WEBVTT - Obama Votes Present as Heroes Fight and Die at War in Afghanistan 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.240 Let's play audio somebody number sixteen CNN's Anderson Cooper one 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:07.560 eight with hardly any audience, which is why we're going 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:10.120 to play this bite for you. Spoke with the International 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.840 Correspondent CNN Michael ware. Cooper said, everybody seems to admit, look, 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.520 there's no military solution, and yet politically there's hardly any 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.480 civilians on the ground in a lot of these areas, 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.320 and the Afghan government is riddled with corruption. We're trying 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.360 to bolster in these areas of government which is not 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:30.360 represented its people were. Now where we could lose this war. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.479 The Taliban will continue to fight as long as U 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.600 S troops for foreign troops want to be there. So 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.960 the whole idea is to put enough military pressure on 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.600 the Taliban war machine to polly that pressure at the 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.080 gust Shadding table all to bring a political solution. Now, 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.559 President Obama has to man up on the side. Is 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.120 he going to fight this war or is he going 0:00:53.159 --> 0:01:00.640 to ovasey an American defeat? CNN reporters says to Obama, 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:07.280 man up or lose Afghanistan, Man up or lose or 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.240 is he going to oversee an American defeat? What do 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.720 you think the answer to the question is he's willing 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.640 to oversee an American defeat. He came out and said 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:20.320 victories something. It's a it's a it's an uncomfortable proposition 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:27.120 word in Afghanistan. So meanwhile, the general who Obama wants 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.200 and who Obama appointed, who Obama got confirmed once some 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:34.040 more troops. Mr President, you are not a state senator 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.240 from Illinois. You are the commander in chief of the U. S. Military. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.840 Do your job. Dropped the politics. We got heroes on 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.600 the battlefield giving their last full measure of devotion to 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:49.480 this country, and you're voting present, all because he doesn't 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.960 want to upset the apple cart, the precious balance in 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.480 Congress on his healthcare bill, well on a healthcare bill 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:01.120 because of the radical left. And now the politico is 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:07.160 fascinated with who leaked this news that Obama is not 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.880 going to come up with the troops that the general wants. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.200 Who leaked that the general wants the troops. It's the 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.480 most the funniest thing, it's the most incredible story. President 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:19.960 Obama wants more time to develop a new strategy in Afghanistan. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:27.040 His general wants forty more troops. Otherwise, the general says, 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.400 we and the Allies run the risk of losing the war. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:38.160 Would agreeing to forty more troops jeopardize liberals support for Obamacare? 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.480 Stop and think about that. The President of the United 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.920 States is teetering. He's flirting with the actual concept of 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:52.280 defeat in Afghanistan. Forty thou troops, the general says, makes 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:57.160 the difference forty troops in one hand, or losing or 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:04.120 jeopardizing support of liberals for Obama air in Congress. What 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.960 does this tell you about the man? These are the 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:14.160 domestic political questions that hunt Barack Obama. He's playing politics 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.160 when he ought to be fighting and winning a war, 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.200 acting like a commander in chief who gives a damn 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.480 about his troops in the field. He's playing golf. He's 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.200 yucking it up with Letterman. He's got his stupid Health 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.560 and Human Services Secretary telling people how to sneeze on 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.639 their sleeves. He's sitting on a report from his commanding 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.720 general Afghanistan that says we are boost troop numbers there 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.760 faced the distinct possibility of defeat, and he wants more 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.920 time to study a new strategy. He's doing nothing. He 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.280 has the reports, he won't make a decision. He's voting 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.600 present to their election of duty. What what are we 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.680 going to do in Afghanistan? I thought that was settled, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.240 now now it's not. Afghanistan was a central theater. That's 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.440 where we had to go. That's we're gonna beat these guys. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.240 Taliban ala Qaida Wish made a mistake. Should have gone 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.880 in there. Wasted all this treasure, all these resources. Now 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:09.520 we're there in Obama flirting with defeat, all to make 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.520 certain his Obamacare is not jeopardized in the House. This 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.440 is what you get when the radical left runs. Every 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:22.960 branch of the federal government isn't on the golf course. