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Speaker 1: Beverly in East Texas. Nice to have you on the

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Speaker 1: E I B Network alone, East Texas. Blessings to you,

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Speaker 1: Mr Limbaugh, Thank you very much. From a military mother

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Speaker 1: of two. I'm wondering, sir, if I might shift your

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Speaker 1: focus from the war on economy to the war that

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Speaker 1: we are also fighting on another front? Might I do that? Sir?

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Speaker 1: You mean the war that Joe Biden says we're losing, yes, Sir,

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Speaker 1: and the war in Afghanistan that on Saturday our President

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Speaker 1: said we aren't winning, which I would assume our enemies

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Speaker 1: assume that that means we're losing. As we now hear

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Speaker 1: more from Iran, North Korea and all the other bullies

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Speaker 1: that are lining up. I want to speak in behalf

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Speaker 1: of military families. We have two children serving. My husband

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Speaker 1: served in Vietnam and he also survived under Jimmy Carter

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Speaker 1: despite five risks and the hippis spitting on him. But

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Speaker 1: but we have a son who serves. He's been over

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Speaker 1: eight or nine times. He's home right now in Florida.

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Speaker 1: We saw him last week celebrate his thirtieth birthday with him.

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Speaker 1: He went over right after the election and was there

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Speaker 1: through Christmas. And you know, the military honors it is

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Speaker 1: commander in chief, and they're not going to speak a

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Speaker 1: word of dishonor because that's their character, not his. And

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Speaker 1: what we see happening is we military families are in

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Speaker 1: great despair right now, and I'm wondering if you can

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Speaker 1: give us some words of encouragement because we're not through

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Speaker 1: with this war. My son said, one day, we're fighting

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Speaker 1: a war while America is at the mall or the movies. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I most definitely can give you words of encouragement. Well,

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Speaker 1: I could, certainly. I'll tell you what my first words

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Speaker 1: of encouragement would be in response to your legitimate concerns.

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Speaker 1: When when when the commander in chief and the man

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Speaker 1: in waiting, which in this case is Plugs Biden, when

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Speaker 1: they're both out there saying we're losing, you have to

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Speaker 1: wonder what is their motivation? Is their motivation to inspire

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Speaker 1: the troops, is their motivation to set the stage for

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Speaker 1: our withdrawal because we can't win? You know, Beverly, it

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Speaker 1: looks to me like the foreign policy of this administration

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Speaker 1: is to make friends with every enemy, or as many

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Speaker 1: as possible, and to spit on our friends. And it's Okay,

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Speaker 1: why do this was? I think some of this is

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Speaker 1: cultural life. I think some of the Obama administration reject

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Speaker 1: the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness,

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Speaker 1: both domestically and in the arena foreign policy. And they've

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Speaker 1: got chips on their shoulders for whatever reason. And and

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Speaker 1: then they're just gonna you know, for example, we've looked

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Speaker 1: at the Palestinians and Hamas and and has bothered. We've

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Speaker 1: looked up too long as the enemy. That there's too

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Speaker 1: long is the enemy. We need to change our thinking.

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Speaker 1: We need to try to make them our friends. Obama said,

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Speaker 1: we need to reach and get this if you know

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Speaker 1: folk to the Taliban, I know what you're getting. Ready,

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Speaker 1: if you if you want real sophistry, this is scary

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Speaker 1: incompetent sophistry. You're exactly right, Beverley. We need to reach

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Speaker 1: out to moderate members of the Taliban like we did

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Speaker 1: the Shia. And there are no moderate Taliban. There are

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Speaker 1: no moderate Al Qaeda. They are either dead or alive,

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Speaker 1: but they are not moderate. And we've got a guy

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Speaker 1: who wants to attach US political labels to extreme radical

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Speaker 1: thug terrorist murderers. It is outrageous. There's no such thing

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Speaker 1: as a moderate Taliban. He acts like he's one American idol,

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Speaker 1: not the presidency. But this could get my son and

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Speaker 1: daughter killed, and and he'd even let those pictures go

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Speaker 1: on the TV. He says, we we feel that we

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Speaker 1: have been so abandoned, but we serve because we love

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Speaker 1: this country. Mr. We all know that. And this is,

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Speaker 1: this is needs to be my words of encouragement to you.

