Obama Declares Wars Are Ended to No Applause

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number two — did you see over the weekend that the war in Afghanistan’s over? (interruption) Yeah. Yeah. I remember on Friday, if you recall, if you were here, you might not have been because it’s a big travel weekend, but I want to revisit something. Grab sound bite number one. Let’s go ahead and play audio of me last Friday as we headed into the Memorial Day weekend, ’cause this sets up this Afghanistan comment.

RUSH ARCHIVE: This, to me, is one of the most important Memorial Days, and they’re all important, even that little characterization should give you an idea how tough this one is to talk about. This particular Memorial Day with everything going on in Iraq and the Middle East and ISIS now just running out of control and our leadership seemingly unconcerned, the Iranians nuking up, but Iraq and what’s happening there has got to make this Memorial Day a real challenge for a lot of American families. Those who had family members who served in Iraq, who were injured and wounded in Iraq, or died in Iraq. I mean, they might legitimately be asking themselves this weekend, this Memorial Day, why, what was the point, was it worth it? And you wouldn’t blame ’em if they did. It’s a toughie. It still needs to be acknowledged.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Grab audio, say number two, and see over the weekend
that the war in Afghanistan's over. Yeah, I remember on Friday,
if you recall if you were here, you might not
have been because it's a big travel weekend. But one
of the things just I want to revisit something I
grabbed somebody. Number one. Let's going to just play the
audio of me, uh last Friday as we headed into

(00:21):
the Memorial Day weekend, because this sets up this Afghanistan comma.
This to me is one of the most important Memorial Days,
and they're all important. Even that little characterization should give
you an idea how tough this one is to talk
about this particular Memorial Day with everything going on in
the Iraq and the Middle East, and isis now just

(00:45):
running out of control and our leadership seemingly unconcerned the
Iranians nuking up. But Iraq and what's happening there has
got to make this Memorial Day a real challenge for
a lot of American families, those who had family members

(01:09):
has served in the Rock, who were injured and wounded
in the Rock or died in the Rock. I mean,
they might legitimately be asking themselves this weekend, this Memorial Day.
Why what was the point? Was it worth it? And
you wouldn't blame them if they did. It's a toughie
still needs to be acknowledged. Yeah, and I can't help

(01:30):
but remember as I listen to myself say that, boy,
it's every time I do that reminded how lucky you
people are that you actually get to listen to me.
I never do not live. I can't. I mean, I'm
too busy doing it because I am me. Some time
I get to hear me is like this audios found
by it or something, it just strikes me how fortunate

(01:50):
you are anyway, say listen this. I'm I'm also reminded
about how Obama and Biden out there claiming victory in
the Rock was so Iraq was a success story shortly
after Obama had been immaculated and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
Is that not an ongoing joke, A poor joke, a

(02:12):
bad joke. But isn't it typical anyway? So they're out
there claiming credit they wanted to claim credit for the
victory in the Rocket was so good, things were so stable,
it looked like such a success. And now look Ramadi
falls and now we're told by our Department of Defense
wizards that're smart that Yeah, well, the Iraqis are getting

(02:35):
ready to fight back. The Iraqis know that they've got
to defend themselves. The Iraqis know they've got to take
all the training we've gave them, and they've got to
act in their own interest. Now, the Iraqis are gonna
be preparing to take Ramani back, right exactly, you gotta
get them back first. They've all split. I mean, it's

(02:55):
just and here's Obama. This is yesterday in Arlington, Virginia,
at the at the Arlington National Cemetery. Just a brief,
little sixteen second SoundBite here. For many of us, this
Memorial Day is especially meaningful. It is the first since
our war in Afghanistan came to an end. Today is
the first Memorial Day in fourteen years that the United

(03:18):
States is not engaged in a major ground war. There
wasn't any applause there. Why why do you suspect there
wasn't any applause when Obama's I mean, you would think
that a line like that, right on, dude, Yes, the
rebub But when he said today's the first Memorial Day

(03:38):
of fourteen years, the United States not engaged in a
major ground war. Why wasn't there any applause? Take a stab,
Mr snurd Ley. Exactly we're losing them, is why they
don't like losing. The website Vox, which is relatively new website.
It's a home of h I say, the the young

(04:01):
whipper snapper, young liberal journalists who were working at the
Washington Post, I guess reclined some other places and they
just you know, they felt constrained even there, so they
formed their own place here called Vox. And a bunch
of young, hip millennial journalists of all stripes swear by it.

