{"id":8418,"date":"2014-09-11T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T17:43:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-09-11T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T17:43:38","slug":"irony_democrats_now_imprisoned_by_the_defeat_they_secured_in_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/09\/11\/irony_democrats_now_imprisoned_by_the_defeat_they_secured_in_iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony: Democrats Now Imprisoned by the Defeat They Secured in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is Bruce in Muskegon, Michigan. I\u2019m glad you waited, and it\u2019s great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush, for taking my call. I\u2019ll get right to my point. I\u2019d like you to address a very important point regarding the status-of-force agreement which no one else seems to be talking about. Obama claims that he couldn\u2019t get a status-of-force agreement, but the real question is, did he really want one? It\u2019s my understanding that he, Obama, insisted that the Iraqi parliament approve the agreement, which is contrary to any other status-of-forces agreement we ever had with any other country during any other conflict. He knew that the parliament was dysfunctional and they couldn\u2019t agree on the time of day, let alone a status-of-forces agreement, so it\u2019s my premise and I think other people have said it but no one\u2019s saying it in the media, that was Obama\u2019s out. He really didn\u2019t want it, and by making it a requirement that parliament approve it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He didn\u2019t want to stay. You\u2019re right. He wanted no evidence America had ever been there. He didn\u2019t want to leave a vestige. He didn\u2019t want to leave a single troop. He didn\u2019t want to leave a single reminder. All of this is driven by politics. Folks, the Barack Obama Democrat Party, you name it, media, thinking on Iraq, when it came time to end it, it had nothing to do with strategy. It had nothing to do with preserving what had been won or what might have been won. It had nothing to do with maintaining stability there. All that mattered was getting out, and the reason they had to get out was their fringe base voters and donors. <\/line><\/p>\n

Folks, everything is political to these people. Everything is a political calculation. There was no way Obama could maintain any credibility with the people who had just elected him if he left troops there. He couldn\u2019t even talk about it. He couldn\u2019t even talk about the possibility of preserving even if you wanted to call it the peace. He couldn\u2019t. The media and the Democrat Party had driven their own base insane over this. What do you think is gonna happen if five years, every day of the year and every hour of the year, somebody in the Democrat Party is ripping Iraq, ripping the Iraq war, ripping president, ripping the United States, ripping the US military?<\/p>\n

Five years, every day, multiple time a day, and the way they did it, they were calling Bush a liar<\/a>. They were saying Cheney only cared about money for Halliburton. It was blood for oil. They told their rabid voters that our troops were raping and maiming Iraqi women and children. They told \u2019em every day that our troops were destroying civilian targets. They drove their own base insane with rage. They lied to the American people about what was going on in Iraq, what the intention was, how it was being conducted, and their base, which is already fringe kook to begin with on a normal day. <\/p>\n

Look, I read the comments that these Looney Tunes posted on the blogs for five years, maybe even longer. Obama could not afford to even speak one positiv<\/a>e syllable about Iraq because he and the Democrats had spent five years trashing it. There was no other possibility. So he used — our caller here is right on the money — he said, “I couldn\u2019t get a status-of-forces agreement.” And again, what that really means, if you break it down, status-of-forces, what that means is how are our troops remaining going to be treated vis-a-vis Iraqi law. Unless you indemnify our troops, we\u2019re not leaving any there, is the primary intent of a status-of-forces agreement.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a whole bunch of other things in it, but if the host country will not indemnify troops against war crimes, charges and so forth, then we don\u2019t stay. Obama claimed he couldn\u2019t get one. The caller is right, he didn\u2019t want one. He wanted to be able to blame the Iraqis and Maliki and everybody else for the fact we were getting out of, but he couldn\u2019t stay. For five years they had told everybody how illegitimate the whole thing was. They couldn\u2019t stay. That is why I find what happens now so sweetly ironic. If anybody owns the defeat in Iraq, it\u2019s Barack Obama and the Democrat Party. They wanted it. They\u2019re the ones that secured it. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re the ones that fought for it, politically. And they got it. And now look. Because they got what they wanted, because they don\u2019t know crap from Shinola, ISIS was allowed to grow. It was Al-Qaeda in Iraq. We pulled out of there. The Iraqis were not capable of stopping them, and everybody knew this. So we pulled out, and now we have to go back in there for political reasons again. We\u2019re going back in there is because Obama\u2019s poll numbers suck. We\u2019re not going back in there because Obama thinks it\u2019s the right thing to do. We\u2019re going back in there because his poll numbers are in the tank. <\/p>\n

So right before the election he\u2019s doing a political move trying to make himself a reluctant warrior using the troops again. I\u2019m gonna tell you, folks, I do not want a reluctant warrior as commander-in-chief. I don\u2019t want a reluctant anything. But, anyway, it is so sweetly ironic \u2019cause the people who gave us this defeat, who wanted it, who secured it, are now imprisoned by it politically. We\u2019re not going in there \u2019cause Obama cares to defeat ISIS. If he\u2019s gonna stand there last night and tell us that they\u2019re not Islam and they don\u2019t kill innocent people, then he can\u2019t possibly care about what they\u2019re doing. If he\u2019s not gonna even be honest with the American people about who they are? <\/line><\/p>\n

We\u2019re doing what we\u2019re doing because poll numbers are in the tank before an election. And poll numbers matter because amnesty\u2019s next, and you don\u2019t want to do amnesty when you\u2019re sitting at 30 in the polls. It\u2019s all political. So the bottom line of status-of-forces agreement is we could have gotten one and the Iraqis would have done anything to get us to stay. That\u2019s the hard, cold reality. Obama didn\u2019t want to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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