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:28.520 He's making jokes on Letterman Lamb jokes at that, and 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:34.839 now he's spouting additional lies, threats, end of the world. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.839 We're all going to die at a climate change conference, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.880 which is nothing more than a meeting of worldwide leftists 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:47.800 to seek to implement a worldwide government that has control 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:52.719 over every aspect of every person's life on this planet. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.640 That's the end game. Now, this Afghanistan report, this this 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.679 is this is this is Hilary us in the Political 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:05.000 to Day, Bob Woodward's Monday Morning exclusive on the sixty 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.239 page report from General McCrystal to Obama about Afghanistan policy 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.960 was a rite of passage for the new administration, the 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:16.040 first major national security league, and a sure sign that 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:20.160 the celebrated Washington Post reporters penetrated yet another administration. So 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:24.240 now the story is who leaked this, Who did it, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.680 and why did they do it. The simplest theory, and 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.919 one most administration officials Monday were endorsing, is that the 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:35.800 military or civilian Pentagon official who supports mccrystal's policy put 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.159 it out in an attempt to pressure Obama to follow 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.080 the suggestion and increase troop levels. But not everybody in 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.640 Washington believer in in this theory, so all manner of 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.040 other theories flourished. There are believers in the reverse leak, 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.880 in which the League itself has meant to damage McCrystal 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.680 um or his position by inducing White House anger at 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.680 the general. There's the fake leak in which the White 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.280 House may have been trying to back itself into a corner. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.400 They actually right this, that the White House did this 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:10.480 on purpose to back itself into a corner, or what what? 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.960 There were constant leaks during the Bush administration about Iraq 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.240 war policy, and there was never this hand ringing. Why 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.320 who's doing this? Why are they doing this? Who wants 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:26.640 to damage our beloved President Bush? Now? Oh no, the 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.960 first major foreign policy leak. Who's trying to do this? 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.800 And why? For what purpose? Could it be? Obama leaked 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.640 it himself to back himself into a corner. It actually 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:40.360 says that, yeah, he wants to back himself into a corner, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.440 So he's got his buddies at CNN openly telling him 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.680 the man up or risk losing the war in Afghanistan. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:53.640 Or I totally believe, by the way, I totally believe 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:58.440 the possibility that somebody in the White House leaked discredit McCrystal. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.920 Remember these guys the left, the far left, they don't 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.520 like a victorious America. That's imperialism. They love it when 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.760 the US military loses. Look at look at their their 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.320 efforts to secure defeat during the Iraq War. They're all 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.080 about the America, American military being humbled and being defeated. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.680 So it's entirely possible to me that somebody would leak 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:23.040 this to make McCrystal look bad, uh as as a 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.360 way of damaging him and making Obama look good to 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.720 the left, as he's trying to do by not caring 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.560 about defeat or victory in military conflict. We'll go to 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.480 Hilliard in Florida and Roger, thank you for calling, sir. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.120 Welcome to the E I B Network. Hello, Rush, how 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.680 are you? I'm very well, sir, Thanks much as pleasure 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.200 to talk to you. Yes, I think basically what's happened 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.040 there is the White House didn't leak a thing. It 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.200 was the General himself for one of his staff members 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.320 to be sure that Obama wasn't gonna sit on his 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:02.320 bluots because he considers Afghanistan and distraction right now, Well, 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.240 it's possible. I I'll tell you what's what's fascinating to 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.440 me about this is it all during even Watergate, Let's 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.040 go back to the number one leaker was Deep Throat, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.960 and nobody cared what his motivation was because they all 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.080 knew he was out to destroy Dixon, which was fine, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.040 that was cool. They all focused on the substance of 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.000 what deep Throat had to say. And you know what 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.840 