I Told You the Khorasan Group Doesn’t Exist

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | September 29, 2014 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

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RUSH: I read a piece by Andy McCarthy, writes at National Review Online, the headline: "The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist." The Kardashian group. We have affectionately begun calling them the Kardashians here. Andy said, "The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist."

I said, "Sounds familiar. Sounds really familiar." And I remembered, oh, yeah, it was I, your host, El Rushbo, who pointed out last Wednesday that they don't exist. Andy's piece first.

"For six years, President Obama has endeavored to will the country into accepting two pillars of his alternative national-security reality. First, he claims to have dealt decisively with the terrorist threat, rendering it a disparate series of ragtag jayvees. Second, he asserts that the threat is unrelated to Islam, which is innately peaceful, moderate, and opposed to the wanton 'violent extremists' who purport to act in its name. Now, the president has been compelled to act against a jihad that has neither ended nor been decimated.'"

He goes on to talk about how there is no Khorasan group. It was literally just made up. Another pull quote here from Andy McCarthy, National Review Online. I think this is on Saturday. He said: "The president has been telling us for years that he handled al-Qaeda by killing bin Laden. He has been telling us for weeks that the Islamic State ... is a regional nuisance that posed no threat to the United States. In recent days, however, reality intruded on this fiction. Suddenly, tens of thousands of terrorists, armed to the teeth, were demolishing American-trained armies, beheading American journalists, and threatening American targets."

Now, Obama can't say it's Al-Qaeda 'cause he wiped 'em out. He can't say it's Al-Qaeda 'cause they've been on the run for a long. He can't say it's ISIS 'cause they're the JV team. He can't say it's Al-Qaeda 'cause he killed bin Laden. GM's alive, bin Laden's dead, whatever. They had to make it up. And I remember, I want to take you back to this program last Wednesday when I first heard about this. I just want to review for you so that you can hear what you heard, again, me say on this program.

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RUSH ARCHIVE: The Regime has given this group a new name in order for Obama to be able to continue to say he wiped Al-Qaeda out. So you come up with a new name for Al-Qaeda, the Kardashians, whatever, the Khorasans, whatever they are, and either way it's defeating. I mean, if you wipe out Al-Qaeda, how can they have a new group spring up? If you wipe 'em out, you wipe 'em out.

If you get rid of a species, it's gone, right? Until you discover it somewhere in the Himalayas. So this new group is essentially just Al-Qaeda renamed. .... The way the left is rationalizing all of this, ladies and gentlemen, is that George W. Bush's War on Terror was a "dumb" war, and Obama's is a "smart" war. (interruption) Well, they're not... Yeah, depending on where you look they're calling it a war, but they're still calling it an "action," and they're saying that Obama's doing it in a smart way.

And of course Bush was dumb, shouldn't have gone there in the first place. But, you know, back to this Khorasan Group. They come out of nowhere, named by the administration just in the past couple of days -- well, last week sometime. Is there any doubt if Obama hadn't been running around bragging about taking out Al-Qaeda and wiping out bin Laden and thus ending Al-Qaeda, would we even have heard the name Khorasan Group?

But because Obama's been running around bragging about taking out Al-Qaeda, starting at the Democrat convention in 2012? Okay, Al-Qaeda hasn't gone away, so the Regime has to give them a new name to make it look like it's a new group after Obama wiped out Al-Qaeda. But it's just Al-Qaeda.

RUSH: That's all it was, and it was known. Well, I instinctively figured this out last Wednesday, last Tuesday or Wednesday. The Khorasan, by the way, is a region that incorporates/borders Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Pakistan, but they just made it up. There is no Khorasan Group. It's Al-Qaeda, and Obama didn't wipe 'em out. He never came close to wiping them out.

But everything that comes from this Regime, folks -- in terms of Obama's accomplishments and achievement -- is all PR. It's all buzz.

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RUSH: You say that Al-Qaeda's on the run. Okay, that becomes the "fact." That reality can't change, except it isn't real. If you say Al-Qaeda's on the run, they have to remain on the run.

That's tied to the president. He said so. He's the commander-in-chief. Well, they're not on the run. Okay, so what do you do? You invent this new group; give them a new name. They're the same group, but you call 'em the Khorasan group. And that's, pure and simple, why this is going on. But the bottom line is it's the same bunch of people, same organization, same objectives.

They're not on the run, they have not been pushed back, they've not been dealt with. None of that, none of that was true. The Democrats -- if you remember, shortly after 9/11 when we started get going with the war in Afghanistan, and then we went to Iraq. The Democrats all said, "That's not the place to go! You gotta go to Afghanistan. This thing's not over 'til you kill bin Laden! You gotta kill bin Laden! That's how you define victory!"

A lot of us said, "No, that isn't gonna matter. Al-Qaeda is still gonna be around." But they actually believed it, 'cause they think we killed bin Laden and that meant the end of Al-Qaeda politically as far as they were concerned. So they've got a mess on their hands because there's no principle. There's no real military strategy behind this. They did not listen to the generals, boots on the ground and that. So it's a comedy of errors except it is very serious. That's a problem.

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[Pelham]

Bryan Suits, a radio host who has excellent sources inside the military, has also been saying the same thing about Khorasan being a phony threat.

[Uncle Miltie]

Listening to Rush can be entertaining, and he’s not often wrong.

But transcripts wander....

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

The real meaning of “decimate” is that they killed one in ten soldiers. ;-)

[colorado tanker]

The tip off is the name. Not anywhere near Syria. It’s an old name for much of Afghanistan, Pakistan and some nearby areas. In other words, it’s just another name for the Al Qaeda/Taliban homeland.

[zeestephen]

The Kardashian Group has replaced Al-Qaeda?

Does the mean Seal Team 6 is hunting Kanye West?

[RipSawyer]

“The real meaning of “decimate” is that they killed one in ten soldiers. ;-)”
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You’re right but it doesn’t matter because if you decimated all those who understand the meaning of decimate you wouldn’t empty a revolver.

[Don Corleone]

Never doubt El Rushbo! Never!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article):" If you wipe 'em out, you wipe 'em out."

That is why the U.S. is bombing their offices and buildings , yet they move to another building.
No harm done ,.. just an inconvienience, since they are home with their wives.

[FreeAtlanta]

I wish. The celebrity classless are a bigger threat to our country than the foreign terrorists.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The real meaning of “decimate” is that they killed one in ten soldiers. ;-)

Yeah, it wasn't an eradication event, it was a motivational event.

[Avid Coug]

I wish someone from the lamestream media would ask the Bamster where they came up with the Khorasan (sp?) name. Name their “sources” about where this name came from. Their website? Their ads in People Magazine? Where?

[pepsionice]

A couple of notes here. It’s a historical name....existing for roughly 1,700 years....after Christ-—before Mohammad.

It translates roughly into: “where the sun rises”. I’m not going to say it’s some paradise or golfing resort type region....but it’s the corner of Afghanistan, the corner of Persia, and the corner of “nothing” (meaning it’s just not some mega trading center of the period).

What this region did offer? Poets, art, literary stuff. Probably more than most other regions in the Middle East.

The turning point? After the 700AD point, it got invaded a couple of times....some folks stayed....some folks left, and they ended up with a mixture of folks who weren’t like the old residents. Kinda like Colorado is today...with folks pretending to be Coloradoan in nature, but aren’t.

I’m guessing some history geek in the CIA made up a presentation months ago, and some White House geek slept through the presentation but remembered the connection to this geographical area, and simply poked the President/his helpers at the right time with this “Khorasan” name, and they stuck to it like glue.