Playing With Fire
By Rush Limbaugh
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Last week, House Democrats passed a committee resolution declaring that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenians. In 1915.
Turkey -- our ally in the war on terror -- warns: if this resolution is passed by the full Congress, it will be fatal to US-Turkish relations. In Turkey itself, it's a crime to call what happened there in 1915 "genocide." In retaliation, Turkey's threatening to invade Northern Iraq, where relations with Iraq's Kurds have been strained for generations. About 95 percent of critical supplies for our troops in Iraq also transit through Turkey -- and they're now threatening to slam that door.
When asked this weekend on ABC about the potential harm to our troops, Speaker Nancy Pelosi restated her intent to bring the matter to the full House for a vote. "Some of the things that are harmful to our troops relate to values," she babbled. "I think that our troops are well-served when we declare who we are as a country and increase the respect that people have for us."
What a bunch of gobbledygook! Democrats are determined, folks -- at all cost -- to secure defeat for America in Iraq. Even if it means horrific consequences for our troops or inflaming that whole region. I mean, this is nothing less than sabotage.
Pelosi's politically motivated attack on George W. Bush, the war, and Turkey is idiotic -- it's treacherous. Democrats are playing with apocalyptic fire, here, folks. Nancy Pelosi ought to be ashamed, but she won't be -- because her party is beyond shame. (And they cannot afford, politically, for us to win over there, folks. That's the dirty little secret.)
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Last week, House Democrats passed a committee resolution declaring that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenians. In 1915.
Turkey -- our ally in the war on terror -- warns: if this resolution is passed by the full Congress, it will be fatal to US-Turkish relations. In Turkey itself, it's a crime to call what happened there in 1915 "genocide." In retaliation, Turkey's threatening to invade Northern Iraq, where relations with Iraq's Kurds have been strained for generations. About 95 percent of critical supplies for our troops in Iraq also transit through Turkey -- and they're now threatening to slam that door.
When asked this weekend on ABC about the potential harm to our troops, Speaker Nancy Pelosi restated her intent to bring the matter to the full House for a vote. "Some of the things that are harmful to our troops relate to values," she babbled. "I think that our troops are well-served when we declare who we are as a country and increase the respect that people have for us."
What a bunch of gobbledygook! Democrats are determined, folks -- at all cost -- to secure defeat for America in Iraq. Even if it means horrific consequences for our troops or inflaming that whole region. I mean, this is nothing less than sabotage.
Pelosi's politically motivated attack on George W. Bush, the war, and Turkey is idiotic -- it's treacherous. Democrats are playing with apocalyptic fire, here, folks. Nancy Pelosi ought to be ashamed, but she won't be -- because her party is beyond shame. (And they cannot afford, politically, for us to win over there, folks. That's the dirty little secret.)
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 6:55 PM
3 Comments:
BS, Rush. I thought you weren't carrying water for these idiots any more. You are engaging in Orwellian double-speak.
The problem is that we are there. Simple as that. There is no "winning" over there, Rush. The fact that someone is dredging up a centuries old incident for the purpose of demagoguery should be a clue for you, Rush. The fires of hatred that incite action in the Middle East are millenia old, we have no business putting our troops in that particular harm's way.
Drop your ego, Rush, and start calling for the only sensible solution to this: withdraw from the Middle East entirely.
When the U.S. has withdrawn from other situations in the Middle East in the past, the only thing that did was make matters worse (Beirut and Somalia come to mind.) Withdrawing from the Middle East will leave that whole place in more chaos than it is now. Withdrawing from the Middle East entirely isn't rational.
Define worse. Explain why chaos in the Middle East is of any concern to us. Explain why chaos in the Middle East isn't actually in our best interest.
How exactly was it worse for you, me, and the average guy on the street when we withdrew from Beirut and Somalia?
Insisting that the US act as the world's policeman is irrational.
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