Why does Rush Limbaugh want our candidates to commit to an immediate withdrawal from Iraq?

[NNN0LHI]

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Feel Duped? Democrat Candidates Pledge to Stay in Iraq Until 2013

September 27, 2007


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RUSH: Those of you that were listening to this program yesterday, do you remember the call from Jill in Ithaca, in the first hour, calling me a liar because I was interpreting correctly what Mrs. Clinton said Sunday on Stephanopoulos's show in which she made it plain: (paraphrasing) "There's no way I'm going to get out of Iraq if I'm president. I don't know what I'm going to inherit there. It would be irresponsible to get out of there." "You lie," she said. I said, "Jill, not only that, no Democrat who's elected president is going to pull us out of Iraq if they're in the White House. Ain't going to happen, Jill." And, furthermore, I said, "Jill, if a Democrat wins the White House, there will no longer be any 'bring the troops home' resolutions offered by Democrats on Capitol Hill, because they're not going to want to embarrass -- you might have some wacko like Conyers do it just for the sake of it, but not any serious resolutions."

So last night, all of the top tier Democrats for president said, (paraphrasing) "Hell, no, we can't pull out of there. No way. I will not commit to pulling the troops out when I'm elected president." Do you think Jill from Ithaca is a little depressed today? Snerdley is shaking his head no. You may be right, because she probably heard it, she probably watched it, and doesn't believe it. She thinks they're just saying whatever they have to say. She's gotta be mad. See, this is the whole point. They have been lying to their base; they have been lying to the country; and this is not just some meaningless little political issue. This is national security. They have divided the country over this for their purely political desires, and now, when they're getting ready for the rubber to hit the road, these people thinking that one of them might actually have a chance to be elected, why, guess what? When you talk as a future president, a hypothetical, as opposed to just a candidate, my, how things change.

Here are the audio sound bites from last night. The question from Tim Russert -- he did a great job last night, by the way. It's coming up, too, he just really nailed Hillary on a couple things. She had her worst debate performance to date last night. Question: "Senator Obama, will you pledge that by January 2013, the end of your first term, more than five years from now, that there will be no troops, US troops in Iraq?"

OBAMA: I think it's hard to project four years from now. I think it would be irresponsible. We don't know what contingencies will be out there.

RUSH: "Senator Clinton, you have said that you will not pledge to have all troops out by the end of your first term, 2013. Why not?"

HILLARY: It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting. You know, we do not know, walking into the White House in January 2009, what we're going to find.

RUSH: Plain as day. The next question, "Senator Edwards, will you commit that at the end of your first term, 2013, that all US troops will be out of Iraq?"

EDWARDS: I cannot make that commitment.

RUSH: Now, I wonder how Code Pink is feeling today along with Jill in Ithaca and all of the others, like MoveOn.org. Code Pink is probably a little blue today, as is MoveOn.org. These people gotta be fit to be tied. I haven't checked because they're always fit to be tied, they're always enraged. But they can't be happy out there. Now, this, ladies and gentlemen, this debate last night was like a Saturday Night Live skit. Did you watch it, Mr. Snerdley? You watch any of it? This was not a 180. Let me tell you what happened last night with the Democrat debate. We've got some sound bites. I know you're thinking, "I don't want to hear these people." You gotta hear 'em. You gotta hear 'em because there are teachable moments here. This was a 360 followed by a back flip. Then they did a handstand, front flip, followed by a 180. These people were so all over the board last night it was comedic. As you just heard, Russert asked, "Will you pledge to have all the troops out by the end of your first term?" Mrs. Clinton would not. No surprise there. She can say whatever suits her whenever it suits her.

[rosesaylavee]

1. Has the same question been asked of the Republican candidates?

And if so, what is their answer?

I don't think ANY of them will commit to making a campaign promise of that magnitude. Didn't Biden say we still have 20,000 in Kosovo? I don't think we would mind having a peacekeeping presence there if it didn't mean casualties.

Bottom line: What IS disturbing is to have our troops there to maintain the oil flow to this country and sacrifice their lives to do so.

[bryant69]

3. The REpublicans are running on promising to continue the Bush Foriegn Policy

The Democrats are supposedly presenting themselves as a break with the Bush policy (and I think they actually will be, for what it's worth) so it's in Rush's best interest to make them look like liars - they claim to be a break but they are really going to continue doing the same stuff.

Bryant
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[Bitwit1234]

2. He's tired of people telling the truth about WHY he didn't defend his country

during the Viet Nam War...those pesky old boils on his ass just got in the way.

[Flabbergasted]

4. Not sure if this is accurate but....

Rush has seemed to accept or even encourage the prospect of a democrat in office as long as the war continues. He has even suggested that Hillary has a very good chance of being the next president and not in a demeaning way.

Anyone else notice this?

[EFerrari]

5. So he can call them unpatriotic cowardly losers.

So, in a way, the Democrats are being smart not to hand him that stick. The problem is, since their base has lost all confidence in government, the strategy has a cost.

Iirc, all the Democratic callers into WJ this morning expressed disapproval of this position.

[NNN0LHI]

7. But how do you know the callers to WJ are really Democrats?

I have watched that show before and it sounded like Republicans calling in claiming to be Dems to me.

So I stopped watching it.

Don

[timtom]

6. Whoops! (tee hee)

He forgot to mention Kucinich or Gravel!

His bad (giggle).

[UTUSN]

8. & our candidates would do LIMBOsevic's bidding -- why?!1 n/t

[DemGa]

9. So they will inheret a mess of a war based lies?

No back flips from me Limpbaugh. But I can see what a slick devil he is from reading one of his points in full-context.