deep Throat really was. You know, I'll tell you the 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.640 real lesson that nobody draws, the correct lesson that nobody 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.400 draws the deep Throat. Deep Throat was not so much 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.160 bringing down a president, although he did. What Deep Throat 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:43.280 was doing was actually manipulating and controlling media, and he 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:47.679 showed how easy it was to do it. Woodward and Bernstein, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.760 of course, have these great journalistic reputations as the as 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.800 the two kings of investigative journalism. They are the models 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.640 there what's taught in journalism schools that Deep Throat manipulated 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.320 those guys. He had them going everywhere he wanted them 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.520 to go. They would they found out nothing on their own, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.199 a very little other than what he led them to 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.200 or fed them. And the real lesson of deep Throat 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.959 is how leakers can manipulate the media. But in this case, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.520 in this case of the leak about the need for 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.439 more troops in Afghanistan, uh the drive bys or other, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.959 who is doing this and what is their motivation? Who 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.240 is tampering with our beloved president? You want to hear 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.600 some of the other theories about this, It's um It's 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.920 most likely somebody who has or is cultivating a personal 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.280 relationship with Woodward and positioning himself to look good in 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.680 Woodward's next book. So the leaker might just be engaging 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.839 in that because he wants to be a star in 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.800 Woodward's mind. The Pentagon hasn't changed, and there are a 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.280 lot of people within the Pentagon who understand the strategic 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.160 use of the leaks and Heather Hurlbert, the executive director 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:57.079 of the Democrat leaning National Security Network Democratic Anyway, one 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.960 possibility have to look at is this being leaked by 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.600 somebody who is in league with the neo connassault on Obama, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.240 where anything short of all in is framed as wee 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.800 can defeat. So of all the theories, three of the 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.880 four are going to nail Obama somebody and the other 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.200 the other theory is Obama's backing himself into a corner. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.120 But here's the thing you have to remember. Let's get 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:23.599 back to the substance of this. Not only was Afghanistan 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.040 the war the liberals said we should fight. We are 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.800 fighting it exactly the way they said we should and 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.280 the way they wanted us to. That is, we have 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.000 given charge of the thing essentially to NATO, and NATO 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.520 is now screwing it up. We have begged other countries 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.839 to go in with us, and very few have, and 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.360 those who have only have set trainers or medical or 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.400 other support personnel, very few troops and now most of 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.760 this wonderful multinational force are pulling out or threatening to 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.600 And we're fighting the war with both hands tied behind 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.520 our backs. We're not even allowed to attack the enemy 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:03.240 near houses. It's it's the left dream war. If this 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.959 is this is this is the prototype. This is the 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:07.839 way they wanted us to find the war. This is 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.040 where they've taken us. How could we possibly lose? The 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.559 world was asked to participate a world buddy or a 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.360 multinational body. NATO is running the show, not the United States. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.080 Uh that We're gonna show Buny House. Now, we're gonna 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.880 capture a Sama and we're gonna kick Butter. We're gonna 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.560 show that Bush was wrong to go into a rock 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.160 and blah blah blah blah blah, and we're on the 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:32.280 verge of defeat and Obama. Look, I told you yesterday. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.400 I was in Coach Zorn's sweet at the Redskins Rams 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.199 on Sunday and he had as his guests and his 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:45.480 wife Joy four handsome young Marines who were being deployed 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.520 soon They were then put A fifth buddy of theirs 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.400 was on the phone with me in twenty nine Palms, California, 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.600 and some of them are going to the hell Hall 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.400 areas of Afghanistan summer, going to Camp le June. People volunteered. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.920 They're out there defending and protecting the U. S. Consta 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.240 tuition in this government and the people of this country. