{"id":36025,"date":"2010-08-02T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:45:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:45:13","slug":"the_economy_is_so_bad_obama_shifts_focus_to_iraq_afghanistan3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/08\/02\/the_economy_is_so_bad_obama_shifts_focus_to_iraq_afghanistan3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economy is So Bad, Obama Shifts Focus to Iraq, Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Economy_is_So_Bad.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: The economy is so bad that President Obama\u2019s out there in Atlanta trying to get people to focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That\u2019s how bad things are in the economy. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has offered to debate Obama about whatever, about anything. Kill the music. (staff singing happy anniversary) Twenty-two years, the EIB Network, 22 years old today, and the staff in violation of every instruction here, brings in a cake celebrating the 22nd anniversary. Blow it out. There you go. Thank you all very much. You may cut the cake and enjoy it amongst yourselves. (laughing) The New York staff says, &#8216;Come up here. We won\u2019t do anything.\u2019 Yeah, leave me alone on my birthday, too. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Ahmadinejad says he wants to debate Obama. Don\u2019t know about what. We assume it\u2019s Iran\u2019s rush to nuke up. Charles Rangel is telling everybody not to rush to justice, even though the investigation\u2019s gone on for two years. Obama is in Atlanta, Disabled American Veterans, and he\u2019s trying to get everybody to focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, let me tell you something. His buds on the left, we were talking the other day about why the left is so unhappy, why they\u2019re so miserable and so angry. We\u2019ve dissected this in every which way you can imagine, but this is not going to make \u2019em happy. These people want out of every war we\u2019re in. <\/p>\n<p>They thought Obama was going to get us out and we were going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Not only were we going to get out, we were going to lose, we were gonna get humiliated in Iraq, humiliated in Afghanistan, that\u2019s what Obama\u2019s supporters want and now he\u2019s out there touting his successes. This is not what Obama\u2019s base wants to hear. Stories throughout the media today: Obama is not going to be campaigning for Democrats. He admits he\u2019ll be a hurt and a drag. Other Democrats don\u2019t want him anywhere near their reelection efforts. It\u2019s an amazing way to kick off a week. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I mentioned in the program open today that Obama is trying to distract people from the economy. The economy is so bad, he\u2019s out there today in Atlanta, the 89th annual Disabled American Veterans convention and he\u2019s talking up the war in Afghanistan, talking up the war in Iraq. Listen to this.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: Our nation has had vigorous debates about the Iraq war. There are patriots who supported going to war and patriots who opposed it but there has never been any daylight between us when it comes to supporting the more than one million Americans in uniform who have served in Iraq, far more than any conflict since Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Really? There\u2019s never been any daylight between us when it comes to supporting the more than one million Americans in uniform in Iraq? Why, the hell you say, Barack. The hell you say. You and your party attempted to undermine those million uniformed personnel day in and day out for four years. Harry Reid: &#8216;This war is lost.\u2019 Biden: &#8216;The surge won\u2019t work. These guys are crazy.\u2019 Here\u2019s Obama himself from January 14th, 2007, on Slay the Nation.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA 2007: We cannot impose a military solution on what has effectively become a civil war. And until we acknowledge that reality, we can send 15,000 more troops, 20,000 more troops, 30,000 more troops. I don\u2019t know any expert on the region or any military officer that I\u2019ve spoken to privately that believes that that is gonna make a substantial difference on the situation on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We all wanted victory in Iraq, he said. We all wanted victory in Iraq. He\u2019s trying to make people forget that he did everything he could to ensure defeat in Iraq. And now Joe Bite Me, the vice president, is out there saying Obama\u2019s greatest accomplishment is Iraq. And now, &#8216;there\u2019s never been any daylight between us when it comes to supporting the more than one million Americans,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah, and then, &#8216;we can\u2019t oppose the military solution, the surge isn\u2019t gonna work, we can\u2019t do that, nobody thinks it\u2019s gonna work.\u2019 History revisionism right before your very eyes. Here\u2019s more, February 10th, 2007, in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA 2007: It\u2019s time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies in the heart of someone else\u2019s civil war. That\u2019s why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s July of 2010. Combat troops still in Iraq; Club Gitmo is still open, thriving licensed merchandise business down there, you can see it at RushLimbaugh.com. And we\u2019re ramping up troops in Afghanistan. But we couldn\u2019t win either of these places. Well, we coulda gone to Afghanistan, Obama said, that\u2019s why he owns Afghanistan. And then this morning, let\u2019s go back to Atlanta, 89th annual Disabled American Veterans convention, Obama says he kept a promise.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end. Shortly after taking office, I announced our new strategy for Iraq and for a transition to full Iraqi responsibility. And I made it clear that by August 31st, 2010, America\u2019s combat mission in Iraq would end. And that is exactly what we are doing &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Whoa!<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: &#8212; as promised &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What?<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA: &#8212; and on schedule.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait a minute. We just heard you say you had a plan that will bring the combat troops home by March of 2008. Now it\u2019s August 31st this year? What? He kept a promise? Getting out of Iraq on schedule? He voted against funding the Iraq war in 2007, by the way. So lying, history revisionism. And the great thing about this is that his fringe kook insaniacs on the left hate this kind of talk, they despise it. They\u2019ve got the most liberal Marxist socialist president they\u2019ve ever dreamed of having and we\u2019re still in Afghanistan, we\u2019re still in Iraq, and he\u2019s cozying up to all kinds of corporate people. They don\u2019t like this at all. They\u2019re miserable. And they are unhappy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The economy is so bad that President Obama\u2019s out there in Atlanta trying to get people to focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That\u2019s how bad things are in the economy. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has offered to debate Obama about whatever, about anything. Kill the music. 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