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Speaker 1: I know the US military is beholden to its commander

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Speaker 1: in chief, but the US military, um, it's mission is victory,

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Speaker 1: and it's commanding officers on the ground. As long as

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Speaker 1: they're not handcuffed by mission planning from Washington, As long

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Speaker 1: as they're not handcuffed by cuts in their budgets and

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Speaker 1: things that they need, US military can defeat whoever they're

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Speaker 1: pitted against. There's and there's, and there's I don't think

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any doubt that that is the

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Speaker 1: objective of every individual on the ground in Afghanistan. I

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Speaker 1: the commander in chief. But it's the and in chiefs

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Speaker 1: just another obstacle in terms of what he's saying, not

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Speaker 1: kind of if. If it's the look at the U. S. Military,

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Speaker 1: and both Afghanistan and Iraq, for the first time in

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Speaker 1: many of our lives, underwent and triumphed over one of

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Speaker 1: the most concentrated efforts to demoralize them that has ever

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Speaker 1: been undertaken by their own country. Democrat Congress. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: you're right. I called every one of them too. I

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Speaker 1: want you to know that wasn't just the Democrat Congress,

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Speaker 1: it was the Democrat Party. It was voters, average citizens

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Speaker 1: who vote Democrat. Proclaiming victory was impossible. The war is

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Speaker 1: already lost, and yet the men and women on the

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Speaker 1: ground in the surge in Iraq prevailed. They overcame at all.

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Speaker 1: But it was It was striking for all of us,

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Speaker 1: and it was hurtful, and it also made our blood

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Speaker 1: boil to see the attempt to demoralize and dispirit members

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Speaker 1: of our military by elements in our own country that

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Speaker 1: we had not seen before in such a concentrated way.

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Speaker 1: There had been pockets of Vietnam after a while, but

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Speaker 1: from the moment this war started, the Democrats sought to

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Speaker 1: use it as a political wedge it took us a

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Speaker 1: while to get there in Vietnam after bungling from Washington,

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Speaker 1: the Johnson administration. Look, this country wouldn't be what it

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Speaker 1: is without families like you. This country wouldn't be what

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Speaker 1: it is without your your uh offspring, your children volunteering

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Speaker 1: for this. And the people of this country are never

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Speaker 1: ever going to forget. I don't care who's running this town,

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Speaker 1: running this country. Uh. That's the kind of thing that

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Speaker 1: will cause a backlash because this president has said we

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Speaker 1: need to send more troops over there. Now. Obama did

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Speaker 1: not specifically say we want to have a meeting with

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Speaker 1: the Taliban. He said we need to reach out to

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Speaker 1: moderate elements of the Taliban, just like we did in

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Speaker 1: a Rock to gang up on Mooki's boys all solder.

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Speaker 1: But that that is just again. I'll tell you what's

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Speaker 1: what's really frustrating about that is that kind of irresponsible rhetoric,

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Speaker 1: whether he means it or not. If he means it,

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Speaker 1: it's a double bad women. If he's just saying it

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Speaker 1: as a politician would because he knows or thinks that

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Speaker 1: most Americans are squishy and would do anything to avoid conflict,

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Speaker 1: and something we say, well, there are moderates in all

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Speaker 1: of our enemies. There might just reach out if he

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Speaker 1: thinks that will keep his approval numbers up. That could

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Speaker 1: be the reason. Either way, it is irresponsible and it

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Speaker 1: is incompetent, and it is unforgivable to portray the Taliban

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Speaker 1: or I'll catch us. Anything is portraying all Kitos's let's

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Speaker 1: find a moderate bin lauden Uh. It's it's just it's

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Speaker 1: irresponsible at the least, it's irresponsible and incompetent at the best. Well,

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Speaker 1: there is no best at the worst. So Beverly Uh,

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Speaker 1: You and your your family your the backbone of America.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna forget you. And they're not going to forget

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Speaker 1: their duty. They won't forget their objective. What is a

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Speaker 1: moderate Talibana moderate Taliban? But only saw your head halfway off?

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Speaker 1: And that's who Obama wants to reach other. This is

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Speaker 1: not about reaching out the moderate Taliban. It's about reaching

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Speaker 1: out the squishy Americans. Obama is trying to marginalize everybody

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Speaker 1: by identifying the squishes and the people that he can

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Speaker 1: roll as moderates and getting them on his side. Where publicans,

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Speaker 1: democrats and so forth and so on and this. This

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Speaker 1: being honest with you when he says we can reach

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Speaker 1: out to the Sunnies the Sunni Uprising against Mookie's boys.

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Speaker 1: Obama refused to credit the United States, either our diplomacy

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Speaker 1: or our military for that. He was so wedded to

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Speaker 1: the notion of American failure in the Rock. If I

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Speaker 1: to the notion of American failure he could not see

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Speaker 1: it within himself to credit any aspect of American military

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Speaker 1: strategy or diplomacy for the Sunni Uprising. And now all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden he wants to replicate that great American

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Speaker 1: policy with his reach out the moderate Taliban