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.880 They're fighting for freedom. And we got this guy fighting 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.720 the perfect war the way the left said we should 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.559 do it. And we're on the verge of defeat. And 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.080 the balance here is, oh gosh, do I send forty 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.800 more troops and risk losing my base in the healthcare debate? 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:22.960 Or do I not send forty loseing Afghanistan but get healthcare. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:29.680 That's the question our commander in chief is asking himself. Meanwhile, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:34.520 the media is obsessed with who leaked this and why 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:40.440 are they out there trying to damage our beloved young president. 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.199 In the Washington Post, get this, I love this is 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:48.880 uh an editorial wavering on Afghanistan. That's the headline. I 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:53.839 get this subhead Washington Post. President Obama seems to have 0:12:54.040 --> 0:13:01.360 forgotten his own arguments for a counter insurgency campaign. Obama 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:07.559 forgot his position. This is constructive criticism. Obama seems to 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:12.600 have forgotten his own arguments. Why yes, it was only 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.520 last March, Obama outlined in a major speech what he 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.800 called a comprehensive new strategicy for Afghanistan that he said 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.840 marks the conclusion of a careful policy review. That strategy 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.520 unambiguously stated that the US would prevent the return of 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.880 the Taliban government and enhanced the military, governance, and economic 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:35.400 capacity of the country. Washington Post says we strongly supported 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.040 the President's conclusion those goals were essential. So it was 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.400 a little startling to hear. Obama suggested several TV interviews 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.600 on Sunday that he had second thoughts where the process 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.880 working through that strategy. First question is are we presuming 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:55.920 the right strategy on NBC with supporting Afghan national government, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.560 building capecitive in the army. Well, we'll move forward if 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.760 it doesn't. I'm not interested in being in Afghanistan being Afghanistan. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.559 By the way, I'm not thumping the table. My arm 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.679 is just hitting it. Are you hearing it? I'm not 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.360 stumping on the table. I've been very good about this. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.239 So basically, we have incompetence on parade, we have indecision 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.400 on parade, we have an inexperience on We got a 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.880 man with a five minute career who has no experience 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.080 running anything but a bunch of community agitators and organizers 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.600 now in charge of victory or Dafeva and Afghanistan, and 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.880 he is forgotten. The Washington Post allows that he has 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:46.280 forgotten his own argument, forgotten his own argument. Not only 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:56.640 is it naive, it is dangerously generous and will encourage 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:01.040 more of this kind of indecision. And if the media 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.120 is knowing he just forgot, I guess he just forgot 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.480 his policies. We're a little troubled by this, but maybe 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.720 he'll end up doing the right A p in USA today, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:15.240 Obama may change Afghanistan course again. Now the headline suggests 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:20.000 that Obama changed policy from Bush and has to change again. Uh, 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.720 say that means he's already failed. The White House is 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:26.920 looking at expanding counter terror operations in Pakistan as an 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.920 alternative to a major military escalation in Afghanistan. Oh, so, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.160 I guess the March policy, which Obama has forgotten, according 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.120 to the Washington Post, is already a failure. So now 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.080 we got to go to a different policy, this one 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:46.440 counter intern insurgency, counterintelligence, insurgencies and Pakistan they're going to 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.840 branch out. Don't forget. During the campaign, am I the 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.800 only one to remember this? Obama said he'd knew come 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:57.800 over there even if the Pakistani government didn't nobody. Well, yeah, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.720 we had to dial that back because, folks, the man 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:05.080 is a walking threat to this country as we've known 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.640 it in every way possible domestic foreign policy. This is 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:14.800 incompetent Buddism on parade. Elaine in Battle on New York. Thanks, 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.640 and welcome to the e I B Network, hira Us. