwer, who served as executive director of the Iraq [Surrender] Group… <\/line>“‘Sure there are. The question is whether there is a conscious policy by the Iranian government or some part of the Iranian government to support lethal attacks against Americans. I haven\u2019t seen any proof of that yet.'” (sigh) Haven\u2019t seen any…? (sigh) “General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also downplayed accusations against the Iranian government. He told reporters yesterday in Indonesia that although material from Iran had been used in the bombs, ‘That does not translate that the Iranian government per se, for sure, is directly involved in doing this,'” which is what the president was saying today. The root of this — and in both of these questions from David Gregory and from Ed Henry at CNN (and I told you this was going to happen a long time ago) — is the so-called faulty intelligence touting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, war opponents who are opposed to it on principle — people that are anti-America, the blame-America-first crowd — are going to use this to question any use of the US military in the war on terror anywhere else. <\/line>If the intelligence was, quote, unquote, “wrong” that led us into Iraq, and, of course, we\u2019d have to rewind the clock here and go back to all the reasons we went to Iraq, WMD was not the sole reason, but it was focused on as the major reason, nevertheless we\u2019re now hamstrung. Hands are tied. It\u2019s going to be very difficult here to live this down for the longest time because there are gonna be critics who say, “Well, what about the intelligence? You got the intelligence totally wrong back in 2003 going into Iraq, 2001, 2002. You got it totally wrong. We can\u2019t trust this now,” and that\u2019s why these administration officials are hedging their bets. “Well, we know they\u2019re coming from Iran, but we don\u2019t know if they\u2019re coming from the highest levels of the Iranian government.” What does it matter? What does it matter if it\u2019s coming from the highest levels of the Iranian government or not? <\/line>In the real world, what does it matter? But the real world is in suspension, and we\u2019re finding ourselves in the midst of an alternative universe here where the morality seems to support Democrats and their slow bleed strategy for defeat. Reality is suspended when it comes to such things as global warming, which cannot be proved by science; it can only be established by “consensus.” In the midst of record cold, record snow, record ice, nobody questions whether or not, “Could the scientists be wrong?” Yet let there be a hot day in September, “A-ha, global warming! See? It\u2019s happening!” Let it be 60 degrees in January in New York (which happens every year, by the way) “A-ha! Global warming! See? It\u2019s happening,” but when there is record cold when there should be warming, it\u2019s totally ignored. It\u2019s an alternative universe we\u2019re living in. Try to stay sane. <\/line><\/p>\n

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