(04:23):
They have a story, even idea, what happens on Vox
here we are the today. So this is actually this
was ran Yesterday's posted yesterday. So the Sunday, the Monday
Memorial Day actually ran a Memorial Day. Is this story.
It's time we have a holiday to honor those who
try to stop wars too. I it's not enough that

(04:48):
we have a Memorial Day where we remember American military
veterans who died preserving freedom from the United States. And
it's not enough. No no no, no, no, no, no no no.
Now we need a holiday to honor those who try
to stop wars too. I don't know what they want

(05:09):
to call it. Uh starts off by say, Memorial Day
and Veterans Day often get equated, but there's an essential
distinction between the two. Veterans Day honors all who have served.
Memorial Day honors those have died. It's an annual reminder
that wars have grave human costs. Those costs are not inevitable.
We also ought to set aside time to remember those

(05:31):
throughout American history have tried the hardest to reduce war,
to stop and prevent a necessary loss of life, both
American and foreign. And that would be the war resistors,
the war protesters. That's exactly what we need, don't especially
on this Memorial Day where the families of American uniformed

(05:54):
military personnel who were injured or perished in Iraq, you really,
you know, you try to put yourself in their shoes
and imagine how tough the memorial they was. Every day's
got to be tough for them. But now, particularly when
you see Isis on the run and these families are
you know they are they're asking themselves was it worth it?

(06:18):
They're all volunteers, These people signed up. I mean I've
done a troop visit to Afghanistan. I've talked to these guys,
these these women too. This is what they did to
save their countries and what they did to protect their countries.
All they knew to do. They joined the military after
nine eleven. They wanted to just to serve. They wanted
to protect, They wanted to defend America. They didn't want
every to see that happening. Again, that's the only reason

(06:40):
they did it. Some of them got shipped out to
a rock, some of them got killed. Family is well aware.
And now running around there's Obamas celebrating first Memorial Day
at fourteen years that we're not at war and everybody knows, yeah,
because we're cutting and running and losing them and Americans

(07:03):
don't like celebrating that kind of stuff, and now have
heaped on top of that. We need to set aside
a national day for war protesters. You mean people like
Tom Hayden and Abby Hoffman, the Chicago eight or whoever,
people like what's his name, Neville Chamberlain. That kind of
need a national holiday for people like that all over

(07:25):
the world. By the way, war protesters all over the world. That, yeah,
that's exactly what we need, folks, exactly, this is Robert
and Coronado, California are really glad that you called Robert.
Great to have you with us today. Hi oh hi
rush Um. I share a hometown with Paul Tibbotts Quincy, Illinois,
who was the pilot of the Nolan Gay. And I

(07:47):
think in that vein um, if we're going to try
to honor people who ended wars, I would start with
probably Harry Truman as my the first honoree, and then
maybe even like the crew of the Enola Gay would
be right up there. Yeah, this is great, Robert. I
have to applaud you. This is great thinking what he's
reacting to, folks. Does this story and the in a

(08:11):
relatively new left wing child left wing website called Vox
called It's time and Day and it ran it yesterday
Memorial Day. It's time that we have a holiday to
honor those who try to stop wars too. Now they're
not thinking of guys that drop bombs on the enemy
to win the war. That that'd be great. They'll just
throw Harry Truman at him and Paul Tipots had got

(08:32):
it flew the you know the game is exactly right.
And then the whole team that worked on the development
of the nuclear bomb, you know, put them up there
to honor them. I mean, just go a whole hog
with this. But that's not what they're thinking, as you know,
they're thinking to people like Tom Hayden and Abby Hoffman
and uh typically anti war, Global Peace March, AI Nuclear Disarm,

(09:00):
Reme Murder, what have you. But they mean war protesters.
And I don't think that they would think of Harry
Truman as a protester, but I love your idea. You
bet he was speechless. I know this happens. It's a
caller calls and the host praises them and agrees with them,
and they don't know what to say. They're just so moved,

(09:21):
and I totally relate and understand it.