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.120 How are you just fine? Thanks? I wanted to go 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:27.120 back to the leaking problem from the White House. Yeah, okay, 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.600 I think that it's obvious who's doing the leaking. I 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.240 think it's the White House itself because it's they can't 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.920 come out and say, Amantha, what should we do? Because 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.480 he's so indecisive that he has to try to It's 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.960 a roundabout way of pulling the public to see what 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.920 the reaction will be. So you think there's maybe a 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.440 trial balloon. Put the leak out to see if the 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.520 American people even care about Afghanistan. Well, to see how 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.480 mad the left is going to get if they'll let 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.680 him do it or not. Uh, well, that it could be, 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.720 that's what. It's always a possibility. But I think I frankly, 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.080 I think they already know. I mean John Kerry and 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:05.440 Nancy Pelosi last week and a couple others, some of 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.960 the California congressional delegation delegation I think the week before 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:13.200 that warned Obama if you, if you ramp up troop levels, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.560 we may not pay for no more expansion in Afghanistan. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.760 That's that's uh that what preceded it. Now the now 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.119 the leak comes, and it could be it could be 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:28.040 a trial balloon. Who knows the It's one or two 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.080 things the leak there. Either Obama is trying to help 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:36.440 his position of not expanding, sitting tight, rethinking the strategy, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:42.840 or the leak is to embarrass Obama and protect the military. 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.040 Here people's lives on the line. I mean, this is 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.480 not we don't playing bean bag here. You know, we're 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.399 not leaking about a proposed new piece of legislation on 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.800 the snail darter. Well, hell, even if we did that, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.800 we're gonna ruin people's lives. People's lives in California being 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.399 ruined because of attention to animals the water has been 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.000 shut off, the farmers in this in this in the 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:06.960 central Valley. I mean, uh, it's crazy. So I you know, 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:12.879 the leak probably purposeful, well, no doubt it was purposeful. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:17.400 The the end result of it will is still unknown. 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.200 But watching the media coverage is still what's laughable. Oh, 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:26.680 Mama forgot apparently forgot his previous position on afghanistand that 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.080 he announced in March. And maybe Obama is trying to 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.040 back himself into a corner here, uh with by leaking 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.080 his own indecision on what to do about whether or 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.320 not we win. How silly is all this Datona Beach, Florida. 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.080 This is his friend. Great to have you with us, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:47.239 Hello than well, thank you. I just want to make 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.359 a quick point about this whole Uh who sent the memo? 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.080 They sent the memo to me, it's a non issue. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.720 And as the United States timmy veteran, it outrages me 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.760 that people see this situation. They see we need forty 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.280 is a more troops, we need more supplies, and it's 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.919 even a decision to him, there's no decisions. Our general 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.760 on the ground has said, we may suffer a loss, 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.480 we may sail this war effort. If we do not 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.080 get this support, there's no issue. There's no decision. The 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.359 only decision that needs to be made is what units 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.399 get a phone call to start the buffle? Bad dragon, 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.000 Wait a minute, that in the in the America. You 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.760 and I grew up in in the America, your parents, 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:29.760 my parents and grandparents grew up in, of course, but 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.400 that's not America right now. This country is being led 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:39.040 by people to whom victory in foreign conflicts sometimes is 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:43.520 a sin. Uh. Sometimes it's imperialism and not what it 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.920 is what it is, you know. Bill Parcels used to 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.000 say of a football team, you are what you are 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.320 your record. If you're four and twelve or four and twelve, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.080 and are were any moral victories in there? It is 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.440 what it is. Obama has got a request from a 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.719 general underground forty troops or I don't think we can 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.400 win this in Obama only re examined the strategy. Didn't 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.680 A're gonna worry about the left wing base voting on 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.520 my domestic I mean he's dialing back our nuke arsenal. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.080 He withdrew the missile shield that was going to be 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.919 placed in Europe to defend the Czech Republican poland. Uh, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.520 he's making deals with Ruschet's propping up dictatorships in in 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:24.680 Central and South America. It is what it is, friend, H, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.440 I agree with you. Infuriates the heck out of me, 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.359 like you don't even know. I think. I think it 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:37.119 infuriates the heck out of millions of Americans that we 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.720 don't yet know are infuriated because nobody's covering him, nobody's 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:42.719 talking about when we get these they still get these 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.119 mythical poles or Obamas percent approval and fifty two percent approval. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:47.719 I don't believe it' anywhere near that high. I think 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.320 people are shocked. I think people are outraged. I think 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.280 when Biden speaks up and says, if we if we 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.320 lose thirty five season in the House, that's the end 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.280 of the road for what Barack and they know, they 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.960 know exactly what's that. And they were counting on Acorn, 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:05.679 you know, to be the balance and fraudulent elections. Uh, 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:07.520 they're counting on acorn to help over and now the 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:09.800 acorn has been exposed. I mean this, this is Uh. 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.200 They know the problem that they're in, and yet their 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.560 arrogance is such it's not gonna take them off their 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.360 game at all. They're gonna ram whatever they want down 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:21.200 our throats, whether we want it or not, because that's 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.600 who they are. Now, you couldn't have said it. You 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:26.879 couldn't have said it better. There's no there's no question, 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:31.480 General says the forty troops or we lose. Okay, but 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.520 that's not Remember, for the first time in my lifetime, 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:36.879 and maybe not in the country's history, I don't know. 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.120 I haven't been alive for the entire two hundred plush years, 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.240 but in my lifetime, I have never seen a political 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.280 party spend years trying to secure defeat in a military 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:49.159 conflict like the Democrats did in a Rock. So it 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.280 shouldn't surprise you at all that now that they're running 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:54.600 the show that victory is not a big deal. And 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:57.480 remember Obama said in Afghanistan the whole concept of victory 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.639 troubles him. Yeah, but up until now is we need 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.160 to get out of Iraq. To Afghanistan is the big issue. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:05.240 And now it looks like Obama wants to turntail and 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:07.200 run from that. And I'll play I'm red right and 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:10.840 blue to the bone, all right, we don't run, and 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:13.119 the President I let us run and secures the defeat 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.440 in Afghanistan. I feel sorry for his chance is coming 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:20.560 up in twelve. Well, we don't have We don't have 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:25.320 time to wait till we got a rebound in twenty 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:29.760 ten in the mid term congressional elections. Robert and Staten Island. 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:31.720 I'm glad you waited, sir. You're next on the E 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:36.040 I B Network. Hello, are you good? Listen? I've got 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.400 the dilemma, aarent dilemma. So here I am. My son 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.679 is joined the military and h as the next marine, 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:45.440 former marine where never the next marine. I was all 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:47.480 for it, Uh, you know, I think it would be 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.440 good for him. But right now I feel that it's 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:51.959 sort of I feel like they're gonna do to these 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:54.080 boards they did to them in Vietnam, and the same 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:56.080 party that was in charge then is in charge now. 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.760 And I just see that Dave fifty five, thou American 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:02.120 boy has died in Vain over there because of their 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:04.760 humanityans that they pulled over there, And I see to say, 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:06.920 I see history repeating itself, and I don't As a father, 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:09.040 I don't know what to tell my son. It's like, 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:12.360 you know, I'm proud of him. But I'm like, you know, Rob, 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:14.560 you sure you want to you want to do this? 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:16.159 At this point in time, I'm in a dilemma. I 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:17.680 don't know what to do, and it's like it's really 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.639 bothering the inside as a as a you know, a 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:23.440 very patriotic person. I'm sure that there Yeah, probably a 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:27.600 lot of military families with family members either in root 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:30.879 or already in Afghanistan or scratching their heads over this 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:33.159 and say, well it is you know, if we're not 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:35.080 going to have the backing of the commander in chief, 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:37.879 you know, is it is it? Is it worth it? 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:41.040 I think frankly a lot of people are asking that 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:46.000 question about Obama on everything. Is this worth it? Is 0:23:46.480 --> 0:23:49.480 the historical relevance of his president, the first black prisit 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:53.800 worth all this? As clearly there are there are designs 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:56.960